Ernest Tubb

All the love you promised would be mine forever I would have bet my bottom dollar on Well it sure turned out to be a short forever Just once I turned my back and you were gone From now on all my friends are gonna be strangers I'm all through ever trusting anyo...

If your all alone and blue No one to tell your troubles to Remember me cause I'm the one who loves you When this old world has turned you down And not a true friend can be found Remember me cause I'm the one who loves you And through all kinds of weath...

Baby baby baby, I've got to have you for my own, Baby baby baby, I've got to have you for my own, If you ever need me baby, call me on the telephone. Just give me five, ten, fifteen hours of your love, Just give me five, ten, fifteen hours of your love, Give...

The wind has come to take me down a notch, A peg, or a level or two The swollen moon has got Her sights set on me too The devil sun gonna take me higher Higher than I ever been before I told my mama, no I can’t take no more I can’t take no more The wind has...

Here I go again love's standing at my door I'm so afraid to take a chance for I've been hurt before It's not that I can't love you your life I'd like to share But my heart's been broken so many times it's just afraid to care Maybe time will ease the pain and s...

What will I do with all those yesterdays where will I go what will I say How can I live since you have gone away what will I do with all those yesterdays Tomorrow never bothers me I know what it will bring It is just another day and it won't mean a thing But w...

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

No regrets no heart feeling it's over all the good times together are through I'll have a lifetime of mem'ries to keep me going I wouldn't take back one moment spent with you I can't say that your leaving won't hurt me but it's nothing that time can erase And...

Just follow the stairway to this lonely world of mine You'll find me waitin' here in Apartment No 9 Not so very long ago you walked away from me And after all the plans we made you decided to be free Loneliness surrounds me without your arms around me And the...

Though I can't come to see you every day It just happened things worked out this way Oh but that don't mean you're not the apple of your daddy's eye And as long as there's a Sunday I'll come by As long as there's a Sunday your daddy's here Though I think about...

I danced with an angel one night neath the stars While cowboys were singing and playing guitars The tune they were playing was a beautiful waltz And they called it Bandera and the Bandera Waltz The music so sweet seemed to whisper to me She loves me she loves...

Be glad you've got what you've got when you've got it Or you're gonna find out what you've got is gone Make sure you know what you know when you know it Or before you know it you'll be all alone Take care when you do what you do if you do it If you don't you w...

I thought I had seen pretty girls in my time but that was before I met you I never saw one that I wanted for mine but that was before I met you I thought I was swinging the world by the tail I thought I could never be blue I thought I'd been kissed and I thoug...

I just can't get it through my head you love another now instead Can't make myself believe we're really through I'm walking up and down the hall talking to a silent wall I'll lose my mind before I'm over you I think I've almost lost my mind I think about you a...

I had sunk as low as a man could go the world had turned me down Then you picked me up and you kissed me sweet You changed the beggar into a king Yes you took the rag from off of my back And you gave me your love to keep me warm Yes you picked me up and you ki...

I'm watching the clock tick the hours away They say that I will hang at the dawn of the day But why should I fear death when it's life anew For dying only takes me much closer to you You left me in anger and walk by the sea And when they found your body they b...

I'm walking your streets again big city searching every face that I see Looking for my darling big city the one that you took away from me You lured her with your night life big city to take her from me you know it was wrong I'm searching night and day for he...

All the big fools in town got together every hopeless loving heart I know was there We all sat around and told our own sad stories Then they made me the big fool of the year Oh they gave to me a little golden statue of the torch that I carry for you dear They...

I'll have a blue Christmas without you I'll be so blue thinking about you Decorations of red on a green Christmas tree Won't mean a thing dear if you're not here with me I'll have a blue Christmas that's certain And when that blue heartache starts hurtin'...

Side by side we'll roll along, sweetheart you and I And to you I'll sing this song as the years go passing by I may be good or I may be bad but you never frown I couldn't find a sweeter pal if I'd searched the whole world around Blue eyed Elaine you're th...

Born to lose I've lived my life in vain every dream has only brought me pain All my life I've always been so blue born to lose and now I'm losing you Born to lose it seems so hard to bear how I long to always have you near You've grown tired and now you say we...

Each night I leave the barroom when it's over not feeling any pain at closin' time But tonight your mem'ry found me much too sober I couldn't drink enough to get you off my mind Tonight the bottle let me down and let your mem'ry come around The one true friend...

I'm sending you a big bouquet of roses One for every time you broke my heart And as the door of love between us closes Tears will fall like petals when we part I begged you to be different, but you'll always be untrue I'm tired of forgivin', now there's nothi...

Bring your heart home quit your wandering don't you get tired of living alone I'll be waiting if you ever change your mind and bring your heart home Bring your heart home break the change loose restless chains on your shuckled mind I still loove you and you're...

You're with me from my first cup of coffee right up till that last beer goes down You're on my mind so I can't sleep till morning you're the busiest mem'ry in town Had talk last night with your new love but then he mentioned a few more you'd found So we drank...

Candy kisses wrapped in paper Mean more to you than any of mine Candy kisses wrapped in paper You'd rather have them any old time You don't mean it when you whisper Those sweet love words in my ear Candy kisses wrapped in paper Mean more to you than mine d...

You said you love me and me alone And that you'd always be mine my own But someone new came And you did not kept to remember so you forgot Oh, careless darlin' How carelessly you broke the vow that you made to me With all my heart I believed in you But...

Carroll County's pointed out as kinda square The biggest thing that happens is a county fair I guess that's why it seemes like such a big event What we all call the Carroll County accident The wreck was on the highway just inside the line Walter Browning lost...

I tried so hard my dear to show that you're my every dream Yet you're afraid each thing I do is just some evil scheme A mem'ry from your lonesome past keeps us so far apart Why can't I free your debtful mind and melt your cold cold heart Another love before my...

I was lonely I guess the night that we met in a tavern down on old Broadway And there were tears in her eyes and she whispered with a sigh Stranger please take me out of here But it was only commercial affection cause a fool and his money will part Yes it was...

Now blue ain't the world for the way that I feel And the storm's brewing in this heart of mine This ain't no crazy dream I know that it's real You're someone else's love now you're not mine Crazy arms that reach to hold somebody new For my yearning heart keeps...

Oh it's crying time again you're gonna leave me I can see that faraway look in your eyes I can tell by the way you hold me darling that it won't be long before it's crying time Now they say that absence makes the heart grow fonder And tears are only rain to m...

They were separated one year ago that day The court had given him their only child When play time was all finished he climbed on daddy's knee And said with teardrops showing through a smile Daddy when is mommy coming home Each day you say it won't be ver...

He remembers the first time he met her he remembers the first thing she said He remembers the first time he held her and the night that she came to his bed He remembers her sweet way of saying honey has something gone wrong He remembers the fun and the teasing...

Oh Daisy Mae my honey oh Daisy Mae When I'm with you my darling all my cares go away Oh don't you know sweetheart that I love you so Cause you're my darling precious Daisy Mae So nice and neat with kisses so very sweet In my opinion darling you just can't be...

The divorce had been granted and my wife was seeking the custody of our only son And as our boy told his story we both started crying Then I realized the harm we had done He said your honor I'm seven and home was a heaven My dad was a king in my eyes My mother...

I got the blues The deep purple blues I'm feeling mighty bad I got the blues The deep purple blues I'm feeling mighty sad My gal left a note that sure rocked my boat That's how I got the news My pal got my gal My gal got my pal And I got the blue...

One more day and I'll draw my pay I'm gnna take myself and leave here And I can hardly wait until I'm on my way I'll tell the man at the station I want a one way reservation And make my destination Atlanta, Ga Well I've been gone, away to long The home sick b...

My whole life saving's a two dollar bill that's why I'm here tonight I've got time to kill Now I can tell my story about twenty times With two dollars in the jukebox a dime at a time Two dollars in the jukebox a dime at a time Play that same old song about the...

