Hank Locklin

I'm so tired of goin' home all by myself Please darling don't place my love on the shelf The day you'll say I do will be the day my dreams come true 'Cause I'm so tired of goin' home all by myself. Please don't let others turn your love to hay Pay no mind my...

I was a rover on land and on sea till a good woman's love made a new man of me Life had no meaning it was so incomplete Till a good woman's love put me back on my feet Stead of roamin' I go home in the evening she's waiting there And I know that no matter what...

A little bit lonesome a little bit blue all by my ownsome thinkin' of you Wondering how come you do me this way What have I done what did I do what did I say I don't go nowhere afraid you might call just stay in my chair like a little rag dove A little bit lon...

There's a dear old land of leprechauns And wondrous wishing wells And nowhere else on God's green Earth There be such lakes and dells No wonder that the angels love That shamrock covered shore It draws my heart home again And I love it more and more Have you...

Way back in the hills when a boy I once wandered There beneath the grave lies a girl that I love She was called from this earth a jewel from heaven More precious than diamonds more precious than gold A jewel here on earth and a jewel in heaven She will brighte...

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 And all I gotta do is act naturally Well I'll bet you I'm a gonna be a big star Might win an Oscar you can never tell This movie's...

After the party is over after the final goodbye When you know he no longer wants you and your last tear has been cried You'll need someone to turn to remember I've been here all alone That my love replaced the emptiness and filled the space after the hurt is g...

Yesterday you said you love me today you say it's over now Why did you go away and leave me all the world is lonely now Don't tell me that you love another and that you've broken every vow For I don't want to live without you all the world is lonely now I tri...

Almost you fell in love with me Almost you were my bride to be But each promise that was made You have broken and betrayed And left me with a faded memory Almost my precious dreams came true Almost you whispered dear I do But someone new came by and you lef...

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...

I'm always missing you every hour I'm not kissing you I'm filled with loneliness mixed with my happiness I'm seven shades of blue till the waiting at last is through Please darling miss me too like I'm missing you I miss you when the purple shadows cover up th...

And then I slowly took you in my arms and held you And then I found your waiting lips and then I kissed you And then I closed my eyes and heard you say You never would leave me again You swore no other arms would ever hold you again. And then how sweet to let...

Anna stand beside me lift your eyes to the window look and see Anna let me hold you and for the thousandth time Anna lean on me Anna see the cornfield see how summer's brought a million ears so fine Anna the stalks are browning they're singing the last verse o...

Tonight while the snowflakes are falling Here in my dreams I can see The wild cherry blossoms of Shima Where I walk with Anna Marie. Anna Marie, Anna Marie My heart remembers and sighs Sabu, sabu, miami vatoo I miss you Anna Marie. --- Instrumental --- My l...

Anytime you're feelin' lonely Anytime you're feelin' blue Anytime you feel down hearted That will prove your love for me is true Anytime you're thinkin' 'bout me That's the time I'll think of you Anytime you say, you want me back again That's the time I'll co...

Earthly wealth and fame may never come to me In the Pallit Fair here my name may never be But not come what may it cries for me with care Anywhere is home if he is only there. Anywhere is home let come and go what may Anywhere I roam he keeps me all the way S...

When we're all alone dear and I'm in your arms Are you teasing me? When you're telling me how you thrill to my charms Are you teasing me? Are you untrue when I'm not with you? When we're apart are you free? Tell me darling while our love is still young Are yo...

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

You didn't know I wasn't free when you fell in love with me And with all your young heart you learned to care It brought you shame and disgrace the world has tumbled in your place Cause they call our love a back street affair We have each other now that's all...

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

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

If he brings you happiness then I wish you both the best It's your happiness that matters most of all But if he ever breaks your heart if the teardrops ever start I'll be there before the next teardrop falls. Though it hurts to let you go darling I still love...

I feel I'm safe in saying you don't love me Behind my back you've cheated constantly You're even grievin' now I've seen you run around Behind my back right in front of me. Don't need a crystal ball to see it's over Don't need a ton of bricks to fall on me I k...

In the twilight glow I see her blue eyes crying in the rain As we kissed goodbye and parted I knew we'd never meet again Love is like a dying ember only memories remain Through the ages I'll remember blue eyes crying in the rain Now my hair has turned to silv...

I learned to hula love in Honolulu With a pretty native in the blue grass skirt But a rock 'n roller came along and stole her And stole my baby in the blue grass skirt. Well, he caught her out to rock and rollin' And taught her things so out controlin' He's s...

Night and you and blue Hawaii the night is heavenly and you are heaven to me Lovely you and blue Hawaii with all this loveliness that should be loved Come with me while the moon is on the sea the night is young and so are we Dreams come true in blue Hawaii and...

I said blue moon of Kentucky keep on shining Shine on the one that's gone and left me blue Blue moon of Kentucky keep on shining shine on the one that's gone and left me blue It was on one moonlight night with stars shining bright Whispered on high love said g...

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 hurt me much more than you'll know. You're asking me where this call comes from Oh, I hope that you won't end up here. If your new romance turn...

I get the blues as we dance I get the blues in advance For I know you'll be gone And I'll be here alone So I get the blues in advance Some get the blues from a song Some when love has come and gone You don't know how I cry When you tell me goodbye So I get th...

