George Jones

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...

Well, I say friend don't take her she's all I've got Please, don't take her love away from me I'm a-beggin' you friend don't take her she's all I've got She's everything in life I'll ever need. She is life when I wanna live She's everything to me in life that...

I was ridin' No 9 headin' south from Caroline I heard that lone-vow-vow-some whistle blow Got in trouble had to roam I left my gal and left my home I heard that lone-vow-vow-some whistle blow Just a kid acting smart I went and broke my darling's heart I guess...

I've got an achin' in my heart Arson on my mind I'm gonna burn your playhouse down I’ve got a badly broken heart And I've had it from the start You're giving me the run around Well, if you play with fire It's sure to burn, known this all of my life Go on, be...

I called you today, an accidental mistake And your name slipped out to some friends Forgotten old feelings are brand new today 'Cause I'm right back where I've always been You're just an old love turned memory Now I seldom see you around You're just an old lo...

By a fountain back in Rome I fell in love with you In a small cafe in Athens You said you loved me too (G.J) And it was April in Paris When I first held you close to me (T.W) Rome, Georgia Athens, Texas And Paris, Tennessee No we're not the jet set We're the...

Well, tonight when you lay lonely in your king size bed With a hunger inside you can feel Will, I'll be the empty place laying next to you And when your phone don't ring it'll be me It'll be me not calling you, crying like I used to do A-crawlin' on my hands...

Well the two new people that's moved to the middle of the block And we're at the top of the town and don't you think we're not For we got love and happiness people envy us you see For we found heaven right here on earth at at 4-0-33 Yes we found what most peop...

Alone with the morning burnin red On the canvas in my head Painting a picture of you and me Driving across country In a dusty old RV Just the road and it's majesty And I'm lookin' at you with the world in the rear-view [Chorus] You were pretty as can b...

There are teddy bears and high school rings And old photographs that mamas bring That daddies with their young boys, playin' ball There's combat boots that he used to wear When he was sent over there There's 50,000 names carved in the wall There's cigarettes...

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 a beggar into a king Yes, you took the rags from off of my back And you gave me your love to keep me warm Yes, you picked me up...

We try hard to hold on too You lost your patience and I lost my mind Now you asked me would I go through it If you came back one more time. It'll be a cold day in December It'll be a hot day in mid July Or a cool night in late September Before I give our love...

Morning comes and I'm alone ... It's been a year since you've been gone But it seems like yesterday ,you said goodbye I'm finding ways to pass the time ,so I won't lose my mind But my every waking hour I think of you That's just a day in the life of a fool...

He embarrasses his child and wife Lord he leads a miserable life But still he thinks the bottle is his right hand Yes and he can tear down more Than he's ever built before A man can be a drunk sometimes But a drunk can't be a man He lets his business lag b...

Not too many years ago When dreams were coming true I'd reach for inspiration Sometimes it would be you I'd hear you on the radio I sure did like your sound Say it's good to know there's still A few ol' country boys around From the smoke it's hard to tell...

There's a picture that I carry, One we made some time ago If they ask who's in the picture with me, I say just a girl, I used to know Just a girl, I used to go around with Just a friend, from long ago, I don't tell them how lost I am without her I say she's j...

I can hardly bare the sight of lipstick On the cigarettes there in the ashtray Lyin' cold the way you left them At least your lips caressed them while you packed And a lip print on a half-filled cup of coffee That you poured and didn't drink But at least...

No, she not gone forever She's just playing one of her games And tonight when I get home Everything will be the same. 'Cause when I woke up this morning Yes, I found her goodbye note It just a game she's plays It just a goodbye joke. She's just goin' downtow...

Well I can see you're advertisin' cause you keep givin' me the eye It won't take long till your in my song I want to be with you tonight I've been battlin' needin' bookin's and you the best contract I've known I'm a gonna be a hard act to follow if you keep co...

People steal they cheat and lie For wealth and what it will buy But don't they know on the Judgement Day That gold and silver will melt away I'd rather be in a deep dark grave And know that my poor soul was saved Than to live in this world in a house of gold A...

For years we both have lived on pride, dear And we agree that love is gone Why, oh why do we keep tryin' A house without love is not a home. The love light in your eyes has faded And I'm contented just to roam We slaved to gain a worthless treasure A house wi...

Tonight I'm all alone and broken hearted A love we knew I never shall forget And tell myself that lonely night we parted I got a lifetime to regret They tell me you are happy with another And I wonder if my memory lingers yet The things I said the night...

When you said you were leaving tomorrow that today was our last day I said there would be no sorrow then I'd laugh when you walked away But a little bitty tear let me down spoiled my act as a clown I had it made up not to make a frown oh but a little bitty tea...

I know this house is the finest one around and we are both respected in our town But our friends don't know the truth when they drop by That our house is such a lovely place to cry I keep my yard cut as close as it can be there's no litter laying round for one...

I was thrilled to death the day that Babe Ruth signed my baseball bat I always remember that, the greatest one of all When I was out in Hollywood John Wayne tipped his cowboy hat And when I got his autograph I felt ten feet tall. I met the great Hank Williams...

We're just a pair of old sneakers Stringin' each other along Sometimes i feel just like a heel 'cause i know in my soul, that it's wrong We're just a pair of old sneakers Kickin' each other around Eight times a week, we play 'hide an' cheat' 'Til we've run th...

Imagine a world where no music was playing And think of a church with nobody praying Have you ever looked up at a sky with no blue Then you've seen a picture of me without you Have you walked in a garden where nothing was growing Or stood by a river where not...

For thirty some odd years he faced a grinder in the city, Hustlin' day in day out just tryin' to survive, He bought his wife the finer things,and sent his kids to collage, That always took what little bit he tried to put aside, But through it all he had on...

(I think you know a real close friend of mine) The girl that you described sounds so familiar The one you say you've loved for quite some time Are you sure there's no mistake for I have a feeling That your real love's a real close friend of mine Well I am glad...

(It was only a rose from the bride's bouquet) I went to a wedding one bright summer day The bride was a beauty and the people were gay Alone in a corner I stood till the end For the girl was my sweetheart and the boy my best friend When the service was over th...

I gave up cigarettes, haven't had to light one yet. It's been a year sense I stopped. Same goes for alcohol. I don't touch the stuff at all. I used to drink till I dropped. [CHORUS:] But those were tough this is easy, and it feels So good to say. Forgetting...

Oh lend me a hand please Lord and guide me And help lead me down the road that is right Oh carry me through these hours of darkness And show me the path the shining light I'm a wandering soul I'm lost from my savior A sheep that has strayed so far from the fol...

In the papers I saw you this morning You were lovely dressed in your wedding gown And it said you would marry a stranger, to me That had drifted into our old home town Accident'ly you met him one ev'ning And you say it was love at first sight Accident'ly on p...

Well I have lived a lot and done my part of running round And never did I think I’d let a sweet love get me down But now I see how wrong I was, you’re part of every plan Perhaps I’ll pay but come what may my heart’s at your command Oh, this aching breaking he...

They're gonna put me in the movies They're gonna make a big star out of me We'll make a film about a man that's sad and lonely All I got to do is act naturally. I bet you I'm a gonna be a big star Might win an Oscar you can never tell The movie's gonna...

Well you can find me servin' drinks inside a honky tonk And I'll even play the jukebox on your dime And sometimes I will dance with you to your favorite song Yeah but she'll be mine after closin' time She will smile at all the men and shake her pretty hips And...

Funny what a fool will do) Here am I without your love again Oh how many times have you walked out and walked back in And I cry just like a baby after you Oh oh it's funny what a fool will do Here am I with empty arms again Counting all the times that you walk...

Well, a twister tore the roof off a grocery store Blew an Idaho potato through the hardwood floor Twirled granny's apron up around her head The cat's still missin' and the dog is dead. Well, ain't love a lot lot that Ain't love a lot like that Unconditional,...

Well, I remember back in my younger days of high school Back then baseball was my biggest dream So when I stood in line for my turn at bat I found that wasn't where they wanted me at I wound up rotten the water for all the teams. Well, there ain't nobody gonn...

Well ever since the day that you left me I been whinin' like a little lost pup The sun went down when you left town and you ain't a gonna come back up A walkin' in a wearin' out leather a scuffin' up the hardwood floor Starin' at the phone since you've been go...

I woke up with her in my arms this mornin' Forgotten how I love her over all As she whispered she loved me your memory appeared Ain't your memory got no pride at all? Tonight I lay here touchin' her sleek body And a good familiar feelin' I recall I close my e...

Castles tall Houses small Left alone All fall down Dreams so clear Disappear Without a sound All fall down Lovers meet Lovers quarrel Lonely boy Lonely girl I lost him And I have found Dreams like walls All fall down All fall down All fall down She don't w...

Before you take another step there's one thing you should know About the years ahead and how they'll be You'll be living in a world where roses hardly ever grow Cause all I have to offer you is me There'll be no mansion waiting on the hill with crystal chande...

Last night all alone in a barroom Met a girl with a drink in her hand. She had ruby red lips, coal black hair And eyes that would tempt any man. Then she came and sat down at my table, And as she placed her soft hands in mine, I found myself wanting to kiss...

Well I plopped down in my easy chair and turned on Channel Two A bad gun slinger called Salty Sam was a chasin' poor Sweet Sue He trapped her in the old sawmill and he said with an evil laugh If you don't gimme the deed to your ranch I'll saw you all in half A...

Well, I used to sit at home and wonder why, why, why All the happiness in life just passed me by I didn't think in all the world there could ever be One girl in a million who was meant for me. Then along came you walkin' down the street Then along came you, y...

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

Amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me I once was lost but now I'm found was blind but now I see Twas grace that taught my heart to fear and grace my fears relived How precious did that grace appear the hour I first believed Through ma...

Deep into midnight far from the warm light Beneath the shadow of a cold crescent moon I watched her leaving no shouting or screaming Just the sound of our hearts as they fall out of tune Angels don't fly they just walk out the door I know 'cause her foot...

Time, Won't ease my memory, It's killing me now. And Lord, how I need him here, Just to feel him near, And hear him breathing. Still, The night goes on and on, Another lonely song, I'm singing. Lord, don't think bad of me, Don't get mad at me, You know I'm w...

I can't leave you in the mornin' When you wake your childs little head looks so appealin' Walking around in your bunny shoes And my pajama tops you see that stay home feelin'. I can't leave you in the night 'Cause you're afraid to be alone And beg these tears...

Just follow the stairway to this lonely world of mine You'll find me waiting 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...

I'll love you dear, as long as I live. It was easy said the night we parted That we'd forget we'd ever met I haven't forgotten, I wonder if you have Or if your heart is full of regret. As long as I live if it be one hour Or if it be one hundred years I'll ke...

I'm gonna be your baby And I'm gonna be your guy We're gonna cook some lovin' It's gonna sizzle and fry Baby, ain't that fine Baby, ain't that fine? I'm gonna give you lovin' And I'll say take your time We'll be rockin' and swingin' Higher than a Georgia pine...

I've crossed the high and mighty creek That spans the San Francisco Bay Saw the sun set in the west In an non forgetful way Sailed the white Pacific Ocean While it was in it''s darkest blue But they still have nothing like you. I've seen the bright lights of...

If you're lovin' me like I'm lovin' you Baby, we're really in love If you're happy with me like I'm happy with you Old Cupid just gave us a shove If you're thinkin' of me like I'm thinkin' of you Then I know what you're thinkin' of If you're lovin' me like I'...

Well it takes more than a robin to make the winter go And it takes two lips of fire to melt away the snow Well it takes two hearts a cookin' to make a fire grow And baby you've got what it takes You know it takes a lot of kissin' to make a romance bloom Yeah y...

Oh I've come to the point where I've had one too many And one short of having too few Oh my bottle of freedom is one drink from empty And I'm back down to hung up on you I come here to escape and some say too often But not as much as I would like to Cause as h...

The honey bees are gonna be hummin' Guitar strings are gonna be strummin' When I'm back in my baby's arms again Happy wheels are gonna be turnin' Flames of love are gonna be burnin' When I'm back in my baby's arms again (Chorus) No more tears are gonna be fal...

Well I'm just a bartender And I don't like my work But I don't mind the money at all I've seen lots of sad faces And lots of bad cases Of folks with their backs to the wall (Chorus:) But I got four walls around me, to hold my life To keep me from going astray...

Dawn breaks on the battlefield While the mornin' mist lays heavy on the ground And the silence is like thunder As the enemy prepares another round And her soft satin armor Lying on the far side of the bed Wounded and heart broken And scared by the killin' wor...

For over a year I've been in love with a girl so sweet But the guy next door has declared a war and I won't retreat He hays he could win that pretty girl love in a minute But I'm gonna show that boy he's not a gonna win it We're just beginning this mighty batt...

Many souls are driftin' on the troubled sea of sin The under tow of evil has pulled so many in Tonight the troubled ways of sorrow fill our hearts with pride And we're so blind that we can't see the beacon in the night. The beacon in the night is always shini...

Twenty-five minutes past quitting time Seven of us crammed into that truck of mine Paying no attention to them highway signs Doing ninety miles an hour toward the county line Quick sack, twelve pack, back again It's a B double E double, are you N. My buddies...

I know you've been down just as far as a good man can go. And the hurtin's come easy but the healin's been slow. But you're on your way to recovery and you're not alone. 'Cause Nancy sure loves you and she's gonna take care of ol' Jones. [Chorus] So cry on my...

I didn't think too much about books and schoolin' Cause there was more important things to do I'd just sit out in the yard and pick my old guitar Tryin' to do what the big hillbillies do I would sit there by the hour pickin' wildwood flower Wore my little fin...

They finally got the nerve to tell me Your no longer wanted hangin' around I knew all along it would-a happened So there this-a new place darlin', that I found. And it's just on the outskirts of somewhere The only traffic is downward bound It's alright, to tr...

All the big fools in town got together Every hopeless lovin' heart I know was there We all sat around and told our own best story Then they made me the big fool of the year. Oh, they gave to me a little golden statue Of the torch that I carried for you, dear...

(Chorus) Oh the ways of the world, and the wants of a woman If I figured them all out 'twould take many years I once had a sweetheart, the fairest of maidens She outshined all others that I'd known by far I had a friend, a big fella, named big Harlan Tay...

Big job, a-pickin' up the pieces (big job) Big job, a-makin' the rounds (big job) Big job, of tellin' all the ladies My pretty momma is a-comin' to town. Now the phone is a-ringin' and the news it's a-bringin' Is going to put an end to all of my wild night li...

Down in Texas near the DFW among the shrubs and patios and barbecues Was born a suburban boy named Billy beBad Had a white bread momma and a rock and roll dad Didn't have much soul or country roots but he sure looked cute in his cowboy suit Bbb...Billy Billy...

