Bobby Bare

This could be our last goodnight together We may never pass this way again Just let me enjoy 'till its over Or forever Please don't tell me how the story ends See the way our shadows come together Softer than your fingers on my skin Someday this may be all...

I'm 500 miles away from home Teardrops fell on mama's note When I read the things she wrote She said, „We miss you son We love you, come on home” Well I didn't have to pack I had it all right on my back Now I'm 500 miles away from home Away from home, away...

Here am I a beggar I never thought it would turn out like this I’d be begging for your kiss But I must have your love Here am I a beggar I’ve reached the point of no return I’ve gone too far where you’re concerned And I need your love Here am I a beggar With...

I had a bird he flew away And I guess he's gone to stay But I see him winging on his way My flyaway bird named Yesterday. He's over the place of my birth He's circling a spot that I know He's hangin' around the Saw Mill town Where the gentle summer breezes bl...

'Neath your feet you feel the world is shaking And your dreams slowly sifting thro' your hand But there's a place you'll never be forsaken I'm a warm fire burning, not a candle in the wind. Life can be a silver river winding With the dark side awaiting 'roun...

Love is just a cloudy sky As far as I can see And that old cloud up in the sky He's in love like me. The moon she is a pretty girl Who lives up in the stars And that old cloud he's a lonely man Who loves her from afar. When that moon smiles down on him Cloud...

On the day I was born, Mary Jones was 10 But just a little bit later on down the line, I looked in her eyes, and I realized I'd see her, Just a little bit later on down the line. So when I was a man, Mary Jones was my plan, And on the day I was to make h...

I never was great at pickin' cotton but Lord I always carried all my rows There were those who could pick it clean or better But didn't I pick my cotton with a lot of soul I'd go hmm with feeling I'd go hmm with soul I'd say hmm with meaning yeah I sang my son...

I remember it now we were kids back then living down on the farm We were told that the city could only bring us harm Well how far away is the city you know that's a great big town And Barbara said why it's a million miles and then the story got around It's a m...

Abilene, Abilene prettiest town I've ever seen Women there don't treat you, mean in Abilene my Abilene Crowded cities ain't nothing free nothing in this town for me How I wish that I could be in Abilene my Abilene, Abilene, Abilene I sit alone most every nigh...

I'm calling from the station and I haven't got much time to let you know Got a ticket for Missouri and there's things I need to say before I go If I could I'd have you meet me but I don't see how I can I don't have enough to pay your fare There's a factory in...

Oh, the sound of the thing is not a ring It's more like a pleasant purr And the only sound I hear at night Is the sound of my purring air-conditioner The air is pure and dehumidified Thermostatically controlled Now I have no desire to perspire And that's how...

Alimony alimony work till my fingers are bloody and boney Me oh my oh goodness sake I'm paying for my mistake Ali-money I call it ali-money you married men may think it's funny Till one fine day you'll wake and find you're paying for your mistake Every Friday...

Gather 'round, cats, and I'll tell you a story About how to become an All American Boy Buy you a guitar and put it in tune You'll be rockin' and rollin' soon. Impressin' the girls, pickin' hot licks, and all that jazz I-I bought me a guitar a year ago Learn...

All the good times are past and gone all the good times are past and gone All the good times are past and gone what's left for a poor boy to do I can still see my mama bend over that ol' washpot And it's so doggone cold you could nearly freeze on the spot My...

They say you've found somebody new But that won't stop my loving you I just can't let you walk away Forget the love I had for you Yes I could find somebody too But I don't want no one but you How could you leave without regret? Am I that easy to forget? Befo...

I've had to burn most every bridge I've crossed Seems like everyone I've loved I'd lost When I met you I thought my luck had turned Now you're just another bridge to burn. Oh, I'll soon light the fire and move on I've already, already lingered much too long N...

Another love has ended (another love has ended) Like so many in the past (a million loves in the past) And people now are saying ( everybody's saying) I just knew it couldn't last (it just couldn't last) Another fool is suffering (another fool, another fool)...

Well, somewhere back around thirty six I was standin' knee deep in the Oklahoma sticks Pickin' them Jimmie Rodgers' licks like I owned 'em And the girls in town loved what I'd do I had Choctaw hair and eyes of blue They'd call me baby I was six foot two and lo...

Are you sincere when you say "I love you?" Are you sincere when you say you'll be true? And are you really mine every day, all the time? I'd like to know which way to go, will our love grow? Are you sincere? Are you sincere every time that you kiss me? Are y...

In the spring of my life she came to me She brought sunshine where winter winds had blown Then I took her for my wife in the spring of my life And she brought me a joy I'd never known And the years they went by in the spring of my life And in summer she bless...

Open the gates up hey screw did you miss me Jimmy I see that you found a new friend Warden come down here and kiss me hello cause I'm back home in Huntsville again This suit that I'm wearing cost two hundred dollars But I got it free with a three dollar knife...

Now a golden haired woman she'll take all your gold Her eyes may be warm but her feet would be cold And she would get fat just as soon as she's old Stay away from a golden haired woman. Hey, hey, stay away She'll make you miserable all of your day Hey, hey, s...

I asked my love to take a walk To take a walk, just a little walk Down beside where the waters flow Down by the banks of the Ohio And only say that you'll be mine In no others' arms entwine Down beside where the waters flow Down by the banks of the Ohio I he...

Will you be there in the courtyard Barbara Joe Will your honor be avenged with justice done When they cover my head over Barbara Joe Will you hide your face in shame for what you done You were always wild and reckless Barbara dear But I worshipped you my love...

I drive all day at hauling freight until I get my fill And after five I'm always found at Dottie's Bar and Grill I talked with all the local crowd a couple hours more Then head for home where she is always waiting at the door When I got home this evening abou...

She was young and she was pretty A victim of a rich man's whim When she met a wealthy gentleman Big Ben Colson And she had a child by him. Well, he promised her a wedding That would give their child a name But she waited at the altar till the sunset But her B...

Hoddy Holly was a cajun in the town that I was raised in She was something most amazin' to my inexperienced eyes But the fact was clearly stated she and Big Dupree was mated And a dreadful fate awaited anyone who touched his bride Cause he said it loud and cle...

God bless America again You see all the troubles that she's in Wash her pretty face dry her eyes and then God bless America again God I sure to wish you bless America again You know like you did way back when it all began You blessed her then but we just sort...

On a stone cold night in Memphis Willie Harper came to town With a blue tick hound at his heels and a dime in his shoe Uh he could make that guitar sing You should have heard that pavement ring When Blind Willie Harper played the blues. And a-he'd sing hey Je...

Mhmmm hmm hmm How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man And how many seas must a white dove sail before she can sleep in the sand And how many times must the cannonballs fly before they're forever banned The answer my friend is blowin'...

I sit here and look at you lonely room It's sad for lovers change their ways Just like me you miss the love we once knew She's left me in the world of blue. Lonely room of too many mem'ries Lonely room reminds me that she's gone Blue is my lonely room. Lonel...

Now boll weevil just look like bove Come on with Mexico All the way through Texas I’m looking for a home Looking for a home Now the first time I see the boll weevil He’s sitting on the square Next time I see the boll weevil Got all his family there Looking f...

They say for every boy there's a girl and she's waitin' somewhere in this world It's all been planned to someone up above and I know it's written in the book of love Written there for all the world to see written there to last eternally Night and day it's you...

Bottles and boxes and ten miles a day he walks slowly making his rounds Picking up bottles and boxes and papers and anything else we'd throw down He's hump-backed and wrinkled but unlike Van Winkel he doesn't sleep his life away And he speaks so seldom that so...

They say there he sits in his big white wicker rocker Eatin' candy coated cashews sippin' orange lemonade While a sweet young thing fans the flies from off his eyebrows He's dozin' in the green catalpa shade Lord they say that Jesse Langtree's got it made A l...

Brian Hennessey sat back and let the gypsy read his palm When he saw her eyes grow wide and wild and dark And she whispered through her toothless gums and clutched him by the arm She said, "Boy, I fear I see the devil's mark." Brian Hennessey just laughed and...

Oh, there I stood in the great big city Where the buildings're tall and the girls're all pretty Up stepped a man he said come here son I got a big deal now if you got the mon' I bought the Brooklyn Bridge Two dollars, two cigarettes and an autograph picture of...

Bye bye love bye bye happiness hello loneliness I think I'm gonna cry Bye bye love bye bye sweet caress hello emptiness I feel like I could die Bye bye my love goodbye There goes my baby with someone new he sure feel happy I sure look blue He was my baby till...

Let me carry that old suitcase hon And here's my hat to shade your pretty head from the sun Let's keep moving down the road that has no end it seems For a long time we've been dreaming California dreams Where the sands're gold and blue the sea money grows from...

Well, they call me the breeze, I'll keep blowing down the road They call me the breeze I'll keep blowing down the road I ain't got me nobody so I ain't carryin' me no load. Ain't no changing the weather ain't no change in me Ain't no changing the weather ain'...

Here I am a livin' fast smokin' Lucky's and talkin' trash Hangin' out on a barroom stool actin' like a fool Out of work and out of luck stay out late and I drink too much You see my face all over town I ought to settle down Yes I guess I must confess look at m...

You speak and the words flow like honey your kiss holds a promise so sweet But all of these things that you tell me you tell to each new love you meet Candy coated kisses sugar coated lies Oh how I want to believe them but only a fool would try You smile and...

I keep changin' my mind just can't make up my mind I've been workin' hard and dreamin' bout all the things we're gonna do And how satisfyin' it would be to feel the world round me and you Then I'm changin' my mind I keep changin' my mind Then I'm very sure I'm...

Charleston Railroad Tavern Sittlin' up till I'm blind She left on that 5-0-9 Eastern standard blue time. My baby left this evening I'd changed all this if I could But her train just pulled out of sight I know she's gone for good. So Charleston Railroad Taver...

