Emmylou Harris

It was a $1000 wedding supposed to be held the other day and With all the invitations sent The young bride went away When the groom saw people passing notes Not unusual, he might say But where are the flowers for my baby? I'd even like to see her mean old mama...

Just like the sun over the mountain top You know I'll always come again You know I love to spend my morning time Like sunlight dancing on your skin I've never gone so wrong as to telling lies to you What you've seen is what I've been There is nothing I c...

The strange young man who comes to me A soldier on a three day spree Who needs one night's cheap ecstasy And a woman's arms to hide him He greets me with a courtly bow And hides his pain by acting proud He drinks too much and he laughs too loud How can...

I'm gonna give you forty days to get back home Gonna call you gypsy woman on the telephone I'm gonna send out a word via the voodoo That'll be the very thing that suits ya Gonna see you babe back home in forty days Oh, forty days (forty days) Yeah, forty days...

Well I pulled out of Pittsburgh Rollin down the eastern seaboard I've got my diesel wound up and She's runnin like a never before There's a speed zone ahead but Alright, I don't see a cop insight Six days on the road and I'm a gonna make it home tonight I...

I crossed on the river There'll be no returning I crossed all the bridges I watched them all burning And now I'm a stranger To a strange land I'm driven Where all is forgotten And nothing's forgiven But I cried a river A river for him That's deeper...

These things happen Love never comes with a guarantee No hard meetings But it looks like this love was never meant to be That's easy for you to say You've got another who's willing and waiting for you That's easy for you to say You're not the one with...

I hear the clock a tickin' See the sweat upon my brow I know my destination Nothing's gonna stop me now I'm running on desire Baby I've got nerves of steel Coming down to the wire Lord above me guide the wheel Keep me in your prayers tonight I'll be...

Has anybody here seen my old friend Abraham, Can you tell me where he's gone? He freed a lotta people, but it seems the good die young I just looked around and he's gone. Has anybody here seen my old friend Martin, Can you tell me where he's gone? He freed a...

Tonight my bag is packed Tommorrow I'll walk these tracks That will lead me across the border Tommorrow my love and I Will sleep 'neath auburn skies Somewhere across the border We'll leave behind my dear The pain and sadness we found here And we'll dr...

Well, I dreamed I saw the knights in armor coming Saying something about a queen There were peasants singing and drummers drumming And the archer split the tree There was a fanfare blowing to the sun That was floating on the breeze Look at Mother Nature on t...

Castles tall, houses small Left alone, all fall down Dreams so clear, disappear Without a sound, all fall down Lovers meet, lovers quarrel Lonely boy, lonely girl I lost him and I have found Dreams like walls, all fall down All fall down (All fall d...

All I left behind should come as no surprise To me since I fell through the black hole of your eyes Only little things inconsequential I could say Of all I left behind with you along the lost highway Silver earrings in Wichita Beaded moccasins in Tonopah...

When I go don't cry for me In my Father's arms I'll be The wounds this world left on my soul Will all be healed and I'll be whole Sun and moon will be replaced With the light of Jesus' face And I will not be ashamed For my Savior knows my name It don...

My darling girl my darling girl You're all that matters in this wicked world All that matters all that matters My darling boy my darling boy All of my sunshine and all of my joy You're all that matters all that matters Well, I can't stop the pain When it ca...

Oh my mama told me 'Cause she say she learned the hard way Say she wanna spare the children She say don't give or sell your soul away 'Cause all that you have is your soul So don't be tempted by the shiny apple Don't you eat of a bitter fruit Hunger only for...

A million miles our vagabond heels Clocked up beneath the clouds They're counting down to show time When we do it for real with the crowds Air miles are owing But they don't come for free And they don't give you any for pain But if it's all for nothing All th...

Yeah 'n' I'm doin' all right in school. They ain't said I broke no rule. I ain't never been in Dutch. I don't browse around too much Don't bother me, leave me alone Anyway I'm almost grown I don't run around with no mob. Got myself a little job I'm gonna buy...

We met in the springtime when blossoms unfold The pastures were green and the meadows were gold Our love was in flower as summer grew on He love like the leaves now has withered and gone. The roses have faded, there's frost at my door The birds in the morning...

My baby never was the cheatin' kind But it wasn't 'cause the ladies didn't try Now everywhere we go they're walkin' 'round him slow Givin' him a flutter and a sigh Now I got him past that redhead in Atlanta Lord, I walked all over that black-eyed Cajun Qu...

And I love you so The people ask me how How I live till now I tell them I don't know I guess they understand How lonely life has been But life began again The day you took my hand And yes I know how lonely life can be The shadows follow me And the night won't...

Spend all your time waiting For that second chance For a break that would make it okay There's always some reason To feel not good enough And it's hard, at the end of the day I need some distraction Oh, beautiful release Memories seep from my veins And mayb...

My latest sun is sinking fast, my race is nearly run My strongest trials now are past, my triumph has begun Oh, come angel band come and around me stand Oh bear me away on your snow white wings to my immortal home Oh bear me away on your snow white wings t...

Angel eyes, angel eyes The ways of the world are feeble Don't give up on simple people Angle eyes stun those nights The blues you can live without It's not what your song's about Angel eyes angel eyes Tell me what would we do Without the light from ang...

A house not a home was a picture satin painted For sweet little sister and me Our daddy would frown while mother was praying His heart was so hardened that he would not believe In anger he'd swear his voice cold and loud His Sundays were spent out with the gam...

Another lonesome morning Another long lonesome day You'll have to live without him The morning seemed to say Another lonesome morning You thought you didn't care But morning breezes find you Wishing he were there Bobwhite sings his same old song Tryi...

Put on another pot o' tea 'Cause I'm in love with the Irish accent to your story And I need someone to help me Well, they say that now you don't talk straight And of late it's been my lot to be afraid To remember you by anything But memories I already k...

As long as I live if it be one hour Or if it be one hundred years I'll keep remembering forever and ever I'll love you, dear, as long as I live It was easy said that night we parted That we'd forget we'd ever met I haven't forgotten, I wonder if you hav...

This morning is Monday where are you now Teasin' my memory teaching me how to lay low When I don't want to Well love is elusive this I know now It's making me crazy leaving me out In the open when I don't want to The moments of pleasures Never do last Are gon...

Away in a manger, no crib for His bed The little Lord Jesus, laid down His sweet head The stars in the bright sky, looked down where He lay The little Lord Jesus, asleep on the hay The cattle are lowing, the Baby awakes But little Lord Jesus, no crying He mak...

In this modern world we're livin' The rules ain't like they've ever been Speakin' of spreading it thin That's what you do, flashing your soul That ain't no way to treat your lover Ain't no way to act with feelings Baby, better start turnin' em down Now it's a...

I'm back in baby's arms How I missed Those lovin' arms I'm back where I belong Back in baby's arms Don't know Why we quarreled We never did before Since we found out How it hurt I bet we never Quarrel anymore Thought I didn't Need his love 'Til he took i...

I guess you had to be there She said you had to be She handed me a yellowed photograph And then said, see? This was my greatest love My one and only love And this is me Back when we were beautiful See I don’t feel very different She said I know it’s strange...

I see a bad moon rising I see trouble on the way I see earthquakes and lighting I see bad times today Now don't go 'round tonight For it's bound to take your life There's a bad moon on the rise I hear hurricanes a blowing I know the end is comin' soon I fear...

Bad news black day there's been A wreck on the highway Drivin' fast in distress hit a curve And died in the darkness He'll never know how much I lose bad news Bad news sirens whine he rode The devil down the white line Johnny Walker by his side Alwa...

Her mama picked him up in south Minnesota He promised her the world but they never got that far For he was last seen in that '59 DeSoto When Sally was born in the black hills of Dakota She was washed in the blood of the dying Sioux nation Raised with a p...

Say a prayer for the cowgirl her horse ran away She'll walk 'til she finds him her darlin' her stray But the river's in flood and the roads are awash And the bridges break up in the panic of loss And there's nothin' to follow nowhere to go He's gone like...

I meant to ask you how to fix that car I always meant to ask you about the war And what you saw across a bridge too far Did it leave a scar Or how you navigated wings of fire and steel Up where heaven had no more secrets to conceal And still you found t...

Twas in the merry month of May When all gay flowers werebloomin', Sweet William on his death-bed lay For the love of Barbara Allen. He sent his servant to the town To the place where she was dwelling Said, "You must come to my master'shouse, If your name be B...

They say there's wreckage washing up All along the coast No one seems to know too much Of who got hit the most Nothing has been spoken There's not a lot to see But something has been broken That's how it feels to me We had a harmony I never meant to spoil Now...

Oh beautiful star of Bethlehem Shining afar through shadows dim Giving the light for those who long have gone Guiding the wise men on their way Unto the place where Jesus lay Oh beautiful star of Bethlehem, shine on Oh beautiful star of Bethlehem (Beauti...

Winter summer seasons is taken over it's quiet Like new fallen snow I told you summer stories But outside is getting mighty cold I told you everything I could about me Told you everything I could How would you feel if the world Was falling apart around...

My mama and my daddy Told me that love is a two-way street But lately baby, you've been finding New ways of dragging yout feet So come on, make your best shot You don't have to take the blame I'll be your belle star You can be my Jesse James There's lonely pe...

There never was a little girl more wanted than me I had all the love a child could ever want or need Daddy gave me everything he could afford to buy An' on the ceilin' in my room, he painted me a sky. He told me not to be afraid, when it stormed outside He sa...

Beneath still waters There?s a strong undertow The surface won?t tell you What the deep water knows Darling, I?m saying I know something?s wrong Beneath still waters Your love is gone Even a fool could see That you?ll soon be leaving me But each an...

Room 16, the Palms Motel Now I can rest behind that door My life with you's become a living hell Don't wanna live like that no more And whatever it will take I will do to make this final break Yeah, better off without you Better off without you Better...

I didn't ask for much As maybe I ought've But I'm staying in touch With the one I love And I can see in the dials And in these headlights beams Beyond me wildest Beyond me wildest dreams Beyond me wildest dreams Beyond me wildest dreams I've been with you I've...

Away beyond the blue Away beyond the blue One star belongs to you One star belongs to you And every breath I take And every breath I take I'm closer to that place I'm closer to that place Yeah baby, I'm gonna meet you there On the outskirts of the sky Yeah b...

There'll be greener pastures Across that border line We'll see new horizons, my darlin' Far beyond the great divide Pools of clear blue waters Star light in the sky You'll be mine forever my darlin' Far beyond the great divide Somewhere in the distan...

A big black dog A little too much gray around the muzzle A big black dog Why she ended up at the pound is a puzzle A big black dog Did she run away Because somebody didn't treat her right? Did they leave her out in the cold Night after lonely night A big blac...

Oh, well, I was born in alittle bitty tar hut And they called me a man 'cause I couldn't keep my big, big mouth shut So what's the sense of me sitting here leaving When any ole day I might be even And Lord knows that New York City's got a lot to do with it I w...

I like it black, just black as night It keeps me up, it keeps me tight It don't matter the size of the cup Just as long as you fill it up With black caffeine Keeps me lean You can hear me scream Give me black caffeine Oh I've got a monkey sittin' on my back...

Broken bottles, broken songs Broken people been in town too long Where's everyone gone? Ooh baby This city gonna break your heart Oh gypsy, please tell me Where everyone's gone Never had a second name Never spoke of why we came Fellowship and glorio...

Well, I work the double shift In a bookstore on St. Clair While he pushed the burning ingots In Dofasco stinking air Where the truth bites and stings I remember just what we were As the noon bell rings for Blackhawk and the white winged dove Hold on...