Blue moon of Kentucky keep on shining Shine on the one that's gone and proved untrue Blue moon of Kentucky keep on shining Shine on the one that's gone and left me blue It was on a moonlight night The stars were shining bright And they whispered from on high...

~~~~♫♫♫ ~~~~ I'm calling to tell you it’s over Yes darling, you're now free to go. You're saying you're sorry you hurt me But you can hurt me no more, I know. You're asking me where this call comes from Oh, I hope that you won't end up here. If your new romanc...

My friend, is the going rough with troubled seas around To angry when you set your soul and dark clouds on you frown Have you ever looked for bread and only found a stone But it's because you're paddeling your boat of life alone. --- Instrumental --- Is the...

Baby wants me to go cold turkey bone dry No Jack Daniels no Jim Beam whiskey bone dry No stoppin' after work for a beer with the guys Nothin' in the mornin' to open my eyes Well I'm comin' down from a permanent high bone dry I got my doubts if I can make it a...

Thank you very much We've got a request for a fast one. We don't usually do rock and roll numbers But I don't know but about a verse of this one But I'll do it. It goes like this. Well, I got a gal named bony moronie Well, she's got a neck like a stick of mac...

You've stolen my world from under me By cheating and deceving me And now you've gone and set me free It's in my book of memories. Inside the book of pages black With photographs that take me back I hide the dreams that used to be Here in my book of memories....

Born to lose I've lived my life in vein 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...

Come all you merry makers you wine drinkers and heart breakers Pass me the bottle one more round Come all of you love takers all you cheaters and lie makers Fill me with happiness and bring on the clowns There's a place around the corner that I can't wait to...

Well, I'm tired of travelin' down this rocky old road This old heart of mine is a hurtin' from a heavy load Aw, it eases those away my heart went wrong But the Lord, He know I'm about to bring it on home Woa, I'm a bringin' it (I'm bringin' it, yeah) I'm brin...

You and I don't need an introduction Neither one of us has that much to lose 'Cause you're just a sister to satisfaction And I'm just a brother to the blues Now, I don't have to tell you nights are lonely There's a hunger in our eyes that tells the news And y...

Bartender come over here I want to buy the next round of beer Boys name your poison, don't nobody pass We're all brother of a bottle an' glass. The happiest moment that I've ever known Was the day that she told me she would be my own But the bluest moment tha...

(Changed his name from Brown to Blue) We stood there in the courthouse room So close yet far apart, You had brought your lawyer And I'd brought a broken heart, The judge pronounced the words The way you wanted him to do, And changed your name from Brown to...

Tonight in the bar alone I'm sitting Apart from the laughter and the cheers Scenes from the past rise before me Just watchin' the bubbles in my beer A vision of someone who loved me Brings a lone silent tear to my eye Oh I know that my life has been a failure...

Found some letters that you wrote me this mornin' And they told of a love we once knew Now they're gone, I burned them to ashes Don't want nothin' to remind me of you. Burning bridges behind me It's to late to turn back now Burning bridges behind me All I wan...

My bills are all due and the babies need shoes, But I'm Busted Cotton's gone down to a quarter a pound And I'm Busted I got a cow that's gone dry And a hen that won't lay A big stack of bills Getting bigger each day The county's gonna haul my belongings awa...

CC Waterback one tequila sunrise One's for my aching head the other's for my bloodshot eyes Last night I let it all hang out I guess that's how my head got sore CC Waterback I can't stand the pain no more Last night we got invited to a party at the Jones' pla...

Do you take this man to be your husband? I'll take this man, and by him I'll stand I promise that we'll never part. To him I'll be true, there'll be no one new From now, till death do us part. Do you take this woman to be your wife? Yes, I'll take this woma...

I've had choices since the day that I was born There were voices that told me right from wrong If I had listened, no I wouldn't be here today Living and dying with the choices I've made I was temped, by an early age I found I liked drinkin', oh, and I never t...

He was born so far away So the story's told We remember Christmas day When winter days grow cold With the time it passes by We put away the trim Then we live and wonder why We can't remember Him The Christmas star shines once a year And then it fades away Ke...

Honey, I'm home and it's late, the day is over You've been running through my mind all day long And there's somethin' I'm just dying to tell you We're not lovin' enough here at home. And maybe it's a woman's intuition For I have those same feelin's too We've...

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 memory from your lonesome past Keeps us so far apart Why can't I free your doubtful mind And melt your cold, cold heart? Another love be...

Up above me are the skies like the twinkle in your eyes These things are the colors of the blues In the mail your letter came the ink and paper looked the same Blue must be the color of the blues Bluebird's singin' in the trees seems to sympathize with me But...

Lyin' here thinkin' and I happen to think Blamin' myself for the things that I said Hoping that you soon forget and forgive My life without you ain't no way to live. Come home to me, come home to me It just won't be right till you do Come home to me, come hom...

I heard the front door closing softly As I awakened from my sleep With the last touch of her kips, Lord Like a whisper on my cheek And I cursed the sun for risin' 'Cause the worst, Lord, was yet to come 'Cause this morning, she's just leavin' But, come s...

Of all the people in this 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 all the world, w...

Crazy arms that reach to hold somebody new For my yearning heart keeps saying you're not mine My troubled mind knows soon to another you'll be wed And that's why I'm lonely all the time Now blue ain't the world for the way that I feel And the storm's brewing i...

You thought she'd cared for you and so you acted smart Go on and break your crazy heart You lived on promises I knew would fall apart go on and break your crazy heart You never would admit you were mistaken You didn't even know the chances you were taken I kne...

Tell me why baby why baby why You make me cry baby cry baby cry I can stop loving you 'til the day that I die So tell me why baby why baby why I got a crow I wanna pick with you Just like last time that the feathers flew Your running wild kicking up your heel...

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, Darlingm that it won't be long before it's crying time. (George) Now they say that absence makes the heart grow fonder And th...

I see Christian pilgrims So redeemed from sin Called out of darkness A new life to begin Were you ever in the valley When the way is dark and dim? Did you ever drink the cup Of loneliness with Him? Did you ever have them laugh at you And say, it was a fake?...

Our little boy is four years old and quite a little man So we spell out the words we don't want him to understand Like T-O-Y or maybe S-U-R-P-R-I-S-E But the words we're hiding from him now tear the heart right out of me Our D-I-V-O-R-C-E becomes final today...

A year and a half, did not seem like much time. But its almost forever, when you're only nine. Yes, she still adores him, and tears fill her eyes. As she clings to her pillow, and cries. Daddy come home oh please, Daddy come home. Sweet Daddy, Are you ou...

Darlin' dearest darlin' Put your arms around me baby please Darlin' dearest darlin' Kiss me one more time before you leave If you must go be on your way before I start And beggin' you to stay with me I'm getting weak from being strong And first thing that you...

if you think you can depend on me your right you can if you think that im in love with you your right I am but nuthin lasts forever all good thing's must end and it's only a matter of time day after forever im out that door one way or the other to r...

I wanna go home I wanna go home oh how I wanna go home Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City And I dreamed about those cotton fields and home I dreamed about my mother dear old papa sister and brother I dreamed about that girl who's been waiting for so lo...

I'm developing my pictures my mind's a dark room The proofs I'm searching for will be made clear soon I'm developing my pictures of the girl I admire Soon I will see you know you as you really are I'm told you wear two faces to hide things from me I've heard y...

I can bring you back anytime I want to I remember an angel in your veil of white so fine You were always very near, well, I think that you're still here It's so reads in the diary of my mind. On the first page there we are down by the river With the flowers b...

Well honey did I ever tell you just how wonderful you are Every time you hold me I'll be floatin' with the stars in the sky I wonder why I guess it's love love love love Well baby did I ever tell you that you're the greatest guy Honey are you with me when I lo...

Tammy, did you ever Not so much that you could notice Well, could you estimate how many Eight or nine Well, will you do it anymore I said as you walked out the door Yeah, I just wonder did you ever All the time. Could I fix you one small No, thanks I just had...

I'm dreaming tonight of the mountains that's where I long to roam The roosters crow at the break of day in my Dixie home sweet home Old people here they just don't care I never saw the beat That road ahead is mighty long but it's Dixieland for me I'm going bac...

Don't be angry with 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...

Now don't be ashamed of your age And don't let the years get you down That old game you knew, they still think of you As the rounder in your own home town Now don't mind the gray in your hair Just think about all the fun you had puttin' it there As for that o...

I've tried hard in pleasin', you tell me you''re leavin' I must know the reason, don't do this to me My loves like a flower that grows every hour It's my only power, don't do this to me. Don't squeeze it, don't leave it, why don't you believe it It's made you...

As I sat at home with my troubles today I was tempted to walk the wrong way I remember the voice that once led me from sin And I heard the same voice again Don't go don't go don't go don't go don't go back to the tavern and sin Don't go don't go don't go don't...

It sure gets lonely alone no one to talk to alone Nights sure get longer since you've gone don't leave me lonely too long I need your arms to hold me and hear you say you need me Don't let me live on dreams alone don't keep me lonely too long Mem'ries are bad...

You said I'm taking everything that is mine right down to the clock on the wall. I watched as you packed up your things. Then you turned and said, "Well, that's all." Oh but you've overlooked just one item. It's as much yours as the clothes that you wear....

Don't let me cross over love's cheating line I'm tempted my darling to steal you away don't let me cross over stay out of my way You know that I love you and I'm not the stealing kind But I'm faced with heartaches and love's cheating line Don't let me cross ov...

Don't let the stars get in your eyes Don't let the moon break your heart Love blooms at night in daylight it dies Don't let the stars get in your eyes Oh, keep your heart for me for someday I'll return and you know you're The only one I'll ever love. Too many...

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

When the storm clouds gather and I'm losing my mind She stands right beside me she lights up my day She's the one thing I found in a world that's gone wrong She's the words and the music to the world's finest song [Chorus] Lord let me keep her at least for a...

Don't stop the music let it play one more song The same one that's played tonight for so long She's out with another I saw them tonight Sitting there close together she knows that not right So don't stop the music let it play one more song The same one that's...

Your old cheatin' heart has finally caught you A thousand times I told you that it would A great big wall has come between us And I wouldn't even love you if I could So don't think it ain't been fun cause it ain't Don't think I still can't care cause I can't D...

Your hand is like a torch each time you touch me That look in your eye pulls me apart Don't open the door to heaven if I can't come in Don't touch me if you don't love me, sweetheart Your kiss is like a drink when I'm thirsty And I'm thirsty for you with all...

You make my eyes run over all the time. You're happy when I'm out of my mind. Please, loosen these chains and let me breathe. Don't you ever get tired of hurtin' me? You must think I look bad with a smile For you haven't let me have one in such a long long w...

I've heard there's talk around sayin' I'm out of control. Something about too many bottles and a love that's grown cold. But you know talk is cheap and sometime these stories get old. But I keep on singing my songs and I still got some soul. [Chorus] So Dre...

Tonight do me a favor On your way to do me wrong Drop me at a honky tonk Don't leave me here alone I washed and waxed the car today I even filled the tank If you're gonna drive me crazy Drive me to drink All the mothers and your lovers Will be happy I suppose...

You can talk about your Frauleins and your pretty Geisha girls And about the one you got in the USA But I found myself a sweetheart in Alaska way up high She's my Eskimo baby she's my Eskimo pie She's my Eskimo baby she's my Eskimo pie She lives south of the N...

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 ca...

I see a beautiful rose And my heart with love overflows I get a feeling that I never knew Every time that I look at you. The world looks so different to me Everything's so pretty I see I get a feeling that I never knew Every time that I look at you. The worl...

I'm gonna build a private graveyard On the outskirts of town And if my baby don't get home tonight I'm a-gonna lower her down 'Cause it ain't right Lord, no, everything ain't right I saw her out just the other night She was really on a spree She was makin' lo...

As I look at the letter that you wrote to me it's you that I am thinking of As I read the lines that to me were so sweet I remember our faded love I miss you darling more and more every day as heaven would miss the stars above With every heartbeat I still thin...

There's A Fam'ly Bible on the table Each page is torn and hard to read But The Fam'ly Bible on the table Will ever be my key to memories. At the close of day when work was over And when the evening meal was done Dad would read to us from The Fam'ly Bible And...

She said trust me and I did, love me I did She said hold me as tight as you can She said I live just for you, won't you live for me too She said I could never love another man. Oh, those famous last words Oh, how they hurt me They go down in my memory As the...

Hey, I've got a guitar, I've got a fiddle I'll sing the low part, I'll sing the middle Rosin up the bow and let's pick a little Got a fiddle and guitar band. I like old songs, I like the new I like the glad songs, I like the blues Well, we'll play them and an...

I hear people talkin' bad, About the way we have to live here in this country, Harpin' on the wars we fight, And gripin' 'bout the way things oughta be. And I don't mind 'em switchin' sides, And standin' up for things they believe in. When they're runnin' d...

When the warship's left Manila sailing proudly o'er the sea All the sailors hearts were filled with fond regret Looking backward to this Island where they spent such happy hours Making love to every pretty girl they've met (Well up stopped a little sailor with...

I've got a hundred dollars smoking in my billfold I know I ought to save it but it's burning a whole Right through my pocket and into my skin Come Monday morning I'll be broke again It's finally Friday I'm free again I got my motor running for a wild weekend...

You cheated on me (you cheated me) I tried to be fair (I tried to be fair) But you don't believe enduring your share But I've learned my lesson (I've learned my lesson) And now I can say (now I can say) The flame in my heart is dying away is dying away Your ki...

Papa brought flowers for mama today And all the grown children, but it's not mother's day I don't have no money, not even a dime But I brought mama flowers like I have all the time. Everyday I pick flowers from this pretty hill A small box of Daisies and a few...

She stepped out of the Taxi, with a suitcase in her hand And a hand bag too full for her to hold I felt her body tremble as I took her in my arms And she whispered, don't ever let me go [Chorus] The I watched her hang her dresses up and close the closet door...

I lost her love and started drinking trying hard to stop from thinking And I found that it was not the thing to do But I can't stop my heart from throbbin' couldn't ease the pain by sudden Forgive me now and I will always do what's right It's my fault my heart...

Well, it's only my love you are taking. And it's only my heart you are breaking. To you it will be only footsteps you're takin', But it's my lifetime from here to the door. From here to the door is your freedom. To you, a short walk 'cross the floor. If you...

On a hillside in Hazzard Sets a new double-wide God's little acre Your paradise A poor boy found heaven With a good country girl He had all he wanted She was his whole world But working the coal mine Can wear a man down He started spending Too much time in t...

Well hello there my it's been a long long time How am I doin' oh I guess that I'm doin' fine It's been so long now but it seems now it was only yesterday Gee ain't it funny how time slips away How's your new love I hope that he's doin' fine I heard you told hi...

I got to get up and get some loving done My life so far ain't been much fun Well I got my self a woman and I know that your the one I got to get up and get some lovin' done. I've been a-sittin' in the corner of the world much to long A? came by and gave...

If you'd ever been drinking I know that you'd seen her At the end of the bar all alone She knows what you're thinking When you try to approach her And anything you say might be wrong. She's not there for company She don't like to remember She once let herself...

(Girl you sure know how to say goodbye) You kissed me and you said I was a gentleman to you You said I was a person you could trust You told me that you love me in a way that couldn't die Girl you sure know how to say goodbye You kissed me in a way you never...

You took her from my side The day you took her from me And you though that it would hurt my pride But there were things you failed to see. You thought you stole away her love But I want the world to know It's the truth she turned her back on me But I was glad...

Go go go away with me hm Far from his heart and eyes I can love you and you'll realize That your life holds so much in store When you wanted and loved and adored Go go go away with me and I know you soon will forget His false love that's haunting your memories...

I been working all day long on some old forgotten place A place where mom and papa rest beneath the cold cold clay Though the tears may fill my eyes there's a smile upon my face I see God remembered mom and daddy put flowers on their grave And there's wild fl...

God's gonna get 'cha for that God's gonna get 'cha for that There's no place to run and hide For He knows where you're at God's gonna get 'cha for that God's gonna get 'cha for that Every wrong thing that you do God's gonna get 'cha for that This doggone wor...

In a pawn shop in Chicago on a sunny summer day A couple gazes at the wedding rings there on display She smiles and nods her head as he says, "Honey, that's for you It's not much but it's the best that I can do" Golden ring with one tiny little stone Waiting...

A long time forgotten Are dreams that 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, Lord. She just talks about the good times they've had And all the good ti...

Some come from Heaven and some crawl from Hell And the good fight the bad for your soul But it's hard to tell the lie from the truth When you find one that easy to hold There's no way of knowing which one you've been lovin' Till you leave 'em or you lose her...

Step right up, come on in If you'd like to take the grand tour Of a lonely house that once was home sweet home I have nothing here to sell you Just some things that I will tell you Some things I know will chill you to the bone Over there sits the chair Where...

I guess we've walked a million miles together hand in hand We'd climb steep Rocky Mountains a happy woman a happy man We'd thought our love would go on forever side by side But here we stand like strangers at the great divide We've loved our way to the top of...

The old home town Still looks the same As I step down from the train There to meet me Is my mama and my papa. Down the road I look And there runs Mary Hair of gold and lips like cherry It's good to touch The green, green grass of home. Yes, they'l...

If I'd only had one arm to hold her Better yet if I had none at all Then I wouldn't have two arms that ache for her And there'd be one less mem'ry to recall If I'd only had one ear to listen Oh, to the lies that she told to me Then I would more closely resemb...

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

I walked a thousand miles last night and never left my room My tremblin' hands kept waitin' for the phone I counted every crack that's in the ceilin' and the wall With out you baby, half of me is gone. I realize the many times I was unfair And darlin', hurtin...

I've seen your body and I've sailed to this heart Now I'm somewhere in between I believe that it's over but sometimes I'm still blue There's no place so lonely being half over you. Don't feel much like climbin' 'cause I don't want to fall Here in the memory I...