Met the girl I loved in a town way down in Dixie 'Neath the stars above she was the sweetest girl I ever did see So I took her in my arms and told her of her many charms And kissed her while the organ played the Bonaparte's Retreat All the world was bright a...

I stopped into our old hang out just wandered in to look about Countin' all the faces we once knew The thrill was gone the play seemed strange I looked for you you never came My heart was on the border of the blues A friendly smile here and there a table with...

I'm sending you a big bouquet of roses one for every time you broke my heart And as the door of love between us closes tears will fall like petals when we part I begged you to be different but you'll always be untrue I'm tired of forgiving now there's nothing...

You got that please-don't-touch-me-air about you That I-love-someone-else-look in your eyes And so-before-too-long I'll be without you We're just a little decide of goodbye. That's why I'm burning, burning. burning inside My heart tells me that you've found s...

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

Makes no difference if we two are far apart dear I could never ever love somebody new Cause there isn't any room inside my heart dear While I'm chained to a memory of you I could never tell another I belong to them All those whispered words of love would not b...

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

Jesus has a table spread where the saints of God are fed He invites his chosen people come and dine With his manna he doth feed and supplies our every need Oh tis sweet to sup with Jesus all the time. Come and dine the Master calleth come and dine You may fea...

I was roaming round in Nashville in the state of Tennessee For I love that country music it's as soulful as can be I have gathered their the records for I cherished every name So I found myself a standing in the Country Hall of Fame My heart beat somewhat fast...

While I'm down in Texas I thought I wouldn't stay I fell in love with a pretty little gal and she took my heart away She's my little baby her eyes are big and blue I'm going crazy crazy over you. When she smiles it heaven the way she calls my name The way her...

Cry cry darling that's what I do if you'd leave me with the blues Cry cry darling that's all I do if it's you I should lose For me there'd be no moonlight if ever we should part Cry cry darling that's what I do cause you're the one in my heart [ guitar ] My ey...

Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen to glen, and down the mountain side. The summer's gone, and all the roses falling, It's you, it's you must go and I must bide. But come ye back when summer's in the meadow, Or when the valley's hushed...

Daddy was a handsome lad close on seventeen And every girl he met was mad to be Danny's queen Danny dear oh Danny dear Danny don't be cold Now's the time for loving dear not when we grow old First came Kate and then came Sue and after her came Jane And each g...

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 And I'm faced with heartaches and love's cheatin' line. Don't let me cross over love's cheatin' line You belong to anoth...

I have no record now I pine for you are all that's on my mind I think of you both night and day each hour each minute you're away Twas the days or years since you've left oh how many hours now have passed I know I've shed ten thousand trears each minute seems...

Faith and truth I bear unto you Until the last beat of my heart your my world and all my dreams come true Faith and truth my darling I bear unto you You're my heaven here on earth my love goes way down deep And when yopu're in my arms you'll make my life compl...

(When the gates swing wide on the other side just beyond the sunset sea There'll be room to spare as we enter there there'll be room for you and for me For the gates are wide on the other side where the flowers ever bloom On the right hand on the left hand fif...

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

You opened the door to heaven the first time I kissed you the first time With you in my arms I knew then the first time I kissed you you were mine I can't stay away from you it's true You were meant for me and I was meant for you I've fallen in love with an an...

Winter's gone and summertime's a coming and where I am ain't where I wanna be I can hear my southern home a calling and it's calling out the old wild goose and me Flying flying south to Dixie Lord I been so lonesome and alone Stayin' ain't no use because my he...

Am I fool number one or am I fool number two How many other fools have been fooled by you I suppose that the number is far from being small And I'll bet that I'm the biggest fool of all If I had the chance I guess I'd do it all again I'd go down that same old...

There's nothin' in the world that pleases me Like a pretty little girl from across the sea But the thing that I want a little too far I got myself a foreign car Cause you can't get in and you can't get out unless you do some squirmin' about Maybe you're not a...

Harbor lights are ahead and bright they're shining I can feel the thrill of coming home But I know my heart will not be willing to forget a foreign love I've known I will soon be in the arms that waited faithfully each day that I've been gone But my heart coul...

I wonder how many poor boys like me are still in love with a foreign memory And how many poor girls are waiting over there With their hearts tied to a foreign love affair Foreign love affairs distant lands apart foreign love affairs many broken hearts [Guitar...

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

I close my eyes and picture the emerald of the sea From the fishing boats at Dingle to the shores of Dunardee I miss the river Shannon and the folks at Skibbereen The midlands and the moorlands with their forty shades of green But most of all I miss the girl i...

Out where the bright lights are glowing you're drawn like a moth to a flame You laugh while the wine's overflowing while I sit and whisper your name Four walls to hear me four walls to see four walls too near me closing in on me One night with you is like hea...

A chain of steel a wall of stone could not keep me from you But while your finger wears a ring of gold what can I do I'm burning up with love but still I'm left out in the cold Because you wear a yellow band of fourteen karat gold I never should have let my he...

Far across the blue waters Lives an old German's daughter By the banks of the old river Rhine Where I loved her and left her But I can't forget her 'Cause I miss my pretty Fraulein Fraulein, Fraulein Look up toward the heavens each night When the stars seem t...