You left me for the bright lights of the town A country boy set out to see the world Remember when those neon lights shine down That big old moon shines on your Kentucky girl I swear I love you by the moon above you How bright is it shining in your world...

When I was young and in my prime I left my home in Caroline Now all I do is sit and pine For all those folks I left behind. I've got the Blue Ridge Mountain Blues And I stand right here to say My grip is packed to travel, and I'm scratchin'gravel To that Blue...

Watching the long faces Riding this rundown track And the lost places From a dream that never brings them back And the sad truth is Nothing but a cold hard fact I'm riding the blue train Over the miles yet to cover A ghost in a hurry to fade I'm tak...

Baby brought me in out off the highway Made me put my money in the bank, bank Straightened out my crooked way of thinking Made it purely pleasure when I drank And It's all right I've just hit my stride Right off the bat Lord, I'm drunk on Bluebird Wine...

Beneath her clothes, her heart is breaking Spends her mornings making lines Though her pain is real and aching All she owns are borrowed lines Doesn't know which side to be on Though she's trying every door Only needs the floor she sleeps on All she as...

I got a girl named Bony Moronie. She's as skinny as a stick of macaroni. Ought to see her rock and roll with her blue jeans on. She's not very fat, just skin and bone. But I love her and she loves me. We're all happy now as we can be. Making love underneath th...

Well I never did crawl and I never did toe the line No man is a master to me, I ain?t that kind I just put on my travelin? shoes If you wanna win, you just can?t lose the time Or stay behind Well I was born to run, to get ahead of the rest And all that...

I don't want to hear a love song I got on this airplane just to fly And I know there's life below me But all that it can show me is the prairie and the sky And I don't want to hear a sad story Full of heartbreak and desire The last time I felt like this...

You don't love me, this I know Don't need a Bible to tell me so I hung around a little too long I was good but now I'm gone Like the buffalo That boy from Tupelo Anyway the wind can blow That's where I'm gonna go I'll be gone like a Five and Dime It...

Darlin', you're tired I can see in your eyes I know how you feel We've been together Too long to conceal What's in our hearts? Maybe we should part But after so many years That would only bring loneliness Sorrow and tears and anyway I never would,...

Brass buttons, green silks and silver shoes Warm evenings, pale mornings, bottle of blues And the tiny golden pins that she wore up in her hair Brass buttons, green silks and silver shoes My mind was young until she grew My secret thoughts known only by the f...

Bright morning stars are rising, Bright morning stars are rising, Bright morning stars are rising, Day is a-breaking in my soul. Oh, where are our dear mothers, Day is a-breaking in my soul. They are down in the valley praying, Day is a-breaking in my...

I was once a broken man I was once a broken fool Lost my wife and children To one basic broken rule Now I live my life in silence Though I'm not quite in a shell I drink and listen to that song 'A Whiter Shade of Pale', oh A Whiter Shade of Pale I w...

First off you gotta wanna get off bad enough To wanna get on him in the first place And you better trust in your lady luck Pray to God she don't give up on you right now Live fast, die young, bull rider One hand hold is all you've got It's you and the bull a...

Keep that candle burnin' bright, mama I'll be kind of late tonight, mama There's a yellow moon above me, mama Shinin' on the one I love, mama Burn that candle night and day Burn that candle, honey, light our way Keep that doorway open wide Until we com...

You once dreamed of castles and merry go rounds To be Cinderella in an Alice movie Now side streets and back beats and what might have been lead you to nowhere again and again The curtain is calling, come take your bow, its getting too late for turning ba...

i was born on the bayou thirty miles of Layfayette my daddy was a cajun man lord he tought us how to plow i remember mama's breakfast cush cush and a kaye being served on a banyee oh i wish i had some now i'm a cajun born i'm a cajun bred when i die...

my drifiting memory goes back to the spring of 43 when i was just a child in mama's arms my daddy plowed the ground and prayed someday we might leave this rundown mortgaged oklahoma farm and then one night i heard my daddy saying to my mama that he'd finall s...

Those lives were mine to love and cherish. To guard and guide along life's way. Oh God forbid that one should perish. That one alas should go astray. Back in the years with all together, Around the place we'd romp and play. So lonely now and oft' times...

Oh, the walls are closing in I can feel it in my bones Like water risin' up to my chin Another long night to be alone I could go out on the town Talk too much and laugh too loud If I'm already on my way down I might as well just work the crowd Can yo...

Casey joins the hollow sound of silent people walking down The stairway to the subway in the shadows down below Following their footsteps through the neon-darkened corridors Of silent desperation, never speakin' to a soul The poison air he's breathin' has the...

All right Oh, yeah Got in a little trouble Down at the county seat Thrown to cook in the jail house for Loitering on the street When the judge heard the verdict I was a guilty man He said forty-five dollars or Forty days in the can Said, that'll be cash on...

The cattle are prowlin?, the coyotes are howlin? Way out where the dogies bawl Where spurs are a jinglin?, a cowboy is singin? This lonesome cattle call Woo, hoo, woo, ooo, ti, de Woo, hoo, ooo, oop, I, de, de Woo, hoo, woo, ooo, ti, de Yod, el, od, el...

It was a teenage wedding And the old folks wished them well You could see that pierre Did truly love the mademoiselle And now the young monsieur and madame Have rung the chapel bell "c'est la vie", say the old folks It goes to slow you never can tell T...

It takes one to know one, baby I know how you feel You got your hunger And some problems that are real And you're dealing with some demons Who are driving you insane And I've seen them drag you screaming Down the hallways of your brain And you got loaded aga...

When Joseph was an old man, an old man was he He married Virgin Mary, the Queen of Galilee He married Virgin Mary, the Queen of Galilee Mary and Joseph walk through an orchid green There were berries and cherries as thick as might be seen There were berries a...

Chief had been out of the army For 15 years or more He was still marching up and down that street Just like he was a-walking a war They called him the chief because he was Indian It was a name they said behind his back In the summer he'd march without any shoe...

Although you see the world Different from me, Sometimes I can touch upon The wonders that you see. All the new colors And pictures you've designed. Oh, yes sweet darling, So glad you are a child of mine, Child of mine, Child of mine, Oh, yes sweet darling, So...

Holly's in the window Home where the wind blows The cane foam's a-runnin' Christmas Time's A-Comin' Can't you hear them bells ringin', ringin' Joy, don'tcha hear them singin' When it's snowin', I'll be goin' Back to my country home Christmas Time's A...

Old brown clock ticking on my shelf Take my mind to someplace else Little gold clock ticking by my bed Funny little people dancing 'round my head Morning brings me things to do Morning brings me thoughts of you Gentle sunshine through the curtain lace...

Back through the years I go wondering once again Back to the seasons of my youth I recall a box of rags that someone gave us And how my mamma put these rags to use There were rags of many colours, and every piece was small And I didn't have a coat and it...

Colors of your heart Like the colors on a pinwheel Spinning around, turning away Colors of your eyes Tell me you're changing Tell me your leaving And that it's too late to try Colors of your heart Like the places you're going There's no way of knowin...

Travelling down a country road on a Sunday morning Saw a crowd gathered at the creek at a little country farm I thought that I'd go closer so I might see and hear Why they looked so happy there without a thing to fear Was a good old country baptizing I was at...

Everybody's had a few, now they're talking about who knows who? I'm going back to the Crescent City, where everything's still the same This town has said what it has to say, now I'm after that back highway And the longest bridge I've ever crossed over Pontc...

I can see all the way To Mercury from Mission Bay I can feel your frequency Just one more thing Cross yourself, cross yourself Come to me And no matter how hard you try You can no longer be Standing there where so many die Anticipating Over the new clear wat...

Cry one more time for you I really got it bad Cry one more time for you Lost the best I had Everthing's gone wrong I need another beer She's got her mind on leavin' That's what I'm doin' here Ain't no sense to talkin' I don't know what I'd say Ain't no sense...

You gave yourself up to the mystery And sailed the oceans looking for the secret of the key To unlock a truth that you may never find For it was in a cup of kindness all the time You feel the thirst but none can make you drink The answer's waiting for you her...

The sun is slowly sinkin' The day's almost gone Still darkness falls around us And we must journey on The darkest hour is just before dawn The narrow way leads home Lay down your soul at Jesus' feet The darkest hour is just before dawn Like a shepher...

So it's finally come, You have left this world, But we'll miss our Kate, Our darling girl! We held your hand, Kissed your lovely brow, And bid farewell You're sailing now Free from the pain You laid that burden down, But you're strong and giving heart, Will s...

The sun burned hot, it burned my eyes Burned so hot I thought I'd died Thought I'd died and gone to hell Lookin' for the water from a deeper well I went to the river but the river was dry I fell to my knees an I looked to the sky I looked to the sky and...

I live on a big blue ball I never do dream I may fall But even the day that I do I'll jump off and smile back at you I don't even know where we are But they tell us we're circling a star Well, I'll take their word I don't know But I'm dizzy so maybe th...

She's a devil in disguise, you can see it in her eyes She's tellin' dirty lies, she's a devil in disguise, in disguise Now a woman like that, all she does is hate you She doesn't know what makes a man a man She'll talk about the time that she's been with...

As each long day rolls by and falls behind me In the lonely night there's a peacefulness I've found Though I'm weary even then when I rise to start again There'll be a diamond, a diamond in my crown I have wasted all that life has laid before me I have w...

A kiss on the hand May be quite continental But diamonds are a girl's best friend A kiss may be grand But it won't pay the rental On your humble flat Or help you at the automat Men grow cold as girls grow old We all lose our charm in the end But square cut o...

go to sleep little babe go to sleep little babe your momma's gone away and your daddy's gonna stay didn't leave nobody but the baby go to sleep little babe go to sleep little babe everybody's gone in the cotton and the corn didn't leave nobody but th...

This old house is falling down around my ears I'm drowning in a river of my tears When all my will is gone you hold me sway I need you at the dimming of the day You pulled me like the moon pulls on the tide You know just where I keep my better side What days...

Oh sometimes I go walkin' through fields where we walked Long ago in the sweet used to be And the flowers still grow but they don't smell as sweet As they did when you picked them for me And when I think of you and the love we once knew How I wish we coul...

We've paid in hell since Moscow burned As Cossacks tear us piece by piece Our dead are strewn a hundred leagues Though death would be a sweet release And our grande arm¨¦e is dressed in rags A frozen starving beggar band Like rats we steal each other's scrap...

I've been around in Donkey Town Too long baby too long Checking out of Donkey Town So long, so long, so long Her pretty eyes are pretty still But Jim's got a kind of a squint Yeah I dug up my last check from out of the mine Now I feel like I've done my stint...

I hope that I won’t be that wrong anymore Maybe I’ve learned this time I hope that I find what I’m reaching for The way that it is in my mind [Chorus] Someday I’ll get over you And I’ll live to see it all through But I’ll always miss Dreaming my dreams with y...

Out on the perilous deep, where danger silently creeps, and storm's so violently sweeping, You're drifting too far from shore. chorus: Drifting too far from shore, You're drifting too far from shore, Come to Jesus today, Let Him show you the way. You'...

Well, all I want is a love that's hot Can't be sold, can't be bought Yeah, love that don't try to be somethin' it's not Well, all I need is a love that's real None can rob and none can steal Hey, love that moves like a drivin' wheel Well, all I want is...

He's a drug store truck drivin' man He's the head of the Ku Klux Klan When summer rolls around He'll be lucky if he's not in town Well, he's got him a house on the hill He plays country records till you've had your fill He's a fireman's friend he's an all nig...

These things happen Love never comes with a guarantee No hard feelings But it looks like this love was never meant to be That's easy for you to say You've got another who's willing and waiting for you That's easy for you to say You're not the one with...