In a court room all crowed with strangers there You took all I had away Where dream homes are broken beyond repair You broke up my home today Divorce granted a broken heart What God joined together the judge broke apart Divorce granted and you are free...

If you ever gonna kiss me then do it now If you ever gonna want me then want me now Let's do a little spoonin' wind upon a honeymoonin' And if you ever gonna love me then do it now Don' wait until my hair turns grey show me that you care I might be too old to...

She never was much satisfied with me she's been a lot of time rebuilding me A hundred times I tried to warn her don't back a man up in a corner Cause you can only push a man so far the ties of love will only stretch so far Then day will break and he's a goner...

Don't be angry at me darling if I fail to understand All your little whims and wishes all the time Just remember that I'm dumb I guess like any foolish man And my head stays sorta foggy cause you're mine Well I recall the first time that I flirted with you de...

Don’t be ashamed of your age Don’t let the years get you down That old gang you knew they’ll still think of you As a rounder in your old home town Don’t mind the grey in your hair Just think of all the fun you had putting it there And as for that old bo...

Now don't forbid me to hold you tight my darling don't forbid me to hold you tight Let me hold you in my loving arms cause it's cold and I can keep you warm Now don't forbid me to kiss your lips my darling don't forbid me to kiss your lips Let me kiss you plea...

He left you flat and crying too the way that you left me Just when you thought that you had things your way But now I guess you know my dear what it means to be blue For consolation here's all I can say Don't look now but your broken heart is showing Tha...

They say a man's home is his castle And he's like a king on a throne It may be a shack down alongside of track But everything in it's his own So don't think of taking his loved one It's written, 'Thou shall not steal' So don't rob another man's castle...

She was on her way out of your life when I found her not knowing which way to turn She's forgotten the feeling of two arms around her but it didn't take her long to learn You had new worlds to conquer so you didn't want her or anything cramping your style But...

Did you hear what happened last Saturday night While dancing and drinking we all got half tight This sweet thing named Sharmon was dancing with me When up jumped her boy friend and he hollered at me Please don't squeeze my Sharmon don't hold her so tight You'd...

Take away the bright lights and music take away the power and pain And you'll find that a honky tonk angel can't compare with your home lovin' saint She's just another woman who'll never make a home She's had sweethearts before you she'll have others when you'...

Saw your picture in the paper and I see you've married good And I know that he can give you all the things I never could But I know that he won't give you what you need most of all Well the door is always open and the light's on in the hall Yes the door is alw...

I'm just driftwood on the river floating down the tide I don't care where this old river carries me I keep drifting just because my heart is broken inside And I'm tired of wishing for what cannot be (I may meet some little driftwood lost as same as I Sha...

My sweetheart is gone and I'm so lonely He said that he and I were through I started out drinkin' for pastime Drivin' nails in my coffin over you I'm just drivin' nails in my coffin Every time I drink a bottle of booze I'm just drivin' nails in my coffi...

A thousand miles dear a thousand more across the water across the shore I'll say a prayer dear for your and mine please think of me dear each night at nine I hold your picture close to my heart it takes your place dear while we're apart Helps remind me that y...

You're an educated mama ain't that a heck of a note Just cause I got no learnin' to sit around and float You're an educated mama readin' night and day If you knew how I could love you you throw them books away I know you're educated your learnings really show...

The tears I cried for you could fill an ocean, But you don't care how many tears I cry And though you only lead me on and hurt me, I couldn't bring myself to say goodbye Cause everybody's somebody's fool Everybody's somebody's plaything And there are no...

If there's a chance that your heart misses the words I try to say with kisses If I don't seem to look as happy as I should I wouldn't want to live without you I love everything about you Yes even the bad times are good Your middle name should be perfection for...

There's a family Bible on the table its pages torn and hard to read But the family Bible on the table will ever be my key to memory At the end of day when work was over and when the evening meal was done Dad would read to us from the family Bible And we'd coun...

When the warship's left Manila Sailing proudly o'er the sea deep blue sea Many sailors hearts were filled with sad regret Looking backward to this island Where they spent such happy hours, happy hours Making love to every pretty girl they've met Well up...

Here she comes look at her roll there she goes eatin' that coal Watch her fly huggin' the rails let her by by by it's the fireball mail Let her go look at her steam hear her blow whistle and scream Like a hound a waggin' his tail Dallas bound bound boud it's t...

At the end of the day my heart's filled with despair I knelt by my bed for a moment of prayer I asked God to help me and show me the way Then out of the darkness a voice seemed to say Follow me and your sins will be washed snowy white Follow me to the streets...

I hear the train a comin' It's rolling round the bend And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when, I'm stuck in Folsom prison, and time keeps draggin' on But that train keeps a rollin' on down to San Antone.. When I was just a baby my mama told me. S...

You said that you would mine dear forever When you promised to love and obey Now you say that you're leaving tomorrow And forever is ending today Remember my darling I love you Is now all that I have to say I dreamed of love that would linger forever B...

I left you and left you broken hearted I left you and now I can't forget I thought then that I could live without you forgive me and I'll make you happy yet Forgive me for all the pain I've caused you forgive me for unkind words I've said I thought once that I...

Way down in Fort Worth jailhouse feeling kinda low Nobody cares about me cause I ain't got no dough No 5 so black and shiny took me off to jail My good gal said so long baby cause I can't go your bail Dream all days that I'll be goin' down that lonely road so...

I've got fortunes in memories Of your walk your talk your smile I've got treasures of heartaches And old dreams out of style I've got bundles of broken vows Collected through the years I've got fortunes in memories And they all were bought with tears...

Out where the bright lights are glowing You're drawn like a moth to a flame You laugh while the wine's overflowing While I sit and whisper your name Four walls to hear me Four walls to see Four walls too near me Closing in on me Sometimes I ask why I'm waiti...

Far across deep blue waters Lives an old German's daughter By the banks of the old river Rhine Where I loved her and left her But I can't forget her I miss my pretty Fraulein Fraulein, Fraulein Look up towards the heavens Each night when the stars start to sh...

Oh the games people now every night and every day now Never meanin' what they say now never sayin' what they mean So they wile away the hours in their ivory towers Till they're covered up with flowers in the back of a black limousine Lotten da la da da da lott...

Give me a little old fashioned love The kind that lingers through the years The kind that's made by God up above Give me a little old fashioned love Now you can have the girls with rosy cheeks The ones that coo like turtle dove I just want a simple g...

I found him by the railroad track this morning I could see that he was nearly dead I knelt down beside him and I listened just to hear the words the dyin' fellow said He said they let me out of prison out in Frisco for ten long years I paid for what I done I w...

You're watching your watch and I know what's on your mind There's someone home waiting and you're away over time What should be so right is as wrong as can be Go on home you don't belong here with me I love you yes I love you I love only you But the one home w...

My weary heart for you is crying It knows it's payin' for its dues For you have left me oh so loenly I've got them gone and left me blues I know that we should be together Though I'm the one that's been untrue Please take me back and say you love me I've got t...

Some people say I drink because you left me And they say that wine won't drown your memory But the reason that I drink is not to get you off my mind I just heard this was a good year for the wine It doesn't bother me now that you're gone and I haven't thought...

Irene, goodnight, Irene, goodnight, Goodnight, Irene, Goodnight, Irene, I'll see you in my dreams. Last Saturday night I got married, Me and my wife settle down,, Now me and my wife are parted, Gonna take another stroll downtown. Irene, goodnight, Irene, goo...

What a beautiful thought I am thinking concerning a great speckled bird Remember her name is recorded on the pages of God's holy word Desiring to lower her standards they watch every move that she makes They long to find fault with her teaching but really they...