At the airport in Chicago Sunday night a soldier and his pretty wife came by She had brought him there to send him off to war I heard him say now don't cry anymore Unashamed they kissed each other there he ran his fingers through her pretty hair Once or twice...

Chicken every Sunday mama everything's all right Johnny was just a little boy the day his daddy died And his mama had a hard time keepin' them both but the Lord knows how she tried And sometimes she'd tell him son we got heaven on our side There's chicken ever...

She smiled and said if you are who I think you are I'd really like to meet you I laughed and said if you are what I think you are I'd like to meet you too She said you've taught me lots of things But I'll bet there's some things that I could teach you And tho...

It's cold as a well in Cincinnati jail I ain't got nobody I ain't got nobody Shouldn't have drunk that wine it messed up my country mind But I didn't know that pretty gal wasn't free not free And someone called the law and I had a southern drawl The first one...

I guess you've heard that baby's now a singer You hear her records on the radio She wears rhinestone jeans and turquoise on her finger Oh, but she don't bake no biscuits anymore. I guess our friends and neighbors think it's funny To see me hang these diapers...

Big, old, cold and lonely city Once I've thought you're pretty But now you're not pretty anymore Your tall buildings, flashing neon signs Captured every dream of mine And I came knocking on your heartless door. I had visions of success Planned my wealth and h...

It'll be cold day in hell when I fall the way I fell for that woman Ain't gonna fall that way no more Be snowin' in July when I take the time to cry for that woman Ain't gonna cry that way no more. The sea's got a witch it can cast a spell on you make me foll...

Come kiss me love before you leave me Come kiss the one you have betrayed And when I'm dead my love come and see me And toss sweet flowers upon my grave. Once I loved you with all my heart and soul I thought your love was all for me Until a stranger came and...

I hear that your new romance has faded just the way ours did sometime ago Well I've lost count of all the times I've waited For you to tell me that you've missed me so Now come on home and sing the blues to daddy When things ain't working out the way you plann...

I heard the front door closing softly As I wakened from my sleep With the last touch of her lips, Lord Like a whisper on my cheek And I cursed the sun for risin' For the worst, Lord is yet to come 'Cause this morning, she's just leavin' But come sundow...

Coutin' the hours countin' the days till I'll be back in your arms to stay I left Lake Charleston on 72 and I drove the Highway 10 Took a ride at a second light and I turn back right again Drove till I came to the junction 6 went to the transit 5-0-1 Stopped f...

I know you're sleepy, it's time to go home Momma is waiting, for you all alone But I'll see you next Sunday Let me dry your eyes You know, cowboys and daddies, don't ever cry. I liked the movie, the picnic was fun Of course, I still love you, you don't have t...

I don't wonna rock'n roll but I can't help it Gonna be the death of me if I let it I think I'm wearin' down I think I'm cravin' in But you see me on the street tonight crazy again. Yeah, I'm feelin' kinda weak mhm my head's achin' Lord I can't stand on my fee...

(Daddy what if the sun stop shinin' what would happen then) If the sun stopped shinin' you'd be so surprised You'd stare at the heavens with wide open eyes And the wind would carry your light to the skies And the sun would start shinin' again (Daddy what if th...

[ with The Family ] (Daddy's been around the house too long He's watchin' TV drinking beer and singing crazy songs He don't ever yell at us so something must be wrong Cause daddy's been around the house too long) (Daddy he just says the times are bad He gets...

See the ruins on the hill where the smoke is hanging still Like an echo of an age long forgotten There's a story of a home crushed beneath those blackened stones And the roof that fell before the beams were rotten Cecil Darby loved his wife and he labored all...

Come listen you fellows so young and so fine And seek not your fortune in the dark dreary mine It will form as a habit and seep in your soul 'Till the stream of your blood is as black as the coal It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew Where the danger is...

Her house on the corner of Cedar and Elm still stands in our town But it's been empty since she moved away the day that the saw mill closed down We'd sit on her porch almost every night I remember how happy we were We'd grow up and marry I'd work at the mill t...

I've been writin' Mary Lou letters every day But I just found out lately how she throws them all away She don't even bother to read the things I say So I'm gonna write just one last time and I'll begin this way I'll say oh dear wastebasket care of Mary Lou If...

It's snowing out there in the gloaming I've sat here and watched it all night Little kids will be thrilled when they awaken and look at the fields deep and white But the snow makes me think of my darling how she hated the snow and the cold Now she lies in a gr...

Delia's gone one more round Delia's gone First time I shot Delia shot her in the side The second time I shot her she laid right down and died Delia's gone one more round Delia's gone The reason I shot my Delia she cursed such an evil curse And if I hadn't shot...

I'd play the Red River Valley And he'd sit in the kitchen and cry Run his fingers through seventy years of living and wonder Lord, has every well I drilled gone dry We was friends me and this old man Desperados waiting for the train Desperados waiting for the...

I wanna go home I wanna go home Ohh how I wanna go home Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City And I dreamed about those cotton fields and home I dreamed about my mother, dear old papa, sister and brother I dreamed about that girl who's been waiting for s...

Breakfast black coffee one slice of dry toast no butter no jelly no jam Lunch just some lettuce two celery stalks no booze no potatoes no ham Dinner one chicken wing broiled not fried no gravy no biscuits no pie And this dietin' dietin' dietin' dietin' sure is...

Don't it make you wanna go home now don't it make you wanna go home All God's children get weary when they roam Don't it make you wanna go home don't it make you wanna go home Oh the whippoorwill roosts on the telephone poles and the Georgia sun goes down Wel...

For a long long time now just about every night You found some excuse not to hold me tight No matter what I do you sit and pout don't let that doorknob hit you going out Don't let that doorknob hit you going out honey Others lips now thrill you there's no...

There ain't no use to sit and wonder why babe It don't matter anyhow And there ain't no use to sit and wonder why babe If you don't know by now When the rooster crows at the break of dawn Look out your window and I'll be gone You're the reason I'm traveling o...

I see your van you're a guitar man it's written all over your face To make it big you quit your gig a playin' bass at the airbase You've come to town you've been turned down but it's just a question of taste Don't think you're too good for country music just b...

A scarecrow and yellow moon and road house on the edge of town Hear that midnight rooster crow well I have one more before I go But Honey don't turn out the light cause I think I'm in the mood for love tonight The night is cool beneath the stars I'm ridin' hom...

You make my eyes run over all the time And you're happy when I'm out of my mind You won't love me but you won't let me be Don't you ever get tired of hurtin' me? You must think that I look bad with a smile For you haven't let me have one in such a long long...

I'm down in Mexico had to go won't be home no more I want mom and dad to know I miss and love them so Though I'll never see them anymore The day that I turned twenty one I could hardly wait To say goodbye to mom and dad and shake the hand of fate Fate was wit...

Here I sit in this ginmill an empty in my hand The telephone's three steps away but I can hardly stand Got five pennies in my pocket but Lord I'm gonna need ten Cause I gotta phone my baby to come and pick me back again. And I'm down to my last come and get m...

You sit there a crying cry in your beer You think you got troubles well my friend listen here Don't tell me your troubles I got enough of my own Be thankful you're living drink up and go home I'm fresh out of prison six years in the pen Lost my wife and fam'l...

If anyone met us they'd surely agree We're proper as any two people can be We're clean cut well mannered well dressed and polite But oh if they'd see us at night. When we're drinkin' and druggin' and watchin' TV Eatin' cold pizza and drinkin' ice tea Just you...

Drinkin' from the bottle and singin' from the heart Cryin' blues in motel rooms Lord the hard times weren't that hard And some fell in and some fell out and some just fell apart Drinkin' from the bottle and singin' from the heart. Harlan sang us Heartaches By...

Dropkick me, Jesus, through the goal posts of life End over end, neither left nor to right Straight through the heart of them, righteous up rights Dropkick me, Jesus, through the goal posts of life Make me, oh, make me, Lord, more than I am Make me a piece in...

I'll be dropping out of sight for awhile I'll be crying and crying's not my style If they ask you how I took it say I smiled but I'll be dropping out of sight for awhile This town can do without me for a laughing stock Since she's gone I'm in a funny state of...

Well, hello everybody, I've come to say I didn't come to stay, I just come to play So lock all the doors and open up the wine Tell all the pretty ladies to get in line. 'Cause I'm drunk and crazy Drunk and crazy Drunk and crazy Gonna let the good times roll....

In the early morning rain with a dollar in my hand With an aching in my heart and my pockets full of sand I'm a long way from home and I miss my loved ones so In the early morning rain and no place to go Out on runway No 9 big 7-0-7 set to go But I'm standing...

Lord it's easy as dreaming falling in love with you But it's hard as dying knowing these dreams won't come true Tonight I lie here sleepless without you and think on the sweet love we knew That goes from the past sets me dreaming bout you then starts that old...

Everybody's talkin' at me I don't hear a word they're sayin' Only the echoes of my mind People stoppin', starin' Can't see their faces Only the shadows of their eyes I'm goin' where the sun keeps shinin' Through the pourin' rain Goin' where the weather suits...

Fairy tale fairy tale tell me now a fairy tale Tell me once again how it's me that you adore And how we gonna live so happily for ever more Once upon a time not very long ago the whole magic world was mine You made me believe then that you loved me so but tha...

(Rock of ages cleft for me) There's a family Bible on the table its pages torn and hard to read But the family Bible on the table will ever be my key to memory Cause at the end of day when work was over and when the evening meal was done Dad would read to us f...

Farewell Angelina, the bells of the crown Have been stolen by bandits, I must follow the sound The triangle tingles, and the trumpets play slow Farewell, Angelina, the sky's on fire and I must go There's no need for anger, there's no need for blame There's no...

We worked through spring and winter through the summer and through the fall But the mortage worked hardest and the steadiest of us all It worked on nights and Sundays worked each holiday It's settled now among us and it never went away The farmer comes to town...