There he goes gone again Same old story's gotta come to an end Lovin' him was a one way street But I'm gettin' off where the crossroads meet Quarter moon in a ten cent town It's time for me to lay my heartaches down Saturday night gonna make myself a na...

She stands on the banks of mighty Mississippi Alone in the pale moonlight Waitin' for a man, a riverboat gambler Said that he'd return tonight They used to waltz on the banks of the mighty Mississippi Lovin' the whole night through He was a riverboat ga...

She's a rounder I can tell you that She can sing 'em all night, too She'll raise hell about the sleep she lost But even cowgirls get the blues Especially cowgirls, they're the gypsy kind And need their laid on 'em loose She's lived to see the world turn...

In the time of my confession, in the hour of my deepest need When the pool of tears beneath my feet, flood every newborn seed There's a dyin' voice within me, reaching out somewhere Toiling in the danger and in the morals of despair Don't have the inclination...

Everybody's talkin' at me I don't hear a word their sayin' Only the echoes of my mind People stop and stare I 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 s...

Every time you leave You tear the soul from me I die a little more Each time part I can't control my dreams My heart can't seem to learn To turn and lock its door When you return I know that you'll come back again As soon as you get blue And I know...

I'll take you with me everywhere I go I'll put you in my pocket; who will know? Right next to my heart at every show I'll take you with me everywhere I go No matter where our trails will finally wind Our paths will just keep crossing; yours and mine Until the...

come all you fair and tender ladies take warning how you court your men there like a star on a summer morning they first appear and then there gone they'll tell to you some loving story then they make you think that they love you well then away they'll go to...

I'm falling down I need to sleep Come a long long way No time for weepin No time for weepin Quiet now I'm falling down I'm falling down I have heard A million tales I have told A million more Some of them Must have been true But I don't know anym...

Tempted and tried we're oft made to wonder Why it should be thus all the day long While there are others living about us Never molested though in the wrong When death has come and taken our loved ones It leaves a home so lonely and drear Then do we wond...

Well I really had a ball last night I held all the pretty boys tight I was feelin' single, seein' double Wound up in a whole lotta trouble But today I'll face the big fight But I really had a ball last night When I came home from work this morning My ba...

Somethin' in your eyes, makes me wanna lose myself Makes me wanna lose myself, in your arms There's somethin' in your voice, makes my heart beat fast Hope this feeling lasts, the rest of my life If you knew how lonely my life has been And how long I've been s...

Just yesterday mornin', they let me know you were gone Suzanne the plans they made put an end to you I walked out this morning and I wrote down this song I just can't remember who to send it to I've seen fire and I've seen rain I've seen sunny days that I tho...

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 to win She p...

Keep the fire burning in your eyes Pay attention to the open sky You'll never know what will be coming down I don't remember losing track of you You're always dancing in and out of view I must have thought you would always be around Always keeping thing...

The day breaks your mind aches You find that all her words Of kindness linger on She no longer needs you She wakes up, she makes up She takes her time And doesn't feel she has to hurry She no longer needs you And in her eyes you see nothing No sign...

When you wrote me you said you were sorry And you'd still want me for your friend But now your heart no longer beats for me I guess forever has come to and end Now it must be like I never loved you Like your sweet kiss was never mine I must move on and stop th...

Call happy calling children are falling In line to ride on the merry-go-round People are passing children are laughing They want to ride on the merry-go-round Doesn't matter when you came Every ride is just the same Do not worry how it's done There is...

I never thought I'd need you But now I find I'm wrong Come on back, sweet mama Back where you belong I've rambled over town To find that I can't win Come on back and pick me up again Now, if I lose (If I lose) Let me lose (Let me lose) I don't car...

Gliding bird gliding through the sky I'm wondering why I can't be why I can't be as free Gliding bird gliding all day long Sing your secret song away from all these faces that I see Is where I want to be My feet are so tired They walked too many miles...

There where no cuckoos, no sycamores We played about the forest floor Underneath the silver maples, the balsams and the sky We popped the heads off dandelions Assuming roles from nursery rhymes Rested on the riverbank And grew up by and by, and grew up b...

Oh, the night is growing colder And the stars have lost their shine And I have been forsaken By everything I thought was mine For in the darkest hour When the final story's told No matter how bright I glittered, baby I could never be gold You gave up...

Oh I'll pawn you my gold watch and chain love And I'll pawn you my gold wedding ring I will pawn you this heart in my bosom Only say that you'll love me again Darling, how could I stay here without you I have nothing to ease my poor heart This old world...

Sweet babe, a golden cradle holds thee Soft, thy mother's arms enfold thee Fairest flowers are strew before thee Sweet birds warble o'er thee So sleep, my babe, and dream away sorrow Peace until you wake tomorrow I will guard thine infant slumber Angel...

Darkness falls and you withdraw Your humour disappears It's been this way for years It's nothing new Come around and don't look down You'll never see the sun You'll never see the one Who's loving you You've got to hold your head up, darling Never let...

I remember holdin' on to you, All them long and lonely nights I put you through. Somewhere in there I'm sure I made you cry, But I can't remember if we said goodbye. But I recall all of them nights down in Mexico One place I may never go in my life again. Was...

Sometimes I feel like I'm drownin' in teardrops My eyes are so tired of The trouble I've seen Then you fell from the heavens Right into this sad place Remembering God for awhile in your dreams And you look to me now So I greet the new day With the eyes of...

Troubles and trials often betray those On in the weary body to stray But we shall walk beside the still waters With the Good Shepherd leading The Way Those who have strayed were sought by The Master He who once gave His life for the sheep Out on the mou...

The green rolling hills of West Virginia Are the nearest thing to heaven that I know Though the times are sad and drear And I cannot linger here They'll keep me and never let me go My daddy said don't ever be a miner For a miner's grave is all you'll ev...

Well, you ask me if I'll forget my baby I guess I will some day I don't like it But I guess things happen that way You ask me if I'll get along I guess I will some way I don't like it But I guess things happen that way God gave me that girl to lean o...

Hey sweet daddy, are you ready for me It's your good rockin' mama down from Tennessee Well I'm just outta Austin bound for San Antone With the radio blastin' and the bird dog on There's a speed trap up ahead south of town But no local yokel's gonna shut...

Gulf Coast Highway, he worked the rails He worked the rice fields with their cold dark wells He worked the oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico The only thing we've ever owned is this old house here by the road And when he dies He says he'll catch some blackbi...

If you love me half as much as I love you You wouldn't worry me half as much as you do You're nice to me when there's no one else around You only build me up let me down If you missed me half as much as I miss you You wouldn't stay away half as much as you do...

Well I'm hanging up my heart, in the lodge in the bunkhouse I don't wanna be wounded by the wrong kind of love No more rodeo dances, no more howling at the moonlight I'm gonna give 'em up, and I'm hanging up my heart. Late in the night, been working every day...

Daddy had a 1949 Ford When I was just about ten years old We would listen to 'Hank And Lefty' on the radio Why don't you love me like you used to do? And just look what thoughts will do Old 'Hank And Lefty', raised my country soul Now I learned how to...

I'm a bit run down, but I'm okay Just feel like callin' it a day But you send me back to the start You drive a hard bargain Each time I'm headin' for nowhere Doomed and determined to go there It seems I never get far You drive a hard bargain You drive a hard...

Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears While we all sup sorrow with the poor. There's a song that will linger forever in our ears, Oh, hard times, come again no more 'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary. Hard times, hard times, come ag...

A light shines from my window Just can't sleep no more Lord, it hurts so much to be alone But the real men never do admit It's them that might be wrong At least that's what he told me in his song He rode all the way to Texas On an old freight train Di...

You asked me if I've met your baby, I have to say ?It's been some time now but it seems like yesterday He was mine for awhile We had good times, we went in style? ?But now he's yours, treat him kind Yes, I remember well when he was mine? You say, he me...

Heart to heart, we'll hold together Hand in hand, we'll find a way Oh, the storms of life may blind us But with the loving vows that bind us Heart to heart, hand in hand we'll stay, side by side forever and always Day by day, till our lives are done Thi...

Long long time ago when we were young You swore to me, I would be the one I would be the one you loved But we had to part You asked me to wait for you To keep you in my heart To keep you in my heart Night after lonely night I'm waiting for you still...

Hearts on fire My love for you brought only misery Hearts on fire Put out the flames and set this cold heart free One short year our love burned Until at last I guess you learned The art of being untrue and then goodbye What could I do except to cry and moan L...

When they carried you into the parlor Your wounds were the worst I'd seen Cold as snow, your body trembled Cradled in the arms of morphine All the kinfolk cried out loud "Good Shepherd, save this man" But you whispered with icy breath "It is not in His...

Every night it's the same I feel your heart turn cold as rain And know that you'll be gone again I hear the front door close You say you got to go downtown I guess there's someone else you've found So why you're still coming round Heaven only knows H...

Hello stranger Put your loving hand in mine Hello stranger Put your loving hand in mine You are a stranger And you're a friend of mine Get up, rounder Let a working girl lay down Get up, rounder Let a working girl lay down You are a rounder And you...

I am standing by the river I will be standing here forever Though you're on the other side My face you still can see Why won't you look at me? Here I am Here I am I am searching through the canyon It is your name that I am calling Though you're so f...

Here, making each day of the year Changing my life with a wave of his hand Nobody can deny that there's something there There, running my hands through his hair Both of us thinking how good it can be Someone is speaking, but he doesn't know she's there I want...

Did you say that you've been searching for a place you've never been Well here it is, here it is And you've down there on the bottom and looking out for friends Here I am, here I am We've both grown tired of running after rainbows Here we are, darlin', here w...

Here making each day of the year Changing my life with one wave of his hand Nobody can deny that there's something there There running my hands thru his hair Both of us thinking how good it can be someone is speaking But he doesn't know she's there I wa...

In South Carolina, there are many tall pines I remember the oak tree, that we used to climb But it makes me feel better each time it begins Callin' me home Hickory Wind I started out younger at most everything All the riches and pleasures, what else coul...

I've been running low on inspiration Tired of that physical intrigue There's nothing left to imagination Living in a world that treats love so carelessly I don't want no smooth talkin' lover I can't play the role It just leaves me cold I need a high p...

I've been higher than the High Sierra lower than Death Valley must be I've been right mostly wrong wrong about you right about me The way I feel can't explain so much passion turned to pain The sun still shines most of the time did you know the sun shines...

onight as I lay on a boxcar just waiting for a train to pass by What will become of the hobo whenever his time comes to die Has the Master up yonder in heaven got a place that we might call our home Will we have to work for a livin' or can we continue to ro...

What happened to a mother's love? What happened to your daddy's pride? Know you always had enough Know they were right by your side Happened to that ball of fire Got out on that open road Now nothin' but your own desire Lighten up this heavy load Hol...

I live out here in the wind and the pouring rain Somewhere between 14th Avenue and Main In the summer heat, the winter's freezing snow You see I got nowhere else to go Got no home sweet home Into this world, some are bound to roam And it's long hard road we'v...

Yes, you loved me and you sold my clothes I love you, but that's the way that it goes So it goes Yes, you know how I feel So it goes It just couldn't be real And we know it's wrong And I don't think it's gonna go on When I come home carrying my shoes...

I have seen your soul turn black And then retreat To that dark place where no one else may follow I waited here for your returning To roll your cigarette And wash your bloodied feet You have heard the silent running Of my dreams Broke me from the grip...

Somewhere there's music, how faint the tune Somewhere there's heaven, how high the moon There is no moon above and love is far away too 'Till it comes true that you love me and I love you Somewhere there's music, how near, how far Somewhere there's heaven tha...

