Hank Snow

If heartaches brought fame in love's crazy game I'd be a legend in my time If they gave gold statues for tears and regrets I'd be a legend in my time But they don't give awards and there's no praise or fame For a heart that's been broken over love that's in va...

(Willie) We left out of Tucson With no destination in mind We were running' from trouble And the jail term the judge had in mind And the border meant freedom A new life and romance And that's why we though we should go To start our lifes over On the seashores...

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

Pardon me, if I'm sentimental when we say goodbye Don't be angry with me should I cry When you're gone, yet I'll dream a little dreams as years go by Now and then there's a fool such as I. Now and then there's a fool such as I am over you You taught me how to...

A good gal is hard to find You always get the other kind And when you think you've got the best in the land You look around and see her flirtin' with some other man And then you rave and then you crave To see her lyin' in her grave So guys be wise, take my goo...

Dear Santa Claus, It's been so long So long since I have written Since as a kid in happy house I dwelled I've moved from there and now I live On disillusion avenue And I've been here longer than I care to tell The twinkling bells of hope and joy The laughter...

The lights were burning low and Mister Midnight made his way. Old Father TIme had trudged along to close another day. The old clock ticked and seemed to say: Your heart is sad and blue, But just rememeber, pal, there's others broken, too; I told the moon it wa...

Have you found since you turned me down the one who you were searching for Are you glad that you made me sad for you know I vowed to love you ever more What did you have in mind when you broke this heart of mine Are you laughing in my face Darling what can I d...

The world's a stage, they say And we're all part of the play And you were only acting when we met You played the lover well So how could I foretell That you would find another and forget CHORUS ACT I Our vows of love were spoken ACT II We were happy as could...

I waited each day for your letter although I knew what it would cost But dear when it came I knew that your game had been won And I knew that I had lost But I just couldn't open your letter I know you're no longer my own The moment it came I wrote beneath my n...

Adios amigo adios my friend the road we have traveled has come to an end When two love the same love one love has to lose And it's you who she longs for it's you she will choose Adios compadre what must be must be remember to name one muchacho for me I ride to...

Another cryin' night will soon be over now The morning light won't help, I'll still be blue 'Cause everywhere I turn there's only loneliness Memories are all I can hold to Memories are the moments when we were as one Memories you would only hope to find Memor...

All the time yes darling all the time tenderly constantly I'll love you Every day I'll prove it every day in happiness or in loneliness I'll love you Other arms may tempt me but don't let that bother you For even if they tempt me I'll never be untrue All the t...

Now friends if you will listen to me for just one minute please I'll sing for you a little song from letters A to Z And if per-chance that they don't rhyme don't lay the blame on me Because it took me fourteen weeks to get from A to B A is for the airforce bo...

There's nothing left for me of days that used to be I live in memory among my souvenirs Some letters tied in blue, a photograph or two I see a rose from you among my souvenirs A few more tokens rest within my treasure chest And though they do their best...

I'm writing this answer to the Galveston Rose The answer to a sad, broken heart My whole world, it crumbled when I read your last note Saying, that we forever must part Oh, I realize now you were innocent, dear When in anger I said we were through For as all...

Any old time, you want to come back home Drop me a line, and say no more you'll roam You had your chance to play the game fair When you left me, sweetheart You only left a load of care Now that you're down I'm going to stick by you If you will only say Your r...

I talked with a stranger so sad and forlorn His garments were sack cloth all tattered and town He told me a story of sorrow and woe His heart went to heaven at the first fall of snow He spoke of his angel a dear baby girl he loved every footstep he loved every...

I've traveled this whole world over and now I'm goin' down to the rainbow's end From twilight till dawn trudging on and on on my way to the rainbow's end I'm weary and tired but I don't care I'm goin' down to the rainbow's end No friends no home just travelin'...

Beautiful Dreamer, wake unto me, Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee; Sounds of the rude world heard in the day, Lull'd by the moonlight have all pass'd away! Beautiful dreamer, queen of my song, List while I woo thee with soft melody; Gone are the car...

I Had Sunk As Low As A Man Could Go The World Had Turned Me Dow --- own Then You Picked Me Up And Kissed Me Sweet You Changed A Beggar In-to 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 And Yo...

CAPO: 1st FRET/KEY: C#/PLAY: C [C] Ben Dewberry was a brave engineer He told his fireman don't you ever [C7] fear [C] All I want is the water and coal Put your head out the window, watch the drivers roll Watch the [F] drivers roll - watch the drivers [C] roll...

You're mine for awhile till a new face appears And then you're no longer with me They call me a fool and laugh at my tears But they know I'll never be free. CHORUS Between fire and water That's where you got me I get burned every time I'm with you Between fir...

Beyond the reef where the sea is dark and cold My love has gone and our dreams grow old There'll be no tears, there'll be no regretting Will she remember me, will she forget? I'll send a thousand flowers Where the trade winds blow I'll send my lonely heart fo...

Oh them big wheels a-turnin', goin' somewhere And they're carryin' her away from my side Yes I cried, thought I died Love was just a game to me, I thought I'd never cry I thought she'd be the loser, but standing here am I And that long train is rolling, goin'...

I loved and laughed and had my fun And went on to someone new And now at last the game is done And the bill is falling due I took your love you gave me all I gave nothing back to you And now I find that I must pay And the bill is falling due I think I know h...

They heard the breeze in the trees making weird melodies And they made that the start of the blues And from a jail came the wail of a downhearted frail And they played that as part of the blues From a whippoorwill out on a hill they took a new note Pushed it t...

I gave my dog to Uncle Sam in 1943, He sailed across the sea, and died for Liberty, Now that you are sending Hero's home, I just can't understand, Why don't you send my dog home Uncle Sam? And 'though no more he'll lead me as he did in days of yore, He'll nev...

Dear Mother, said a poor blind boy That little bird sings very long And do you see him in his joy And is he pretty as his song? The mother looked and replied I see that bird on yonder tree The poor boy smiled and softly said Mother I wish that I could see. Y...

When I see blossoms in the springtime I know that sweetheart time is here My love that blossoms in the springtime Blooms in my heart through all the year I love the blossoms in the springtime Kissed by the sunshine and the rain I love to hold you, oh my darli...

In the Blue Canadian Rockies spring is sighing through the trees And the golden pupies are blooming round the banks of Lake Luise Across the sea they call me and I'm lonesome and so blue For the Blue Canadian Rockies and the girl I love so true Across the sea...

Tonight I'm blue for old Hawaii my weary sould is lonesome too She left me blue and broken hearted I've got them old Hawaii blues (Your big blue eyes and darkbrown curls dear made skies of grey turn into blue But now you've gone and lost forever I've got them...

Blue sea keep a-rollin' On your weary way My sweetie has left me She done drifted away She hopped a big ocean liner Headed out to the sea And left a world full of worries On the beach with me I know that she's sorry 'Cause she left me this way So hurry and te...

(Lonesome lonesome) I'm calling to tell you its 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 know. You're asking me where this call comes from Oh, I hope that you won't end up here. If your...

Something about you, mama That sure gives me the blues Something about you mama That sure gives me the blues It ain't your drop stitch stockings It ain't your blue buckled shoes You know, purdy mama I'm bound to love you some You know, purdy mama I'm bound to...

It's been a blue blue day I feel like running away I feel like running away from it all My love has been untrue she's found somebody new it's been a blue blue day for me I feel like crying dying what can I do I feel like praying saying I'm glad we're through I...

Woke up this morning, Bluer than blue, This old heart breaking for someone I knew, Colleen, dear ?tis you. Why did you leave me? What made you roam? Is your heart lonely, won't you come home? I need you, my own. Grab that old train, dear, Make up your mind,...

Thanks for the bed and board Bob enjoyed my stay But I got just a little bit bored Bob be on my way So you got yourself a job Bob that's not for me You got a house and a wife Bob but I'm still free Remember the good ole days around the Frisco yard Bob for you...

I was singin' the blues and now I'm shoutin' hooray, 'cause I met a pretty mama and I met her today. Well, her eyes started cheatin', my heart started beatin' aloud, like the rhythmatic motors of the Boogie Woogie Flying Cloud. Now, the Flying Cloud is a luxur...

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

My troubled old heart dear is beating with pain, You've gone and I know I'm the one who's to blame, You've gone in the world to make a new start, And left as a mem'ry your brand on my heart. They say you were crying while packing your things And left me your...

Baby oh baby tell the man at the ticket stand that you've changed your mind Let me run on out and tell the cab to keep his meter flyin' Cause if you say goodbye to me babe you're gonna break my mind Break my mind break my mind No I just can't stand to hear the...

This is our last night together you just gave me my walkin' shoes This is our last night together you just gave me my walkin' shoes Well, dinner with you for the last time tomorrow Breakfast with the blues. You're tellin' me the party's over you're sayin' our...

A cowboy with his sweetheart stood beneath a starlit sky Tomorrow he was leaving for the lonesome prairie wide She said "I'll be your lovingbride when you return someday" He handed her a broken ring and to her he did say "You'll find upon that ring sweetheart...

Dig down deep where the ground is cold (dark and cold and all alone) Tired of life all alone and blue happiness I never knew In this cold world there's nothing for me now won't you hear my only plea And bury me deep where the sun doesn't shine because sunshine...

(And that's why there's a Christmas Day) When I was but a youngster Christmas meant one thing That I'd be getting lots of toys that day I learned a whole lot different when mother set me down And taught me to spell Christmas this way C is for the Christ Child...

Hey, pretty mamma, I'm as blue as the skies above Hey, pretty mamma, you're the only woman I love And your daddy's gonna love you But I just can't have you blues (honey, ease my mind) You told me if I called you on the phone tonight you'd be in What makes you...

(D) I rode your ocean liner to New (EM) foundland, Where I (BM) made a living in an iron (A) mine. When I (G) got my fill I went to Nova (A) Scotia, And I (E) fished the salty waters for a (A) time. Passing (D) through Prince Edward Island and New Bruns (EM)...

[C] Have you ever been down to Haiti, when The summer sun was sinkin' [G7] low There's nothin' but romance, just everwhere you glance And the native hearts are all a-[C] glow But when the Cuban Queen comes upon the scene They all stare like a statue out of [F]...

A long time ago In a town in Tennessee There lived a man And he was great as he could be By the sweat of his brow He earned fortune and fame Casey Jones was his name (Chorus) Clickety-clack, clickety-clack Over the rails he'd go Clickety-clack, clickety-clack...