From heaven to heartache is such a long way to go From holdin' an angel to onlyness in her soul I said some things that I didn't mean to say And then like a fool I turned and just walked away From heaven to heartache I felt my world turnin' blue From heaven to...

(From here to there to you) From here to there to you my letter is on its way To tell you how I miss you ever since you sailed away To tell you things are not the same when I'm so far from you I'm sending all my love from here to there to you From here to ther...

If you ever go across the sea to Ireland, Then maybe at the closing of your day, You will sit and watch the moon rise over Claddagh And see the sun go down on Galway Bay. Just to hear again the ripple of the trout stream, The women in the meadows making hay An...

Have you ever heard a love song that you didn't understand? Where you met her in a teahouse on the island of Japan And have you ever traveled over many thousand miles To see a pretty geisha girl dressed in oriental style They read it in the tea leaves and it'...

I'm in the way the bright and shining way I'm in the gloryland way Telling the world that Jesus saves today Yes, I'm in the gloryland way. I'm in the gloryland way I'm in the gloryland way Heaven is nearer and the way growth clearer For I'm in the gloryland w...

I gave you my heart And you broke it into I gave you my love And you know it was true. Now a golden wristwatch I send you to remind So count the days by hours And this is what you'll find. When the short hand points to one Try to think of what you've done I'...

Won't you let the good book make you good, give it a try today Then all alone your way singing so bright and gay The good book's a guide book this we know in it we should believe Heaven's blessings ask and you shall recieve. There's a little one room country...

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

Today has been my birthday and tonight I should be glad But you weren't here to share it and inside I've hurt so bad I didn't want your presents just your kiss and company And your lips to softly whisper happy birthday to me But I came home all by myself and l...

When the key turns in my front door then the real me starts to show I take off my happy face and let the teardrops flow The same old hurt of loving you and knowing that you're gone Is always here to greed me when I come home alone I'm happy-go-lucky when I'm o...

Happy journey and auf wiederseh'n oh my darling till we meet again Happy journey happy journey don't forget the one who love you so I'll be lonely waiting just for you I'll be patient and forever true Happy journey happy journey darling till that day When...

Adios ana hasta luego hasta luego mi amore The stars up in heaven will guide you The moon will be bright up above. Then the bells in the mission will tell you Manana is our wedding day Adios ana hasta luego hasta luego amore. --- Instrumental --- Then the b...

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

Too many sweethearts and none of them true Done too many things that I shouldn't do Made lots of money all spent the wrong way Heading down the wrong highway Made lots of friends and now they're all gone Too many memories that still linger on I had to many d...

I traded a heart full of love for a handful of kisses that you were just throwing away I traded a lifetime of dream for a few carefree moments That you felt like wasting that day If I had known you didn't care I wouldn't be so blue Cause I'd have left my heart...

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

You were hiding in my heart you were in that way down deep I never knew that you were there why I must have been asleep Now I see that I was wrong a foolish boy in the dark And while I was kissing others you were hiding in my heart I hardly knew you I didn't c...

Do not forsake me oh my darling on this our wedding day Do not forsake me oh my darling wait wait along I do not know what fate awaits me I only know I must be brave And I must face the man who hates me Or lie a coward a craven coward or lie a coward in my gra...

Honey, I'm in love with you Grounding in your eyes so blue I don't wonna be rescued Honey, I'm in love with you. Honey, let me hold your hand Till I make you understand That you're mine forever more Honey, I'm in love with you. I'm forever building dreams 'R...

Hurt me again the way you always do Hurt me again I'm still in love with you. Lie to your new love the way you lied to me Wrap him round your finger till he loves you hopelessly Keep and trust and continue right up to the end And when you're tired of his love...

I came close so close to failure I came close to losing my home I know the kids still love me and their mommy but I came so close to living alone I felt small enough to drown in each teardrop but big enough to admit I was wrong Now I'm trying hard to be the ma...

I can see an angel walkin' someone else is by her side I can hear an angel talkin' and she looks so satisfied I can see an angel smilin' by her side I wanna be In my heart I'll go on cryin' only tears are left for me Time will change many things your seasons w...

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 steali...

I can't stop loving you so I've made up my mind To live in memory 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 sa...

We're the past time of the gossip And it hurts me through and through For there's saying we don't care just what we do I turn my head and close my heart to what I know is true But I don't apologize for loving you. I feel guilty when I hold you for you wear an...

I don't hurt anymore all my teardrops are dried No more walking the floor with that burning inside Just to think it could be time has opened the door And at last I am free I don't hurt anymore No use to deny I wanted to die the day you said we were through But...

I don't know why I love you like I do I don't know why I just do I don't know why you thrill me like you do I don't know why you just do. You never seem to want my romancing The only time you hold me is when we're dancing I don't know why I love you like I do...

I feel a cry coming on, mhm, mhm, mhm. Was it sadness in your eryes I saw today Or did anger make you turn and walk away Anyhow it made me fall apart Now that old familiar pain is in my heart. And I feel a cry coming Each time I see you again Or when somethi...

My key turns in the lock and I opened my front door Greeted by the darkness like too many times before I tiptoe in to kiss the children but they're all asleep Wonder if they're dreaming about the date I didn't keep It was such a busy day I just couldn't get aw...