Darling, there is something I must tell you, you must know. But it's so hard to say the words I feel. This fancy that I'm on has been going on too long. It's time we stopped pretending things are real. 'Cause I've been living deep in sin. I've been living blin...

How she could sing the wildwood flower The orphan girl he would love so long In the end he knew she'd been his finest hour And all he has left of her is a song He first saw her Standing by a cabin door Her song was ringing Out in a voice so strong and...

ou looked for trouble and you found it son Straight down the barrel of a lawman's gun You'd try to run but you don't think you can You make one move and you're dead man, friend I ain't living long like this I can't live at all like this, can I baby He sl...

I can't dance I never could I guess my feet don't match I'd get out there on the floor but I'm afraid of hurtin' my back I can't dance I guess I'm just one of the unfortunate few So just for a little bit, Baby I'll come out and dance with you But I can't dan...

Today I passed you on the street And my heart fell at your feet I can't help it if I'm still in love with you Somebody else stood by your side And she looked so satisfied I can't help it if I'm still in love with you A picture from the past came slowly stealin...

She never wanted a baby It would just complicate her life But after years of wine and roses She became somebody's wife And he had always dreamed of children So she reluctantly gave in And when she held her newborn daughter She felt her life finally begin She...

When you look at me Like you don't know me And you talk to me Like you've never met me I can leave you alone if i try If I tried I could tell you goodbye If I wanted to I could be long gone And I don't have to crawl Then you call on me As if I should run to...

Don't love you much do I Just more than human tongue can tell and that's all I don't love you much do I Remember how I kissed you in the hall [Chorus: x2] See how it sparkles in my eyes I couldn't hide it if I tried- that's right I don't love you much do I Ju...

God knows how I love you Like a user needs a drug And I'll never be free of ya You are poison in my blood I tried to swim that river And get to higher ground But I've been three times under The next one'll see me drown But I don't want to talk about...

I dug up a diamond Rare and fine I dug up a diamond In a deep dark mine If only I could cling to My beautiful find I dug up a diamond In a deep dark mine My gem is special Beyond all worth As strong as any metal Or stone in the earth Sharp as any razor Or bla...

Though the miles are between us I thought our love would strengthen As it has so many times before But something has happened I can see it in your eyes I can feel my world is crumblin' and the blues are at my door The last letter that you wrote was on a bl...

On our wedding day did you lie Did you know that someday you'd say goodbye Now that you're gone another just won't do I had my heart set on you We were so young when we met Sweet memories linger yet You were the one who made my dreams come true I had my heart...

I hear a call, now will I answer? Forsake my all to serve another Though darkness falls stay a believer I hear a call, now will I answer? I see a light, now will I follow? Fill up this life that grows more hollow Make joy reside where there lives sorrow...

When all your loves have ended When all your friends have flown Who'll be around to want you When all your loves have gone Only a fool would do it After the way you've done But how many fools would have you I know one This fool keeps wonderin' why He fell in...

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

At my door the leaves are falling The cold wild wind will come Sweethearts walk by together And I still miss someone No I never got over those blue eyes I see them everywhere I miss those arms that held me When all the love was there I go out on a party To l...

I take the chance to lose my soul, my life, my pride I take the chance to be with you I've tried to live my life the best I can I've prayed I'd never cheat to heed my heart's command But dear you know to one I've been untrue I wonder if you think I'd do...

I think I love him think I knew the first time He called my name and said 'You are my sunshine' I think I love him think I knew the hour He held me close and said you are my flower 

In my imagination You are my dear companion And I'm the one you cling to And your voice still calls my voice Before your heart began to wander And mine was torn asunder Before the fairer and the younger Before the cryin' game All those girls with the...

Close your eyes, close the door You don't have to worry anymore I'll be your baby tonight Shut the light, shut the shade Oh, you don't have to be afraid I'll be your baby tonight Oh well, that mockingbird is gonna sail away We're gonna forget it And that big...

If they'll play another love song If that Miller High life light stays dim And if you'll keep my glass full of whiskey I'll whisper words I wish I'd said to him Just ask me to dance all the slow ones Hold me close and take me 'cross the floor I'll gentl...

Don't think that I'll be hangin' 'round while you're havin' fun I won't sit there cryin' over you Well from now on when you step out I'll tell you what I'll do I'll lock the door, put out the cat and I'll go steppin' too Yes I'll go steppin' too, my honey...

What do you get when you fall in love? A girl with a pin to burst your bubble That's what you get for all your trouble I'll never fall in love again I'll never fall in love again What do you get when you kiss a girl? You get enough germs to catch pneumo...

Down every road there's always one more city I'm on the run, the highway is my home I raised a lot of cane back in my younger days While Mama used to pray my crops would fail Now I'm a hunted fugitive with just two ways: Outrun the law or spend my life in jai...

Love it's not I who didn't try Hard enough, hard enough And this is why I'm saying goodbye I've had enough, I've had enough Love you don't see The pain in me That's plain enough, plain enough You're never here to catch the tears I cried for us, I cried for us...

She came on to him like a slow moving cold front His beer was warmer that the look in her eye She sat on the stool, and she said "What do you want She said Give me a love that don't freeze up inside He said, I have melted some hearts in my time dear But t...

Down in the valley while on my knees I asked my Jesus carry please He promised that he'd take care of me If I would lift him up He said if I Be lifted up He said if I Be lifted up I 'll be your father I'll be your mother I'll be your sister And you...

If I could be there I'd be there tonight, comforting you This road I'm on is so far away Too far away If God would grant me wings to fly I'd be in your arms by and by If I could be there I'd be there tonight, comforting you If I could be there I'd l...

If I could only win your love I'd make the most of everything I'd proudly wear your wedding ring My heart would never stray when we're away If I could only win your love I'd give my all to make it live You'll never know how much I'd give If I could onl...

If I needed you would you come to me Would you come to me for to ease my pain If you needed me I would come to you I would swim the seas for to ease your pain Well the night's forlorn and the morning's born And the morning shines with the lights of love...

My famous last words Are laying around in tatters Sounding absurd Whatever I try But I love you And that's all that really matters If this is goodbye If this is goodbye You bright shining sun Would light up the way before me You were the one Made me feel I co...

If you were a bluebird you'd be a sad one I'd give you a true word but you've already had one If you were a bluebird you'd be crying You'd be flying home If you were a raindrop you'd shine like a rainbow And if you were a train stop the conductor would s...

Every night I dream about him In my world of fantasy I pretend that we're together In his world there's a garden in the moonlight In his world there's a sweet and gentle breeze In his world, oh he tells me that he loves me That's where my heart wants to...

When the sun goes down on the other side of town tonight And the world is asleep dreamin' in the deep moonlight I'll slip away in the shadows out of your life You don't want' me anymore so I'll close the door when I leave My bags are packed and I'll give...

In my hour of darkness, in my time of need Oh Lord, grant me wisdom oh, Lord grant me speed Once I knew a young man went driving through the night Miles and miles without a word but just his high beam lights Who'd have ever thought they'd build such a deadly...

I remember those nights down in Rodanthe Through the storm, through the darkness, I am ending I never knew I was so lost until you touched me And I was set free In the hours, the sky was wide and weeping You broke me from a secret I been keeping Before yo...

I couldn’t sleep last night, just walk the floor Don’t know how I’ll stand this anymore Lonely all the time since I lost you Received your invitation to the blues I don’t know why you cause me such pain I just hope I’ll never go through this much again [Chor...

I am a backseat driver from America We drive to the left on Falls Road And the man at the wheel's name is Seamus We pass a child on the corner he knows And Seamus says, now what chance has that kid got And I say from the back, I don't know He says there'...

He was always there each time I needed you, Holding on to me like I held on to you We still don't have what you and I once had No, It's Not Love, But it's not bad. No, It's Not Love, not like our love It's Not Love, But it keeps love from driving me mad...

Well, it's only rock and roll keep you running from yourself When the only way to slow down is to fall And it's only rock and roll that caused you to leave home When the only way to get back is to crawl But the record people love you they can get you on t...

J'ai fait tout, j'ai fait tout Ce que j'ai pu J'ai fait tout, j'ai fait tout Ce que j'ai pu I have seen some trouble Been around the say Rode the streetcar of desire and I paid And if you want a witness I will testify To what I saw through a wandering eye 'Cau...

Goodbye Joe, me gotta go, me, oh, my, oh Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou My Yvonne, sweetest one, me, oh, my, oh Son of a gun, we're gonna have big fun on the bayou Well jambalaya, craw fish pie and fill a gumbo 'Cause tonight I'm gonna see my che...

Man you should have seen me way back then I could tell a tale, I could make a spin I could tell you black was white I could tell you day was night Not only that I could tell you why Back then I could really tel a lie Well I'd hire a kid to say he was lam...

Jesus loves me! This I know, For the Bible tells me so. Little ones to Him belong; They are weak, but He is strong. [Chorus: x2] Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me! The Bible tells me so. Jesus loves me! This I know, As He loved so...

Come in as you tread life's journey Take Jesus as your daily guide Though you may feel pure and safely Without Him walking by your side But when you come to make the crossing At the ending of your pilgrim's way If you ever will meet our Savior You'll su...

No affection were the words That stuck on my mind When she walked out on me For the very last time Oh mama, sweet mama Can you tell me what to say I don't know what I've done To be treated this way In a cold dirty room That's where I found myself W...

Why don't you call me? Do you think I won't answer? Jupiter's rising And the moon is in cancer You've been down in the hunger, baby I been around there too Tonight you could be in the arms of The arms of a woman who loves you You got your questions...

There's a picture that I carry One we made sometime ago When they ask who's in the picture with me I say just someone I use to know Just someone I use to spend some time with Just a flame that lost its glow And I don't tell them how lost I am without yo...

Come gather round me boys and lend an ear I've got some things I think you all should hear It's time to shift into another gear I've reached my final destination bought a radio station And she's fifty thousand watts pure and clear K-S-O-S help is on the w...

I'll never swim Kern River again It was there that I met him There that I lost my best friend Now I live in the mountains I drifted up here with the wind And I may drown in still water But I'll never swim Kern River again He grew up in an oil town But...

Well, it's said my life has been so free and easy But I'll tell you now the story isn't so 'Cause I've spent a lot of time down on the corner Tasting tears and spilling whiskey on the floor Such a shame that it's so hard for me to tell the truth to you but by...

O ye yaie mais rappelle toi Petite fille tout les accroires Les promesses ca tu m'as fait Tu connais je merite pas ca Tu m'as dit toi tu m'aimais Chere mais aujourd'hui Aujourd'hui t'es apres me quitter Moi je connais ca me fait du mal O ye yaie mais...

Mary took to running with a travelin' man Left her momma crying with her head in her hands Such a sad case, so broken hearted She say, ?Momma, got to go, gotta get outta here Gotta get out of town, tired of hanging around I gotta roll on between the ditc...

Hail, hail to the newborn king Let our voices sing him our praises Hail, hail to the guiding light That brought us tonight to our savior Ale, alleluia, alle, alleluia Ale, alleluia, alle, alleluia Come now, there it shines so bright To the knowing lig...

Hail, hail to the newborn king Let our voices sing him our praises Hail, hail to the guiding light That brought us tonight to our savior Ale, alleluia, alle, alleluia Ale, alleluia, alle, alleluia Come now, there it shines so bright To the knowing li...

Roses are red Violets are blue Primrose is pale On the velvet green hue Warm summer days Like cool water falls Like music we hear Those things we'll always hold dear Like an old fashioned waltz When the moonlight shines down On the Hollywood world...