Let me tell you bout a girl I know she's my baby and she lives next door Every morning when the sun comes up she puts my coffee in my favorite cup That's why I know yes I know hallelujah I just love her so When I'm in trouble and I need a friend I know she'll...

Well, me and me hen was a-roostin' high last night on the roostin' pole When I got up this mornin' Lord, my roostin' pole was cold This hen told me that she was mine last night when the feathers flew But she must have flew the coup with another cock a doodle d...

I long to be his possession he is my everything I remember my days of darkness without sunshine or sight to lead my way Then a whisper of his voice softly called me to the arms of my maker to stay He is my reason for living he is the king of all kings I long t...

I had drifted for so long with my life so full of wrong That the Lord should have turned his back on me But he took the trembling hand of a lost and lonely man Broke the chains from mortal shame and made me free Yes he took away the sin from my soul where it h...

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 again K...

Heartache number one was when you left me I never knew that I could hurt this way And heartache number two was when you came back again You came back and never meant to stay Now I've got heartaches by the number, troubles by the score Every day you love me le...

Well, since my baby left me I found a new place to dwell It's down at the end of lonely street It's heartbreak hotel. Oh well, baby I've been so lonely, baby I've been so lonely I've been so lonely I could die. Although it's always crowded, You still can fin...

Heartbroken me, lonesome as can be Heartbroken, sad and so blue Lonesome for your charms and your lovin' arms Heartbroken 'cause I'm losin' you. Most every night I lie awake Just cryin' 'cause we're through I'd give the world if I could hear That she's been c...

I dreamed that all the hearts I've broken came to visit me And in my sleep they came to pay me for their misery They were all so torn and shattered, Oh such tales of woe It was I who caused them all and my conscience hurts me so Hearts in my dream Each one of...

Well, you and me baby know what love's all about It sure wasn't easy oh, but we figured it out No matter what happens we'll see it through Baby, don't you see there ain't no me without you We're like Heckle and Jeckle, Jeckle and Hyde Frankie and Jonny oh, Bo...

She said hello And I said hon', it's me She said I might have known And I said oh, listen please Leaving you for her was wrong Please let me come back home This old town's closed down And I have no place to go [Chorus] And she said Hell stays open all night l...

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 your doin' fine Just to know it Means so much to me What's that Darlin' How am I doin' Guess I'm doin' alright Except I cant sl...

Hello, heart, well, I'm glad you came a knockin' Oh, I can see that pretty little honey's got you back a rockin' Well, ain't you somethin', now, you got me a jumpin' Oh, where you been? Good to see you again, hello, heart Well, I know it's been a long time si...

Woke up this morning happy as could be look out my window what did I see Comin' up my sidewalk was as big as day Oh well here comes trouble that I never thought I'd see when you went away Hello trouble come on in Well you talk about heartaches where the world...

Won't somebody help the people who ain't lovin' Help them find an old love like we do Heaven help the people who ain't lovin' They're not livin' if they're not lovin' like me and you. (George) I go to bed each night lookin' forward to another lovely day with...

Oh, I love her and just can't live without her And I've got the urge to tell the world about her But our love's a secret and can't see the light of day But I went and wrote this love song anyway Her name is, her eyes are Her hair is just like, and she measure...

Cowboys don't cry, and heroes don't die Good always wins, again and again Love is a sweet dream that always comes true Oh, if life were like the movies, I'd never be blue [CHORUS] But here in the real world It's not that easy at all 'Cause when hearts...

Hey hey, good lookin', whatcha got cookin' How's about cookin' somethin' up with me? Hey, sweet baby, don't you think maybe You 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 po...

He's got thirteen channels of wrestling comin' in strong from a satellite send A two hundred function remote control big screen TV with stereo Football baseball nascar too with picture in a picture it's all in view And if it comes on just a little too late wi...

His name is on my mailbox where mine way yesterday His face is in the mirror where I once used to shave His clothes are in my closet his car's in my driveway And his loving her is gettin' in my way His loving her is a gettin' in my way No I don't want to have...

No I didn't see you comin' as I was goin' down life's street I met you and you knocked me off my feet You left me lame and crippled lovin' you was all I've done You wrecked my life forever for you're a hit and run I should have known that you were speeding fo...

Hold everything till I come home No matter how long I'm gone Don't be tempted by their money and booze Nobody's gonna fill my shoes. When I get back I won't even knock 'Cause the same ole keys fits the same ole locks Hold everything till I come home No matter...

I'd like to make everyday with you a holiday for love Every hour of the day you're all I'm a thinkin' of All week along when you're gone I sit around so blue I just can't wait on Saturday that's my holiday with you Monday Tuesday Wednesday wonder if you miss m...

My years have been many, My loved ones are gone, And I miss them more every day. I'm ready to move to that heavenly home And I yearn for the day I can say. Take this ring from my finger, These shoes from my feet Take all of my worldly possessions away. Jus...

Well I left my home down on the rural route I told my paw I'm going steppin' out and get the Honky tonk blues, Yeah the honky tonk blues Well lord I got 'em, I got the ho-on-ky tonk blues. Well I went to a dance and I wore out my shoes Woke up this mornin'...

Well, it won't be long now Until that 'ol sun goes down And darkness helps me hide my shameful tears. My wife works all night long For a man who's halfway gone She's the barmaid in the honky-tonk downstairs. It's a shame she wears the name Of a man who's lock...

Well I don't know why you left me but I do know that your gone Over night you turned my life into a sad ol' song And one way or another, I gotta get over you Well there's only one thing left for me to do Lord, I don't wanna die of a broken heart That would...

I saw those blue lights flashin' over my left shoulder He walked right up and said, "Get off that riding mower" I said sir, "Let me explain before you put me in the tank" She took my keys away and now she won't drive me to drink I need a honky tonk song, a co...

When you are sad and lonely and have no place to go Call me up, sweet baby, and bring along some dough And we'll go honky tonkin', honky tonkin' We'll go honky tonkin', honey baby We'll go honky tonkin' 'round this town When you and your baby have a fallin' o...

I love you. I hate you. Forget you. But I'm afraid to. You loved me, or did you? I'll never be sure. But one thing's for certain in spite of this hurtin' forever I'm hopelessly yours. From laughing to crying from living to dying. From Heaven to heartaches...

I stopped off at the Quicksack for some beer and cigarettes The old man took my money as he stared at my Corvette He said, I had one just like her son, in 1963 Till the man down at the bank took her from me Son she was hotter than a two dollar pistol She was...

Like a raging flood that ruins a poor man's land You keep doing things to hurt me all you can But the thickness that we knew is growing thin How much rain can one man stand How much rain can one man stand I gave you everything but my right hand If you won't le...

I know there's never been a man in the awful shape I'm in I can't even spell my name, my head's in such a spin Today I tried to eat a steak with a big old tablespoon You got me chasin' rabbits, walkin' on my hands and a howlin' at the moon Well sugar, I took...

Love on the rocks that's all he said As he sat there beside me shaking his head I said Mister you look like you're taking it rough The next round's on me he said I don't touch the stuff Cause these hundred proof mem'ries are stronger than wine It don't take bu...

Well, I ain't got no business doin' business today 'Cause my little woman wants to stay home and play And right here in her arms is where I will stay No, I ain't got no business doin' business today. Well, I'm a-gonna call my boss and tell him I'm ill I'm gon...

I've had good luck, and bad luck And no luck, it's true But I always get lucky with you I've been turned on, and turned down When the bars close at two But I always get lucky with you I keep two strikes against me Most all of the time And when it's down to j...

When your born you enter in Your world that's filled with sin But when you die you'll live again If you just believe. And when this life on earth is through We'll all be judged by what we do And the trumpet of the Lord shall sound But the grave can't pull me...

There's a love in my heart that I'd been keeping I don't know how to give it away to someone new Oh, you walked out the door and left me weeping And I can't change overnight from loving you If I can't walk with you then I'll walk all alone Where my feet touch...

This mornin' waking up to you has changed my day forever And I could jump right up and kiss the sun Hm, loving you just has to be the nearest thing to heaven I can't get over what loving you has done. Is it really me and you lyin' here together And more an mo...

Oh well don't let the spinning ever stop you've got me spinning like a top Going round and round is all I do I can't tell the day from night I don't know the wrong from right I only know I can't get over you I've got an angel on one shoulder the devil on the o...

I'm looking for the town where sadness can't be found Where happiness is blooming all year 'round A place where there's no heartaches and no one cries a tear But they all say I can't get there from here. Surely there's a place to rest a tortured mind Oh, what...

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 stealin...

I can't stop loving you I've made up my mind To live in memories of old lonesome times I can't stop wanting you it's useless to say So I'll just live my life in dreams of yesterday. Those happy hours that we once knew Though long ago still make me blue They s...

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 c...

Last night I dreamed that you told me goodbye And in my sleep the teardrops filled my eyes It seemed so real I thought my heart would break Last night I cried myself awake. I cried myself awake and laid there tremblin' As I reach for you my hand began to shak...

I pull into my driveway While the day is slowly dying in the west I look in that direction To the setting sun and the one that loved me best We cried and said goodbye Seems like a million years ago or was it yesterday She swore she'd always love God, I wonder...

A friend of mine told me that you were down here last night I almost called him a liar but I seen he was right, Yeah, he was right. I'm over my anger but that's about all It's hard to recover from that kind of fall A fool never knows when to give up For year...

I hear the bluebirds singing I hear the robins too I hear the church bells ringing oh but I don't hear you I see little things mark his and hers a constant reminder we're through I hear the rain on my window oh but I don't hear you [ piano ] I hear the childre...

I don't love you anymore, like the way I did before And since you've found someone new I think it's best I don't try and walk the floor, I don't love you anymore Trouble is I don't love you any less. I don't love you anymore for I've got no more love to give...

I don't need your rockin' chair Your Geritol or your Medicare Well, I still got neon in my veins This grey hair don't mean a thing I do my rockin' on the stage You can't put this possum in a cage My body's old but it ain't impaired I don't need your rockin' c...

I don't want no strangers footsteps in my bedroom Pulling down my window shade and messin' up my spread I don't want nobody fluffing up my pillow I don't want no stranger sleepin' in my bed. If I have to cross the world without you Always keep in mind what I...

I went to sleep last night lonely and blue Tears were falling like the morning dew But when I closed my eyes my loneliness was gone 'Cause I dreamed my baby came home. And you were holding me Kissing me like you used to do My heart went crazy When you whisper...

Fresh out of school I made plans to go to college Be a doctor or a lawyer is what I wanted to do But we fell in love and soon we were married And I gave it all up for you Then we moved up north I got a job at the factory I worked very hard and my promotion ca...

Well I get lonely in a hurry if you left for a minute I go crazy inside while you were gone Yes I get lonely in a hurry if you left for another I don't think I could take it very long There would be so many little teardrops fall I don't think that I could cou...

You got the money, the big career You can fly most anywhere to get away from here I got my man, we ain't to tight But we can rock 'em at the Rooster every Saturday night I got my girl, got my guitar, I got everything. You got a wet rag up on my neck And you c...

Well I gotta get drunk And I sure do dread it Cause I know just what I'm gonna do I'll start to spend my money Call everybody honey And wind up singing the blues I'll spend my whole paycheck On some old wreck And brother I can name you a few But I gotta...

I've gotta talk to your heart You have no right to make me cry The love I've shone for you these years Can't be washed away with tears I've gotta talk to your heart. I've gotta make you understand Our love is drifting far apart Won't you please stop where you...

There are those who'd like to change the way I'm livin' It seems they just don't like me the way I am Tomorrow I may live the way they're thinkin' Oh, but tonight I just don't give a damn I've done everythin' I can to make you happy But every word I spoke you...

I just don't like this kind of livin' I'm tired of doin' all the givin' I give my all and sit and yearn and get no lovin' in return And I just don't like this kind of livin' Why do we stay together if we always fuss and fight You ain't never done to be wrong a...

My life with trouble goes back to the candy That I stole from Jessie Walker's country store A penny separated me from choosing sides with honesty And I just got tired of being poor. Some folks eat their supper off of silver And the only world they'll ever kno...

Empty, I was just an empty shell 'til I met you Hungry, just another hungry heart 'til I found you Loving, loving was a feeling I never knew Dying, I was dying for the life time with you Your love is my breathe of life Your love blows me away I wasn't born ye...

I can't take a heart that's broken Make it over again But I know a man who can And I can't take a soul that's sinful And make it white, whiter than snow But I know a man who can Some call Him Savior, the Redeemer of all men I call Him Jesus, for He's my dear...

I let you go when I needed you so Not knowing then I want you back again Now that you're gone there's one thing I know I'll always regret I let you go Such a fool was I to be so blind That you was within these arms of mine It's too late now another's love you...

I love you because you understand, dear Every single thing I try to do You´re always there to lend a helping hand, dear I love you most of all because 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 Darlin' that's why I'm so blue I'm so afraid to go to bed at night I'm 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...

I must have done something bad sometime in my life And I paid for it time and again But this time you've hurt me so bad I could lay down and die And the pain grows each day, ten times ten times ten. If I thought my hand was against you, why I'd cut off my arm...

How many arms have held you And hated to let you go How many, how many I wonder But I really don't want to know. How many lips have kissed you And set your soul aglow How many, how many I wonder But I really don't want to know. So always make me wonder Alway...

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...

Spent a week in Houston and watched it rain Spent a day in Dallas missing planes Lord, it sure was cold up in Montreal I thought of you, I should`ve called Acapulco, lying in the sun Spending all my gold drinking lots of rum Mexicali women, tan and tall Wish...

By now I guess she's wondering how I'm doing If it broke my heart when she told me goodbye Well, every night I sleep just like a baby I wake up every hour and cry. I bet she don't think I'm going miss her Probably think she's always on my mind But every night...

Accident'ly in your arms and that's all it took Knowing how you want and need me with just one look To leave you now is something you should know that I can't do I stayed long enough to fall in love with you Long enough to know that what I feel won't go away J...

Grandpa, I've been thinking 'bout you lately Wondering if you'd found your peace of mind And I guess that you'd be proud to know your grandson Never crossed that mason Dixon line. And I still sing the old songs that you taught me An' I still pray to Jesus now...

Could be holding you tonight, Could quit doing wrong, start doing right. You don't care what I think. I think I'll just stay here and drink. Listen close and you can hear, That loud jukebox playing in my ear. Ain't no woman gonna change the way I think. Think...

Once I lived a life of wine and roses I drank a lot back then for one concern Success for me lay just around the corner I thought my social friend would help me make the turn But now I'm paying for the days of wine and roses A victim of the drunken life I cho...

Rivers turn to oceans and flow on to the sea, embers turn to ashes, and love to memories. Rain turns to rainbows and gray skies turn to blue. But when the world turns on me I turn to you. A thirsty man needs water. A bluebird needs the sky. A man needs hi...

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 ties that bind because you're mine I walk the line I find it very very easy to be true I find myself alone when each day's through Yes I'll admit t...

Thrill me with your big warm smile Love me in your sweetest style I want to be where you're gonna be tonight Let me look into your eyes Feel like I'm in paradise I want to be where you're gonna be tonight. I'm just not good without you You're the one for me I...

I saw a sweet old couple in the park the other day Holding hands and smilin' in an old familiar way Then I thought about you and how I'd feel without you And I knew, honey, I knew. I want to grow old with you Huggin' and holding you Be my little old lady And...

I wanta sing About the things that make me happy I wanta sing About my brother and my mother and my sister and my pappy I wanta sing About the things that make me happy But most of all I wanta sing about you I picked up my first guitar when I was just eleven...

I remember wearin' straight leg Levis an' flannel shirts Even when they weren't in style I remember singin' with Roy Rogers at the movies When the West was really wild An' I was listenin' to the opry When all of my friends were diggin' rock 'n' roll An' rhyth...

We both have a morning cup of coffee And with tender love you reach and touch my hand And my son comes in and says good morning daddy And I say how's daddy's little man Then I woke up from dreaming I woke up from dreaming I keep dreaming you're not gone but I'...

Do you think I'll keep on waitin' for your love while you keep date Other fellows in this town that think you're free I can't give something dear for nothing surely this time I'm not bluffing I won't love you any more than you love me. You like wordly ways an...

After all these nights together I still get lost in your perfume And if I could write a love song every line would tell the truth It would be a warm and soft one he'd watch my heart would say to you. When you see me walk on water when the sea don't reach the...

Do you remember how you felt when you kissed your brand new bride Or the feeling that ran through you when you held your new born child And when he called you daddy did you feel ten feet tall Well I heard about a man who must have had the greatest thrill of al...

She cooked my dinner and shines my shoes Cleans up my Sunday hat Don't tell me nothin' at all about somethin' 'Cause I wouldn't know a thing about that. Well, I've just been married for about six months And your sayin' that I'm blind as a bat You said she roa...

I been lonely much too long I'd give a Yankee dime if you come back home Honey won't you let me hold you tight Tears keep a fallin' my eyes are blurred if I had the wings of a pretty little bird I would fly right to your arms tonight I'd jump the Mississippi d...

I'd rather die young than grow old without you So don't ever leave me whatever you do Though others may tempt you and tell you they care You'll find only sorrow in a secret affair I'd rather die young than grow old all alone Please tell me you love me let me c...

I'll take you to the picture show and babe I'll hold your hand I'll sit up in your parlor let you cool me with your fan I'll listen to your troubles and pet you when you cry But get that marryin' out of your head I'll be a bachelor till I die I done my honky...

Well there ain't no chains strong enough to hold me There ain't no breeze big enough to slow me I never have seen a river that's too wide There ain't no jail tight enough to lock me There ain't nobody big enough to stop me I'll be there if you ever want me by...

I remember my childhood my mother said son Prepare to me Jesus when your work here is done When I die just remember my soul will live on I'll be there to meet you and welcome you home I'll meet you in heaven some wonderful day When the dark stormy clouds of li...

You can take me to the top of the tallest buildin' And push me off and watch me go Take me to a busy street, tie my hand and my feet And lay me where the heaviest traffic flows. Take me out into the deepest part of the wild blue ocean Wrap me up in chains and...

