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When I left Tulsa Jamie was an innocent young lady God only knows why she gave herself to a guy like you She called me cryin' said she was gonna have your baby You just turned your back on her like all cowards do I swore I'd get you for what you're puttin' her through And the only reason I ain't got you Jamie cried and begged me not to She still loves you for some reason But don't let the sun ...
Today there's no salvation band's packed up and gone I'm left standing with my penny in my hand Down at railroad station a blind man sings his song I think he sees things I don't understand It's the 33rd of August and I'm finally touching down Eight days from Sunday finds me Saturday bound I stumbled through the darkness tumble to my knees A thousand voices screaming in my brain Wound up in a ...
I've got a couple more years on you babe and that's all I've had more chances to fly and more places to fall It's not that I'm wiser, it's just that I've spent More time with my back to the wall and I've picked up A couple a more years on you babe and that's all Now I've walked a couple more roads than you babe and that's all And I'm tired of running while you're only learning to crawl And you...
A long time forgotten the dreams that just fell by the way The good life he promised, ain't what she's living today But she never complains of the bad times And the bad things he's done Lord She just talks about the good times they've had And all the good times to come She's a good hearted woman in love with a good timin' man She loves him in spite of his ways she don't understand Through tear...
I don't look the way the average cowboy singer looks I'll admit I've taken things I never should've took You can read a different story in a lot of different books But even then you won't really know How it was a long time ago Women have been my trouble since I found out they weren't men In spite of that I stopped and took a wife now and then They built their fences high but they couldn't hold...
As i watched the tail lights disappear Suddenly it got real lonely here I know the words i could have said To make her turn around But a lot of good it's gonna do me now I could have started with i'm sorry And really meant it from the heart The rest would have been easy Together in the dark We could have found that old time feeling That we lost somewhere somehow But a lot of good it's gonna do...
Down the road a ways I've heard said A new day's coming on Where the women folks are friendly And the law leaves you alone I'll believe it when I see it And I haven't seen it yet Don't mind me just keep on talking I'm just looking for my hat There ain't no God in Mexico Ain't no way to understand How that border crossing feeling Makes a fool out of a man If I'd never felt the sunshine Hell, I ...
Just a broken down cowboy all down on his luck been through the best of his friends On a long lonesome highway in an old pickup truck Crossed Texas like a hot dusty wind He was all around cowboy back in1949 from the top it's been long way down Since the whiskey and the women started winnin' his time They rode him high and hard to the ground He remembers the thrill of bein' a winner in the days...
Isn?t there anyone Who?ll take me like I am? Someone who?s willing To take the blue in man Someone that?s pleased enough With himself to let me be Someone who?d love me And try to understand my needs No, I guess there isn?t And there?s no place I can go I guess I?m destined to be alone Good thing that somewhere In this world there?ll be Someone who wouldn?t Always try to change me Someone not ...
I've held it all inward, God knows, I've tried But it's an awful awakening in a country boy's life Look in the mirror in total surprise At the hair on my shoulders and the age in my eyes Amanda, light of my life Fate should have made you a gentleman's wife Amanda, light of my life Fate should have made you a gentleman's wife It's a measure of people who don't understand The pleasures of life i...
Some have said down through history If you last, it's a mystery But I guess they don't know what they're talking about From the mountains down to the sea You've become such a habit with me America, America Well, I come from down around Tennessee But the people in California Are nice to me, America It don't matter where I may roam Tell you people that it's home sweet home America, America And m...
Anita come closer, stop crying and listen to me I guess its too late now but somehow I must make you see What we thought wes our world was only a dream world and we just can't go on like this Anita your dreaming of a world that can never exist Anita it's over there's nothing that's left now to say Anita your dreaming and I know it's better this way Anita come closer and close your pretty blue ...
I've had to burn most every bridge I've crossed It seems like everything I've loved I'd lost When I met you I've thought my luck had turned But our love's just another bridge to burn So, I'll soon light the fire and move on Oh, I've already been here much too long I'm so hurt and you're so unconcerned But our love's just another bridge to burn Sometimes one must love enough for two And that's ...
Don't sing them songs about the open road I've lost too many rainbows chasin' pots of gold I still remember what my baby said It's still a knockin' 'round in back of my head She said, "I'm gonna lock the doors around about midnight Put bars on the window like a zoo You ain't the man that reaches up to turn out my light You're just another man's fool, just another man's fool" I left this mornin...
Slippin' and a-slidin', playin' Dominoes Leftin' and a-rightin' ain't a crime, you know Well, I gotta tell the story before it's time to go Well, are you ready for the country? Are you ready for me? Are you ready for the country? Ain't that the sight to see? Talkin' to a preacher, said God was on his side Talkin' to a butcher, they both were sellin' hide Well, I gotta tell the story, boys I do...
Lord it's the same old tune, fiddle and guitar Where do we take it from here? Rhinestone suits and new shiny cars It's been the same way for years We need to change Somebody told me when I came to Nashville Son you finally got it made Old Hank made it here, we're all sure that you will But I don't think Hank done it this way, no I don't think Hank done it this way, okay Ten years on the road, ...
Ran my Chevy through the car wash Threw the beers cans out Emptied all the ash trays Cleaned a little house Got my Allman Brothers cassettes Stacked up on the dash Got some jack back in the trunk And a tank full of gas Stopped and bought some roses To sweep you off your feet Yes i'm going for the limit,girl I'm gettin' in the real deep Dusted off my Dingos Got my Levis pressed Gonna break into...
You get a pen and I'll get a paper We're gonna write ourselves a song We'll drive the poetics crazy Don't think the damn thing's gonna rhyme I got a friend and I think he's goofy I guess he thinks the same about me Guess it really takes one to know one And you look like an old friend of mine Out all night and acting crazy I've been up for two whole days Turn me over and roll me over Wind me up...
Baby, don?t be looking in my mind You might not like what you find For honey, I know you better than you think I do so baby, don?t be looking in my mind Don?t expect sweet "I love you?s" on and on If I didn?t love you I?d be gone Don?t change the way I live, just take what I can give And baby, don?t be looking in my mind Don?t expect my every thought to be of you For I?m a man and men have thi...
I was a child and she was a child Yet our love was something to see My parents were poor, I was turned from the door Of my beautiful Anabel Lee Now the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams Of my beautiful Anabel Lee and the stars never rise But I feel the soft eyes Of my beautiful Anabel Lee But not even the angels in heaven above Nor the demons down under the sea Can keep me away from...
A vagabond dreamer, a rhymer and singer of songs Singing to no one and nowhere to really belong I met a beautiful lady, a pure Southern belle of the ball Like Scarlet O'Hara loved no one but wanted them all I'll never forget you and love you inspite of your faults The good and the bad, I want to remember it all And I did a new dance and you did your Tennessee Waltz But the party's all over I c...
Stranded here in Dallas cold and hungry I ain't got a dime Sleepin' in the filty trainyard at the warmest driest place that I can find What have I done that would justify the way you treatin' me Big D Stranded here in Dallas cold and hungry I don't know a soul I could feel a little warmer but I find that there's no coat in my woredraw My clothes're paper thin still you let your chill of winter...
Billy we've come along way together And through it all you've been just like a brother to me And Billy we've had our share of ups and downs Froze our tails sleeping on the ground When the jobs were few and far between We've been knocking around together so long Singing them same old songs Been out in the rain so long, I swear we're shrinking Billy lately I have done some thinking When I look b...
I'm gonna write a letter, gonna mail it today Just as soon as I can think of the words to say I've been needing to send it for nearly a year 'Cause there's a woman back home who's wanting to hear I meant to tell you, oh, Susannah I'm a long way from Louisiana and you And I know I promised to be returning Just as soon as I can save the money I'm earning for you But I'm married to twins and I'm ...
Way down in Virginia Amongst the tall grown sugar canes Lived a simple man and a dominiker hen And a rose of a different name Well, the first time I felt lightning I was standing in the drizzling rain With a trembling hand and a bottle of gin And a rose of a different name Well, the Devil made me do it the first time The second time I done it on my own Lord, put a handle on a simple headed man...
Well the honky-tonks in Texas were my natural second home Where you tip your hats to the ladies and the rose of San Antone I grew up on music that we called Western Swing It don't matter who's in, Austin, Bob Wills is still the king Lord I can still remember, the way things were back then In spite of all the hard times, I'd live it all again To hear the Texas Playboys and Tommy Duncan sing Mak...
Born to love only you Destined to die alone without you Knowing my dreams can never come true Yet knowing that I was born to love you Night after night wanting for you Living a life built around you Knowing my dreams can never come true Yet knowing that I was born to love you Knowing my dreams can never come true Yet knowing that I was born to love you
Each night I leave the barroom when it's over not feeling any pain at closin' time But tonight your mem'ry found me much too sober I couldn't drink enough to get you off my mind Tonight the bottle let me down let your mem'ry come around The one true friend that I thought I'd found tonight the bottle let me down [ steel - guitar ] I've always had a bottle I could turn to lately I've been turnin...
I am just a poor boy though my story's seldom told I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles such are promises All lies and jests still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest When I left my home and my family I was no more than a boy in the company of strangers In the quiet of the railway station running scared Laying low seeking out the poorer quarters wher...
Baby, go down to the drugstore, buy me a guitar string And be sure to wear your coat, girl, 'cause it might rain 'Cause honey, you know that rain is bad for my guitar strings Put on your warm coat honey, it's gonna be cold tonight Put on the one that's warm and long 'Cause you're just before hearin' my brand new goodbye song Baby, I've tried your doctors, they just couldn't make me well The hi...
I've been a fool- a fool, such a fool- I've been a fool- a fool, such a fool. Thinking you'd return my love to me- Thinking life will be, what I want it to be. I stay awake at night and I roam around, I've been a fool- And I'm breaking down. I've been lost, baby so lost- I've been bound, baby for so long. Being so lonely, is so hard on a man- Baby I know, you just must understand. I've been tr...
[ with Jessi Colter ] When you're weary feeling small when tears are in your eyes I'll dry them all I'm on your side oh when times get rough and friends just can't be found Like a bridge over troubled water I will lay me down Like a bridge over troubled waters I will lay me down [ guitar ] When you're down and out when you're on the street When evening falls so hard I will comfort you I'll tak...
Flying across the desert in a TWA I saw a woman walking across the sand She been a-walkin' thirty miles en route to L.A. To get a brown eyed handsome man Her destination was a brown eyed handsome man Milo Venus was a beautiful lass She had the world in the palm of her hand But she lost both her arms in a wrestling match To get a brown eyed handsome man She fought and won herself a brown eyed h...
My bills are all due and the baby needs shoes but I'm busted Cotton is down to a quarter a pound and I'm busted I got a cow that's gone dry and a hen that won't lay A big stack of bills gettin' bigger each day. The county will haul my belongings away 'cause I'm busted I went to see my brother, gonna ask him for a loan, I was busted I hate to beg like a dog for a bone but I'm busted My brother ...
I gave my heart, I gave my all You built me up then you let me fall You wore my ring upon your hand But then you changed your mind But that?s all right I looked around and found true love You made me laugh, you made me cry I wished that day that I could die You never dreamed that by and by I?d be glad you changed your mind Yes, that?s all right I looked around and found true love
When the morning sun streaks across my room And I'm wakened up from another dream of you Yes I'm on the road once again it seems All I've left behind is a chain of broken dreams But you know I love you yes I love you oh I love you How I wish this love was all we'd need to live What a life we'd have cause I've got so much to give And it seems so wrong deep inside my heart That the dollar sign c...
Do you remember Cactus Texas? Nothing but a wide place in the road Eighteen wheelers never go there Main Street's just too narrow for the load A little town of honest people Some we haven't seen for quite awhile I was young and restless And we both were full of dreams and running wild We left our old hometown and family Barely had a nickel to our name We were out to win the world Not once look...
Go west, young man, the signs all seem to say There's San Diego Frisco or L.A. Leave that cold, cold woman far behind Warm yourself in that California sunshine Go west, young man, become a movie star Or anything except the fool you are Expose the lonely corners of your mind To a little dad of that California sunshine I need a change, I've headed up to here She's just playing game that's very c...
Gonna catch a freight train as far as I can Lord I don't care which way it goes Gonna climb a mountain the highest mountain Lord jump off ain't nobody gonna know Can't you see oh can't you see what that woman's been doin' to me Can't you see can't you see what that woman's been doin' to me [ guitar ] Gonna buy a ticket go as far as I can Lord I ain't never coming back Take me a southbound all ...
I've been quite the traveler ever since I hit the road And the Sullen county carnival has been my earn in gold I've been quite alone since I remember when I turned my ultimatums into chips and cashed them in I used to run the Ferris wheel but that'd be hard to prove I can't stand to see a rolling wheel propped up so it can't move I used to run the carousel hell that's just round and round Neve...
Casey joins the hollow sound Of silent people walkin' down The stairway to the subway In the shadows down below Following their footsteps Through the neon darkened corridors Of silent desperation, never speaking to a soul The poison air he's breathing has the dirty smell of dyin' 'Cause it's never seen the sunshine And it's never felt the rain Casey minds the arrows and ignores the fatal echoe...
I got a gal in Cedartown, Georgia I used to have to walk nearly three miles to court her She never had much, just a sharecropper's daughter But I married her and took her down to New Orleans She got a little house in the South French Quarter Got a job tookin' bales load them on steamboat I give a seven days pay, next day I'm broke When she ain't a sleepin' all day she's a primpin' Every evenin...
If I should get a look of leavin' in my eyes Put your arms 'round me, woman, and change my mind If I ever seem too restless or dissatisfied Put your arms 'round me, woman, and change my mind Don't let me separate your love from mine Don't let me leave you, I might get the urge some time If I do, you'll know what to do to keep me by your side Put your arms 'round me, baby, and change my mind If...
I only meant to love you don't you know it babe Why couldn't you be contented with the love I gave I've given you my heart and now you want my mind Your love scares me to death girl it's the chokin' kind You can kill a man with bullets poison or a knife But it hurts him more to take his pride and run his life Whatever it is you want girl I hope you find But that hat don't fit my head it's the ...
Their eyes were upon me as they sat they're drinking Their hands reach up for you with lust in their hearts As you dance away I know just what they're thinking As I watch them watch you it just tears me apart Dance while my heart breaks Christina Dance to the strings of your shame and my sorrow I'll take you home when it's over to dream all the dreams of a brighter tomorrow [ trumpet ] Your ey...
Down by the river where the big boats go by Each day you could see them as evening was nigh They planned to be married at the first sign of spring And Jim would take Cindy to see New Orleans The town folks would smile as they sat there alone Jim talked of the day he'd make Cindy his own He saved his money to buy her a ring and take his sweet Cindy to see New Orleans [ ac.guitar ] One day a riv...
I joined the navy to see the world but nowhere could I find A girl as sweet as Cindy the girl I left behind I've sailed the wide world over can't get her off my mind Cindy oh Cindy Cindy don't let me down Write me a letter soon and I'll be homeward bound I see her face in every wave her lips kiss every breeze Her loving arms reach out for me through calm and stormy seas At night I pace the lon...
Dark cloud hangin' over me when will it go away Rain is in my eyes and I can't see life's become just cloudy days Why she's done me like she's done I guess I'll never know She knows I need her more than anyone I've made a point to let it show Cloudy days don't the sun ever shine anymore stormy weather will you always be around When I'm down I can't stand cloudy days [ guitar steel ] I recall t...
Clyde plays electric bass plays it with finesse and grace Set on the porch ain't got no shoes pickin' the bass and singin' the blues Misery loves company this old dog sings harmony Tambourine tied to his tail you can hear him moan you can hear him wail yeah Jodie baby she got the dollar down the road you can hear her holler Get up Clyde we got things to do that old dog's singin' the blues He d...
Today was supposed to be Just another day Before the meeting of our minds and What you had to say It's been a long time comin' and I guess i never saw I'll have a short time adjusting to it all You have come to your conclusion You no longer care for me And that we don't belong together I suppose we sould agree There is nothing i can do Now that you've made up your mind But could you come back ...
Come on home and sing the blues to daddy Tell it all to one who understands I hear that your new romance has faded Just the way ours did sometime ago I've lost count of all the times I've waited For you to tell me that you've missed me so Come on home and sing the blues to daddy When things don't work out the way you planned Come on home and sing the blues to daddy Tell it all to one who under...
I'll send away all my false pride And I'll forsake all my life I'll do what I can so you'll feel free If you'll come and stay with me Lovers of the past, I'll leave behind There'll never be another on my mind Yes, I'll be as true as true as you can be If you'll come and stay with me Promises I make so faithfully I'll keep still should you decide to leave I'll try and see if you'll have all you...
When your heart's in someone else's hands Monkey see and monkey do Their wish is your command You're not to blame, everyone's the same All you do is love and love is all you do I should know by now The way I fought for you You're not to blame, everyone's the same I know you think that you're safe, Mister Harmless deception that keeps love at bay It's the ones who resist that we most want to ki...