Like strangers, that's what we are Darlin', how can lovers pull apart so far Like strangers, how can it be? Only days ago, we loved so tenderly I love you, truly I do And I hope deep in your heart You love me too Let's forget that we've been angry Le...

If I had a bird, a little bird I would teach that bird to sing your name Prettiest song that you have ever heard And your indifferent heart I will claim So be off, my little bird Fly away, fly away and when my love you see Only then, my little bird Cry...

Come they told me Pa rum pum pum pum A new born King to see Pa rum pum pum pum Our finest gifts we bring Pa rum pum pum pum To lay before the King Pa rum pum pum pum Rum pum pum pum Rum pum pum pum So to honor you Pa rum pum pum pum When we come Baby Jesus...

Just about a year ago I set out on the road Seekin' my fame and fortune Lookin' for a pot of gold Things got bad and things got worse I guess you know the tune Oh Lord, stuck in Lodi again Came in on a greyhound I'll be walkin' out if I vow I was just passin...

It seems to me lately The days are growing shorter The years are going faster And time is flying by I wake up in the morning And before I even notice The sun is going down And I'm left to wonder why I'm a lonely girl in a lonely world I never thought my life...

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...

We've been through some things together With trunks of memories still to come We found things to do in stormy weather Long may you run Long may you run Long may you run Although these changes have come With your chrome heart shining in the sun Long may you ru...

Well, tonight I'm gonna wear my dancin' shoes 'Cause I heard the word and I heard the news There's a gal in town she's packin' 'em in If you've seen her once you'll see her again She's got a red hot dynamite band They're burnin' down another one night st...

It's over our love affair Too late now I find I care Her sweet love Never more I'll share Now she's gone, I'm alone I was wrong should have known Took her home After our last date I searched for a simple way To tell her what I had to say I kissed h...

Lost On The River, Dark Is The Night Just Like The Blind, Praying For Site Drifting Alone, Heart Filled With Fright I'm lost On The River The River Of Life Once Dear I Thought I Knew The Way That Was Before Old Sad Yesterday Words That You Said Cut Like...

Hmm ohh ohh Hmm hmm hmm ohh I was once some mother's darlin' Some daddy's little girl More a precious than the ruby More cherished than the pearl My heart was full of mercy And my forehead full of curl Now I am nothing and I'm lost unto this world I...

Here's a wishing well Here's a penny for Any thought it is That makes you smile Every diamond dream Everything that brings Love and happiness To your life Here's a rabbit's food Take it when you go So you'll always know You're safe from harm Wear your ruby sh...

Love hurts, love scars, love wounds and mars Any heart not tough nor strong enough To take a lot of pain, take a lot of pain Love is like a cloud, holds a lot of rain Love hurts, love hurts I'm young, I know but even so I know a thing or two I've learned from...

Love is a shiny car Love is a steel guitar Love is a battle scar Love is a morning song Love is a twelve-bar blues Love is your blue suede shoes Love is a heart abused Love is a mind confused And love is the pleasures I'm told And for some love is still a ban...

I went home to a place I swore I'd never see again Though it's different now there's hardly anything that hasn't changed And the friends I know have grown and moved away But the love I felt for you still remains I walked down past the buildings, stand empty an...

Go to sleep, may your sweet dreams come true Just lay back in my arms for one more night I've this crazy old notion that calls me sometimes Saying this one's the love of our lives. Cause I know a love that will never grow old And I know a love that will...

Oh the sun's gonna shine in my life once more Love's gonna live here again Thing's are gonna be the way they were before Love's gonna live here again Love's gonna live here Love's gonna live here Love's gonna live here again No more loneliness Only h...

And so you have come back to me and say the old loves growing yet You've tried through all these weary years you've tried too vainly to forget Oh no I cannot take your hand God never gives is back our youth The loving heart you slighted then was yours my fr...

You call me from a phone booth with tears in your voice Tell me you've been out all night runnin' with the boys You say you're cold and tired and lonely And you got no place to go There wasn't any phonebook Mine's the only number that you know Well call...

The wind is a warning these fields turn to sand My family will not answer me now Damned damned damned I am loving the highway man Damned damned damned I am loving the highway man Damned damned damned I am loving the highway man Don't say where this ring...

Luxury liner, forty tons of steel If I don't find my baby now I guess I never will I've been a long lost soul For a long, long time I've been around Everybody ought to know what's on my mind You think I'm lonesome, so do I So do I Well, I'm the kind...

Making believe, that you still love me It's leaving me alone and so blue Still I'll always dream, but I'll never own you Making believe, it's all I can do Can't hold you close when you're not with me You're somebody's love, you'll never be mine Making b...

You say tomorrow you're going that's so hard for me to believe I'm making plans for the heartaches cause you're making plans to leave The tears for me will be falling like a tree shedding its leaves I'm making plans for the teardrops cause you're making pla...

A canvas covered cabin in a crowded labour camp Stand out in this memory I revived; Cause my daddy raised a family there, with two hard working hands And tried to feed my mama's hungry eyes. He dreamed of something better, and my mama's faith was strong And us...

There's a place out on the edge of town sir Risin' above the factories and fields Now ever since I was a child I can remember That mansion on the hill In the day you can see the children playing On a road that leads to those gates of hardened steel Steel...

She'd slip away each day with the dimming light And with the sweetest smile she'd kiss the child goodnight At the mill she'd work her fingers till they were raw For the sake of her son and the daddy he never saw Mary danced with soldiers She stepped a light q...

Waterfall Nothing can go wrong Nothing can go wrong My sweet waterfall When I go When I go down deep I want you here with me My sweet waterfall I can see A rainbow calling me Through your mystery My sweet waterfall Waterfall For a million day...

Maybe tonight I'll get lucky I've been lonely too long Maybe tonight some dark stranger Will hear me singing this song I've been down, I've played around I don't like it that way Love, won't you treat me right Maybe tonight? Maybe this time I'll be s...

Last night I dreamed about you I dreamed that you were older You were looking like Picasso With a scar across your shoulder You were kneeling by the river You were digging up the bodies Buried long ago Michelangelo Last night I dreamed about you I dreamed yo...

Now my grandfather was a sailor, He blew in off the water My father was a farmer I, his only daughter, Took up with a no-good millworking man from Massachusetts Who dies from too much whiskey And leaves me these three faces to feed Millwork ain't easy;...

I'm growing tired on the big city lights Tired of the glamor and tired of the sights In all my dreams, I am roaming once more Back to my home on the old river shore I am sad and weary, far away from home Miss the Mississippi and you Days are dark and dreary e...

Mister Sandman, bring me a dream Make him the cutest that I've ever seen Give him two lips like roses in clover Then tell him that his lonesome nights are over Sandman, I'm so alone Don't have nobody to call my own Please turn on your magic beam Mister sandma...

For many long years I've played a lone hand I rode my horse in many strange lands Until one day I stopped for awhile For two blue eyes and a sunny smile So howl away you old coyote I hear your sad and lonesome song You're calling me back to old Montana...

Followed your road till the sky ran out Followed your love till love was in doubt I Followed your love till it never really was at all Feeling stupid and hollow Now the moon's gonna follow me home Waited for you till the snow fell down Over my skin like...

That big eighteen-wheeler, rollin' down the track Means your true-lovin' daddy ain't comin' back 'Cause I'm movin'on, I'll soon be gone You were flyin' too high, for my little old sky So I'm movin' on That big loud whistle, as it blew and blew Said hello to t...

He said, "Oh my love, oh my Antonia You with the dark eyes and palest of skin Tonight, I am going from Santa Maria Wait for me till I'm in your arms once again" She held me, she kissed me, begged me not to leave her To cross on the mountain, my fortune to win...

My baby needs a shepherd, she's lost out on the hill Too late, I tried to call her when the night was cold and still And I tell myself I'll find her but I know I never will My baby needs a shepherd, she's lost out on the hill My baby needs an angel, she n...

Oh have you seen my dear companion for he was all this world to me I hear he's gone to some far country and that he cares no more for me I wish I were a swallow flying I'd fly to a high and lonesome place I'd join the wild birds in their crying thinking of...

(Bruce Springsteen) Last night I dreamed that I was a child Out where the pines grow wild and tall I was trying to make it home through the forest Before the darkness falls I heard the wind rustling through the trees And ghostly voices rose from the fi...

I was born a black boy My name is Emmett Till I walked this earth for fourteen years Then one night I was killed For speaking to a woman Whose skin was as white as dough That's a sin in Mississippi But how was I to know I'd come down from Chicago To visit wit...

Songbird in a golden cage She'd prefer the blue How I crave the liquor of her song Poor bird who has done no harm What harm could she do She shall be my prisoner her lifelong My songbird wants her freedom Now, don't you think I know But I can't find...

Train arrive 16 coaches long Train arrive 16 coaches long Well, that long black train Took my baby back home Train train, rolling round the bend Train train, rolling round the bend Well, it took my baby Away from me again Went down to the station To...

There'll never be anyone else But you for me Never ever be, just couldn't be Anyone else but you If I could take my pick of all The boys I've ever known Then I'd come and pick you out To be my very own There'll never be anyone else But you for me N...

My Lord how the rains came down The waters made a mighty sound When the levees broke that day Washin' all those souls away The whole world stood to watch us drown But we took it to a higher ground It takes more than a hurricane To empty out the Pontchartrain...

I remember those nights down in Rodanthe Through the storm, through the darkness how you held me I never knew I was so lost until you touched me And I was set free In the hours while the sky was wild and weepy You broke me from the secret I'd been keeping...

I know your leaving is too long overdue For far too long I've had nothing new to show to you Thru dry eyes I watched your plane Fade off west of the moon And it felt so strange to walk away alone No regrets no tears goodbye Don't want you back we'd only...

Ridin' on her bicycle to school A little girl out breakin' all the rules She don't care about the birds and the bees She's too busy skinnin' both her knees With the arms of a loving childhood Wrapped around her All the wonders of the world surround her And wit...

Come lay by my side, little darlin' Come lay your cool hand on my brow And promise me that you will always Be nobody's darlin' but mine You're as sweet as the flowers of springtime You're as pure as the dew from the rose I'd rather be somebody's, darlin...

Oh my darling I miss you so How I loved you you'll never know Though it's time for me to let you go Oh my darling I'll miss you so Can't believe you're really gone for good I still hold on to places you once stood I should move on but I never could Rea...

Oh, yeah, yeah My doll, oh Da, da, re Oh Evangeline, you've been gone so long And for a time it seemed every road you took turned wrong But a second chance would come with each new bridge you burned I know you squandered some but then from some you lear...

O little town of Bethlehem, How still we see the lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by; Yet in thy dark streets shineth The everlasting Light; The hopes and fears of all the years Are met in thee to-night. For Christ is born o...

Well, there's a place down Kentucky Said right down near Ohio You can watch the planes at night People line up to watch each flight I said a-watchin' them planes Well I wish I was on one Sittin' here thinkin' 'bout my crazy dream If I could only see hi...

Fire on the asphalt, L.A. freeway Santa Anna windstorm, come blow me away 'Cause this rearview mirror could use some adjustment Some other reflection, some other place. Oh, Cumberland, I'm a faithful son No matter where I go, I hear you calling me The M...

Well I went down to Houston and I stopped in San Antone I passed up the station for the bus Was trying to find me something but I wasn't sure just what I ended up with pockets full of dust. So I went on to Cleveland and ended up insane Bought a borrowed suit...

I spent a lifetime making up my mind to be More than the measure what I thought others could see Good luck and fast bucks are too far and too few between Cadillac buyers and old five and dimers like me Yes, she stood beside me letting me know who she woul...