I turn your hole card upside down I caught you cheatin' and runnin' around There's a smile upon your face for another takes my place And now at last dear the truth I'd found Babe there's a green light you're free to go you'll take a high road I'll take the low...

I don't love you like I used to do But I'm afraid to tell you so I've got half a mind to leave you But only half the heart to go Words to tell you just don't come to me Guess my courage is too slow I've got half a mind to leave you But only half th...

Gone an left me Left me here to cry Now I love her Know she's my desire Know she's my desire Know she's my desire Know she's my desire Know she's my desire Came home this mo'nin 'Bout half past four Found that note Lyin' on my floor "Goin' away and leave you...

Have you ever been lonely? Have you ever been blue? Have you ever loved someone Just as I love you? Can't you see that I'm sorry For each mistake I've made? Can't you see I've changed, dear? Can't you see I've paid? Be a little forgiving And take me back to...

Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone. Let's pretend that we're together, all alone. I'll tell the man to turn the jukebox way down low, And you can tell your friend there with you he'll have to go. Whisper to me, tell me do you love me true, Or is...

Give when you give the best of your service Telling the world that the Saviour has come Be not dismay if man don't believe you he'll understand and say well done Oh when I come to the end of my journey weary of life and the battle is won Caring the staff and t...

Woke up this morning happy as could be look out my window what did I see Walkin' up my sidewalk just as plain as day Here comes trouble that I never thought I'd see when you went away Well hello trouble come on in Talk about your heartaches where the world you...

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

Oh, come hear my story, I'll tell it to you My heart is all broken, I'm sad and I'm blue I just lost my darling, her name was La La As pretty as a picture and oh, twice as fair. Hey! La La, Oh! La La, my true La La-aa Hey! La La, Oh! La La, my true La La...

Say, hey, good lookin', whatcha got cookin' How's about cookin' somethin' up with me? Hey, sweet baby, don't you think maybe We could find us a brand new recipe? I got a hot rod Ford and a two dollar bill And I know a spot right over the hill There's soda pop...

One day, far away, you gently won my heart And one night, by candlelight, we made a vow to never part And then it seemed just like a dream When wide eyed, side by side We faced the future holding hands Years fly, they hurry by, the simple times are gone Bills...

Holding things together ain't no easy thing to do When it comes to raising children it's a job meant for two Alice please believe me I can't go on and on holding things together with you gone Today was Angie's birthday I guess it slipped your mind I tried twi...

Wedding bells rang out today but not for me They rang for somebody else in my old used to be Had to catch a train I couldn't stand the news I'm on a honeymoon with the blues I thought her invitation was an answer to my note Saying I was sorry for the unkind wo...

You only want to break my heart once more with promises that you'll keep every vow You told me that you loved me so so many times before So how can I be sure you love me now Sometimes I dream I'm in your arms embrace And though how happy you once made me there...

When I lost my baby (baby) I almost lost my mind When I lost my baby (baby) I almost lost my mind My head is in a spin since she's left me behind I went to see the gypsy And had my fortune read I went to see the gypsy And had my fortune read I hung my head in...

Through the years I've prepared feeling sure that you cared I believe I'm entitled to you And with you on my mind in my heart I'm inclined To believe I'm entitled to you The happy day I found you I built my dreams around you And I began to pray that they come...

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 he looked so satisfied I can't help it if I'm still in love with you A picture from the past came slowly stealing...

Everybody says you let me down I should be ashamed to take you round Makes no difference what you used to do darling I could never be ashamed of you Maybe you were reckless yesterday but together we can find a brighter way In my heart I know that you'll come t...

Just like old time you were here last night and gone was my worry and care When I awoke I knew then that I had dreamed of an old love affair I was alone in the darkness my dear many dreams ago you left me there Sunlight told me you were gone and I had dreamed...

You told me that you cared that you would never lie I saw you in another's arms and I hung my head and I cried Hung down my head and cried hung down my head and I cried I saw you in another's arms and I hung my head and I cried I prayed to God above to give m...

A man may have his trials and tribulations and at times he feels so low and so blue But from now on I will be entirely different and I knew the moment I lost you Well to all my worries and my disappointments there is still a little light shining through Still...

Now I got a gal just different and though I know she's true She's never really happy that gal she's feelin' blue But I know my baby loves me in her own peculiar way Yes my baby really loves me in her own peculiar way Now I left her my apartment when I was out...

I love you because you understand dear Every single thing I try to do You're always there to lend a helping hand dear But most of all I love you 'cause you're you No matter what the world may say about me I know your love will always see me through I love you...

I love you so much it hurts me darling that's why I'm so blue I'm so afraid to go to bed at night afraid of losing you I love you so much it hurts me and there's nothing I can do I want to hold you my dear forever and ever I love you so much it hurts me so I...

I'll not let you worry me nor will I shed a tear For you don't know the meaning of a vow You're too free with kisses that I used to hold so dear I loved you once but I don't need you now Not so long ago you whispered words of love so true And I believe you me...

Well I took you to the station to leave on your vacation But ever since the day I've been said The days and nights are lonely kep thinkin' of you only I need attention bad It's your lovin' that I'm a missin' I need a little kissin' But just to hold you tight w...

I never had the one that I wanted never wanted the one that I had For the one that I had was a good girl and the one that I want it was bad They say that the grass always looks greener and I guess that's the nature of a man To let pashion have its way never t...

I wandered so aimless, life filled with sin I wouldn't let my dear Saviour in Then Jesus came like a stranger in the night 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 P...

I think I'll give up it's all over now you turn me down now what will I do Someday I may forget you somehow one broken heart I owed to you Each passing year will bring a memory Maybe my tears will someday bring you back to me Somebody else is kissing your brow...

So your new love let your feelings sad and blue And it broke your heart in two to see him go Now you know the lonely nights that I went through And I'm glad that I can say I told you so When you cry yourself to sleep remember me Think of all the things I told...

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine I keep my eyes wide open all the time I keep the ends out for the tie that binds Because you're mine, I walk the line I find it very, very easy to be true I find myself alone when each day is through Yes, I'll admit...

I will miss you when you go much more than you'll ever know But I'll have a memory to keep you near In my heart you will remain but it just won't be the same I will miss the million things that make you dear Your lovely ways make you so sweet I prayed the ange...

Tonight I'm sad my heart is weary wondering if I'm wrong or right To dream about you though you'd left me I wonder where you are tonight Your heart was cold you never loved me although you often said you'd care But now you've gone to find another someone who'l...

Dear you're not worth to what it takes to mention your name I wonder why I worry over you The way you kicked my love around is such a crime and shame I wonder why I worry over you Friends with good intentions all tell me to get smart And run away this very day...

Your letter came this very day and it wiped all my dreams away I've read it o'er a thousand times it's left me with a worried mind I wonder why you said goodbye and did you mean to make me cry I guess until the day I die that I will still be wondering why I'd...

I'd like to turn back the pages of time I'd like to live it again The good times the bad times in this life of mine I'd like to live it again Oh the singing the dancing the wining romancing yes even the heartbreak and sin The times when I've laughed and the ti...

After you have finished all your runnin' round and you find a card against your stack After you are weary and so sick inside I'll always be glad to take you back After life has taught you dear who really cares after all the rest is through with you Just give m...

There ain't no chains strong enough to hold me ain't no breeze big enough to slow me Never have seen a river that's too wide There ain't no jail tight enough to lock me ain't no man big enough to stop me I'll be there if you ever want me by your side So love m...

Many months have come and gone Since you called me on the phone To tell me that we were threw You'd thought it would break my heart But I fooled you from the start Because I never did trust you Well you'd thought you're mighty wise To run around with...

We're travelin' down two different roads In worlds, so far apart You want me, yet there's somethin' else Before me in your heart You're wantin' me to change my life The way you're livin' yours But I can't change, I see no way You wanted me before If you don'...