Now blue ain't the word for the way that I feel And the storm's brewing in this heart of mine This ain't no crazy dream I know that it's real You're someone else's love now you're not mine Crazy arms that reach to hold somebody new While my yearning heart keeps saying you're not mine My troubled mind knows soon to another you'll be wed But for now I'm just lonesome all the time [ steel ] So ta...
I go out with the crowd, I play the game Pretending out loud but it don't seem the same For the heart of the crowd is gone from sight And my part of the crowd is not with me tonight I remember the times, each dance with you All those crazy things that we used to do Sometimes we'd wait for the dance and then steal away From the crowd and the dance till I hide away Oh, but you're gone and it's n...
I was all right for awhile I could smile for awhile But I saw you last night You held my hand so tight As you stopped to say, "Hello" Oh, you wished me well You, you couldn't tell That I'd been crying over you Crying over you When you said, "So long" Left me standing all alone Alone and crying, crying Crying, crying It's hard to understand But the touch of your hand Can start me crying I thoug...
Just a kid with a song when he wandered from home in search of the phantom of fame She promised she'd wait but he got back too late Just a scene from the dark side of fame In the wrong frame of mind he took to the wine Holding pieces of love's broken chain It was colder than jade in this world that he'd made All alone on the dark side of fame His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world...
Deep in the west Where the tall mountains grow I've gone home Where the heavens above Turns red from the fire Down below Are you listening to me? When I'm talking to you Said, "Together we're one Divided we're through Divided we're through" Silver friend at night Yellow friend it comes With the dawn Back in my heart I've been drying my eyes See me run So you hang on to me And I'll hang on to y...
Delia, oh Delia, where have you been so long? If buddy's talkin' 'bout Delia they say she's done me wrong They took my Delia to the graveyard, took her in a long black hearse If I hadn't shot my poor Delia I believe she'd have got me first Delia's gone Went down to the graveyard to look at my Delia's face I said, ?Delia girl how I love you and I wish I could take your place? Jailer, oh jailer,...
In her younger days they called her Delta Dawn Prettiest woman you ever had laid eyes on But a man of low degree stood by her side Promised her he?d take her for his bride but he lied Delta Dawn, what?s that flower you have on Could it be a faded rose of days gone by Did I hear you say he was meetin? you here today To take you to his mansion in the sky? She?s forty-one and her daddy still call...
Surely you know by now my heart is wild I don't wanna be tied down it ain't my style Don't you think I know better World is kind of other too dis selfish Well, I can't help it I'm destiny's child I couldn't began to tell you If I try admit so much to love before a little while Tried to remember all of the good love I wish you understood love I ain't no good love I'm destiny's child, destiny's ...
About the time that Daddy left to fight the big war I saw my first pistol in the general store In the general store when I was thirteen Thought it was the finest thing I ever had seen l asked if I could have one someday when I grew up Mama dropped a dozen eggs, she really blew up Really blew up, I didn't understand Mama said,"The pistol is the devil's right hand" The devil's right hand The dev...
Well hello, it's good to see you, just how long has it been? I've often wondered what I'd say if we ever met again Would I try just being clever or pretend not to remember? But it's funny how you'd linger on my mind Didn't we shine, didn't we shine? Didn't we share and care and lay our hearts on the line? Maybe it wasn't meant to last 'til the end of time Oh, but while it did, didn't we shine?...
WRITER PAUL KENNERLEY G F oh Dixie, hang your head and cry C you have seen so many children die G F you had courage and you had pride C but the Union could never see your side G Am C G at all, oh, oh, oh not at all G F oh Dixie, now the land is scarred C the States are bleeding, they're wounded and marred G F Mister Lincoln isn't here to lend a hand C now he's gone - and bitter hate rules the ...
In the mornin' you go gunnin' For the man who stole your water Then you fire till he's done in But they catch you at the border And the mourners are all singin' As they drag you by your feet But the hangman isn't hangin' And they put you on the street You go back Jack do it again Wheel turnin' 'round and 'round You go back Jack do it again When you know you're no high climber Then you find out...
I've been away for so long fought a war that's come and gone Doesn't anybody know my name My sister upped and wed mom was sick and took to bed And my old dog Red's gone lame Please tell me if you can what time the trains roll in Two ten six eighteen ten forty four This old house is falling down there ain't no need in me for hanging round Doesn't anybody know my name The girl I left behind she'...
I scandalized my brother While admitting that he sang some pretty songs I'd heard that he'd been scandalizing me And Lord, I knew that that was wrong Well, I'm looking at it over somethin' cool And feeling fool enough to see What I had called my brother on Now he had every right to call on me Don't ever cuss that fiddle boy Unless you want that fiddle out of tune That picker there's in trouble...
The hardest thing you ever do is love yourself, that gal don't love you She'll cause you sleepless nights and endless pain But if you don't like the rules don't play the game Every time that girl walks by your heart will ache, your very soul will die But love one sided, it's just yourself to blame And if you don't like the rules don't play the game You think by now I see the fool, I've been gi...
Don't look for me I must go don't waste your time I must go Don't look for me don't waste your time I'll find another that's more my kind I'll find my happiness on further down the line Don't look for me don't waste your time I must go I must go It's over now I must be on my way there's nothing here for me so I can't stay You tried to be what I wanted you to be it's over now you're not the one...
I'm for the law and order the way that it should be This song's about the night they spent protecting you from me Someone called us outlaws in some old magazine New York sent a posse down like I ain't ever seen Don't you think this outlaw bit's done got out of hand? What started out to be a joke the law don't understand Was it singing through my nose that got me busted by the man? Maybe this h...
Donna on my mind when I get up in the morning Donna on my mind the whole day through Love can't come so quick and real without any warning Wonder if she's thinking of me too Once I thought that no one girl could ever hold me Even thought this thing called love was just fantasy Now I won't be satisfied until she's mine 'Till then I'll just have Donna on my mind Once I thought that no one girl c...
I'm for law and order,the way that it should be This song's about the night they spent protecting you from me Someone called this outlaw,in some ol' magazine New York sent a posse down like i ain't never seen Chorus: Don't you think this outlaw bit has done got out of hand What started out to be a joke,the law don't understand Was it singing through my nose that got me busted by the man Maybe ...
Saw your picture in the paper And I see you've married good And I know that he can give you All the things I never could But I know that he can't give you What you need most of all So the door is always open And the light's on in the hall Yes, the door is always open And the light's on in the hall And you know that I'll be waiting If you ever come to call When night falls on that mansion And y...
Down, down, down came the world I went round, round, round in a whirl I built every dream around one girl Then down, down, down came the world She must have loved a little Just to keep me hanging on How could lips that kiss so sweet Lie and be so wrong? Our love was just a pattern Of the perfect boy and girl The only dream I own In this world Down, down, down came the world I went round, round...
Sweet dream baby Sweet dream baby Sweet dream baby How long must I dream? Dream baby got me dreamin' sweet dreams The whole day through Dream baby got me dreamin' sweet dreams In night time too I love you and I'm dreamin' of you That won't do Dream baby, help me stop my dreamin' You make my dreams come true Sweet dream baby Sweet dream baby Sweet dream baby How long must I dream? Dream baby go...
I hope that I won't be that wrong anymore And maybe I've learned this time I hope that I find what I'm reaching for The way that it is in my mind Someday I'll get over you I'll live to see it all through But I'll always miss Dreaming my dreams with you But I won't let it change me, not if I can I'd rather believe in love And give it away as much as I can To those that I'm fondest of Someday I'...
I hope that I won't be that wrong anymore And maybe I've learned this time I hope that I find what I'm reaching for The way that it is in my mind Someday I'll get over you I'll live to see it all through But I'll always miss Dreaming my dreams with you But I won't let it change me, not if I can I'd rather believe in love And give it away as much as I can To those that I'm fondest of Someday I'...
Everybody's lookin' for some way in I'm lookin' for some way out I've been wastin' my time standin' in line If this is what it's all about All I got is a job that I don't like And a woman that don't understand So tonight at the bar I'll get in my car And take off for the promise land Drinkin' and dreamin', knowin' damn well I can't go I'll never see Texas, L.A. or Old Mexico But here at this t...
Here I sit drivin' nails in the wall thinking I hear someone in my hall She said that she'd be back in no time at all here I sit drivin' nails in the wall In the dark that stacks around me dreams of you keep pounding me Leading me to where I've never been And the voice keeps telling me this could be insanity but I know my name as well as you Here I sit drivin' nails in the wall... In the wilte...
I made it through my rock and roll years With a spent dream and a few dollar bills I don't know what I learned, I don't know what I know And if I don't now I never will I ain't seen it all but it's plain to see I just might be an endangered species Like an old gray fox I know how he feels With the new hats snapping at my heels And I ain't sure what it's all about I ain't in but don't count me ...
I am the entertainer I know just where I stand Another serenader another long haired man Today I am your champion I may have won your heart But I know the game you'll forget my name I won't be here in another year If I don't stay on the charts I am the entertainer had to pay my price Things I didn't know at first I learned by doing twice But still they come to haunt me still they want their sa...
He was born and raised around Jacksonville a nice young man bout the kind to kill But the jealous fight and the flashing blades sent him on the run through the evrglades Running like the dog through the everglades Where a man can hide and never be found and never have fear of the baying hounds Better keep movin' don't stand still if the skeeters don't get him in Gatersville If the skeeters don...
FALLIN' OUT Writer Denny Lile We fell into a fallin' out You are the one that I just can't figure out But I do believe I want to Like a girl in a picture show You are the one that I'd like to know And I do, I do believe I need to And I do, I do believe that I feel like I'm watching a dove that's falling It's love and it's going down The songbird is calling a slipaway darling So if there's a wa...
You bring me happiness then leave me loneliness My world is in distress, yet I keep falling for you You look into my eyes and tell the sweetest lies You're a heartbreak in disguise, yet I keep falling for you Oh darling, when you're near, my world is happy, dear But when you disappear, I don't know what to do I love in misery, you're so unfair to me It's such a mystery, why I keep falling for ...
When the last breath of life is gone from my body and my lips are as cold as the sea When my friends gather round to my farewell party Please won't you pretend you love me There'll be flowers from those who'll cry when I'll go And leave you in this old world alone Will you shed a tear at my farewell party or will you be glad when I'm gone Don't be angry with me a wanting to keep you Till my li...
I hear the train a comin? It?s rollin? 'round the bend I ain?t seen the sunshine Since I don?t know when Well, I?m stuck in Folsom Prison And time keeps draggin? on But I see a train a movin? On down to San Antone Bet there?s rich folks eatin? In some fancy dining car Probably drinkin? coffee And smokin? big cigars Well, I know, I had it comin? I know, I can?t be free But them people keep on m...
I know that you've been foolin' 'round on me right from the start So I'll take back my ring and I'll take back my heart When you're tired of foolin' 'round with two or three Come on home and fool around with me I wasn't foolin' 'round the day I said I'd do Many a night I wished that I've been foolin' too I know it's foolish taking all this misery When it's you a fool I'll always be I know that...
That's what you get for lovin' me that's what you get for lovin' me Everything we had is gone if you can see that's what you get for lovin' me Don't you shed a tear for me I ain't the love you thought I'd be I've had a hundred just like you but don't be blue I'll have a thousand before I'm through That's what you get for lovin' me... [ guitar ] There you go you're cryin' again you should have ...
You work like a slave for the kids and I'd go to my grave for the kids But we watched our love fade as we suffered that state With this bargain we made for the kids Divorce is a curse for the kids but this intention's much worse for the kids Yes they're now old enough and they made the strongest stuff Still it's gonna be rough for the kids These teardrops that fall for the kids you know they'r...
I tied my bandana,took my pack from the floor You were still sleeping,as i stood at the door Once more i was heading to,God only knows where That's when it hit me,i was already there Chorus: I could ramble,a thousand miles or more Never find the light i've seen in your eyes before You gave me the freedom to go on my own way But you gave me much more,you gave me the freedom to stay Why keep on ...
Frisco's a mile long away You can afford to fly But it might as well be the moon Lord, when you're as broke as I Here I sit with my head in my hands Watching the trains roll by Lord, the Helping Hand Mission man warned me That the nights here got cold When you're cold, there's nothing as welcome as sunshine When you're dry, there's nothing as welcome as rain When you're alone, there's nothing ...
Well, he smoked those Camel cigarettes about three packs a day Nicotine stains on his fingers when he'd stretch them out to play That old midnight special is one he loved to do Then he'd sing, "I'm walking the floor over you" TV preachers and welfare checks for him just had no place But he'd take his time to tune real good when he sang 'Amazing Grace' He'd say, "Boys I'm old and crazy but I st...
Oh, the games people now, every night and every day now Never meaning what they say now, never saying what they mean Oh, they wile away the hours in their ivory towers Till they're covered up with flowers in the back of a black limousine Lotten da, la da da da, lotten da, la a da da dee Talkin' 'bout you and me and the games people play Oh, we make one another cry, break a heart then we say go...
Gardenia Waltz was penned by Johnny Gimble and is an instrumental. There have never been any lyrics to my knowledge.
I could tell you a story from another day in time How a high falootin' woman tried to make me walk the line She was into changin' too damn hard to please And the last time I saw her she was down on her knees Born under the sign of the Gemini twins There's two sides to me and they ain't even friends All sides are rising and there ain't no in between When I'm bad I'm bad when I'm good I'm the be...
It's knowing that your door is always open And your path is free to walk That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag Rolled up and stashed behind your couch And it's knowing I'm not shacked By forgotten words and boons And the ink stains That have dried upon some line That keeps you in the back roads By the rivers of my memory Keeps you ever gentle on my mind It's not clinging to the rocks and...
GEORGIA WRITER CHARLIE DANIELS Lamps in the windows burnin' bright, over in Santa Fe tonight Full moon shining down along the border But the ground is hard and the night is black Over here by the railroad track And I wish to the Lord that I was back in Georgia Blue water in the Indian sun, Calling me when the day is done Mama, mama pray for your son All of my life I've been told That the LA st...
GET NAKED WITH ME WRITER BOBBY EMMONS I bring it up You're quick to cover it all up again Thought we were friends What are friends for? The old bones in your closet Must really embarrass you And so to save face It's a locked place Chorus: I don't see why you don't get naked with me Get all the little secrets out in the open air 'Cause we won't ever be All that we could be As long as you won't ...
Girl, I can tell you're trying to work it out Tryin' to get a handle on what life is all about Between womanhood and nursery rhymes Tryin' to find the truth in lover's lies Girl, I can tell you're trying to work it out Girl, I can see you're wantin' to give it a try Taking on the good and the bad, the truth and the lies Feelings inside you, you can't talk about Feelings have a way of not comin...
GOIN' DOWN ROCKIN' WRITERS TONY JOE WHITE, LEANN WHITE One foot on the mountain, the other one in the stream All kinds of trouble and I'm caught in between I can't change my way of doin'; it's gonna lay like it falls If I can't go down rockin', I ain't gonna go down at all She was a child of acquired money, had that silver spoon I knew she had a little wild streak and needed breathing room If ...
I've thought I'd take a trip to Denver and spend a little time I thought maybe out in Denver I might get you off my mind No want no want go with me, just want to be alone I might find someone in Denver that can help me carry on Gone to Denver, gone to Denver, gone to mend a broken heart Now I was goin' and if I'm goin' I'd better be gone, gone to Denver Well, I've known a quiet wild, now I've ...
GONNA WRITE A LETTER WRITER PAUL KENNERLEY I'm gonna write a letter, gonna mail it today Just as soon as I think of the words to say I've been needing to send it for nearly a year There's a woman back home who's waiting to hear I meant to tell you, dear Susannah I'm a long way from Louisiana and you And I know I promised to be returning Just as soon as I've saved the money I'm earning for you ...
A long time forgotten the dreams that just fell by the way The good life he promised, ain't what she's living today But she never complains of the bad times And the bad things he's done Lord She just talks about the good times they've had And all the good times to come She's a good hearted woman in love with a good timin' man She loves him in spite of his ways she don't understand Through tear...
Just the good ol' boys Never meanin' no harm Beats all you've never saw, been in trouble with the law Since the day they was born Straightenin' the curve Flate'nin' the hills Someday the mountain might get 'em But the law never will Makin' their way The only way they know how That's just a little bit more Than the law will allow Just the good ol' boys Wouldn't change if they could Fightin' the...
People sit around and they talk and talk How their dreams all ended too soon Guess, they never hung out under the stars Howling at the moon I guess, we're as different as nine and eight I see it in a different light I don't think much about the good ol' days Just about the good ol' nights Talk about the good times Talk about the times when the times were right You can keep the good ol' days I'...
Just a good ol? boys Never meanin? no harm Beats all you never saw Been in trouble with the law Since the day they was born Straightenin? the curves Flatenin' the hills Someday the mountain might get ?em But the law never will Makin? their way The only way they know how That?s just a little bit more Than the law will allow Makin? their way The only way they know how That?s just a little bit mo...
