Karaoké The Load-Out / Stay (live) Jackson Browne

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

Workin' for that minimum wage

They'll set 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 slammin' doors and foldin' chairs

And that's a sound they'll never know

Now roll them cases out and lift them amps

Haul them trusses down and get 'em up them ramps

'Cos when it comes to movin' me you know you guys are the champs

But when that last guitar's been packed away you know that I still wanna 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 waitin' to go

We gotta drive all night and do a 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 'round 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 'n' B

We got disco and eight tracks and cassettes in stereo

And we got rural scenes and magazines and we got truckers on the C.B.

And we got Richard Pryor on the video

We 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

'Cos when that mornin' sun comes beatin' 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 wanna 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 oh please, please stay just a little bit more

Yeah eh eh eh eh

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