On days like this we would linger by the ocean Then we would dream as we lay there side by side I don't know why but one day you got the notion To sit and watch for the changing of the tide And then he came just to ask a foolish question But jealousy in my hea...

(The rippling rills the cataract spills the whippoorwill thrills) Take a look at the sky where the whippoorwill thrills And the mountains so high where the cataract spills Take a look at the falls and the rippling rills Hear the wanderlust call of the whisperi...

Pardon me, boy Is this the Chattanooga choo choo Track twenty-nine Boy, you can give me a shine I can afford To board a Chattanooga choo choo I've got my fare And just a trifle to spare interlude When you hear the whistle blowin' eight to the bar Then you kn...

Chattin' with a chick in Chattanooga The cutest southern belle I've ever seen Looks just like a dewdrop in the starlight She's the idol of my dreams Chattin' with a chick in Chattanooga Where the lovebug took a bite of me She turned out to be my one and only H...

Christmas roses to you I'm sending May they bring you Christmas joy though we're apart Christmas roses will say I love you as the tender message echoes from my heart While I can't be with you on this Christmas Day Remember that I'll always love you though I'm...

Ridin' on the City of New Orleans Illinois Central Monday morning rail 15 cars and 15 restless riders 3 conductors and 24 sacks of mail All along the southbound odyssey the train rolls out of Kankakee And moves along past houses farms and fields Passin' trains...

Looking through the window of the greyhound station down in San Antone Watching people come and people go and feeling so alone And every face I see reminds me of the one I've left behind me crying Knowing I should go back home and heaven knows how hard I'm try...

Come live with me and be my love share my bread and wine Be wife to me be life to me be mine Come live with me and be my love let our dreams combine Be mate to me be fate to me be mine With these hands I'll build a roof to shield your head Yes and with these h...

I sit upon the bed in my rented room and watch The broken shadows from the street lights playing tag upon the wall Down the street a neon light is reaching out to mock the night And all the little fears that darkness brings. The smoke of my last cigarette sti...

Oh consience I'm guilty I'm guilty again Now I'm driving home slowly my spirit's so low I cheated on her again and why I'll never know I hope I don't look too guilty when she lets me in Oh conscience don't ever let me do that again Oh conscience I'm guilty and...

All day I've faced a barren waste without the taste of water cool water Old Dan and I with throats burt dry and souls that cry for water cool clear water The nights are cool and I'm a fool each star's a pool of water cool water But with the dawn I'll wake and...

A long black engine keeps a rollin' along its wheels goin' clickety-clack She's carryin' me to war that eastern seaboard Louisiana I ain't comin' back And I sit all alone in an empty box listen to the engine roar And I see the world that she oughta be seen thr...

I never saw the world lookin' so bright Never saw the wheels turnin' so right And I'm glad to be ridin' This crazy little train of love I'm just like a kid on a merry-go-round I'm so high in the clouds, I hope I never come down And I'm glad that I'm ridin' Th...

(Chorus) Cross the Brazos at Waco Ride hard and I'll make it by dawn Cross the Brazos at Waco I'm safe when I reach San Antone On the Chisholm Trail it was midnight Carmella was strong on his mind Because of the life he had chosen Carmella had left him behind...

The steel guitar played when I met her and it played the night I lost her Yes you drove her to another with your sweet Hawaiian chimes I know your sorry but it's too late now and I know you meant no harm But the waltz that you were playing put her in another's...

Now if you're gonna cruise be sure that you'll choose Habana Where the waters are green by that old Caribbean sea And if you stay awhile you'll soon like their style of rhythm You'll learn the Cuba Rhumba the dance that everyone does And when you dance with th...

I don't care how dark and drear my way may be I won't mind the cross to bear For I'm knowing God on time he'll set me free But this I pray dear Lord remember me Remember me when tears are folling down remember me when trouble's all around And look down at the...

There are so many classy guys with classy uptown ways And I am so afraid that they will steal you someday But don't let 'em darlin' cause you belong to me So don't ever let them make you think your love is fancy free Don't do it darlin' that heart belongs to m...

A laughing baby boy one evening in his play Disturbed the household with his noisy glee I warned him to be quiet but he soon would disobey For he would soon forget a word from me I called him to my side and said, "Now son you go to bed Your conduct has been v...

Up until now you've been satisfied With the love that I gave to you Now the goin' gets rough you've had enough And all you can say is we're through. It's been smooth sailing up until now We've kept true love in the flow Let me say it again our ship's comin' i...

Way out in Honolulu Just at the close of day I heard a sailor sing Unto a dusky maid Just as his ship slowly sailed away Don't sing aloha when I go Because I'm coming back you know Don't sing aloha tho' I cry Our parting does not mean goodbye I'll dream of y...

I'm thinking of you while here all alone I'm wishing and longing for you and for home I'd give this whole world if I could only say I'm climbin' that old hill headin' that way For I'm lonesome and blue for some place to roam And I wish it could be down that ol...

CHORUS: Down the trail of achin' hearts Where nobody is hiding their tears You sent me there where saddness starts Down the trail of achin' hearts (Anita sings) You told me I was your darling You kept me hanging around Somebody else is your darling So lonesom...

Down where the trade winds play Down where they lose the day We found a new world Where Paradise starts we traded hearts The night that I sailed away Flowers were in her hair Music was everywhere Under an awning of silvery boughs we traded vows The night that...

Down where the trade winds play Down where they lose the day We found a new world Where Paradise starts we traded hearts The night that I sailed away Flowers were in her hair Music was everywhere Under an awning of silvery boughs we traded vows The night that...

Out in the west Texas town of El Paso I fell in love with a Mexican girl Nighttime would find me in Rosa's Cantina music would play and Feleena would whirl Blacker than night were the eyes of Feleena wicked and evil while casting a spell My love was deep for t...

Allá en el rancho grande ("Ah yen el rancho granday") Allá donde vívía ("All ya don day vi vee ya") Hablá una rancherita ("Hab yoona rancha rita") Que alegre me decía ("Kell yegra meh deh chee ya") Que alegre me decía: ("Kell yegra meh deh chee ya") "Te voy ha...

(G) A little child on a (C) sickbed (G) lay And (C) death was very (G) near She was the pride and (C) only (G) child of a (A7) railroad engin- (D) eer His duty had called him from (G) those he loved And (D) seeing that hope was (G) dim While a tear he (G7) she...

Now talk about Hawaii I didn't know it was so grand I pick me out a hula hula girl before my boat could land everybody does it in Hawaii Now she's got it here and she's got it there Her lips are red her little ole feet are bare She shy on close but I don't car...

Diesel smoke climbin' the clear blue sky I sit here wonderin' wanderin' why I leave her everytime I love her Green grass growin' by picket fence Lord I just don't make no sense But I leave her everytime I love her I guess it's just to my blood to roam I ain't...

Tempted and tried we're oft made to wonder why could it be thus all the day long When there are others living about us never molested though in the wrong Farther along we'll know all about it farther along we'll understand why Cheer up my brother live in the s...

Father time & mother love, Sit in their house some where up above And make us do what they want us to do And they made me wanting you. Father time with his memory's of you AND mother love with her heart beat so true Have brought us back alltough we were th...

We sat a table in Lindy's and I ordered up dinners for two My guest was a grimy intruder who had ask me to buy him a stew But some how I pitied the beggar so shabbly dressed and so old And I ask him the cause of his trouble and this is the story he told. I kn...

Summer's gone and wintertime's a comin' and where I am ain't where I wanna be I can hear my southern home a callin' and it's callin' out that old wide goose and me I got kids and kin down in Kentucky I got lots of aunts in Alabam Mom a waitin' down in Mississi...

It's bout for the hardest thing I've ever done to be so in love with you and so long Follow me where I go what I do and who I know Make it part of you to be a part of me Follow me up and down all the way and all around Take my hand and I will follow follow...

(Keep a movin' keep a movin') We've been followin' the sun ever since the day began and we're weary (Keep a movin' keep a movin') Tell the fading western light brings the shelter of the night so dreary Followin' the sun all day move those mountains from our wa...

For sale one ring that's on your finger (it's such a pretty thing) For sale my memories that linger (I remember everything) For sale our home that stood on lover's lane The roses in the backyard will never seem the same For sale one pillow stained from cryin'...

Don't look so sad I know it's over But life goes on and this old world will keep on turnin' Let's just be glad we had some time to spend together There's no need to watch the bridges that were burnin' Lay your head upon my pillow hold your warm and tender body...

How long will my teardrops be falling for you Forever and one day, forever and two How long will my arms ache to hold only you Forever and one day, forever and two Loving you with all my heart Believing you loved me But an immitation love was All you gave to...

Now Frankie and Johnny were sweethearts oh Lord how they could love Swore to be true to each other true as the stars above He was her man but he wasn't doin' her wrong Non Frankie went down to the corner just for a bucket of beer She said Mr Bartender has my l...

Far across the deep blue water lives an old German's daughter By the banks of the old River Rhine Where I loved her and lost her but I can't forget her 'cause I miss my pretty Fraulein Fraulein Fraulein look up toward the heavens each night whenthe stars...

From a jack to a king from loneliness to a wedding ring I played an Ace and I won a Queen and walked away with your heart From a jack to a king with no regrets I stackled the cards last night And Lady Luck played her hand just right to make me king of your hea...

Frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul With a corncob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal Frosty the snowman was a fairy tale they say He was made of snow but the children know how he come to life one day There must have been some magic in...

I love the gal who invented kissin' I don't recall her name But I do believe that gal should sit High up in the hall of fame Until she came along Just think what we were missin' That's why today I'm shoutin' "Hooray!" For the gal who invented kissin' She taug...

Down in old southern Texas I wandered one day, Where the tropical sea breezes blow. I there fell in love with a flower so rare And they called her the Galveston rose. Her heart was as true as her blue smiling eyes And as fair as the lily that grows. And the f...

If you ever go across the sea to Ireland, Then maybe at the closing of your day; You will sit and watch the moonrise 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,...

I thought I was a gambler Broke ev'ry shark in town Until I met a rounder Who called all I put down We laid the cards on the table He drew an ace high hand He bet his watch and I called it And lost my money like a man (Chorus) I've got them polka dot blues, o...

Have you ever heard a love song that you didn't understand Were you ever 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've read it in the Tealeaves and it's wr...

It's knowin' that your door is always open and your path is free to walk That makes me tend to leave my sleepin' bag rolled up and stashed behind your couch And it's knowin' I'm not shacked by forgotten words and bons And the ink stains that have dried upon so...