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 a...

It's a nature of a man to love a woman all he can And the good woman's love is mighty hard to find And the mist'ry of it all that a young man starts to fall He needs a woman to satisfy his mind. I like a woman with a whole lot of class I don't like the one th...

I love you I'll prove it in days to come I swear it's true darling you're the only one I think of you of the past and all our fun I love you I'll prove it in days to come You're my darling you've been true I should have been good to you You're the one that's...

~~~~♫♫♫ ~~~~ 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 throug...

If I ever needed you I need you now I can't remember when I've ever been so blue If I ever needed love I need it now I feel so all alone I don't know what to do. No day or night goes by when I don't have my cry I feel like I could die from wanting you I can't...

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 always make...

I walk alone where once we wandered it seems so strange since you are gone Till you return I'll stay the same dear I'll still be true and walk alone By stars above I swear to love you with all the love I've ever known Now we're apart you'll always own me when...

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

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

We're traveling down two different roads in world so far apart You want me yet there's someone else before me in your heart You're wanting me to change my life the way you're living yours But I can't change I see no way you wanted me before If you don't want m...

I'll hold you in my heart till I can hold you in my arms Like you'd never been held before I'll think of you each day and then I'll dream the night away Till you are in my arms once more. The stars up in the sky know the reason why I feel so blue when I'm awa...

I'll take you home again Kathleen, across the ocean wild and wide. To where your heart has ever been, since first you were my BONNIE bride. The roses all have left your cheek. I watch them fade away and die. Your voice is sad WHENE'ER you speak and tears bedim...

I'm a fool I gave my heart away And traded all my dreams for just one kiss from you I'm a fool to pay the prize I've paid For just a chance that someday you might love me too. You break my heart each time you say you found somebody new But I'm a fool so when...

I'm slowly a going out of your mind Lately your kisses are cold they're not the same Little by little I've watched you change I stand by helpless while I see all the signs I'm slowly a going out of your mind I'm going out of the mind of you who once loved me Y...

Did you 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 its face and cry Did you ev...

I don't blame you for not trusting me just yet Someone's hurt you and you're not willing to forget Something's happened in the past that I can never change But I love you if just loving you means anything What's happened in the past that makes you so afraid W...

I was dreaming of old Ireland and Killarneys lakes and dells I was dreaming of the shamrock and the dear old Shandon Bells When my memories suggested in a vision bright and clear All the strange things that would happen if we had old Ireland here. If the Blar...

Just like all the other times as we entered Across the white dance floor then to the bar I thought I saw him smile in your direction or was my imagination running wild With ten minutes he had asked you for a dance love And oh too soon you said you'd like it fi...

It hardly hurts anymore the heartache's almost gone away It hardly hurts anymore except each night and every day The day you walked out the door the pain went on and on and on It hardly hurts anymore except each minute that you're gone It's really not as bad a...

I have sailed the peaceful water salty ocean deep and blue Felt the rapture of the dawning thrilled through sunset's golden view I've sought above the mountain peeks for valleys great and wide But it's a little more like heaven by your side It's a little more...

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...

It's another world when I'm with you. Roses everywhere blue skies up above Everybody is in love It's another world when I'm with you And that's where I wanna be Never a day goes by when I'm blue There's no tears in my eyes when I'm with you It's another worl...

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 and a crawfish pie and fillet gumbo Cause tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher amio Pick g...

Jealous heart, oh, jealous heart stop beating can't you see the damage you have done You have driven her away forever Jealous heart, now I'm the lonely one. I was part of everything she planned for And I know she loved me from the start It's so hard to know s...

(Johnny my love Johnny my love Johnny my love Johnny my love) While looking through an old trunk as kids we'd all times do We found a yellow notebook that was nearly torn in two That book was grandma's diary her name was written clear And on the first old tatt...

Just a little lovin' will go a long way And you will make me happy the rest of the days Put your arms around me then I'll be your slave 'Cause just a little lovin' will go a long way. Ever since that time began love has ruled the world Even Adam set the pace...

I got an old slouch hat, Got my roll on my shoulder I'm as free as a breeze And I’ll do as I please, Just a bummin' around . . . Got a million friends, I don't feel any older I got nothing to lose Not even the blues, Just a bummin' around . . . Whe...

I've a home prepared where the saints abide Just over in the Gloryland And I long to be by my Savior's side Just over in the Gloryland Just over in the Gloryland I'll join the happy angel band Just over in the Gloryland Just over in the Gloryland there with t...

You have gone and yet I'm still your prisoner although you're with your new love I'm not free For you have placed a lock around my heart dear and you are the keeper of the key Love locked inside like mine burns constantly please darling please come back to me...

We were waltzin' that night in Kentucky beneath that beautiful harvest moon I was a boy that was lucky but it all ended too soon As I sit here alone in the moonlight I can see your smiling face And I long once more for your embrace and that beautiful Kentucky...

In mount joy jail one Monday morning High upon the gallows tree Kevin Barry gave his young life For the 'cause of liberty Just a lad of eighteen summers Yet no true man can deny As he walked to death that morning He proudly held his head up high Another marty...

