http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I11t5mj9FOk
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