It was early in the fall and a-blowin' up a squall From the trestle you could hear the weirdest moans With a mighty lonesome cry came a whistle from the sky And it chilled the very marrow in my bones Then a loud, rushing roar, like you never heard before Turne...

In a class room at the grade school just before the Hollidays Boys and girls were writing notes to Santa far away Expect a lad who sat alone his paper put away And when his teacher asked him why so softly he did say Oh God is my Santa Claus each and every day...

I hate to see night shadows fall, I hate to see a moon above For it brings me dreams of days gone by When my darling Lola Lee strolled along the shore with me And we watched the golden river glide on by. Chorus: Golden river, golden river, you took my love fr...

Gonna find me a bluebird let him sing me a song Cause my heart's been broken much too long Gonna chase me a rainbow through a heaven of blue Cause I'm all through crying over you There was a time my love was needed my life completed my dreams come true Then ca...

You're a tired buckeroo little pal, You've been ridin' hard all day little pal, Soon the sandman will be callin' As the twilight shadows fall And you'll go ridin' down the milky way. CHORUS So lay your curly head upon your pillow While your faithful dog stand...

(It's good to touch the green green grass of home) The old hometown looks the same as I step down from the train And there to meet me is my mama and papa And down the road I look and there runs Mary hair of gold and lips like cherries It's good to touch the gr...

Walkin' with my honey down by the water green green green Spring is in the air but we're doin' what we order I'm just a poor boy she's the banker's daughter green green green Nights are warm and sun is in the valley green green green Nights are warm and sun is...

Something about you mama that sure gives me the blues Something about you mama that sure gives me the blues It ain't your drop stich stockings it ain't your blue buckle shoes You know pretty mama I'm bound to love you some You know pretty mama I'm bound to lov...

Gypsy feet will wander Gypsy feet will stray Neither love nor thunder can ever make them stay I can't tame a heart so wild like a jungle drum it beats Were you born a devil child with the restless gypsy feet Gypsy feet keep dancing to the tune of violin Just l...

I'm handcuffed to the only love I knew yet I never committed any crime Like a prisoner alone in his cell I'm hundcuffed to the love I've thought was mine There's no way out and no one to ease my pain my memories are haunting me in vain You promised to be alway...

Have I stayed away too long? Have I stayed away too long? If I came home tonight, would you still be my darlin' ? Or, have I stayed away too long? I'm just outside of town I'll soon be at your door But maybe I'd be wrong to hurry there I'd best keep ou...

I loved you before you met him and I loved even after you were wed I told you I'd never forget you that I'd be here when his love was dead Now you're back in my arms and I'm happy And I guess he knows just where he stands Cause when he lied and cheated on you...

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

A cowboy return to the scene of his childhood to his sweetheart of long long ago But today he return she was wed to another tells the story of heartbreak and woe Cowboy ridin' sorrow hidin' head bowed lonesome and blue Church bells ringin' boy sat singin' some...

I've been lonely and so heartsick for you darling Since the might I said that it must be goodbye, Now that I broke your heart and left you lonely Those mem'ries of you darling make me cry. CHORUS Those words sweetheart I wish I'd never spoken, That to another...

Well, look who's coming through the door I think we've met somewhere before Hello Love! Hello Love! Where in the world have you been so long I've missed you so since you've been gone Hello Love! Hello Love! Make yourself feel right at home I hope you plan on...

As the night softly fell down upon the old corral And the moon into the blue sky made its way Not a sound could be heard but the song of some wild bird As it hovered where the dying cowboy lay Then he whispered goodnight to his cowboy pals so dear As his head...

Tonight as I lay on a boxcar just waiting for a train to pass by What will become of the hobo whenever his time comes to die Has the Master up yonder in heaven got a place that we might call our home Will we have to work for a living or must we continue to roa...

At the close of the day when the sun sinks away below the western sea Then I'll seek my rest in a little love nest built for Carrie Anita and me A big mora's chair awaits for me there beside a bright log fire My babe at my knee and my wife sings with me while...

See the tree how big it's grown but friends it hasn't been too long it wasn't big I laughed at her and she got mad the first day that she planted it was just a twig Then the first snow came and she ran out to brush the snow away so it wouldn't die Came running...

I know somewhere out in the world There is a gal for me I'd like to find and make you mine How happy we would be We wouldn't need a moonlit night To sit outdoors and spoon 'Cause I would buy a rocket ship And take you to the moon We would have our honeymoon O...

Though men may strife to go beyond the reap of space To walk beyond the distance shining stars This world's a room so small within my Master's house The open sky's but a portion of his yard How big is God how big and wide is his domain To try to tell these lip...

Come listen to my tale 'bout a pretty little girl That I chanced to meet on the prairie T'was a night in June by the western moon That I met my charming Mary Her eyes were as bright as the stars that night When she smiled my heart did bubble She couldn't make...

Now if you wanna get in trouble I'll tell you how to do it You get a guitar and then you're into it You play all day and you play all night And folks say he'll never learn to play that thing right Always griping won't let you practice. I bought my guitar some...

Hawaii's callin' When I hear the rhythm of the hula rock, hula rock In the South Pacific where the trade winds blow They thought that the hula was a little bit slow So they stepped it up with a go, go, go And that's where they got that rock and roll In the S...

I was sittin' at home just a listenin' to my radio An' along came a fella who apparently had been on the go Well he started in a braggin' bout everywhere he'd been And there isn't any place in this whole world he hasn't seen You ask me where I've been and I'm...

When I lost my baby I almost lost my mind When I lost my baby I almost lost my mind My head is in a spin since she left me behind I pass a million people I can't tell who I meet I pass a million people don't know tell who I meet Cause my eyes are full of tears...

Though I should say goodbye to you I can't control my heart It won't obey, my heart must stay with you You brought me a tear with each kiss you brought to me You taught me how painful love can be It makes no difference what you do I can't control my heart And...

My love has gone my pride has gone I care no more My heart is tired from loving you I care no more I don't regret the day we met when love was there Now love has gone life lingers on I just don't care Love is a thing that is crazy for all no matter who I had m...

Words and Music by Hank Snow One heart too many I have broken , Love dreams that faded away. Too many teardrops have fallen, Too many vows cast aside. Soft wedding bells should be ringing, For us in the chapel tonight, But this morning they tolled, And her br...

It don't hurt anymore All my teardrops are dried No more walkin' the floor With that burnin' inside Just to think it could be Time has opened the door And at last I am free I don't hurt anymore (Chorus) No use to deny I wanted to die The day you said we were...

When lights are low and we're together a rain or snow who minds the weather I have you and that's enough for me Don't care if fortune ever finds me don't need of who's or friends around me I have you and that's enough for me By the firesides where you find me...

I was ridin' No 9 heading south from Caroline I heard that lonesome whistle blow Got in trouble had to roam left my gal and left my home I heard that lonesome whistle blow Just a kid acting smart I went and broke my darling's heart I guess I was too young to k...

