George Canyon

I parked my car where it ran out Of my last five bucks of gas Now I'm standing here with my hand out Wondering how long bad luck can last I sent the money to the ex-wife But the check won't clear I'm buried in zeros, clean upto my ears My hail Mary mu...

I ain't chasing no neon rainbows I ain't gonna be killing time I'm just sittin' around here wondering How to get her off my mind 'Cause being without her ain't easy And I can't seem to get away 'Cause the key to her heart she gave me Somehow is making m...

Betty makes nice buns Makes em' when the morning comes Dancin' to the radio Singing every song she knows Take a deep breath son I hope you're ready Here she comes now, nice buns Betty It takes just one taste Put a country smile on your face the sign s...

It sure is cold this morning They're hangin' lights in the trees downtown The Indian summer is over The Fall fell away and blew out with the cold northern wind He swore forever couldn't measure his love But she's all alone under gray skies above Like a bird...

In the twilight glow I see there Blue eyes crying in the rain When we kissed goodbye and parted I knew we'd never meet again Love is like a dying ember Only memories remain Through the ages I'll remember Those blue eyes crying in the rain Someday whe...

I can’t believe how much I Can’t help believe What you just said One little whisper is making Such crazy thoughts run through my head I’ve heard it from somebody else I’ve said once or twice myself But it never sounded true Oh love was just a word...

I told Mary about us. I told her about our great sin. Mary cried and forgave me, Then Mary took me back again, Said if I wanted my freedom I could be free ever more. But I don't want to be, And I don't want to see Mary cry anymore. Oh, Devil Woman,...

See that girl over there? Everyone thinks she's hot And after a few, you're thinkin' that you've got a shot Well maybe you do, and maybe you don't But if you strike out there, hoss And start telling yourself it's her loss Chorus: That's just drinkin' th...

I'm not one to just open up my mind I'd rather let somebody else do the talkin' most of the time I don't have much to say But how many words does it take I love you and I want to With every single breath - enough said I won't try to be someone that I'm...

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

Every morning when I wake up I pour coffee in my cup And I look out on the fields Of the land that I call home And if there's no chance of rain And I need to get away I'll grab a saddle And be long, long gone Looks like a good day to ride Underneath...

Well, a long time forgotten Dreams have just fell by the way And the good life he promised Ain't what she's living today But she never complains of the bad times Or bad things he's done She just talks about the good times they've had And all the good times to...

Just two good ol' boys Never meanin' no harm Beats all you never saw Been in trouble with the law Since the day they was born. Staightnin' the curves Flatnin' the hills Someday the mountain might get 'em But the law never will. Makin' their way The...

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

I drive an 85 Chevrolet pick up truck, Got dust on the dash to bring her good luck. She never breaks down, she never gives up, Still goin strong. Got a job in the city, get up before dawn, Drive 60 miles an hour to get back home. The girl I love and a fi...

He said, "I'll love you 'til I die" She told him, "You'll forget in time" As the years went slowly by She still preyed upon his mind He kept her picture on his wall Went half crazy now and then He still loved her through it all Hoping she'd come back a...

Every Sunday mornin that old precher lets his sermin ring His only daughters in the choir and i hang on every word she sings I heard him say that blessing is the man who looks on lovely things Well i dont know how much more blessed i could ever be (chorus) H...

Hello, darlin', nice to see you It's been a long time You're just as lovely as you used to be How's your new love, are you happy? Hope you're doin' fine Just to know it means so much to me What's that darlin, how am I doin'? Guess I'm doin' all right...

I've seen her smile in the morning light It would take my breath away I'd hold her close and hold her tight Hopin' she'd let me stay Inside her heart forever And let me be The air she breaths, the song I sing Her destiny, what tomorrow brings I'd give...

Stubbed my toe on a Gi Joe Trippin over toys this morning My little blue eyed girl with the yellow curls said I love you daddy, without a warning Yeah, and they both think I'm Superman 'Cause I can crush a doctor peper can, easy But I can be a teddy bear...