Everybody's gone away Since they're movin' to L.A. There ain't a soul I know around Everybody's leavin' town Some caught a freight, some caught a plane Find the sunshine leave the rain They say this town'll waste your mind Must be right 'cause it's wasted mine Some got to win, some got to lose Good time Charlie's got the blues My old heart keeps telling me There ain't no kid at thirty-three Pl...
Everybody's going away Said there moving to L.A. There ain't a soul i know around Everybody's leaving town Some caught a freight,some caught a plane Find the sunshine leave the rain They say this town will waste your mind I guess they're right cause it's wasted mine Chorus: Some got to win,some got to lose Good time Charlie's got the blues My old heart keeps telling me You ain't no kid at thir...
Green River, I?ve come back to you do you remember me Do you remember Molly with the soft blue eyes I left here with a lot of dreams none of them came true What I wanted was here waiting all the time Green River, did she come here every evening Like the neighbors say, she did so faithfully Green River, has she gone away forever She just disappeared one day as she gave upon me Green River, if y...
That cold north wind is blowing grey eyes you know The years are quickly going grey eyes you know And the good life I promised you so long ago Is dead but for a dreaming grey eyes you know We never had much money grey eyes you know More rainy days than sunny grey eyes you know And life has been a long hard road to hoe But you stuck right by me smiling grey eyes you know Hard times took the blu...
Well, I grew up lean and hungry I worked hard for my money Said, "I'm gonna live my life the way, I please" Spent some time on the road of life Saw an angel once and the devil twice I came across some things, that I don't need Like a cold hearted women, whiskey in my water And only one way out of a motel room Payments on the Cadillac and too many questions And old guitars that just won't stay ...
It's true you have me twisted round your finger And it seems that's where I belong You know how to hold me, to thrill me and control me Just enough to keep me hangin' on For now, tomorrow and forever I guess, I'm tied to you right or wrong My love keeps a growing 'cause your love keeps a showing Just enough to keep me hangin' on A love that's strong as mine Will make me do most anything Like h...
Ramblin' about, down through the south I find things are a changing a lot Especially me, it's easy to see Montgomery's still hot and I'm not I stopped by today at Hank William's grave My hero from the days of my youth Was that him or me that I used to be In the times when I searched for the truth Hank, you were my inspiration And I was obsessed with your ways But to tell you the truth It's no ...
He went to Paris lookin' for answers to questions That bothered him so He was impressive, young and aggressive Savin' the world on his own Warm summer breezes, French wine and cheeses Put his ambition at bay The summers and winters scattered like splinters And four or five years slipped away He went to England, played the piano and married An actress named Kim They had a good life, she was a g...
Heartache number one was when you left me I never knew that I could hurt this way Heartache number two was when you came back again You came back but never meant to stay I've got heartaches by the numbers, troubles by the score Every day you love me less, each day I love you more I've got heartaches by the numbers a love that I can't win But the day that I stop counting that's the day my world...
I called you on the phone to say I love you That I stop by for you at nine My heart broke when you said that it's all over Someone else would take up all your time And that's a lot of heartaches for a dime I'll never know what made you change your mind I only know I've held you close and kissed you my last time That's a lot of heartaches for a dime I went downtown to join the merry makers I to...
Chorus: I've had a life time of memories like you I couldn't get over even if i wanted you It's really not somethin' i don't wanna do But i've got heartaches older than you I've seen that kind of look in other eyes before This time may be different i'm not sure Do you really understand what your young heart desires If you're just playin' around,you're playin' with fire Chorus.
Sometimes it's heaven,sometimes it's hell Sometimes I don't even know Sometimes I take it as far as I can Sometimes I don't even go My front tracks are headin' for a cold water well My back tracks are covered with snow Sometimes it's heaven, sometimes it's hell Sometimes I don't even know Heaven ain't walking a street paved with gold Hell ain't a mountain of fire Heaven is laying in my sweet b...
I?m gonna change my ways of doing things around here I?m turning over a new leaf gonna get myself in gear ?Cause I?ve got a woman who?s better than most And I?ve made a mess of her plans So startin? today all I?m gonna be is her man I?ve been a wild catter and a go go getter Been an SOB right down to the letter I?ve had misadventures I even got pictures Of even more than I can stand So startin...
Son, you make me feel so proud I pop the buttons right off my shirt I know I promised to take you to the lake today But I'm going to have to break that promise and it really hurts Every time I go fishin', it always starts me wishin' That I could be a child again Take my 50 cents and go down to the local picture show To watch my heroes rope and ride Most times they'd win but when they'd lose It...
Hey Willie, let's pack up and catch us a slow train And go back to Phoenix to a far brighter day Where stars were for shining in the Arizona sky And music meant more than fortune or fame Willie, we wandered from border to border Singing our stories and living our songs Seems the farther we go, all that grows closer Is a mind full of memories we made years ago Hey Willie, let's pack up and catc...
Well, I'm sick and tired of wakin' up, sick and tired As of today there's gonna be some changes made Well, you might as well keep your feet on the ground 'Cause I won't stand still for you're movin' around It's high time you quit your lowdown ways, yeah Anything to the talk I hear over town Is it really true, girl that you go on the deck up and down Now the word as well as I can recall Everywh...
I was a highwayman Along the coach roads I did ride With sword and pistol by my side Many a young maid Lost her baubles to my trade Many a soldier shed His lifeblood on my blade The bastards hung me In the spring of twenty-five But I am still alive I was a sailor I was born upon the tide With the sea I did abide I sailed a schooner 'Round the Horn to Mexico I went aloft and furled The mainsail...
Well, I don't know who or where I am I don't know who do give a damn It's a hell of a mess that I've got me in Hittin' the bottle again I can't walk so I can't go home No need to talk 'cause I'm alone If I stay here they're gonna lock me in Hittin' the bottle again Hittin' the bottle again Ever than I've drunker been Or is it drunker than I've ever been? Hittin' the bottle again Well, I tried ...
Well, I left my home down on a rural route Told my Pappa I'm goin', steppin' out To get them honky tonk blues, jumpin' honky tonk blues Well, lord I got 'em, I got the honky tonk blues In and out of every joint in this town The city life has really got me down I got the honky tonk blues, honky tonk blues Well, lord I got 'em, I got the honky tonk blues I'm gonna slap my boogie underneath my ar...
Low down leaving sun Done, did everything that needs done Woe is me, why can't I see? I'd best be leaving well enough alone Them neon light nights, couldn't stay out of fights Keep a-haunting me in memories Well is one in every crowd for crying out loud Why was it always turning out to be me? Where does it go? The good Lord only knows Seems like it was just the other day I was down at Green Ga...
I met her, just a barroom queen in Memphis She tried to make me upstairs for a ride She had to carry me right across her shoulder 'Cause I just can't seem to drink her off of my mind She's a honky tonk woman Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme Gimme, gimme the honky tonk girl I met her either say in New York City I had to put up a one heck of a fight The lady said she'd covered me with roses She broke ...
I've been walking in the shadows for so long that I forgot the sun could shine I've turned away from everything and everyone that wanted to be mine Somehow I always shot my eyes and heart to anything that I might share Now I'm standing still and I wonder how long have you been there Every path I've taken, I've turned around and quickly closed the door It seems that all I knew if I ever stop to...
How much is it worth to live in L.A.? That land of silk and money where the pretty people play When they itemize insanity, how much will you pay? How much is it worth to live in L.A.? Now I'm not here to criticize or to put nobody down But they're weirding out in Hollyweird every time you turn around And when it comes to crazy, I know whereof I speak And I know where I'd be leaving if I were w...
Like a raging flood that ruins a poor man's land You keep doing things to hurt me all you can But the thickness that we knew is growing thin How much rain can one man stand? How much rain can one man stand? I gave you everything but my right hand If you won't let me love you then don't let me be your friend How much rain can one man stand? I can see them big old storm clouds movin' in There's ...
They said in her younger days Her beauty was enough to drive men wild But the hunger in her body then Was not the hunger of some lonely child Like a butterfly in springtime Searching every field for loving's sweetest rose The embrace of many strangers Still could not release her from the hold In the back streets and the bedrooms All she's found is disappointments, bitterly While the love that ...
I look for trouble and i found it son Straight down the barrel of a lawman's gun I tried to run but i don't think i can You make one move and you're a dead man friend Ain't living long like this Can't live at all like this,can i baby? He slipped the handcuffs on behind my back And left me reeling on a steel reel rack They got'em all in the jailhouse baby Ain't living long like this Can't live ...
Verse 1: D A I look for trouble and i found it son Straight down the barrel of a lawman's gun I tried to run but i don't think i can You make one move and you're a dead man friend D Ain't living long like this A Can't live at all like this,can i baby? E He slipped the handcuffs on behind my back And left me reeling on a steel reel rack D They got'em all in the jailhouse baby A Ain't living lon...
Chorus W. Jennings,W. Nelson: A E Take back the weed,take back the cocaine baby A Take back the pills,take back the whiskey too E I don't need them now,your love was all i was after A I'll make it now,i can get off on you Verse 1 W. Nelson: D A I can get by on little or nothing at all,i know D E I can get high just thinking about you,and so Chorus. Verse 2 W. Jennings: D A Who would have thoug...
Take back the weed, take back the cocaine baby Take back the pills, take back the whiskey too I don't need 'em now, your love was all I was after I'll make it by, I can get off on you I can get by on little or nothing at all I can get high baby, just thinkin' about your good lovin' Well, it's true Take back the weed, take back the cocaine baby Take back the pills, take back the whiskey too I d...
You know I can't stand to be around you 'Cause you know I'm still in love with you And my arms keep reaching to do What my thoughts do all the time I just can't keep my hands off of you 'Cause it's like looking at heaven while I'm standing in hell We shared something precious for a while You look just like a baby in a cradle to me And I just can't keep my hands off of you Woman, you've got the...
In my own way, I'm a believer In my own way, right or wrong I don't talk too much about it It's something, I keep working on I don't have too much, to build on My faith has never been that strong There's a man in that old building He's a holy man, they say He keeps talking about tomorrow While I keep struggling with today He preaches hell, fire and brimstone And heaven seems so far away I do b...
I don't mind I don't mind I did for a time but I don't mind It used to break my heart each time you cheated I tried to leave the Lord knows how I tried But I stay here no matter how I'm treated and all it really cost me was my pride But I don't mind I don't mind I did for a time but I don't mind You and I have a perfect understanding you come and you go as you please And I never get too angry ...
You don't know what's good for you You won't leave me alone I know you've got a family Sleepin' at home Don't make me go out of my way Don't tempt me please Don't you be so nice to me I fall in love so easily I'm all alone and need someone I guess that it shows But the things you make me want to do I'll regret I know So don't say things that you don't mean 'Cause I just might believe Don't you...
Missing Lyrics
I took my woman down to the local depot From there to anywhere if you want to you can go I said ?Now pretty mama I've had myself enough Of your fussing and your fighting and it's sure gonna get rough? I got the train sittin', waitin', leaving right on time So if you want to go better get aboard But you be the one to make up your mind I've tried to love you woman every way I know how But you ke...
Don't get no attention from the people on street They don't even see us, they just step right on our feet Just two unnoticed people in this great big world are we And when I think about it, yes, that's all we'll ever be But I got you and you got me And if they look they can see that we don't care I got you and you got me And baby, that's all we will ever need Looking through the window of a fa...
You tear me down a hundred times a day I've cried enough to wash the world away I've tried so hard to be what you've wanted me to be Till somewhere along the way I lost me To give and keep on giving I have learned There's no way but yours where you're concerned I tried till finally I lost my own identity and somewhere along the way I lost me Somewhere along the way I lost the man I used to be ...
Well, my baby you're a looker and I know what you're looking for You've been looking over, every man at the bar Honey, I know, I've got a few years on you But if you're shopping around let me tell you a thing or two Well, I look a little rough and I got a few miles on me My body needs work and my style ain't what it used to be And honey, I'll admit there's places where I'm wearing thin But I a...
Well, my baby you're a looker and I know what you're looking for You've been looking over, every man at the bar Honey, I know, I've got a few years on you But if you're shopping around let me tell you a thing or two Well, I look a little rough and I got a few miles on me My body needs work and my style ain't what it used to be And honey, I'll admit there's places where I'm wearing thin But I a...
Little girl don't be so quit to give your love so free Little girl what makes you want to throw yourself with me Just in your teens you're lookin' more like twenty one You run ahead of life when it's only just begun Don't you know I may never pass this way again Little girl you'd better go before I'd change my mind Little girl walk away while you still have the time It's just a part of growin'...
Silver coins that jingle jangle Fancy shoes that dance in time Oh, the secrets of her dark eyes They did sing a gypsy rhyme Yellow clover in tangled blossoms In a meadow silky green Where she held me to her bosom Just a boy of seventeen I recall a gypsy woman Silver spangles in her eyes Ivory skin against the moonlight And the taste of life's sweet wine Soft breezes blow from fragrant meadows ...
So long to you Hope I don't make you blue I think I'm gonna kill myself I think I'm gonna kill myself Apart we've grown Now I can't go on alone I think I'm gonna kill myself I think I'm gonna kill myself Now dig my grave with a silver spade A gold chain lay me down and down Send my remains to my best friend The rest to my hole in the ground Send the rest to my hole in the ground I bow my head,...
How many times must I tell her? How many times must I say? I won't be around to pick her up again From now on she'll have to find her own way How many years have I loved her While she stood by so unconcerned? But the things she don't know I'll teach her when I go She's been wrong and I think it's time she learned I think it's time she learned Love can't live when love is not returned She thoug...
This world that I live in is empty and cold The loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul I'm no child of destiny and no fortune's son I've just chased you so long, now I'm too weak to run A new day is here but nothing is new Alone in my room I tremble for you I know I'll return to the back streets again To find what I need to prove, I'm a man And there I'll treat shame like an old friend from h...
Your love, I'm no longer sure of Seems there's times you'd rather be alone And if I'm losing you tell me what did I do Oh, I wonder just where I went wrong Even though I still feel the same I can't help but feel I'm to blame Have I done all that I can do to show my love for you Oh, I wonder just where I went wrong Even though I still feel the same I can't help but feel I'm to blame Have I done...
If heartaches brought fame in love's crazy game I'd be a legend, a living legend in my time If they gave gold statues for tears and regrets I'd be a legend, a living legend in my time But they don't give awards and there's no praise or fame For a heart that's been broken over love that's in vain If loneliness meant world acclaim, everyone would know my name I'd be a legend, a living in my time...
I'LL FIND IT WHERE I CAN WITH JAMES GARNER WRITERS MICHAEL CLARK, ZACK VANASDALE Ah It's just another wasted mornin' While I'm holdin' up the wall Too much tequila makes me wonder Why I'm headin' home at all Get that honky tonk feelin' Every time your arms grow cold I suppose that's the reason I need a home away from home So I'll say one more time And I hope you'll understand If I can't find i...
I'll go back to her where I'm wanted Maybe I can make up for the wrong In spite of all I've done she still wants me So I'll go back to her where I belong Walking out on her wasn't easy But without a second thought I left her there I gave my all, did it all to please you But the more I seem to do the less you care So I'll go back to her where I'm wanted And maybe I can make up for the wrong In ...
I'm a long way from home and so all alone Homesick like I never thought I'd be I'm a long way from home, everything is wrong Someone please watch over me I'm not accustomed to this feeling Loneliness is burning in my soul Sometimes the mind is so mistreating I wish I'd stayed at home like I was told I wish I knew the force within me That keeps my mind out of control What makes me reach for thi...
I've been down the Mississippi Down through New Orleans, yes I have I've played in California There ain't too much I haven't seen, no there ain't Lord, I'm a ramblin' man Don't fall in love with a ramblin' man Left a girl in West Virginia Up there where that green grass grows, yes I did Got a girl in Cincinnati Waitin' where the Ohio River flows, poor girl I'm a ramblin' man Don't fall in love...
I'm coming back to you one more time To give you one more chance to clear your mind I know how much you don't want to be free so I'm doing this for you not for me All you have to do is apologize I'll be there soon as I dry my eyes I know how much you don't want to be free so I'm doing this for you not for me [ guitar ] All you have to do is apologize... I'm doing this for you not for me
Well I've come here to tell you boys I'm ragged but I'm right I'm a tramp and a rounder I stay out late at night I pour a high steak three times a day for my board That's more than any loafer in this old town can afford A big electric fan keep me cool while I sleep A little baby boy play around daddy's feet I'm a rounder I'm a gambler Lord I lead every fight I tell you boys I'm ragged but I'm ...
I've always been crazy and the trouble that it's put me through And busted for things that I did, and I didn't do I can't say I'm proud of all of the things that I've done But I can say I've never intentionally hurt anyone I've always been different with one foot over the line Winding up somewhere one step ahead or behind It ain't been so easy but I guess I shouldn't complain I've always been ...
I've been a fool, I've been a fool Forgivin' you each time that you've done me wrong I've been a long time leavin' But it'll be a long time gone Loved you so much, I loved you so much I stayed around when I should've moved along I've been a long time leaving But it'll be a long time gone Hello high line, hello highway Here come a big old semi my way Stick up my thumb, hear the truck come Trees...