Come sit beside me and I'll sing you one last song for you to carry with you as you go And I'll remember you here in the frosty dawn and the lightly falling February snow For tomorrow you'll be rolling somewhere light and free Somewhere where these chilly wind...

Baby, you know me well You know I mean what I say Before I say farewell I'll give you just one more day. So you can find out what's happening Find out what's happening before long If you don't find out what's happening You're gonna find out that I'm go...

I have appointed me the captain of my destiny And proclaimed myself the pilot of my soul But my mind remains uneasy cause the rest of me Depends on someone I don't even know May the man who has his finger on the button have a lovely day today Hope nothing hang...

I hear the train a comin' It's rollin' 'round the bend, And I ain't seen the sunshine, Since, I don't know when, I'm stuck in Folsom Prison, And time keeps draggin' on, But that train keeps a-rollin', On down to San Antone. When I was just a baby, My Mama tol...

I was waitin' in Rosie's Restaurant When the waiter came up and said what do you want I looked at the menu and it looked so nice Till he said lemme give you some advice. He said spaghetti and potatoes got too much starch Pork chops and sausage are bad for you...

Gather round me buddies hold your glasses high And drink to the fool the crazy fool who told his baby goodbye Too late he finds he loves her so much he wants to die Drink to the fool the crazy fool that told his baby goodbye Now he needs her Lord he needs her...

Remember when I saw you standing slightly cryin' empty-handed With no one that you could call your own Looking up to someone somewhere asking for life with no despair Begging for the world to leave you alone Yes I shouldn't have butted in but you looked as if...

Don't look so sad, I know it's over But life goes on and this old world will keep on turning Let's just be glad we had some time to spend together There's no need to watch the bridges that were burning. Lay your head upon my pillow Hold your warm and tender b...

Four strong winds that blow lonely seven seas that run high All these things that don't change come what may But my good times are all gone and I'm bound for moving on I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way I may go out to Alberta weather's good there in...

On the warm summer's eve on a train bound for nowhere I met up with a gambler we were both too tired to sleep So we took turns starin' out window at the darkness Till boredom overtook us and he commenced to speak He said son I made a life out of readin' people...

Every triangle has three sides it's true There's the wife's side the husband's and my side too What's the difference who's to blame everybody suffers the same Oh the game of triangles is a heart breaking game I tried to be a good wife and keep a nice home On...

(Y'all settle down! Everybody be quiet because daddy's gonna sing a quiet song called the Giving Tree) Once there was a giving tree who loved a little boy And every day the boy would come to play Swinging from her branches sleeping in her shade Laughing all t...

The Gods were angry with me for loving you The Gods were angry with me because they knew I stood at heaven's portals but they were too high for any mortal such as I So they took down the sun the skies were gray then the howling wind took you away There was not...

How did I hurt that woman she never done me wrong I ran away and left her for a redhead Amazon I got no brains I got no sense I never had no class So I'm goin' down to Texas and be one more horse's ass. Yeah, I'm goin' down to Texas and be one more horse's as...

(I'm goin' home I've been gone so doggone long now at last the rambling fever's gone I'm goin' home I know that mama'll cry with joy To see her wanderin' boy I'm goin' home I'm goin' home I've lived in certain happiness I hadn't met with very much success I'm...

Remember the nights we would jam in the motels After the honky tonks closed No one had credit And no one had no place to go. Just crazy kids with 'lectric machines And some soul Turnin' them crowds on By playin' some loud rock'n roll. Then came the man with...

I’m going down the road feeling bad I’m going down the road feeling bad Going down the road feeling bad, Lord, Lord And I ain’t gonna be treated this way Oh they feed me on cornbread and beans They feed me on cornbread and beans They feed me on cornbread and...

Not so long ago in Oklahoma The son of an Okie preacher knelt to pray He said Lord I wanna be a Christian soldier just like you And fight to build a new and better day. Now many years and miles from Oklahoma That same young Okie boy still kneels to pray But h...

I wash my face in funky water, pick my teeth with a rusty spoke Hide your dishes and your daughters anything that might get broke I prefer your condemnation to your suckin' sympathy Baby good for nothing's good enough for me. I was born without a daddy and th...

Goodnight Irene Goodnight Irene I'll see you in my dreams. Sometimes I live in country Sometimes I live in town Sometimes I take a big notion To jump in the river and drown. And say Irene goodnight, Irene goodnight Goodnight Irene, Goodnight Irene I'll s...

She don't hold and kiss me like she did one time I think my sweet baby's got leavin' on her mind The longer I know her the more I can tell my darling's not happy with me The longer I know that I know her too well the less love in her eyes I see Cause she don'...

Oh, I gotta get rid of this band They're rockin' too hard for a country music man I preach 'em and I teach 'em but they don't understand I tell you folks I gotta get rid of this band. Now that fella there on lead guitar he's a natural dude He never takes show...

I've laid around and played around this old town too long Summer's almost gone winter's comin' on I've laid around and played around this old town too long And I feel like I've gotta travel on High sheriff and police are ridin' after me ridin' after me oh the...

Mama, mama, me oh my I don't want no catfish eyes I don't want no lizard spleens Gimme greasy grit gravy and gizzard greens. Greasy grit gravy and gizzard greens Big fat pie and mobo beans Make you wanna split your jeans Eatin' greasy grit gravy and gizzard g...

I remember the day when the snow melted away and the great snowman was wed He said yes I do and little Linda said it too and the great snowman was wed Well Jimmy Jones was the snowman's name he put all the other local lovers to shame He had good looks and a r...

The old hometown looks the same as I step down from the train And there to meet me is my mama and my papa And down the road I look and there runs Mary hair of gold and lips like cherries It's good to touch the green green grass of home Yes they'll all come to...

Stick my thumb out catch a ride maybe this time I'll be satisfied Find a new town bout a mile maybe this time I will stay a while Then if no one wants this restless heart of mine Guess I'll move on down the line guess I'll move on down the line Been to Memphis...

There's an old man sittin' in a rented room sittin' and watchin' the wall Tryin' to remember the good ole days and wonderin' why the kids don't call They used to go drivin' in the summer sun when his woman was alive Now he reads his Gideon Bible and waits for...

Have I stayed away too long? Have I stayed away too long? If I came home tonight, would you still be my darlin' ? Or, have I stayed away too long? I'm just outside of town I'll soon be at your door But maybe I'd be wrong to hurry there I'd best keep out of to...

He was a friend of mine he was a friend of mine He died without a penny he didn't have a dime he was a friend of mine He died neath the midnight sun he died neath the midnight sun His wanderin' days are over his loneliness is done Yes he died neath the m...

He got the whole world in his hands the whole world in his hands He got the whole world in his hands he's got the whole world in his hands He's got the wind and rain in his hands he got the wind and rain in his hands He's got the wind and rain in his hands he'...

Well, the wounds are finally closed and the scars they hardly show And it don't hurt me quite as much as it did a year ago I crossed the sea of heartache to get from there to here Oh, but look how far I'd be in just another year. Oh, I'm healin', oh, healin',...

When the sun shines babe it'll wake you in the morning When the moon fades away then you gonna find me gone I'll kiss her lips so fine put that ring back on her hand Takes a lowdown son of a gun to steal her lips from another man So heaven help my soul for th...

Hello darlin' nice to see you it's been a long time You're just as lovely as you used to be How's your new love are you happy hope you're doing fine Just to know this means so much to me What's that darlin' how'm I doing guess I'm doing all right Except I can'...

Take the ribbon from your hair shake it loose and let it fall Laying soft upon my skin like the shadows on the wall Come and lay down by my side till the early morning light All I'm taking is your time help me make it through the night I don't care who's r...

My friends and my mother they all like my songs They said boy Nashville is where you belong And I agreed the music world probably needed me Well Music City here I am but I don't think anybody gives a damn In the cold cold heart of Tennessee there's ten thousan...

I guess I should have written Dad to let you know that I was coming home But I've been gone so many years I didn't realize you had a phone I saw your cattle comin' in and boy they're looking mighty fat and sleek I saw Fred at the service station he told me tha...

Oh I'm so homesick all I do is roam the street Can't sleep at night can't eat a bite homesick too homesick to eat I'm so homesick I'm going crazy and I don't know what to do Too ashamed to cry too sick to die homesick to be with you Little by little I'm losin'...

I wonder how the old folks are at home I wonder if they miss me while I've gone I wonder if they pray for their boy who went away And left his mom and papa all alone You could see the catlle lowin' in the lane You could see the fields of blue grass where I've...

There is a house in New Orleans They call the rising sun And it’s been the ruin Of many poor boys Lord I know I’m one My mother was a tailor Sew my old blue jeans My daddy was a gambling man In a town called New Orleans The only thing a gambler needs Is a su...

Well it's lonesome in this ol' town everybody puts me down I'm a face without a name just a walking in the rain Going back to Houston Houston Houston I got holes in both of my shoes well I'm a walking case of the blues Saw a dollar yesterday but the wind blew...

Some people worry bout tomorrow well all my worried days are through Cause I just got mine all together how about you girl how about you Those loose ends have really been a draggin' Since the day you said that we were through But I managed to get mine all toge...

From the cold Rocky Mountains of Denver I can almost see Houston from here. I saw Mary's face in that little snowflake That fell at my feet on the ground And I heard my old friends in that last bitter wind That blew back memories of my hometown. I can see th...

Sittin' on the back row of some ole picture show There's no villian and no hero I see life personified upon a silver screen Then there's nothin' what does that mean. I've seen love all crumpled up like some old popcorn box Lyin' used and wasted on the floor I...

I don't believe I'll fall in love today old memories of you stand in the way Well I just can't make my heart find someone new It's always much too busy loving you So I don't believe I'll fall in love today cause if I did I'm sure I wouldn't stay You'd just com...

Softly close the door behind you How it hurts me to see you go Gently break the tie that binds you And this heart that loves you so. If you're sure you won't be staying Then just walk on out of my life There's just two words left for saying And the Lord knows...