When she got the news The phone hit the floor She fell to her knees and cried his name He had just kissed her lips And both of the kids Their lives will never be the same At the end of her hardest day The only words she could say were Chorus: I want...

I strike a match to an old love letter Another weak attempt at lettin' go I try to put myself together I know I'm not even close The time will come When I turn your memory loose But I can't think about that now No not now Well I'll burn that bridge wh...

Some day I'm gonna drive me a faster car Park in front of a house with a bigger yard I'm gonna break my back, I'm gonna bust my tail Taking everything another notch upscale I won't fail But I'll never, ever do better than you When it comes to your love,...

If you told me that you love me I would feel so proud If you'd let me hold you honey I'd holler out loud I'll never love another Even if I can Come to me baby I'm a one woman man (Chorus:) Want you let me baby just a kind of hang around I'll always l...

Hear the lonesome whiperwill He sounds too blue to fly The midnight train is whining low Im so lonesome I could cry Ive never seen a night so long When time goes crawling by The moon just went behind a cloud To hide it's face and cry Did you ever see a robin...

If I was Jesus I'd have some real long hair A robe and some sandals That'd be what I'd wear I'd be the guy at the party Turnin' water to wine Me and my disciples We'd have a real good time Ooh, and I'd lay my life down for you Yeah, I'd show you who...

Its 2 am, And i cant sleep, Its been like this for me all week, We lost another good man yesterday, I close my eyes, I say your name, It's the only thing that keeps in sane, I Think of you half a world away, I fight the tears, It's hard to live like...

Ironwolf with your storm cold eyes Are you really as bad as they say Do you kill your prey for just a sport Is that the way that you play Do you run in packs to raise up hell Do you you terrorize the weak Does the taste of blood make you evil inside And...

Goodbye Joe, me gotta go, me-oh my-oh. Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou. My Yvonne, the sweetest one, me-oh my-oh Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou. [chorus] Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and a filé gumbo 'Cause tonight I'm gonna see my m...

My little boy came to me last night He said "daddy, I wish I could drive that big old truck" Just like you You can stay up as late as you want Watch t.v all night long Nobody tell you what to do I know I'm everything he just can't wait to be But if it...

Trailers for sale or rent Rooms to let...fifty cents. No phone, no pool, no pets I ain't got no cigarettes Ah, but..two hours of pushin' broom Buys an eight by twelve four-bit room I'm a man of means by no means King of the road. Third boxcar, midnigh...

Whenever i chance to meet Some old friends on the street They wonder how does a man get to be this way I've always got a smiling face Anytime and any place And everytime they ask me why I just smile and say You've got to Kiss an angel good morning An...

Everybody wants to leave this town, But don't let that one red light slow you down, Go on and chase your crazy dreams around, A piece of tin blew off the barn last night, I've got my own ladders to climb My baby's names up on the water tank, A big "I Lo...

These days the world spins so fast, Nothin much here built to last, So many people draw a line, Give their hearts then change their minds, But constant as the sun one thing won't come undone My love for you just goes on, You are the water, you are the w...

You keep it all in till you can't no more Then it comes out in ways you hate yourself for So baby, let the truth, fall from your eyes It's okay, it's gonna be alright You're gonna be alright Let it out, let it all out Don't hold back, let it fall to the...

Lonely sound of distant thunder Stirs my restless sleep And the dream that I was lost in Slips away Of a young son and his mama So innocent back then Would she even recognize her boy today (Chorus:) Cause I have fought into the darkness And I’ve spilled blood...

Well she gave him the last chance for the hundreth time again and he hears the words she said but he can't let the truth sink in it won't sink in You think he woulda learned by now no one ever showed him how We fly, we fall, we run we crawl, we laugh,...

Billy is a shade tree mechanic He'd never think to charge his friends What he don't know about a car or a truck He could put on the head of a pin Ruby is his one and only They've been married since she turned eighteen Being Billy's wife and the mother of...

The only two things in life that make it worth livin' Is guitars to tune good and firm feelin' women I don't need my name in them Marquis Lights I got my song and I got you with me tonight Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of love Let's go to Luc...