We are Counting the stars Out in the night Round an old yellow moon With you Right by my side I got nothing to hide From an old yellow moon And now As I turn back the years So little I've learned About heartache and tears But still I'm making my way Into th...

It's over our love affair Too late now I find I care His sweet love no more I'll share Now he's gone I'm alone I was wrong should have known Took me home on our last date I search for a single way To tell him what I had to say I kissed him watched him...

Someone found the letter you wrote me on the radio And they told the world just how you felt It must've fallen out of a hole in your old brown overcoat They never said your name but I knew just who they meant Oh, I was so surprised and shocked and I wondered...

ydam i solider of the cross a follower of the lamb and shall i fear to own his cause or blush to speak his name (chours) on the sea (the sea the sea) of galilee (of galilee) my jesus is walking on the sea on the sea (the sea the sea) of galilee (of g...

Let's take a ride to the seaside We can go out swimming in the high tide Just wear your shorts and your long hair Don't forget the lawn chair Everybody's gone to the movies Everybody's gone and it's groovy They went to the one about the big war I didn't, I'd...

I won't have to chop no wood I can be bad or I can be good I can be any way that I feel One of these days Might be a woman that's dressed in black Be a hobo by the railroad track I'll be gone like the wayward wind One of these days One of these days it will...

Cowboys and Indians and trees he could climb Tomorrow came too fast but he didn't mind The distance was short so light it again It don't take no time to get where I am But one paper kid wasn't really so mean Just a little bit scarred and a little bit gre...

[Chorus] My heart is low my heart is so low As only a woman's heart can be As only a woman's as only a woman's As only a woman's heart can know The tears that drip From my bewildered eyes Taste of bitter sweet romance You're still in my hopes You're still on...

Silent sea Tell this to me: Where are the children that we used to be Silent sea: At picture shows Where nobody goes And only the heart can see. Starry skies Soft lullabies Where do they go when their melodies die? Starry skies: To a day Far, far away That...

Ooh, Las Vegas Ain't no place for a poor boy like me Ooh, Las Vegas Ain't no place for a poor boy like me Every time I hit your crystal city You know you're gonna make a wreck outta me The first time I lose I drink whiskey And the second time I lose I...

Here's to the corners yet to turn Here's to the bridges yet to burn Here's to the whole thing blown apart It’s open season on my heart Days go by like flying bricks Leave gaping holes too deep to fix I’d just stay home if I were smart It’s open season on my h...

An ordinary heart comes in a plain brown wrapper, Believing in hopes and dreams and happy ever after. Someone to love is all that really matters to a heart, An ordinary heart. An ordinary heart comes with a door that never closes. Though it's gathering more th...

I am an orphan on God's highway But I'll share my troubles if you go my way I have no mother, no father No sister, no brother I am an orphan girl I have had friendships pure and golden The ties of kinship have not known them I know no mother, no fath...

It's the end of a perfect day For surfer boys and girls The sun's dropping down in the bay And falling off the world There's a diamond in the sky Our evening star In our shangri-la Get that fire burning strong Right here and right now It's here and then it'...

Oh the pain of loving you oh the mis'ry I go through Never knowing what to do oh the pain of loving you You just can't stand to see me happy seems you hurt me all you can Still I go on loving you but I'll never understand Oh the pain of loving you... ac....

Livin' on the road my friend Was gonna keep you free and clean Now you wear skin like iron And your breath's as hard as kerosene You weren't your mama's only boy But her favorite one it seems She began to cry when you said goodbye And sank into your dre...

Plaisir d'amour Ne dure qu'un moment Chagrin d'amour dure Toute la vie Joys of love Are but a moment long Pain of love endures The whole life long 

Forever my darling My love will be true Always and forever I'll love just you Just promise me darlin' Your love in return May this fire in my soul dear Forever burn My heart's at your command dear To keep, love and to hold Making you happy is my desire Keepi...

There's a valley of sorrow in my soul Where every night I hear the thunder roll Like the sound of a distant gun Over all the damage I have done And the shadows filling up this land Are the ones I built with my own hand There is no comfort from the cold...

As I travel down life's pathway Know not what the years may hold As I ponder, hope grows fonder Precious memories flood my soul Precious father, loving mother Glide across the lonely years And old home's scenes of my childhood Infond memories appears...

She arrives in all her splendor Each night at nine o'clock Her chariot is the crosstown bus That stops right down the block Now the old piano minstrel plays her tune as she walks in And the Queen of the Silver Dollar's home again She's the Queen of the Silver...

I got a sixty-nine Chevy with a 396 Fuelie heads and a Hurst on the floor She's waiting tonight down in the parking lot Outside the Seven-Eleven store Me and my partner Sonny built her straight out of scratch And he rides with me from town to town We onl...

It's hard to listen to a hard hard heart Beating close to mine Pounding up against the stone and steel Walls that I won't climb Sometimes a hurt is so deep deep deep You think that you're gonna drown Sometimes all I can do is weep weep weep With all this rain...

Hank Williams died when I was five He sang I'll never get out of this world alive Now it's been a long time since I was that kid And I've seen a lot more than Hank ever did I've done the down and out in every dark end dive But I'll never get out of your l...

Me and my best friend Lillian And her blue tick hound dog Gideon Sittin' on the front porch coolin' in the shade Singin' every song the radio played Waitin' for the Alabama sun to go down Two red dirt girls in a red dirt town Me and Lillian Just acros...

You may wonder if you know me You may wonder if I care Or if I'll leave you sad and lonely Or if I'll always be right there Well there's no need for doubt now darlin' 'Cause I have come to know This love of ours is no common flower You know this love is...

If I was a staggerwing plane A staggerwing painted red I'd fly over you're house, baby Buzz you I your bed If I was a taperwing A taperwing painted blue I'd be barrell-rolling over you You're gonna need a rider anyhow Let me be your rider now If I was a ma...

I don't belong to no one I don't belong at all Got my face in the corner Got my back to the wall And pretty baby I'm restless, restless Restless through and through I'm restless, restless You look restless too I'm a hair trigger lover And I can't fa...

Won't you scratch my itch sweet Annie Rich And welcome me back to town Come out on your porch or I'll step into your parlour And I'll tell you how it all went down Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels And a good saloon in every sing...

Well, she played around town till she opened the show For a high rollin' singer up from Tupelo He saw her in the lights and he gave her a hand Next thing Sally knew she was one of the band She said don't give me nothin' that I can't use I got the rhythm...

Miles between us here we are Sat by side a stranded car Right now, baby right now And it's too dark to see Anyhow so where are we Right now,baby, right now You could say we've both come down To a place called lonesome town When did you loose a hold on me Anyho...

Folks in Nashville slammed the door Said we don't want you anymore Find your own way down the road Pack your fiddle and your guitar Take a train or take a car Find someone else to keep you from the cold Rollin' and ramblin' Women loved him half to dea...

Been kickin' sawdust In these clothes For a blue moon And a red nose The boys will put 'em up And tear 'em down We'll wash away The dirt Just a glass a day Ain't gonna hurt Pretty soon we'll move on Out of town We pass them by Across the plains We don't even...

A lovestruck Romeo sings a streetsuss serenade Laying everybody low with a lovesong that he made Finds a convenient streetlight steps out of the shade Says something like you and me babe how about it? Juliet says hey it's Romeo you nearly gimme a heart attack...

there's a green,green place where you lift your face to the sound of the waves and the wind down by the shore where my soul does endure where the Mother Sea ends and begins take me home to the sand and the foam where my dreams walk in the mist i'll f...

Roll along, roll on, rose of Cimarron Dusty days are gone, rose of Cimarron Shadows touch the sand and Look to see who's standing Waiting at your window Watching will they ever show Can you hear them calling You know they have fallen on Campfires col...

I met my darlin' in the springtime When all the flowers were in bloom And like the flowers our love blossomed We married in the month of June Our love was like a burning ember It warmed us as a golden glow We had sunshine in December And threw our rose...

There's a little rosewood casket resting on a marble stand With a packet of old love letters written by my true love's hand Go and bring them to me sister read them o'er for me tonight I have often tried but could not for the tears that filled my eyes When...

Darlin' I have come to tell you Tho' it almost breaks my heart But before the mornin', darlin' We'll be many miles apart Don't this road look rough and rocky Don't that sea look wide and deep Don't my baby look the sweetest When he's in my arms asleep...

One last gaze upon the sun It bid farewell to everyone Kick that bucket out the door Where I'm going I won't need it anymore Gonna lay my burden down Take a bird's eye look around From the tall pines of Carolina All the way to the wall of China So I'...

Now if I were a queen and a ruler of nations With diamonds and jewels profound Well, I'd rather know that I had salvation Than to know my reward would be Satan's jewel crown Satan's jewel crown I've worn it so long But God for my soul has reached down H...

You can dance every dance with the girl Who gives you the eye, let her hold you tight You can smile every smile for the girl Who'd like to treat you right 'neath the pale moonlight But don't forget who's takin' you home And in who's arms you're gonna be Oh, d...

She, she came from the land of the cotton A land that was nearly forgotten by everyone And she, she worked and she slaved so hard A big old field was her backyard in the delta sun Oh, but she sure could sing, oh yeah she sure could sing Then he looked do...

Just because you've become a young woman now There's still some things that you don't understand now Before you ask some guy for his hand now Keep your freedom for as long as you can now My mama told me You better shop around There's some things that I want y...

here i go again back to that feeling of no worthy cause to carry me on 'cause my hearts been skipping like a flat rock on water and with each ripple the further i'm gone some say i'm sinking to the muddy bottom But somehow i'm sailing to shores of...

Silent night, holy night, All is calm, all is bright Round yon virgin mother and child. Holy infant so tender and mild, Sleep in heavenly peace. Sleep in heavenly peace. Silent night, holy night, Shepherds quake at the sight, Glories stream from heaven afar,...

This old town's filled with sin It will swallow you in If you've got some money to burn Take it home right away You've got three years to pay But Satan is waiting his turn The scientists say It will all wash away But we don't believe any more 'Cause...

Sister's comin' home Mama's gonna let her sleep whole day long Whole day long Sister's comin' home Mama's gonna let her sleep whole day long Sister's comin' home Mama don't like the man that done her wrong Done her wrong Sister's comin' home Mama don't like t...

Oh the sisters of mercy they are not departed or gone They were waiting for me when I thought that I just can't go on And they brought me their comfort and later they brought me this song Oh I hope you run into them you who've been trav'lling so long Yes you...

Workin' hard all my life Always tried to get it right Every day and every night Hey hey hey carry me home Singin' in a honky tonk People dancin' getting drunk Never knowin' what I want Hey hey hey carry me home I just want a little Give me just a little Jus...

Through the sleepless nights I cry for you And wonder who is kissing you Oh, these sleepless nights Will break my heart in two Somehow through the day I don't give in I hide the tears that wait till then Oh, these sleepless nights Will break my heart again...

There is a way that subtle changes to stay Barely noticed, hardly known One day you´ll say my situation´s locked away But by tomorrow you´re all alone It seems so sudden, but it´s not, it´s only grown From a scene that long ago was left Forgotten in the snow...

One day the train was passin' I caught it comin' by To look this old world over under God's blue sky My darlin' stood there weepin' as I was looking back I kissed my baby cryin' in the smoke along the track Goodbye so long until I come back home You'll be my...

You can't hold me I'm too slippery I do no sleepin' I get lonely You can touch me If you want to I got poison I just might bite you Lie in circles On the sunlight Shine like diamonds On a dark night Ain't no mercy In my smilin' Only fangs and Sweet beguilin...

Here I am again in this mean old town And you're so far away from me And where are you when the sun goes down You're so far away from me [Chorus:] So far away from me So far i just can't see So far away from me You're so far away from me I'm tired of being...

