I held the keys to that Chevrolet
and you held the keys to my heart
I'd throw a fit, hit the dash,
get out and kick the tire
when that old piece of junk wouldn't start
It'd be smoking good I'm slam down the hood
Just to see you laughing at me
On the other side of a dirty windshield,
lookin' as pretty as could be
chorus
We sure saw a lot of miles,
never even crossed that county line
I would've ...
If you'd had made a tag on the back
Of those designer jeans she's wearin'
It's some big name brand you can't buy at a Wal-mart
And you from what she's got on
From her Versace to her Louis Vuitton
You wouldn't think she'd know every Merle Haggard song by
heart
But when it comes down to the heart of the situation
She's a little rockin' honky tonkin' modern day Minnie
Pearl
I should know, I've be...
Your standing there, that look in your eye
Your looking for good ways to tell me goodbye
Something about people how they never know
They?re loving somebody then letting them go
Your looking for reasons there ain?t no need
You can blame it on me.
Chorus:
You can blame it on me. I was the one
Acting like real life was some old love song
I held you too close; I couldn?t let go
You can?t loose you...
Well my truck?s wound up and it?s ready to roll
I got a good buddy workin? for the Highway Patrol
So if I get a ticket or two, It?s gonna be alright
But the sheriff and his boys they?re in Estilline
Unless they?re out to lunch at the Dairy Queen
They?ll be itchin? to turn on those red, white, and blue
lights
Well just like my daddy I was born a drifter
I got a rebel heart and eight - ball shif...
Well before she came along he was lonesome onry and mean
It was his way or the high way
But she had a way that hed never seen
Hed been livin hard and fast
All his takin was takin its toll
And it took a good hearted, hard headed angel
To help him gain control
He wore his own kind of hat
And for that folks called him an outlaw
Well some even cussed his name
Cause they couldnt see the same man sh...
I've got this Caribbean queen
Rubbin' in my coconut sunscreen
You'd think you'd be the last thing on my mind
I've got a beautiful ocean view
Ten thousand miles from you
So Why couldn't I leave this broken heart behind
Chorus
Oh The sunshine is dancin' on the water
Pretty girls couldn't get any hotter
If I keep tellin' myself
I'm havin' the time of my life
Maybe it'll come true and I won't miss...
For the life of me will her memory keep on keepin' me awake?
This empty pillow by my head is proof you sleep in the bed that you make
Just like a fool I did nothin', nothin' short of helpin' her pack
Wish I could find a way, find the words to say
To bring my baby back
I've got a good thing goin', and she ain't slowin' down
A good thing goin', showin' no sign of turnin' around
If I could go bac...
Sometimes I hear a woman cryin
And a man sayin nothin at all
Often I hear children laughin
And footsteps walkin down the hall
There's a ghost for every memory
Always remindin me that I was wrong
And since her leavin
I've been sleepin
Leavin all of the lights on
Chorus
What was once a happy home
Feels more like a haunted house
Haunted by the sounds of broken hearts
Rattlin off the chain of brok...
Like a killer at large
You strolled down Bourbon Street
Lookin' for an easy mark
With every man you meet
And I never saw the devil
Behind your rain blue eyes
Spellbound by your long legs and your little white lies
Oh, heaven help the heart that falls head over heels
Cause you'll tear it all apart just to see how it feels
How can you be so hot and so cold-blooded too
Oh, heaven help the heart t...
I said hey sugar mama
Im a gonna wanna gotta have a heyday tonight
So lets have a ball at the ole dance hall
And later on we just might
Go make a little love beneath the moon above
Until the mornin light
Sugar mama Im a gonna wanna gotta have a heyday tonight
Well Ive been pushed down kicked around
All over town all week
Burnin both ends from dusk til dawn
Tryin to make ends meet
Tell me why, ...
Ahh let's go honky tonkin'
Let's go honky tonkin'
Have a honky tonkin' good time with us
Ahh let's go honky tonkin'
Let's go honky tonkin'
Honky tonkin' round Texas
Well I'll put some diesel in the tank
Give that old Detroit a crank
We'll sit back and let that silver eagle fly
Well up and down that Lonestar State
Let's have a honky tonkin' tail gate
And don't forget to kiss your baby good bye
...
Here we go....
You're too hard to handle
Scandal after scandal
You must think I'm naive
I don't want you to go
But I need you to leave
It's wild alibis and those outrageous lies
You expect me to believe
I don't want you to go
But I need you to leave
Well, I've thought about it and I've made up my mind
It's time we call it quits
You know you may be fun for Saturday night
But the rest of the wee...
I'm a game that you used to play
And I'm a plan that you didn't lay so well
I'm a fire that burns in your mind
Close your eyes
I'm a memory
I'm a love that you bought for a song
And I'm a voice on a green telephone
And I'm a day that lasted so long
Close your eyes
I'm a memory
I'm a dream that comes in the night
And I'm a face that fades with the light
And I'm a tear that falls out of sight
Cl...
I'm tryin' not to panic, I'm gettin' all romantic
Gettin' soft with everything I say and do.