My baby girl just turned five, Got her mama's smarts, And her daddy's eyes, She thinks I'm 10 feet tall, King of the world and that's not all. When I'm acting like a fool, That's when she thinks my jokes are cool, When she's riding on my back, I'm sup...

The first thing I remember knowing Was a lonesome whistle blowing And a young'un's dream of growing up to ride On a freight train leaving town Not knowing where I'm bound And no one could change my mind but Mama tried One and only rebel child From a fa...

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. Chorus: 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...

Traveling down this lonely road Sometimes it's hard, sometimes it's cold But I do it all to be with you I feel the rain beatin' on my face I taste the dusty winds embrace But I do it all to be with you My heart and soul belongs to you My love is strong...

It’s cold in here feels like everything’s upside down I can feel you talking but I can barely make out the sound I been kicking around these parts, feels like a year I’m gonna change this world if I ever get out of here She wants to dress me in pink, paint’s m...

Well I came home in the middle of the night A fumblin and a stumblin tryin to turn on the light I got a funny feelin that somethin wasn't right I saw you sittin in the corner with fire in your eye It's a bitter pill to swallow when you come to realize Yo...

We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee And we don't take our trips on LSD We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street But, we like livin' right, and bein' free We don't make a party out of lovin' But we like holdin' hands and pitchin' woo We don't l...

Well my Daddy used to tell me Any man can be a king, it ain't that complicated, it's a very simple thing. You don't need no castle or throne for sitting in, All you need is one good friend. If you find yourself somebody who will meet you at a stump, on a r...

Everybody knows you've been steppin' on my toes And I'm gettin' pretty tired of it You keep a steppin' out of line You're messin' with my mind If you had any sense you'd quit 'Cause ever since you were a little bitty teeny girl You said I was the only m...

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

It's pretty drunk out tonight I feel it in the air Some will laugh at loud, Some will be on a crying tear It might get a little crazy Before the morning light Anything can happen It's pretty drunk out tonight Bert's into burbon, man it always makes hi...

nobody thinks about that stuff how tall he mite of bin or how fast he coulda run they just stare as he rolls by all they see is a helpless kid with no chance to live a life but if they only new hes got a dreams of breakin ribbons in a hundred yard das...

Well I've rolled fence in the freezing rain And I've turned out heifers in a hurricane I've broke bones & I've cracked ribs I've been thrown down, I've even been..kicked I am what I am and I ain't gonna change Buddy you're looking at the real thing...

Please release me let me go for I don't love you anymore to waste our lives would be a sin release me and let me love again. I have found a new love dear and I will always want her near her lips are warm while your's are cold Release me my Darling let...

I've been walkin' these streets so long Singin' the same old song I know every crack in these dirty sidewalks of Broadway Where hustle's the name of the game And nice guys get washed away like the snow and the rain There's been a load of compromisin' On...

Love is a burning thing And it makes a fiery ring Bound by wild desire I fell into a ring of fire I fell into a burning ring of fire I went down, down, down And the flames went higher And it burns, burns, burns The ring of fire, the ring of fire I f...

I been workin' my job like a dog all week, tryin' ta make a livin tryin' ta make ends meet, bringin' home the bacon for the family, but every now and then all the boys and me, we get a little restless when the Friday sun goes down, so if you're like me, s...

Well I left my home in a Scotia town Moved out west where I'd be found Dreamin' well I'm dreamin' Well I never thought my life would change Always thought it'd be the same But leaving I'm still believing That childhood dream I'll have someday Slowly st...

Now, Whod of thought, wed end up this way, Talkin to each other, like the enemy Theres really only three words, I should say But even if I did, would you hear them any way We should have read the signs We could have made more time Why was I so blind To...

He looked down into her brown eyes, Said, " Say a prayer for me." She threw her arms around him, Whispered, "God will keep us free." They could hear the riders comin, He said, "This is my last fight. If they take me back to Texas, They won't take me bac...