I want you to know if things should go wrong As you walk through your world if you're walkin' along Give me your burden I'll carry you low Remember I love you I just want you to know Whatever you do or whatever they say there's someone believing in you walk aw...

~~~~♫♫♫ ~~~~ (I love you most of all because you're 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...

Standing in the moonlight by the old garden gate Nellie, my darlin', I know you will wait Wait for me, dearest, he said in tears Then I'll be your sweetheart through all the long years I love you Nellie, yes I'll be true All these long years have been just fo...

One morning as I rambled down by the seashore The wind it did whistle and the waters did roar I heard of fair maiden make a pitiful sound It sounded so lonesome in the waters around (I never will marry I'll be no man's wife I expect to live single all the...

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...

Last night I dreamed an angel came he took my hand he called my name He bade me look the other way I saw a man I heard him say He said if I'd be lifted up I'll draw all men to me He turned and then I saw the nail scared hands that bled for me (I touched the he...

(I see Jesus standing waiting for me) Once a man named Steven preached about the Lord Folks were saved then folks were healed as they heard his word Satan did not like it soon he had his crowd And as he was tried they heard Steven cried aloud I see Jesus stand...

Once I lived a life of wine and roses And I drank a lot back then for one concern Success for me lay just around the corner I thought my social friends 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 traded my saddle for a rifle and left to join the troubled shore I hung my guitar in the attic and laid away my forty four I traded my saddle for a rifle so kiss me my darling we must part I left my faithful pony grazing in clover by the old corrall. Yodel l...

I was born in Macon Georgia they kept my dad in the Macon jail Dad said son if you keep your hands clean You won't hear them bloodhounds on your trail But I fell in with bad companions we robbed a man in Tennessee The sheriff caught me way up in Nashville they...

I went to your wedding altho? I was dreading the thought of losing you. The organ was playing, my poor heart kept saying: Your dreams, your dreams are thru. You came down the aisle wearing a smile a vision of loveliness; I uttered a sigh, then whispered goodby...

I wish my heart could talk to you like I do every night When we're apart you know it's true I love you every night You'd come running back and never leave me feelin' blue If my heart (if my heart) could talk (heart could talk) To you (heart could talk to you)...

Some folks like to wish upon a little silver star Others wish upon that big old moon If you want to make a wish and have that wish come true Let me tell you, I should know because one night in June I made a wish upon my little golden horseshoe And, gee, I wis...

Tonight I'm sad, my heart is weary I'm wond'ring if I'm wrong or right Altho' you've gone and found another I wonder where you are tonight (Chorus) That old rain is cold and slowly fallin' Upon my window pane tonight And tho' your love was even colder I wonde...

We're traveling down two different roads in world so far apart You want me yet there's something 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...

I never shall forget the day I heard my dear old mother say "I'm leaving now the old home dear, remember Jack your mother's prayer". She left me as the golden sun behind the hill top it did hide, And when I found that she had gone I laid my guitar down and cri...

"I'm not in your town to stay," said a lady old and gray to the warden of the penitentiary "I'm not in your town to stay And I'll soon be on my way I'm just here to get my baby out of jail Oh warden, I'm just here to get my baby out of jail" "I tried to raise...

That big eight-wheeler rollin' down the track Means your true-lovin' daddy ain't comin' back 'Cause I'm movin' on, I'll soon be gone You were flyin' too high, for my little old sky So I'm movin' on That big loud whistle as it blew and blew Said hello to the s...

Don't come to me with tears in your eyes just because he couldn't be true And expecting me to sympathize I'm not at all sorry for you You know I realize all that you been through Because you treated me just the way he's treating you It's too late now to stop w...

I'm far away from home out on the dashing foam, Just how far I have travelled I'll never know, Sometimes I feel so blue and I long for home and you, But I must stay and fight the foe. CHORUS So I'm sending you red roses to tell you my love is true, And I send...

Though you have refused to see me my dear you'd rather I'd be all alone Still I can't forget the kisses we knew and the days when I called you my own But you found another and you loved him too My heart is broken I'm sad and I'm blue I am sorry we met it's so...

I was totin' my pack along a dusty Winnemucca road When along came a semi with a high canvas covered load "If you're going to Winnemucca, Mac with me you can ride." So I climbed into the cab and then I settled down inside He asked me if I'd seen a road with s...

Oh, the road of love is rocky, and it's lonely, and so blue, When the one you dream of, walks on ahead of you. Well, I laughed the day she left me, said she'd come back in awhile, But for every inch I've laughed, I've cried a mile. It's a mighty lonesome feel...

When I think of the dreams I've let slip through my hands And the years that I've wasted Lord I've cried from my shame But when I feel the glow of your love then I know That I've done at least one thing that was good in my life. Yes, I've done at least one th...

I've forgotten you, I know that's true; Except when it's raining, or when there's sun. I've forgotten you, you never make me blue; Except when I'm all alone, or with someone. I've forgotten you, I know that's true; Except when it's night time, or when it's da...

An early mornin' kiss with a touch of tenderness Is the way that you used to start my day But your forgetfulness fills me with an emptiness That makes me wonder why you've changed your ways. You'll never know how lonesome it's been Waiting for you to be your...

Well the wind blows cold in New York City along about the middle of now And I'm telling you I'd be a happy man if I could get away somehow Cause I'm growing old before my time finally I see the light But if it costs a dime to get around the world I couldn't...

In an old Dutch garden by an old Dutch mill Where the moon was dreaming on a distant hill When a smile danced by it was then that I Saw heaven in a pair of wooden shoes In an old Dutch garden where the tulips grow That's when first I whispered that I love you...

In the misty moonlight by the flickering firelight Any place is all right long as I'm with you In a faraway land on the trophic sea sand If your hand's in my hand I won't be blue Way up on the mountain a way down in the valley I know I'll be happy anyplace any...

"Ooh!" "Ooh!" So echoes of sweet love notes gently fall Thru the forest stillness, As fond waiting Indian lovers call! When the lone lagoon Stirs in the Spring, Welcoming home some swany white wing, When the maiden moon, Riding the sky, Gathers her star-eyed...

I didn't plan to fall in love with you it just happened that way And all the time inside my heart I knew that I'd regret it some day Now I can't stand to be away from you but I'm alone every day I didn't plan to fall in love with you it just happened that way...

Today I was lonely so I took a walk I happened to glance in a tree Out on a limb walked one lonely dove it kinda reminded me of me I looked at the sidewalk as I walked alone we two of a kind I could see Because it's been walked on the way that I have it kinda...

I don't wanna ever fall in love again I don't wanna worry if I'll hurt or hurt somebody You can't be happy when love comes to an end then you're alone I won't try to change again for a woman's sake 'Cause I won't be around one who has rules for me to follow Fo...

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

(G)We met in a garden of (D)roses One night when the moon was (G)blue We (C)kissed as the breeze whispered (G)through the trees I (D)love you, I love only (G)you Chorus: You were (C)sweet as the dew on the (G)roses (C)True as the new moon (G)above (C)Forever...

The sweetest thing that ever came into my life was you The only girl in this whole world that turned my grey skies blue Your tender love like a velvet glove enclosed around my heart Told me we'd still be lovers when this old world fell apart But now it's over...

Down the way where the nights are gay and the sun shines daily on the mountain top I took a trip on a sailing ship and when I reached Jamaica I made a stop But I'm sad to say I'm on my way won't be back for many a day My heart is down my head is turnin' around...

Pale moon start on your journey I'm pleading to you. Somewhere you'll find a broken heart yearning too. Bright stars were shining but clouds drifted by Just to darken a true love affair, And I know I'm to blame for the showers that fell, They meant more than...

Darling, I received your last long letter, and enclosed I found a petal from the rose That I picked and placed within your hair, dear when we strolled beneath the moon-beams long ago. You say that you can understand today, dear, Why in tears I told you when y...

As the twilight shadows deepen Where the weeping willow waves, All alone in tears I'm kneeling O'er my sweetheart's lonely grave. CHORUS I am asking God's forgiveness, For you're waiting there I know, Out beyond that blue horizon Just across the bridge of gol...

I can't believe that you're honestly thinking of leavin' me Cause I thought that leavin' really wasn't even on your mind I'm drowning in tears drowning constantly nearer to misery Just bidin' my time while the glow from the wine make a fool of me Over and over...

Got an old slouch hat got my roll on my shoulder I'm as free as the breeze and I'll do as I please Just a bummin' around Got a million friends don't feel any older I've got nothin' to lose not even the blues Just a bummin' around Whenever worries start to bo...

Just keep a-movin' wherever you were movin' They told me you were movin' on Just keep a-goin' wherever you were goin' The day you left me here all alone You were in such a hurry, such a tizzy, such a flurry To leave me for the new love you found So just keep...

Within the prison of my soul Locked within my troubled mind Is a love I can't forget 'Cause she's just one of a kind Just a plain old fashioned girl The kind a man don't have to tame When he starts to settle down He's proud to let her wear his name Within my...

I am pleading tonight in this letter I write 'Cause it seems as tho' I'm talking to you, All the tear-stains you see take as kisses from me, 'Cause I'm lonesome here waiting for you. Does your heart still feel light do you still think your right That you left...

I'm a lady's man, oh yes-sir-ee I like the gals and the gals like me Can I make 'em swoon? oh yes I can Don't know what it is about me they love But what it is, I got plenty of Make way for me, I'm a lovin', lady's man I'm a lady's man and that's no crime I l...

If I walk in the pathway of duty if I work till the close of the day I shall see the great king in his beauty when I've gone the last mile of the way When I've gone the last mile of the way I will rest at the close of the day And I know there are joys that awa...

It's a lesson too late for the learning made of sand made of sand In the wink of an eye my soul is turning in your hand in your hand Are you going away with no word of farewell Will there be not a trace left behind Well I could've loved you better didn't mean...

Let me go, let me go, let me go, woman Let me be, set me free, from your spell You made me weep, cut me deep, I can't sleep, woman I was cursed, from the first, day I fell (Chorus) You don't want me, but you want me, to go on wanting you How I pray that, you...

I was standing by the window yesterday morning, Without a thought of worry or of care, When I saw the postman coming up the pathway, With such a happy look and jolly air. cho: As I heard the postman whistling yester morning, Coming down the pathway with his p...

You look so pretty lyin' there with dreamland's smile upon your face Your golden curls in disarray upon your starched white pillow case The soft blue satin covers pulled up tight around your lovely throat It almost makes me want to go destroy the message on th...

Would you like to hear the story of a girl that many soldiers know It's a tale of love and all its glory they tell when the lights are soft and low Underneath the lamp post by the barrack's gate Standing all alone every night you see her wait She waits for the...

(A) Linda Lou, honest true, I'm just wild about your lovely eyes of (E7) blue, For your smile, I'd walk miles, For my honey child I'm glad to be with (A) you, (A) As long as you are by my side I (D) have no cause to pine, I (B7) point you out with so much pri...

I don't know much on religion and I ain't never had no show But I got a middlin' tight grip sir on the handful of things that I know I don't pan out on the prophets good will and that sort of thing But I believe in God and the angels ever since one night last...