(Jesus will meet you there.) Kneel at the cross Christ will meet you there Come while he waits for you Listen to his voice to live within you Care and begin life anew. Kneel at the cross Leave every care Kneel at the cross Jesus will meet you there. Kneel a...

(Are you going away with no word of farewell will there be not a trace left behind) Well I could have loved you better didn't mean to be unkind You know that was the last thing on my mind It's a lesson too late for the learnin' made of sand made of sand In th...

Laura hold these hands and count my fingers Laura touch these lips you once desired Lay your head upon my chest and hear my heart beat Gently run your fingers through my hair. Touch these ears that's listened to your wishes Most of them fullfilled and that's...

Lead me gently home father Lead me gently home When life's toils are ended And parting days have come. Sin no more shall tempt me There from Thee I'll roam If Thou only lead me Father Lead me gently home. (Lead me gently home.) (Lead me gently home father Le...

Let me be the one to walk with you when you want somebody to talk with you Anything that makes you happy I want to do oh darling let me be the one Let me be the one who means the most the one you want to love and call your own And when you choose your partner...

Underneath the lantern by the barrack's gate Darling I remember the way you used to wait Twas there that you whispered tenderly that you love me you'd always be My lily of the left line my own Lili Marlene [ ac.guitar ] Time would come for roll call time for u...

Give my mama credit cause my mama said it so your little acorns made of love If that's how you're slowin' and with time that's growin' They'll turn into great big oaks above As I grow old I can see it's true and mama that's why I intend to do This good life is...

Living alone I may be wealthy with more than my share I may be able to go anywhere I may own a kingdom and sit on a throne Still I'll be lonely while I'm livin' alone I can follow the bright lights Keep a smile on my face I can travel this whole world But no...

I went down to the river to watch the fish swim by But when 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 I had me a woman she couldn't be untrue She made me for money and she made me blue...

All alone here am I so lonely I could cry 'cause I'm longing to hold you again Missing you is all I do I dream the whole day through How I'm longing to hold you again The world is cold the world is grey you took the sunshine away You'll never know how empty my...

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

I'd love to forget every time that you kissed me I'd love to forget that you're gone I'd gladly hold back every tear that I'm crying For love has a mind of its own. Love is the ruler, the greatest of kings Love sets a guy on a throne Forgetting you darling is...

Once I know you cared for only me a love we shared I know was right Tomorrow you'll wed someone else tell me darling is it love or is it spite When your jealous heart drove me from you you found other arms to hold you tight Tomorrow when you'll say I do will y...

I am writing this song for you let me see do I know what to say For the old words of love won't do let me try to explain it this way The meek child inherit the earth and if I should be one of the few All the wealth I will own won't be worth the joy I have know...

I got a feelin' called the blues, oh lord Since my baby's said goodbye Well, I don't know what I'll do All I do is sit and sigh, oh lord That last long day, she said goodbye Well, lord, I thought I would die She'll do me, she'll do you She's got that kind of...

Everyday darling come what may I'll go on loving you the way I do I could have spent a lifetime of loneliness I know Just searching for a dream I'd never find But now that I have found you I'll never let you go I'll give you all the love that's in this heart o...

Loving arms will wait for you sweet sweet dreams that won't come true I just got to see you one more time and let these loving arms pretend you're mine Another love won't set you free you'll never share a home with me With loving arms and a heart so blue tonig...

Mademoiselle Mademoiselle of gay Paris think back think back remember me Mademoiselle Mademoiselle in dreams I see wour smiling face and gay Paris We walked and talked by the river Seine Then we drew our hearts and carved our names I loved you then and you lov...

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 [ trumpet - guitar ] Every word revea...

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...

Here upon the quiet country village stood the maple on the hill There I sat with my Jeannie of long ago When the stars were shining brightly we could hear the whippoorwill As we sat beneath the maple on the hill We would sing love songs together when the birds...

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 I believed the lies you told to me when you whispered dear I worship Thee Now here am I alone and blue all because I...

Hold me in your arms dear, dream with me. Cradled by your kesses tenderly. While a choir of angels from above Sings our Melody of Love. Heart to heart forever, lips entwine. I am yours and you are mine, all mine. Heaven wrote the music up above. For our Melod...

Mexicali Rose stop crying I'll come back to you some sunny day Every night you know that I'll be pining every hour a year while I'm away Dry those big brown eyes and smile dear Vanish all those tears and please don't cry Kiss me once again and hold me Mexicali...

A mother went out on a party She left at home her baby son He cried and begged her not to leave him But she would not give up her fun. She kissed his cheek and tried to soothe him But would not heed his childish plea She heard him call as she was leaving Plea...

The sweetest girl in all the world Is my blue eyed Jane We fell in love like turtle doves While the moon was shining down. I asked her then I asked her When the wedding bells would ring She said oh dear it seems so near And this could happen here. You're my...

When whippoorwills call and evening is nigh I hurry to my blue heaven I turn to the right a little white light with you to my blue heaven You'll see a smiling face a fireplace a cozy room A little nest that's nestled where the roses bloom Just Molly and me and...

Evening shadows make me blue When each weary day is through How I long to be with you My happiness Every day I reminesce Dreaming of your tender kiss Always thinking how I miss My happiness A million years it seems Have gone by since we shared our dreams But...