We use to have good times together dear But now I feel them slip away It makes me cry to see love die So sad to watch good love go bad Remember how you used to feel dear you said nothing could change your mind It breaks my heart to see us part so sad to watch...

So you think you're a cowboy but you're only a kid With a mind to do everything wrong And it starts to get smoother when the circle begins But by the time that you get there it's gone So you think you're a winner but you're losing again The cards are all luck...

When You asked how I've been here without you I'd like to say I've been fine and I do. But we both know the truth is hard to come by And if I told the truth that's not quite true Some days are diamonds some days are stones Sometimes the hard times won't...

Have you ever watched the sunset Disappear in the water down in Mexico? The sky on fire melting into the ocean Man, there's some things that never get old Have you ever seen a baby walk for the first time? It's like watching a sparrow, a sparrow's wings unfol...

Somebody pick up my pieces I'm scattered everywhere And put me back together And put me way over there Take me out of contention I surrender my crown So somebody pick up my pieces It's just me comin' down Well, I sure thought I had her Lord, I know she had m...

Life is just a passing moment On an never ending trail Though my pathway wanders for a heart Someday my ship will sail But I will walk this road awhile And I will walk it with a smile I will take it in my stride Someday I'll be satisfied There's eter...

Others have touched me Soft in the night Others have kissed me And held me tight Good times and lovers Yes, I've had a few But I was just waiting For someone like you I have been lonely And I have been loved I've grown used to losing What I'm fonde...

And his love will be his vision, And he'll take you where you stand. And will you stand your life by his, And help the boy become a man? Will he be the son of his father? His father, the teacher? Teachin' love and honesty, An' bein' his own manhandler. Or th...

I hear the soft wind sighing In every bush and tree The sound of my heart crying When you are far from me When we're apart, my darlin' There's sorrow in the wind When we're apart, my darlin Sweet sorrow in the wind You leave me in the morning Your footsteps...

Oh mama there's this Spanish dancer Whose steps I follow when he comes near The red dress of temptation Over a long black slip of fear Will I fall beneath the shadow of some broken cross My arms emptied and all my treasures lost Still like that Spanish dancer...

Spanish is a loving tongue Soft as music, light as spray Was a girl he learned it from Living down Sonora way He don't look much like a lover But he says her love words over Mostly when he's all alone Mi amor mi corazon On the nights that he would ride She w...

Those other years, the dusty years We drove the big hers through I tried to forget the miles we rode And Spanish Johnny too He'd sit beside a water ditch when all this herd was in And he'd never harm a child but sing to his mandolin The old talk, the old ways...

After two thousand came two thousand and one To be the new champions we were there for to run From springtime in Arizona 'til the fall in Monterey And the raceways were the battlefields and we fought 'em all the way Was at Phoenix in the morning I had a wake-...

Ain't it hard when you wake up in the morning And you find out that those other days are gone? All you have is memories of happiness Lingerin' on. You might wonder who can I turn to On this cold and chilly night of gloom The answer to that question Is...

Time can pass and time can heal But it don't ever pass the way I feel You went away a long time ago And why you left I never knew The lonely days and lonely nights Guess the world knows I ain't feelin' right And when you're gone the hours pass so slow And now...

Well 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 And I bought those one way tickets she had often begged me for And they took us to the streets of Baltimore Well her heart was filled wi...

He was a tall man Raised up from the fields, out pickin' cotton In a hard land where the ground was poor and the wood was rotten But when he saw her All those bad times were forgotten And he believed, he believed She was the strong hand A good sister and...

Oh my darling I have searched the desert and the sky Just to find you And take the mourning from my eyes When I lost you I suffered and you were sanctified We are all born to live we are all bound to die Swing down sweet chariot The flesh will fall and the bo...

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 I'll never wear your ring I should hate you the whole night through Instead of havi...

Lonely tears roll down As midnight comes around But i can make it trough In sweet dreams of you In the shadow of the night I still hold you tight Did, it all comes true In sweet dreams of you In sweet dreams i see The way thing you to be When your love was t...

See what you lost when you left this world, this sweet old world See what you lost when you left this world, this sweet old world The breath from your own lips, the touch of fingertips A sweet and tender kiss The sound of a midnight train, wearing someone...

Baby when you're down I'll be around Baby when you're lost I'll be your found When the night is long I'll be the crack of dawn Baby when you take a shot I'll be your sweet spot Baby when you need to float I'll be your lifeboat When you want to play along I'll...

Well I used to roll and I used to ramble Out on the wilder side of town Every night I hear the bright lights calling I never thought I could ever settle down. Well, I seen a whole lot of pain and trouble In this lonesome life of mine But you gave me love and y...

Almost heaven, West Virginia Blue ridge mountains, Shenandoah river Life is old there, older than the trees Younger than the mountains, rollin' like a breeze Country roads, take me home To the place I belong West Virginia, mountain momma Take me home,...

Don't you believe I love you long enough Didn't I try to give you all the right stuff Hung around when the going got tough Don't you believe I love you long enough Where were you when the world turned black All those nights you never answered back And I just...

I went down to Taneytown I went down to Taneytown To see what I could see My mama told me never go But I'm almost 22 years old Sometimes I fear this holler swollow me She ran off to Gettysburg Went off with that new beau of hers I snuck off after dark...

They say a woman's a fool for weeping A fool to break her own heart But I can't hold the secret I'm keeping I'm breaking apart Can't seem to mind my own business Whatever I try turns out wrong I seem like my own false witness And I can't go on I cover my ear...

Well it's a sweet dream That keeps me close to you dear And it's a sad thing That we're apart I'm blue dear And there are times now I thank the heavens up above When I'm with the one that I love Now there are diamonds That some may long to see And th...

I was dancin' with my darlin to the Tennessee Waltz When an old friend I happened to see. I introduced him to my darlin' and while they were dancin' My friend stole my sweetheart from me. I remember the night and the Tennessee Waltz Now I know just how m...

Well goodness is it really real It would take a baby child to know the way I feel On my flutter in the blue I would take the credit but it's thanks to you Ooh yeah I'm a sinner and I ain't some beginner I'll uncork a pint of trouble Sit down and drink...

That's all it took The mention of your name And all my love for you burst into flames I tried so hard To let you got but look how I still tremble at your name That's all it took That's all it took To make me know that I still care It seems my heart just can't...

I am just a poor boy though my story's seldom told I have squandered my existence On a pocket full of mumbles such are promises All lies in jest, till a man hears what he wants to hear And disregards the rest Well I left my home and family I was no more than...

The first Noel, the angel did say, Was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay, In fields where they lay keeping their sheep, On a cold winter's night that was so deep. Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Born is the King of Israel. They looked up and saw a star...

She was going to pieces When he walked in the door She had to see him she can't wait no more Tonight she'll be with him no matter the cost As the band plays The Last Cheater's Waltz And oooooooohh-don't they play lonely Oooooooohh-don't they play sad Ooooooooh...

I see the light I see the light at the end of the tunnel I see the light and it's burnin' bright I see the light it's the light at the end that I run to And the light, darlin' is you In the lonely heart of darkness I have stumbled and I have strayed Al...

I was an unmarried girl I'd just turned twenty-seven When they sent me to the sisters For the way men looked at me Branded as a Jezebel I knew I was not bound for Heaven I'd be cast in shame Into the Magdalene laundries Most girls come here pregnant Some by t...

Oh, oh deep water, black and cold like the night I stand with arms wide open I've run a twisted line I'm a stranger in the eyes of the Maker I could not see for the fog in my eyes I could not feel for the fear in my life From across the great divide, In the...

It was forty or fifty years ago A big shot played with time Mr. Walker held the dough And both kept Cord in line Watched and checked on every single day Building his own special cars his very special way Ooh, the new soft shoe Ooh, the new soft shoe, yeah An...

She was the only one Of my flesh and blood Now I have no calling I can do no worldly good I sit silent I sit mourning I sit listless all the day I've mostly lost the voice to speak And any words to say except Does heaven have enough angels yet? I've gone h...

Praise God I feel like singing I'm on the other side of life now All my days of sorrow And tears for my loved ones I wish I could tell them the door that I feel Though my body is weary My soul is uplifted My sins are forgiven and my Jesus is real Pra...

O the dragons are gonna fly tonight They're circling low and inside tonight It's another round in the losing fight Out along the great divide tonight We are aging soldiers in an ancient war Seeking out some half remembered shore We drink our fill and still we...

They tell me I'm the talk of the town I've been staying home alone every night It's nobody's business where I'm bound As if to be alone and lonely just ain't right On a old freight train moving down the line I'm counting each day and every minute that your awa...

You make up your mind you choose the chance you take You ride to where the highway ends and the desert breaks Out on to an open road you ride until the day You learn to sleep at night with the price you pay Now with their hands held high, they reached out fo...

I feel tears wellin' up cold and deep inside Like my heart's sprung a big break And a stab of loneliness sharp and painful That I may never shake You might say that I was taking it hard Oh, she wrote me off with a call But don't you wager that I'll hide the so...

I can still remember Every song you played Long ago when we were younger And we'd rock the night away How could I see your future then Where you would not grow old With such a fire in our bellies Such a hunger in our souls. I guess I probably loved you Wh...

Where are you now She writes, "Where are you now, my love? Do you have food to eat, Shoes for your tired feet Am I the one you're dreaming of?" Do you know how I miss you How I long to kiss you Pray for the day you will come Back to me my darling one He thin...

One day a mother went to a prison To see an erring but precious son She told the warden how much she loved him It did not matter what he had done She did not bring to him a parole or pardon She brought no silver, no pomp or style It was a halo bright sent dow...

I hear the sound of sorrow in the wind Blowing down from every mile I've ever been Calling me out on some road that just won't end Where the sweetheart rides the rodeo again A thousand nights a thousand towns I took the bows But there is no compensation...

There's a light, there's a light in the darkness And the black of the night cannot harm us We can trust not to fear for our comfort is near There's a light, there's a light in the darkness It will rain, it will rain in the desert In the cracks of the plain, t...

If today the sun should set on all my hopes and cares There is one whose smiling face the gods wouls see 'Cause he'll walk along beside me up those golden stairs Oh, they'll never take his love from me Well, I thought I'd make him happy if I stepped aside But...

I'm not much on mystery Yeah you gotta be careful what you dream I thought this might pass with time Yeah I thought I was satisfied [Chorus] But oh baby let me tell you I got a thing about you Baby let me tell you I got a thing about you It don't matt...

This is to mother you To comfort you and get you through Through when your nights are lonely Through when your dreams are only blue This is to mother you This is to be with you To hold you and to kiss you too For when you need me I will do What your own mothe...

This is us down at the Mardi Gras This is us In your Daddy's Car You and the missing link Yeah, I'd had a little too much to drink, now Too long in the sun Having too much fun You and me and our memories This is us Rocking at the barbecue Yeah, when we said I...

Those memories of you still haunt me Every night when I lay down I'll always love you (my) little darling Until the day they lay me down. (until the day they lay me down.) In dreams of you my body trembles I wake up and call your name. But you're not there a...

Just like the sun over the mountain top You know I'll always come again You know I love to spend my morning time Like sunlight dancing on your skin I've never gone so wrong as to telling lies to you What you've seen is what I've been There is nothing I...

Oh the stars they did shine The night you swore that you'd be mine And you promised always to be true And to be kind On that Shenandoah Hill Where our love bloomed until I went away and left those Promises behind But when I rise from the timberline And call y...

Five-lane highway danger zone SUV and a speaker phone You need that chrome to get you home Doin' time in Babyion Cluster mansion on the hill Another day in Pleasantville You don't like it take a pill Doin1 time in Babyion In the land of the proud and free You...