Broken hearted and so sad, golden curls all wet with tears, 'twas a picture of sorrow to see. Kneeling close to the side of his pal and only pride, A little lad these words he told me. He was such a lovely doggie and to me he was such fun, but today as we pla...

What will the birds do, mother, in the spring When they stop to gather crumbs around the door Will they fly from the trees half as nice with glee Askin' why Joe wanders out no more What will the kitten do, mother, all alone Will he stop from his frolick for t...

Little stranger in a manger little stranger sweet and mild Mother Mary daddy Joseph watch o'er you their holy child Searching for you to adore you come Three Kings led by a star Little stranger in a manger they'll find heaven where you are Choir of angels are...

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

(It's the Lord's way of saying goodnight) All the cares of the day are behind me and I know everything is all right For that's not just a star twinkling bright from above It's the Lord's way of saying goodnight There's a wonderful feeling comes over me as I ga...

Love is so elusive but it's worth the effort Once you find the key Awakening to feel a touch and taste the sweetness Won't come easily. So hold it gently in your hand Or it might slip away into the night Yes, love is so elusive that it won't return Once it's...

Your ribbon in the summer breeze entwined in curls of gold And the robin red brest's voice did sweetly blend With a little schoolmate chior as they sang oh promise me When I wed you in love's game of let's pretend The kid next door was parson and the church w...

First thing I remember knowin' was a lonesome whistle blowin' And the youngest dream of growin' up to ride On a freight train leavin' town not knowin' where I'm bound No one could change my mind but mama tried One and only rebel child for my family meek and mi...

Tonight down here in the valley I'm lonesome and O 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 on t...

Maria Elena you're the answer to a prayer Maria Elena can't you see how much I care To me your voice is like the echo of a sigh And when you're near my heart can't speak above a sigh Maria Elena say that we will never part Maria Elena take me to your heart A l...

"M" is for marriage each letter spells love "A" is alter where you're blessed from above "R" is for ring lovers' faith set in gold "R" is the richness of life it can hold "I" is the infinite joy in the soul "A" is the answer to life and its' goal "G" is the gi...

Do you take this woman to be your dear wife Do you vow to love her the rest of your life And will you protect her and honor her name Oh don't cause her heartaches and don't bring her shame Share with her in poverty with her in wealth For richer for poorer...

What a strange world we live in, what a shame, Oh what a shame! Someone's always quarrellin? the marriage don't remain. Divorces by the thousands; is the human race insane? I always thought that marriage should be a sacred thing. CHORUS Married By The Bible D...

I saved up my money to buy my sweetheart some flowers For Saturday's date and I restlessly counted the hours Then today in the mail I recieved a short little note And I broke down inside at the message that her mother's wrote Mary Ann regrets she's unable to s...

Busted flat in Baton Rouge headin' for the trains feelin' nearly faded as my jeans Bobby thumbed a diesel down just before it rained took us all the way to New Orleans I took my har'poon out of my dirty red bandana And was blowin' sad while Bobby sang the blue...

Once I got a foolish notion to cross that big wide ocean The furure for me didn't look so bright So I signed up with a tanker got on board and raised the anchor Stood and watched the Golden Gate fade out of sight Nineteen days and nights we travelled through t...

Take one fresh and tender kiss Add one stolen night of bliss One girl, one boy Some grief, some joy Memories are made of this Don't forget a small moonbeam Fold in lightly with a dream Your lips and mine Two sips of wine Memories are made of this Then add th...

When there's icicles hangin' on the green pinetrees And the Florida oranges all turn blue When there's Miami snow then baby you will know that I stopped loving you When there's no cattle roamin' on a Texas plain And the Texasans stop raggin' like they do When...

[C] Way down in the [G] state of [C] Georgia Thru the [G] swamps and ever-[C] glades There's a [F] hole in Tiger [C] Mountain God help the man who gets [G] lost in Miller's [C] Cave. I had a girl (had a girl) in Waycross, Georgia (Waycross, Georgia) but she h...

How many teardrops have I cried over you a million and one tears a million and two How many nighttimes have my arms reached for you A million and one times a million and two I loved you my darling and I thought you loved me only me But you were just foolin' an...

Oh you Mississippi River, with waters so deep and wide My thoughts of you keep risin', just like an evening tide I'm just like a seagull that's left the sea Oh your muddy waters keep on callin'me I'm gonna pack my grip and head that way You'll see me hanging...

Moanin' my life slowly away Sittin' here waitin' for the new commin' day They try to cheer me as I trudge on my way Moanin' for you Can't seem to hide it and why should I try Good Lord, he knows it up there in the sky A million heartaches with your last goodb...

When the sun in the morning peeps over the hill And kisses the roses round my window sill Then my heart fills with gladness when I hear the trill Of the birds in the treetops on Mockin' Bird Hill Tra la la twitle dee dee dee it gives me a thrill To wake up in...

Oh come hear my story of heartaches and sighs I'm a prisoner who's lonely for his moonlight and skies I have a sweetheart who's waiting for me Back in old Oklahoma I'm not far from Shawnee Her lips like the cherries her little heart cries Daddy please come bac...

Mother I'm leaving and I'm proud to go please don't be grieving I love you so Here in this pocket over my heart is the Bible you gave me your gift as we part My country needs me you know that's true pray for me mother till this war is through God will protect...

I had a home down in Texas back where the Bluebonnet grew I had the kindest old mother how happy we were just we two But one day the angels called her this parting we all have to pay She called me close to her bedside and these are the words she did say Son do...

Listen to a story about a gal I know She's my music makin' mama, I'm her hillbilly beau She's sweeter than the music when she tickles the strings Sweeter than the flowers down in New Orleans She's my music makin' mama from Memphis, Tennessee She'll play a lit...

In my adobe hacienda there's a touch of Mexico Cactus lovelier than orchids blooming in the patio (Soft desert stars and the strum of guitars) makes every evening seem so sweet In my adobe hacienda life and love are more complete In my adobe hacienda nested in...

Well her eyes they sparkle like the sandy dunes And her voice it rings like all the latest tunes And when she speaks my name her eyes fairly light up and shine She's my Arabian baby and maybe she'll soon be mine I've traveled this whole world over and never h...

My arms are a house, I want you to live there Come into my house for you have the key My heart is the door that's waiting wide open To welcome the love who shares it with me We'll furnish with kisses and plans that come true Just think of the nursery in pink...

B E B F# B The sweetest girl in the world is my blue eyed Jane F# G#m C# F# We fell in love like turtle doves while the moon was shining down B E B F# B I asked her then, I asked her when the wedding bells would ring C# F# She said, "Oh dear, it seems so queer...

My dreams tell it like it was but my eyes see it like it is Seems like only yesterday when I had everything But today I can face the hurt tomorrow bring For reality and yesterday is all there is My dreams tell it like it was but my eyes see it like it is All I...

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

My good gal is gone, don't know why she went away Yes, my gal's gone, don't know why she went away All I know is she's gone didn't have a word to say When she left me, Lord, I just sat down and I cried When she left me, Lord, I just sat down and cried I felt...

Evening shadows make me blue When each weary day is through How I long to be with you, my happiness Every day I reminisce 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 Bu...

THERE'S A PLACE IN HAWAII THAT IS VERY DEAR TO ME I AM HOMESICK AS CAN BE WON'T YOU LISTEN TO MY PLEA? I WANT TO GO BACK TO MY LITTLE GRASS SHACK IN KEALAKEKUA HAWAII I WANT TO BE WITH ALL THE KANES AND WAHINES THAT I KNEW LONG AGO I CAN HEAR OLD GUITARS A-P...

(You're just an angel and I love you) There are friends who'll want you but just for a day There are pals you think true but they'll cast you away But there's one loving soul boys I'll sure recommend Through this old world of sorrow she'll be true till the end...

There's a place I'll always cherish, 'neath the blue Atlantic sky Where the shores down in Cape Breton bid the golden sun to rise And the fragrance of the apple blossoms sprays the dew-kissed lawns Back in dear old Nova Scotia, a place where I was born The Sc...

For years and years I've rambled drank my wines and gambled But one day I thought I'd settle down I met a perfect lady she said she'd be my baby We built a cottage in the old hometown But somehow I can't forget my good old rambling days Now the railroad trains...

I woke up this mornin? in a terrible mood, You talk about a woman treatin? a good man rude She left me talkin? to myself just a gazin? at that mean old wall. She had another daddy waitin? down at the end of the hall. She changes with the weather like the leav...

Here she comes the mysterious lady from St. Martinique When she goes a-strollin' the eyes are all rollin' at her for a peek When she goes a-walkin' the island starts talkin' admiring the golden physique Of the mysterious lady from St. Martinique Hey' what is...

I'm just as blue as I can be Since Susie said goodbye to me My life is a failure, I see And she won't be my gal No mo', no mo', no mo', no mo' - no mo' I'll pack my things in a grip Take me a long ocean trip Out on a great big steam ship She'll never see her...

Maybe I'm right and maybe I'm wrong And maybe I'm weak and maybe I'm strong But nevertheless I'm in love with you Maybe I'll win and maybe I'll lose And maybe I'm in for cryin' the blues But nevertheless I'm in love with you Somehow I knew at a glance The te...

I took you home from a party and we kissed in fun A few stolen kisses and no harm was done Instead of stopping when we could, we went right on 'Til suddenly we found that the brakes were gone You belong to someone else and I do too It's just crazy bein' here...

The postman came to me this morning and dropped your letter in the door. Then went his way so gay and smiling, leaving my old heart so sad and sore. CHORUS You painted all the clouds with sunshine and named the day that we would wed, But with the tide those d...

While a prisoner of war in Korea Surrounded by guards and barrbed wire I dreamed of returnin' to you, dear Oh, that was my heart's one desire Now at last I am free and returnin' And I'm thankful to God up above I'm no longer a prisoner of war, dear But I'm st...

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

Nobody knows about the jailhouse blues Till you get within four walls And the jailerman turns that big black key That's when your spirit falls Then you drag yourself up to the bars And while you gaze out at the stars This is what you say Why did I stray from...

I was slowly passing an orphan's home one day And stopped there for a moment just to watch the children play Alone a boy was standing and when I asked him why He turned with eyes that could not see and he began to cry I'm nobody's child, I'm nobody's child I'...

I filled my ol' car up with gas north to Chicago I was goin' Just drove ten miles and turned around I couldn't leave without you knowin' I had to see you one last time and be with you once before I'll go To talk with you just one more time and then I'm bound n...

Now is the hour When we must say goodbye. Soon you'll be sailing Far across the sea. While you're away Oh, then, remember me. When you return You'll find me waiting here. Sunset glow fades in the west. Night o'er the valley is creeping. Birds cuddle down in...

I heard you cryin' to the whispering trade winds As they echoe your love call o'er the silvery sea They say your heart's weary and you long to be near me Fear not my darling I shall always love Thee Until the snow falls in old Hawaii until eternity is a long t...

Well everybody's goin' out and havin' fun I'm just a fool for staying home and havin' 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 f...

(Spoken) He was just an old country doctor In a little Kentucky town Fame and fortune had passed him by But we never saw him frown As day by day in his kindly way He served us one and all Many a patient forgot to pay Altho' doc's fees were small But Old Doc B...

Two little boys and an old family dog By the banks of a stream sat one day The boys decided old rover must die A nusance well out of the way The poor old fellow stood close by their side His fate he couldn't quite understand With a wag of his tail and a half s...

