Gene Watson

Amazing grace! How sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind, but now I see. 'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, And grace my fears relieved. How precious did that grace appear The hour I first believed....

Your memory is something that I never could seem to lose Oh, I've tried everything even Drowning your memory in booze So I finally decided to lay down And die with the pain Oh, but my heart kept on beating And softly repeating your name Ashes to ashes, dust t...

At last my love has come along My lonely days are over And life is like a song At last the skies above are blue My heart was wrapped in clover The night I looked at you I found a dream that I can speak to A dream that I can call my own I found a thrill to...

Baby me, baby, you know I've had a bad day So baby me, baby, chase my cares away Say I'm great and I'll make it though it may not quite be true Baby me, baby, as only you can do Hold me close, let those sweet lips kiss my wounds and make 'em right Tomorrow wi...

My mind knows full well I should leave here But my heart, my foolish heart will not turn She fills me with a crazy wild desire And, lying helpless, I know just how I'll burn Back in the fire where my heart must long to be If it wasn't so, then why, oh, why do...

I got troubles, you got troubles All God's children got troubles Livin' in bad water (Bad water) (Tryin' to roll all over me) (Bad water, bad water, oh) (Tell me why won't you set me free) You know I'm tryin' to make it But it's so hard to take it I don't min...

Somehow two people brought their lives together In a lasting kind of way Somewhere between forever and right now Is where I'll always stay 'Cause when she sings her songs of love I see myself between her ever line And her bedroom ballad is her best, her sweete...

Oh Carmen, I had too much tequila Between you and this Mexican moon I'm gonna fall El Paso lady, you're driving me crazy In a language I don't understand, you said it all. Dusty old Juarez on the old Rio Grande It's sure is handy when you need a friend I don'...

Mornings closing in on me, how can I face another dawn? My life lost all meaning, the minute she was gone I begged and I pleaded, I done all a man can do I've tried everything lord, now it's time I turned to you I know you can move a mountain, take the stars...

Of all the people in the world, why you and I With lovers here and everywhere we don't care enough to try Why couldn't all the hurt we're feeling now have passed us by Couldn't love have picked a better place to die And of all the hearts in the world, why you...

Won't you talk to me , my darlin', Tell me what a fool I am Dry your eyes, sweetheart, They're still a little moist I'm so sorry that I've cheated, Please forgive me if you can Just don't look at me In that tone of voice You refused me when I craved A woman'...

I know there's nothing worse than a bad goodbye And you think you'll feel better if you have a good cry But save those tears for tomorrow when there's nothing better to do It's a beautiful night, don't waste it on the blues Time is all it takes for a broken h...

I sobered up in Houston In the bed of my pickup truck My head was hangin' so heavy I could hardly hold it up I got to thinkin' 'bout Sweet little woman I left all alone And that's when I started rollin' Drinkin' my way back home Drinkin' my way back home Lis...

Smoked my first cigarette after being quit for years I waited long enough and they taste so good with beer Yes, I'm drinkin' again just a little weekend booze I'm doin' everything I used to do but lovin' you I've been down to the factory, even got my old job...

Verse 1: When the last, breath of life Is gone from, my body And my lips, are as cold as the sea When my friends gather 'round For my, farewell party Want you, pretend you love me Chorus: There will be flowers from those Who cry, when I'm gone And leave you i...

For the first time in a long time I want the sunshine to shine on me I want those hillsides to feel me walking And I want your love all over me. Ten years ago I guess you know I gave my heart and my hand But she left me here to grieve but never know All my da...

I wish I could step out of my mind Then I could be someone that's never known you But I can't change the way I am much less the way you feel Or you'd be loving me forever still I can't stop the winter from turning into spring Or summer giving way to autumn wi...

I still recall the morning that I met you Standing out in front of Wilson's five and dime Staring through the window at the jewelry Hungry for the things you couldn't buy Just like a fool I thought that I could please you I saw you had an eye for things that s...

Here you are again just when your memory Was only sleeping with me now and then Please don't look at me or say you love me I don't think I can go through getting over you again Here you are again when I was ready To make it without leaning on a friend Don't p...

Got no reason now for goin' home All my reason's now she is gone Got no one there to talk to, And even though I know I ought to Got no reason now for goin' home. Once I had ev'ry reason a man could want For goin' home and makin' love, but now I don't So I end...

When we first started on our way through love We thought we were two of a kind We thought forever was just you and me And always a matter of time Time has a way of changin' it's mind We're givin' on each others heart Our love grew till it ran out of room Now...

(He little thing'd her out of my arms.) I brought her a mansion he gave her some flowers I turned her to riches he turned on the charm I showed her Paris he showed her a sunset He little thing'd her out of my arms. I always thought she knew I loved her Thoug...