Well, some glad morning when this life is oer, I'll fly away. To a home on God's celestial shore, I'll fly away. Oh, I'll fly away, O Glory, I'll fly away When I die, Hallelujah, bye and bye, I'll fly away. When the shadows of this life have gone, I'll fly a...

I've been told my days are numbered. Soon mother Earth will Claim me for her own but I wont go, we just started, and I just can't leave you here all alone. So my life must go on living, my heart must keep on beating true somehow, I'll let go when you leave m...

I'll give you something to drink about I stumbled in this morning Completely out of my mind Down to my last warning Down to my last line But before I got one word out She unloaded on me Said if that bottle is all that important Then I've got just what you need...

I gave you love when you were lonely And I gave you strength when times were bad I've been a daddy to your children And I've dried your tears when you were sad But darling you don't need to thank me Having you is thanks enough And if there's anything you owe...

I'll never let go of you not your sweet loving touch I'll never let go of you for I love you too much I want to be where you are till my life here is through If I'll live forever I'll never let go of you You brought sunshine into my world turned the grey skies...

We've been sweethearts for so long Now you say we're through The love we shared is just a memory Well I had built a ship of dreams And planned them all for you Now I guess what is to be will be [Chorus] So I'll sail my ship alone With all the dreams I own Dri...

I'll share my world with you Ev'rything that I own My earthly possessions They're no good if I'm alone Let me give you the sunshine While it's fresh with morning dew Can't you see that I'm waiting To share my world with you I'll share my world with you If you...

If you can find it in your heart to just forgive Then I'll come back and live the way you wanted me to live All I want is you to be my girl Let me come and get you and take me to my world. I'll take you to my world away from bar rooms filled with smoke Where...

(Both) I'm a fool to care when you treat me this way I know I love you but what can I do, I'm a fool to care I'm a fool to cry when you tell me goodbye You left me so blue when you were untrue, I'm a fool to care. (Gene) I know I should laugh and call it...

Well, all you want to do is sit around and talk And now I've got enough and I'm a-steppin' out I'm leavin' now, hey, I'm leavin' now Hey, I'm a long gone daddy I don't need you anyhow. Oh, I've been in the doghouse for so doggone long That when I get a kiss I...

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] Won't you let me baby just a kind of hang around I'll always love you...

There I was on the marquee a workin' for a livin' I've been gettin' instead of a givin' A hangin' by my tail a waitin' for the dinner bell puttin' humans off Every day them fools rush in and lay down my cage and watch them grin I put 'em all off I'd hum a litt...

They say I'm somebody so I try to live up to the name But I'm just not that good at dealin' with fortune and fame I've made mistakes, more than I care to recall But one way or another I always get over the fall. I'm a survivor, I've paid my dues I wrote the b...

Sweetheart, it's been several days now Since they found me on the street But since then and old friend lonely cried And it's got me back on my feet. This morning I'll just drink enough To knock me out by noon Yes, I've was down for a little while But I'm fina...

Yes I'm gonna change everything that holds a mem'ry of you oh yeah mhm oh yeah I'm gonna start in the hall take the pictures off the wall and burn 'em Move the chairs around take the window curtains down and burn 'em Everything I see reminds me you were here Y...

Well, I just got a letter from a friend That bettered himself by traveling around Well, he struck it rich by diggin' a ditch In the hills outside of town. The pretty girl he misses called Cindy Lou Well, I want one like her too If I can't find a girl like Cin...

I'm just blue enough to do most anything And I know I'm gonna hate myself again But I know you don't want me like I want you Or you'd be afraid to let me get this blue You could call me up and tell me that you're blue I could make believe you're not the someon...

Well I always said someday I was gonna leave you Some April when all the land is wet Some spring, summer fall or maybe winter I'll leave someday but I'm not ready yet [Chorus:] Yeah now I should of left the day I knew your love was dying But I passed up every...

Well, I've a-come here to tell you folks, I'm ragged but I'm right I'm a tramp and a rounder, I stay out late at night A porterhouse steak three times a day for my board That's more than any loafer in this old town can afford. Well, a big electric fan to keep...

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 a cloud, To hide it's face and cry. Did you ev...

I know I shouldn't do this but I will anyway I'll write you this letter and I'll mail it today I've told me you won't read it but I can't tell my mind That I'm wasting good paper, a stamp and my time. You make take what I'm writing as some sort of joke For I...

As I look in the mirror this morning On some dirty old restroom wall It took a while to realize it's really me there inside 'Cause I've aged twenty years in five I recall when I looked much younger And it wasn't so long ago But one night of drinking to four n...

Oh I've been known to cry for kisses that you gave me All those arms that used to hold me tight Though I tell my heart that I don't miss you I've been known to cry for you at night I might say that I don't miss you I was glad you said goodbye Make believe I m...

Sorry I'm so late, but I've been out a-walkin' Trying to find a way to tell you what I think you already know I'd never want to hurt you, cause darling I still love you But things aren't like they used to be - it's time for lettin' go I wasn't out there looki...

By the time I noticed her she was smilin' at me From where I stood the mutual attraction was easy to see Ten beers and twenty passes later the bar tender said it was time to go I was outta money, she stood and said honey I'm a-going home on my own. Oh, I've b...

The sun is shining down Not one cloud around The morning hits me Where I lay. Everything is green A perfect day it seems Yes, he's got everything, his way But I've seen better days. I've seen better days. [Chorus] When the rain was pouring down And he had hi...

Tonight I went out with some old friends We laughed and joked and oh we downed a few I was feeling strong, till someone played our song I still have some hurtin' left to do (Chorus:) Every time I have a few good happy hours I start thinkin' I might be over yo...

I wish there was some way to tell you I'm sorry That I didn't leave you a long time ago But many mistakes are the part of my story Heartache by heartache I've turned you to stone. Call me a traveler gonna catch me a train I wanna see Frisco feel the sunshine...

The bars are all closed It's four in the morning I must have shut 'em all down By the shape that I'm in I lay my head on the wheel And the horn begins honking The whole neighborhood knows That I'm home drunk again [Chorus] If drinking don't kill me Her memor...

Honey, I'm home get your sweet thing over here I'm ready for a backrub but first bring me a beer Well, you wish I'd let you get a job, well, you just keep right on a-wishin' You know a woman's place is in the bedroom or the kitchen. If god met you she wouldn'...

If I could bottle this up I'd make a million If I could tell everybody in town what I've been feelin' It's guaranteed to put a smile on you face A song in your heart after one little taste A man could make a million bucks if I could bottle this up. Oh, if I c...

How sweet and happy seem those days in which I dream When memory recalls them now and then And with what rapture sweet my weary heart would beat If I could hear my mother pray again. If I could hear my mother pray again If I could hear her tender voice as the...

Well, you got my heart a-feelin' used and jumpy The road of love is gettin' mighty, mighty bumpy Tell me pretty mama have I filled your heart today? Well, if someone knew your affiliated Then it's makin' me feel like I'm outdated If I don't love you grits ain...

If I were your friend then I wouldn't be very blue Cause sometimes you would have me around you If I were a smile I could feel your lips so warm If I were your love then would I be in your arms If I were a prayer you say before you go sleep tight Then I know I...

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 the few Things you do 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...

If anything I am or hope to be If any compliments are paid to me If any praises I receive for anything that I achieve I'll never rightfully belong to you. For when I wonder you convinced me that I could Knowing you depended on me proved I should And in your m...

I kicked down the door in the middle of the night And still you're right out of his bed I'd do anything that I had to do If only you'd love me again I asked him to meet at the street at high noon And I'd leave him to die in the sand I should to kill I'd rob a...

Girl I can tell that you're thinking of leaving. But it'll hurt me so much you don't want me to know. You've done all you can to hide what you're feeling. Oh but one part of you, it let's your feelings show. [Chorus] Oh your fingertips tell me you'll stay...

Since you've been gone I don't sleep no more I just stay at home and walk the floor To keep my heart from breakin' there's just one thing to do If the world don't end tomorrow I'm comin' after you. The sun may shine and the wind may blow I'll travel through r...

If we don't make it, we've sure got a lot to forget. (George) It's just an empty two room flat but I still dream Two rooms of hope and the world full of love, praying for better things Our dreams came true but we are two, in silence here we sit (Both) If we d...

Oh, the promise of tomorrow Will banish all your sorrow No need to grieve If you believe. There will be a brighter future And a way prepared to suit Your every need If you believe. If you believe (If you believe) So will it be It's true for you It's true for...

Funny how a woman can come on so wild and free Yet insist I don't watch her undress or watch her watch me And stand by the bed and zip up as if she were cold And just lie down beside me and touch me as if I were gold. One night of love don't make up for six n...

(Give me a little kiss, will you honey? If you don't somebody else will) If you don't wanna kiss me, say so baby Somebody else will, somebody, somebody else will, somebody else will If you don't wanna kiss me, say so baby Somebody else will, somebody, somebod...

If you've got the money, I've got the time We'll go honky tonkin' and we'll have a time We'll make all the night spots, dance, drink beer and wine If you've got the money, honey, I've got the time There ain't no use to tarry, so let's start out tonight We'll...

How could I be the one of all that you couldn't see this time I must think that you're a fool, can't read between the lines I'll say one thing then I run to her and I think you don't suspect But if you loved a liar, darlin', you'd hug my neck. Lord, I drained...

Well, there ain't no chains strong enough to hold me There ain't no breeze big enough to slow me I never have seen a river that's too wide There ain't no jail tight enough to lock me There ain't nobody big enough to stop me I'll be there if you ever want...

Ol' hearts the way our true love has been doin' Just riped and tears my pride right half in two I know you're just as much ashamed as I am So if you won't tell on me I won't tell on you. Let's not breathe a word or they'll start saying There they go the world...

There's a closet full of dresses that I bought you And here's the keys to the new car in the drive And before you leave our room Put on your best perfume. If you're gonna do me wrong, do it right Oh, the next time the phone rings I won't answer I don't want t...

Oh, they say she's the life of the party And without her, things here would die Oh, but don't be fooled by her laughter She has her sad times, she knows how to cry. For she drinks and she talks Just a little too loud And with her pride gone, she tags along Wi...

You gave the heart you gave to me in person You made the vows you made to me in person Then when your love has lost all its glow You said your friend to let me know I wish you would have told me so in person I placed my ring upon your hand in person I should...

I come to the garden alone While the dew is still on the roses And the voice I hear falling on my ear The Son of God discloses And He walks with me and He talks with me And He tells me, I am His own And the joy we share, as we tarry there None other has ever...

The music from the honky tonk The lonely songs they play Comin' through my window Cause I live not far away There tempting me to come back To the things we used to do But the honky tonks and lonely songs I left behind when I left you The nightlife with it's p...

Same old story they all hand me preacher tells me these are troubled times But I know the Lord's been in tougher scrapes than this one It ain't gonna worry it ain't gonna worry no it ain't gonna worry my mind Got no money in my pocket you don't get rich worki...

I could honky-tonk in Texas on Saturday night And dance myself out on the floor. Luchenbach Texas and the neon lights And everybody's sreaming for more. [Chorus] It just don't get any better than this That's about as good as good ever gets If there's anyt...

The chimes of time ring out the news, Another day is through. Someone slipped and fell. Was that someone you? You may have longed for added strength, Your courage to renew. Do not be disheartened, For I have news for you. It is no secret what God can do. Wha...

It scares me half to death to think I almost lost you It breaks my heart to know how much I made you cry And if you'll let me show you darling I'll right the wrongs I've done And ease the heartaches I have caused in the days gone by You told me that our love...

We don't know what it was but we had it We don't where it went but we lost it And it may never come back again but I sure wish it would We don't know what it was but it sure was good The first time I laid eyes on you I saw it Shining in your eyes was bright a...

It's a sin my darling how I love you because I know our love can never be It's a sin to keep this mem'ry of you when silence proves that you've forgotten me The dream I built for us has tumbled each promise broken like my heart It's a sin my darling how I love...

(Tammy) Thirty years ago we couldn't wait Got married on our first date Grand children, now number eight It's an old love thing. Holding hands down at the mall Still dancin' down at the hall Still huggin' 'cause after all It's an old love thing. (Both) Young...

Darling, I've loved you all of these years And you've never once caused the heartbreak or tear Without you to love me, oh what would I do It's been a beautiful life loving you And darling, I love you more every day And I'll stand beside you each step of the w...

It's been so long darling since I had to go away It's been so long darling and I can't forget that day Although you never mentioned it you cried that whole day long It's been so long darling but now I'm coming home It's been so long darling since I gazed into...

It's so sweet to love you darling love we thought we'd never find All the happiness you give me just to know your love is mine Love is such a happy feeling one can feel love through and through When together there is nothing that can bother me and you It's so...

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 Jambalaya, a-crawfish pie and a-file' gumbo 'Cause tonight I'm gonna see my little cher...

As I travel through this pilgrim land There is a friend who walks with me Leads me safely through the sinking sand It is the Christ at Calvary This would be my prayer, dear Lord, each day You help me do the best I can For I need Thy light to guide me da...

Jesus saves today Jesus saves today When you feel you've reached the end And you can't find a friend Jesus saves today. Now some people think that Jesus was just a prophet And if I ended on the cross that's where He died But I believe He was the true son of o...

Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh. Dashing through the snow in a one horse open sleigh O'er...

Joy to the world! The Lord has come: Let earth receive her King. Let every heart prepare Him room, And heaven and nature sing, and heaven and nature sing, And heaven and heaven and nature sing. Joy to the world! The Savior reigns: Let men their songs empl...

Julianne was something special with lace and yellow ribbon And she swore she'd never love a mountain man How she became a lady is something I'll never understand For she grew up in a poor old mountain clan. Julianne said all them mountain men are nuttin' shor...

I am weak, but Thou art strong, Jesus, keep me from all wrong, I’ll be satisfied as long As I walk, let me walk close to Thee. Just a closer walk with Thee, Grant it, Jesus, is my plea, Daily walking close to Thee, Let it be, dear Lord, let it be. When my fe...

I once was lost in sin, but Jesus took me in And let a little light from Heaven fills my soul He bathed my heart in love, and He wrote my name above And just a little talk with Jesus makes me whole (Now let ) Us have a little talk with Jesus (Let us) Tell Him...

(Both) Look what we started again What made us think we could only be friends For awhile there it looked like the end But look what we started again. (George) I could have sworn it was over That there'd be no more you and me But I guess we were made for each...

Put the bottle on the table Let it stay there till I'm not able To see your face in ev'ry place that I go I've been sitting here so long Just remembering that you are gone Well, one more drink of wine Then if you're still on my mind One drink, just one more, a...

Love that runs away from me Dreams that just won't let me be Blues that keep on bothering me Change that just won't set me free To far away from you and all you're charms Just out of reach of my two empty arms. Each night in dreams I see your face Memories ti...

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

Just when I needed you, you left and went a- way, You made my life so blue both night and day, You left me here behind, with a troubled worried mind, So broken hearted too, just when I needed you. [Chorus] I cried, I cried, I prayed, lord, I tried, to forget...

We're goin' to Kansas City, Kansas City here we come We're goin' to Kansas City, Kansas City here we come They got some crazy little women and we're gonna get us one We go on and stand on the corner of 12th Street and Vine We'll be standin' on the corner of 12...

It was so good when he loved you I could tell by the sunshine on your face I know he bought you pretty things I know he made your world a happy place And I remember when she loved you And in those days you had someone to care And through your long and lonely...

Lord, I quit the drinkin', the smokin' an' the honky-tonk life. The day that a ring an' a preacher made her my wife. Yeah, an' I said, "I do", but I didn't have a clue, How I'd miss all the whiskey an' women. I tried to be true, but it's all I can do, Keepin'...

I gave her that diamond she dreamed of, And I bought her a home with a view; I took her to the ends of the rainbow, But all I left her was blue. Seems I never had time to love her, Now it seems time just stands still; I thought I was king of the mountain, But...

Trailer 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 pushing broom Buys an eight by twelve, four-bit room I'm a man of means by no means King of the road Third bocxcar midnight train De...

Whenever I chance to meet Some old friend who's 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 Everytime they ask me why I just smile and say Chorus: You've got to Kiss an angel good mornin...

Well I guess I been hanging around too long It's just about time I was moving along I'm a gonna kneel at the feet of Jesus in the morning Don't you worry and don't you moan It's just about time I was moving along I'm a gonna kneel at the feet of Jesus in the...

Touch me I want you to be the first the last the only one to touch me If there ever was an angel then surely you must be one If there ever was a perfect love when I look at you I see one If there's heaven here on earth then this must surely be I want you to be...

(Oh least of all least of all you) Who in all this world did I think would be untrue Oh oh least of all least of all you Who did I expect to laugh and tell me we were through Oh oh least of all least of all you You who was so understanding you who said to me W...

Adam was lonely and God sent him Eve He said let there be woman to feel this man's needs Now your name's not Eve and our home ain't no garden But you're what God intented when he said let there be a woman Let there be a woman to cling to his hand Let there be...

Let's all go down to the river There's a man who's walking on the water Come along with me I want to see this man walking on the water Well, he can raise the dead from the grave, change the water and turn it into wine And he can make the lame walk; he can ma...

You say that you want me Yes, I really want you Well, how much do you want me? Well, I want you as much as a child wants it's mother Oh, that's how much I want you And you say that you need me Yes, I really need you Well, how much do you need me? I'll tell y...

I know why you're lonely And I know why you're blue You're lonesome to see him And you long to see her too We're not in love with each other We're in love with our best friends So let's invite them over again We've talked it over and over And we know it's no...

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

I have found a friend in Jesus, He's everything to me, He's the fairest of ten thousand to my soul; The Lily of the Valley, in Him alone I see, All my needs to cleanse and make me fully whole. In sorrow He's my comfort, in trouble He's my stay, He tells me eve...

I'm tired of sitting home, sick of being all alone Thought I'd just go for a drive I was headed downtown, when I did me a turnaround When I saw the neon sign Happy hour two for one, sounded like a lot of fun So I stopped and went inside The next thing that I k...