When I was a lad And old Shep was a pup Over hills and meadows we'd stray Just a boy and his dog We were both full of fun We grew up together that way I remember the time at the old swimmin' hole When I would have drowned beyond doubt But old Shep was right t...

There's a faraway Island neath the silvery moonlight Just a paradise of dreams across the sea There's a maiden all alone and still waiting on that old Hawaiian shore for me (The tears they were falling and the nightbirds were calling As the breeze that night w...

Oone kauha wiki wiki, sweet brown maiden said to me As she gave me language lessons on the beach at Waikiki Oone kauha wiki wiki, she then said and smiled with glee But she would not translate for me on the beach at Waikiki Oone kauha wiki wiki, she repeated p...

I was born a rover on the rhythmic range A rootin' tootin' terror and I never will change I sing a tune a day and travell all of the way In rhythm Everything around me is a part of my song They seem to want to follow as I ramble along The lazy hawk in the sky...

I've got to make myself let go off you somehow Stop hanging on to memory that's over now But if I do what I have in my world I pretend Cause to this world I go each night once more you're mine again Once more you're mine again you hold me close to you And whe...

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 forever...

One more ride I will long for a trip, don't need no grip I'm takin' one more ride 'Way out there in the prairie air I guess it's in my hide For the clickety-clack of the railroad track is callin' If a man that knows where the Santa Fe goes When she gets under...

It's only a rose from my mother's grave That I'd planted long long ago I pulled it from a stem, where it used to wave With a windward soft and low It's only a flower white and so fair That she used to love so well Sweet were the perfume that filled the air Rou...

Old Father Time has seen a million, million hearts Break with pain down the highway of years. I never dreamed that the love I thought was true Would deceive and just leave me these tears. The little seeds of happiness I grew with tender care Have withered now...

I have heard your stories about your fast trains But now I'll tell you 'bout one all the southern folks have seen She's the beauty of the southland, listen to that whistle scream It's that Pan American on her way to New Orleans (Chorus) She leaves Cincinnati...

I went to Panama to find out why it's called the tropic zone. The senoritas there had so much charm, they could even melt a heart of stone, A hot tamale gal, she flashed me a smile, and I lost my heart right then. I thought I'd only stay down there for a day,...

I realize the way your eyes deceived me with tender looks that I mistook for love So throw away the flowers that I sent you And I'll send the kind that you remind me of Paper roses paper roses oh how real those roses seem to be But they're only imitation like...

You look at this picture with a wondering eye And then at the arrow that hangs by it's side They tell a story for you know there is one With the name of Patanio the story begun I'll tell you a story that will thrill you, I know Of a horse that I owned down in...

When it's peach picking time in Georgia apple picking time in Tennessee Cotton picking time in Mississippi everybody picks on me When it's roundup time in Texas the cowboys make whoopee And way down in old Alabama it's gal picking time for me There's a bluegra...

Pearly Shells,from the ocean. shining in the sun,covering up the shore When I see themMy heart tells me that I love you,More than all the little pearly shells. For every grain of sand upon the beach, I got a kiss for you.And I've got more left over, for each s...

Here's a rose from my garden where the bloom of romance grows But I'll keep on a part near my aching heart just a petal from a faded rose Love'd be sweet in the morning when the breeze of summer blows But will fade and die when the wind is nigh like a petal fr...

[G]I know not where on earth to find you I know not how or when to start I only know I'm here with[C]out you I've got [D7]pins and needles in my [G]heart [G]The days and nights are growing longer Since first you said that we must part I only know I can't for[...

Cho. For you poison love has stained the life blood in my heart and soul dear And I know my life will never be the same For my pleading has all been in vain for you and you alone dear And you know that you are guilty of the same. 1. Into each life a love is b...

Kind friends you have heard the story, And the song called Twenty One Years, All of how two lovers parted, Of their sorrow, pain and tears. I am another who's heartbroken, And I'm in this lonesome jail; I was the honest ranger, Tried for fame but soon I faile...

Last night as I lay sleeping I dreamed a dream so fair I dreamed about my darling a rose was in her hair I dreamed I left this prison started in life anew She told me that she loved me told me her love was true It was only a dream just a prisoner's dream as I...

Mother dear, come bathe my forehead For I'm growing very weak Mother, let one drop of water Fall upon my burnin' cheek Tell my loving, little playmates That I never more shall play Give them all my toys but, Mother Put my little shoes away (You will do this,...

(Put your arms around me) In the cold grey walls of a prison ragged with hate and fever he lay A man who call for a loved one and over and over you say Put your arms around me hold me close before we part Let the warm sweet tears from your blue eyes ease the p...

HER EYES LOOKED AT MINE WITH A COLD VACANT STARE I'D STILL LIKE TO KNOW WHAT I SAW IN HER THERE SHE WAS'ANT OUTSTANDING HER FEATURES WERE SMALL AND PERSONALITY WISE SHE HAD NOTHING AT ALL BUT TWO PEOPLE THAT NIGHT ME AND GOD ABOVE KNEW THIS WAS THE WOMAN THAT...

I was so stupid, that I loose her My mind is going crazy now Why i was so stupid My sweet Rose Oh she's gone now She's gonna never come back God, why I was so stupid Now im crying all day 

Ramblin' Rose, Ramblin' Rose Why you ramble, no one knows Wild and windblown That's how you've grown Who can cling to, a Ramblin' Rose Ramble on, ramble on When your ramblin' days are gone Who will love you With a love true When your ramblin' days are gone R...

Return to me for my dear I'm so lonely Hurry back hurry back oh my love I am yours hurry back Return to me for my heart wants you only Hurry home hurry home won't you please hurry home to my heart My darling if I hurt you I'm sorry forgive me and please say yo...

Ribbon of darkness over me since my true love walked out the door Tears I never had before ribbon of darkness over me Clouds are gathering o'er my head they chill the day and hide the sun And bring the night when day is done ribbon of darkness over me Rain is...

I found something that money can't buy I found a goldmine beyond the blue sky I found the land where I'll look when I die I found the Lord rich man am I I found the Lord that's too sweet to tell I found the faith that's known so well I found the life that I'll...

(He's ridin' home he's ridin' home) Sun goes down work's all done evenin' cheer at last Moon comes up behind the hills I love and I'm ridin' home I'm ridin' home (See that lonesome cowboy ridin' down that lonesome trail) Moonlight shadows sway into the tune of...

Ev'ry day I listen to the surging tide, And I always wonder why the sea's so wide; Miles of salty water, endless skies above, Stretch out far between me and the one I love. CHORUS Rockin? rollin? ocean, With your briny foam, Bring my sweetheart back to me, Br...

Sitting alone in an old rockin' chair I saw an old mother with silvery hair She seemed so neglected by those who should care rocking alone in an old rockin' chair Her hands were caloused and wrinckled and old A life full of hard work were the story they tol...

Where are you old moon of Kentucky there's somebody lonesome and blue We're nothing it seems but mem'ries and dreams waiting to whisper to you Day is done and here am I alone and you know why Roll along roll along Kentucky moon Shed a ray of silver light on on...

Blue rose of the Rio I can see her now As she looked that day when I rode away through a golden dawn It was there by the Rio that we made our vows Then we kissed goodbye what a fool was I fore I traveled on I should have known as we kissed such heaven as this...

I'll remember when it's winter and there's not a rose to see That you kiss me and there will be roses blooming in the snow for me I'll remember in December when the lonely raindrops sigh Ho you smile dear and there will be sunshine in the dark Desember sky I'l...

You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen Comet and Cupid and Donder and Blitzen But do you recall the most famous reindeer of all Rudolph the red nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose And if you ever saw it you would even say it glows All of the other r...

If I had a scale to measure love Like a clock can measure time And we put our love upon that scale Would your's weigh as much as mine Of late is seems your thoughts are far away I doubt if you hear half the things I say I be hurt if I knew who you were thinki...

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, darlin', I can dream on it, too Each night while I"m sleeping, oh so lonely I'll share your love and dreams that once were true Send me the...

Rosalitia, my Rosalitia, are you waiting for me Just as you promised me you would Rosalitia, senorita Rosalitia, I'd fly back tonight To you like a seagull if I could The ship that I was stationed on docked on the shores of Spain The night I met Rosalitia I k...

Morning's come and Lord my mind is aching the sunshine's standing quietly at my door Just like the dawn my heart is silently breaking With my tears it goes tumbling to the floor Once again this whole town will be talking Lord I've seen that pity thart's in the...

On a bright and sunny day when a young wife ran away From a husband who had filled her heart with pain On the table laid a note these simple words she wrote Goodbye I hope we'll never meet again To her mother she returned for her old home she had yearned For a...

She wears my ring to show the world that she belongs to me She wears my ring to show the world she's mine eternally With loving care I placed it on her finger To show my love for all the world to see [This tiny ring is a token of tender emotion An endless poo...

There's a heart that is broken today There is someone who waits far away One who's kneeling in prayer as she waits for me there Asking that I might comeback some day. Her hands are all wrinkled with care The gold has all gone from her hair How I long to caress...

Shopworn and aged what's left of a man Will never be useless cause he's part of God's plan Did you ever think of life as just a shop along the street And yourself as a product displayed in easy reach You laid there for some quite some time now and pondered at...

Silent night holy night all is calm all is bright Round young virgin mother and child holy infant so tender and mild Sleep in heavenly peace sleep in heavenly peace Glories stream from heaven afar heavely hosts sing alleluia Christ the Saviour is born Christ t...

Well, I never felt more like singin' 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 cryin' all night 'Cause everything's wrong, there ain't nothin' right Without you, you got me singin'...

Sittin' in an all nite cafe in a booth back in the corner Making paper wads from napkins throwin' toothpicks on the floor I got a problem I can't solve so I'm gonna sit till I figure out The reason why my baby doesn't love me anymore It can't be another woman...

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 I don't see a cop in sight Six days on the road and I'm a gonna make it home tonight I got...

Well let me hear the sound of the Tennessee flat top Ringin' off of the wall Behind the ice water tones of a steel guitar And a country fiddle walkin' tall Let the drums and bass set a honky tonk pace In every country song you sing And let me hear that six str...

Beneath this snowy mantle cold and clean The unborn grass lies waiting for its coat to turn to green The snowbird sings the song he always sings And speaks to me of flowers that will bloom again in spring Spread your tiny wings and fly away And take the snow b...

Always and always I'll love you forever oh it's so good to be back with you The grass looks greener on the other side I cross over to the arms of someone new Searching for something I had all over time Oh it's so good to be back with you So good to feel your a...

When the postman delivered a letter It filled her old heart full of joy But she didn't know till she read the inside It was the last one from her darlin' boy "Dear mom" was the way that it started "I miss you so much" it went on My mind did not know that I lo...

C I thought I w-as through missing you F I thought I was through being blue C G7 And t-hen someone ment-ioned your n-ame C Some careless friend just chanced to say F That t-hey saw you the other day C G7 And t-hey said you looked just the same C F Then I reme...

Travelling the lonely roads of sorrow, heartaches are all I've ever known. Time has turned a million pages, fate has dealt and I'm alone. CHORUS But somewhere along life's highway From your new love you may part, And you will reap the pains, my darling, that...