Got me a woman she's a pretty good woman in fact We live with a monkey and a Chinese acrobat She calls me 'Toots' and makes me wear a cowboy hat I don't care 'cause she's a pretty good woman in fact I like nothing better than to spin my magic home Listen to my baby, won't you place my [Incomprehensible] She talks and turns all that turns me on With a woman like that a man need never to roam So...
When I look at you I think many strange things And it's hard to express all of my feelings I belong to a girl you hang around with But I must admit I've got eyes for you I had to call and tell you just how I felt You should know by now, that When you're near my heart melts I belong to a girl you hang around with But I must admit I've got eyes for you Eyes for you, eyes for you Yes, I must admi...
Oh, I got me a woman she's a pretty good woman at that We live with a monkey and a Chinese acrobat She calls me 'Tex', makes me wear a cowboy hat But I don't care she's a pretty good woman at that Nothing in the world make me treat that woman mean She shaves my beard and she keeps my tractor clean She burns my bread, makes me turn [Incomprehensible] But I don't care she's a best little woman I...
I'm just a man No more or no less Bad as the worst Good as the best If you like what you see It's a pretty good bet What you see Is just what you'll get And I've got my faults that I can't deny Nobody knows that better than I do Some not so good traits from my wilder days I've got my faults but I do have my ways I do have my ways That show off the best side of me When you least expect it You d...
Come on now, Willie, don't look at me that way I know you like a paperback book 'cause I've read every page I know what you're thinkin' and I don't think you're thinkin' at all This is old hoss, that's you're talkin' to the one with the perfect recall No, I ain't going down on the border with you tonight Drinking tequila, taking chances on our lives All the women are crazy, they like to party ...
If ole Hank, Could only see us now If he could see what we got goin' down We got learjets and buses, chauffeured limousines We done moved from the Ryman, and Opry's on TV I'd give a hundred dollars, if I could know somehow What'd ya think, If ole Hank, could see us now Well Nashville's got too rich, to sing the blues They've traded in their cowboy boots for high-heeled Gucci shoes Looks like t...
She left the cradle when she learned to crawl With mama on the front porch she walked off Headed for the city in a pair of high heeled shoes And if she'll leave her mama, son, she'll sure leave you Don't take it so hard and blame yourself 'Cause you ain't the first one that she ever left She loves her mama but she loves a good time too And if she'll leave her mama, son, she'll sure leave you O...
My friends all say that you?re deceiving me And things are going on that I don?t see I pay them no mind, I love you so And if you?re guilty then I just don?t want to know But if the shoe fits then wear it, if your mind hurts then bear it It?s your conscience to live with every day, every night If you find it hard sleeping, if you just lie there weeping If the truth hurts then the shoe fits jus...
Verse 1: C/G F Funny a woman can come home so wild and free G C/G And insist i don't watch her undress or watch her watch me F And stand by the bed and shiver as if she were cold G C/G Just to lie down beside me and touch me as if i were gold Chorus: C/G F One night of love don't make up for six nights alone G C/G But i'd rather have one than none Lord,'cause i'm flesh and bone F Sometimes it ...
Funny a woman can come on so wild and free Yet insist, I don't watch her undress or watch her watch me And stand by the bed and shiver as if she were cold Just to lie down beside me and touch me as if I were gold One night of love don't make up for six nights alone I'd rather have one than none Lord, I'm flesh and bone Though sometimes it seems she ain't worth the trouble at all She could be w...
If you really want me to I'll go it's not that I want to but I'll go If you've found somebody who could love you more than me If you really want me to I'll go I don't know just what you're tryin' to do you told me that your love for me was true I don't understand my love please tell me what to do if you really want me to I'll go I need you more than you know ask me to do anything but go I can ...
If you see her and she mentions my name Tell her the times have but I have not changed All my friends know that I still feel the same If you see her and she mentions my name If you see her, ask her for me If the dreamer in her ever set her free Does she know now what the words I say mean? If you see her won't you ask her for me? Everything I told her then was true Everything was true at the ti...
Willie, we've been constant companions You know the light and shade We have spent a million dollars Find out what we made We have made the maidens marvel The things we do and say Down, down and out brother Up, up in the way If you see me gettin' smaller I'm leavin', don't be free there Just got to get away from here If you see me gettin' smaller Don't worry and no hurry I've got the right to d...
If you were mine to lose I'd gladly let you go Cause that would mean you once belonged to me I'd gladly take the heartache of losing you some day Cause then at least I'd have the memory Through all the years I've known you you've never noticed me Just a friend that's all I've been to you I'd gladly let you break my heart for just one memory Just to know that you were mine to lose If I could on...
IF YOU'RE GOIN' GIRL WRITER BOBBY BOND If you're goin' girl in the summertime Then you'd better take the shinin' sun And you'd better take all the golden fields And the perfume of the clover and the corn If you're goin' girl in the winter time Then you'd better take all the sparkling snow And you'd better take the fresh cut firewood And the smooth red wine that kept us warm 'Cause if I ever wa...
That's the very same door that I carried her through On the night we were married last June And right over there is the very same chair That she sat in when she said we're through Over here you can see where I got on my knees And I begged but her heart was a stone Over here's where I cried Did you know I'd died right here in this very same room To your right there's a crib and it's never been ...
Now that I've made up my mind You're gone it should be easier now Perhaps now my heart will stop hanging on It should be easier now The lesson I've learned from you Gold can't buy a heart can be broken and still survive Thanks to you now a much wiser man am I And it should be easier now The worst now is over I've stood the test it should be easier now They say everything happens For the best i...
If anyone ever finds a better way to love It'll be her lovin' me If anyone ever goes out of their way to show they care It'll be her lovin' me She's every woman, I've ever known rolled up in one If I'm ever loved any more, she'll be the one To get it done the way it should be It'll be her lovin' me If ever I'm down and out and need someone to love It'll be her lovin' me When everyone else is c...
When I was loving you I gave all I had to give You took the love I gave and took my will to live Didn't want me then, baby, what you wantin' now Hear you talkin' but just keep walkin', it's all over now Wish you could see girl, this is just how it could be If you kept walking way you did all over me You might been kinder, I can see it all somehow I hear you talkin' but just keep walkin', it's ...
Well, my baby used to stay out all night long She made me cry she done me wrong Come home each morning tellin' me them same old lies But now the table has turned and it's her turn to cry Because I used to love her But it's all over now Oh, yes, I used to love her But it's all over now Well, she started runnin' round with every man in town Spending all my money, playin' a high class game She wo...
J. J. Cale's my hero, best I ever heard But you gotta sing a little louder, hoss, 'cause I can't hear the words Some folks call it rock and rol, others call it blues But I detect a country soul, when I seen his cowboy shoes And it's alright It's alright It may not be right, but it's alright George might show up flyin' high, if George shows up at all But he may be, unconsciously, the greatest o...
It's not supposed to be that way You're supposed to know I love you But it don't matter anyway If I can't be there to control you It's like the other little children You're gonna dream a dream or two But be careful what you're dreamin' Soon your dreams'll be dreamin' you It's not supposed to be that way You're supposed to know that I love you But it don't matter anyway If I can't be there to c...
It's the world's gone crazy cotillion The ladies are dancing alone 'Cos the sidemen all wanna be frontmen And the frontmen all wanna go home The Johnny Comelateleys are comin' in early The early birds showin' up late The straightmen all wanna be funny The funny men all wanna get straight The villains have turned into heroes The heroes have turned into heels The dealers all wanna be lovers And ...
Jack-a-diamonds Jack-a-diamonds Take to my money You can have my life of luxury You can have my precious silver Studded saddle, oh Lord But You cannot take my soul Cannot take my soul, today Sweet mamma Oh, sweet mamma Won't you say you love me? Let me hold you, hold you in my arms Please tell me I'm not really falling to pieces Keep me tender mama Tender now, keep me warm Jack-a-diamonds Jack...
Jack-a-diamonds Jack-a-diamonds Take to my money You can have my life of luxury You can have my precious silver Studded saddle, oh Lord But You cannot take my soul Cannot take my soul, today Sweet mamma Oh, sweet mamma Won't you say you love me? Let me hold you, hold you in my arms Please tell me I'm not really falling to pieces Keep me tender mama Tender now, keep me warm Jack-a-diamonds Jack...
When I married Julie, she was just seventeen Pretty as the answer to any man's dream From the start I gave Julie all the love that I've had Though everyone told me that Julie was bad Julie liked parties and clothes that fit tight Drinking and dancin' around late at night She was everything evil with the face of a child But I sat home and waited while my Julie went wild I had built me an empire...
Just across the way a house is dark I can hardly see Just a cross the way lives a girl Who's so in love with me But I'm such a bitter soul Whose memories seemed to always get their way So I live here with my memories She lives there with her love just across the way Just across the way I can see her in the window watching me With her face rest to the pain And her eyes look more tear stained ev...
Do you ever think about The one who thinks about you? Do you ever wonder dear Why he's always waiting here for you? In spite of all the things you've said and done I'm a fool and you're the only one I'll keep waiting while you'll have your fun, just for you Can't you see you're a part of me and everything I do? And every dream I dream is just for you Do you ever think about The one who thinks ...
Verse 1: D We got a lot of politicians Up there on Capitol Hill Ain't it funny how they prosper A While the country stands still Maybe i should run for office But i just like to talk I ain't about to run for nothing D I don't even like to walk Chorus: G Aw that's just a lot of talkin' D Some is big some is small A Just runnin' my head D I'm just talkin' that's all Verse 2: D Modern day matrimo...
Someone's gonna get hurt before you're through Someone's gonna pay for the things you do How many hearts must break, how many is it gonna take To satisfy you, just to satisfy you Another love, another fool To play your game Another love, another fool They're all the same Someone's gonna get hurt before you're through Someone's gonna pay for the things you do You're gonna find when it's too lat...
You are my children, my gifts to the world You are the lights of my life You all have your good hearts, you have your own strength So I know you'll all do alright As I look to the future from this day in time The truth is, I don't have a clue There are modern day wonders I don't understand So I'll leave that all up to you But if you wanna learn how to dance Just watch your mama and me Just a g...
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I've learned to turn the other cheek Is not what love's about I've turned mine so many times That I damned near wore 'em out I've grown used to your abuse And I thought I'd never quit But I woke up this morning Couldn't find my shiv-a-git You've always liked to play your games Well, I got one for you Pretend we're playing checkers, girl And it's your time to move You'll find your suitcase on t...
Bessie was a lovely child from West Tennessee Leroy was an outlaw, hard and mean One night she saw him staring and it chilled her to the bone She knew she had to see that look on a child of her own 'Cause ladies love outlaws Like babies love stray dogs Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold Outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul Jessie like Cadillacs and diamonds on her...
This is the last cowboy song The end of a hundred year Waltz The voices sound sad as they're singin' along Another piece of America's lost He rides the feed lots, clerks in the markets On weekends sellin' tobacco and beer And his dreams of tomorrow, surrounded by fences But he'll dream tonight of when fences weren't here He blazed the trail with Lewis and Clark And eyeball to eyeball, old Wyat...
Why do you treat me as if I were only a friend? What have I done that has made you so distant and cold? Sometimes I wonder if you'll be contented again Will you be happy girl, when you are withered and old? I can't offer you diamonds or mansions, so fine And I can't offer you clothes your young body crave But if you'd love me and say that you'll always be mine Think of the heartaches the teard...
Traveling down a different road Trying hard to leave the load We take it there but we can't let go It's so hard to lay it down Back in Eden we were tried Found ourselves dissatisfied Seeking wisdom that she denied Trying hard to lay it down Lay it down, brother, lay it down It's so hard to lay it down Hide in me, confide in me Don't you think it's time to be Everything we tried to be You and m...
There she goes again, see her smiling So happy with the new love that she's found See her whisper in my ear All those things I used to hear Oh, how that hurts me, so I'm leavin' town She's the reason why I'm leavin' town I'm going far away where no one knows me When morning comes, well, I won't be around To see her whisper in his ear Kiss and call him dear Oh, I can't stand that, so I'm leavin...
Can I stay with you awhile right awhile behind your smile You don't have to say the things you used to say Just let me sleep here for a time in the want of your loving mind And tomorrow I'll be on my way Just hold me in the want of your gentle smile Just tonight hon with you then I'll be going on my way Just hide me till I have I have the strenght to go For now all I want to know is morning by...
Just one more dance, just one more chance so I can talk to you We've both have paid, don't be afraid, just let me try to prove I would do anything you want me to Just one more dance, just one more chance, let me talk to you Don't go too far with that crowd at the bar That's not the way to win, let's fall in love again Give me your heart and let me start to build our life anew Just one more dan...
Some quiet morning let me let me tell you my mind Before the sun find you here beside me one more time let me tell you my mind How I want you to stay and never think about goin' away Oh oh baby let me tell you my mind oh oh baby let me tell you my mind Crazy things keep a running through my head let me tell you my mind When my shoes are under your bed one more time let me tell you my mind Tell...
Darling, let's turn back the years And go back to yesterday Let's pretend that time has stopped And I didn't go away We had our love to make us happy It wasn't meant to bring us tears Love like ours should never die So darling, let's turn back the years We had our love to make us happy It wasn't meant to bring us tears Love like ours should never die So darling, let's turn back the years Darli...
Cowboys, they are ladies men, all right They'll love 'em up an' talk 'em up all night But they're lonely when there's nothin' else to do And that's what makes the cowboys sing the blues He does a little Shakespeare an' he sings He plays the mandolin an' other things He looks for love, beauty an' IQ And that's what makes the cowboys sing the blues Cowboys have to fall in love, get hurt an' all ...
I want to be free from the noise of the grind So I live on the outskirts of the back of my mind With a strong hand, a song man and God on my side I'm writing that freedom a line at a time On the highway to nowhere that runs through my mind A yellow line stretches out into the night Broken in places, it's my guiding light So I'm writing that freedom a line at a time I'm walking a fine line betw...
Down the street a baby just cried When he woke up all alone A train's leavin' town and that lonesome old sound Is chilling me right to the bone A song is playing I can barely hear About a love that's gone wrong The freezing rain on my window pane Listen they're playing my song Taps being played by a soldier's grave So sad it torments your soul Just listen to that north wind moan Tonight it's s...
Well, I make it alright From Monday morning till Friday night Oh, those lonely weekends Since you left me I'm as lonely as I can be Oh, those lonely weekends Said you'd be true to me You said our love's never gonna die Said you'd be true to me But baby, you didn't even try I'll make it alright From Monday morning till Friday night Oh, those lonely weekends You said you'd be true to me You said...
On a greyhound bus Lord, I'm travelin' this morning I'm goin' to Shreveport And down to New Orleans Been travelin' these highways Been doin' things my way It's been making me lonesome On'ry and mean God her hair was jet black And her name was Bodine Thought she was the cream Of the basin street queens She got tired Of that smoky-wine dream She began to feel lonesome On'ry and mean We got toget...
Oh well, it's long gone, long gone You got my baby and you're long gone But I'll be a hangin' around I know you're gonna put her down She'll need someone that's true When she wakes up one day To find you're long gone, long gone You just wandered into town Took her and you started messin' around with my baby You stole her heart 'cause she ain't used to your kind With your fancy clothes and your...
Look into my teardrops Darlin', you will see The reflection of an angel That made a fool of me Look into my teardrops You will see the eyes That promised me so many things But all of them were lies Look into my teardrops The mirror of my soul You will see the girl Still my only world but I couldn't hold Look into my teardrops And you will see the one That broke my heart forever Aren't you prou...
I'm lookin' for a feeling that I once had with you Lookin' for a feeling I have grown accustomed to I've had love and I've had lovers but they never seem to do I keep lookin' for a feeling that I lost when I lost you I said, when it was over I'd be over you in time Because nothing lasts forever it's all a state of mind I found one love I'll find another Heaven, knows how hard I've tried But th...
I'm just a stranger in this town I'm just a drifter looking 'round I might stay a lifetime or a week It all depends if I'll find what I seek You're looking at a heart that needs a home And a little girl to love me and me alone One who wants a gentleman and accepts me like I am You're looking at a heart that needs a home I thought I had found her many times But love reserves the right to change...
In my darkest hour, woke up to a storm I turned to hold my baby but she was gone I looked all around me, calling her name No letter, no word of goodbye, walked out in the rain Looking for Suzanne Strangest of notions, chilled me to the bone Something whispered in the wind, she ain't coming home Looking for Suzanne, looking for Suzanne Suzanne went away, as I think about it today As hard as I t...
I got a gal in Baton Rouge she calls me Louisiana She gives me a little something to eat she knows just what I want she treats me right Lord Lord Lord treats me right yes she does treats me right yeah take it Willie [ guitar ] I went down to New Orleans to have myself a ball The ladies there they don't care they just don't care at all But they treat you right Lord Lord Lord treat you right Lou...