I'll never tell you I love you I'll never say that I do I'll never tell you I love you but still you know that I do Sitting all alone in the moonlight feeling so lonesome and blue Soft breeze is there in the moonlight brings back sweet mem'ries of you I know...

I'll step aside for you if you don't want me I'll step aside for you if you don't care I'm not the one to cling to a broken promise I'll step aside for someone else somewhere I'll step aside for you if you don't want me I'll step aside for you and you al...

When life's storms seem to shake you And all your friends forsake you I'll still take a back seat for you Though your troubles may be plenty And in your pocket not one penny I'll still take a back seat for you The kind of love I have for you dear Is a...

All you want to do is sit around and pout and now I've got enough so I'm gettin' out I'm leavin' now I'm leavin' now I'm a long gone daddy I don't need you anyhow I've been in the doghouse for so doggone long That when I get a kiss I think that somethin's wron...

I'm a sad lonely man who walks in the night Stopped here at your tavern it's the last one in sight I have no destination I hope you won't mind I'm a sad lonely man that love left behind To me nothing matters there's no hope left within The one love I live for...

I'm as free as the breeze happy as you please While you're singing the blues in the rain Used to have me begging down on my knees but you'll never see me there again You had a bed of clover when you stay with me But now you're on the outside and I've got the k...

Bitin' my fingernails thinking of you don't love nobody else it's funny but it's true Just got a feeling maybe we're through Bitin' my fingernails and thinking dear of you You really got me worried now I must confess it's true I sit around twiddlin' my thumbs...

I'm free at last from love and all its worry I'm free because you wanted it that way Now you can go but there's no need to hurry cause never again will I ask you to stay So run along I know that you don't want me So many times you proved that in the past After...

Things down at my house just ain't going right I'm gonna tie one on tonight I'm sick and tired of coming home and that gal ain't in sight I'm gonna tie one on tonight I wonder what she does all day I wonder where she goes When I get home she's always gone dres...

You bring me sunshine beautiful sunshine I'm living in sunshine when I'm with you Oh how I've missed you since you've been gone lonely nights and dark clouds all day long Standin' by my window watchin' it rain when I pop the rainbow and in you came You bring m...

That big eight 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 the South...

Sometimes I want to throw my arms around you And I tremble at the thought of giving in Because I know how much it cost to love you and I'm so afraid of losing you again Being close to you revives the sorrow that wakes me up and tells me I can't win I'd love to...

Hear that lonesome whippoorwill he sounds too blue to fly The midnight train is whining low I'm so lonesome I could cry I've never seen a night so long when time goes crawling by The moon just went behind the clouds to hide its face and cry Did you ever see a...

Because you love me I broke your heart dear I wasn't faithful to every vow But since we parted I found I love you Please forgive me I'm sorry now If you'll forgive me I'll make you happy I'll try to show you my love somehow For since we parted I found I love y...

I'm waiting for ships that never come in just watching and waiting in vain It seems that life's stormy sea holds nothing for me But broken dreams and shattered schemes With each new day's dawning I try to pretend one more tomorrow and waiting will end I'm wait...

Tonight with another I'm dancing and we're smiling at the rest of the crowd But I can't help wondering about you and your new love to whom you're so proud At night I'm never alone I'm afraid that I'll weaken and phone And I'm afarid that you will be gone I'm w...

I've Got A Tiger By The Tail, it's plain to see; I won't be much when you get through' with me. Well, I'm a losing weight and a turnin' mighty pale. Looks like I've Got A Tiger By The Tail. Well, I thought the day I met you, you were meek as a lamb; Just the...

I just come into this bar to have a quick one maybe give the bowling game a whirl Well you sat down next to me and in a minute I could see That you're a complicated kinda girl You say there's someone home waitin' for you But you don't really care much if he ca...

I've got the blues for mammy and mammy's got the blues for me I have been wondering ever so long but now I am homing that's where I belong I wonder why I've wasted all of these years But now I cry I'm not ashamed of my tears For I've got the blues for mammy an...

If I ever stop hurtin' I'm gonna try one more time If I ever get over this girl that's on my mind I'm gonna keep looking for a girl who's true and kind If I ever stop hurtin' I'm gonna try one more time This is not the first time I have had a hertache This is...

If my heart had windows you'd see a heart full of love just for you A tear may appear when I hold you near but that's for the sweet things you do And if my heart had windows you'd see a heart full of love just for you By your side I will stay till we're old an...

If we never meet again this side of heaven As we struggle through this world and its strife There's another meeting place somewhere in heaven by the side of the river of life Where the charming roses bloom forever and where seperation comes no more If we never...

If you call that gone goodbye ain't nobody gonna cry If you don't want me baby every since I don't want you Plenty more with frills and lace a waitin' now to take your place So if you leave me it won't make me feel blue So go your way my darling I know I don't...

You can't hardly wait till I get home You go through my clothes where to find two combs And you ain't lookin' for the wear and tear when you do If you don't quit checkin' on me I'm checkin' out on you Ain't nothin' in my pockets but the car keys and a dollar N...

Yes I know she's the life of the party and without her things here would die Oh but don't be fooled by her laugter she has her sad times she knows how to cry She drinks and she talks just a little too loud With her pride gone she tags along with any old crowd...

You've been in and out of every heart in town It's plain to see you'll never settle down You've come a long way from the girl I used to know You've been in and out of every heart in town Though I see you only now and then Each new heart you break makes mine ac...

He's in the jailhouse now he's in the jailhouse now I told him once or twice to quit playin' cards and a shootin' dice He's in the jailhouse now I had a friend named Rambling Bob who used to steal gamble and rob He thought he was the smartest guy in town But...

Makes no difference now what kind of life fate hands me I'll get along without you now, that's plain to see I don't care what happens next, 'cause I'll get by somehow I don't worry 'cause it makes no difference now It was just a year ago when I first met you...

It's a lonely world when you're all alone When there's no one to share every sorrow and care When there's no one to greet you at the close of the day The sunshine may come in your heart and never comes to stay It's a lonely world when you're all alone And that...

It's been so long darling since I had to go away It's been so long darling and I'll never forget that day Although I never mentioned it I cried the whole day long It's been so long darling but now you're comin' home It's been so long darling but it won't...

When I was just a little boy and life was bright and new Askin' foolish questions was all I could find to do One day I asked my grandpa why he moved around so slow He said listen son I'll tell you if you really wanna know It's the age that makes the difference...

Well it's time to pay the fiddler and it's sad to know we've danced it all away But the one night disappearing leaving nothing but the cold hard light of day And it's time to start erasin' all the rainbows we've been chasing in our minds We know there's no way...

Don't ever kiss no one but me if you do dear you'll break my heart It's not because I doubt you but I'm such a fool about you I've got a jealous loving heart Cause where there's love there's jealousy good and bad just won't tear apart They always go together...

Each night brings back my dreams of you I cry and cry I feel so blue You broke my heart so why I pretend the sign ahead reads journey's end River's rolling along skies are turning gray clouds are moving in I've lost my way I tried to smile but why I pretend th...

See that girl at the bar she just took my house and car And the little ones that meant to world to me She gets wilder day by day now she's just a drink away Just a drink away from anyone but me So step up to the bar makes no difference who you are You'll be we...

Just an old faded photograph of you one I always will treasure more than gold It alwas keeps my mem'ries same as new dear a keepsake of a love that won't grow old Though the old faded photograph is dim in my heart there's a picture same as new As the years go...

Why must I love the heartless one who'll never know the harm she's done Though love is blind I should have known just call me lonesome from now on I climb the stairs up to my room but no one meets me in my gloom The silence tells me she is gone just call me lo...

Lord I wish I was a catfish swimmin' in the sea With lots of pretty women Lord it's fish after me And I'd move then I'd move then I'd move to Kansas City Honey baby where they don't want you Now they call me pretty papa the swallest guy in town The women are c...

