Stay - Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs/Jackson Browne

   

Stay

Now the seats are all empty

Let the roadies take the stage

Pack it up and tear it down

They're the first to come and the last to leave

Working for that minimum wage

They'll set it up in another town

Tonight the people were so fine

They waited there in line

And when they got up on their feet,

They made the show, and that was sweet,

But I can hear the sound of slamming doors and folding chairs

and that's a sound they'll never know

Now roll them cases and lift them amps

and haul them truses up and get'um up them ramps

'Cause when it comes to moving me, 

you know you guys are the champs

but when that last guitar's been packed away,

you know that I still want to play.

So just make sure you got it all set to go

before you come for my piano

But the band's on the bus,

and they're waiting to go.

We gotta drive all night

And do the show in Chicago... or Detroit.

I don't know, we do so many shows in a row.

And these towns all look the same.

we just pass the time in the hotel rooms

and wander around backstage.

Till those lights come up, and we hear that crowd,

and we remember why we came.

Now we got country and western on the bus, 

R & B, we got disco in 8-tracks and casettes in stereo

We've got rural scenes and magazines

And we've got truckers on CB

We got Richard Pryor on the video

We've got time to think of the ones we love

While the miles roll away

but the only time that seems too short is the time that we get to play

People you've got the power over what we do

You can sit there and wait

or you can pull us through.

Come along, sing this song

You know that you can't go wrong

'Cause when that mornin' sun comes beating down

you're gonna wake up in your town

But we'll be scheduled to appear

a thousand miles away from here

People stay just a little bit longer 

We want to play -- just a little bit longer 

Now the promoter don't mind 

And the union don't mind 

If we take a little time 

And we leave it all behind and sing 

One more song 

Oh won’t you stay just a little bit longer

Please, please, please say you will

Say you will

Oh won’t you stay just a little bit longer

Oh please, please stay just a little bit more

Now the promoter don’t mind

And the roadies don’t mind

If we take a little time

And we leave this all behind and sing

One more song