I could call her up again tonight And chances are she'll see me She'd be ready like she was the other time She was willing with her warm red lips And she kept nothing from me But her body couldn't keep you off my mind Her body couldn't drive my love for you o...

I'll be your companion Stay right here by your side And I will never let go Until the day you die Here 'til the end The best love you'll find If you'll just hold me Some say I'm trouble From the first touch of your hand But I can bring you comfort And I'll a...

Picture this a small cafe a table set for two The sweet sound of a violin across the room The blessing of candle light that sparkles in the wine Hold that thought with me in mind. Hold that thought and honey would you dance with me Just close your eyes and th...

I don't know how to tell her that she's changed It's hasn't done on her she's not the same She's never had a deal with this before I don't know how to tell her she don't love me anymore Lord knows some day she'll realize the truth And when she does I'll have...

Yes I'm down and might be here forever I could get up but I don't have the heart Cause you're all that held me together And when you turn loose I fell apart And baby I can't get me back together Cause without you I don't even want to start Cause you're all th...

Since the day I met you I've been living in a dream Knowing all the while our love was wrong And all the times you mentioned him were you and part between I knew we could never love for long I shouldn't give a second thought of how it might have been I should...

This morning I am leaving I've been up all night long You're right, I'm tired of waiting for you to come home I've begged and tried to change you but you've grown worse each day If I'm a fool for leaving I'd be twice the fool to stay I'd rather be called fool...

You brush off the truth as if it was a salt on the table You slip and you slide through a mouth full of beautiful lies There's no way around the cold fact that you've been unfaithful You're really not fooling me girl so I'm bothered to try If the shoe fits we...

It hurts me just to know I had to leave her But when your eyes met mine I knew I would Sometimes at night my conscience makes me suffer But it don't hurt me half as bad As holding you feels good Cause she's the one that made me need someone And you're the one...

Well' I got off work and headed for town to have a few Determined I would drown the pain of losing you But this couple on the dance floor were droppin' quarters in a slot And this heartless thing kept spinnin' old forget-me-nots The jukebox played along to my...

Little by little, round by round Weve been caught in the middle Two hearts breakin down Weve been fightin each other With our backs to the wall And little by little, were losin it all. Chorus: We saw it comin, the end of the line Weve been hurting each other t...

Everything was beautiful, everything was fine All the world was me and you and then there came a time I realized the plans we made were never gonna be And there'd just be your memory And lonely me Memories begone, why can't you go on And leave me to my dreams...

From somewhere outside, I hear a Street vendor cry "filet gumbo" From my window I see him, going Down the street and he don't know That we fell right to sleep In the damp tangled sheets so soon After love in the hot afternoon Now the bourbon street lady, Slee...

Here you are back on my mind where you stay quite a lot Bringing back all the old memories I thought I'd forgot I just keep finding you with me and I don't know why Maybe, I should've been listening when you said, goodbye I can't believe how you keep hanging...

Lady, lately you've been gettin' under my skin I hope I don't have to say, there she goes again Please don't be another lesson I'll have to learn 'Cause I've got memories to burn Please don't make me have to think about you when you're gone I've had enough to...

I feel so sorry for my friends, now, that you'd left me I just don't have the time to see them like I used to do I know they worry but each night I hurry To get home to my memories of you I've got so many, I've not lost any Like treasure packed away they get...

I was along neckin' with the boys at the local hot spot In the midst of celebratin' this newfound freedom I've got They ain't call them walking papers wasn't even right So when she brought 'em here tonight I was expecting to see that same dang doe tears bounce...

No one will ever know my heart is breaking Although a million teardrops start to flow I'll cry myself to sleep and wake up smiling I'll miss you but no one will ever know I'll tell them we grew tired of each other And realized our dreams could never be I'll e...

Don't you think we've come much too far together To just give up and say words like goodbye After all we've been through with each other I still believe that old loves never die The least that we can do is talk it over And consider giving our love one more tr...

If I must live alone Id rather do it by my self For Ive never known a man To shake his head and turn and walk away Lookin' at myself and all the things That i believe in Left dying in the silence Of the things you never say Sleepin' by myself Somehow Ive neve...

Fancy meeting you here I guess I always knew there'd Come a time we'd meet this way It's good to see your face again How long has it been It seems like only yesterday. You know I still remember Time we spent together Little things we'd do and say The night yo...

The sun goes down in Calvin county Neon lights from an old beer sign Shown through the window out on the sidewalk As I walked in to pass the time; I looked around, sat down at a table Ordered beef on rye and a glass of wine And through the door came a little o...

Them Texas fields were hot And that tractor never was my kind of living And when I hit sixteen I had my size and I hit the road to freedom And I'm glad I wasn't there To see my momma cause she must've cried for hours I still hear her saying Gary Get your gui...