Livin? on free food, tickets Water in the milk from the hole in the roof Where the rain came through What can you do? Hmm Tears from little sister cryin? ?Cause she doesn?t have a dress without a patch For the party to go Oh, but you know she?ll get by She is livin? in the love of the common people Smiles from the heart of the family man Daddy?s gonna buy her a dream to cling to Mama?s gonna l...
I have seen the morning burning golden on the mountains in the skies Achin' with the feelin' of the freedom of an eagle when she flies Turnin' on the world the way she smiled upon my soul as I lay dying Healin' as the colors in the sunshine and the shadows of her eyes Wakin' in the mornin' to the feelin' of her fingers on my skin Wipin' out the traces of the people and the places that I've bee...
I have seen the morning burning golden on the mountain in the skies Aching with the feeling of the freedom of an eagle when she flies Turning on the world the way she smiled upon my soul as I lay dying Healing as the colors in the sunshine and the shadows of her eyes Waking in the morning to the feeling of her fingers on my skin Wiping out the traces of the people and the places that I've been...
Long haired young girl, here beside me Fit my body, warm my mind Sleeping quiet, never knowing By tomorrow she'll be one more thing I'm gonna leave behind Like them big wheels, I'll be rolling Like them rivers, gonna flow to sea 'Cause I'd rather leave here knowing That I'd made a fool of love before it made a fool of me Low down freedom, you done cost me Everything I'll ever lose, Lord You're...
One two three four In a barroom in Toledo, across from the depot On a barstool, she took off her ring I thought I'd get closer, so I walked on over I sat down and asked her, her name When the drinks finally hit her, she said, "I'm no quitter" But I finally quit livin' on dreams Hungry for laughter and here ever after I'm after whatever the other life brings In the mirror, I saw him, I closely ...
The only two things in life that make it worth livin' Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin' women I don't need my name in the marquee lights I got my song and I got you with me tonight Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of love Let's go to Luckenbach, Texas With Waylon and Willie and the boys This successful life we're livin' Got us feuding like the Hatfields and McCoys Between Han...
The only two things in life that make it worth livin' Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin' women I don't need my name in the marquee lights I got my song and I got you with me tonight Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of love Let's go to Luckenbach, Texas With Waylon and Willie and the boys This successful life we're livin' Got us feuding like the Hatfields and McCoys Between Han...
Spring was never waiting for us girl it ran one step ahead as we followed in the dance Between the parted pages and were pressed In love's hot fevered iron like a stripped pair of pants Mac Arturh Park is melting in the dark all the sweet green ising flowing down Someone left the cake out in the rain But I don't think that I can take it Lord it took so long to bake it I'll never had that recip...
Before you pack your suitcase call your mama Up to now she's taught you all you need to know Just look at me as kinda like your daddy Teaching you the old rules of the road You won't be no superstar tomorrow You've got to take the time to pay your dues When you start to feel at home out on the highway You're damn sure qualified to sing the blues Always send a big guy for the money Don't give '...
Cowboys ain't easy to love and they're harder to hold They'd rather give you a song than diamonds or gold Lone star belt buckles and old faded Levis And each night begins a new day If you don't understand him, an' he don't die young He'll prob'ly just ride away Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys Don't let 'em pick guitars or drive them old trucks Let 'em be doctors and lawyers ...
I'm a man of constant sorrow I've known trouble all my days I'll say goodbye and leave tomorrow and I won't be back this way Misery is nothing new to me memories will pay in time Another day some new tomorrow just might ease my troubled mind I'm a man of constant sorrow... I can't be the man you've made of me only you know how I tried I'll say goodbye and leave tomorrow maybe then you'll be sa...
I saved up my money to buy my sweetheart some flowers For Saturday's date and I restlessly counted the hours Then today in the mail I received a short little note And I'd broke down inside at the message that her mother wrote Mary Ann regrets she's unable to see you again We're leaving for Europe next week, she'll be busy till then They know that she loves me but poor boys don't fit in their p...
Someone who knows me well is spreading rumors About the hearts I've broken in my time From northern Maine down to Palestine, Texas They're talking 'bout my Mason Dixon lines My Texas draw just kills them in Ohio In Dixieland my New York flow is fine North or south I got two different ways of coming on That's why they call it my Mason Dixon line Mothers have been warning all their daughters Tel...
Busted flat in Baton Rouge an' headed for the trains Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans Bobby thumbed the diesel down just before it rained Took us all the way to New Orleans I took my har'poon out of my dirty red bandana I was playin' sad while Bobby sang the blues With them windshield wipers slappin' time Bobby clappin' hands we finally sang up every song that driver knew Freedom's just anothe...
Busted flat in Baton Rouge and headed for the trains Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans Bobby thumbed a diesel down just before it rained Took us all the way to New Orleans I took my har'poon out of my dirty red bandanna I was playin' sad while Bobby sang the blues With them windshield wipers slappin' time and Bobby clappin' hands We finally sang up ever song that driver knew Freedom's just anot...
Lord, it's been rough and rocky travelin' But I'm finally standing upright on the ground After taking several readings I'm surprised to find my mind's still fairly sound I thought Nashville was the roughest But I guess I've said the same about them all Upon hell of an education in the cities Of this nation me and Tompaul I got busted in Laredo for reasons That I'd rather not disclose If you're...
Well that's all right mama that's all right with you That's all right mama anyway you do Well that's all right that's all right that's all right mama anyway you do Well my mama she done told me papa done told me too Son that gal you're foolin' with she ain't no good for you Well that's all right that's all right that's all right mama anyway you do [ guitar ] MY BABY LEFT ME Arthur Crudup ?? co...
I thought to leave your bed For the street was as simple as saying goodbye I couldn?t see how blind a man can be Lord, how quickly life can fly As the lines in my face grow deeper And the well of my soul runs dry I find that I drink more and more From the memories of you and I The taste of fame is fire to me no more The tension and hunger have gone All I have left are money an' the game I?m a ...
I gotta run to keep from hidin' I'm bound to keep on a ridin' I got one more silver dollar I ain't gonna let 'em catch me, no I ain't gonna let 'em catch a midnight rider Well, these ain't my clothes I'm wearin' This old road goes on forever I got one more silver dollar I ain't gonna let 'em catch me, no I ain't gonna let 'em catch a midnight rider I've gone by the point of carin' Some old bed...
The reflections of the trees are cut by the bow of my pirogue Spattered by the paddle of my eager hand That Mississippi woman is a wavin' over yonder Wavin' her lantern to her Louisiana man How I love that Mississippi woman How I love that Mississippi girl How I love that Mississippi woman But her heart did not belong to me The reflections of the trees are cut by the bow of my pirogue Splatter...
I can give you golden tinkling bells to even dangle through your long black hair I can give you magic satin slippers woven just to take you anywhere I can give you all the love and tenderness a broken heart can spare But Mona take the love I give don't ask for love I gave away back there You could take the hand of any man and show him how to dream Why do you look back into my dark and bitter p...
So long I've been trying to give you the things that you've wanted But your thirst for riches is more than my pockets can stand And I know that you're dreaming of things you could have with another Cause to your way of thinking the money is what makes the man You like to be seen in the richest and finest of places You're always emarrassed by the callouses here on my hands And I know that it's ...
I've taken chances on everything in my life Even against all the odds, I've rolled the dice Count me in on any deal that comes around Right or wrong, never slowed me down I've always loved you silent but strong Deep down in your heart you've always known It's just that I've made more mistakes than any man under the sun You're the only sensible thing I've ever done Never complaining back when t...
Tell us once again this morning old friend how did you win the war Everybody loves a hero it don't matter if they've heard the tale before And tell us of the time when almost everybody knew you were a star And how intelligent you are Prove that you're alive Mr Shuck and Jive You can tell us of the man who stole your fortune and nearly ruined your life Or better still the one about the TV and t...
What is it that brings you to this part of town curiosity conscience or fate I know it's not love for I once gave you love and all you gave me was the gate I got a feeling you've come back to just rub it in and it really put me in my place You've already put big old tears in my eyes why must you throw dirt in my face Must you keep telling me you've got a new love I don't need you to remind me ...
I've been around a long time, more than I can say Search for the truth, still looking today Rode aboard a warship, went down in 42 But my God and I, we got through Wasted in a dungeon, martyred in my time But my God and I, we're doing fine Here I stand in His eyes, the boy the child the man Eyes to the sky, I understand, I understand There's trouble in California, little earthquakes overdue Bu...
Everybody's talking bad about Ramona They say she's changed a lot since I've been gone They say she may not be too glad to see me 'Cause Ramona doesn't know I'm coming home But everybody's wrong about Ramona They're just going by the way she's actin' now I just can't believe the things they say about her 'Cause Ramona knows the things I wanna allow Ramona's gonna be the way she used to be And ...
I've been chasin' the big wheels all over Nashville Waitin' for my big break to come Livin' on ketchup soup, homemade crackers and Kool-Aid I'll be a star tomorrow, but today I'm a Nashville bum I look good in cowboy clothes and I sing through my nose Webb said, "That's the way to get 'er done" I smoke good old PA like the Opry stars, they say I'll be a star tomorrow, but today I'm a Nashville...
They call me the Nashville Rebel They say leave that boy alone Don't you give him advice or he'll turn to ice And you might as well talk to stone But I've got things to do And things to say in my own way I don't have time for your parties My love's little guessin' games I've got songs to write in the still of night I was born to write and sing And I've got things to do And things to say in my ...
If it wasn't for the powder and the fine tooth comb If it wasn't for the powder and the fine tooth comb You know the Nashville women Might as well stay home, yeah If the blues was booze I'd stay drunk all the time If the blues was booze you know I'd stay drunk all the time Hangin' 'round bars and takin' you off of my mind Going down the alley to see what I can find Goin' down the Printer's All...
Well I've never been to Spain But I kinda like the music Say the ladies are insane there And they sure know how to use it You can't refuse it, can't misuse it They never gonna lose it Well I've never been to england But I kinda like the Beatles I was headed for Las Vegas But I only made it out to needles Can't you feel it you must believe it 'Cause it feels so good Well I've never been to heav...
I've always loved the ladies Ladies love the games Seems the things they want the most They always want to change The only thing that changes Is my mind I never could toe the mark And I never could walk the line Some things don't come easy Others should be free I'd gladly give my heart to you But the rest belongs to me I don't mean to be A waste of time I never could toe the mark And I never c...
From Herte, Mississippi to Tupelo Then I caught an eastbound freight With sky high hopes opened out scopes And hurt all over my face New York City is a bad place to be When you're out of your head Country style, running wild country style The new wears off and time wears off And my roots are showin' through But nobody cares about from where you came But what they can get out of you And New Yor...
Verse 1: C/G G She was a good looking woman no doubt C/G A high steppin' mover that men talk about But everything bad in me G She brought it out C/G And she was just no good for me Verse 2: G She was wonderfully wicked and wild With the looks of a woman C/G And the ways of a child She could twist me or turn me G With a look or a smile C/G And she was just no good for me Chorus: F Don't be take...
I know your leaving's too long overdue For too long I've had nothing new to show you Goodbye dry eyes I watched your plane fade off west of the moon It felt so strange to walk away alone No regrets no tears goodbye don't want you back we'd only cry again Say goodbye again [ acguitar ] The hours that were yours echo like empty rooms The toughts we used to share I now keep alone I awoke last nig...
Verse 1: B Well i nearly got caught at a Burger King And a couple of times on a plane E I thought i was safe from detection With all of the weight i had gained B But walking around in a jumpsuit That didn't work worth a damn E So i bought me some Levis and grew me a beard F B And you'll never guess who i am Chorus: E Nobody knows i'm Elvis Nobody knows this is me After all of my tries...i've g...
I once had a girl Or should I say she once had me She showed me her room, isn't it good Norwegian wood? She asked me to stay And she told me to sit anywhere So I looked around And I noticed there wasn't a chair I sat on a rug biding my time Drinking her wine We talked until two and then she said It's time for bed She told me she worked in the morning And started to laugh I told her I didn't An...
The way you caught my eye in Paris, Tennessee Selling seduction, well I'm seduced You sell a war then we sell a truth It's the truth So baby, just close your eyes Nothing catches Jesus by surprise Confusin' love for heated passion Got what I want but no satisfaction Ain't it funny how things can change? We're amazed how they stay the same Oh, it's the same So baby, just close your eyes Nothing...
You have made no secret of your new love affair He buys you pretty presents and he takes you everywhere You seen him all the places where you and I once went Sit and hold each other tight in front of all our friends Everybody knows, everybody knows Why my heart cries There's no need to tell you you're too in love to see Anything that I told you you'd call jealousy But if he ever breaks your he...
New York woman tryin' to make me love her A sad eyed girl with rollers in her hair Down the hall somebody's cookin' cabbage Kids are running up and down the stairs I'd like to leave this God-forsaken city But I can't go no matter how I try But once again I'll be in Oklahoma Tonight, when I lay down and close my eyes I'll be standing in that Oklahoma sunshine I just got off the bus from another...
Old age and treachery Always overcomes youth and skill Ain't too much that we won't do What Waylon won't Willie will Even though we've spent our lives Charging up the wrong side of the hill Old age and treachery Always overcomes youth and skill Some people say that our Get up and go's, got up and gone I don't know 'bout you, Willie But I can still jump as high I just can't stay that high that ...
Verse 1: A D A E A Blow on you restless wind, up to your old tricks again. A E A E A Bear down you Texas sun, you make the desserts dry and the brush fires run. D A E A Splintered wood rusty chains, this old front porch swing remains. A E A E A A pendelum of memories, goes back and forth on a summer breeze. Chorus: D A Singing old church hymns and nursery rhymes E A From the days way back befo...
Blow on you restless wind up to your old tricks again Bear down you Texas sun you make the desserts dry and the brush fires run Splintered wood rusty chains this old front porch swing remains A pendelum of memories goes back and forth on a summer breeze Singing old church hymns and nursery rhymes From the days way back before my time With a little child upon my knee singing every sweet word ba...
I've spent the lifetime making up my mind to be More than the measure of what I thought others could see Good luck and fast bucks are too far and too few between Catalog buyers and old five and dimers like me She stood beside me letting me know she would be Something to lean on when everything ran out on me Fenced yards ain't hole cards, like is not never will be Reason for rhymers and old fiv...
I've spent the lifetime making up my mind to be More than the measure of what I thought others could see Good luck and fast bucks are too far and too few between Catalog buyers and old five and dimers like me She stood beside me letting me know she would be Something to lean on when everything ran out on me Fenced yards ain't hole cards and like is not never will be Reason for rhymers and old ...
Was it really years ago? It seems like only yesterday The last time that I saw You laugh at me and fly away I remember all of the good times And the songs we used to sing Old friend, we sure have missed you But you ain't missed a thing Lord, you should've heard the music And all the changes it's gone through But the funny thing is lately It keeps on easing back to you But there's always someth...
I grew up in Wyoming In and around Jackson's hole In the shadows of the Tetons Where summers are hot and winters unbearably cold But the spring and the fall Are always as good as it gets For over 70 years now I'd watch the sun rise and set I've been a cowboy Working the round-ups in spring I've lived in the mountains, hunted the grizzly Trapping the rivers and streams Always the loner I've tre...
Omaha, oh you've been weighin' heavy on my mind Guess, I never really left it all I'm turnin' all those roads, I walked around the other way Coming back to you Omaha Omaha, Nebraska was that good enough for me I always thought I was the roamin' kind With the pockets full of dreams in my worn shirt on my back I left there looking for some things to find Rode my thumb to San Francisco, I worked ...
I gotta quit this smokin' It's because of my chokin' I gotta quit this drinkin' It's been messin' up my thinkin' Baby, you're included in my plan You're one of my bad habits I'm gonna quit you if I can I gotta quit this cryin' 'Cause you won't quit your lyin' You dig another guy And I'm sick and tired of tryin' I'm gonna have to face it like man You're one of my bad habits I'm gonna quit you i...
Everybody knows you've been steppin' on my toes And I'm gettin' pretty tired of it You keep a steppin' out of line and messin' with my mind If you had any sense you'd quit 'Cause ever since you were a little bitty teeny girl You said I was the only man in this whole world Now, you better do some thinkin', then you'll find You got the only daddy that'll walk the line I keep a workin' every day,...
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To the people up in Texas It's the nearest thing to Heaven here on earth The lifestyle up in Texas Is just go on out and live for all it's worth Where the men are all men And the ladies there are born with ways to please And the people up in Texas Think that the rest of all the world is over seas You don't need no one to tell you When you cross that Texas line The air starts smellin' sweeter A...
Some people are saying that time will take care of people like me That I'm livin' too fast and they say I can't last much longer But little they see that their thoughts of me is my savior And they really should know that the [Incomprehensible] goes little faster So pick up the tempo just a little and take it on home The singer ain't singin' and the drummer's been draggin' too long Time'll take...
Down in the place where I call home I've been workin' my fingers to the bone Pickin' white gold, pickin' white gold All day long in Louisiana sun Pickin' and a pullin' white cotton by the tons Pickin' white gold, pickin' white gold I fill my sack and I put it on my shoulder And then I take one again Old man cotton won't let me make a nickel Till I get it to a cotton gin So I bent my back till ...
