Chris Knight

The sound of a train not running Has been keeping me awake The Westmore land mine ain't run much coal Since back in '88 Got on at the sawmill But I've got to find a better way Or the sound of a train not running Is gonna carry me away [Chorus]...

Let the beer bottle Rattle on my pistol On the seat of my Chevy pick up truck And I'm taking these gravel roads As fast as my truck will go I'm running like a scared white tail buck It was a long night card game With Earl Ray and Bobby And some ol bo...

Sit down Mary they don't know what they're talkin' about Sit down Mary it's only make believe Sit down Mary don't say those things you're screamin' out It was me... It was me.. And it was me they saw in the liquor store that night It was me with a gun on...

The road ain't looked this good to me In a couple of months or so I've been breaking ground, heading down A hard road to hoe I've been farming dreams but I ain't seen No harvest in L.A. But there's time enough to win her back I can't waste anoth...

Got married at 16, had a 15 year old wife Guess I've been a grown man, just about all my life Like my daddy before me, I've done the best I could Somehow things turned out a little worse than they should Logan West Virginia is a hundred mile behind Coal m...

When the rain runs down your window And you can't hold back your tears And you're so afraid to be alone You know I'm always right here You cry lonely, and I come runnin' I come to your rescue, I'll chase your blues away You cry lonely, but you don't rea...

let him sit in the kitchen til the red rooster crows and drink bootleg whiskey til he loses control let him find him somebody he can treat like a dog let the house fall down and let him grow old chorus: but she aint goin back she aint goin back she...

i was eightteen my brother was twenty-one one saturday evening when all the work was done we went down to the river, had some trot lines to run my brother walter had a fight the week before knocked a boy named wilson through the pool hall door they...

Well I work for the city in the town where I grew up. Some days I run a backhoe some days I run a dump. If I had other plans on my graduation day, Then several years ago I guess I hauled ‘em all away. Yeah I hauled ‘em all away. She told me she was pregn...

My friend's flesh and blood She lies overtime You'd nail her if you could But she says Love me for my mind In my time I'm not that kind My friend's flesh and blood Night size, perfect ten So rude, she's no good But as she says It pays to win Play...

I use to run from the past But the world got to spinnin' so fast I run from the future now I run as fast as I can Tryin' to be a simple man I just want to slow down Well, laugh if you want to Call me a backward fool But I ain't takin' this ride Y'all...

Her hair was as black as pike county cold And her lips were as red as blood on the snow She wore short vinyl skirts and them boots to her knees And she lived in the holler across the mountain from me Hard Candy so sweet And I could never get enough Hard...

i grew up near what they call the flats aint too many people knows where its at cant hear the highway cant see a way out i guarantee it aint nothin worth cryin about daddy left us all back in '91 left us all wonderin what it was we done id stand in the y...

Get up in the morning, fall out of bed Go down to the basement, cook up a little meth All the young folks love it, coming back for more Ain't it good to be working, got your foot in the door Hey, hell ain't half full Got the light on for you son Hell ain...

Kansas wheat fields don't ask questions like most the fokes I've met, but if this storm don't stop the harvest there's a chance i might forget. I try and not to think about you but when this combine rocks and rolls, it shakes my mind and shakes my body the wa...

That county judge tried to rob me blind Those big wheels of rubber gonna rub her off of my mind I'm a highway junkie I need that old white line So I rolled on into Memphis I got nothin left to lose Wanted to hear some rock ‘n roll but they played was blues...

pour my soul into my song playin for the people all night long i work hard for my money and i want it now dont make me have to tear your juke joint down chorus: im a home homesick gypsy i was born movin down the line im a homesick gypsy i aint home til...

If I were you I would gladly loan to me A dollar or two So I could eat yeah and maybe Get just one good night of sleep But I'm not And I'm stranded like a cast away in this town And you seem so unwilling to help a fellow When hes down If I were you...