Oh jealous me and careless you the odds were just too great I couldn't take those lonely nights you made me sit and wait I thought I'd seen the last of you when you walked out of sight Instead I see you in my dreams each night So the key's in the mailbox come...

A lonely town a lonely street a lonely room where I can't sleep She's on my mind I think about her endlessly He bought her big blue diamond rings a car and other costly things But can't he buy the kind of love she gave to me The kind of love she gave to me gav...

We had promised to be wed when we said goodbye that night While the moon and stars were shining from the sky For our hearts were full of joy and the future looked so bright I never thought that we were sayin' our last goodbye I was only leaving you for just a...

Why do you treat me as if I were only a friend What have I done that makes you so diff'rent and cold Sometimes I wonder if you'll be contented again Will you be happy when you are withered and old I cannot offer you diamonds or mansions so fine I cannot offer...

I had a dream last night I dreamed you held me tight You filled me with delight so real it seemed I thought you kissed me too it thrilled me through and through Just being there with you last night I dreamed And then there came the dawning when I awoke you wer...

Let's say goodbye like we said hello In a friendly kind of way There's something wrong your love is gone I've no reason now to stay We live and love we meet and part And broken hearts must pay Let's say goodbye like we said hello In a friendly kind...

Darling let's turn back my years and go back to yesterday Let's pretend that time has stopped and I didn't go away We had our love to make us happy it wasn't meant to bring us tears Love like ours should never die so darling let's turn back the years We had o...

I just got your letter dearest sweetheart And darling I miss you oh so much Your letter has cheered me but I'm lonesome Lonesome just to feel your loving touch Letters have no arms dear to hold me Kisses on paper are so cold These sweet things you wr...

If she seems cold and bitter I beg of you Just stop and consider all she's been through Don't be quick to condemn her for things she might say Just remember life turned her that way She's been stepped on and walked on so many times And I hate to admit it but t...

Had our number changed today although I hated to But each time the phone would ring they'd want to speak to you And it hurts to tell them you're not here with me Maybe now oh telephone will let me be It's not in the book now so you'd better write it down Just...

You gotta walk that lonesome valley you gotta go there by yourself There's no one here can go there with you you gotta go there by yourself Mother said while she was dying and her breath was almost gone Keep your trust in the Holy Bible it will guide you safe...

So long we've been married last burdens we've carried Though fate kept us humble and made our love true But plans that we'd make up someone seems to break up Oh darling what else can we do We may have to leave here to find piece of mind dear Some place where w...

Hello Mrs Johnson you self righteous woman Sunday School teacher what brings you out slummin' Do you reckon the preacher would approve where you are Standing here vis'tin' with a back slidin' christian in a neighborhood bar Well yes that's my bottle and yes th...

I'm a rollin stone all alone and lost For a life of sin I have paid the cost When I pass by all the people say Just another guy on the lost highway Just a deck of cards and a jug of wine And a womans lies makes a life like mine Oh the day we met, I went astra...

My heart will break as I watch you go but your kind of love is hard to hold It seems you and I are losing touch so I'll wish you love and honey lots of luck Well lots of luck and a big goodbye and you can't say I didn't try It well could be that I tried too mu...

Do you wanna dance Will you wear my ring Will you lay with me Until the final bullets sing Over our heads, over our heads Then a lovers' waltz will turn until the end Will you marry me Don't you wanna spin Will you run with me Until the ground folds us...

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

Tonight down here in the valley I'm lonesome and, oh, how I feel As I sit here alone in my cabin I can see your mansion on the hill Do you recall when we parted The story to me you revealed You said you could live without love, dear In your loveless mansion o...

Listen all you rounder's take a tip from me Listen all you rounder's take a tip from me Don't you ever marry if you love your liberty Don't do it boy Oh-laydi-yay-oh-laydi-yay-oh-ladi-yii A woman will tell you, you can do just as you please A woman will tel...

One fine day as I was walking down the street I spied a beggar man with rags upon his feet Took a penny from my pocket in his tin cup I did drop it And I heard him say as I made my retreat May the bird of paradise fly up your nose may an elephant careless you...

There's lots of mean women on almost any street Lord There's lots of mean women on almost any street But I've got the meanest Mama that ever walked on two feet That gal is so low down I often wonder why Lord she's so low down I often wonder why That she keeps...

Long distance information, give me Memphis, Tennessee Help me find the party try to get in touch with me She could not leave her number, but I know who placed the call 'Cause my uncle took the message, and he wrote it on the wall So, help me, Operator, get in...

Yes I've got lots of miles but lots of mem'ries And I wouldn't set the miles back if I could Cause whenever I get blue I know exactly what to do Just retravel all those miles in memories You say that all those miles are showing on me Well I'll admit I had som...

If the wife and I are fussin' brother that's our right Cause me and that sweet woman's got a licence to fight Why don't you mind your own business mind your own business Cause if you mind your own business then you won't be mindin' mine Oh the woman on our par...

The warship had landed and I came ashore The fighting was over for me ever more For I had been wounded they left me for dead A stone for my pillow and snow for my bed The enemy found me and took me away And made me a prisoner of war so they say But God...

I can tell you're from the south but it picks out on your mouth Mississippi gal I love you And when I hear you call come on and hear you all Mississippi gal I love you Now a picture of cottage built for two way down south where dreams come true Vanish in that...

When I come home at night I find him sitting there Looking at the paper in my favorite chair He's drinking up my coffee wearing my house shoes He's the fellow they call Mr Blues Since you went away he's been living here with me Wish that he'd go home wherever...

I'd walk for miles cry or smile for my mama and daddy I want them I want them to know How I feel my love is real for my mama and daddy I want them to know I love them so In my heart joy tears start cause I'm happy And I pray every day for mom and pappy and eac...

Now we go our separate ways, Mr. and Mrs. Used To Be For oh so long I've loved you, I know that you loved me But time moved on and we grew far apart It's not the way I wanted, but the judge has set you free Although you're still the first one in my heart...

The juke box just told my life's story Told it in the words of a song So I'll have another drink to the juke box And one to the man that wrote the song So here, Mr. Juke Box, please take my last dime Tell me the story of my life one more time Bring back...

The postman dropped a letter in my door The address wasn't plain, but I could see It had traveled far across the great Pacific From my Filipino Rose across the sea The writing from her tremblin' hand was blurred The paper, it was badly stained with tears...

My hillbilly baby the sweetest gal in town You can bet I'll see her when the sun goes down Someday I will marry her I hope I'm not too late But until she's older oh I guess I'll have to wait Well I know I'm mighty lucky a country boy like me If I make her happ...

I may say that I don't care Hold my head up in the air Even tell my friends I'm glad that you don't call But when the day is through My heartaches start anew And that's when I miss you most of all And my arms keep reaching for you My eyes keep searching for...

My Tennessee Baby with that Tennessee smile I’m gonna love you baby in a Texas style And when I get started there’s no room for doubt Cause my Texas training leaves nothing out Now when I hold you tight dear you may thing I’m rough But you will have to a...

The next voice you hear will be your conscience As you lie awake and try so hard to sleep And your unfaithful heart will have to listen To the shabby little secrets you keep You'll be tormented like you tormented me And tears of shame will fall with every memo...

Now I've got a gal from New Orleans She's the cutest little thing that you ever have seen She's got a cute little walk with a hippity-hop She's *big at the little and bottom at the top* (Do ya need any help?) No help wanted (Do ya need any help?) No help...

Now the fate takes us both to the crossroads it seems that we two have to part No matter what happenes my darling you'll always be close to my heart If troubles and cares overtake you whatever your sorrows may be No matter what happens my darling I want you to...

