RINGSIDE [electric acoustic demo] (Pete Ham)

Take your seat by the ringside

Watch them bidding for your blood

Who will own you tomorrow?

Will you be misunderstood?

Take me back to the Father

Take me, take me, take me home

For I can't bear to feel the sorrow

Of the evil that you've shown


Keep your ear to the grapevine

Hear them sell you down the line

Watch, they'll cross you tomorrow

While they smile and say it's fine

Take me back to the country

Let me, let me, let me roam

For I can't bear to feel the sorrow

Of the evil that you've shown

Of the evil that you've shown.


Oh, you let me down, you let me down.

lyrics transcribed by Tom Brennan



RINGSIDE [acoustic demo, Without You, 1st edition CD] (Pete Ham)

Take your seat by the ringside

Watch them bidding for your blood

Who will own you tomorrow?

Will you be misunderstood?

Take me back to the Father

Take me, take me, take me home

For I can't bear to feel the sorrow

Of the evil that you've shown


Keep your ear to the grapevine

Hear them sell you down the line

Watch them cross you tomorrow

While they smile and say it's fine

Take me back to the country

Let me, let me, let me roam

For I can't bear to feel the sorrow

Of the evil that you've shown

Of the evil that you've shown me


Why, oh why did you prove me wrong?

When my faith in you was strong, really strong

Oh but now, the magic's gone


[acoustic guitar solo]


Take me back to the Father

Take me, take me, take me home

For I can't bear to feel the sorrow

Of the evil that you've shown

Of the evil that you've shown.

lyrics transcribed by Tom Brennan


RINGSIDE [1st acoustic demo, Without You, 2nd edition CD] (Pete Ham)

Take your seats by the ringside

Watch them scrapping for your blood

Who will own you tomorrow?

Will you be misunderstood?

Take me close to the Father

Take me, take me, take me home

I can't bear to feel the sorrow

Of the evil that you've shown

Of the evil that you've shown.

lyrics transcribed by Tom Brennan