(I love you drops I miss you drops hurry home drops you've been gone too long drops They're not teardrops just sincere drops that say I'm lonesome and I love you) They were on my pillow when I woke up this morning They were on the letter I tried all day to wr...

Sorrow comes like a thief in the night and leaves me cold and sad Lord please Lord send a word from her cause I need some good news bad Why did she take her love from me when she was all I had I feel a tear roll down my cheek I need some good news bad I need h...

I saw the light, I saw the light No more darkness, no more night Now I'm so happy, no sorrow in sight Praise the Lord, I saw the light I wandered so aimless, life filled with sin I wouldn't let my dear Saviour in Then Jesus came like a stranger in the night P...

I have climbed highest mountains I have run through fields Only to be with you Only to be with you I have run, I have crawled I have scaled the city walls Said it was Only to be with you But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for But I still haven’t foun...

Today the weather was so pretty At noon I went out for a stroll I walked and did some window shopping And met someone I used to know. The years have been kind to her beauty When I first saw her my heart jumped Tonight if I seem disenchanted It's because I too...

I was a young man once I ran fast, life was hit and run I cursed the old men for what they had done Yea, I was a young man once Crazy love caught in the night Left her with child by the morning light I didn’t care what was wrong or right Cause I was a young m...

I stopped by at the party of an old friend But then I saw this old sweetheart I once knew And I vowed as I set me down beside her that darling I was coming home to you Can I help it if she was going my way And we talked about old times we used to know And I'm...

I was drunk, I was down Wondering around my bed I was drunk, I was down Wondering around my bed I called out your name I called out your name I was bleeding, I was exhausted I was suffering from the altitude Picked up your sin and lost it And I suffered from...

The first strange town I was ever in the county was hanging a man Nobody cared if he lived or died and I just didn't understand So I washed my face in the morning dew bathed my soul in the sun Washed my face in the morning dew and kept on moving along The sec...

Tonight I'm sad my heart is weary I'm wondering if I'm wrong or right To dream about you though you left me I wonder where you are tonight That old rain is cold and slowly falling upon my window pane tonight And though your heart was even colder I wonder where...

I don't care what anybody thinks of me For my pride is gone and here I am on bended knees I only know I need you and I love you so And I'd fight the world before I'd ever let go go I'd gladly beg or steal I'd borrow I'd turn my back on everyone I know I'd do t...

The reason why I can say I have to let you go babe and ride away After what you did I can't stay on And I prob'ly feel a whole lot better when you're gone Oh, when you're gone. Baby for a long time you have to believe That your love was all mine that's the wa...

Some glad morning when this life is o'er I'll fly away To a home on God's celestial shore I'll fly away I'll fly away oh Glory I'll fly away when I'll die hallelujah by and by I'll fly away When the shadows of this life outgrown I'll fly away Like a bird from...

(All you have to do is come running to me And I'll love the hurt out of you.) Oh darling, I can tell by the sound of your voice That he's gone and hurt you again It's a pity what loving him has done to you And the mis'ry that he keeps you in. But you know yo...

I'm a long way from home and so all alone Someone please watch over me. Can't get a custom to the hunger No one seems to notice that I'm cold This kind of life ain't making me much younger How I wish I'd stayed at home like I was told. I'm a long way from ho...

My baby's gone and I'm all alone seems like a million years since she's gone She's out havin' fun she's out with someone she used to know Can this really be the one who was mine one and only tell her for me I'm gettin' lonely I'll never know what made her chan...

I'm not the least bit worried bout somebody stealin' my honey Not even those uptown cats with their money I feel real sure no one can ever take my place Cause I'm her hoss if I never win a race I'm her hoss if I never get out of the gate If I stumble and fall...

If you're afraid to touch my hand it's all right I understand All the changes you've been through I've been rained on too You don't know you can be sure believe me I've been there before Trusting me that's all you knew but I've been rained on too. Like you I'...

I get a sad kind of feeling when I see a passenger train In this fast movin' world we live in nobody rides them much these days Oh maybe I'm just sentimental cause I know that things have to change But I still like to go for a train ride cause I've got a thing...

I've lived a lot in my time I once had a mansion and lived in my glory but now I'm down to my last dime I once had a sweetheart but I was unfaithful yes I've lived a lot in my time I fought the Grim Reaper down in the dark valley I prayed when the sun wouldn't...

I've served my time losing track of the wine Looking through red eyes at the blues Holdin' on 'til the very last song Tryin' to make up my mind who to choose. Chasing a dream in a whisky world Down the neon avenue And I've never gone to bed with an ugly women...

Baby I'm sorry I done you like that I called you a name and I gave you a wack I spit in your eye and gave your wrist a twist And if that ain't love what is In front of your apartment I waited all night long To see who you'd come home with and if he done you w...

Farmer Jones ran short on seeds so he borrowed from his neigbor Sam The fall brought Jones a flourishin' crop while his neighbor's all burned brown Sam had a wife and thirteen kids he worked to feed each day With hungry pride he begged for help and he was turn...

If you ain't got nothin' you ain't got nothin' to lose There ain't no pressure when you're singin' these low down blues Smokin' that git down bummin' them red men chews If you ain't got nothin' you ain't got nothin' to lose. Daddy was a free loader workin' fo...

I been wired since I can't remember when You seen me out most every night with a dissipated grin All my life I been been libeled, loose and loud now I think I'm finally wearin' down I may rock and I may roll I may sleep out in the cold I can still stay up six...

Have you seen Amanda Blaine in the Hills of Shiloh Wandering through the morning rain in the Hills of Shiloh Have you seen her at her door listening for the cannon roar And the man who went to war from the Hills of Shiloh Have you heard her mournful cries in t...

In the same old way I still love you And the same foolish heart still beats for you Nothing's changed about me since you walked out that day And I still love you in the same old way. In the same old way your mem'ries haunt me But I know in my heart you'll nev...

Is it wrong for loving you, is it wrong for being true Tell me please, tell me dear is it wrong Have I waited for so long, has your love for me gone Is it wrong, is it wrong for loving you? Oh, way down deep inside my heart you're the only love sweetheart Yes...

It seems so easy To just fall in love with you Never intending to Isn't that just like love? And we two that once were friends May never talk again It seems so sad within Isn't that just like love? Friends stop me every day And ask me why you went away I jus...

Go away from my window leave at your own chosen speed I'm not the one you want babe I'm not the one that you need You say you're looking for someone never weak but always strong To protect you and defend you whether you are right or wrong Someone to open each...

I can hear the footsteps walkin' by my bedside Lord she's leavin' I can smell her perfume driftin' through my room If I try to make her stay I'd know she couldn't even hear me Might as well be on the darkside of the Moon Cause it's freezin' in El Paso in the s...

(Come give Jeannie one last kiss) The moon hid its light and the midnight was still And they had their last quarrel on top of the hill And she said to him please as they stood in the mist If we must part this way come give Jeannie one last kiss But in anger he...

Deep in the pocket of an old sport coat jacket I chanced to discover an old memory Three for a quarter black and white picture takin' up Jennifer Johnson and me I'm in the corner with my shirt collar open like some latin lover on late nite TV Sittin' right the...

I've heard all the songs you're singing today there's one thing I don't understand That's why you don't sing more songs about Jesus my hero Yes Jesus Christ now there was a man So sing me some songs about Jesus cause I am a big Jesus fan Sing me more songs abo...

See the Sunday morning wino slowly shufflin' down the street The only God he knows clutched in his hand And heaven's just a drink from his bottle and Jesus Christ to him is just another man Yes Jesus is the only one that loves us he'll forgive us when we sin J...

Well I've been a trucker more than twenty years From the Charleston coast to the Jersey piers Sharin' the road with race car nuts and loggers Sunday drivers scouts on hikes Hells Angels on Harley bikes I never met a roader I didn't like cept them joggers One...

John Hardy here was a desperate little man Carried two guns every day He shot a man on the West Virginia line And I’ve seen John Hardy getting away oh boy I’ve seen John Hardy getting away And John Hardy went to the Keystone bridge He thought that he was free...

I am weak, but Thou art strong, Jesus, keep me from all wrong, I’ll be satisfied as long As I walk, let me walk close to Thee. Just a closer walk with Thee, Grant it, Jesus, is my plea, Daily walking close to Thee, Let it be, dear Lord, let it be. When my fe...

I watch the sky that brightens with the dawn And I know this night with you is almost gone And I memorize each moment of the special thing that's been Just in case a night like this one never comes again A daylight call the rest I struggle through it's changed...

I come from just the other side of nowhere to this big time lonesome town They got a lotta ice and snow here half as cold as all the people I found Every way I've tried to go here seems to bring me down And I seen about enough to know where I belong I've got a...

Someone's gonna get hurt before you're through Someone's gonna pay for the things you do How many will it take how many hearts must break Just to satisfy you just to satisfy you Another love another fool to play your game Another love another fool they're all...

We've come a long way on this East Texas highway and I'm feeling awfully old at forty three. Sure am glad that Rosie's here with me. I guess I showed 'em what I could do, when I rode everything in Houston. Boy was Rosie proud of me. I'm just a broken down ol...

Well, I've told you once and I've told you twice But you never listened to my advice You don't tried way hard to please me But what you know it should be easy. Oh, this could be the last time This could be the last time Maybe the last time I don't know, oh no...

Billy Dalton staggered on the sidewalk someone said he stumbled and he fell Six squad cars came screamin' to the rescue hauled old Billy Dalton off to jail Cause the law is for protection of the people rules're rules and any fool can see We don't need no tramp...

Well I've been a long time tryin' to heal this broken heart And all I've done is ease the pain before I end up apart But it's hard to get back on your feet when you take one on the chin And Lord it ain't no easy thing learning to live again Oh headaches heart...

Don't you be a tellin' my baby lies You better leave my baby alone And don't you be a winkin' your flirty eyes You better leave my baby alone Well I'm not mean and I'm not bad You better leave my baby alone You know a jealous gal keep gettin' mean and mad You...