Old love new tears cause from seeing you again last night Old love new tears I just stood there crying till you were out of sight For you were with your new love and you passed me right on by I tried my best to give a smile but mem'ries made me cry Old love n...

When will my arms grow cold when will your kiss grow old When will I want to be free exactly one minute past eternity When will I make you blue she done run around on you Throw away the love you've given me exactly one minute past eternity Eternity's for ever...

Just give me one more memory that's all I ask of you To see you once again would mean a lot to me We'll pretend I'm just a friend that you once knew So please be there and give me one more memory Now hello darling I'm just passing through this way Thought I'd...

One sweet hello and one sad goodbye Two empty arms and these lonely nights to cry Together is was heaven but how quickly time did fly With one sweet hello and one sad goodbye These precious mem'ries linger on haunting my mind since you're gone These little th...

There's a new star in heaven tonight the brightest of them all up there As we gaze at the sky we wonder why that the Lord took our baby so fair For he was as sweet as the rose his eyes was so big bright and blue And it made me so glad they said he favors his d...

I was sitting alone with my memories and my yesterdays appear before me I thought about our love so many times it's hard to keep living with you on my mind Out of my mind oh please go away out of my heart I wish you would stay Our love was shattered so many ti...

Would you look at what came down the road today Wanting me to be one more mistake to make A bridge to burn to get to someone knew Hey pass me by if you're only passing through You sure look like the traveling kind to me Don't stop if this ain't where you want...

You were mine for just a while, Now you're puttin' on the style And you've never once looked back At your home across the track. You're the gossip of the town But my heart can still be found Where you tossed it on the ground. Pick me up on your way down. Pick...

Precious mem'ries unseen angels sent from somewhere to my soul How they linger ever near me and the sacred past unfolds Precious mem'ries how they linger how they ever flood my soul In the stillness of the midnight precious sacred scenes unfold Precious fathe...

After the war was over I was coming home to you I saw a rainbow at midnight Out on the ocean blue The stars in heaven were shining The moon gave its light from above I saw your face in this rainbow It made me think of our love We'll build our hom...

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

The sweetest songs belong to lovers in the gloaming The sweetest days are the days that used to be The saddest words I ever heard were words of parting When you said sweetheart remember me Remember me when the candle lights are gleaming Remember me at the clos...

Deep within my heart lies a melody a song of old San Antone Where in dreams I lived with a memory beneath the stars all alone It was there I found beside the Alamo enchantment strange as the blue up above A moonlit pass that only she would know still hears my...

Saturday satan Sunday saint foolin' your neighbors that's what you think Readin' the good book singin' the hymns Come Monday morning and he's back to a life of sin Old brother Brown all week he steals tells everyone this big business deals The deacon walks by...

On my way to Italy from the Gulf of Mexico Riding on a tanker, feeling mighty low My good gal's behind me, no loving for so long I'm going back to Texas, for that's where I belong Nights are so lonely on the ocean To much time to dream of yesterday If o...

Send me the pillow that you dream on don't you know that I still care for you Send me the pillow that you dream on so darling I can dream on it too Each night while I'm sleeping oh so lonely I share your love in dream that once was true Send me the pillow that...

Set up two glasses, Joe And turn the jukebox low And let me sit and reminisce While I pretend that she Is sittin' here with me The way she did not long ago We used to paint the town red And dance until two Well, I don't paint it red no more But I'm paintin'...

She called me baby baby all night long used to hold and kiss me till the dawn Then one day I awoke and she was gone there's no more baby baby all night long She called me baby baby all night long Kissed my tears away when things went wrong What I'd give if she...

I've tried to drive away her memory but each night it comes back to torture me Cause once again there she is right on time When she goes walking through my mind She goes walking through my mind caring out a little bit each time Her footsteps're gettin' louder...

Loving me to you seems such a bother you made it easy for me to love another So don't blame her for stealing me you let her And where your love stopped she went a little bit father You changed so much I was more at ease with a stranger It wasn't so hard our lo...

She's a big city girl in so many ways she walks and she talks up town But she's got something hard to find now-a-days that keeps me hangin' around She's a little bit country makes me think of meadows and clover Apple pie and a pup named Rover and the good ole...

I don't worry anymore like I did before she's not leaving she's already gone And I won't be slipping round afraid I might be found For she won't be waitin' round when I get home I won't listen to her cry I won't tell her another lie She's not leaving she's alr...

She's looking better by the minute well I don't know what's in it That makes the drink turn a poor boy's head She's not much to look at a little old and a little fat But I'll hang around and have a beer or two For I know if I'll drink enough she won't look qui...

In the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia there's a girl who is waitin' just for me Many times we walked in the moonlight and in her loving arms I long to be I miss her smile in the moonlight and I know she misses me too In the Shenandoah Valley of Virgiania I know...

Signed, sealed and delivered A package containing my heart To open remove the wrapper But please don't tear it apart You tore up this heart when you left me You left me so sad and so blue I'm sending this special delivery Please handle with care, it's for...

The warden let the prisoner down the hallway to his doom And I stood up to say goodbye like all the rest And I heard him tell the warden just before he reached my cell Let my guitar playing friend do my request Let him sing me back home the song I used to hear...

Seems I always have to slip around To be with you, my dear Slippin' around Afraid we might be found I know I can't forget you And I've got to have you near But we just have to slip around And live in constant fear Though you're tied up with someone e...

So round, so firm, so fully packed, that's my gal So complete front to back, that's my pal Toasted by the sun and I'm a son of a gun If she don't make my five o'clock shadow come around at one. You can bet your boots had walked for miles through the snow...

I'm writing this down in a trench, mom Don't scold if it isn't so neat, the way that you did When I was a kid and I'd come Home with mud on my feet The captain just gave us our orders And mom we will carry them through And I'll finish this letter the fi...

Somebody’s stolen my honey and it just ain’t right Somebody’s stolen my honey that’s why I’m blue tonight I tried to tell her how he’s lied and how he’ll quit her soon But it’s no good she’s satisfied she thinks he hung the moon She’ll learn a lesson thou...

Someday you'll call my name and I won't answer Someday you'll reach for me I won't be there For you've grown tired of all the love I gave you But someday you'll wish that I still care All through the years how I have loved you and you know I claimed you for my...

Just when the sun shines the brightest And the world looks alright again Then the clouds fill the skies You can't believe your eyes Sometimes you just can't win Well my love never meant much to you dear For to you I was always a friend Oh why did I fall You h...

When the storms of life are raging stand by me When the storms of life are raging stand by me When the world is tossing me like a ship upon the sea Thou who rulest wind and water stand by me When the midst of tribulation stand by me when the midst of tribulati...

And runnin' around, seen many a town So maybe you'll find I'm the kinda guy that brags But listen to me and see, if you don't agree No melody rolls, like that ole steel guitar rag And when they slide that thing, along the strings It sounds all dawg gone heave...

Yes I know that my baby's been steppin' out used to be my darlin' Her old flame keeps comin' right back again botherin' my baby I tried to hold my head up high look my friends right in the eye But way down deep inside it hurts me so Her old used to be is on th...

Can I buy you a drink you look lonely well so I might and it might help us both I can tell by that lost look in your eyes just like me you lost the one you loved most Well mine walked out into the arms of another sayin' I just don't love you no more And I've j...

Take a letter Miss Gray it must go out today And I think you already know what it's gonna say It's to the one I'm tied to the one I'm leaving for you Tell her that it's all over and I can't help what I do Make it straight and to the point there's no use lying...

Take these chains from my heart and set me free You've grown cold and no longer care for me All my faith in you is gone but the heartaches linger on Take these chains from my heart and set me free Take these tears from my eyes and let me see just a spark of t...

Now some folks think I'm lazy some say he's just tired Some say I'm waitin' on a Gravy Train for some rich fellow's yard But they don't know what it's all about no matter how it may appear I don't pass through this world but once so I'm taking it easy here Tak...