Precious mem'ries, unseen angels Sent from somewhere to my soul How they linger, ever near me As the sacred past unfolds. Precious father, loving mother Fly across the lonely years Through old home scenes of my childhood With fond memories appear. Precious m...

It's a lonely kinda livin, never stayin' never givin' More than moments to remember as I'm passing through the day Satisfaction is in season but there's roads and other reasons To be movin' toward the morning when you'll find me gone away I'm just here and yo...

She has the new dress I bought her And a house for our love used to be She has the kids after all that she did But she has no memory of me She still has my friends around her And they are looking at her differently She has a life of her own where I don't belo...

I wonder if you've had the time it takes to think it over And sort out all the feel-ings in your mind Some-times I think you've found some-one to do your thinking for you 'Cause lately you've been show-in' all the signs [Chorus] Should I come home or should I...

I stay out late most every night until closing time Tryin' to find a way to drink your mem'ry off my mind And even if it goes just right, I'd never make a bet But sometimes I get lucky and forget Sometimes I can close my eyes and you're not waiting there Cons...

When you finally tell me what I know is on your mind Don't cry, don't let those teardrops start Just tell me that you're leaving and you'll be gone for good But speak softly, you're talking to my heart True love is a treasure that few men ever find I thought...

I'm not a wise man but I've learned a lot In a fountain of knowledge I'm only a drop But even a fool can give sound advice It's free for the listening 'cause I paid the price So take it from me Don't leave her alone too many nights Take it from me Don't be th...

She loves to spend my money on fancy clothes and jewelery Just like it was going out of style It don't bother her to take it or how hard I work to make it I just can't say no when she smiles She's wicked and she's lusty, someday she's gonna bust me And the day...

Nobody has to tell her that I've changed I do my best to show her every night and every day Now my ring stays on my finger and I get my love at home I'm building my world around the girl I used to run around on I'm building my world around the girl that's eve...

If I had the heart of a clown I'd laugh every time you made me blue If I had the heart of a clown You wouldn't see me cry the way you do I'd paint a smile upon my face each time you hurt me so My arms would long for your embrace But you would never know I'd si...

Wake up Darlin, I've gotta go The boss just called an he's got me low Pick-up in Texas, drop-off in Maine Then Ill then head back home to you again Well, I hope you understand and miss me too I'm just workin for the man an me an you There's something a...

I no longer notice if you're wearing perfume I quit smoking girl you never even knew And the road is full of young and restless people And they're full of this spirit to move It's a habit for us to be together We sat and watched the deadly shadows grow Every...

I tried hundred proof whiskey to just fuel the flame That just keeps on burning so true There's no other light that shines quite as bright As this torch that I carry for you I've tried to forget you but it just can't be done My old heart just won't love someo...

The day that we were married The people shook my hand They said we two were now as one And me a lucky man. From that day on that's all I ever Wanted us to be Until the day you told me We'd be three. Then we began the waiting And made our little jokes You cou...

Well today I started loving you again And I'm right back where I've really always been I got over you just long enough to let my heartaches mend And then today I started loving you again Now what a fool I was to think I could get by With only these few millio...

My woman thinks I wouldn't cheat on her when we're apart But there's a secret hidden in the shadows of my heart The truth is catching up with me and it's hard to hide my shame What she don't know won't hurt her but it's drivin' me insane My mind can't take my...

I've been fighting with these sheets again can't make myself lie still My pillowcase is soaking wet and yet I feel a chill It takes all I can do these days to just survive the nights It gets crazy when a man can't get a woman off his mind When a man can't sha...

Come in, pretty lady, you've just made my night I wasn't too sure that you'd call Sit down and I'll fix you a drink if you like It's late but the morning's still young I'm glad you could make it, I hoped you'd get by I thought about this all week through What...

You may wonder why I never do stay sober I'll tell my story if somebody wants to hear There is someone that I never got over I still think about her often, but now not quiet so clear 'cause the whiskey numbs my mind and clouds my vision So her memory doesn't...

The world loves a winner 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 Was...

Born in the heat of the desert my mother died giving me life Deprived of the love of a father blamed for the loss of his wife You know Lord I've been in a prison for something I've never done It's been one hill after another but I've climbed them all one by on...

I just called to thank you for turning me around And showing me how love feels when it's right You erased a memory my teardrops couldn't drown When you put out an old flame last night I never thought I'd find myself leaving her behind But thanks to you, I fin...

You caught me when my arms were empty And my better judgment was gone We're makin' sweet music together But I should be dancin' at home You sure make cheatin' seem easy You've got a way of makin' wrong seem right You sure make cheatin' seem easy And I'm takin...

You're just another something I did wrong You're just another beer drinkin' song. Don't think that your the first time I've been walked out on And your not the first time that I sang the blues I'll just find somebody else to drink along And I'll drink these ne...