There ought to be a town somewhere Named for how I feel Yeah I could be the mayor down there And say ‘welcome to sorryville’ It wouldn’t be on a map no where You might say that it don’t exist But if you make enough wrong turns It’da be hard to miss The...

Sheriff come in the pool hall That look on his face "Have you seen Jack Blue around this place" He's a bad one him Always breakin' the law If you see Jack Blue Better give me a call Jack's shootin' pool on friday night A couple out-of-town boys looki...

Me and Billy roofers of houses Met at the local union hall It was like I found my long lost brother We drank like fish and worked like dogs Lookin’ back I knew he’d get me in trouble But I didn’t have too many friends Runnin up and down that Dixie highw...

Badge number 301 Sits in his car and stares at his gun He wipes the the blood from his shirt, The sweat from his brow He got out this time but he don't know how Well he'd go on home but nobody's there No one to hold no one to care There was a time he ha...

2 cups of coffee and im back on the road 80 miles to memphis, is what the lady told she smiled and thanked me, when she picked up my change says "you have a safe trip, stay out of the rain" chorus: im lookin through the windsheild holding back the night...

Well im a country boy, im outta place, turned city bum A good day to me is gettin' by I walk a city mile, without ever seein' the sun Theres no need to reach for stars, when you cant see the sky Well its a god forsaken city, im so called livin' in We're try...

Got six bucks that's enough for a beer run Now all we need is someone to do the buying My buddy Lendell, he ain't never got no money But he drinks up most the beer everytime By nine o'clock got a half case between us Pull into the quick pick Lendell had t...

Got a old horse run loose on the farm like a big dog don't do no harm and i live down a dead end track me and my horse and them chickens out back Raised five kids they've all up and gone came up rough not a one went wrong when the old woman died t...

She handled herself well Been handled by two guards She still looked like a prom queen in the back of the sheriff's car A crowd lined up from the courthouse To the jailhouse down the street How could they talk so bad about a girl who was so sweet Rita'...

I built a fire up on the hill; I sat in the woods and drank my fill Talked to God all night, took another shot at setting me right Then I walked down to the road, filled a beer can full of 22 holes Then I said goodbye, yeah I said goodbye [Chorus] I'd go...

I wasn't stranded in the desert I wasn't drifting out to sea I was in no kind of danger That would be the death of me But when you took me in your arms Like an angel from above I was saved, saved by love I wasn't strung out in some alley With a habit...

I came back home to my old town today My friends were different, nothing much to say, How could a year matter all that much Then I heard 'em say, "man it must be tough" Something changed Something changed She believed in blue skies I just brought her ra...

All the memories of our good time Keep crowdin' in my mind But I'm counting on the bad times To help me leave you behind Even though I said it's over I'm really not that strong I need something to keep me goin' When I'm gone As much as I want to turn a...

In the lamp light on Locust Street, with the party far behind No sound but the beat of her heart and mine The smell of her hair was my first breath, and her lips were my first kiss And my first step was a headlong dive I couldn't keep myself from falling,...

They meet down in Brownsville, in a little border dive She was just looking for someone to dance with, he was just looking for a fight They knew what they what they wanted, but that's about all they knew They liked to be with each other, just to see what...

The sun's goin' down on me Thoughts of her keep haunting me Desperation's taking hold My hands are on the steering wheel But my heart's back in Louisville At the far end of a thousand miles of road My mind's grinding like a steel gear, baby I've got to...

The lines on my father's face Ran deep as creek beds on our place And the river ran right through his soul But I know at times it tooks its toll When the crops would flood we lived on fish But never did my father wish To leave the land his life flowed fr...

Twenty-one days out on the road, The van broke down in a foot of snow. Don't even know where the hell we are, The batteries gone and the phone won't charge. Wanted let you know, I'm doing my best to get back home. I ain't had no sleep, ain't washed my cl...

In a cafe just off I-65 I seen a man And a woman and a baby child They were laughing, Smiled at me when they went to pay And the way she was talking About her two little girls That they were all headed Down to Disney World When she broke out the...