Oh my bags are packed I'm ready to go I'm standing here outside your door I hate to wake you up to say goodbye But the dawn is breakin' it's early morn the taxi's waitin' he's blowing his horn Already I'm so lonesome I could cry So kiss me and smile for me tel...

When I was just a lad of ten my father said to me Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree Don't put your fate in love my boy my father said to me I fear you'll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flo...

Mhmm hmm let me be a little kinder let me be a little blinder To the faults of those about me let me praise a little more Let me be when I am weary just a little bit more cheery Think a little more of others and a little less of me Mhmm hmm let me be a little...

Let him roll, Lord, let him roar He always said that heaven was just a Dallas whore. He was a wino tried and true Done about everything there is to do He worked on freighters he worked in bars He worked on farms and he worked on cars. It was white port that...

Won't you let me tell you bout Mary I promise it won't take me very long Cause all I have to say about Mary is I'm afraid my Mary's gone wrong The day I went away and left Mary she promised she would wait eternally for me But I came back today heard my Mary s...

I'm looking for that lonely street I've got a sad, sad tale to tell I need a place to go and weep Where's this place called lonely street A place where there's just loneliness Where dim lights bring forgetfulness Where broken dreams and memories meet Where's...

I'm a walking down to Lonely Town I din't wanna go but now I know I will Walking down to Lonely Town and it's just over the hill Everybody told me someday you'll let me down And put me on that lonely road that leads to Lonely Town I told them all I'll say oh...

You gotta walk that lonesome valley you gotta go all by yourself No one else can walk it for you you gotta walk all by yourself My mama said when she was dying just before she passed away Said come here son sit down beside me you better listen to your mama's...

See her ridin' in that long black limousine There's a long line of mourners driving down our little street And their fancy cars are such a sight to see Must be all her rich friends that knew her in the city Yes they finally brought her home to me All the paper...

Ten years ago on a cold dark night Someone was killed neath the town hall light There were few at the scene but they all agreed That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me The judge he said "Son what is your alibi If you were somewhere else then you won't ha...

I'm a long long way from where I want to be in the Arizona Prison they've got me And until they set me free oh oh me it's a long long way from here to Tennessee Oh my mouth is dry with dust my throat is raw How I miss those big green trees in Arkansas On the w...

In the shadows of our bedroom I hold you in the darkness tenderly While there's another woman who's waitin' in a room alone for me By now I'll bet she's restless she's already poured the wine and dimmed the lights But I'm here at home beside you and look who I...

November of ‘63 High above went down to sea We were home in the lookout mountain Couldn’t see down through the clouds But there wasn’t any doubt That there were Yankees there Beyond the counting The union guns began to roar Firing up from the valley floor An...

The years creep slowly by Lorena snow is on the grass again The sun is sinking low Lorena frost is where the flowers have been The music softly plays Lorena happy sounds have left today The music's sad and low Lorena where once it rang so loud and gay I hardly...

Morning comes and she's sleeping beside me I'm not ashamed that she's lying there Her lips are still warm from the love she just gave me She's contented with sweet dreams we shared Soon I know that she will awaken with the smile that strips my soul bare While...

Love is a cold wind when it blows away from you And you watch it go it hurts to know there's nothing you can do You're all alone again and love is a cold wind. Love is a rain storm but it only rains on you And there's no one there who seems to care no one can...

(Love's gonna live here love's gonna live here love's gonna live here again No more loneliness only happiness love's gonna live here again) Oh the sun is gonna shine in my life once more love's gonna live here again And things are gonna be just the way they w...

(Okay, kids. Now me and your mama gonna sing a song.) It don't matter what you do and it don't matter what you say Honey you know I'll be lovin' you anyway yes I will And it don't matter if you come to stay or if you come to play Honey you know I'll be lovin'...

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 h...

Gather round fellows I'll tell you some tales About murder and blueberry pies And heroes and hells and bottomless wells And lullabys, legends and lies. And gather round ladies come sit at my feet I'll sing about warm sunny skies There's mermaids and beans and...

The Lynch mob gathered in the square across from the jail Young Billy watched them from his cell and felt his courage fail Bill swore he wasn't guilty but the evidence was plain Tomorrow he would go on trial for killing Mary Jane They shouted beat the prisoner...

Maggie, how I wish we'd never met Never kissed or tried to fall in love For Maggie fashion's not the same as love It's just a game we're soon tired of. We were too young to marry anyhow Hot blood was all there was between us Now there's the kids, a house and...

People starin' at me as they wheel me down the ramp toward my plane The war is over for me I've forgotten everything except the pain Thank you sir and yes sir it was worth it for the old red-white-and-blue And since I won't be walking I suppose I'll save some...

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 fade in time Another day some new tomorrow Just might ease my troubled mind I'm a man of co...

My names in the paper where I took the Boy Scouts to hike My hands are all dirty from working on my little boy’s bike The preacher came by and I talked for a minute with him My wife’s in the kitchen and Margie is at the Lincoln Park Inn And I know why she’s t...

Marie Laveau The most famous of the voodoo queens that ever existed Is Marie Laveau, down in Louisiana There's a lot of weird, ungodly tales about Marie, She's supposed to have a lot of magic potions, spells and curses... Down in Louisiana, where the black t...

I saved up my money to buy my sweetheart some flowers For Saturday's date and I restlessly counted the hours And today in the mail I recieved a short little note And I broke down inside the message that her mother wrote Mary Ann regrets she's unable to see you...

Busted flat in Baton Rouge headin' for the trains feelin' nearly faded as my jeans Bobby thumbed a diesel down just before it rained it took us all the way to New Orleans I pulled my ol' har'poon out of my dirty red bandana I blowed it low while Bobby sang the...

Me and Jimmie Rodgers used to ride them rollin' boxcars in the summer time Jimmie he'd play his guitar I'd lay back and watch the stars and sip my wine Me and Audie Murphy used to crawl out on our bellies through the German lines Audie I won't leave you here I...

Long distance information get me Memphis Tennessee Help me find the party tried to get in touch with me She would not leave her number but I know who placed the call Cause my uncle took the message and he wrote it on the wall Help me information get in touch w...

When I was a lad in a fishing town an old man said to me You can spend your life, your jolly life just sailing on the sea You can search the world for pretty girls till your eyes're weak and dim But don't go swimming with a mermaid son, if you don't know how t...

Way down in the state of Georgia Amongst the swamps and the Everglades There's a big old hole in Tiger Mountain God help the man who gets lost in Miller's Cave I had me a girl in Waycross, Georgia But she had unfaithful ways She made me feel I was unwanted Li...

(Okay kids, I'm gonna sing you a song now bout a monkey and an elephant. It's all happened a long time ago. Whenever I say "a long time ago" you all jump in there with me. Okay? Are you ready?) Well once the world was full of monkeys a long time ago And the e...

I bought a ring and gave it to your daughter Mrs Jones She promised me that she would be my wife But after she had talked to you she gave me back my ring Mrs Jones your daughter cried all night Mrs Jones your daughter cried all night you wouldn't give your ble...

Kick my shoe off take my sock off pull my pant off And I find my pyjama and put it on Then I crawl into the bed and I cry my eye out Now that my better half is gone. I just lay there and as I lay there my arms feel so empty And my lip longs to kiss her all ni...

My heart cries for you Sighs for you, dies for you And my arms long for you Please come back to me If you're in Arizona I'll follow you If you're in Minnesota, I'll be there too You'll have a million chances to start anew Because my love is endless for you M...

Coalman Bonner was a fiddle playin' fool. He was a backwoods rounder and a breaker of mules. Coalman Bonner's got a wor' out bow, He been playin' two days down a new cut road. Now Coalman's little sister said 'you better act right, Your Daddy's going to Louis...

I was learning how to fly when I left Boise City Like summer I was headin' for the fall Now the bitter taste of truth it's gettin' hard to swallow For a country boy who thought he knew it all So cold and tired and broke I can't even pay attention And lonelines...

I walk around imagining the way she say goodbye And when she tries to tell me I hope that I won't cry No sad songs for me soon our love will be just a memory it's all over The glow has gone forever and our dreams have turned to dust I don't know how I can go o...

The Lord looked down And all he saw was sin So he said, "I'm gonna start This world all over again." Well, the skies turned black and the rain came down And it rained, rained, rained The thunder roared with the terrible sound And it rained, rained, rained. S...

I was sittin' in Friday's suckin' on a glass of wine When in walked a chick who almost struck me blind Had wet blue eyes and her legs were long and fine On a scale of one to ten, I'd give her a nine. Now on my scale there ain't no ten's, you know Nine is abou...

They passed an ordinance in the town they said we'd have to tear it down That little old shack out back so dear to me Though the health department said its day was over and dead It will stand forever in my memory Don't let them tear that little brown building...

It wasn't for money possession or wealth For she could have all of those things She traded the offers of diamonds and gold She'd rather have plain apron strings. She could have had mansions and dresses of silk And married someone well-to-do But a man who had...

The old gang's gone I'm the only one that's left And I guess that it's about time I move on out myself Cause there ain't no use in hangin' round a town that's grown so cold With its used-to-be's and memories it makes a man feel old My friends have wed and som...

On a real good night There's nothing I can do there's nothing I can use On a real good night There's no chance I won't take cause I got nothing I could lose On a real good night Like a bird just learn to fly high on silver wings glide upon the wind And I come...

I live one day at a time I dream one dream at a time Yeasterday's dead and tomorrow is blind I just live one day at a time Guess that's your surprise to see me back at home You know how much I miss you when I'm gone But don't ask how long I planned to stay it...

The first sound I heard was a woman's cry The first word I learned to utter was goodbye Forgive me if I'm wrong in what I do to you While passin' through passin' through Happiness for me cannot be found but yet I still search from town to town No offence but I...