Won't you beckon to our lonely Christmas call? You left a year ago this Christmas and we're wondering if you miss us. Don't know why you up and left and went away. The kids are lonely here without you, even wrote old Santa about you. Please don't leave them al...

I'm lookin' for that Lonely Street I've got a sad, sad tale to tell I need a place to go and weep Where's this place called Lonely Street A place where there's just loneliness Where dim lights bring forgetfulness Where broken dreams and mem'ries meet Where's...

Well here I stand on this high ground Looking out over this great big town Searching for love that didn't treat me right It's a lonesome old town tonight I'm passin' through I'm not here to stay A friend he told me that she came this way He said that he saw he...

You gotta walk that lonesome valley And you gotta walk, walk it by yourself Nobody here can walk it for you You gotta walk, walk it by yourself Jesus walked this lonesome valley And He had to walk it by Himself Nobody else could walk it for Him He had to walk...

Long as we're dreaming like this wonderful Filled with true love and warm sunshine Each way we look we see rainbow My heart is yours and yours is mine Each way we turn we turn to happiness In a world where we don't stand alone Long as we're dreaming we don't r...

I went down to the river to watch the fish swim by; But I got to the river so lonesome I wanted to die, Oh Lord! And then I jumped in the river, but the doggone river was dry. She's long gone, and now I'm lonesome blue. I had me a woman who couldn't be true....

I was looking back to see if you were looking back to see If I was looking back to see if you were looking back at me You were cute as you could be standin' looking back at me And it was plain to see that I'd enjoy your company One Sunday afternoon as I was r...

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 woman's lies makes a life like mine O the day we met, I went astr...

She`s my red hot Louisiana mama From a town called New Orleans Golden hair and eyes of blue My real live Dixie queen My Louisiana mama from New Orleans She lives down on the bayou When she`s really wild as can be My heart longs to be there So that onc...

Oh, that little bitty teeny weeny thing they call the love bug Nobody's ever seen it, but it's got the whole world shook up It all started with a little bitty kiss and a hug It's a little bitty teeny weeny thing they call the love bug Well, I was ruling the r...

Remember how your eyes used to light up Over promises that I made But for the first time in my life I know now how it feels to be afraid I don't know what I'd do if you go away This would sure be one lonely old town For a man's so busy going up in the world T...

I've seen the Rocky's Bloom in the springtime Reflections of scarlet and gold And I've seen the moonlight Dance on the ocean Like a silver ballet that unfolds I've seen the bright lights Of old New York City There's nothing in the world that shines Like the...

Out on the wiley, windy moors We'd roll and fall in green. You had a temper like my jealousy: Too hot, too greedy. How could you leave me, When I needed to possess you? I hated you. I loved you, too. Bad dreams in the night. They told me I was going t...

Oh the sun's gonna shine in my life once more love's gonna live here again Things are gonna be the way they were before love's gonna live here again Love's gonna live here love's gonna live here love's gonna live here again No more loneliness only happiness lo...

I work hard and I work over time and I'm still deep in debt I tell myself I'll get ahead but I haven't done it yet Sometimes I think of giving up leave you pack up and go But I love you for your sweet lips and in your arms I know Lovin' you is worth it worth t...

Well here we are, again, tonight alone just us two Where lights are dim and true love is comin' through There's no one else in this whole world as far as we're concerned We've built us a fire so let it burn When you look at me like you do right now I go to...

Sweet words were made to be spoken And love was made for devotion From says remain to be kept this is true I was made for the blues. Loving was made for the future And fools were made for the losers Happiness was made for someone and you But I was made for th...

I'm going home to Magic Valley Where hay turns into rose I'm going home to Magic Valley Leaving for my home above Now don't you cry because I'm leaving For you see I've had my day I've led the life that's not for grieving So rejoice with me and pray For I he...

When the evening falls twilight shadows find There beneath the stars an Indian maiden divine The moon is on high and seems to see her there In her eyes there's a light shining ever so bright As she whispers a silent prayer Every word reveals an empty broken he...

Making believe that you still love me It's leaving me alone and so blue But I'll always dream, still I'll never own you Making believe, it's all I can do? I can't hold you close, darlin' when you're not with me You're somebody's love and you will never be min...

I'm making the rounds with someone new now that you've gone away But making the rounds it's not the fun if it was with you The glamor has gone from all the spots that seem so bright and gay But making the rounds is all that's left for me to do. I never go hom...

My daddy's hands held Three's and Two's while mom's were holding me And daddy's hands lost everything to a hand of Kings and Three's And daddy's hands they shook so bad that he turned to wine But mama's hands were strong and calm as they held on to mine Yes m...

If you see a man in clothes that's old and ragged And he walks from bar to bar in worn out shoes If people point and whisper, "God have mercy" Would you deny the man that you once knew If on the street I meet you with your new love And I walk right up and say...

If I hadn't quit my ways of wrong I know what I would have done I kept falling down in life till I became no one But you found me just in time and held my head up high And showed me the right way I should go and made me realize I hadn't reached the end of life...

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...

I'm satisfied with just a cottage below A little silver and a little gold But in that city where the ransomed will shine I want a gold one that's silver lined I've got a mansion just over the hilltop In that bright land where we'll never grow old And some day...

Well, forget about the table in the corner She won't be there tonight 'Cause me and my darlin' We haven't made things right We've had our share of trouble But now we know the score And Mary, she don't go around no more. I know she's the life of the party Ever...

Oh I believe the time is coming when the Lord will come again I believe the end is closer every day Let's be ready for the judgement when we look upon his face For he tells us in his word to watch and pray We are living surely living in the days he speaks abou...

Like a bird that's lost its mate in flight I'm alone and oh so blue tonight Like a piece of driftwood on the sea may you never be alone like me [ piano ] I believed the lies you told to me when you whispered dear I worship Thee Now here am I alone and blue all...

Oh Maybelline why can't you be true oh Maybelline why can't you be true You've started back doin' the things you used to do As I was motivatin' over the hill I saw Maybelline in a Coupe DeVille Cadillac rollin' on an open road but nothin' outrun my V8 Ford Ca...

Well me and Jesus we got our own things going me and Jesus we got it all worked out Me and Jesus we got our own things going We don't need anybody to tell us what it's all about Well I know a man that once was a sinner I know a man that once was a drunk I kno...

Almost every Sunday we'd gather around the home place That's badly in need of my mamma's loving hand Us kids we offered everything from easy chairs to money But his pride won't let us lend a helping hand. Chorus: Daddy's living off the memories of mama That's...

The old man who sold his apples Isn't there any more And the city square don't seem as big As it did before They tore down that old drug store We used to love so much But everything is still the same In my memories of us That old school bus has long stopped...

Honey, the snow outside is softly fallin' The kids are all tucked in and fast asleep We got a cozy den with a big old fireplace burnin' Don't you think it's time we think about you and me? As long as there's a holiday called Christmas As long as there's a sno...

Once I thought two happy hearts would someday be as one But then a third heart came along and now our love is gone I count the many times I said I love no one but you But don't be fooled by counting dreams that never will come true Subtract one love and multip...

Hold back the rushing minutes, make the wind lie still Don't let the moonlight shine across the lonely hill Dry all the raindrops then hold back the sun My world has ended, my baby's gone The milkman whistles softly as he comes up to my door The mailman bring...

Dark days ago (dark days ago) I walked all alone (walked all alone) I thought for my sins I could never atone But then I was loved when I heard a voice say Look and I'll turn all your darkness to day Then I knelt down to pray (knelt down to pray.) Now my cup...

I'd followed you to Texas I'd followed you to Utah We didn't find it there so we moved on I'd followed you to Alabam things look good in Birmingham We didn't find it there so we moved on I know you're tired of following my elusive dreams and schemes For t...

Just a few of my favorite lies . . . Lately I don't even miss her Yes it's true, out of sight and out of mind All my love, yesterday, it has faded away I'd be lonely if I could find the time Helped her open the door when she left me All I said was good luck a...

I was just a very young fellow when I found my pretty flower Growing in a field of love one day When she told me that she love me then I knew that I must have her And I picked her as my heart's bouquet She's my heart's bouquet my heart's bouquet I picked her f...

My Lord, has called me today To go the straight and narrow way So for my Lord I'll surely live Yes, my Lord has called today. God warned us all To live in sin no more To place our faith in him To reach the other shore. My Lord, has called me today To go the st...

My brand new car has a dent in the fender I'm so mad I could shout But there's no need for me to complain For she'll do it the very next time out. Just a while ago my banker told me That again, we were overdrawn She writes to many checks but what the heck My...

Well, I saw mommy in her night gown, she was jumpin' all around Neckin' with old Santa Claus The records kept a-playin' and mommy kept a-sayin' Old Santa wasn't built for the cause. His tummy kept a-shakin' and mommy kept a-makin' Jokes about the look in his...

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 Well, that's when I miss you most of all And my arms keep reaching for you My eyes keep searching f...

(Just hang around my tears are overdue) If you want to see somebody cry their heart out For a love they lost and must live without If you're not afraid my misery might rub off on you Just hang around my tears are overdue If you want to hear confessions from a...

There's just one place for me Near you It's like heaven to be Near you Times when we're apart And I can't face my heart Say you'll never stay More than just two lips away If my hours could be spent Near you I'd be more than content Near you Make my life...

I've been abused and used and skinned up and bruised And thrown from a movin' train I've been homeless, car less, lost in the wilderness Out in the pourin' rain I've been a business flop, spent a year on top Of the most unwanted list But I never bit a bullet l...

I've got a never ending love for you From now on, that's all I want to do From the first time we met I knew I'd have a never ending love for you I've got a never ending love for you From now on, that's all I want to do From the first time we met I knew I'd ha...

Some folks live like a king Think they have everything With great riches and treasures untold Well, we don't tell what they do But when our day is through We've got love that would never grow cold Never grow cold, never grow cold Our love will never grow col...

I guess, I'll go through life never having you I guess, I'll go out of this world never having you There's no way for me to love you At this late day it wouldn't be the same There's no way for me to win you I'm so far behind, it's so late in the game I...

I guess I'll go through life never having you I guess I'll go out of this world never having you There's no way for me to love you at this late day it wouldn't be the same There's no way for me to win you I'm so far behind it's so late in the game I I know I'...

I'd like to introduce myself Though you've seen me 'round Well, I'm a new man in town. You won't recognize my smile It's upside down Well, I'm a new man in town. When my baby left me I even lost my pride I changed over night From Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde. I d...

I was born and raised in Alabama. On a farm way back up in the woods. I was so ragged folks used to call me patches Papa used to teas me bout it but deep down in side He was hurtin' cause he done all he could. My papa was a great old man I could see him Wi...

When the evenin' sun goes down You will find me hangin' 'round Oh, the night life, it ain't no good life But it's my life Many people just like me Dreamin' of old used-to-be's Oh, the night life, it ain't no good life Ah, but it's my life Listen to the blues...

Well I work like a dog eight hours a day you know I'm nearly dead When I stop by a bar on my way home and loosen up my head Lord knows this is a hard life sometimes it'll drive a man crazy And there ain't no pleasure in this life for me but the nighttime and m...

Word is around he walked out on you And your world, it shattered like glass I just found out that you're back in town And searching for parts of your past. You loved and lost, I lost and found A new love I know will last If you're hoping to find what you've l...

Well, I can meet you on the street And I'll stop and talk to you You can walk around the block And I will walk around it too But you can sit down in the park Do some lovin' in the dark But to me you don't appeal 'Cause there ain't no money in this deal Now y...

Hey George, did you know Waylon and Willie? The outlaws, I didn't know that at all Did you know roger was king of the road? You got it possum Everyone knows hank's been in prison We didn't know that And dolly's got two big reasons she's well known They call...

No use to cry don't even try to stop yourself from being lonely I'm leaving you so you'll be blue a long long time You thought you were smart to break a heart that love no one but you dear only I'm gonna do your heart the same way you did mine I'll board the t...

Everybody's lonesome for somebody else but nobody's lonesome for me So everybody's thinkin' of somebody else but nobody's thinkin' 'bout me When the time rolls around for me to lay down and die I bet I'll have to go and hire me someone to cry Everybody's lones...

Imagine we're married and we're not even friends You're always right and I'm so wrong and I always have been You won't listen and our love is dying within You're always right and I'm so wrong and we're living in sin Imagine we're married and we're not even fri...

Just thought I'd have a little fun and paint the town I always said someday I'll walk the line But now she's gone and I'm the bluest guy around And that's not exactly what I had in mind I thought that I could play the field and be a clown I broke the heart th...

I gotta get up I gotta get goin' rain or shine sleetin' or snowin' Nothing can stop me stop me stop my loving you Wander through woods climb a high mountain Love's in my heart like waters in a fountain Nothing can stop me stop me stop my loving you Cross the...

I gotta get up, I gotta get goin', rain or shine, sleetin' or snowin' Nothing can stop me, stop me, stop my loving you Wander through woods, climb a high mountain Love's in my heart like water's in a fountain Nothing can stop me, stop me, stop my loving you C...

Well, I've had a splittin' headache from my eyebrows to my backbone Arthritis, appendicitis, Bright's disease and gall stones Bleedin' ulcers, ingrown toe nails, swollen adenoids The Asian flu a time or two and inflamed vocal chords I've had a toothache so sev...

I don't wanna see no lips of all the lips you've ever kissed I just wanna be your No 1 I don't need no one to warm me I don't care who came before me I just wanna be your No 1 All that happened yesterday is now a part of history Let me be your destiny let's do...

O come, all ye faithful Joyful and triumphant O come ye, O come ye To Bethlehem Come and behold him Born the King of angels O come, let us adore Him O come, let us adore Him O Come, let us adore Him Christ the Lord Yea, Lord, we greet Thee Born this happy mo...

Oh little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by Yet in thy dark streets shineth, the everlasting light The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight. For Christ is born of Mary, a...

Everybody is going out and having fun I'm just a fool for staying home and having none I can't get over how she set set me free oh lonesome me A bad mistake I'm making by just hanging round I know that I should have some fun and paint the town A lovesick fool...

We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee, We don't take no trips on LSD; We don't burn no draft cards down on Main Street, But, We love livin' right, and bein' free. We don't make a party out of lovin', We like holdin' hands and pitchin' woo; We don't let our hai...

She was just 17 but she was all woman when Ol' Frank slipped the ring on her hand. My God he was wealthy, owned half of the county, but he'd never see 60 again. After 10 years of Heaven and long nights of love his ole heart couldn't keep up the pace. But frien...

Me and the bottle have always been friends Oh, we've had a few ol' nasty fights but the bottle would always win And when I go to answer that final curtain call I can hear these words bein' whispered by all. Chorus: Ol' George stopped drinkin' today They're al...

Well old King Kong was a hell of'va gorilla He stood four stories tall They shot him with missiles from aeroplanes But he refused to fall With Faye Ray in the palm of his hand He'll walk right over the world 'Cause just like me he would do anything Just to kee...

Caught my wife with another man Now I'm doin' ninety-nine At a prison down in Georgia Close to the Florida line. I've been here for twelve long years And I finally made the warder my friend So he sentenced me to a life of ease Takin' care of ol' Red. Now ol'...

The rope on the swing and the pine tree is rotten The old climbin' tree house has long been forgotten The ones who were raised here don't come any more And all blue tomorrow is here at my door. These hard workin' hands now calloused with age The lines on my f...

I remember them so clearly mom and dad loved them so dearly Old brush arbors by the side of the road Where I learned about salvation from the book of revelations In an arbor by the side of the road Old brush arbors by the side of the road Where a sinner could...

I just love that good old gospel singing I'll Fly Away's my favorite song I just love that good old time religion this old world has gone without it much too long Oh how I love to sing and tell when they ring those golden bells And I just can't stand in one pl...

There's an old old house that once was a mansion On a hill overlookin'the town Where time's left a wreck where once was a beauty And soon the old house will tumble down When the leaves begin to fall in the autumn And the raindrops drip from the tree...

Here I sit on the back row in a church down the street Not to far from the place where we used to meet And to find me gettin' though till you found someone to love But I'll go back to the place that I keep thinking of. It's not a fancy place just a tavern in...

On one hand I count the reasons I could stay with you And hold you close to me, all night long. So many lover's games I could play with you And on that hand I see no reason why it's wrong [Chorus:] But on the other hand, There's a golden band To remind...

When I found somebody new I thought I never would Forget you for I thought then I never could But time has taken all the pains away Until now I'm down to hurtin' once a day Once a day all day long And once a night from dusk till dawn The only time I wish you...

Once more to be with you dear just for tonight to hold you tight Once more I'd give a fortune if I could see you once more Forget (forget) the past (the past) this hurt can't last So I don't want it to keep us apart Your love (your love) I crave (I crave) I'l...

Cause after you left me I had lots of time But the only good thing I could find. Is it sure makes one hell of a song About hurting and going crazy and treating me wrong There's nothing good about you being gone But it sure makes one hell of a song. You know I...

One is a lonely number One can never have fun When I met you I thought I lost the blues But now I find that I'm back in That same old boat again. One is an unhappy number Why do you always make me wait One and one makes two That's why I need you One is a lon...

I woke up this morning aching with pain Don't think I can work, but I'll try The car's in the shop so I thumbed all the way Oh these days I barely get by I walked home from work and it rained all the way My wife left and didn't say why She laid all her bills...

The morning we moved in this house you said let's make a bed of roses So hand in hand we found that special place and I broke the ground I wiped that delta dirt from your face as you knelt there to sow them Oh, I'd give anything a mortal man could give if you...

You came like a storm on a hot summer day I had every reason to ask you to stay When I saw what you had, it was too far away Our love was ahead of its time. Our love, our love was ahead of its time Like the fruit growing green on the vine Now we reach for the...

What goes wrong with the mind of a man in a bar Who sits and keep drinking with his thoughts strayed so far It's the same old sad story that has often been told One drink then another till he's out of control As he sits at a table with his hands on the glass F...