As I wander on life's pathway I know not what the future holds As I ponder, hope grows fonder Precious sacred scenes unfold Precious memories, how they linger How they ever flood my soul In the stillness of the midnight Precious sacred scenes unfold Precious memories, how they linger How they ever flood my soul In the stillness of the midnight Precious sacred scenes unfold Precious memories, h...
Pretend I never happened Erase me from your mind You will not want to remember Any love as cold as mine I'll be leavin' in the mornin' For a place I hope I find All the places must be better Than the ones I leave behind I don't suppose you'll be unhappy You'll find ways to spend your time But if you ever think about me And if I ever cross your mind Just pretend I never happened Erase me from y...
Oh rainy day woman, I've never seem to see you For the good times or the sunshine You have been a friend of mine, rainy day woman That woman of mine she ain't happy Unless she finds something wrong and has someone to blame If it ain't one thing it's another one on the way I woke up this morning to the sunshine It sure as hell looks just like rain I know where to go on a cloudy day Oh rainy day...
Reno and me hit the freeway south out of town on a run Reno was driving he asked me to roll him one I turned on the radio found us some sweet Emmylou I sang the harmony low down and out of key Reno just howled at the moon Somewhere outside Kansas City on the highway that leads to Cheyenne The radio quit on a song by a Mexican band Well, I guess we were lost in thoughts of brown skin girls Took...
Somewhere in Vietnam a 19-year-old soldier Walked out of a barroom And he said, ?I must be seeing things That bourbon hit me like a baseball bat" In Bellfast Ireland a little lady Dropped her shovel in her garden She raced across the yard And ask her neighbor Mrs Clancy, what was that In Memphis Tennessee a teacher Raised the window, closest the river And the children in her classroom swore Th...
Highway she's a hotter than nine times the hell Rides are as scarce as the rain When your down to your last shuck with nothing to sell And too far away from the train Been a good month of Sunday's and a guitar ago Had a tall drink of yesterday's wine Left a long string of friends, some sheets in the wind And some satisfied woman behind Hey ride me down easy Lord, ride me on down Leave word in ...
You do the things that hurt me so right before my eyes Just because I love you so I overlook your lies Let you make a fool of me yes that's what I'll always be Cause I pretend not to see what's right before my eyes Everyone keeps telling me what's right before my eyes Love is blind and I can't see what's right before my eyes [ dobro - guitar ] I can't make myself believe what's right before my...
Almost out of adolescence And into a world we didn't know Not necessarily love, but in trouble With a fire down below Looking back for a feeling It's just something far away and long ago I can still recall the name But she's really someone I don't even know But she was right for the time She was right for the time But time has a way of moving on I do recall a gypsy lady And a younger man in ov...
I remember when you said "With this ring I thee wed" Now you've gone betrayed my trust Rings of gold have turned to rust Tears can't wash away the sin Love that's dead can't live again Knowing there's no hope for us Turns these rings of gold to rust Love before was clean and pure Never more can I be sure You will not betray my trust Rings of gold have turned to rust Plans we made just yesterda...
I was born and raised on the river It's the only life that I know People 'round here have put a name on me And I hear it wherever I go They call me river boy, river boy Good for nothin' river boy This old world don't hold a whole lot of joy When you're nothin' but a river boy I do a lot of fishin' on the river To make my livin', you see When I take my catch to the market place The people call ...
Back home the family's eatin' dinner there's a fire in the fireside warm and bright But I won't be there today cause I've got a debt to pay And they don't let black sheep stray from the road No they don't let black sheep stray from the road My throat is out crying for water Lord that wind is blowing cold That guard is watching me like a hawk up in the tree And I'm longing to be free from the r...
[ with Lee Hazlewood ] By the banks of the river where the willows grow cold Wild birds warble the strange soundin' song By the banks of the river where the waters run cold Well that's where I first listened the lies that she told [ guitar ] He lays there each night all alone and he weeps Nothing ain't worse than a night wothout sleep The letters she wrote him they were written in vain But I k...
There's a road runs clear to the sky Calls to my spirit, calls to my heart She's been a harbor, a port in a storm She's got one more sundown and one more dawn Fiddles don't make violins Motel rooms don't make homes You can't turn water into wine You can't make a rock from a rolling stone You'd be a liar if you said you'd changed There's a river of freedom running through your veins But she'll ...
She was a flower for the takin' Her beauty cut just like a knife He was a banker from Macon He swore he'd love her all a his life He bought her a mansion on the mountain With a formal garden and a lot a land But paradise became her prison That Georgia banker was a jealous man Every time he'd talk about her You could see the fire in his eyes He'd say, "I would walk through hell on Sunday To kee...
She was a flower for the takin' Her beauty cut just like a knife He was a banker from Macon He swore he'd love her all a his life He bought her a mansion on the mountain With a formal garden and a lot a land But paradise became her prison That Georgia banker was a jealous man Every time he'd talk about her You could see the fire in his eyes He'd say, "I would walk through hell on Sunday To kee...
You've painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair Ruby, are you contemplating going out somewhere? The shadows on the wall tell me the sun is going down Oh, Ruby don't take your love to town It wasn't me that started that old crazy Asian war But I was proud to go and do my patriotic chores I know Ruby, that I'm not the man I used to be But Ruby, I still need your company It's ...
Sally used to carry my friends to school Sally was a big old girl Did my homework 'cause I was a fool Sally was a good old girl When I want a kiss or a little bitty squeeze Sally's always willing and she did her best to please A girl made to love and not made to tease Sally was a good old girl Sally was a good old girl Sally was a good old girl No matter what the request Sally gave it her best...
I'm not some long lost someone Just dropped in to say hello I'm the same old lover man Baby, lost so long ago ?Cause I was born to believe I never could deceive, believe me I hear no children's voices Have they gone back to school It's the same old lover man Baby, still actin' like some kinda fool Yes, I was born to believe I never could deceive, believe me It's cold outside your window Please...
His daddy was an honest man, a red dirt Georgia farmer His mama lived her young life having kids and bailing hay He had fifteen years and an ache inside to wander Jumped a freight in Waycross and wound up in L.A. The cold nights had no pity on that Waycross, Georgia farm boy Most days, he went hungry then the summer came He met a girl known on the Strip as San Francisco's Mabel Joy Destitution...
Wish I was a millionaire I'd play rock music and grow long hair I tell you boys I'd drive a new Rolls Royce Pretty women hangin' on me I'd give 'em all the third degree Satin sheets to keep 'em off of the streets Hallelujah hear me talkin' to ya praise the Lord and pass the tambourine Great Jehova you'll come over As soon as ya see me boogie woogie cross the silver screen Hang 'em high and han...
He offers you so many things that I can't give I know your young heart just can't turn him down And like you say you're free and it's your life to live See you around on your way down You're much too young to know The value of a love that's true I don't think he'll ever learn to love you Or think half as much of you as I do You can't see me, your head is too high in the clouds But I'll be wait...
Well, you say I'm the greatest, bound for glory But the word is out and I learned I got the latest side of the story You're pullin' out before you get burned Your hands are squeezin' me down to the bone I've never seen you breakin' before Stands to reason, I'm a leaving you alone What are you taking me for? Settin' me up to put me down Making me out to be your clown Settin' me up to put me dow...
Like a muddy river running wild and deep You've got a flaming memory that keeps burning me Just when I think you love me, doubt creeps in I still feel the shadow of your distant friend It's a major heartache when you lose your trust When you love the feeling, it begins to rust Just when the sun is shining, clouds set in I still feel the shadow of your distant friend I still feel the past each ...
She called me baby, baby, all night long Used to hold and kiss me till the dawn Then one day I woke and she was gone There's no more baby, baby, all night long She called me baby, baby, all night long Kissed my tears away when things went wrong What I'd give if she'd just come back home And call me baby, baby, all night long She called me baby, baby, all night long Held me up so high and made ...
When loneliness is knocking at my mind happiness is something I can't find Pleasure seem forty miles behind she comes running [ guitar ] If I stand in someone else's rain feelin' forty million miles of pain She know just what and who's to blame she comes running [ guitar ] If my dreams all turn to seas if my flowers turn to breeze She knows exactly what I need she comes running [ guitar ] On t...
Well now I can see you're dancin' every dance with her And it seems to me you're dancin' much too close to her When you sat at our table you sat next to her But I know that it's true she loves me she don't love you Well let me tell you friend I'm wise to your lies Even tellin' me that I'm the guy for her And if a little thing you do and say has given you away you're in love with her Well just ...
She said if I ever deceived her She'd been gone before I could count ten Well, I guess that I didn't believe her 'Cause look at the trouble that I'm in And now she's gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone Cryin' won't bring her back The more that I cry, the faster than train flies Farther on down the track If I only knew where to find her I'd crawl there on my hands and knees But each tick of the ...
My friends never understood My rough and rowdy ways They think I'm the only fool My daddy ever raised But I'm gonna shine, shine Shine, shine, see me shine With a little luck and greenback dollar You're gonna see me shine Here's to the ones who do believe And disbelieve somehow I'd give a hundred dollars, Lord If they could see me now See me shine, shine, shine Shine, see me shine With a littl...
I left the light in my window burning bright for you And the door to this heart of mine, I left that open too We once had a love together, I believe that it was true But now you search for somethin' better So I'm shutting out the light on you Yes, I'm shutting out the light in my window Locking up the heart that beats for you This heart of mine can't take it any longer So I'm shutting out the ...
Oh, baby, tell me what you gonna do? Oh, baby, tell me what you gonna do? I?m sick and tired from foolin? 'round with you Get up every morning, pick up somethin? to eat I?m gonna go to work and you brush your teeth Come home in the evenin? and you?re still in bed Got a rag tied 'round your head Oh, baby, tell me what you?re gonna do I?m sick and tired a foolin? 'round with you It?s the last ti...
He stands in the doorway, his hands upon his hips She stands by the jukebox, a sweet smile on her lips He slowly walks up to her, she reaches out for him It's almost like some magnet is pulling both of them Then he says, and she says Silent partners,they don't say a word She is the adjective and he is the verb They speak with their bodies and they talk with their eyes They don't make no promis...
Travelin' down this lonesome railroad Silver Ribbons with no ends A million miles a crossties mark a million miles I've been I've picked peaches down in Georgia apples up in Maine Pulled cotton out in Texas ridin' on the train I was just a lad of seventeen my daddy turned me loose Silver Ribbons callin' me engine and caboose I can't recall my mother she left when I was two Brunets blondes and ...
Widow Jones couldn't make it on her own Frank was 'lectrafied leaving six kids half grown In her misery she sent for me the singer of sad songs And I sympathized and eulogized Frank Jones And she cried singer of sad songs I need your services today Doctor of broken hearts I'll wash your clothes and mend your socks for your pay Farmer Brown had always dreamed of city lights Mini skirts on prett...
Sittin' in the mornin' sun I'll be sittin' when the evenin' come Watchin' the ships roll in And then I'll watch 'em roll away again I'm gonna sit on the dock of the bay Watchin' the tide roll away Sit on the dock of the bay wastin' time, ooh ooh I left my home in Georgia Headed for the Frisco bay 'Cause I've got nothing to live for And nothing's gonna come my way I'm gonna sit on the dock of t...
In days gone by but not forgotten I plowed in the fields and I pulled in the cotton Things you'd never think I've done when you see me now I pick and sing and they think I'm a star but every time I look down at my old guitar I know I'm just six strings away from that same ol' plow I drive a new Royce Rolls buy them tailor made clothes how long will good times stay A poor boy ways and hard time...
Verse 1: E Fm A E Come here and look through the window Marie Fm A E Open up the shutters,tell me what you see Gm A E Was that his knock that i heard at the door Fm D E Or is it six white horses coming down the road Verse 2: E Fm A E Come here and touch me and say that it's alright Fm A E You know that to my eyes the days are as the nights Gm A E Read again the letter that tells me where he's ...
All your old stations are being torn down And the high flying trains no longer roar The floors are all sagging with boards that are suffering From not being used anymore Things are all changing, the world's rearranging A time that will soon be no more Where has a slow movin' Once quick draw outlaw got to go? The whiskey that once settled the dust And tasted so fine now tastes so faint And the ...
I've got a slow rollin' low Ain't a mother would want me Done got me so down, bent out of round Don't know my head from my toes There ain't a hand here to hold Ain't a shoulder to cry on Then a lesson to learn or a corner to turn Twist the dyin' and me Lord, I wanted to be Something you could depend on Lordy, Lord, woe and me There ain't nobody would care I've got a slow rollin' low Forgot the...
Chorus: E You got a Smokey on your front door A Smokey on your back door,too A Lord-a-mercy,buddy,i wouldn't wanna be in your shoes D I can hear you talkin',i can hear you singin' the blues A You got a Smokey on your front door E A Smokey on your back door,too Verse : E You got a woman on the East Coast One on the coast out West A One wants a baby,one wants a brand new dress D No way around it...
Just so good woman lord you're just too good for me The way I am is the way I'll always be You know I'll run around all of my life You could've done better 'cause you been a good wife You're so good woman lord you're just too good for me You're so good lookin' lord you could've done better than me You're so good lookin' no you could've done better than me Look at them men lookin' at you While ...
We're all polyester poets and pickers of a kind With far too many questions for the answers in our minds Stranded in the middle but all is black and white Somewhere between ragged and right Somewhere between ragged and right Like a bus load of taxi drivers learnin' how to fly We're on automatic pilot driftin' through our lives Somewhere between ragged and right We're a gang of drug store cowbo...
Disappointments weigh so heavy Leave it's wreckage all around Once a good man, once respected Sorrow breaks a good man down Had a good love, had a good life Now the sadness all around Dread the darkness, hate the daylight Sorrow breaks a good man down I remember all the good times When the world was ours to claim Then she left me, took the sunshine Every night wind speaks her name Can't stop l...
There's a ramshackle shack in old Caroline it's callin' me back to the woman of mine Guess if I had the wings of a beautiful dove Don't you know I'd fly away to the woman I love When the whippoorwills called on the hills far away We're gonna sing a little song we're gonna hear them say My love for you will never ever die we bid everything sail away to the by sweet and by [ steel - harmonica ] ...
New York woman tryin' to make me love her a sad eyed girl with rollers in her hair Down the hall somebody's cooking cabbage kids're running up and down the stairs I'd like to leave this God forsaken city but I can't go no matter how I try But once again I'll be in Oklahoma tonight when I lay down and close my eyes I'll be standing in that Oklahoma sunshine just got off a bus from another world...
[ Willie Nelson ] Can't go home if you're goin' by the mill Cause the bridge's washed out at the bottom of the hill Big Creek's up and Little Creek's level plow my corn with a double shovel Stay all night stay a little longer dance all night dance a little longer Pull off your coat throw it in the corner don't see why you can't stay a little longer Sittin' in the window singin' to my love slop...
Stop the world and let me off I'm tired of going round and round I've played the game of love And lost so stop the world and let me off My dreams're shattered Don't you see now you no longer care for me I miss the wonder of your kiss How could you leave me here like this Stop the world and let me off I'm tired of going round and round I've played the game of love And lost so stop the world and...
Storms never last do they, baby Bad times all pass with the winds Your hand in mine steals the thunder You make the sun want to shine Oh, I followed you down so many roads, baby I picked wild flowers and sung you soft sad songs And every road we took, God knows, our search was for the truth And the storm brewin' now won't be the last Storms never last do they, baby Bad times all pass with the ...
A tiger always walks at night and marks his prey while everything's still He waits until it's unaware and then he strikes and makes his kill That's the way you've done me girl you never let me brieve Couldn't feel the way I felt so you'd tried to punish me Baby it's time to straighten my mind A spider's always busy spinning webs that no one can get through Somehow that spider always has remind...
Oh such a waste of love true love and devotion Oh such a waste of love on a heart so cold with no emotion I might as well just wrap it up and wash it down the drain Cause the little happiness I knew just wasn't worth the pain You build me up and for a little while you let me live But love is the only thing I find you never learned to give Oh such a waste of love... Oh such a waste of love...
This place is too damn lonesome I think I'll change and go out for a while On second thoughts where could I go With a closet full of clothes that's out of style It's another night of TV Or another night of nothing on my hands I gotta change my way of living 'Cause I'm still thinking like a married man Suddenly single It's hard to break old habits good or bad If I wasn't over thirty I'd might j...
This place is too damn lonesome I think I'll change and go out for a while On second thoughts where could I go With a closet full of clothes that's out of style It's another night of TV Or another night of nothing on my hands I gotta change my way of living 'Cause I'm still thinking like a married man Suddenly single It's hard to break old habits good or bad If I wasn't over thirty I'd might j...
I left the old farm down in Texas And bummed all around for a time Then one day I found myself staring At a sign that read Sunset and Vine The big cars and the beautiful women Put beautiful thoughts in my mind I decided to be a great actor On the corner of Sunset and Vine Then a man with a cigar approached me And he put his face right to mine And declared a great star hit this cover On the cor...