Well he rode through the woods on a big blue ox He had fists as hard as choppin' blocks Five hundred pounds and nine feet tall that's Paul Talk about working when he swung his ax you could hear it ring for a mile and half He'd yell timber and down she'd fall f...

I'm a rambler and a rover and a wanderer it seems I've traveled all over chasing after my dreams But a dream should come true and a heart should be filled And a life should be lived in the Piney Wood hills. I'll return to the woodlands, I'll return to the sno...

This morning at dawn Lord I pulled into town Had some coffee and talked with some old friends of mine Laughin' bout the good times they all remembered Then I remembered the time. And I said no I don't think much about her no more And you know seldom if ever d...

Praise the Lord and send me the money I'm happy you can be happy too If you praise the Lord and send me the money That's what Jesus wants you to do Late one night while watchin' Columbo I fell asleep till quarter past three When just like a vision I thought I...

I know that my surroundings aren't the very best But my soul's on fire and won't let me rest I'm doing things I really shouldn't do I guess I'm just pursuing happiness I'm living much too fast a pace with two to care I'm just looking for a dream that I can sha...

You got a Paul Newman T shirt Willie Nelson hat A poster of Charlie Daniel's Band And just the other night honey we were makin' love You slipped up and called me Elvis again. Ringo Starr didn't pay for your car Jim Croce don't buy the groceries Johnny Cash ne...

She falls through the doorway and rolls down the hall She bounces off the sofa and walks into the wall It's easy to see that she buckles and bends She's doin' qualudes again Qualudes again qualudes again If you've got aurora you know for shorra She's your fri...

It was a rainy day in Richmond when I've found out what she had done She walked right out of my life in her hour of fun They thought I'd gone to Baltimore and never suspected a thing They didn't know I was following them right down to their shame A shower of t...

(It's gonna take a lot more than a memory for I had the real thing too long) I keep telling myself I'll be all right with the mem'ry that you left behind But it will take a lot more than a memory to keep me from losin' my mind My memories won't last as a shiel...

(Please release me, let me go, I don't love you anymore To live together is a sin Release and let me love again.) I have found a new love dear And I'll always want her near Her lips are warm while yours are cold Oh, release me, darling let me go. (Please rel...

Does anyone know of a girl who might like a tired old boy on a rusty old bike Who just pulled in today from the Florida Glades And just got to stop and rest awhile and rest awhile Does anyone know of someone who can use A hard working fool who don't ever touch...

A stone thrown from heaven skipping cross the water With disappearing ripples left behind A book with no cover a rhyme with no reason Guess I'll always be one of the roving kind. 'Cause movings in my soul I guess a Gypsy got ahold Of somebody in my family lon...

(Is everybody feelin' silly now? Yeah, I feel silly, yes) Well I'm gonna teach you a Ricky tic song it's kinda silly and it ain't too long But you can't go wrong singin' a Ricky ticcky song You just go ricky ticky ticky tacky ticky ticky Ricky ticky ticky tac...

Ride me down easy, Lord, ride me on down Leave word in the dust where I lay Say I'm easy to come, easy to go I'm easy to love when I stay. This old highway she's harder than nine kinds of hell The rides they're as scarce as the rain Light there it scares as t...

If you ever get down to Nashville way And you're lookin' for a laid back place to stay You ain't got too much money to pay I know a spot that's got to blow you away Just ring the bell on the Rock and Roll Hotel. Now the girl at the desk she got a lovely face...

I have pawned my golden records I have sold my sequent suits For a bottle of rye whiskey I gave up my fancy boots Now I stand here on the corner with a sad sad tail to tell Once a rock star now a drunker with no song left to sell. Hide a face you might rememb...

She wakes while you sleep and tiptoes out softly and brings you your coffee in bed And she crawls in beside you with biscuits and kisses until all your hungers're fed Then she opens the paper and reads how them rodeo rowdies have rolled into town Then she's go...

It's two in the morning on Saturday night at Rosalie's Good Eats Cafe The onions are frying the neon is bright and the jukebox is startin' to play And the sign on the wall says In God We Trust all others have to pay And it's two in the morning on Saturday nigh...

As I lay here all alone I feel the darkness coming on It's too late to try to catch the sinking sun But the seasons of my mind they're walking back through summer time When the sun was bright and our new love was blind Roselee won't you come and walk through s...

Roses are red my love Violets are blue Sugar is sweet my love But not as sweet as you. A long, long time ago On graduation day You handed me your book I signed this way. Roses are red my love Violets are blue Sugar is sweet my love But not as sweet as you....

I was waitin' in Rosie's Restaurant. When the waiter came up and said "what do you want?" I looked at the menu and it looked so nice. Till he said, "let me give you some advice" He said, "Spaghetti and potatoes got too much starch, Pork chops and sausage are b...

I wanna sing this song for a friend of ours His picture was in all the papers They said that a legend had passed The late evenin' news did a special report And swore that his mem'ry would last They're playin' his records all weekend Praisin' the life that he l...

You have 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 goin' down Oh Ruby don't take your love to town It's hard to love a man whose legs are bent and paral...

I was born in Saginaw Michigan I grew up in a house on Saginaw bay My dad was a poor hard working Saginaw fisherman Too many times he came home with too little pay I loved a girl in Saginaw Michigan the daughter of a wealthy wealthy man But he called me that s...

In a pub Britanny I had me a drink or three I can vaguely recall a pretty girl was standin' there Ran her hand through my hair took me off for some air I hope we had a good time for I woke without even a dime I'm a sailor that's all that I am I've been in many...

Sun's up I better get up and make the rounds All alone on my own here in this old town of Salt Lake City Gotta find work forget the hurt and how she put me down For some man who didn't care but with his fast talk and curly hair He took her away from me in Salt...

I peeked in to say goodnight, And I heard my child in prayer. "Send to me some scarlet ribbons" Scarlet ribbons for her hair. All the stores were closed and shuttered, All the streets were dark and bare. In our town, no scarlet ribbons, Scarlet ribbons for...

(Okay, is everybody ready to be animals? Yeah!) See that bluebird on a limb he wants you to fly away with him He wants you to wear a featherly vest And he wants you to sleep in a featherly nest But he can't have you no no no I ain't gonna let you go Birds in...

Rain keeps right on pourin' it's another Monday mornin' And another week to start and leave behind Road keeps a gettin' longer the valley's a gettin' deeper And the mountain's gettin' steeper that I'd climb. Take me back to Cracker Jacks and blowin' up baloon...

Shame on me for hurting you What can I say? What can I do? Last night I was blind but today I see I did you wrong, shame on me You say you won't be seein' me again, you say we're through I wouldn't want to see the sunrise tomorrow if I knew that to be true I...

She called me “Baby, Baby” All night long. Used to hold and kiss me ‘Til the dawn. Then one day I awoke, And she was gone. There’s no more “Baby, Baby” All night long. She called me “Baby, Baby” All night long. Built me up so high And made me strong Oh, wh...

She is gone but she was here And her presence is still heavy in the air What a taste of human love But she is gone and it don't matter anymore. But I don't care she was mine Now her heart belongs to someone I don't know She is gone but she was here And my lif...

(Okay, hold it kids, hold it! Listen! I wanna sing a song now especially for mama. Okay? This is for mama.) She looks at me with the eyes of a child She thinks I can reach out and turn back the tide And I'm just a man and I can't work no wonders But she think...

Well friends you know once I was took in by a girl with a twinkly eye But the first time that I wasn't lookin' she ran off with a handsomer guy oh my But I'm an inventin' type feller so as soon as my brain got uncurled I tiptoed right down to my cellar and bui...

Oh, Shenandoah, I long to hear you Away, you rollin' river Oh, Shenandoah, just to be near you Away, I’m bound away ‘Cross the wide Missouri Oh, Shenandoah, I love your daughter Away, you rollin' river Oh, Shenandoah, across the water Away, we're bound away...

A soft summer rain she was when she came and settled my old dusty worn-out soul While I watched in a dream and dreamed as I watched The sweetest and the shortest story told Short and sweet were those good old songs of yesterday Short and sweet Lord was the war...

Silence is golden my love tell me now with your eyes No need to speak just let me see your eyes look love to me Silently place your warm hand in mine Safe and secure from the troubles of our time Say with your eyes what you feel deep inside Words cannot expres...

Sometimes you sing for the money sometimes you sing for the show Sometimes you sing for the dewy eyed darlings Still makes them cry don't you know Sometimes you sing for the glory but glory don't last very long And through the haze of the stage can you look ba...

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 b...

(Is everybody ready now? Yeah! Okay!) Here we go singin' in the kitchen all together now singin' in the kitchen Everybody singin' in the kitchen bangin' on the pots and pans Mommy and daddy singin' in the kitchen baby laughin' singin' in the kitchen All the...

(Please baby wait for me wait for me) I got smashed last night on a bottle of gin and I had a fight with my best girl friend When I'm drinkin' I am nobody's friend But please baby wait for me until they let me out again I know the same thing has happened befor...

Well I pulled out of Pittsburgh a rollin' down that Eastern Seaboard I got my diesel wound up she's a goin' like never before There's a speed zone ahead alright I don't see a cop in sight Six days on the road and I'm gonna make it home tonight I got me ten for...

Skip a rope, skip a rope Oh, listen to the children while they play Now ain't it kinda funny what the children say Skip a rope, skip a rope. Daddy hates mommy, mommy hates dad Last night you should've heard the big fight they had It gave little sister another...

The sandman told me he's done all he can The situation calls for more than sand You been cryin' all night long Tossin' and turnin' and it's almost dawn I am here I'm gonna help you sleep Count on me instead of countin' sheep Close your eyes and leave the rest...

It goes from so good to so bad so soon From so good to so bad so soon Nobody told me so I never knew It goes from so good to so bad so soon. It goes from sunshine to shadows to rain Goes from passion to pleasure to pain From singing sweet love songs to crying...