Can you smell that McDonell it don't smell so well Or the one in the cage tipped over and fell And if we lived to see Sunday be able to tell Of the terror below and the place we call Hell 'Cause it's a shaft that will feed us and the shaft that will kill...

She said if I ever deceived her She'd be gone before I could count ten Well I guess that I didn't believe her 'Cause look at the trouble I'm in She's gone gone gone gone gone gone Crying won't bring her back The more that I cry The faster the train flie...

His old man was a rebel yeller bad boy to the bone he say, 'can't trust that other feller' he'd judge em' by the tone of their skin And he was raised to think like his dad narrow mind full of hate On the road to no where fast till the grace of god got...

On a postcard by a glass of wine In a small café just outside of Paris By a rope swing danglin in the breeze Carved in the bark of a dogwood tree in Kansas Someone took a chance Someone let it show Someone had to get it out, let somebody know Somebody...

I Believe in Life, love and true pursuit of happiness No ones gunna tell me that a smiles’ ever meaningless I find a drop of hope when the rain falls down Even when the clouds are insisting on sticking around I believe in holding on tight to your innocenc...

I've always had a rule about What I will and will not do, Ain't nothing to serious Gonna get myself into There aint never been a girl I cant get off my mind. Well it started out just like Tthat with you and me, No staying till the daylight See you la...

Wild Bill was a wild one, And he loved the pretty young philly Named Josephine, But one night in a snow storm, Bill didn't come home, And that was the last time he would be seen, He use to sing her sweet love songsfor Christmas, They walked hand...

In 1814 we took a little trip Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip. We took a little bacon and we took a little beans And we caught the bloody British in the town of New Orleans. [Chorus:] We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin....

She tried to hide it by the faded denim clothes she wore But I knew she'd never been inside a bar before I felt just like a peasant, who just had met a queen And she knew I saw right through her tight fittin' jeans I asked her what's a woman like you doin...

Lately things just don't feel right between us. We seldom touch, when we turn out the lights. What happened to the me and you that once was? Maybe baby, It's time for goodbye. Chorus Say goodbye to your daddy, goodbye to your mamma, Lay some rubber on...

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 heartache mend, then Today I Started Loving You Again. What a fool I was to think I could get by With only these few million tears I'...

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

Felt like we fell out of the sky Flight attendant began to cry My life flashed before my eyes I saw an eight month old sittin' in a highchair "Daddy's Boy" written on his bib A drawn up will in my office desk I meant to sign but never did The things I said in...

She never meant for him to love her He only wanted to feel her touch And now he's in way over his head And he loves her way too much Way too much Her heart is restless as the wild horses That roam the plains in clouds of dust Some men would try to brea...

Daddy did you see me ride my bike? I said yeah son, I have been watching you. And daddy did you see me fly that kite? I said yes little man, I have been watching you. Chorus: Cuz that's what I do It's my job to watch you grow up To be there to help y...

Saw a man out on the street today, his whole life in a box. Someone must’a loved him once, right now, he just feels lost. I don't know where he's headed, Can't tell where he's been. God, I wish that I could say to him, you can start your life again. Choru...

We were sitting 'round the table At the Tuesday poker game, Solvin' all the problems of the world Tryin' to draw an inside straight And Jimmy posed the question as he played a pair of Kings, "If you could be anyone in this whole world, Who would you be?" "Wou...

She's got an '83 280z, just 23 Lives on 42nd street, Paris, Tennessee Exactally 924 feet from her door to mine Seven days a week at 6a.m. she gets her 5 miles in All the neighbourhood men pretend to get their paper When she goes running by She don't see it bu...

He left Louisiana on a greyhound bus Kicked off in Indiana, no idea where he was With an empty stomach full of anger and doubts Finally stole his way to a half-way house And there a little grey-haired woman on a life long mission Took him by the hand, said, "...

Your Smile, Will always be one of my favorite things, Like backyard Barbeques and front porch swings, an evenin breeze through a window screen, Your smile, Makes me feel just like a child inside, Like christmas morning sparkling red and bright, grandads p...