My heart cries for you sighs for you dies for you And my arms long for you please come back to me If you're in Arizona I'll follow you if you're in Minnesota I'll be there too You'll have a million chances to start anew because my love is endless for you My h...

Come sweetheart mine don't sit and pine Tell me of the cares that make you feel so blue What have I done answer me hon have I ever said an unkind word to you My love is true and just for you I'd do almost anything at anytime Dear when you sigh or when you cry...

I've seen Big Ben in London town the lights of gay Paris The charming seems the foreign lands leave golden memory I've seen the gleam in harbor lights from on the ocean blue But the place I'm longing most to see is my old hometown and you. I've walked the str...

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

My wild Irish Rose The sweetest flower that grows You may search everywhere but none can compare With my wild Irish Rose My wild Irish Rose The dearest flower that grows And someday for my sake she may let me take The bloom from my wild Irish Rose My wild Ir...

So many beautiful stories are told Of love and affection that's purer than gold They meet and they love and he makes her his wife And why it can't last is a mystery of life. I love you my darlin', I've always been true Wherever you go, I'll be thinkin' of you...

If it wasn't for the powder and the fine tooth comb If it wasn't for the powder and the fine tooth comb A lot of these Nashville women wouldn't have no home. If the blues was wine I'd stay drunk all the time If the blues was wine I'd be drunk all the time It...

Take that night train to Memphis take that night train to Memphis And when you arrive at the station I'll be right there to meet you I'll be right there to greed you So don't turn down my invitation Hallelujah hallelujah I'll be shoutin' hallelujah all the day...

Just a little bit of loving and you would have my heart Just a little kiss to prove you love me true Oh how I'd like to take you and hold you in my arms Darling no one is sweeter than you A million ways I've searched my heart but you're the one I'd find And j...

Oh how I miss you since you went away oh how I need you more every day I'll be so happy when you're back to stay oh how I miss you since you went away I lost my sunshine the day you went away all of my blue skies have turned into gray I'm so brokenhearted that...

When you found somebody new I thought I never would Forget you for I thought then I never could But time has taken all the pain 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 the past this hurt can't last so I don't want it to keep us apart Your love I crave I'll be your slave if you'll just give me all...

One has my name the other has my heart With one I'll remain that's how my heartaches start One has brown eyes the other's eyes are blue To one I am tied to the other I am true. One has my love the other only me But what good is love to a heart that can't be f...

When will my arms grow cold When will your kiss grow old When will I want to be free Exactly one minute past eternity. When will I make you blue Cheat and run around on you Throw away the love you've given me Exactly one minute past eternity. Eternity is for...

The love that I've waited and longed for is here in my arms at last But she doesn't know all about me I'm just one step ahead of my past Now I'm walking the old straight and narrow but yesterday's coming up fast 'Cause you can't keep people from talking I'm j...

Only a fool could keep on loving you If it's crazy to love you then I'm crazy cause I do You don't care who's heart you're breaking only a fool could keep on loving you Only a fool would cling to love when it's such a hopeless thing Stay around to worship you...

I still have the photograph that you gave me I'll treasure it until the day I die My only happiness is the picture that's all you left me the day you said goodbye Your pretty eyes just seem to look right through me They bring back memories I can't erase And if...

Oh well I'm tired and so weary but I must go along Till the Lord will come and call call me away oh yes Well the morning's so bright and the lamb is the light And the night night is as black as the sea oh yes (There will be peace in the valley for me some day...

I know not where on earth to find you I know not how or where to start I only know I'm here without you and there's pins and needles in my heart The days and nights are growing longer since first you said that we must part But now I know I can't forget you wit...

Please help me I'm falling in love with you Close the door to temptation, don't let me walk through Turn away from me darling I'm begging you to Please help me I'm falling in love with you I belong to another who's arms have grown cold But I promise forever t...

Put me in your pocket so I'll be close to you No more will I be lonesome and no more will I be blue And when we have to part dear there'll be no sad adieu For I'll be in your pocket and I'll go along with you Two lovers sat one evening beneath the pale moon l...

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

Sometimes I get so lonely and I don't know what to do Though there's people all around me still I feel so sad and blue Then I heard your happy laughter as though an angel were to sing And I knew that I was bankrupt and you were wealthy as a king My heart's so...

Rosalita my little rose of the rancho you won my heart down by the Rio Dry your eyes dear and don't be blue Juanita I'll come back to you my little Rosalita Each night I tell the moon on high and all its glory How you and I and days gone by and love's real sto...

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 he...

Seems I'm always right behind never first in line A winner maybe I'm not meant to be Number one would be just fine but I guess I'm not that kind Second fiddle seems to be the role for me Second fiddle never has the spotlight second fiddle never makes the news...

Send me the pillow that you dream on Don't you know that I still care for you? Send me the pillow that you dream on So darling, I can dream on it too Each night while I'm sleeping, oh so lonely I share your love in dreams that once were true Send me the pillo...

Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, I'm lonely Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, I'm blue Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, I miss you Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, I do. You been gone just seven days but it seems like seven years Come on back and love me I'll cause you no more tears The day you l...