Mama never seemed to miss the finer things of life If she did she never did say so to daddy She never wanted to be more than a mother and a wife If she did she never did say so to daddy The only thing that seemed to be important to her life Was to make our hou...

Last night I thought I felt your arms around me But woke to find that it was just a dream Though you're gone I find you constantly surround me Ohh, just something else that keeps your memory green I go out and try my hand at startin' over But find it hard to...

To know know know him Is to love love love him Just to see him smile Makes my life worthwhile To know know know him Is to love love love him And I do I'll be good to him I'll bring love to him Everyone says there'll come a day When I'll walk alongsi...

Today I started loving you again I'm right back where I've really always been got over you just long enough to let my heartache mend Then today I started loving you again What a fool I was to think I could get by With only these few million tears I've cr...

Together again My tears have stopped falling The long lonely nights Are now at an end The key to my heart You hold in your hand And nothing else matters We're together again Together again The gray skies are gone Your back in my arms Now where you belong Th...

Tonight the bottle let me down It let your memory come around The one true friend I thought I'd found Tonight the bottle let me down I've always had a bottle I could turn to And lately I've been turning every day But the wine don't take effect the way it use...

I know that somewhere there's someone You love more than me... Someone you love more than me. And I hate to say it But you have a right to be free I know that's the way it should be. But I'm too far gone Too far gone. I've loved you so much for so long And I'...

Well it's saturday night You're all dressed up and blue I've been watchin' you go out Maybe you been watchin' me too So somebody ran out Left somebody's heart in a mess Well if you're lookin' for love Honey I'm tougher than the rest Some girls they want a han...

Some say it's destiny Whether triumph or tragedy But I believe we cast our nets out on the sea And nothing we gather Comes for free I would have paid down through the years A price beyond rubies beyond tears To keep you safe with me But your suspicion and you...

I heard the train In the Tulsa night Calling out my name Looking for a fight She's come a long, long way Got a longer way to go So tell me how a train from Tulsa Has got a right to know She sings a song So sad and high And the Tulsa queen Don't ever lie And...

We came out west together with a common desire The fever we had might'a set the west coast on fire Two months later got trouble in mind My baby moved out and left me behind But it's all right 'cause it's midnight And I got two more bottles of wine The w...

[Together] You've got me under your spell again Saying those things again Making me believe that you're just mine You've got me dreaming those dreams again Thinking those things again I've got to take you back just one more time [Carl] Well, I swore that the...

To the east the factories stand Like fire-breathing dragons against the sky And from their throats a scarlet river Burns itself into smoky lullabies Over neon and fluorescent skies Valerie, can you hear those engines drone I wanted to go to Mexico But I'm st...

The wind is blowing across the mountain Down on the valley way below It sweeps the grave of my darling When I die that's where I want to go Lord send the angels for my darling And take him to that home on high I'll wait my time out here on earth love A...

The wind can blow cold, it moans and it cries When it carries the sound of a thousand goodbyes But if you listen tonight on that high, lonely plain You'll just hear my voice as it calls out your name You'll just hear my voice as it calls out your name You've...

The very first time I ever saw my Tommy love He came dancing into my room And I felt the sunlight sparkle warm Out from his magic shoes And he danced so proud And he laughed so wild And he charmed me like a piper When he smiled So dance with me, dance with m...

I am a poor wayfaring stranger While traveling thru this world of woe Yet there's no sickness, toil or danger in that bright world to which I go I'm going there to see my father I'm going there no more to roam I'm only going over Jordan I'm only going over...

Who can tell just how it starts Angry words and broken hearts Till silently we sit apart You and I But in awhile the anger's gone And we forget who's right or wrong Then one of us will end it all With just a smile We believe in happy endings Never br...

In that Resurrection morning when the trumpet of God shall sound We shall rise, (hallelujah) we shall rise. Then the saints will come rejoicing and no tears will e'er be found We shall rise, (hallelujah) we shall rise. We shall rise, (hallelujah) we shall ris...

We know it's wrong to let this fire burn between us We've got to stop this wild desire in you and in me So we'll let the flame burn once again until the thrill is gone Then we'll sweep out the ashes in the morning We're two people caught up in the flame that h...

We're gonna hold on We're gonna hold on We're gonna hold on to each other Life can be rough, sometimes it's kind A real good life is hard to find But the best love is the one we've known And the faith we have between us makes it grow Some love lives and some...

When you're ready for steady to go dancin', romancin' Grab your sweetheart and jump in your car Drive right on down to the bright side of town You'll be glad you don't have to drive far You'll be happy you don't have to go far Park your pickups and Cadilacs,...

I stand here by the Western Wall Maybe a little of that wall stands inside of us all I shove my prayers in the cracks I've got nothing to lose no one to answer back All these years I've brought up for review Wasn't taught this but I learned something new And...

We've all got wheels to take ourselves away We've got telephones to say what we can't say We all got higher and higher every day Come on wheels take this boy away We're not afraid to ride We're not afraid to die come on wheels take me home today So come...

The wheels of love turn around and around Keep on rollin' 'til you've found The perfect partner, somebody just right To have and hold every day and every night So she's halfway to Texas with all of your dreams The world ain't as bad as what it might seem...

When darkness fills the valley Fear and dread strive deep within us But our burdens soon will be lifted When these old homes turn to dust When he calls I'm going to live with Jesus In his kingdom he welcomes everyone I shall not fear no more earthly peril For...

Oh, the streets of Rome are filled with rubble Ancient footprints are everywhere You can almost think that you're seein' double On a cord, dark night on the Spanish Stairs Got to hurry on back to my hotel room Where I've got me a date with Botticelli's niece S...

The worst that I've ever been hurt In my life The first time I ever have Wanted to die Was the night when you told me You loved someone new And you asked me if I could forget When I stop dreaming That's when I'll stop loving you You may teach the f...

In a lonely room waiting for the night to fall I hear your voice in every whip-poor-will that calls And it takes me back to a better place and a sweeter time When I was yours and you were mine As the shadows fall and the light grows dim I see your face I clos...

When my blue moon turns to gold again When my rainbow turns the clouds away When my blue moon turns to gold again You'll be back within my arms to stay When the memories that linger in our hearts Memories that make my heart cold However some day they'll live...

There's a land beyond the river that we call the sweet forever And we only reach that shore by faith, you see Yes i want to see my jesus Shake his hand and have him great us When they ring those golden bells for you and me Don't you hear the bells a-ringin' C...

Trouble, we have known trouble In our struggle just to get by Many times the burden's been heavy Still we carried on side by side [Chorus] And when we're gone long gone The only thing that will have mattered Is the love that we shared And the way that...

Living below in this old sinful world Hardly a comfort can afford Striving alone to face temptations call Where could I go to the Lord Where could I go where could I go Seeking a refuge for my soul Needing a friend to help me in the end Where could I g...

The dirt was clay and was the color of the blood in me A twelve acre farm on a ridge is southern Tennessee We left that sweat all over that land behind a mule we watched grow old Row after row trying to grow corn and cotton on ground so poor that grass won’t...

The streets are cracked And there's glass everywhere And a baby stares out With motherless eyes Under long gone beauty On fields of war Trapped in lament To the poet's core Oh where oh where will I be Oh where oh when that trumpets sounds Met an Indian boy i...

It seems like I was there from the start A witness to your wild and reckless heart You showed me the way but now you're gone Quicker than the trigger of an outlaw's gun Living fast and dying young A victim of this road you left me on White line took my baby L...

I want 'em, I need 'em And I'm gonna go out and get 'em White shoes I know I'll feel better When I slide down into the leather White shoes White shoes ... woah, oh, oh... white shoes White shoes ... woah, oh, oh... white shoes I woke up from a dream When I...

I often sing, for those I love Who go to live, with Christ above No more on earth, their forms I'll see When I am gone, who'll sing for me Who'll sing for me, when I am gone And it won't be long, 'til (when) I'll see When I am gone, who'll sing for me 'Til I...

Baby i see this world has made you sad Some people can be bad The things they do, the things they say But baby I'll wipe away those bitter tears I'll chase away those restless fears That turn your blue skies into gray Why worry, there should be laughter after...

He was born in the Bitterroot Valley in the early morning rain Wild geese over the water heading north and home again Bringing a warm wind from the south Bringing the first taste of the spring His mother took him to her breast and softly she did sing Oh Monta...

The hills were alive with wildflowers And I was as wild, even wilder than they For at least I could run, they just dies in the sun And I refused to just wither in place Just a wild mountain rose, needing freedom to grow So I ran leaving not where I'd go When...

~~~♫♫♫ ~~~ I will twine and will mingle my raven black hair With the roses so red and the lilies so fair And the myrtle so bright with an emerald hue The pale emanita and hyssop so blue Oh, he taught me to love him and called me his flower A blossom to cheer...

Don't bother sittin' at my table Just because I'm on my own Yes I'm a woman and I'm lonely But that don't mean I can't be strong Once again he's not beside me And tonight he won't be coming home So I just need a place to miss my baby When he goes out to do me...

Wondering wondering who's kissing you Wondering wondering if you're wondering too Every hour through the day since you went away I keep wondering, yes, wondering if you're wondering too I pray every night to the good Lord above To send back to me the one I re...

She said her father looked like Woodrow Wilson She said her father looked like Woodrow Wilson Presiding from behind prescription lenses She said her father looked like Woodrow Wilson She said her mother act like a first lady She said her mother act like a fir...

My life's an open book, you read it on the radio We've got no where to hide, we got no where to go But' if you still decide you want to take a ride Meet me at the Wrecking ball Wrecking Ball, I'll wear something pretty and white And we'll go dancing tonight M...

You give your hand to me and then you say hello and I can hardly speak My heart is beating so And anyone could tell you think you know me well But you don't know me No you don't know the one who dreams of you at night And longs to kiss your lips and longs to...

I see a million old memories each day That remind me of what used to be My aching heart tells me they are here to stay Since you made a memory of me I tossed and I turned night after night Those memories just won't let me sleep The flame in my heart is still...

Chorus You'll never be the sun turning in the sky And you won't be the moon above us on a moonlit night And you won't be the stars in heaven although they burn so bright But even on the deepest ocean you will be the light You may not always shine as...

You're free to go, darling I'll break the ties that bind Somehow the plans we made have gone astray You're free to go, darling So ease your worried mind I'll never stand in your way There's no ream of shining gold So strong that it can hold A heart th...

You are learning what it's to sit and cry And wonder why your plans went wrong You are learning how it feels when pain is real To realize you're all alone Yes you're learning We had the chance to be happy Nothing stood in our way If only you'd meant what you...

You're running wild How long can this go on? You're leaving me alone Stop running wild You're always gone My love you'll never change It's more than I can bear Stop running wild You'll settle down someday And find I've gone away You'll think of what you've d...

The jukebox is playing a honky tonk song One more I keep saying and then I'll go home What good would it do me, I know what I'll find An empty bottle of broken hearts and you're still on my mind The people are laughing and having their fun While I sit here cr...

Soul mate I see you down there Waiting for morning To sftly be coming I find I'm only in deeper And you'd be a leaver If you weren't so scared Your true love Has made you feel better But look out for later When she makes you feel worse Times change In daydrea...

Guess it's time for me to say just how it is that I feel today Today is just like any other day cause you've been on my mind It really hasn't been that long but it's funny where the time has flown Old memories just keep holding on and you been on my mind Y...

God's given us years of happiness here Now we must part And as the angels come and call for you The pains of grief tug at my heart Oh my darling My darling My heart breaks as you take your long journey Oh the days will be empty The nights so long wit...