You promised love that never would end but now you are gone and the hurtin' begins Just what do you mean that I'm no more than a friend Oh darling have you forgotten so soon Love that we knew just fell by the way the tears from my eyes fall day after day There...

Somedays are diamonds, somedays are stone Somedays the hard times won't leave us alone Sometimes the cold wind brought chill to my bones Somedays are diamonds, somedays are stone. How the face that I see in the mirror More and more is a stranger to me More an...

I used to like to listen to the tales of the old men who sat around the old park square But the piddlers and the whittlers and the checker boards're gone There's a brand new office building there And the street known as Maple is much wider now and there are no...

Lady, you see me with now and again in this dimly lit hideway place With skin soft as velvet and warm reaching hands And the sweet look of love on her face And you say ain't he lucky just look at those eyes She's worth any price you can name And you think that...

The corn was dry and the weeds were high when daddy took to drinking Then him and Lucy Walker they took up and ran away Mama cried a tear and then she promised fourteen children I swear you'll never see a hungry day. Oh, the path was deep and wide from footst...

Cotton on the roadside cotton in the ditch We all picked the cotton but we never got rich Daddy was a veteran a Southern Democrat Said they oughta kill a rich man to vote like that. Sing a song, song of the south Sweet potato pie and shut my mouth Gone, gone...

Did you hear about Stacy Brown (no we didn't but we'd like to) He had every chick in town (no he didn't but he tried to) He got looks he got class do anything to get a little lass Everybody shouts at him as he walks his girlies past They say everybody got one...

(Steal away, steal away, steal away to Jesus Steal away, steal away home, I ain't got long to stay here.) I was walkin' in Savannah passed the church decayed and dimed When there's slowly through the window came a plaintive funeral hymn And a sympathy awakene...

She's a wild girl but that's alright Because she's living in a wild world And she's kinda like the queen bee Swimming in cola like a strange bird You don't want to get close to Yea, she's a strange bird and I should know Because I thought I'd heard an angel F...

I sold the farm to take my woman, where she longed to be We left our kin and all our friends back there in Tennessee I bought those one way tickets, she had often begged me for And they took us to the streets of Baltimore Her heart was filled with laughter, w...

Never hit seventeen when you play against the dealer For you know the odds won't ride with you Never leave your woman alone when your friends around to steal her Years I've gambled and lost like summer wages. And we'll keep rolling on till we get to Vancouver...

In the park I see a daddy with the laughin' little girl that he's a swinging And I stop beside a Sunday school and listen to the song they're singing I'm headin' back for home and somewhere far away a lonely bell is ringing And it echoes through the city like...

I was hangin' round Nashville writin' songs and playin' them for all of the stars Watchin' them laugh and hand 'em back livin' on hope and Hershey bars So I pawned my guitar and bought a ticket home And I's a headin' for the trailway bus When I seen an old pen...

(Sweet dreams of you every night I go through Why can't I forget you and start my life anew Instead of having sweet dreams about you) You don't love me it's plain I should know you'll never wear my name I should hate you the whole night through instead of havi...

Just as far as I can remember she'll remain the rose of my heart Mama took sick along in December February brought us broken hearts The reason we've not called the family reunion is we knew that you wouldn't be there But now that we thought it all over mama we...

Sylvia's mother says, "Sylvia's busy, too busy to come to the phone" Sylvia's mother says, "Sylvia's trying to start a new life of her own." Sylvia's mother says, "Sylvia's happy, now why don't you leave her alone?" And the operator says, "Forty cents more Fo...

Oh well, I look in your eyes And what do I see Well, I don't see love All I see is sympathy Before she came along You belonged to me She stole your heart away But yet you stayed in sympathy If you can't say you love me Then don't say you're sorry Please don't...

Why must you always try to make me over Take me as I am or let me go White lilies never grow on stalks of clover Take me as I am or let me go. You're trying to reshape me in a mold love In the image of someone you used to know But I won't be a standing for an...

Won't you take me home to mama she loves me and she'll keep me safe and warm All I ask is take me home to mama please take me home to mama's arms Oh greyhound bus I bet she could never guess Where I got the money to buy this ticket home Well I tell you after...

Talk me some sense talk me some sense Put a song of love and laughter on your face Talk me some sense talk me some sense Cause the way you're talkin' now is a digrace I've heard enough o' your talk about the world that is to be You say it's sick and sinful an...

There was a tall oak tree that loved a bubblin' brook And the bubblin' brook loved a mountain high And the mountain high loved the sky above The creator looked down and saw everything was loved loved loved Then he took a bone and a piece of mud He made a man a...

Name she gave was Caroline The daughter of a miner And her ways were free and it seemed to me That the sunshine walked beside her. She come from Spencer acoss the hill She said her Pa had sent her Cause the coal was low and soon the snow Would change the skie...

There never was a horse like the Tennessee Stud Long about eighteen and twenty-five Left Tennessee very much alive Never would've made it through the Arkansas mud If I hadn't been riding on the Tennessee Stud Well I had some trouble with my sweetheart's p...

Pour me another Tequila Sheila, Take off that red satin dress I cross the border and I beat the dealer For all the damn gold in Juarez. I feel like old Pancho Villa, Sheila And sure could use a friend (I got Pesso to spend) So pour me another Tequilla Sheila...

If you love somebody enough You'll follow wherever they go That's how I got to Memphis That's how I got to Memphis If you love somebody enough You'll go where your heart wants to go That's how I got to Memphis That's how I got to Memphis I know if you'd seen...

I thought I'd like to lead the bachelor life for a while Live alone and have some fun So I told her to take the kids and go back to her mama (That's how I wanted it to be) and I felt satisfied it was done I wake up every morning make myself a cup of Jay Down t...

Come, come, come, come. Come to the church in the Wildwood Oh, come to the church in the vale No spot is so dear to my childhood As the little brown church in the vale. There's a church in the valley by the Wildwood No lovelier spot in the dale No place is s...

The Devil walked into Linebaugh's on a rainy Nashville night While the lost souls sat and sipped their soup in the sickly neon light. And the Devil, he looked around the room, then got down on his knees. He says, "Is there one among you scum who'll roll the di...

(Is everybody feelin' silly now? Yeah, I feel silly, yes.) Well, I'm gonna teach you a ricky tic song It's kinda silly and it ain't too long But you can't go wrong singin' a ricky ticky song You just go ricky ticky, ticky, tacky, ticky, ticky Ricky ticky tick...

(Okay, I'll tell you what I'm gonna do now. I'm gonna tell you about a unicorn. Now who knows what a unicorn is? Let me tell you about.) A long time ago when the earth was green Well, there was more kinda animals than you've ever seen And they just run around...

I remember the year 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...

I woke up this morning feeling bad Thinking of the good times that I've had This town has got a lot of swinging doors But there ain't no fun in this town anymore. No there ain't no fun in this town anymore My mind is weary and my heart is sore I will admit th...

Boring through the mountains by-passing the towns Interstate 90 is a sight to behold But that monument to progress and engineering skill Has covered up the old swimmin' hole Thirty feet straight up from where the old hole stood They sell twenty kinds of icecre...

Cowboy hat will blow off in the wind Women rule the world, not the man And things change but then You turn around and they change again Things change, don’t blink your eye ‘Cause if you do, they’ll pass you by About the time you think you’ve locked it i...

This guitar is for sale, I'll let her go cheap She's pretty to look at but she don't earn her keep She can roar like the west wind, she can weep, she can wail But the tunes that she plays just ain't sellin' today This guitar is for sale. She lay close beside...

Well now friends you'd never guess it so I really must confess it I just met the sweetest woman of my long dismal life But a friend of mine said buddy just in case your mind is muddy Don't you know that girl you're fooling with is Peg-Leg Johnson's wife And th...

She was quite a looker she kept herself up well She was crowdin' forty but in the dark you couldn't tell I sat down at her table and had myself a pour Then we slow danced by the jukebox to a motel room next door I whispered soft and sweet what's the use in wai...

Ain't the snow fallin' just a bit deeper these days Ain't they're building the stairs a bit steeper these days And the town's really changin' in so many ways it's time time The young folks you're growin' uncommonly tall And the newspaper print is becomin' so s...

Times're gettin' hard boy money's almost gone Times're gettin' hard boy time to move along Gonna take my true love by the hand lead her from this town Times're gettin' hard boy we're California bound Pack up everything we own that won't take us long Say goodb...

I've been on the road twenty years ten thousand nights and a million beers But I'm tired of the road Joe it's no fun anymore Joe I'm savin' my money and I'll be goin' home soon I've lived good played with the best stayed up for days and never got no rest But I...

Been many song written about the eternal trying The song about a mystic relation A beautiful woman named Laurie and a condemned man by the name of Tom Dooley Hang down your head, Tom Dooley Hang down your head and cry Hang down your head, Tom Dooley Poor boy,...

Midnight flights and barroom lights and rollin' for three days and nights And motel rooms have been my only home They gave me these sad knowing eyes and old age lines before my time I guess I spent too many nights alone Denver trains and LA games taxis through...

An empty railroad station is a lonely place to be And a suitcase full of mem'ries is a heavy load to carry I've got no destination no special place to be I'm just waitin' for a train that never runs Lord, I'm waitin' for a train that never comes. Tears above...

I am a travelin' minstrel man I'll do my best to make you happy if I can I'll sing my song and move along cause I'm a travelin' minstrel man My life is measured by the telephone poles the mileage lines are on my face I never care much where that old highway g...

Truck driver truck driver stop your Diamond T Do you have room inside your rig for a highway bum like me Hey thank you very much don't suppose you could sorta scoot over a little bit And give me a little more room cause I got long legs And it's a long way to w...

This mornin' I jumped on my horse and went out for a ride Some wild outlaws chased me and they shot me in the side So I crawled into a wild cat's cave to find a place to hide But some pirates found me a sleepin' there and soon they had me tied Till a lady zomb...

Try to remember the kind of September when life was slow and oh so mellow Try to remember the kind of September when grass was green and grain was yellow Try to remember the kind of September when you were a tender and happy fellow Try to remember and if you r...