If you have a love that's true one who never makes you blue Let your things and love show through tell her so tell her so Give her a kiss once in a while a tender touch a loving smile If you're happy let her know tell her so tell her so Never let her heart gr...

Now listen while I tell you bout a place I know Down in Tennessee where the tall corn grows Hidden from the world in a bunch of pines Where the moon's a little bashful and seldom shines Civilized people live there alright but they all go native on Saturday nig...

I was dancin' with my darlin' to the Tennessee Waltz When an old friend I happened to see I introduced him to my loved one and while they were dancin' My friend stole my sweetheart from me I remember the night and the Tennessee Waltz Only God knows how much I...

She's the first one on the dance floor when the music starts to play She's the first to buy the band around the drink She's just out to have a good time dances every set they play And she don't care what anybody thinks She's a sad and lonely Texas dance hall g...

The New York City folks say I'm too country the Grinny Village hippies call me square But at the Long Horn barroom down in Dallas Texas They call me the Texas Troubadour there My home state of Texas you've been good to me your wide open spaces treat me fair Th...

Thanks thanks a lot I got a broken heart that's all I've got You made me cry now I cried a lot I lost your love baby thanks a lot You told our friend as I was passin' by That you're not sorry that you made me cry You said I deserve just what I got...

Take a body that's tortured with pain and give it a head that's bowed down in shame Add two arms that once held you tight but only hold a pillow tonight Then give it a heart that once lived for you but now is dying like broken hearts do And add two lips you gr...

We're that odd couple on our street neighbors stare and wonder We're a man and wife in love with each other Today a friend of mine came by said let's do the town I can't fix you up with a cutiest thing around She's what I was jokin' when I told him patiently T...

I got a letter from my mama just a line or two She said listen daddy your good girl's leavin' you That's all she wrote didn't write no more She'd left the gloom a hanging round my front door Now I woke up this morning a quarter past three I just couldn't real...

Troubles and a worried mind it seems that's all I've ever known But now I'll leave that all behind if you'll just leave me alone And if I go on loving you if to leave is a mistake If I'm wrong in what I do that's the chance I'll have to take Don't bother now...

For the millions of lies that you told me and the millions of nights I've waited for you But you'll find out someday for every wrong you'll pay And that's when it's comin' home to you Now you said that you love me and always would be true But how could you lov...

The hands you're holding now, if you remember Are the very hands that gave you your first rose They're reachin' out for one last dyin' ember In the ashes of the love that's lost it's glow But, if you don't want me, I won't try to keep you But, there's just th...

Oh if you will listen I will sing in your ear Of some words that perhaps will sound strange Don't you mind And if you will listen then I know you will hear What I say when I speak of the change you will find There is something that you hear in so many of our...

There she goes she's walking away each step she takes brings heartaches my way He won her heart and I lost her someway there she goes she's walking away If I hadn't cheated and if I hadn't lied I'd be the one walking by her side I love her still and I guess th...

There's a little bit of everything in Texas just look around and you will see There's a little bit of everything in Texas and a whole lot of Texas in me There are forty seven states around there And each of them have treaures of their own And everything they b...

There's no fool like a young fool with wild and careless ways Who forgets about tomorrow and lives just for today If she could only realize the sorrow that's in store She'd try behaving on for sights and honky tonk no more It breaks my heart to see her drinkin...

There's no room in my heart for the blues love is satisfied to either win or lose Darling if our pathway parts let's that be no broken hearts There's no room in my heart for the blues There's no room in my mem'ry for tears we left back on and be forgotten sou...

I'm gonna give you thirty days to get back home I done talked to the gypsey woman on the telephone She gonna send out a world wide hoodoo that'll be the very thing that'll suit ya I'm gonna see that you be back home in thirty days Oh thirty days (thirty days!)...

There's gonna be some changin' round baby you've done left me down You've done trifled on me your last time You know it just ain't right when I come home you start a fight Don't leave you at least this trouble mind o'mine Now baby I want you to know you left y...

Angels sing sweet songs of love dear gates of heaven stood a jar All the seven days you love me God was looking from a bar And he knows my heart was honest that it wanted only you But you went away and left me now I'm lonely and I'm blue Though the days were o...

I had a love and it was all mine I drove her out I must've been blind That's the thoughts of a f--ool thinking out loud She loved me so but I was untrue She's gone for good what can I do That's the thoughts of a f--ool thinking out loud There's not a t...

To me you're just as pretty as a speckled pup That's why I keep on callin' and I can't give up I'll give you everything I've got from A to Z If you will only throw your pretty love at me She's got the kinda smile that would turn you up and down She's got...

Till the stars in the sky cease to shine Till the sand in the desert grows cold Till the last petals fall from the roses And the silver in your hair turns back to gold Till the sun and the moon hide in darkness And we wait for that great light to shine...

Take my lips and give me yours take my arms and give me yours Take my heart and give me yours till we two are one Just one kiss if we should dare just one love for us to share Just one ecstasy is there till we two are one There could be heavenly dreams we take...

Today I'm like a leaf in autumn never again to know the spring Today my heart is at rock bottom sorrow nothing else could bring But those words you told me just today you said I'm only in your way You left me and what could I say for my world ended today I tu...

Today I started loving you again I'm right back where I've really always been I got over you just long enough to let my heartaches mend 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 crie...

The kids all laughed at Tommy's doll but Tommy didn't care Cause he felt so much better when that little doll was there His mom and dad were busy doing things that parents do So Tommy's doll was all he had to tell his troubles to When Tommy reached the age of...

Oh you tell me that you love me Yes you tell me that you care That tomorrow we'll be married But tomorrow is never there Oh tomorrow never comes No tomorrow never comes Now you tell me that you love me But tomorrow never comes ~~~♫♫♫ ~~~ Many weeks now...

I broke your heart dear, I was untrue And now I've lost you, what can I do Fate played its hand, dear, though we did try Too late to worry, too blue to cry Our love is ended, you say we're through You found a new love that's good to you I hope you're happy, f...

I wish I could come back to you dear cause I know that you want me to But too much waters run under that old bridge And there's too many rivers between me and you There's too many rivers to cross dear and too many dreams have been lost And there's too many lon...

Today pain became a real life's hurtin' thing And the choir of loneliness sang me a song Now I know just what it means to lose a lifetime dreams Cause today I can feel it touching home No longer do I wonder why men have lost their minds And wind up in a jungle...

Yes I know I've been untrue And I have hurt you through and through But please have a mercy on this heart of mine Take me back and try me one more time If my darling you could see Just what your leaving done to me You'd know that love is still a tie t...

You've got me under your spell again saying those things again Making me believe that you're just mine You've got dreaming those dreams again thinking those things again I've got to take you back just one more time I swore the last time that you let me down t...

Unfaithful one your tears are falling At last you're paying for your fun Too many honest hearts you've broken Go on and cry unfaithful one So now you find you were mistaken You thought your game was almost won The tide has turned and left you weaken Go...

From the great Atlantic ocean to the wide Pacific shore From the queen of flowing mountains for the hills and by the shore She's mighty tall and handsome and known quite well by all She's the combination on the Wabash Cannonball She came down from Birmingham o...

I got the hungrys for your love and I'm waitin' in your welfare line Well I ain't got nothing but the shirt on my back and an old two button suit I walked out on my job about a week ago and I'm sleepin' in a telephone booth But I'm a gonna be the richest guy a...

You left me and you went away You said that you'd be back in just a day That day has come and gone but you're still away from home I'm walking the floor over you I'm walking the floor over you I can't sleep a wink that is true I'm hoping and I'm praying as my...

When we dance together my world's in disguise it's a fairyland tale that come true And when you look at me with those stars in your eyes I could waltz across Texas with you Waltz across Texas with you in my arms waltz across Texas with you Like a storybook end...