My long and lean and hungry looks Really used to turn her on Till she found two hundred pounds Or true love muscle and bone I made up my mind to keep what was mine He made up mind I was wrong To take my Ann took a hell of a man But it sure didn't take him too long It sure didn't take him long Changing her mind Sure didn't take her long To leave me behind She had breakfast with me met him at th...
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She's the womb that you left And she's the pride that you kept She's the innocence That you left back in your youth She's the poems that you read She's the mouth that you feed And she's the holy and she's truth Sweet dream woman of the night Come and love me in the night Sweet dream woman Come and be a woman to me She's the mother of youth She is sweet baby blue And she's a love that you once ...
She said sing a song sweet music man Cause I won't be there to hold your hand like I used to I'm through with you You're a hell of a singer and powerful man But you surround yourself with people who demand so little of you You touched my soul with your beautiful song Even had me singin' along right with you you said I need you Then you changed the words and added harmony Sang the song you had ...
Yeah, T for Texas, T for Tennessee I said, "T for Texas, T for Tennessee" T for that no good woman, no good gal That made a wreck out of me, Lord Take it man I'd rather drink myself muddy water Sleep all night in a hollow log I'd rather drink a muddy water Sleep all day and night in a hollow log Than to hang around and now be put down And treated like a dirty dog, listen If you don't want me w...
He's a giver he'll give her the kind of attention that she's never known He's a helper he'll help her to open the doors that she can't on her own He's a lover and he'll love her in ways that she's never been loved before He's a getter he'll get her by gettin' her into the world she's been hungering for He's a charmer he'll charm her with money and manners that I never learned He's a leader he'...
Got me a habit that I surely got to quit ain't got a habit just hooked a little bit Sure I'd come to see you but you're nearly never home Wouldn't call at all but you give good phone Talk good boogie but you won't get down Tell me that you love me but you won't come around Talk good boogie but you won't get down [ guitar ] Just when I'm ready think I might got a chance They change all the musi...
To Taos Pueblo out in New Mexico One night my weary feet did go so I stopped that night in Taos There's a story in Taos town that if a stranger comes around When a fresh snow is on the ground a new love will be born in Taos That night there came a snow in the mountains and the valleys below And I found a love that's true I know in Taos New Mexico [ ac.guitar ] That night in Taos town it seemed...
Tennessee, oh, what I'd give to be back there once again With all the old friends who were so kind to me Oh, Tennessee, I was happy as could be Never got too much done but livin' sure was fun in Tennessee This big city just depresses me Though everybody's as kind as can be A homesick feeling possesses me I won't be the same till I'm back there again Tennessee, guess the country boy in me Won't...
Sunday morning in the valley we would gather for the service Emmily Jane would run to meet me she'd smile at papa kinda nervous All the people came from miles around I can still hear the sound As they sang thanks to the Lord for the sun up in the sky For the corn that's growing high and for the child that didn't die Thanks to the Lord for the crops and for the farm For the satrenght in my righ...
Well, you think that you can lie, tell me alibis And it's alright Keep the grapevine line working overtime On your late nights You think that you can say some words and take away the hurt And I'll still be your number one But when it ain't working out we got a saying down South 'Baby that dog won't hunt' Baby that dog won't hunt You can hang up your guns Break my heart, want a new start Baby t...
Well, you think that you can lie, tell me alibis And it's alright Keep the grapevine line working overtime On your late nights You think that you can say some words and take away the hurt And I'll still be your number one But when it ain't working out we got a saying down South 'Baby that dog won't hunt' Baby that dog won't hunt You can hang up your guns Break my heart, want a new start Baby t...
I come from the country Grew up over [Incomprehensible] There are places I ain't welcomed And I had to loot and cry I slipped in the back door Still I never got my share But the blues don't care My best friend had to tell me What I could never see What that woman did the best Was run around on me I had to learn the hard way That all in love ain't fair But the blues don't care The blues don't c...
When I noticed her the first time I was outside running barefoot in the rain She lived in the house next door And her nose was pressed against the window pane When she looked at me She smiled and showed a place, where two teeth used to be And I heard her, ask her mom If she could come outside and play with me We became as one and Had a love without beginning or an end And every day she lived w...
Lord knows I am peaceful when I'm left alone I've always been an Eagle, been awhile since I have flown My claws are sharp as ever, so's my Eagle eye Something's gonna go tonight, when the Eagle flies Lately I've heard rumors that the Eagle may be lame Just because I've been idle, don't mean that I'm tame You've jeopardized my freedom, my natural place to roost I can fly when I have to, if they...
Verse 1: D Everybody knows you've been stepping on my toes And i'm getting pretty tired of it G You keep stepping out of line and a messin' with my mind If you had any sense you'd quit Chorus: A 'Cause every since you were a little bity tiny girl Said i was the only man in this whole world Now you better do some thinking then you'll find D D You got the only daddy that'll walk the line Verse 2...
Like a muddy river running wild and deep You've got a flaming memory that keeps burning me Just when I think you love me, doubt creeps in I still feel the shadow of your distant friend It's a major heartache when you lose your trust When you love the feeling, it begins to rust Just when the sun is shining, clouds set in I still feel the shadow of your distant friend I still feel the past each ...
Down the dusty Dixie road My old Levi's draggin' tracks Nobody cares about where I'm going For all they know I'm coming back I wish I had me a true fine woman And let her rock me all night long Baby we could get it together Like people do in them old love songs I can hear somebody laughin' Funny how it makes me sad Lord I wish it was Sunday morning Saturday night sure looking bad I wish I had ...
Just the good ol' boys Never meanin' no harm Beats all you never saw Been in trouble with the law Since the day they was born Staightenin' the curves Flatenin' the hills Someday the mountain might get 'em But the law never will Makin' their way The only way they know how That's just a little bit more Than the law will allow Makin' their way The only way they know how yeah That's just a little ...
I'll play the tambourine Follow the sun I'll never let you down In these new changing times You're going places In these new changing times Making your mark in this world Is a long straight line You need someone to go To go along with you To love you and help you And to do what you'll wanna do I'll play the tambourine Follow the sun I'll never let you down In these new changing times You have ...
There are still places where people like me can hang out With nothing at all in this whole world to worry about They ain't tore 'em all down yet and said, every man for himself Or polished them up until nothing worth keeping is left They ain't got 'em all If you try here and there, you'll still find a few holes in the wall There an endangered species but I'm keeping track I can tell you, they ...
I came down with a broken heart Just to start my summer Boy, when you lose the one you love It's a stone cold bummer I just called you up to tell you I don't know what to say I wish you knew the way I felt This is gettin' funny There ain't nobody laughin', honey Come on back home Tell me how you feel, though I can't stand this at all Can't you see it's a mystery? I thought I was your lover Yes...
This time if you want me to come back it's up to you But remember I won't allow the things you used to do You're gonna have to toe the mark and walk the line This time will be the last time This time if I should feel unwanted I won't stay Each tomorrow will depend on the love you give today It's all up to you but keep in mind This time will be the last time If this time should be anything like...
Girls have been a weakness all of my life But I made a big mistake and I took one for a wife I've thought that she was different I could settle down But she won't and I didn't by now I'm leavin' town This time tomorrow I'll be gone this time tomorrow I'll be gone [ guitar ] I'll be a datin' those southern belles there'll be no days of blue All the queens in New Orleans I'll get around with you...
Verse 1: G Gotta catch a new train... i gotta go C/G G This train is getting just a little too old Gotta find a new way... to live my life C/G G Any other way has got to be alright Verse 2: G Shame on you girl... same ol' you C/G Same ol' trouble you're always G Puttin' me through Same ol' me girl... body and soul C/G G This train's a runnin' on out of control Chorus: C/G I ain't gonna waste m...
Just like the sun over the mountain top you know I'll always come again You know I love to spend my morning time like sunlight dancing on your skin Never gone so long as far telling lies to you oh what you've seen is what I've been And there is nothing I can hide from you you see me better than I can Out on the road that lies before me now there are some turns where I will spin I only hope tha...
With iron in my brain I'd laid down to rest Not carin' if I live or die Woke up a freezin' with rain pourin' down So hard I can't open my eyes I been chased from the yard with dogs at my heels Searchin' for shelter at times But there's nothing so hard for a man on the bum As the time between bottles of wine The time between bottles of wine Beggin' for pennies just one sweet taste Of the nectar...
Woman, you get meaner every day And your naggin' is hard to stand So I'll pack my things and I'll be on my way 'Cause it's time to bum again This house gets smaller with every day And the walls are closin' in I guess I've said all there is to say and it's time to bum again The time has come to bum again I'm gonna see all the places I ain't been Woman, you've stirred up the wild, wild wind And ...
It seems I see you everywhere You and your new lover there Time will tell the story of your new love Do you think he'll ever be The man you've tried to make of me? Time will tell the story of your new love The day when he's a used-to-be He'll be just as blue as me Losing all that he dreams of Time is all it takes to tell The story that I know so well Time will tell the story of your new love T...
It was winter time in Nashville Down on Music City Row I was lookin? for a place to get Myself out of the cold To warm the frozen feelin? That was eatin? at my soul And keep the chilly winds off my guitar My thirsty wanted whiskey And my hunger needed beans But I guess it?d been a month of payday Since I heard that eagle scream So with a stomach full of empty And a pocket full of dreams I left...
Today I started loving you again I'm right back where I've really always been I got over you just long enough to let my heartaches mend And today I started loving you again What a fool I was to think I could get by With only these few million tears I cried I should have known the worst was yet to come And that crying time for me had just begun Oh, today I started loving you again I'm right bac...
Verse 1: E I have battled with the demons for my soul A Like a soldier unafraid,stood straight and tall E With strong convictions fought for what i thought was right and wrong D A E But i wonder when it stands in judgement hall D A E Will it go down as one too close to call Verse 2: E I have faced that cunning ennemy called time A For awhile i held him cold and to a draw E As he rode away he s...
Verse 1: D When i first saw New York city I was green down to the core You could see my red neck glowing For a mile or maybe more A Between the hustlers and the hookers I must have made their day Cause they peeled me like an apple,Lawd D And sent me on my way Bridge 1: When you're pushed and shoved and almost mugged It ain't no place to be So i came to one conclusion A New York ain't for me Ch...
I can tell that somewhere there's someone You loved more than me Someone you loved more than me And it hurts to say it but you have the right to be free I know that's the way it should be But I'm too far gone, too far gone I've loved you so much for so long I'm too far gone If ever your new love should hurt you Or make you feel blue Hurt you or make you feel blue Remember your old love will st...
I was so ugly the doctor slapped my momma when I was born Then he took out his pocket knife and cut off my horns He said, ?Lady if you ain't already picked out a name Go ahead on and call him Trouble Man" He's gonna be wild I'm giving you warning He's gotta have room Keep an eye on him I grew up with long and lean and hungry looks I learned you can't go nowhere when you go by the book People a...
He's a sad song singer he plays a gut-stringer With vagabond fingers that follow his mind To far away places he reaches for traces And touches the faces he's long left behind He'll keep you from knowing where he's been or going You'll see the distance right there in his eyes Just short of stealing he'll take your feelings Pull at your heart strings till they come untied Once was a woman who ma...
On a long and lonesome highway east of Omaha you can listen to the engine moanin' out its one note song or you can think of the woman, the girl you knew the night before your thoughts will soon be wondering the way they always do when your ridin' sixteen hours and there's notning much to do and you don't feel much like ridin' you just wish the trip was through Here I am on the road again there...
You load the horses, I'll pack the rigger Let's tell 'em goodbye and walk out the door One drink and one kiss can lead to too many We ought to know 'cause we been there before Eight hours of ridin' will put us in Houston Two hours of sleep to make it or bust Eight seconds of glory, you stay in the money And five year old whiskey to wash down the dust That ain't no hill for a couple of climbers...
Two streaks of steel stretchin' cross the land too far to reach for my baby's hand I stood and watched her disappear and in the distance I could hear whooe Tomorrow I'll see coming down the track That same old train that she ain't coming back For her sweet love that once was mine faded just like a whistle's whine whooe Two streaks of steel I've been standing beside Where all that mattered in m...
I swore the last time that you let me down That I wouldn't see you if you came around I can't tell my heart what's right or wrong And I've been so lonesome ever since you've been gone You've got me under your spell again Sayin' those things again Makin' me believe that you're just mine Dreamin' those dreams again Schemin' those schemes again I've gotta take you back just one more time Everybod...
My woman goes about her way hangin' on from day to day God knows she's tried To do her best for her and me knowin' that she'll always be unsatisfied She tells me everything's alright but when she should be sleepin' nights I've heard her cry But she greeds me like the morning sun makes me wish I was the one unsatisfied But soon the warmer wind will blow her way I know And warm her like she neve...
Verse 1: E Got me a rocker without no arms Ol' wood stove to keep me warm My firewood out of the rain I sit and watch the seasons change Verse 2: E There's a woman in Little Rock Got plenty of money down in her sock She come to see me time to time We sit on the porch and drink our wine Bridge 1: A E A man ought to know when he's got it all A E Holding it down up in Arkansas Verse 3: E Coyotes ...
About fourteen miles out of Abilene At a curve in the road and a little stream I found out what love's about So long ago wonder what I found out We all got together at the Buffalo Gap Granpa Gus ain't got no lap He went to heaven in a rocking chair What a surprise if he ain't the only one there You've got a man over eight feet tall He can sleep in the kitchen with his feet in the hall You ain'...
I hear the echo of your footsteps They're right in step with marching time Since you've walked out of my life and out of my world Please walk on out of my mind I know you're hidin' there in the darkness And it's got me running scared and blind Since you've walked out of my life, out of my world Please walk on out of my mind You've got footprints all over my mem'ries I must erase them if I can ...
When we dance together my world's in disguise It's a fairyland tale that's come true When you look at me girl with those stars in your eyes I could waltz across Texas with you Waltz across Texas with you in my arms Waltz across Texas with you Like a storybook ending I'm lost in your charms And I could waltz across Texas with you [ steel - piano - banjo ] My heartaches and troubles are just up ...
It's been a long time Since I've had a good time And I think it's high time I did Could I have this dance It feels like romance And it's good to be feeling like this The lights are down low The band's playin' slow To The beautiful Tennessee Waltz How many love songs And how many dance floors have lovers like us waltzed across Chorus 1: So waltz me to heaven tonight To the waltz of the angels w...
I've been thinking it over wondering what to do Up to now I've been leaving it up to you But you'll always be the way you've always been I ain't got the time to go through that again I've been wasting time and I'm to blame Living with things I couldn't change And the one conclusion I've come to I've been wasting time and a lot of good love on you I've made up my mind to make my move It's just ...
I've been thinking it over, wondering what to do Up to now I've been leaving it up to you But you'll always be the way you've always been I ain't got the time to go through that again I've been wasting time and I'm to blame Living with things I couldn't change And the one conclusion I've come to I've been wasting time and a lot of good love on you I've made up my mind to make my move It's just...
I'm just here to get my things and I'll be leaving And I've got somebody waitin' just outside So don't start to cry to me about your hurt and misery Cause the only thing that's hurtin' is your pride Wave goodbye to me and I'll be leaving walk me to the door and say so long No need talking anymore saying things I've heard before Just wave goodbye to me and I'll be gone gone gone gone Wave goodb...
Well, I woke up this mornin' it was drizzlin' rain Around the curve come a passenger train Heard somebody yodel and a hobo moan Jimmy he's dead, he's been a long time gone Been a long time gone, a long time gone If you wanna get to Heaven, gotta D I E You gotta put on your coat and T I E Wanna get the rabbit out the L O G You gotta make a cold motion like a D O G Now like a D O G, like a D O G...
Well I woke up this morning it was drizzling rain Around the curve called a passenger train I heard somebody yodel and a hobo moan Jimmy he's dead, it's been a long time gone Been a long time gone, a long time gone If you want to get to heaven got to D I E You got to put on your coat and T I E Want to get the rabbit out of the L O G You gotta make a commotion like a D O G Like a D O G, like a ...
I can hear the wind blowin' in my mind Just the way it used to sound through the Georgia pines You were there to answer when I called You and me Lord knows we had it all Remember how I used to touch your hair While reaching for a feeling that was always there You were the best thing in my life that I recall You and me, we had it all I know that we can never live those times again So I'll let m...
Boy, this week sure had a lot of Mondays I ain't never seen it quite so hard Getting over a Sunday before I guess there's a simple solution Good times sometimes just end We made it as lovers That's as close as we've ever been We made it as lovers We just couldn't make it as friends The hardest part of broken romances Is having to learn all those brand new dances
Honey how you've changed it makes me wonder have I ever really known you How could you abuse and use the kindeness and tenderness that I have shown you If I have known then I have shown the strenght on which my love could make a stand But you've mistaken tenderness and kindness for the weakness in your man I can give you almost anything if I know what you're looking for I can give you everythi...