My nights have been lonely since I've been in Tulsa County And I really don't know what I'm gonna do Guess that I'll just mosey down around that southern border Cause I feel I gotta get away from you I got your note in Charleston that you needed my assistance...

Last Saturday morning I shut off the alarm Drove out in the valley to old Dan Cook's farm A sign on the fence post put up with one nail read 10 a.m. sharp for big public sale At least forty people were out in the yard Looking for bargains they were dealing rea...

In the unemployment line in the unemployment line I see a butcher and a baker a faker and a quaker and an old girl friend of mine There's white collars blue collars and no collars too talking bout the bad new times And we all get together every Wednesday after...

Inside her feeble mind She is spinning out of time Like a hunter who's gone blind, my valentine Beside her velvet nest She humiliates the best Couldn't take no more I guess of my valentine Valentine, I killed my valentine And I laughed until I cried for my v...

Vincennes Vincennes Vincennes Indiana Vincennes Vincennes Vincennes my hometown I'm coming back clear the track I'm someone to someone in Vincennes my hometown Have you ever known how lonesome it can be in the big city Let me tell you friend it's lonesome Eve...

I know they all know that I love her they don't say a word I can tell The people who live here on Main Street know and respect me too well Each morning she brings me my coffee thank you good looking I'd say Everyone knows I'm in love with the waitress at Main...

Warm and free warm and free that's all it takes to get a hold on me Warm and free warm and free you never know how low you can be Till you go into an an all-night cafe grab somebody's dirty old cup Walk right up to the hot water boiler and fill that sucker up...

Down at the railroad station my suitcase settin' by my side Got no high hopes of leaving I'm just watching the trains go by Watching the trains go by Lawyer Jabob's wife she is expecting and he wonders why in blazes How his wife could come to blame now they t...

Mhm mhm I was New York City bound when I left my old hometown But I got hung up like a fool somehow along the way Lord God her name was Sally she lived in the Kanawha Valley Just outside of Charleston West Virginia US of A Sally done me down and dirty really p...

What am I gonna do girl what am I gonna do I love you so much what am I gonna do What am I gonna do girl what am I gonna do I love you so much what am I gonna do Sittin' here and thinkin' bout you so far away Wondering what you're thinkin' wondering what you'd...

One day a little boy climbed up on his daddy's knee With picture and crayons in his hand He said, "When I grow up this is a man I want to be. Daddy, what color is a man?" "When I'm a man I want to be happy I want to be strong and free I want to be brave like...

I'm not a believer but I believed in you I'm not a doer but honey I did for you What did it get me, what did it get me? I'm not a cryer but I cried for you I'm not a lover but I slept with you What did it get me, what did it get me? Well, it got me Lord for...

What kind of bird is that The one with the bright red breast? I know it can't, just can't be the robin 'Cause my love is not back yet The one I love and wanted to marry Had to leave before she became my bride But she said she'd return before the robin r...

Forty some odd years ago a young man came to Memphis Askin' about a rose that used to blossom in his world People never took the time to mind the young man's questions Till one day they heard him ask a little green eyed girl. What's your mama's name child, wh...

I've walked the streets of small Texas towns I've seen the snowfalls in New York For a young man I guess I've been around But when am I ever gonna settle down? I have seen Grand Canyon and the Great Niagara Falls Had chains on my legs in Wichita Yeah for a yo...

When God dips his pen of love in my heart And writes my soul a message he wants me to know His spirit all divine fills this sinful soul of mine when God dips his love in my heart Well I said I wouldn't tell it to a living soul How he brought salvation when he...

I hate to leave your party and these friendly people here But I don't fit in with all that's goin' on Your love's an invitation but I can't go along Cause when I want to love a lady I go home I go home to love a lady she's waiting up for me a lady who has spen...

Will anybody know I've been here when I'm gone Will anything that I've done here live on Every man's allowed just so much time And all you take along is what you leave behind Will anybody know I've been here when I'm gone When I'm gone when I'm gone Oh will an...

I have met the Master on my knees been tested and I've tried And I've seen the God of heaven paint the fields and the country side I've been the husband of one wife heard my newborn baby cry But when I've learned enough to really live I'll be old enough to die...

Spring could come you'd never show it; love could come you'd never know it Life has drawn so many tears from your eyes You've been used, and lost the user; you've been branded as a loser Where did all the sincere people go When love is gone, it will not retur...

Well here I am in Chicago all alone near the place where we met I walk through the rain the wind whispers your name oh why won't they let me forget Cause when the wind blows I get lonely and one day for sure you left behind But the wind always blows in Chicago...

Dear mom and dad I'm writing you to say I found a job It's a good job I don't go to work till nine If my old car holds up I guess I'll be home for the Fourth Don't worry bout me everything is fine That was 1952 where have all the seasons gone [ strings ] Dear...

Mama where'd I come from did they give me to you free Did you buy me in a boystore mama where'd you find me Well Bobby I found you in a smile And the gentleness hidden in your daddy's eyes Freddie said a bird came and left me in a tree Mama where'd I come fr...

I wonder which one of us is to blame The nicest thing that's come my way is you but I cannot offer you my heart or name Oh it isn't fair to do me like you do I wonder which one of us is to blame Somehow I can't blame myself although I guess I should And I can'...

I'm goin' out on the highway listen to them big trucks whine Goin' out on the highway listen to them big trucks whine White freight liner won't you steal away my mind. New Mexico ain't bad Lord and the people there they treat you kind New Mexico ain't bad Lor...

We both know a certain party I won't mention any names But you think you love this party who's brought me so much pain I don't know what he's told you but I'll bet you think he's free Well I'm the wife of this party and he still belongs to me I'm the wife of t...

On that first day of March the day that she was born Wild as the wind was on the Friday morn They all say that she looked evil even then When her daddy smiled and said that she looked wild as the wind The fourteen summers passed and she blossomed like a flower...

Willie Jones was a man I met when I lived in Baltimore I was a guard and he was doing time In the three long years he stayed there I got to know him well Willie Jones was a friend of mine. He used to say buddy you know where I'm goin' when they let me out of...

I watch you most every night see you in the front porch lights You and him sittin' in a swing radio playin' through the screen Wilma Lou Wilma Lou don' let that boy put his hands on you I can see he ain't your kind he loves your body and not your mind [ steel...

The hulk of a man with a beer in his hand he looked like a drunk old fool And I knew if I hit him right why I could knock him off of that stool But everybody they said watch out hey that's the Tiger Man McCool He's had the whole lotta fights and he's always c...

He's in some bar a drinkin' she's home alone again He's in town buyin' rounds and laughin' with his friends His supper's on the table still he ain't come home She's lookin' out the window with a front porch light on. She's the woman in every man's life A cand...

I appreciate the coffee that you made I appreciate the shelter of your roof I'll pay you back someday for all the kindness and all the other liberties I took Although I cannot say that I have loved you I won't forget how good it was to be Among the people you...

I swear you could taste the chicken and tomatoes and the noodles and the marrow bone But it really wadn't nothin' but some water and potatoes And the wonderful wonderful soup stone Hangin' from a string in my momma's kitchen back in the hard time days Was a l...

Now the first time I saw Woody he was standing in our yard In the spring time 1935, was pouring down real hard He said I’ll pay for room and board, maybe a month or two My name’s Widrow Guthrie and I’m just rambling through But call me Woody, my friends all do...

The year is two thousand and eighty And hardly a highway remains Gone are the days of the diesel And songs about wrecks in the rain The Macs and MacLeans have all rusted away The Harvesters rot in the sand And in a deserted truck stop sits Tennessee Thompson T...

It takes a worried man to sing a worried song It takes a worried man to sing a worried song It takes a worried man to sing a worried song I'm worried now but I won't be worried long I went across the river laid me down to sleep I went across the river laid me...

Y'all come y'all come oh y'all come to see us when you can Y'all come y'all come (oh y'all come on over to see us now and then) The kinfolks're comin' comin' by the dozen eatin' everything from soup to hay And right after dinner they ain't looking any thinner...

Show me a house with a yard full o’ rusty cars and you know there'll be a coffee perkin' on a rusty stove and you walk right in, sit down and feel right at home in the kitchen of the house of the man with a yard full o’ rusty cars Show me a man with a yard fu...

Yes Mr. Rodgers, I'm livin' in sin with your daughter No Mr. Rodgers, we don't have separate rooms Mr. Rodgers, I guess you could use one more scotch and water Gee Mr. Rodgers, do you have to be leavin' so soon? No Mr. Rodgers, I ain't found work but I'm look...

Who's the greatest singer in the land (you are) Who's the world's most sweetest kindest man (you are) Who's gonna give you some ice-cream If you sing this thing just right (you are) oh outside Now who's the handsomest man in Tennessee (you are) Who's the trun...

You can't stop the wild wind from blowing You can't stop the wild wind from blowing Let us live just for tonight don't think of tomorrow Any thoughts of loving me can only lead to sorrow For soon I'll be going and you can't stop the wild wind from blowing No...

I'm all choked up, but let me thank you For the party once again It was such a nice and thoughtful thing to do I look around and see the warm And smiling faces of good friends Yes, everybody's here but you know who. You've gathered here to celebrate the happy...

Lovers yes I guess I've had a few I've played the game like lovers do in the night alone Feelin's they never meant a thing to me I never knew how love could be until you came along You made a believer out of me I can see it I can feel it You made a believer ou...

I lok cute at the end of your leash Your adorable beast As I salivate on your shoes Obedient and true Loyal through and through A fuzzy reflection of you If you are wounded, I will lick it If you feed me, I won't forget it If I mess up just rub my nose in it...

Your credit card won't get you into heaven Your Visa will not buy you silver wings And when you're burning down in hell with no water in the well Your Diner's Club won't buy you one cold drink. You cannot charge salvation or redemption Your Master Charge it w...