My arms are not reaching to hold you Cause you memory has stopped haunting me My heart has quit aching and constantly breaking For the first time in ages I'm free. This torch I've been carrying for you Burned out a few seconds ago Now I'm just a breeze in the...

I can see us now riding in a brand new wagon Happy as a king upon a throne Papa wearing overalls and Mama with her bonnet Riding in a brand new wagon going home. Today is the first time I've been home in many a years Remembering how things used to be I can't...

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 new 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 yo...

I was born and raised down in Alabama on a farm way back up in the woods Oh I was so ragged folks used to call me "Patches" P Papa used to tease me about it, but deep down inside dad was hurtin' 'Cause he'd done the best he could My papa was a great old man...

Oh well I'm tired and so weary but I must junrney along 'Til the Lord comes to call call me away oh yes Well the morning is so bright and the lamb is the light And the night is as fair as the day (oh yes) (There will be peace in the valley for me some day The...

I wanna be with you I can give you love that's true Just believe the way I feel I love you and I always will. No one could take your place with me Don't ever think of setting me free Just believe the way I feel I love you and I always will. Please be my love....

Throw me in a den full of great big lions or take me to the hangin' tree But please don't let that woman get me Tie me up on the railroad track or drown me in the deepest sea But please don't let that woman get me Oh the woman I believed in turned up to be dec...

I've traveled to the ends of the rainbow And I've looked for that old pot of gold But I didn't realize until I looked into your eyes That I had a greater wealth than ever told. Chorus: Into each life there's many kinds of riches There's diamonds, there's pear...

As time goes by the tales grow taller About possum in possum hollar. As a young man I'd go a courtin' With my sweetheart named Sally Blair Down the mountain to possum hollar Accidently I'd find her waitin' there. She'd tell her mama she was pickin' blossoms...

Precious memories, unseen angels Sent from somewhere to my soul How they linger ever near me And the sacred past unfolds Precious Father, loving Mother Fly across the lonely years And the home scenes of my childhood In fond memory appear Precious memories, h...

It's not that blue Mercedes Benz That she could give to me It's not that if she married me That I would be set free. It's not that shes just barrels of fun That makes me fall so hard That pretty little lady from Beaumont, Texas With the oil well in her yard....

Well, I left a good job in the city A workin' for the man every night and day And I never lost one minute of sleep While worryin' 'bout the way things might have been. Big wheels keep on turnin' Proud Mary keeps on burnin' I said rollin' Rollin', rollin' o...

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

He kisses her goodbye, and heads for the radio station. Oh, he hates to leave her, but he's got another show to do. He knows she gets lonely, so he lets her know that he's thinking about her. And though millions are listening, she knows who he's talking to. [...

I can settle dow-own and be doin' just fine Til I hear an old train rollin' down the line Then I hurry strai-aight home and pack And if I didn't go, I believe I'd blow my stack I love you ba-aby, but you gotta understand When the lord made me, he made a rambli...

Dolled up to the nines, you got the eyes locked on tall and dark Well, he's mighty pretty but I'll bet he ain't worried a bit about your heart He's a real Casanova but I think I know you just a little bit better than that You need a real love that you can't ge...

Please release me, from my sin Welcome Jesus, come on in For only you can cleanse my soul Release me from sin to sin no more. Let me walk on sacred ground Be the ? that you've found Just lead me on through heavens door Release me from sin to sin no more. Sen...

Well I was standin' in the tavern a-feelin' blue My foot on the rail, just a-thinkin' 'bout you But I won't be blue all day Because relief - is just a swallow away Well I've been blue before and I will again I'll drown all my worries or I'll teach 'em how to...

Well, your office called to say you wouldn't be long. Since when did your boss get a jukebox of his own? When I called to see how long you'd be they said you'd been long gone You're headed right in the wrong direction if you wanna come home. Well, you're...

Right or wrong I'll always love you Though you're gone I can't forget Right or wrong I'll keep on dreaming Though I wake with the same old regret All along I knew I'd lose you Still I prayed that you'd be true In your heart please just remember Right or wrong...

The wind blows Sunday papers by my feet As I walk down this cold and lonely street My hands searched through my pockets for a dime While the memory of you eats away my mind Looking back I see that I was wrong But the road I’m on don’t lead me back to home And...

When you wake up in the mornin' and you wonder Why no one's beside you where I usually lay And you think you hear the sound of distant thunder Well, that's just your old rock (just your old rock) a-rolling away. I was a rock standing strong for you For there...

I'll do everything I can to make you proud to be my man And I'll fulfill all you fantasies I guess we're promising a lot, but for now it's all we've got And I'll stand by you thru our rockin' years 1st Chorus: Rockin' chairs, rockin' babies, rock-a-bye, ro...

Roll in my sweet baby's arms Roll in my sweet baby's arms I'll lay around this shack 'Til the mail tain comes back An' I'll roll in my sweet baby's arms I ain't gonna work on the railroad (You ain't gonna work at all if you can help it !) No, I ain't gonna wo...

Well I'm a write a little letter gonna mail it to my local DJ Yes it's a jumpin' little record I want my jockey to play Roll over Beethoven I gotta hear it again today You know my temperature's risin' and a jukebox blowin' a fuse My heart's a beatin' rhythm an...

Roly Poly eatin' corn and taters hungry every minute of the day Roly Poly knowin' all the biscuits long as he can chew it it's okay He can eat an apple pie and never even bat his eye He likes everything from a soup to hay Roly Poly daddy's little fatty daddy's...

Rosie's the barmate at Bret Wilson's Tavern That's where I'll be all night long She pours me my label and sits at my table And hums me a honky tonk song. Rosie don't go to the PTA meetings And the preacher has not seen her face But the hypocrites naggin' don'...

You've painted up your lips an rolled and curled your tinted hair Ruby are you contemplating going out somewhere The shadows on the wall tell me the sun is going down Ruby, don't take your love to town It wasn't me that started that old crazy Asian war But I...

Now when the big bad wolf got in grandma's house And Little Red Riding Hood was scared as a mouse Well, just like her I'm scared through and through That some two-legged wolf'll run away with you So run 'em off No use to talkin all day Run 'em off Their tryin...

Well, you and your true love have parted And you left her all alone Don't tell the kids until it's to late Just say that the fault was your own. Run boy as fast as you can Back to the one who loves only you Tell her you're sorry that you had to part And don't...

On the bank of the river stood Running Bear, young Indian brave On the other side of the river stood his lovely Indian maid Little White Dove was her name, such a lovely sight to see But their tribes fought with each other, so their love could never be. Runni...

I was born in Saginaw, Michigan I grew up in a house on Saginaw Bay My dad was a poor, hard-working Saginaw fisherman Too many times he came home with too little pay. I loved a girl in Saginaw, Michigan The daughter of a wealthy, wealthy man But he called me...

With time my face has wrinkled but my blue eyes still sparkle With the love I felt for you the day we met And to me you're just as lovely as the first time I saw you Times have changed but our love hasn't yet 'Cause I'm still the same ol' me loving the same s...

All the years have seemed so short since I have known you And the love I've shared with you I won't forget And if we should ever reach a hundred years dear You will be the same sweet girl as when we met I'm so glad that I have found you little darling In my h...

Deep within my heart lies a melody A song of old San Antone Where in dreams I live 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 b...

How many times have you heard someone say If I had his money I could do things my way But little they know that's so hard to find One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind Once I was waiting in fortune and fame Everything that I dreamed of to get a start in l...

Darling there's talk around town bout a girl who spreads love around With soft lips and eyes crystal blue darling please say it's not you They say that she comes in alone and stays till self respect is gone And each night she leaves with someone new darling sa...

Searching I've spent a lifetime darling Searching looking for someone like you Dreaming in all my dreams I dream that someday I'd find someone like you Other loves have come my way but they were not for me Tell me that you're here to stay don't ever set me fr...

The seasons come, the seasons go We get a little sunshine, rain and snow Just the way that it was planned to be But there's no seasons in my heart While you play the leading part 'Cause the flowers will bloom eternally Your leaving, will bring autumn so...

I was working in Miami for a day or two I decided I'd look up a girl that I once knew I bought some flowers and went to see a girl I used to know The lady at her door said she had married long ago Times will change and towns will change there I was alone And...

I saw a little beam of sunlight steal across a purple sky And bend down to kiss a rosebud oh it made me wanna cry To think that I had been permitted to see a part of nature's plan Oh, there's nothing that stands out more than the selfishness in man. Little ch...

Comb your hair and paint and powder, You act proud and I'll act prouder, You sing loud and I'll sing louder, Tonight we're settin' the woods on fire, You're my gal and I'm your feller, Dress up in your frock of yeller, I'll look swell, but you'll look sweller,...

You think that I think she's perfect And she can do no wrong Well, that's partly true, I don't think I do But I've loved her for so long I think she hung the moon upside down And I think she's perfect at turning my world around And if your heart, it needs bre...

You may think she's not been true All those things she's telling you But believe me, what she says is really true 'Cause I'm the one who left her there I'm the one who didn't care And she knows what she's crying about She knows what she's crying about She be...

I started drinking and actin' crazy Way back in sixty five Mama would pray and say, he's my baby Lord, please keep him alive Sister came home with two little children Her man had left her alone Mama knew too well the hurt she was feelin' 'Cause daddy had been...

She may not be the girl that I'll marry But we still get together sometimes I'll admit I don't like what she stands for But she loves me right out of my mind. I'm looking for someone who's gentle And someone who's so sweet and kind But she sure fills the void...

No, I don't know the girl at the bar in the short red dress I haven't had the chance to get acquainted with her yet But I can tell that she's lonely by the sadness in her eyes And she needs more than just a drink tonight. She needs me to give her love and und...

The mayor gave me the keys to the city The welcome wagons already appear But again I'll be packing and leaving For it's plain now that she once lived here It may be that I'll never forget her Cause she's love and love lives everywhere Could it be that I'll alw...

Well, you asked me to tell you about her Since we have been friends for so long Well, she's really an outstanding woman More precious than any I've known. She's soft she's kind and she's gentle She likes to be loved tenderly She's the kind you won't ever get...

Just because I ask a friend about her Just because I spoke her name somewhere Just because I rang her number by mistake today She thinks I still care Just because I haunt the same old places Where the memory of her lingers everywhere Just because I'm no...

I'm her world and she revolves around me Just being close to me makes her love grow Each night she thanks God for the day she found me For when she came home this morning she told me so And there's roses blooming in the Artic Circle Icebergs in the Gulf of Me...

If she's not with the one she loves She'll love the one she's with. I'll tell you why I'm always near And not far from her kiss For if she's not with the one she loves She'll love the one she's with. I love her more than I should She needs more to exist Caus...

Her hair should be a little darker And her eyes should be a deeper blue She's not perfect but I'm happy I found her Cause she's as close as I can get to loving you. She doesn't know she's being used and it would break her heart in two If she knew that she was...

Look out heart I can tell you have weaken For I feel those heartaches began She's come back and I don't know what has brought her She don't love me she's just lonesome again For a while I know that I'll be happy And that's all that matters within Though I love...

I won't say that I'm the only one who loves her And I won't say I make her happy all the time There's someone she can't forget I know she never will, and yet But as far as my heart's concerned, she's mine She never once has told me that she needs me And she f...

I'm thinking of a little lady She bears her load without a friend The one who rocked me in my cradle And through the years she loves me yet The roses on her cheeks have faded And when they pass her on the street Would break my heart to see them mock her Altho...

Well, you tell me how she was when you once knew her How she played her games with many, many men And you tell me that you don't think I'd be with her If I could just have known her back then Lord, you ask me why I don't pack up and leave her Now that I know...

She'll never grace the centerfold of Playboy magazine And chances are you'll never see her on the silver screen She's by far the biggest star the world will never see But she don't shine for the rest of the world she's too busy shinin' for me Shine on shine on...

Every time I turn around you turn up and turn me down For you've got me buffaloed into your ways of thinking Seems like all you want to do is hurt me love me awhile and then desert me But you better drop anchor my ship of love is sinking. Every time I'm in be...

Oh a shoe goes on the other foot tonight We'll find out if two wrongs can make a right Tonight I'll push my heartaches out of sight Cause the shoe goes on the other foot tonight How long did you think you could go on hurting me And I'd be your fool and wait a...

Shoulder to shoulder arm in arm Walkin' on could number nine So much in love the way we used to be Once upon a time once upon a time I'll put that smile back on your face The one this fool once took away Each day I'll tell you how much I care And say the thing...

He stands in the doorway his hands upon his hips She stands by the plunge-board a sweet smile on her lips He slowly walks up to her she reaches out for him It's almost like some magnet is pulling both of them Then he says and she says Silent partners they don...

The moon was softly shining on an old Kentucky home The fragrance of magnolias filled the air A lonely girl was writing to her sweetheart all alone To say how much she wish that he were there Silver dew on the blue grass tonight How it shines in the moon silve...

When your arms hold me I thrill through and through When your arms hold me I thrill the same too No other can take it from these arms of mine Oh, this feeling you give me is simply divine. We're meant for each other, we both know it's true And everyone round...

I never felt more like singing the blues I never thought that I'd ever lose Your love dear why'd you do me this way Well I never felt more like crying all night Everything's wrong and nothing ain't right Without you you got me singing the blues. The moon and...

Young ones in the jailhouse sleeping it off Church folks saying that his soul is lost Man you shoulda seen him, all the faces turned red Yep, when the preacher stood up and said The only thing different in sinners and saints One is forgiven and the other one a...

Well, I pulled outta Pittsburgh A rollin' down that Eastern Sea board I got my diesel wound up And she's a runnin' like a never before. There's a speed zone ahead alright And I don't see a cop in sight Six days on the road And I'm a gonna make it home tonight...

With all my love, my dreams and plans I placed a ring upon your hand To tell the endless love we found Loves golden band, size seven, round Size seven, round and made of gold This circle joins us heart and soul And it won't let our love grow cold Size seven,...

[Chorus] Skip rope, skip rope Oh, listen to the children while they play, Now ain't it kinda funny what the children say, Skip a rope. Daddy hates mommy, mommy hates dad, Last night you shoulda heard the fight they had, Gave little sister another bad dream, S...

(George) My shoulder still burns Where you touched me last night You hugged me and walked out the door We've been pretending That we're only friends But tonight we can feel something more. (Both) Just being around you Is making me warm One touch and I know t...

Pick me a town in any clime Where people like a rockin time And stay awake both day and night Till everybody's feelin good an' right Then throw me (smack dab in the middle) I wanna be (smack dab in the middle) Ahhhhh, smack dab in the middle, boys now So I ca...

Honey, you think you've got an attitude So you treat him just a little to loose Well, buddy you think she's a little to cold So you act like a two year old. Don't it make you feel low, Joe Don't it make you feel mean. Gene Don't it make you feel ashamed of yo...

Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling calling for you and for me See on the portal he's waiting and watching watching for you and for me Come home come home ye who are weary come home Earnestly tenderly Jesus is calling calling oh sinner come home Oh for the...

When the postman delivered the letter Well, it filled her old heart full of joy But she din't know 'til she read the inside It was the last one from her darling boy "Dear Mom," was the way that it started "I miss you so much," it went on "And, Mom, I didn't k...

This old road of love ain't for Sunday drivers There's very few survivors in a world of hit and run But we cared enough to hold on to each other We pulled the load together and look how far we've come Our love is solid as a rock like the moon and stars We bui...

If my old truck was a horse I'd have to shoot it Lord, the day my ship came in I was waiting for a train Every time I get a grip I always lose it I can't enjoy the sunshine for the rain. Hon., you know I'm always saying I'm sorry But you stand by me through i...

Somebody keeps paying my bar tab But the bartender won't tell me who He gives me six cold ones to go when he closes And slips me a dollar or two My woman is keeping me busy And I'm afraid to go ask her why but the more I keep drinking, the more I keep thinkin...

Someday my day will come and I won't need a thing at all Yes I can stand proud and tall and say just what I feel Someday my day will come, when dreams become reality I'll be the one I want to be, someday my day will come It's a tiring path we travel through F...

I know that someday you'll want me to want you When I'm in love with somebody else You'll expect me to be true and to keep on loving you Though I'm feeling blue You'd think I can't forget you. Until someday you'll want me to want you When I'm strong for someb...

Someone who's watching over you tonight) If you do your best to do what's right And you don't have trouble sleeping at night And the devil don't fill your soul with cry And there's someone who's watching over you tonight If you lend the hand to every man And...

I've got a real important job In a large office buildin' Ridin' people in an elevator I drive a '57 Chevrolet With busted tail lights Burned out valves And a leaky radiator I wear a twenty dollar suit I bought from J.C. Penney's Back in 1962 But I've got so...

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[Tammy Wynette - T.W.] [George Jones - G.J] [G.J.] You always said someday you'd go to live (In Southern California) And me I'd stay right here in Tennessee You always talked about the better days (In Southern California) But if you'll stay in Tennessee I pr...

There's a ramshackle shack In old Caroline It's callin' me back To the girl of mine Those two brown eyes I'm longin' to see Oh, the girl of my dreams She will always be Those two brown eyes That sparkle with love Came down to me From heaven above If I could f...

I've tried everything I know to make you happy Never knew someone could be so hard to please Loving you is hard and I'm not sure I'll make it But at least I've learned how to stand on my own two knees I've still got my pride it's just that I misplaced it Anyw...

Been runnin' around, seen many a town, and maybe you'll find I'm the kind of guy that brags. But listen to me and see if you don't agree No melody rolls like that old steel guitar rag And when they slide that thing, along those strings It soubds so dogone he...

Has it been a year since the last time I've seen her My God I could swear it was ten And the ocean of liquor I drank to forget her Is gonna kill me but I'll drink till then I've been livin' in hell with a bar for a cell Still payin' for my cheatin' crime An...

This never was one of the great romances But I thought you`d always have those young girl`s eyes But now they look in tired and bitter glances At the ghost of a man who walks `round in my disguise I get the feeling that I don`t belong here But there`s no welc...

Suppose tonight would be our last night together And the love we have known came to an end Would we laugh and tell ourselves think nothing of it Or would we cry together for what might have been. I know I'd die in just a little while without you Another dawn...

