Live 25 Aug 2009 version
Spirit!
Can you feel the spirit?
Can you feel the spirit now?
Can you feel the spirit?
Can you feel the spirit now?
Can you feel it?
Can? Can? Can you?
Ah-one, two, three!
Come on, Sister!
Whoa!
Huh!
Crazy Janey and her mission man were back in the alley tradin' hands
'Long came Wild Billy with his friend G-Man, duded up for Saturday night
Billy slammed on his coaster brakes
Anybody wanna go on up to Greasy Lake?
'Bout a mile down on the dark side of route eighty-eight
I got a bottle of rose, let's try it
We'll pick up Hazy Davy and Killer Joe, take you all out to where the gypsy angels go
Built like light
Ooh, and they dance like spirits in the night (all night)
All night (all night)
Baby don't know what it do to you
Like a spirit in the night (all night)
All night (all night)
Stand up and let it shoot right through you
Come on!
Wild Billy was a crazy cat, and he shook some dust from out of his coonskin cap
Cried, "Trust some of this, it'll show you where you're at, at least it'll help you really feel it"
By the time we made it up to Greasy Lake, I had my head out the window; Janey's fingers in the cake
I think I really dug her; I was too loose to fake
Said, "I'm hurt," she said, "Honey, let me heal it"
We danced all night to a soul fairy band
She kissed me just right like only a lonely angel can
Felt just right, together we moved like spirits in the night (all night)
All night (all night)
Baby don't know what it do to you
Like a spirit in the night (all night)
All night (all night)
Stand up and let it shoot right through you
Yeah!
(Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh)
Whoa!
(Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh)
The night
Grew bright, the stars threw light on Billy and Davy
Dancin' in the moonlight
We were down near the water in a stone mud fight
Killer Joe gone passed out on the lawn
Hazy Davy got really hurt, he ran into the lake in just his socks and a shirt
[Spoken:] I know the lyrics. I got it! I got, I got this part! I know this part!
Me and Crazy Janey were makin' love in the dirt, singin' our birthday song
Janey said, "Hey little darlin', don't you think it's time that we go?"
Ah.
We closed our eyes and said goodbye
To gypsy angel row, felt just right
Together we moved like spirits in the night (all night)
All night (all night)
Baby don't know what it do to you
Like a spirit in the night (all night)
All night (all night)
Stand up and let it shoot right through you
Like a spirit in the night (all night)
All night (all night)
All night (all night)
All night (all night)
All night (all night)
All night (all night)
Oh, yeah, baby, baby, baby, that's right
Like a spirit in the night
Like a spirit in the night
Like a spirit in the night
Can you feel the spirit?
Can you feel the spirit?
Can you feel the spirit?
Can you feel?
Ow!
The above lyrics are for the live 25 Aug 2009 performance of SPIRIT IN THE NIGHT at Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, NY, during the Working On A Dream Tour. The song was played in its traditional full-band arrangement and featured the "Can you feel the spirit?" intro and outro. Among the 21 performances of the tour, four, including this one, featured Jay Weinberg on drums.
Thanks Jake (ol'catfishinthelake at BTX and Greasy Lake) for the lyrics help.
List of available versions of SPIRIT IN THE NIGHT on this website:
SPIRIT IN THE NIGHT [Album version]