I'm talkin' hours on the phone, puttin' on that sweet cologne
I'm even puttin' down the toilet seat for you.
Aw, wait a minute, it gets worse.
I found myself holdin' your purse, standin' outside that bra and panty store.
My boss's wife walked by, she spotted me and told me hi
And I knew then, I was in ...
Like that old Titanic
Running full steam ahead
You fogged up my mind
With love words you said
I could not see the danger
I got myself in
Till my ship was sinking
And I couldn't swim
I didn't know my heart
Was in harm's way
I couldn't see the truth
Till it was in my face
If I'd seen it coming
I could have turned away
I didn't know my heart
Was in harm's way
Now the door went under
In an ocean o...
Deep in the mountain of Harlan County
Employed by the Cumberland coal company
The pay is short, the days are long
But our labor union laws are coming on strong
So I drink this whiskey for my throat
Wear my hard hat and weathered coat
Early every morning I stand in line
Waiting to work these Kentucky coal mines
We enter the shaft around five thirty
With two dozen hands, cold, callused and dirty...
I Am Flat Dead On My Feet
I Have Had Nothing To Eat
I Am Sick Of Highways And Cold Hotels Rooms
I Have Replay There In Our Soft Bed
I Am So Tired Of Missing You
So Let's Turn Out The Lights
Let's Turn Out The Lights
And Lay Here By My Side
Lay Here By My Side
Give Me The Lose That I Need
Baby Let's Love Some Sleep Tonight
All These Shows That I Play
Take Me So Far Away
I Know That I Have Negle...
I was singing at the ol' Broken Spoke
I could have swore she came walking in
Forgot the words to a song that I wrote
Must be losing my mind once again
Her daddy is a southern Baptist preacher
I had to choose her or the bars where I sang
Now when I call I can't seem to reach her
I'm gonna find her if it's the last thing
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So I'll drive all night long
Till I find where we went wrong
But th...
Well once upon a time
When I held you in my arms
On a blanket in the grass
Where we'd watch the falling stars
Under that old maple tree
We'd share secrets in the dark
Now I sit here all alone
Watching children play
In Mackenzie Park
Chorus
And we lived, laughed, and loved as if
There were no tomorrow
Up until the day you went away
Leaving only sorrow
Now the stars don't shine
The way they used...
Aaron Watson/Neal Lowry
You warned me from the start not to let you break my heart
I guess you don't know who your talking too
I'll bet you money no matter how much honey
I'm about to change your point of view
Chorus:
You're messing with man on a mission
And a heart with hard headed ambition
My sites are set on you, there's nothing you can do
You're messing with man on a mission
Darling I decl...
Pinch me I must be dreaming
Waking up with you and feelin'
the tender touch of your good morning kiss
no where else on earth
is better than being next to you
next to heaven
it doesn't get any better than this
Chorus
Next to Heaven lies my fate
my best friend and my soul mate
God knows this kind of love
only comes from up above
your the answer to my prayers
nothing else compares
cause I'm next ...
Pinch me I must be dreaming waking up with you and feeling
The tender touch of your good morning kiss
No where else on earth is better than being next to you
Next to heaven, it doesn?t get any better than this
Chorus
Next to heaven lies my fate, my best friend and my sole mate
God knows this kind of love only comes from up above
You?re the answer to my prayers, nothing else compare
I?m next to...
With Her Little One In One Arm
And The Laundry In The Other
She Sure Could Use A Helping Hand
But Thats The Life Of A Single Mother
Somebody's Calling On The Phone
Somebody's Knocking At The Door
She Forgets And Burns The Dinner
Throws It Acrossed The Kitchen Floor
And For A Moment She Wants To Give Up And Break Down
But Nobody's Crying But The Baby
She Ain't Far From Going Crazy
There Are Tim...
I got a letter from your lawyer
And you got one from mine
They say It's gonna be final
Once we sign that dotted line
We'll I guess we'll get our freedom
And a so called fresh new start
But when you take half of everything
You'll be taking half my heart
Our love got lost somewhere in life's complications
Torn between two lawyers and all their legal litigations
Chorus:
Off the record, there's so...
i still think about us
in the rush that we felt
with the rag top down and the radio blasting
you were riding shot gun
in nothing but a bikini and a seat belt
looking better than the law should have been allowing
chorus
we hit the corners going 90
lovin' blindly fallin'
head over heels over you
every feeling that we felt
was a feeling that felt brand new
and you looked just like an angel
with t...
We'd walk up and down the Concho River
We'd find a soft place to watch the sun go down
So was it me or was it what I could not give you
She left me shattered, my life scattered all around
Chorus:
She said time would heal my broken heart
and I'd find a true companion for my soul
You know she was right, we were wrong
Nothing more than a pretty song
About a boy who loved a girl
In San Angelo
Repe...
We both work hard for money already spent
Blaming each other for where it all went
Never thinking of love only paying the loans
Griping bout' bills and keeping up with the Jones
Just once let's forget about making ends meet
Or whose got the nicest yard on the street
Darlin' let loose, let your hair down
We're staying at home for a night on the town
Chorus:
So turn the music up, and dim the lig...