Sweet dreams of you every night I go through Why can't I forget you and start my life anew Instead of having sweet dreams about you You don't love me it's plain I should know you'll never wear my name I should hate you the whole night through Instead of havin...

Well I slipped out of the house about sundown while mama was a washing her hair And you can bet your bottom dollar she'll come a lookin' for me When she finds that I'm not there And if she catches her sweet thing a running around I know there'll be the debit t...

Well now I looked over Jordan and what did I see comin' for to carry me home There was a band of angels a comin' after me comin' for to carry me home Swing low sweet chariot comin' for to carry me home Swing low sweet chariot comin' for to carry me home Well I...

Take me, take me to your darkest room Close every window and bolt every door The very first moment I heard your voice I'd be in darkness no more Take me to your most barren desert A thousand miles from the nearest sea The very moment I saw your smile It would...

Take me as I am or let me go Why must you always try to make me over Take me as I am or let me go White lilies never grow on stalks of clover Take me as I am or let me go You're trying to reshape me in a mold love In the image of someone you used to know But...

Where's that gal with the red dress on some folks called her Dinah Stole my heart away from me down in Louisiana Take me back to Tulsa I'm too young to marry Take me back to Tulsa I'm too young to marry [ steel ] Little bee sucks the blossom big bee gives the...

If you can find it in your heart to just forgive I'll come back and live the way you wanted me to live All I want is just to be your man Please come and get me and take me to your world Take me to your world away from barrooms filled with smoke Where I won't h...

Oh Jesus, please please take the devil outta me. I've traveled far down this lonesome road The devil he's got me bent down so low I've just found out where I want to be Oh Jesus, please please take the devil outta me. I'm getting tired of living in sin, I'm t...

I've thrown it all away That I might gain a life in you I've found, all else is lost compared To the joys of knowing you Your beauty and your majesty Are far beyond compare You've won my heart Now this will be my prayer. Take the world but give me jesus You'r...

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...

Talk back trembling lips shaky legs don't just stand there Don't let her know she's gettin' through to you Talk back trembling lips burning eyes don't start crying Heart don't let her know that you're breaking in two Everyday our love's a battle royal latesee...

Talk to me, oh lonesome heart Help me thru this lonely night Lie to me and tell me ev'rything's alright Talk to me, oh lonesome heart Help me thru my darkest gloom Help me bring her mem'ry to this lonely room (Chorus) Talk to me and let me cry the whole night...

Well, If you wanna drive a big limousine I'll buy the longest one you've ever seen The tall, tall trees, and all the waters in the seas 'Cause I'm a fool, fool, fool for you. Well, If you wanna own a great big mansion Yes, I'll give it my utmost attention I'l...

Your halo is the neon Your heart a jukebox song Your heaven is a honky tonk You love to live so wrong I know you're not much angel As a saint you've gained no fame My angel's kind of tarnished But I love just the same [Chorus] Tarnished angel From a backstre...

Here we are staring at each other With that cravin' look in our eyes It happens every time we get together Did we ever really say goodbye? Let our eyes keep looking at each other They're talking over places that we've been We might as well admit that it...

Everyone suspected ole Willie's time was near Cause lately he'd been talkin' bout the Lord & leavin' here He said if I fight the devil when I die I know I'll lose To sing my soul to Heaven for the devil gets the news Well, everybody cried when poor ole Wi...

There's an old eight by ten We were younger then It was taken back when You loved me. It's just a photograph But I'm a part of your past And you won't see the day You're rid of me. You can tear me out of the picture Try to put me out of your mind You can tea...

The night shift got off early because of making repairs And I stopped off for a drink on my way home I didn't know that you loaned out the dress that I bought for you to wear Sweetheart, tell me my lying eyes are wrong I thought I saw him kissing you as you d...

You keep saying, you love him I believe that it's true And it just doesn't matter How much I love you But in time you'll understand, dear When you shed a tear Then you'll know, you were living In your tender years (Tender years) In your eyes, there's a love...

I used to spend my nights out in a bar room Liquor was the only love I'd known But you rescued me from reachin' for the bottom And you brought me back from being too far gone You're as smooth as Tennessee whiskey You're as sweet as strawberry wine You're as w...

There are so many flirty guys with flirty flirty ways And I'm so afraid that they will try to steal you someday But don't you let 'em darlin' cause you belong to me Oh please don't ever let them think your heart is fancy free Don't do it darlin' that heart bel...

That's all it took the mention of your name And all my love for you burst into flame I've tried so hard to let you go by look How I still tremble at your name that's all it took That's all it took to make me know that I still care It seems my heart just can't...

Yes, I'd still love you (that's good) But I've got doubts about us (that's bad) Still I don't know if it's in me to leave you (ah honey that's good) It would be the worst break my heart ever had We still have something (and it's good) Though I feel we'd slipp...

If you ever feel unwanted Kicked around so much you're taunted Hearts cry's out with so much pain Well, that's the way I feel. Love someone and love her dearly Hope these words she didn't hear me Left me here heartsick and lonely That's the way I feel. A cry...

I curse the day she bought me that old bird Squawking, talking, telling everything it ever heard She never would have known about Big Betty Brown and me But he fowled up and told her some things you won't believe Oh my woman moved out on me today And left t...

Im just a singer a natural born guitar ringer kind of a clinger to sad old songs Im not a walk-behinder Im a new note finder But my name's a reminder of a blues man that's already gone So I started drinkin' took some things that messed up my thinkin' I was sur...

Tonight the bottle let me down I've always had a bottle that I could turn to and lately I've been turning every day But the wine don't take effect the way it used to And I'm a hurtin' in an old familiar way Tonight the bottle let me down and let your memory c...

(The bridge washed out and I can't swim and my baby's on the other side) When I awke this a morning the rain was a pouring down I was gonna wed the little river girl just over the bridge across town Now I'm a runnin' up and down the river and my nerves are dri...

You Don't know who I am But I know all about you I've come to talk to you tonight About the things I've seen you do I've come to set the record straight I've come to shine the light on you Let me introduce myself I'm the cold hard truth There is a woman we b...

Oh, the devil has turned this big old world into a party place The next year that you got a drink and a lover to embrace Now you think he's being good to you but he's got his sneaky ways And the devil is gathering firewood for the long hot winter days. Oh, th...

Heard the sound of my dear old mama crying And the sound of the train that took me off to war And the awful sound of a thousand bombs exploding And I wondered if I could take it anymore There were times when they almost drove me crazy But I did my best,...

He's living in that big old house that he knows was built by me He's playing with the baby that belongs to her and me. At night he loves a woman that was held by these two hands He must be leaving hell to live with a ghost of another man. My name is in the sid...

Well, the sun came up when you came home. Now the green grass grows all around Every little bird is singin' this song And the green grass grows all around. Everyday you've been away Been a lifetime way to long I don't think the sun has shined one day Lord, si...

Last night I broke the seal on a Jim Beam decanter That looks like Elvis I soaked the label off a Flintstone Jelly Bean jar I cleared us off a place on that One little table that you left us And pulled me up a big ole piece of floor I pulled the head off Elv...

I came home the other night I've been out on a town I searched talk through the house she was not around I finally found her note it red this is goodbye to you And that's the last town I painted and I painted it blue Now that I have lost her I don't want to li...

Come, they told me pa-rum pum pum pum Our newborn King to see, pa-rum pum pum pum Our finest gifts we bring pa-rum pum pum pum To lay before the King pa-rum pum pum pum Rum pum pum pum. rum pum pum pum So to honor Him pa-rum pum pum pum When we come Little Ba...

There's a secret behind the smile you see For this smile is just a part of me But I know some can't see the signs That show I'm hurtin' all the time And the lonely know my secret They know you're on my mind. There's a secret behind the lies you tell For insid...

In a bar room down in Georgia sits an old man His whisker grey and two or three days old You can tell he's dreaming up another story Just in case there's one hasn't told. There's a story that he tell about a woman And always says she was a beauty queen But he...

On a hill far away Stood an old rugged cross, The emblem of suffering and shame; And I love that old cross, Where the dearest and best, For a world of lost sinners was slain. So, I'll cherish the old rugged cross, Till my trophies at last I lay down; I will c...

I stopped off at the quicksand for some beer and cigarettes This old man took my money as he stared at my Corvette He said, „I had one just like her son, a 1963” 'Til the man down at the bank took her from me Oh she was that was hotter than a two dollar pisto...

Sittin' on a bar stool sippin' on a glass of tea Well, when this lady walked by and she tried to put the make on me She had fake eye lashes and her home ? hair, it nearly blew my mind And it makes me realize that the real thing is hard to find But you're the...

I've cried a million tears, down through the years Searching for that special one And the vows I took before, where all forever more But no matter how I tried, they came undone Then the good Lord finally gave me the true love of a lady Someone who believ...

When you wake up in the mornin' and you wonder Why no one's beside you where I usually lay And you think you hear the sound of distant thunder Well, that's just your old rock (just your old rock) a-rolling away. I was a rock standing strong for you For there...

There's a sea between our hearts where the waves are cold and dark And the undertow of loneliness gets strong My heart's caught in the tide of a love that you've denide For you're colder than this sea we're drifting on. The sea between our hearts is dark and...

O they tell me of a home far beyond the skies, O they tell me of a home far away; O they tell me of a home where no storm clouds rise, O they tell me of an unclouded day. [Chorus] O the land of cloudless day, O the land of an unclouded day, O they tell me of...

Put a nickel in the jukebox and let it play for my heart is cold with pain Take the cork from the bottle of the warm red wine and fill my glass up again Fill my glass to the brim till it flows o'er the rim Like the tears flow in this heart of mine Then I'll sa...

Wish I was down on some blue bayou With a bamboo cane stuck in the sand But the road I'm on, don't seem to go there So I just dream, keep on bein' the way I am Wish I enjoyed what makes my living Did what I do with a willin' hand Some would run, ah, but that a...

The weatherman just said there's gonna be stormy weather I guess he's right I feel it in the air He said it'll be sometimes before it gets any better The way I feel I just don't even care. The forecast on this love of ours don't look much better 'Cause lately...

Oh Lord, you know that I'm not one to bother you with little things And you and I have never been too close But we've always been on speakin' terms I've watched you with doin' things And tried to understand you more than most No I haven't gone to church the w...

The world needs a tune that it can hum Hmm, mmm, the world needs a guitar that it can strum The world needs a melody that it can sing, sing, sing, sing Let's all sing together. In the sweet bye and bye We shall meet on that beautiful shore, mmm together The w...

I live in the world, world of forgotten people Who've loved and lost their hearts so many times I'm here in the world, a world of forgotten people Where every heart is aching just like mine. Well, I've loved and I'd been loved but I had the reckless heart And...

I've been called the world's worst loser And I don't tell a moment that it's true But I can't stop pretending I won't miss you I'm the world's worst loser when I'm losing you I may even cry when it's over or make fun of your somebody new I'll hold on as long a...

Even though I know it's over and your hearts with someone new There ain't no grave deep enough to bury my love for you There's no way to hide my feelings or cover up the truth There ain't no grave deep enough to bury my love for you. If ever you may need me i...

There goes my only possession! There goes my everything! I hear footsteps slowly walking As they gently walk across a lonely floor And the voice is softly saying Darling, this will be goodbye for evermore! There goes my reason for living! There goes the one...

I'll pretend I'm free from sorrow Make believe that wrong is right Your wedding day will be tomorrow But there'll be no teardrops tonight. Why, oh why should you desert me Are you doin' this for spite If you only want to hurt me Then there'll be no teardrops...

We can explain this one too clearly cause he's known he's a friend That's standing in the pathway of our love Yes we love each other dearly but we just can't find the way Night and day there's friend in the way I told him once I loved him too and he thinks I'd...

Oh, I told you if you walked out on me we were through And you told me that it couldn't matter less to you You turned me down for someone who wouldn't turn a hand for you There no justice in this world anymore. There no justice in this world anymore Sometimes...

I can't thank you enough For the happiness we've shared I've never known a day that sunshine wasn't there I can't begin to tell you the joy you bring to me And as long as we're together What more could there ever be? [Chorus:] 'Cause there's power, power, pow...

I wandered in 'round midnight like I've done so many times She was sittin' at the table, there were no tears in her eyes It seemed so much unlike her to be so much at ease She took a sip of coffee and softly said to me "There's the mantle where we keep our we...

I woke up this morning aching with pain Don't think I can work, but I'll try The car's in the shop so I thumbed all the way Oh these days I barely get by I walked home from work and it rained all the way My wife left and didn't say why She laid all our bills...

These hands aren't the hands of a gentleman these hands are calloused and old These hands raised a family these hands built a home Now these hands raised to praise the Lord These hands won the heart of my loved one and with hers they were never alone If these...

The old man's hair was white and his eyes looked tired He drank his beer at the table all alone But he smiled when I spoke to him so I sat down for awhile I wound up sitting there the whole night long 'Cause I could see he had a lifetime on his mind So I just...

A little barroom, on his way home A bed to lay on in a room upstairs What's her name, he'll never see her again Close the door, who knows, who cares And they call it makin' love Makin' love, makin' love Throw it down, pick it up Dress it up and call it love...

If today the sun should set on all my hopes and cares There is one who's smiling face the Gods would see `Cause she'll walk along beside me up to golden stairs Oh they'll never ever take her love from me What a fool I was to go and break the trust she gave An...

The faucet started drippin' in the kitchen And last night your picture fell down from the wall Today the boss said sorry, I can't use you anymore And tonight the light bulb went out in the hall [Chorus] Things have gone to pieces since you left me Nothing tur...

I almost wish that I could loose my mind somtime. Then maybe I'd be free of memories you left behind. With every single thought I hate to face the truth. It's never ending always there this wanting you. Will I go through my life with only one desire. Other ar...

Once upon a time there was a tavern Where we used to raise a glass or two Remember how we laughed away the hours And dreamed of all the great things we would do [Chorus] Those were the days my friend We thought they'd never end We'd sing and dance forever and...

I've been looking through the window of the past And I've seen the reasons why our love can't last You've been seeing him and this I won't allow Don't you know that two's a marriage three's a crowd You're still keeping little things he gave to you There are pi...

I woke up this morning And prayed to God, oh let it be a dream Her side of the bed was cold And layin' there beside me was her ring With a note that she had left for me Layin' where she used to lay her head And I felt the world fall in on me For this is what s...

I'll just keep on falling in love till I get it right Right now I'm like a wounded bird hungry for the sky But if I try my wings and try long enough I'm bound to learn to fly So I'll just keep on falling in love till I get it right My door to love has opened u...

Draw me a picture, guess I'm a fool I won't believe a word, they say about you Send me a paper have it notarized, too That still won't mean a thing, till I hear it from you. Draw up a picture, might as well paint it blue That's how I know I'll feel, if I find...

There was a time when I thought of no other and we sang our own love's refrain Our hearts beat as one as we had our fun but time changes everything When you left me my poor heart was broken our romance seemed all in vain The dark clouds are gone and there's bl...

The door to my heart locked when you walk out on me You sealed it with a time lock to be locked eternally You thought it's locked forever and I could never love anew But today must be forever cause the light is shining through And now the time lock has opened...

Don't the sun feel warm today don't our lives feel warm today We have true love to be proud of And we both understand it all and neither one demands it all Cause we know how it feels to live on love Don't the birds sing a lovely song don't our hearts sing a lo...

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 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'...

Oh, you tell me that you love me Yes, you tell me that you care That tomorrow we'll be married But tomorrow it is never there. Many long nights have I waited Many long nights have I cried Just to see that happy morning I would hold you by my side. But tomorr...

Well it sure feels good to come in here, And just pull up a seat. A frosty mug of a cool one, Helps to beat the heat. These old dog days of summer, Lord, I'll be glad when they're gone. It's too hot to fish, and too hot for golf, And too cold at home. Well th...

You could have knocked me over when you walked in here tonight I thought by now you'd be somebody's wife It sure brings back some memories, and Lord, we've made a few But I'm not back in town to stay, I'm just passing through. The years have hardly touched yo...

I've got a pocket full of pennies the heart full of gold Though my troubles are many I have treasures untold And the shack that I live in is a palace to me For the treasure of love the treasure of love you gave to me In this world there are riches that money...

Trouble in mind; I'm blue But I won't be blue always Because the sun's gonna shine In my back door someday I'm gonna lay my head On some lonesome railroad line And let that 2:19 Pass through my worried mind Trouble in mind; I'm blue And I've almost lost my m...

If you have reached a point in life where nothing turns out right If you always feel alone somewhere out in the night Go and find someone to love and you will see a change You will forget your troubles every time she calls your name. Try it, you'll like it, l...

We always wanted a big two story house Back when we lived in that little two room shack We wanted fame and fortune And we'd live life the way the rich folks do We knew some how we'd make it, together me and you With dreams and hopes of things to come We worke...

I know I was a fool to let you go I know it's true because my heart tells me it's so My only chance at happiness is someday when I'll win you back but I'll be blue until then You mean the world to me my life my destiny Your true love means everything to me I t...

Sorry I’m so late But I’ve been out a-walkin’ Tryin’ to find a way to tell you But I think you already know I never want to hurt you ‘Cause darlin’ I still love you But things aren’t like they used to be It’s time for lettin’ go I wasn’t out there lookin’ Bu...

Wait a little longer please Jesus There are so many still wandering out in sin Just a little longer please Jesus A few more days to get our loved ones in. Here the labor is so hard and the workers are so tired And their weary hearts are yearning for a rest An...

Walk through this world with me go where I go Share all my dreams with me I need you so In life we search and some of us find And I've looked for you a long, long time And now that I've found you new horizons I see Come take my hand and walk through this worl...

I once stood in the darkness I couldn't see a light Backed up against the wall I built around my life I'd run out of reasons to ever love again But somehow you found a door and you came waltzing in [Chorus] Walls can fall, storms can end Skies can clear, hear...