Put some money in the jukebox and let it play For my heart is cold with its pain Take the cork from the bottle of a warm red wine And fill my glass up, again Fill my glass to the brim till it flows over the rim Like the tears flow in this heart of mine...

I'm sitting here alone so many years have gone And yet it seems like only yesterday That you were by my side we laughed dear and we cried Those memories refused to go away There's memories that always bring me sorrow and memories I'll treasure till I die No ma...

In the evening at sundown is when I start to cry When the sweet mem'ries of you keep drifting by I'm alone and forsaken you've torn me apart For the way that your're living is breaking my heart I can't go on living your too wicked ways Many times I have prayed...

What a friend we have in Jesus, All our sins and griefs to bear! What a privilege to carry Everything to God in prayer! Oh, what peace we often forfeit, Oh, what needless pain we bear, All because we do not carry Everything to God in prayer! Have we trials and...

What am I bid for these two eyes that gazed upon her As a queen reighning on the throne Once they were happy eyes now they're sad eyes goin' once goin' twice almost gone What am I bid for these two lips that kissed her lips The sweetest kiss these lips have ev...

It amazes me how she can change my mind When it seems to be impossible she can do it everytime And the way she always loves me she's got that down perfect too I keep asking myself what is it the lady can't do She brightens any room she walks inside And the way...

I'm alone with all my sorrow it's so hard to face tomorrow Cause I knocked and no one met me at the door I have asked the next door neighbor what you packed and went away for But they only say you don't live here no more When I sailed across the blue I thought...

When it's prayer meetin' time in the hollow In that vine covered shrine neath the pines Then the girl that I love sends a prayer up above Where we once pledged our love so divine Till the day I go back to that hollow I will follow that old golden rule For it t...

My hand holds a bottle of wine in Oklahoma in a bar alongside the railroad tracks I'm a waitin' for a train to Waksahatchie And when ole gets a goin' ole goin' ain't comin' back Well she easy gotta laugh it up or cry it down When love goes wrong there ain't no...

When you left I thought in time I'd soon get over you Even told myself that I would find somebody too Time and tears have come and gone but not your memory But I'll be over you when the grass grows over me Yes I'll be over you when you're standing over me And...

It's been many months dear since we've parted And not one word have I heard from you I'm so all alone and broken hearted and I wonder if you miss me too When the world has turned you down dear I'll be waiting When your friends can't be found I'll be there When...

Your world was so different from mine don't you see We couldn't be close though we tried We both reached for heavens but ours weren't the same That's what happens when two worlds collide Your world was made up of things sweet and good My world could never fit...

Where the deep blue pearly waters wash upon white silver sands Where on the brink of love I kissed her and obeyd my heart's command Where the deep blue pearly waters wash upon white silver sands We watched the sunset in the evening in a far and distant land O...

Not long ago you held our baby's bottle But the one you're holding now's a different kind You just sit and wait to be somebody's baby And it all depends on who will buy the wine Whoever sets them up and tips the waitress Will be the one to share the love that...

We’ve spent so many Christmas’s together And our love filled them all with cheer But now I’m spending Christmas without you So Who's Gonna Be Your Santa Claus This Year? Who’s gonna put those gifts beneath your Christmas Tree? Who’s gonna pay the bills for yo...

I've got my angel on my mind that's why I'm walkin' There's such an ache in this old heart now I ain't talkin' The little hand that held mine tight just waved goodbye tonight I've got her sweet love on my mind that's why I'm walkin' With an old love on your mi...

You wouldn't read my letter if I wrote you You asked me not to call you on the phone But there's something I'm wanting to tell you So I wrote it in the words of this song I didn't know God made honky-tonk angels I might have known you'd never make a wife You...

You're window shoppin' Just window shoppin' You're only lookin' around You're not buyin' You're just tryin' To find the best deal in town You give away your kisses But you never give your heart To anyone who's fool enough to fall You don't feel love You don't...

I'm the center of attention in this barroom Cause I've got the biggest heartache of the year And each night those swinging doors reach out for me and draw me in Cause they know each night that I'll come back to wine me up again Wine me up turn me on and watch...

On the wings of a snow white dove he sends his pure sweet love A sign from above on the wings of a dove When troubles surround us when evils come The body grows weak the spirit grows numb When these things beset us he doesn't forget us He sends down his love...

With tears in my eyes dear I beg you to stay You wouldn't believe me so you went away I made a mistake dear by telling you lies now I lay awake dear with tears in my eyes No more to be sweethearts no more to be friends Just give me a chance dear and I'll make...

I love the women and I love 'em all the same Lord I love the women and I love 'em all the same But I don't love nobody well enough to change her name The women make a fool out of me My papa scolded me and my mama sits and cries Lord my papa scolded me and my m...

Wondering wondering who's kissing you Wondering just wondering if you're wondering too Every hour through the day since you went away I've been wondering if you are still wondering too I pray every night to the good Lord above please send back the girl that I...

There's a yellow rose in Texas that I'm gonna see Nobody else could miss her not half as much as me She cried so when I left her it'd like to broke my heart And if I'd ever find her we never more will part She's the sweetest little resebud that Texas ever...

Yesterday's tears are still fallin' yesterday's dreams are still broken Yesterday's love is still livin' a love that will never be spoken I've tried so hard to forget dear tried not too smart everything You are the one who has given but all you've recieved dea...

The world loves the winners but someone must lose There's bound to be someone left with the blues So why should I worry when you go away yesterday's winner is a loser today Now I now that I find this heart to play fair but somehow I wonder if you really care W...

I've walked though every town saw fortunes lost and found And when your trail failed I walked holes in both my soles But I don't expect you back you're somewhere making tracks I crossed the burning bridges and walked through miles of sand Met the lawless and t...

You don't have to be a baby to cry All you need is for love to go wrong You don't have to be a baby to cry Or to lie awake the whole night long When you leave me my golden rainbow disappears And you leave me a broken heart that's full of tears These ain't rain...

Well, if you love your mama and you treat her right But she keeps on fussin' at you every day and night And she's triflin' on ye they'll do it every time And when your baby starts to steppin' Lord you nearly lose your mind Now if your mama's mean take a...

The news is out all over town that you've been seen a runnin' round I know that I should leave but then I just can't go you win again This heart of mine could never see what everybody knew but me Just trusting you was my great sin what can I do you win again [...

You tell me tonight that we're parted you tell me that we are through You're sorry you say that it's over but that you have found somebody new But before you leave me my darling before you go far away Please listen to me for I love you dear and I have a few wo...

There was a time when you were mine and my heart knew no pain But since that time sweetheart I find there's been an awful change The love I knew has proved untrue and now we're far apart No matter how you treat me now you'll still be in my heart I understand y...

The clothes that I wear are shabby and old While you run around just spending my gold Each night I'm alone we're drifting apart You're treating me wrong you're breaking my heart You've shattered my hopes my dreams are all gone My life is so bare how can I go o...

You placed gold on my finger you brought love like I've never known You gave life to our children and to me a reason to go on You're my bread when I'm hungry you're my shelter from troubled winds You're my anchor in life's ocean but most of all you're my best...

Are you thinking that I wasn't meant for you Could it be you believe that I've been untrue But listen sweetheart this just cannot be Cause you're the only good thing that's happened to me We have our ups and downs like all lovers do But you know in your heart...

Your cheatin' heart will make you weep you'll cry and cry and try to sleep But sleep won't come the whole night through your cheatin' heart will tell on you When tears come down like falling rain you'll toss around and call my name You'll walk the floor the wa...

I cheated on you dear and it's no secret cause you made sure that everybody knew But you just told them your side of the story Cause you knew I would never tell on you I love you much too much to tell them what you've done I'd never let them know you cheated t...