I could lay aside my better judgment I could turn my back on all the pain Make believe you mean it when you touch me And be fool enough to think you'd change I'm no fool and you're not changing You know I'm telling the heartbreaking truth You've gone wild and I'm going crazy And what bothers me most is I don't bother you Late at night you're such a great temptation I'm too weak to fight you ev...
What makes me wanna roam When I got so much love at home What makes a man wander What makes a man wander The whistle of a train Does something to my brain What makes a man wander What makes a man wander I know I love you as much as I ever could Love anyone yet I'm still gone I come back and I vow to settle down now Then I'm gone with the dawn What makes me wanna roam When I got so much love at...
Staring at the door Every night I'm thinking more and more About walkin' out that door I know someday I will Though I'm standing still someday I will I know someday I will As right as we were, we are wrong Nothing's going to change what we've done They only thing that keeps me from going, baby Is wondering what you'll do when I'm gone There's something in your eyes I swear your eyes are tellin...
Staring at the door Every night I'm thinking more and more About walkin' out that door I know someday I will Though I'm standing still someday I will I know someday I will As right as we were, we are wrong Nothing's going to change what we've done They only thing that keeps me from going, baby Is wondering what you'll do when I'm gone There's something in your eyes I swear your eyes are tellin...
I've been cheated, mistreated, broken man, defeated No one wanted or needed any part of me I've been bothered and shattered till my heart's torn and tattered Baby, are you sure you want what's left of me? I've been busted, disgusted, hurt by those I trusted There's a big old hurt inside where my heart should be I've been lied on and cried on, cheated on and spited on Even dogs think that I'm a...
As we sat on the front porch of that old gray house Where I was born and raised Staring at the dusty fields Where my daddy worked hard everyday I think it kinda hurt him when I said ?Daddy there's a lot that I don't know But don't you ever dream About a life where corn don't grow?" He just sat there silent Staring at his favorite coffee cup I saw a storm of mixed emotions In his eyes when he l...
Time keeps changing lanes and shifting gears Racin' down the road that disappears Where do we go from here? Sometimes, it's hard to live like I was [Incomprehensible] Tryin' to survive these modern days The old fashioned way Time keeps changing lanes and shifting gears Racin' down the road that disappears Where do we go from here?
There's a photograph in a gold frame on the mantle I?ve never seen two people more in love What a stark contrast to the picture of us standing On the edge of giving in and giving up Something so real don't just disappear If it goes away it must go somewhere Till we find the answer, we?ve got to hold on Where does love go when it's gone? Where does love go when it's gone? Life's a long highway ...
There's a photograph in a gold frame on the mantle I?ve never seen two people more in love What a stark contrast to the picture of us standing On the edge of giving in and giving up Something so real don't just disappear If it goes away it must go somewhere Till we find the answer, we?ve got to hold on Where does love go when it's gone? Where does love go when it's gone? Life's a long highway ...
If my years were less if my shoes were new I'd pack my things and I'd leave you Hitch myself to some westbound train you'd never see me here again If I could dream as I once could I'd be gone gone for good I don't want to live haven't another try in some old house where love has died We once had love it's gone now don't know when don't know how We're two strangers under one roof no need to lik...
Well I guess I've been blessed with good luck and fortune All that I have is more than enough I've tried to work hard but it ain't been easy But compared to most it ain't been too rough I've had it all Lord knows I'm thankful the life that I lead is some kind of dream I've got buses and trucks and stuffs that all make loud noises Why I even own things that I ain't never seen And it fills me wi...
I put yesterday and half the night between us Made up my mind this time I'm gonna stay Now I'm sitting on the shoulder thinking it all over Looking for a sign that might show me the way Which way do I go, now that I'm gone Which way do I turn, now that I've learned how to be strong Do I take the road that takes me back to where it all went wrong Which way do I go, now that I'm gone Now I liste...
You take the lady...I'll take the lesson I can't say that anyone's...Doin' me wrong Cause I allways knew....That the girl had a weakness For whistlers and jugglers....and singers of songs Now she was a child...Back when I first met her And the woman inside her...Was just bein' born And I knew she'd come with me...Cause she had a fever For whistlers and jugglers...and singers of songs. And the ...
In the white room with black curtains in the station Black roof country, no gold pavements, tired starlings Silver horses, brightening moonbeams in your dark eyes Dawn light smiles on you leaving my contentment I'll wait in this place where the sun never shines Wait in this place where the shadows run from themselves You said no strings could secure you in the station Platform ticket, restless...
Verse 1: B E Straight out of nowhere B And a little bit out of our minds E We were courting disaster B With one foot over the line E It was one for the show B And two for ol' shorty and me E We were the wild ones D E B We had this town up a tree Chorus: E We were the wild ones B The ones they couldn't control E We were survivors D E B Good hearts - body and soul E We were the winners B 'Cause ...
Verse 1: B Through the chill of winter Running across a frozen lake Hunters hard right on his trail All odds are against him A E With a family to provide for A B But one thing he must keep alive E A Will the wolf survive? E Will the wolf survive? Verse 2: B Drifting by the roadside Climbs a strong and aging face Wants to make some honest pay Losing to the rainstorm A E He's got two strong legs...
Willie and Laura Mae Jones were our neighbours a long time back They lived down the road from us in a shack just like our shack We worked the fields together, learned to count on each other When you live off the land you ain't got time to think of another man's color The cotton was high and the corn was growing fine That was another place and another time Sit out on the front porch every eveni...
Verse 1: A D Three fingers whiskey,pleasures the drinkers A E And moving does more than the same things for me A D Willie he tells me that doers and thinkers A E A Say moving is the closest thing to being free Verse 2: A D Well he's rosined his reggins,laid back his wages A E He's dead set on riding in the big rodeo A D A My woman's tired with an overdue baby E A Willie keeps yelling hey gypsy...
Three fingers whiskey pleasures the drinkers And moving does more than the same thing for me Willy he tells me that doers and thinkers Say, ?Movin' is a closest thing to being free? Willy rosins his riggins laid back his wages He's dead certain ridin' the big rodeo My woman's tight with an overdue baby And Willy keeps yelling, ?Hey Gypsy let's go? Willy you're wild as a Texas Blue Norther Read...
Women do know how, to carry on, When they don't need too much, crying time alone. They'll be right back putting, bread and bacon on, Women do know how, to carry on. When she can't keep love afloat, she will survive, In her soft and sexy ways, she's gonna shock and jive. She'll hide the tears and find the things, that she needs to get along, Women do know how, to carry on. Women do know how, to...
Yes I guess I let you make a fool of me So I'll just go my foolish way and let you be But if you should find some human in my misery All I ask is please don't laugh woman don't you ever laugh at me All I expect is your respect for the pride inside of me All I ask is please don't laugh woman don't you ever laugh at me [ guitar ] I guess I was just a joke to you right from the start And the bigg...
Woman, I hate, hate it When I wreck your alibi Woman, I hate, hate it When I catch you telling lies I used to be your knight in silk pyjamas Now you're running back home to your Mama I don't even know why Woman I hate, hate it Woman I hate, hate it When you brush my moves aside Woman I hate, hate it When you shoot holes through my pride I used to be your Latin lover boy Now you treat me like a...
Woman let me sing you a song Woman let me sing you a song That tells how you've done me wrong So it's your fault if it's long Woman let me sing you a song Well, the neighbors all say I run around Yeah, the neighbors all say I run around But baby, if I do I'm still miles in back off you Woman let me sing you a song You tell our friends I drink too much Now the whole town knows I drink too much ...
Women do know how to carry on Well, there won't be too much cryin' time alone They'll be right back puttin' red and make up on Women do know how to carry on When she can't keep love afloat she will survive In her soft and sexy way she's gonna shuck and jive She'll wipe the tears and find the things that she needs to get along Women do know how to carry on Women do know how to carry on, yeah Ne...
Every since the day, I was big enough to put my pants on by myself You could find me somewhere with the radio turned on Then one night I gave my heart to an old beat-up guitar It never left my arms till I was almost grown I had to try my hand as a workin? man tried to be my daddy?s son But my mind was packed and gone and headed south Momma said, ??I?ll pray for you??, then she said, ??Goodbye?...
Well, the road can be a circus, a death defying act But the clowns don't come around no more since the monkeys off my back Now, I stand here on the stage, as the house lights fade to black Your love helps me forget, I'm working without a net Up on the high wire, I hear the crowd begin to call Some want you to fly, some want to see you fall Now and then I stumble, but I haven't fallen yet Your ...
We'll build the world of our own that no one else can share All our sorrows will leave far behind the stairs And I know you will find there'll be peace of mind And we'll live in a world of our own Close the door light the lights we'll stay at home tonight Far away from the bustle and the bright city lights Let the world fade away just leave us alone And we'll live in a world of our own We'll b...
You call us heathens with zero, respect for the law We are only songwriters, just writing our songs and that's all We write what we live and we live what we write is that wrong If you think it is Mr. Music Executive Why don't you write your own songs? And don't listen to mine, they might run you crazy They might make you dwell on your feelings a moment too long We're making you rich and you're...
It was a picture perfect wedding We had the whole world at our feet Everyone thought we were Heading down a lovers easy street We'd have a house out in the country A picket fence, the whole nine yards They said our love would last forever It was written in the stars Wrong, I should have known it all along When the future looks too bright Can't be anything but right Wrong I was all but devastat...
I'm not here to forget you I'm here to recall the things we used to say and do I don't wanna get over you I don't wanna get over you I haunt the same places we used to go Alone at a table for two I don't wanna get over you I don't wanna get over you They ought to give me the Wurlitzer prize For all the silver I let slide down the slot Playin' those songs sung blue They help me remember you I d...
Welcome to the 2003 minus 25 Oh, say, can you smell her for the smoke? God's still up there laughin', so he's gotta be alive Who says he can't take a dirty joke? Power is and power does and power slips away It's so easy to abuse Who'd have thought them Arabs would've bought the U.S.A. Just to give it to the Jews? Singin' crime still don't pay, just like it used to And time slips away 'til you ...
I remember the day that Clayton Delaney died They said for the last two weeks that he suffered and cried It made a big impression on me although I was a barefoot kid They said he got religion at the end and I'm glad that he did Clayton was the best guitar picker in our town I thought he was a hero and I used to follow Clayton around I often wondered why Clayton who seemed so good to me Never t...
Yellow haired woman good for nothing empty headed Most lovely creature that I've seen With lips that kiss with such a firy stain Many times I've dreamed of leaving my life behind knowin' all the while I'm a victim of the smile of this yellow haired woman [ guitar harmonica ] Yellow woman flows across this rich satin bed Magnificed of perfect feature leaving nothing left unsaid As I listen to h...
I've been telling you there's someone else Virginia You're not listening and this time, I think you should But you've never cared for me, have you Virginia? So you just can't see how anybody could Yes Virginia, there is another woman And she loves me like I used to wish you'd do Yes Virginia, there is another woman Now I need her more than I ever needed you I have never measured up to what you...
Long ago and far away In my ol' common labor shoes I turned the world all which a way Just because you asked me to Like unto no other Feel simple love is simple true There's no end to what I'd do Just because you asked me Let the world call me a fool But if things are right with me and you That's all that matters And I'll do anything you asked me to Knowing how much I love you And after all th...
Long ago and far away In my ol' common labor shoes I turned the world all which a way Just because you asked me to Like unto no other feel Simple love is simple true There's no end to what I'd do Just because you asked me to Let the world call me a fool But if things are right with me and you That's all that matters and I'll do Anything you asked me to Knowing how much I love you And after all...
I've walked through many towns with fortunes lost and found Seen the beauty of this land made by nature and by men But when I leave I don't look back for I've only left my tracks I've crossed the burning bridges and walked through miles of sand Seen the lawlest in the law you beat all I ever saw [ guitar ] I've dreamed a million miles about your eyes and smiles I know I've loved the best I can...
Well, you can have her, I don't want her She didn't love me anyway She only wanted someone to play with But all I wanted was love to stay The girl I love, up and left me She ran away with my best friend Comes home at night for just one hour When daylight comes, she's gone again You can have her, I don't want her She didn't love me anyway She only wanted someone to play with But all I wanted wa...
You're the one who took the time Looked for a reason to believe Five hundred pounds of [Incomprehensible] Which shines on the better side of me More than anyone You're a part of all I say and do When it's all said and done When they remember me, they'll think of you You always believed That's what brought me up when I was down And I do believe You deserve the stars in my crown You always belie...
I blew in from Texas And you don't know who i am Most of you could care less And the rest don't give a damn But you might take special notice When you take a look at me I'm everything you've ever been And ever want to be My game is the winner take all I live on the edges So i'm subject to a fall I ain't never been a loser I ain't never gonna be I'm like runnin' in a ringer You don't mess aroun...
I work so hard to win myself a place in life And leave behind the slums and poverty Now I have wealth, a fancy home, a pretty wife She loves the ground I walk on but she don't love me You like the places that I take you, don't you girl? At last you were where you've always longed to be You're very much at home here in this kind of world You love the ground I walk on but you don't love me And I...
There'll come a time girl, you'll look for me In each horizon, in each face you see You'll look for love like love used to be There'll come a time girl, you'll look for me Look all around you if you have the time Look at me once more if you can You once said you loved me, now you've changed your mind But you'll change your mind again There'll come a time girl, you'll look for me In each horizo...
You have her now she's your life You're saying how she'll be your wife And I wish I could be happy for you But you see my friend, I've been there too That's one more thing that'll bother you When she treats you like she's treated me, you'll think of me When the new wears off and the glamor's gone But the ties that bind keep holding on and they're strong You'll think of me being with her Like I...
Pretty soon this old town I?ll be leaving And I?m going just as far as I can go ?Cause ever since you?ve put me down I can?t stand to stay around this old town And all the friends we used to know And when that old north wind comes a howlin? And your cold arms long for company When the moon peeps through the pines And there?s memories on your mind You?re gonna wonder about me, babe You?re gonna...
Here I stand hand in hand Turning my face to the wall If she?s gone I can?t go on With no love at all Everywhere people stare Each and every day I can see them laugh at me I can hear them say You?ve got to hide your love away You?ve got to hide your love away How can I even try, I can never win Hearin' them, seein' them in the state I?m in How could she say to me love will find a way Gather ro...
That Jimmy Brown died just 25 and they lowered him under the ground Right at his head was a mark that had read I leave the world young widow Brown He left her for me now it's plain to see just why old Jim ain't around I know that I've tried but the man ain't alive That can keep up with young widow Brown That woman she's crazy if she thinks that I'll just keep on a hanging around I'd leave in a...
YOUR LOVE LINGERS ON WRITERS WAYLON JENNINGS, RORY LEE RECORDED BY JOHN MICHAEL MONTGOMERY Long after your touch has faded from my body And the scent of your sweet perfume is gone Long after your kiss has faded from my lips Your love lingers on It's still in the air, it's everywhere It never disappears It's surrounding me, like a melody Reminding me you were here Long after the glow has faded ...
May the fruit of my toil be yours, love May the fruit from my soil be yours, love And from this moment on may a love that is strong And lives on and on be yours, love May the sons that I raise be yours, love May the comforts I apraise be yours, love If I ever get weak may the love words I speak And the arms that I seek be yours, love May the Lord's shining grace be yours, love May the happiest...

Albums

Waylon Forever
Slippin' and a-slidin', playin' Dominoes Leftin' and a-rightin' ain't a crime, you know Well, I gotta tell the story before it's time to go Well, are you ready for the country? Are you ready for me? Are you ready for the country? Ain't that the sight to see? Talkin' to a preacher, said God was on his side Talkin' to a butcher, they both were sellin' hide Well, I gotta tell the story, boys I do...
Jack-a-diamonds Jack-a-diamonds Take to my money You can have my life of luxury You can have my precious silver Studded saddle, oh Lord But You cannot take my soul Cannot take my soul, today Sweet mamma Oh, sweet mamma Won't you say you love me? Let me hold you, hold you in my arms Please tell me I'm not really falling to pieces Keep me tender mama Tender now, keep me warm Jack-a-diamonds Jack...
On a greyhound bus Lord, I'm travelin' this morning I'm goin' to Shreveport And down to New Orleans Been travelin' these highways Been doin' things my way It's been making me lonesome On'ry and mean God her hair was jet black And her name was Bodine Thought she was the cream Of the basin street queens She got tired Of that smoky-wine dream She began to feel lonesome On'ry and mean We got toget...
Well, I woke up this mornin' it was drizzlin' rain Around the curve come a passenger train Heard somebody yodel and a hobo moan Jimmy he's dead, he's been a long time gone Been a long time gone, a long time gone If you wanna get to Heaven, gotta D I E You gotta put on your coat and T I E Wanna get the rabbit out the L O G You gotta make a cold motion like a D O G Now like a D O G, like a D O G...
In the white room with black curtains in the station Black roof country, no gold pavements, tired starlings Silver horses, brightening moonbeams in your dark eyes Dawn light smiles on you leaving my contentment I'll wait in this place where the sun never shines Wait in this place where the shadows run from themselves You said no strings could secure you in the station Platform ticket, restless...