A seven or eleven that would put me high But it would be just my luck to roll an old snakeye Well once I had a woman who lived just for me But a pair of these old shining dice made us disagree I should have been a farmer we've got along just fine But I couldn'...

Shame shame on you shame shame on you Took my heart as a token when we heard it was broken Hide your face shame on you Shame shame on you shame shame on you Took my car and my money tell you gal that ain't funny Darn your hide shame on you Shame shame on you s...

Just because I asked a friend about her, Just because I spoke her name somewhere, Just because I dialed 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'...

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 p...

Don't whisper gossip about her though it may be true what you say I don't want to hear it I don't need to hear it To me she's better than most and I love her Don't talk to me of affairs in the past give her your blessings she's found love at last So don't whis...

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

Silver dew on the blue grass tonight how it shines in the moon silvery light Oh my darling far from me how I wish that you could see Silver dew on the blue grass tonight The moon was softly shining on an old Kentucky home The fragrance of magnolias filled the...

I can't buy you pretty things I can't give you diamond rings All I have to offer is simple thing my heart my love my name So won't you let me love you honey even though I have no money Let me prove my love is true If you could get that funny feeling let my lov...

Well I never felt more like singing the blues cause 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 Cause everything's wrong and nothing ain't right Without you you got me singing the blue...

Slowly I'm falling more in love with you Slowly you're winning a heart that can be true Now I can't hide my feelings for it's so plain and true Slowly I'm falling more in love with you [Guitar] More and more I need you and want you by my side More and more I...

Softly so softly you stole into my life Gently you kissed me soft as a feather ever so lightly Slowly but surely I learned what heaven was Softly so softly you touched my heart with love (Slowly but surely) I learned 

My world is like a river As dark as it is deep Night after night the past slips in And gathers all my sleep My days are just an endless string Of emptiness to me Filled only by fleeting moments Of her memory Sweet memories.... Sweet memories.... She slipped in...

T's for Texas, T's for Tennessee T's for Texas, T's for Tennessee T's for Telma that made a wreck out of me. (yodel) If you don't want me mama you sure don't have to stall If you don't want me mama you sure don't have to stall 'Cause I can get more women than...

Her eyes were brown her hair was auburn her smile was like an angel dear She was her daddy's only daughter on the Tennessee border One night I took a ride just across the line I picked her up in a pickup truck and she broke this heart of mine Her mother said n...

If I had a nickel I know what I would do I'd spend it all for candy and give it all to you I'd spend it all for candy and give it all to you Cause that's how much I love you baby that's how much I love you Now if you were a kitten with pretty glossy fur I'd ta...

The best part of loving you is over and done And the worst part of loving you has only begun. The best part of loving you while seeing you here And feeling tender magic each time you were near The best part of loving you was knowing you were mine And childish...

Everytime I look at you I pinch myself can it be true This lovely girl is really mine any wonder I find The girls get prettier every day cuter and lovelier in every way The girls get prettier every day and honey especially you I saw your friend in town today...

The minute you're gone I cry The minute you're gone I die Before you walk out of sight I'm like a child all alone at night. I stare into emptiness I'm filled with such loneliness The world goes from right to wrong The minute you're gone. The minute you're go...

My feet are here on Broadway This blessed harvest morn, But oh! the ache that's in my heart For the spot where I was born. My weary hands are blistered Through work in cold and heat! And oh! to swing a scythe once more Through a field of Irish wheat. Had I the...

When we say goodnight I leave my hope I leave my dreams, I leave my heart On the other side of the door with you my love On the other side of the door with you my love. Walking home alone where are the stars Where is the moon, where is my world On the other s...

You'll always have the tender side of me Forever in my heart you'll always be I'll prove my love each day I live you'll see You'll always have the tender side of me. Tenderness comes easy, loving you With all my heart and soul the way I do My love for you wil...

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 When I heard the crash on the highway I knew what is was from the start I went to the scene of destruction a picture was stamped on my hreart...

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...

There's more pretty girls than one there's more pretty girls than one Every town I ramble around there's more pretty girls than one Well I am a rambling man I done roam this world around I've always been a rounder boy since my girl turned me down There's more...

(Oh they'll never never take her love from me) 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 never take her love from me What a fo...

There's a mem'ry that I treasure of the many things I've done This mem'ry of all mem'ries in my heart No. 1 Anytime when I am thinking it brings me happiness This mem'ry of all mem'ries means more than all the rest. I still recall the first time you whispered...

Of all the songs the world is singing of dreams that do and don't come true I guess I've sung about a million but darling this one's just for you I don't care if the world can't hear it playing if it's never number one or two I just want to tell how much I lov...

Tie me to your apron strings again I know there's room for me upon your knee Bring back all those happy hours when you kissed my tears away from day to day I thought that I was right but I was wrong Please take me back tonight where I belong Sing a cradle song...

Time nor tide will never change its way love like mine goes on day after day True as stars that twinkle in the blue time nor tide won't change my love for you Though the changing years may gray your golden hair In my eyes you'll always be as sweet and fair Lik...

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

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