The Waltz Of The Angels I hear each time I hold you tightly in these arms of mine It's surely from heaven this music I hear When your lips say I love you in waltz time my dear There must be a power much higher than I A writer of love songs way up in the sky Th...

The wasted words about an old love affair You don't love me, you don't care. I tried so hard to forget the thing that used to be Bit it's so easy to remember a few old memories Just when I think I'm doing fine someone speaks your name And I have to talk about...

We watch the friends we know break and drift apart And we heard them say too much that hurts and breaks a heart But that just seems to draw us both closer together for we believe in each other You're happy just having pennies when we know a primise gold But th...

We can make it The world is rough But we can take it 'Cause you're my shelter from the storm now I don't need wine to keep me warm now No temptation can ever shake our loves' foundation We're strong enough to take it We can make it Now we'll say goodbye to st...

If anyone could find the joy that true love brings a girl and boy We could we could you and I If anyone could ever say that their true love was here to stay We could we could you and I When you're in my arms I know you're happy to be there And just as long as...

Well I swear I didn't see you with your wife's best girlfriend Drinkin' beer and a dancin' to that western swing And I didn't see you kiss her and leave that barroom with her No I didn't see you and I didn't see you and we didn't see a thing George I know I di...

That a friend of mine gave one night I asked you to take a ride with me And with a smile you said all right. Beside the road I stopped to kiss you And that's when I found the real meaning of fire We found the match and then we struck it And the flame went hig...

The places where we used to meet we go togehter Step by step like shoes on the feet we go together Just like the sand out in the sea what good is sugar if you have no tea What good're you if you don't have me we go together That old feeling we used to get even...

Well we love to teach about and we love to preach about We love to sing about our Jesus All done on our knees and pray and thinking in our special way We love to sing about our Jesus We love to talk about we love to read about we love to shout about our Jesus...

All my friends told me we'd never make it; That love, to you, was just a game you played. And I'll admit at times we had rough goin', But in each other's arms we loved it away. And I've been told my love could never hold you; To tie it down's a price you'd ne...

We said our goodbyes long ago Never thinking we'd miss each other so All the memories we can't leave behind Oh, we must have been out of our minds [Chorus] I thought I loved another, not you How foolish, I thought the same, too They both turned out to be the...

We're gonna hooooold on We're gonna hooooold on We're gonna ho-ho-oh-old on to Each other (T.W.) Life can be rough Sometimes it's kind A real good life Is hard to find But the best love Is the one we've known And the faith we have between us Makes it grow (...

Oh, I've always been a baby when it comes to growing up And I'm the biggest baby that you've ever seen I know we've had many problems but if you could still be me Take this bottle from my hands and wean me. Yes, you've wondered why I've always had a bottle in...

I wonder where you are tonight my love These memories of you just started now My arms are cold while you hold someone new And I'm wearing my heart away for you I'm wearing my heart away for you It cries out loud, my love is true And though my darling if you'd...

I have the invitation that you sent me you wanted me to see you change your name I couldn't stand to see you wed another but dear I hope you're happy just the same Wedding bells are ringing in the chapel that should be ringing now for you and me Down the aisle...

What a friend we have in Jesus all our sins and grieves to share 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 tempt...

I no longer know what's real anymore In the back of my mind I have opened the door That leads to the past & the love we once shared I keep asking myself what am I doing there [Chorus] What am I doing there holding you tight Taking down your hair lying clo...

I know momma loved me I reckoned that dad Thought I was a pretty good kid I've been blamed but I'm not ashed Of a couple of things I did I learned the golden rule Before I started to school Like ever'why little young'n should do But what am I worth on God's g...

What my woman can't do, can't be done It amazes me how she can change my mind When it seems to be impossible, she can do it every time 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 bri...

What'cha gonna do when I said bye bye What'cha gonna do when you start to cry What'cha gonna do, what'cha gonna do, hoo, hoo Bet you never thought I'd walk away Bet you never thought you would hear me say What'cha gonna do, what'cha gonna do? hoo. hoo. What'c...

Everybody tells me you're a cheater Yes and everybody says you cheated too Should we believe them and let them tear our love apart Or should we believe what's in our hearts I believe in my heart the one I love is true And I'd never take a chance on losing you...

Thirty some odd years ago a young man came to Memphis Askin' 'bout a rose that used to blossom in his world People never took the time to mind the young man's questions Until one day they heard him ask a little green eyed girl. What's your mama's name, child,...

Looking through this worn out book of pictures Reliving all the love we once knew Turning through the pages of my memory And everywhere I look there's me and you Whatever happened to us Somehow through the years we lost touch Lately I've been missing you so m...

When did you stop lovin' me How long have I been a memory I gotta know for my own sanity Tell me when did you stop lovin' me. There was a time when you worshiped where I stood Heaven knows I'd bring it back if I could Now I can tell when we make love it ain't...

(Both) When I stop dreaming That's when I'll stop wanting you. (George) The worst that I've ever been hurt in my life The first time I ever have wanted to die Was the night when you told me you loved someone else And asked me if I could forget. (Both) When I...

This world that we are livin' in has seen its better days Jesus said he would return and I believe he's on his way You better change your way of livin' I hope your soul is saved If you want to go with Jesus on that judgement day When Gabriel makes his trumpet...

Each day I live with faith from yesterday When you were mine the sky's was never grey With in our hearts each day was filled with spring But that was long ago when love was green The season now has grown from green to brown The clouds of sorrow lets their rai...

Mama didn't have special trainin' She couldn't read the music, just the words But when she'd stand to sing on Sunday mornin' She had the sweetest voice I think I've, I've ever heard. She loved to sing the songs about our Savior "There is a Fountain", was her...

Even though I still sting from the words that you threw at me There's no pleasure at all from watching you fall to your knees 'Cause the tables have turned And I'm finally learning to live and forgive and let go There's no sweet revenge at loves angry end and...

When I met him he was lonely from a love that went wrong And I helped him to forgive about the life he have known And I gave him the courage to start over again Yes it's funny how people change when true love steps in And when I met her she was looking for a t...

Your world was so different from mine don't you see We just 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...

I walk up to my door and hate to turn the key Emptiness is all that waits inside for me That's how it is when the one you love is gone That's how it is when your house is not a home I look around and see things marked with his and hers Little things like this...

Living below in this old sinful world hardly a comfort can afford Striving alone to face temptation sore where could I go but to the Lord Where could I go oh where could I go seeking a refuge for my soul Needing a friend to save me in the end where could I go...

Where did the sunshine go, why is it raining so Where is the love I used to know, where did the sunshine go. Where did the sunshine go, why do the cold winds blow Where is the one I needed so, where did the sunshine go? I discovered the sunshine in a woman's...

Where does a little tear come from? Where does a little tear come from? It comes from a heart that's been broken apart That's where a little tear comes from. Where does the broken heart come from? Where does the broken heart come from? It comes when you find...

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

To Canaan's land I'm on my way where the soul never dies My darkest night will turn to day where the soul never dies No sad farewell no tear dimmed eyes where all his love and the soul never dies And I will spend eternity where the soul never dies A rose is b...

There's three bedrooms, hardwood flooring and the kitchen's new It's got everything a family needs with a backyard view Ask anyone where it is, everybody knows Who used to live here, where the tall grass grows. The couple who lived there before they kept it u...

I have heard of a land on the far away strand 'Tis a beautiful home of the soul Built by Jesus on high, where we never shall die 'Tis a land where we never grow old. Never grow old, never grow old In a land where we'll never grow old Never grow old, never gro...

Well in North Carolina, way back in the hills Me and my old pappy had a hand in a still We brewed white lightnin' 'til the sun went down Then he'd fill him a jug and he'd pass it around Mighty, mighty pleasin', pappy's corn squeezin' Shh, white lightnin' Well...

Well, I met Sammy Samson down in New Orleans He had a lot of money and a big limousine He took us honky-tonkin' on a Saturday night We met Silly Milly, everything was all right Her eyes started rollin', we should a-went a-bowlin' Wham-bam, who shot Sam, my-my...

Well, I thought you'd found your happiness Right here lovin' me I thought my life was so complete But how wrong can one man be. You were the perfect deceiver Yes, you knew just what to do So who will I be loving now Cause, I won't be lovin' you? You told me...

I wonder who'll turn out the lights In your world tonight Whose shoulder will your head Be resting on? Does your hungry arms be reach For a man you feel you need Will that need still be there When he's gone. As I reach for the switch That turns out my lights...

You know this old world is full of singers But just a few are chosen to tear your heart out when they sing Imagine life without 'em, all your radio heroes Like the outlaw that walks through Jesse's dream No, there'll never be another Red-Headed Stranger A Man...

Tell me why baby, why baby, why baby, why You make me cry baby, cry baby, cry baby, cry I can't help but love you 'til the day that I die So tell me, why baby, why baby, why baby, why Well I got a crow I wanna pick with you Just like last time when the f...

Well, why don't you love me like you used to do? How come you treat me like a worn out shoe? My hair's still curly, my eyes are still blue So why don't you love me like you used to do? Can't have no lovin' like a huggin' And a kissin' in a long, long while We...

Why me Lord, what have I ever done To deserve even one Of the pleasures I've known Tell me Lord, what did I ever do That was worth loving you Or the kindness you've shown. Lord help me Jesus, I've wasted it so Help me Jesus I know what I am Now that I know th...

They sent him to Asia to fight in a war He came back home crazy and asking, "What for?" They had him committed oh, medals and all To a mental hospital with rubber walls They cut off the funding oh, they cut off the lights He hit the street runnin' that cold w...

I was standing by my window, On one cold and cloudy day When I saw that hearse come rolling For to take my mother away Will the circle be unbroken By and by, Lord, by and by There's a better home a-waiting In the sky, Lord, in the sky ~~~♫♫♫ ~~~ Well, I to...

(Both) Will you travel down this road with me Help me be the one I want to be Help me see the thing I long to see Will you travel down this road with me? (Tammy) Life's a journey full of dreams Hopes and possibilities One of my dreams will come true If I'm wa...

I've been living a new way Of life that I love so But I can see the clouds are gathering And the storm will wreck our home For last night he held you tightly And you didn't even show This is true for I've been watching From the window up above You must have...

Today I got a long letter From one who still cares for me She asked lots of questions Like would I call her sometime And was I gettin' back on my feet She asked if I had stopped drinkin' Like I promised her long ago The words wouldn't come When I called and sh...

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 and evils come The body grows weak and the spirits grow numb When these things beset us he doesn't forget us He sends down his lo...

He's got a funny red nose, old baggy pants When he staggers down the street it's a funny little dance Children gather 'round as he falls down Everybody laughs at wino the clown. They just know the reason why But when she died, he died inside He lost all his wi...

Well he said hold on Patricia I only tried to kiss ya She said OK and then said don't you dare She seems so badly shakin' He thought he was mistaken But it sure looked like she bowed her head in prayer I am a Christian Lord, but I'm a woman too If you are lis...

Fame...A dream put off for the familys needs he puts in 8 down at the factory when he gets home his feet are tired if he had his way he'd been a workin.. with his hands on wood and wire Chorus Saganaw spruce Tennessee maple Sears and robuck black diamond stri...

You promised me love that would never die That promise you've made was only a lie Now after you've gone, all alone I've pined for All that I've got was a worried mind I gave you a ring, I gave you a home You promised me love that you'd never wrong I bought yo...

I just got the news, I understand you're married While your friends are congratulatin' you I'll add my two cents and I'll convey my feelings So here's wishing all the worst of luck to you. May the troubles that you have all be big ones I hope every dress he b...

If they saw Him riding in, long hair flying in the wind, Would they love Him down in Shreveport today? If they heard He was a Jew and a Palestinian too, Would they love Him down in Nashville today? If they saw Him talk with ease To the junkies, whores, and th...

Like a string she's got me wrapped around her finger And it gets a little tighter every day It would break my heart to think that I would lose her So I'll do anything I can to make her stay If she could understand how much I need her Then I know that she woul...

(George) Who did you say it was brother Who was it fell by the way When whiskey and blood ran together Did you hear anyone pray? (Gene) When I heard the crash on the highway I knew what it was from the start I went to the scene of destruction And the picture...

She was holding back the tears As I packed up the last few years And said I'm tired of being so tied down I'm sure the kids will understand That daddy's making other plans I grabbed my bags and I was free and bound And then I saw the writing on the wall It sa...

My fingers tremble as I slowly touch the phone I dial your number not knowing if your home It rings you answer with a sweet hello My heart beats loudly as the teardrops start to flow. I bite my lip until the blood runs free And keep the words I love you hidde...

Some men look for diamonds, some men look for gold I'm just trying to find myself before I get too old Different people have their ways of measuring success Maybe it's not the right way but wrong's what I do best. Well, I walk the straight and narrow, straigh...

Y'all come, (y'all come), y'all come, (y'all come) Oh, y'all come to see us when you can Y'all come, (y'all come), y'all come, (y'all come) Oh, y'all come to see us now and then. When you live in the country everybody is your neighbor On this one thing you ca...

Yes, I know why I want to cry, it's over you And I'm painting the town feelin' blue If you've ever loved one that's untrue Yes, I know why I want to cry, it's over you. Well, tomorrow I'll be twice as blue I'm so low I could die over you I should have known t...

Miracles appear in the strangest of places fancy meeting you here The last time I saw you was just out of Houston let me sit down and buy you a beer Your presence is welcome with me and my friend here this is a hangout of mine We come here quite often to liste...

[Georgette] You were just a picture on my baby grand [George] Yours was in my wallet, I showed to all my friends [Georgette] But the world rolled in between us, keeping us apart Thank God we discovered we're still joined at the heart [Chorus: Both] But you...

Well we found a life together and it's a gonna last forever Nothing can hurt me now cause you are mine We put away all of our sadness we're walking every day with gladness You and me together all the time Well she wants to love me a little bit better it's okay...

You are the one, you're the one in my heart You're my darling, my life's greatest thrill You are the one in my heart and I know That I love you and I always will. I've had some sweethearts and dear so have you And I've done somethings I know I shouldn't do We...

You ask me to give up a hand of the girl I love You tell me I'm not the man she's worthy of But who are you to tell her who to love oh that's up to her yes and the Lord above You better move on Well I know you can buy her fancy clothes and diamond rings But I...

Well you can have her, I don't want her She didn't loved me anyway She only wanted someone to play with But all I wanted was a love to stay When you're stuck with the wrong woman There ain't that much that you can do You just dig a hole and crawl right in...

I remember my grandfather's counsel As he laid the leather to my hide He said there's just one rule to life that always will apply You can't do wrong and get by. Now, lessons tend to fade as we grow older And I found myself in jail at twenty-five Had to sit t...

I walked through the front door Turned the light on in the hall And then I saw the post-it notes That she had stuck up on the wall. The first one said, "I love you, but I can't live on love alone." The yellow post-it-notes were stuck up everywhere One wa...

It's a long way off from where I should be going And everytime I hate to leave your side And now when I return there's somethin' missin' When I'm gone you don't seem to miss me. Now life's so fast and everything is changing And if your changeing too then I do...

Well you tell me that you care but now you're gone you got me cryin' No use denyin' you done me wrong If I could look inside your heart maybe I could find the reason Why you are leavin' me all alone Well you know it's not so when you say it's not well you know...

Oh you said you were my baby now I know that you're my baby But it seems to me you got rovin' eye If you wanna be my baby then you gotta be my baby You can't keep your finger in two different fire I remember how you pleaded when you told me that you needed My...

I woke up downtown in jail again this mornin' They say I went half crazy with the booze Then they hit me one more time for no reason But they can't hurt me, not half as much as you You must have walked across my mind again I don't recall what I've done or whe...

Well I saw you today and I thought for a while I was dreaming. You were the loveliest girl I'd seen in a long long time. You introduced me to him and while we were talking I just stood there thinking you never looked that good when you were mine. [Patti P...

If you think it's lonesome where you are tonight. You oughta be here with me. If loneliness is calling where you are tonight. Then you oughta be here with me. [Chorus] Because with you I'm whole. Without you I'm cold. So if you think about me where you 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...

I know that everything must age and things grow old with time Except the thought of loving you and knowing that you're mine Your lips stay young and tender just the way they used to be And because it's you with your love so true you'll never grow old to me. T...

You're everything my heart has cried for everything I've heard and tried for You're the only thing I glide for you belong to me You're the only one I dream for only one I cheat and scheme for No one else I'd fight and scream for you belong to me You're the...

(I'm Gonna Leave) Well you wore out a brand new trunk packin' and unpackin' your junk Your daddy's mad he's done got peeved you're gonna change or I'm a gonna leave You're gonna change your way of livin' change the things you do Stop doin' all the things...

Please believe me when I say I can only feel wound ways Every minute of the day you're in my heart As I go down life's highway every night and every day Please believe me when I say you're in my heart Nothing dear could change my mind You're in my heart...

Well, I jumped outta bed and I hollered hallelujah For there ain't another soul in sight I sing a little song as I fix my coffee 'Cause she's really gone, alright. Put on my old blue jeans and my Levi jacket I'm gonna have all the fun I can Tonight I'm really...

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

I've looked the whole world over seen all there is to see And romance in Rome was so heavenly I've sailed across the ocean just soaking up the sun But you're the best living that I have ever done I've laid on satin pillows and slipped away with time Yes...

It wasn't long ago when I first met you But it didn't take me long to want you near And the short time that I known you I grown to love you And I can't stand the thought that you're not here. Why, oh why why, did you do it You made me become someone which I'm...

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 fallin' rain You'll toss around And call my name. You'll wal...

A shoulder to cry on is all you want from me Someone to share your heartaches when you cry Someone you can depend on, who will always be around I'm nothing more than just your old standby (Chorus:) If you could call me darlin, if you could call me dear If you...