With the world in the palm of his hands
Slipping through his fingers just like grains of sand
He don't know his hourglass is losing time
Till she run out of patience and leaves him far behind
Chorus:
Some lovers gotta learn love the hard way
Before they understand the way they feel
Some lovers are slower than others
Some will come around and some never will
If only she had a dime every time he...
Well I was thumbing through the channels
And I saw a sight to see
A so-called country singer, there singing on MTV
And I began to think - had she ever heard a thing
Had she ever been to Texas where Bob Wills is still the king
Ah - ha
From the Houston rodeo to any old dancehall
Of cowgirls and cowboys know how to have a ball
And every night they'll tip a toast to the Lone Star state
Where the w...
He calls from a hotel in downtown Dallas
Says he won't be home for three more days
She gets so lonely in her Houston hill top palace
Talking to her self as their two-year-old plays
She rocks the baby to sleep then gets in bed
Reads romance novels of a love she once had
She closes her eyes and dreams about the man
Who gave her more than money and a call now and then
Chorus:
As the shine on her ...
Duet w/ Willie Nelson
He?s wrinkled and gray but he?s still got the fire
And he sings on the stage like a bird on a wire
He?ll pack ?em in just like he always did
Everybody loves The Honky Tonk Kid
He got his first guitar when he was fifteen
Thirstin? for knowledge, all hungry and green
Strummin? that six string just like Lefty did
Everybody loves The Honky Tonk Kid
Chorus
Well the Honky Tonk ...
G C
He starts to think when she winks that he's somewhere he shouldn't be
G D
He may be alone but at home someone's wearing his ring
G C
So he heads for the door and ignores the devil on his shoulder
D G
He'll do the right thing but someone's gonna break down and hold her
Chorus:
D C G
And there's a vacancy at home but not tonight at the Notel Motel
D C G
In a room full of lies where love is s...
Chorus
Lord don?t you walk with a little
Sawin? on a fiddle and the crying of a steel guitar
Coming from the heart and soul
Born and bred in the ole Lone Star
Get them honky tonkin? blues
Let them be your saving grace
If you want to hear some country
Then you?ve come to the right place
You miss Waylon, if it don?t make you smile
Like Willie and George Jones
You better stick around a while
You ...
Just you know why
Why you and I
Will by and by
Know true love ways
Sometimes we'll sigh
Sometimes we'll cry
And you know why
Just you and I know true love ways
Throughout the days
Our true love ways
Will bring us joys to share
With those who really care
Sometimes we'll sigh
And sometimes we'll cry
And you know why
Just you and I know true love ways
Throughout the days
Our true love ways
Will b...
Whenever she walks flowers grow in her footsteps
Whenever she talks all the birds hush their singing
The heart of a saint and the face of an angel
Absolutely unbelievably beautiful
And when this cruel world's been gettin' me down
She'll take my frown and she'll turn it back around
Like a clown, she'll crack a joke
Acting crazy as a fool
Absolutely unbelievably beautiful
Chorus
It'd be a big ol...
She said she was not the one for me
There was nothing I could do to change her mind
She said she was sorry but some things aren?t meant to be
She was unaware that she was robbing her heart blind
Chorus
What she don?t know is I?ll always love her forever
What she don?t know is that I?ve never done her wrong
Underestimation will break her heart for sure
What she can?t see, what she don?t know
Wo...
G C
I swore Id never love again a promise I'd keep till the end
D C G
But then you made a liar out of me
G C
But even a man of his words can't talk his way out of the hurt
D C G
When everything reminds him of his old used to be
CHORUS:
D C
But you made me forget about
G D C G D
What's her name I can't remember a thing because my mind is always on you
G D C G
I just draw a blank every time I tr...
G D C
You're the devil's daughter in disguise
G D C
So don't try to hide the fire in your eyes
D C G
You must be stupid cause you just don't have a clue
D C D
Even hell frozen over is warmer than my love for you
Chorus:
G D C
When all those Aggies move to Austin
G D C
And Beaumont is covered in snow
G D C
When the wind don't blow in Amarillo
C D G
Darlin' then you can come back home
G D C
You ...
Will you love me in a trailer
Til I can get up on my feet
If it's August in Arizona
Could your heart stand the heat
I could never be an actor
Trying to be what I can't be
If I'm just a farm boy on a tractor
Could you love me just for me
And I can't offer you the stars above
Just next to nothing except my love
Of every day that I have to live
My everything?s all I've got to give
Well old man Pe...
Well I've done some things that I can't undo
I took your trust and I tore it into
No man in his right mind would have said it's over
Still I told you goodbye completely sober
I wish I could say I'd been drinking
And blame the bottle but I've never been one to booze
Lord only knows what I was thinking
Wish I could say I'd been drinking
Even that's just a fool's excuse
My mama knows her baby boy...
well, he's a no good for nothing
but she wishes he was good for something
besides his behind looking so fine
in those wragler jeans
well all her friends can't help but stare
at his blue denim derie'er
wish that they were in her boots
if you know what i mean
and it may sound crazy
but those wrangler butts
drive the cowgirls nuts
well he lays around all day long
stays out at night until the brea...
