Live 13 Jun 2006 version
[Spoken Intro:] Thank you! Yes, yes! All right, this is a work in progress, we haven't figured this one out─ we're close! So why not, right? (chuckles) Arturo! Arthur is the king of, uh, the highest instrument in the band and the lowest instrument in the band, he's known as Art "High-Low" "King of the Rock and Roll Tuba" Baron, but, uh (chuckles), he plays it low, he plays it high. (giggles) Nothing in the middle! Go ahead, let's try it. Let's have fun.
| Bruce Springsteen (spoken): | Go 'head. |
| Cindy Mizelle: | Further up the road, further up the road |
| Meet you further on up the road | |
| Where the way is dark and the night is cold | |
| Meet you further on up the road | |
| Cindy Mizelle: | Further up the road, further up the road |
| Meet you further on up the road | |
| Where the night is dark and the night is cold | |
| Meet you further on up the road | |
| Bruce Springsteen: | Where the road is dark and the seed is sowed |
| Where the gun is cocked and the bullet's cold | |
| The miles are marked in blood and gold | |
| I'll meet you further on up the road | |
| Cindy Mizelle: | Further up the road, further up the road |
| Meet you further on up the road | |
| Where the way is dark and the nights is cold | |
| Bruce Springsteen (spoken): | Sing that one more time! |
| Cindy Mizelle: | Meet you further on up the road |
| All: | Further up the road, further up the road |
| Meet you further on up the road | |
| Where the way is dark and the night is cold | |
| Meet you further on up the road | |
| Bruce Springsteen: | Got on my dead man's suit and smilin' skull ring |
| Graveyard boots and a song to sing | |
| A song to sing to keep me out of the cold | |
| I'll meet you further on up the road | |
| All: | Further up the road, further up the road |
| I'll meet you further on up the road | |
| Where the way is dark and the night is cold | |
| I'll meet you further on up the road | |
| Bruce Springsteen: | Oh my beautiful Molly, dear |
| The tide's rising, can't you hear? | |
| One more kiss, darling, and I'll go | |
| I'll meet you further on up the road | |
| All: | Further up the road, further up the road |
| I'll meet you further on up the road | |
| Where the way is dark and the night is cold | |
| I'll meet you further on up the road | |
| Cindy Mizelle: | Further up the road, further up the road |
| I'll meet you further on up the road | |
| Where the way is dark and the night is cold | |
| I'll meet you further on up the road | |
| Bruce Springsteen: | I've been out in the desert, just doing my time |
| Searching through the dust for a sign | |
| If there's a light ahead, I don't know | |
| I'll meet you further on up the road | |
| Bruce Springsteen: | If there's a light, brother, I don't know |
| I got the fever burning in my soul | |
| Let's take the good times as they go | |
| I'll meet you further on up the road | |
| Marc Anthony Thompson: | Further up the road, further up the road |
| I'll meet you further on up the road | |
| Where the way is dark and the night is cold | |
| I'll meet you further on up the road | |
| Lisa Lowell: | Further up the road, further up the road |
| I'll meet you further on up the road | |
| Where the way is dark and the night is cold | |
| Meet you further on up the road | |
| Curtis King: | Further up the road, further up the road |
| I'll meet you further on up the road | |
| Where the way is dark and the night is cold | |
| I'll meet you further on up the road | |
| Cindy Mizelle: | Further up the road, further up the road |
| Meet you further on up the road | |
| Where the way is dark and the night is cold | |
| Meet you further on up the road | |
| Frank Bruno: | Further up the road, further up the road |
| I'll meet you further on up the road | |
| Where the way is dark and the night is long | |
| I'll meet you further on up the road | |
| All: | Further up the road, further up the road |
| I'll meet you further on up the road | |
| Where the way is dark and the night is cold | |
| Meet you further on up the road | |
| Bruce Springsteen (spoken): | One, two! |
[Spoken Outro:] Ah, we made it! Yes, yes, yes, yes. (chuckles) All right. Okay. We've totally screwed up our setlist though! (laughs)
The above lyrics are for the live 13 Jun 2006 performance of FURTHER ON (UP THE ROAD) at First Midwest Bank Amphitheater in Tinley Park, IL, during The Seeger Sessions Tour. The song was played in a radically revamped full-band arrangement and features several unique lyrics including an extra verse.
Thanks Jake (ol'catfishinthelake at BTX and Greasy Lake) for the lyrics help.
List of available versions of FURTHER ON (UP THE ROAD) on this website:
FURTHER ON (UP THE ROAD) [Album version]