I was just lonesome I was just blue And I was too close to her and too far from you We shared a glass of wine and a dance or two And I held her close to me wishing she was you. That's how things happen, that's how things begin A heart gets too lonesome and lo...

Over in Kelarny many years ago My mother sang a song to me in tone so sweet and low Just a simple little bitty in her good old Irish way And I'd give the world if she could sing that song to me this day Too ra loo ra loo ral too ra loo ra loi too ra loo ra loo...

When the moon is shining down down through the moss covered trees Never let to see you kiss anyone else but me Toujours moi toujours moi let it be always me Toujours moi toujours moi your love belongs to me [ piano ] When your heart is lonesome for sweet words...

Well, I don't understand What you expect me to do I've done everything I possibly can And then a little extra too. But still you turn up your nose I guess it's just no use I'd sit, I'd quit ole nothing's gonna get So turn ole nothing loose. Turn me loose, le...

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

I'm walking the floor over you I can't sleep a wink that is true I'm hoping and I'm praying as my heart breaks right in two Walking the floor over you You left me and you went away you said that you'd be back in just a day You've broken your promise and you've...

You were there in my arms alone in the moonlight The trees played the waltz of the wind It was there that I knew I'll love you forever we danced to the waltz of the wind The stars up above you looked down in your eyes And told me this night would never end Now...

We live in two different worlds dear That's why we're so far apart You made your world out of vows that are broken I built the world in my heart. (Everyone here tried to warn me) You were just playing a game (I told them all we were meant for each other) I th...

Bring along your fishin' pole and leave your dirty dishes. Meet me by the fishin' pole and wear your leather britches. Tell your mom and pa everything's alright. We're gonna go fishin' next Saturday night. Lipstick, makeup, leave behind makeup, takes up too mu...

There is someone at the door Guess I'd better go see Who'd be comin' round at this hour Callin' on me. Why of course I might have known Should have been expecting you Come on in and sit right down now Why hello Mr. Blues. I'll have to say you didn't waste a...

When I grow too old to dream I'll have you to remember When I grow too old to dream Your love will live in my heart So, kiss me my love And so let us part And when I grow too old to dream Your love will live in my heart ~~~~♫♫♫ ~~~~ So, kiss me my love And...

I lost the sunshine and roses I lost the heavens of blue I lost the beautiful rainbow I lost the morning dew I lost the angel who gave me summer the whole winter through I lost the gladness that turned into sadness when I lost you [ strings ] I lost the beauti...

When I stop dreaming that's when I'll stop loving you The worst that I've ever been hurt in my life the first time I ever have wanted to die Was the night that you told me you loved someone new and asked me if I could forget When I stop dreaming that's when I'...

When Irish eyes are smiling sure it's like a morning spring In the lilt of Irish laughter you can hear the angels sing When Irish hearts are happy all the world seems bright and gay And when Irish eyes are smiling sure they steal your heart away (When Irish ey...

Go on tonight to the party with him and while you're dancing so closely with him Don't let me cross your mind unless you choose To think of me when the band plays the blues Listen to the words and to the melody And they will tell you just exactly how it felt t...

Where the blue of the night meets the gold of the day Someone waits for me And the gold of her hair frowns the blue of her eyes Like a halo tenderly. If only I could see her oh how happy I would be Where the blue of the night meets the gold of the day Someone...

Who can I count on if I can't count on you I never counted on you makin' me blue They say you're running round with somebody new Who can I count on if I can't count on you I thought I held the precious key to heaven Your love was sweet and gentle at the start...

Tell me why baby why baby why baby why You make me cry baby cry baby cry baby cry Well I got a crow I wanna pick with you just like last time when the feathers flew You're running wild a kickin' up your heels a leavin' me home with a handful of bills I can't l...

THEY SAY A LOVEBUG WILL GET YOU AT THE AGE OF FORTY THREE I`M NOT TELLIN` MY AGE BUT SOMETHING GOT A HOLD OF ME I`M JUST CRAVIN` SOME LOVIN` IN THE OLD FASHIONED WAY HONEY, LEND AN EAR AND LISTEN TO ALL I HAVE TO SAY WHY DON`T YOU HAUL OFF AND LOVE ME, ONE M...

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 and my eyes are still blue Why don't you love me like you used to do? Ain't had no lovin' like a huggin' and a kissin' in a long long while We don...

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

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

Tomorrow when I'm walking down the isle I'll try to hide my heartache with a smile Cause when I look at her and say I do in my heart I'll be wishing it was you Tomorrow when you'll see me passing by turn your head so you won't see me cry And just remember when...

I've seen lots of pretty faces in a million different places And it's hard for me to keep from doing wrong Cause you're the cutest and the sweetest you always dress the neatest With one exception and she's waiting at home If I'd let temptation fill me I know y...

Well the other night, I had a dream I dreamed I had a castle and I was a king But you can't never tell Lord you can't never tell 'Cause when I woke up my castle was a city jail Well I met a little gal, I thought she was swell Like a bottom of a bucket I re...

You only want me when you're lonely when no one else want you it seems And even though you call me darling I know I'm never in your dreams I'm just someone you always turn to each time your new love turns you down You only want me when you're lonely when there...

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...

(Walking the floor feeling so blue smoke cigarettes drink coffee too) Honey you're the reason I don't sleep at night (Go for a walk look at the moon strum my guitar sing our love's tune) Baby you're the reason I don't sleep at night I'm bettin' you're not losi...

If the one you'd think is true ever turns his back on you You've still got a place in my heart If every road you take proves you've made a big mistake Baby, you've still got a place in my heart. If I'm the fool to pray that you'll return some day Well, then I...

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