Somewhere my love there will be songs to sing Although the snow covers the hope of spring Somewhere a hill blossoms in green and gold And there are greens all that your heart can hold Someday we'll meet again my love someday whenever the spring breaks through...

Hear the clickety-clack on the railroad track Means the wheels are rollin' and I'm goin' back To the girl I left in a rundown shack I'm southbound As the miles rush by, I miss her more and more Tears in my eyes and my heart is sore Soon I'll be a-knockin' on...

I met a girl in Laredo down in Mexico While I was makin' the rounds Down in a dim cafe she does the swing and sway That's the talk of the town I never learned her name But she's called the Spanish Fireball While she kept rhythm with her hips From her ruby lip...

Oh this is the place where they're fishin' and gatherin', Oil-skins and boots and the Cape hands batten down; All sizes of figures with squid lines and jiggers, They congregate here on the Squid Jiggin' Ground. Some are workin' their jiggers, while others are...

The band it was playing the Star Spangled Waltz, The lights in the ball-room were low. Oh 'twas sweet to my ears, I fought back my tears For that waltz broke my heart long ago. My sweetheart grew jealous as I danced with a friend, And said that my love had gro...

Stolen moments are all we have together Two hearts that must find love on borrowed time Stolen moments the seconds that we treasure must this forbid and pleasure be a crime If only we had met when both of us were free We could walking to the sunlight where a l...

Well I woke up Sunday morning with no way to hold my head that didn't hurt And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad so I had one more for desert Then I fumbled in my closet through my clothes and found my cleanest dirty shirt Then I washed my face and combe...

Don't forget me little darling while I'm growing old and gray Just a little thought before I'm going far away I'll be waiting on the hillside where the wild red roses grow On the sunny side of the mountains where the rippling waters flow Don't forget about th...

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 having...

Sweet hour of prayer sweet hour of prayer that calls me from a world of care And bids me at my father's throne make all my wants and wishes known In seasons of distress and grief my soul has often found relief And oft escaped the tempter's snare by Thy return...

I've got a tangled mind I've got a broken heart Don't have a dime and my time is short I got a gal somewhere I guess she thinks I'm dead I'd go back home if I could clear my head Cryin' cryin' all of the time I've got a broken heart I've got a tangled mind I l...

You'll never know I cried when I found out you lied So I'll keep ridin' hidin' teardrops in my heart A cowboy can't reveal a broken heart until He's all alone in someplace long to play the part Though I'm pretending that I don't care to be with you my darling...

Boys I was born in Texas State, Many years ago, I've rode on ev'ry range and plain, There's no place I don't know; I love to swing the lariat, that's all I'll ever do, I'm a two-gun singing cowboy and I've never had the blues. For I hop on my old Pinto, And o'...

Down in my dreams somehow it seems that I'm back where I belong Just a country hick way back in the stick back where I was born Cause the city lights and the city ways are drivin' me insane I wanna be alone I wanna be back home out on the Texas plains I wanna...

There are so many flirty guys with flirty flirty ways And I am so afraid that they will steal you some day Don't let 'em darling cause you belong to me No don't ever let them make you think your heart is fancy free Don't let 'em darling that heart belongs to m...

Somewhere out there on the prairie alone my guardian angel devine Is there at rest somewhere in the west that pioneer mother of mine I'd give all I own today if someone would guide my way To that hallowed spot where she's sleeping that pioneer mother of mine....

Look at you look at me just how different can we be Day and night wrong and right that's you and me I love you you love me but we love so differently Yes and no stay and go that's you and me You and me we just can't be close to each other Everything is all mix...

CHORUS Hear, hear, hear, the alphabet Taken from the Good Book of the Lord Hear, hear, hear, the alphabet Taken from the Good Book of the Lord A is for Adam and he was the first man B for the brimstone that rained on the land C is for Cain, he slew his brothe...

Darlin? I am, oh so blue, found the things that I gave you. You returned them when you said that we must part. I have kept them through the years, they are treasured souvenirs, And mark an anniversary of my broken heart. Just a rose from your hair, long ago I...

Oh dear I'm so sad and heart broken waiting in my prison cell To be trialed for the death of sweet blossom my baby that I love so well Last night as I drank in the barroom through the front door my little girl came I watched as she slowly approached me and tre...

I took a contract to bury the body of blasphemous Bill MacKie, Whenever, wherever or whatsoever the manner of death he die Whether he die in the light o' day or under the peak-faced moon; In cabin or dance-hall, camp or dive, mucklucks or patent shoon; On velv...

Now wouldn't you expect to find a man an awful crank That's staked out nigh three hundred claims, and every one a blank; That's followed every fool stampede, and seen the rise and fall Of camps where men got gold in chunks and he got none at all; That's prospe...

This is the tale that was told to me by the man with the crystal eye, As I smoked my pipe in the camp-fire light, and the Glories swept the sky; As the Northlights gleamed and curved and streamed, and the bottle of "hooch" was dry. A man once aimed that my li...

(Life lost its color when I lost my love) White's for the wedding that I'll never see blue is for heartaches that she gave to me Green were those two eyes that stole her away Gray were the darks skies on that tragic day Black was the gun that I drew from my si...

Within my prison cell so dreary I sit alone with achin' heart I'm dreamin' of my little darlin' From her forever, I must part The rose she sent me as a token She sent it just to lighten my gloom And tell me that her heart was broken And cheer me before I meet...

The black smokestack was barking The steam made them pistons groan And behind that screaming whistle You could hear that engine moan The train was reeling and rocking The passengers were screaming with fear For the train was being driven By a crazy engineer I'...

There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold; The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, But the queerest they ever did see Was that night on the...

The days are long, I'm a-weary I ain't sayin' a word The days are long, I'm a-weary I ain't sayin' a word You left me blue as night Blues all round my head (I sure miss you, honey) I thought my day was commin' man, I'm feelin' so bad I thought my day was comm...

In an old dusty attic of a tenement house I happened to wander one day And there on the rafters 'neath shavings and chips A drunkard's poor little boy lay Oh why are you lying up here in the cold What makes you lie on this hard bed My father's a drunkard and...

You promised to love me to the end of the world And I built a world just for two; Now I'm alone at the end of the world What good am I without you? Gone are the vows that we made by the stars Gone like a bolt from the blue; Darlin? I'm lost at the end of the w...

'Twas a balmy summer evening and a goodly crowd was there Which well-nigh filled Joe's barroom on the corner of the square And as songs and witty stories came through the open door A vagabond crept slowly in and posed upon the floor. "Where did it come from?"...

(Chorus) Oh! the gold rush is over so honey bye bye Stake out your claim now on some other guy I've wined you and dined you 'til my money is gone But the gold rush is over and the bum's rush is on Now when I had the money honey, things were just fine You spen...

[E] From old Montana down to Alabam' I've [A] been before and I'll travel again You [E] triflin' women can't keep a good man [B7] down You [E] dealt the cards, but you missed the play So [A] hit the road and be on your way Gonna [E] board the Golden [B7] Rocke...

[C] The Warden made a comment That the Governor sure does write a pretty [D] hand As he [G] handed me the paper That has given me my freedom, once a-[C] gain The Governor said I'm sorry That new evidence came seven years too [D] late Go [G] home and start your...

Did I commit the greatest sin, Was it on my wedding day, I married someone else not you? I I thougt I'd spied you there that day. We quarrled,and I took the ring that you gave back to me,And gave it to somebody who has loved me faithfully. I married her,But I...

You put your heart upon an auction block and sold it, Selfish greed and envy were the auctioneers. The highest bidder won your heart but he can't hold it; Love that's bought with gold can only end in tears. The price I offered was my true love and devotion, Bu...

[C] Riding on an East-bound freight train, [F] speeding thru the [C] night [F] Hobo Bill, [C] a railroad bum, was [D] fighting for his [G7] life... The [C] sadness of his eyes revealed the [F] torture of his [C] soul He [F] raised a weak and [C] weary hand to...

In the Dodge City Yards of the Santa Fe Stood a freight made up for the east And the engineer with his oil and waste Was groomin' the great iron beast While ten cars back in the murky dust A boxcar door swung wide And a hobo lifted his pal aboard To start on h...

The Law Of Love has ruled again, dear, You said goodbye and went your way. In chains of sorrow you have bound me, I'm a prisoner of your love today. You said your mind had reached the verdict, You've been the judge right from the start. The sentence that you...

"Burn him in a tub of tar, burn him like a blazing star, burn his body from his head; then we'll say old Pope is dead - Burn him!" The 17 Marian Martyrs of 1555, were burnt at the stake in Lewes, on orders from the crown. Protestant kindling to stoke the Cath...

The cowboy was drunk and braggin' He told her he had a wagon A wagon filled up with gold that he'd stole And then covered all over with hay She cried when she learned what he'd done that day The girl who loved the man who robbed the bank At Santa Fe and got aw...

While looking through my jewelry drawer Beneath some paper, there I saw An address book I'd kept throughout the years It listed all the girls on it Friends, my list sure has grown Each name brings back the laughter and the tears There were girls that I'd roman...

If you listen a story I'll tell you, Of a girl who once lived in this land; A girl who was once my sweetheart, She was know as The Blue Velvet Band. On her cheeks was the first flush of nature, Her beauty, it seemed to expand, Her hair hung down in long tress...

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

Listen folks and I will tell a funny story You may think it sad but I was in my glory 'Twas a cellar I crept in, cobwebs brushing by my chin On the night I stole old Sammy Morgan's gin As my hand fell on the jug I had to snicker But when I started for the doo...

So blue, so lonesome too, but still true Rosie haunts me, makes me think of you You're the one rose that's left in my heart, Dear I love you, adore you, I do Each night in dreamland we wandered along Telling love stories anew When from a blue sky a black clou...

Who-who-who (Who-who-who) Who-who-who-who (Who-who-who-who) A boy and girl were kissing beneath a linden tree A lonely owl was watching a little jealously It seemed that he was saying I want my sweetheart too But she's flown off with someone I often wonder wh...

Oh I wish I had someone to love me yes someone to call me their own Oh I wish I had someone to live with cause I'm tired of living all alone Please meet me tonight in the moonlight please meet me tonight all alone For I had a sad story to tell you it's a story...

Santa had a cup of coffee and he ate a little snack thru his pack right over his back Open the windows of his little shack and shouted oh dasher and dancer Vixen and blitzen come on here were gonna get a goin' and spread some cheer So limber your legs and shar...

This old train is speeding southbound and her whistle moans the blues; And my heart's as cold as the ice and snow that fills these walkin? shoes. That old smoke-stack keeps barkin? back to me and seems to say: We'll carry you on, oh, Restless One. I had mushe...

Welcome all you children, give a listen to me Let me tell you about a new boogie beat There's no hesitation, and it's sweepin' the nation It's the Rhumba Boogie done the South American way While Madame Lazonga was teachin' La Conga In her little cabana in old...

Rough him up and shove him down Make him cry when he comes ?round Treat him any way you want After all he's just runt, just a little runt Runt is what they called him But his name was Buddy Grey He lived out on Maple Street ?Bout a mile away Hand-me-downs we...

The seasons come and go but in my heart I know Whether it rain or snow our dream's all fair The seasons drift on by like clouds across the sky But we both realize that shadows pass I would never change or try to rearange a thing about you dear I'll love you ju...

A bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the Malamute saloon; The kid that handles the music-box was hitting a jag-time tune; Back of the bar, in a solo game, sat Dangerous Dan McGrew, And watching his luck was his light-o'-love, the lady that's known as Lou...

I wanted the gold, and I sought it, I scrabbled and mucked like a slave. Was it famine or scurvy -- I fought it; I hurled my youth into a grave. I wanted the gold, and I got it -- Came out with a fortune last fall, -- Yet somehow life's not what I thought it,...

A long steel rail and a short crosstie I'm on my way back home I'm on the train, the king of them all The Streamlined Cannonball (Chorus) Oh, she drives along like a cannonball Like a star on its heavenly flight This lonesome sound of the whistle you love As...

I'm so lonely since you said goodbye There's no stars left to shine up above And my heart aches with pain though it's aching in vain For the sun has gone down on our love Now it seems there is nothing left for me But a dream of a broken memory So I guess it i...

She was a young and pretty Coleman county farm girl Never been more than fifty miles from home I was just a drifter I was living off the land Spent the summer on her daddy's farm In the evening we'd walk along the railroad We'd hear that lonesome whistle in t...

Oh the wayward wind is a restless wind a restless wind that yearns to wonder And I was born the next of kin the next of kin to the wayward wind In a lonely shack by a railroad track I spent my younger days And I guess the sound of the outward bound made me a s...

Oh you can't be mislead by a name it is said You can't judge a book by it's cover And how one can tell what is down in a well Is a thing I have yet to discover CHORUS Oh down in the well-a, deep in the well-a, how deep, oh I couldn't tell-a Born into rumours...

Well they gave him his orders at Monroe, Virginia, Said: "Steve, you're way behind time, "This is not 38, this is Ol' 97, "Put her into Spencer on time." Then he turned around and said to his black, greasy fireman, "Shovel on a little more coal. "And when we...

C F I saw you last night, again, darlin' C G7 And you seemed just as lovely to me C F I watched as you danced with a stranger C G7 C And you seemed just as happy as he G7 C I watched as you smiled with a stranger G7 C And since you seemed happy and gay C F I...

(There goes my everything) I hear footsteps slowly walking as they gently walk across a lonely floor And a voice is softly saying darling this will be goodbye forever more There goes my reason for living there goes the one of my dreams There goes my only posse...

A pale little boy lay there helpless On the prairie at the close of the day. "I've been shot in the breast, sir, please help me" Weak and weary these words he did say "My mother's an angel in Heaven, My daddy won't allow me to stay, So please, sir, I beg you t...

Here's the house where we once lived that I had love too much to give For the girl who said that she'll be mine And here's the room where we both slept and when she laughed that's where I wept We had love so very hard to find There's the chair that held the ma...

These hands ain'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 h...

These things shall pass and some great morning We'll look back and smile at heartaches we have known So don't forget when shadows gather The Lord our God is still the King upon his throne A rose looks grey at midnight but the flame is just asleep And the steel...

The sun goes down And leaves me sad and blue The iron curtain falls On this cold war with you Tho' you don't speak And I won't speak it's true Two stubborn people With a cold war to go through Why, oh, why should love ever come To couples, like you and me Who...

Well This train don't carry no liars, this train This train don't carry no liars, this train This train don't carry no liars Knee-high dresses, and home-brew buyers This train don't carry no liars, this train (Chorus) This train is bound for glory, this train...

(I had your love on the tip of my fingers) I reached out my arms and I touched you with soft words I whispered your name I held you right on the tip of my fingers but that was as close as I came My eyes had a vision of sweet lips yeelding beneath my command I...

To you sweetheart Aloha Aloha from the bottom of my heart Keep that smile on your lips brush the tears from your eyes One more Aloha then it's time for goodbye To you sweetheart Aloha in dreams I'll be with you dear tonight And I'll pray for that day when we t...

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

I had a dream last night I thought my good gal had gone I woke up this mornin' She really had done me wrong I know it's not fair But my good gal has done caught air I'm goin' away leavin' today I'm gonna bring my baby back If that eight wheel driver Don't jum...

Trouble in mind I'm blue but I won't be blue always Cause the sun's gonna shine in my backyard someday I'm gonna lay my head on some lonesome railroad line and let that 2:19 pacify mind Hello train hello (Goin' down to the river gonna take me a rockin' chair)...

I rode a freight train to El Paso Texas Happiness I was tryin' so hard to find Walked across the Rio Grande to another country Trying to get my baby off my mind. Trying to get my baby off my mind. They tell me that she's out in California Sometimes I think sh...

I'm always blue feeling so blue I wish I had someone I knew Just to help me tuck away my blues lonesome blues Won't you be that someone to help me lose the blues I really need someone to love me someone to kiss Someone to scold me someone to miss Won't you be...

(Drifting along with a tumbling tumbleweeds) See them tumbling down pledging their love to the ground Lonely but free I'll be found drifting along with a tumbling tumbleweeds Cares of the past are behind nowhere to go but I'll find Just where the trail will wi...

(G) Unfaithful (G7) Unfaithful, the (C) whole town (G) knows You're breaking my heart (D7) secretly (G) Unfaithful (G7) Unfaithful your (C) cheatin' (G) shows You care for me (D) so careless (G)-ly You (C) take any chance for a (G) new romance They (A7) whisp...

I'm a wonder, I'll keep drifting on Can't see, honey, why you done me wrong Hard luck sure has got me I can't sleep a wink I'll just have to face it from now on Sailing o'er the sea of dreams, no one cares for me And we're drifting oh so far apart You slammed...

Now the hacienda's dark the town is sleeping Now the time has come to part the time for weeping Vaya con dios my darling vaya con dios my love Now the village mission bells are softly ringing If you listen with your heart you'll hear them singing Vaya con dios...

Oh, those Wabash Blues I know I got my dues. A lonesome soul am I. I feel that I could die. Candle light that gleams Taunts me in my dreams. I'll pack my walking shoes To lose those Wabash Blues. 

From the great Atlantic Ocean to the wide Pacific shore From the queen of flowing mountains to the Southbell 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...

All around the water tank waiting for a train A thousand miles away from home sleeping in the rain I walked up to a brakeman gave him a line of talk He said if you've got money boy I'll see that you don't walk I haven't got a nickel not a penny can I show Get...

Walking the last mile so weary and slow It leads to the gallows from where I don't know One step every minute each minute seems as a year This parting is bitter when no friend is near If I had one wish Lawd and that could come true I'd wish I was pardoned and...

On an ocean of dreams I have wandered it seems Just wandering wandering on , Since I found the note sweetheart that you wrote just saying That you had already gone. CHORUS Will the pretty bird sing, Will the roses in the Spring Still blossom when they find th...

You said goodbye and left me broken hearted, You little knew the pain 'twould cause to me, Those days we shared, sweetheart can never be forgotten, 'Twas Wasted Love but sweet the memory. CHORUS Wasted Love and dreams of you. A broken heart, and oh, so blue....

(Way out there) A lonely spot I know where no man will go where the shadows have all the room I was ridin' free on this old SP humming a southern tune When a man came along made me hush my song kicked me off way out there As she pulled out of sight I turned to...

(When it's springtime in Alaska it's forty below) I mushed from Port Barren through a blizzard of snow Been out prospecting for two years or so Pulled into Fairbanks the city was a boon So I took a little stroll to the Red Dog Saloon As I walked in the door th...

There's an old guitar that's lonely Since the master's gone away But he's singing to the angels Way up in Heaven today He left a blue song for the brakeman And to the kiddies a lullaby To all sweethearts he left a lovesong When Jimmie Rogers said goodbye He...

When Mexican Joe met Jole Blon Si, Si, Si, oui, oui, how they carried on He held her tight and danced all night And crossed the border at daylight When Mexican Joe met Jole Blon Mexican Joe was wild and reckless He walked into a honky-tonk in Texas Looking fo...

The ballroom was quiet and empty, The band it had played the last waltz. The beautiful moonbeams from Heaven O'er lovers so softly did fall. A boy from the band saw me standing And down o'er the floor made his way. Are you wedding your sweetheart he asked me,...

In a small country town when the flowers were in bloom I found her Oh more beautiful love I know there's never been In a great big city all alone I tried to forget her And I keep asking myself over and over again Where has all the love gone where has all the l...

Whispering rain, whisper your song to me, There on my roof, my window pane, whispering rain, Drive all my blues away, Now that she's gone, I'm all alone, Can't stand the pain, Whispering rain, whispering rain. Now that she's gone, I've no lover, I look at the...

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas Just like the ones I used to know Where the treetops glisten and children listen To hear sleigh bells in the snow. I'm dreaming of a white Christmas With every Christmas card I write May your days be merry and bright And may...

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

Mmmm-mmmm-mmm-mmm Mmmm-mmmm-mmm Oh, why did you give me your love, dear When it lasted only a day Why did you teach me to love you Only to turn me away You promised that you would be true Your promise was all in vain But my heart keeps calling for you, dear...

Why do you punish me for loving you, You're counting my mistakes, how about yours? Why do you sentence me to nights of tears? Convicting all these dreams I've dreamed for years? My heart cries out behind these prison bars, It pleads to you for your true love...

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 But now that I know tha...

(Spoken) With this ring I thee wed An angel here beside me Just a moment more and heaven will be mine With this ring I thee wed As every dream inside me Comes true each time I hear the church bells chime This little band of gold I hold Will soon be on your f...

Deep within this broken heart of mine, All I find is memories of you; And I'll never get you from my mind, Can't seem to realize, our love was through. Now there's all my future plans to rearrange, And I don't know how to make the change; For within this brok...

Would you mind if I tell you that I go for you? Would you mind if my heart is beating so for you? Yes, if you should find I'm the lovin? kind, Would you mind, would you mind, would you mind? Would you care if I kinda sorta held your hand? Would you care if I k...

On a dark stormy night Not a star was in sight, The North wind came howlin' down the line, Stood a brave engineer With his sweetheart so dear His orders - to pull ol' No. 9. As she kissed him goodbye with a tear in her eye, The joy in her heart she could not h...

I just received, sweetheart, your yellow roses You tell me, dear, they mean that we're all through You tell me that, tonight your heart is broken But you should know, I was never untrue I'll place them near your photograph And as the petals fall They'll hide...

My cowboy life is so happy and free Out west where the laws don't bother me I take my troubles like a toy I'm just a yodeling cowboy At the set of the sun When my work is done On my pony I take a ride Where thr coyotes howl And the varmits prowl With my forty...

I could never be lonely I could never be blue As I go thru life if only I have my guitar and you Why should I ever worry Why should I be sad We travel along in a hurry Sharing the good and the bad Whenever I'm up, you're near me Giving me happiness And when...

You Pass Me By, and you don't even stop to say "hello". Don't know why I've learned to love you so. Each night it seems I hear you say your love will never die, I wake from dreams, You Pass Me By. When you are lonely, some day you'll learn Just what it means...

Last night by my window so lonely, As I mentioned your name in my prayers, It seemed I could hear your voice calling From far out on that ocean of stars. You whispered my name and I saw you Descending to me from on high. I had fallen asleep and was dreaming, T...

You say you decided to leave me for him, Perhaps I could stop you, but chances are slim; I just can't believe that it's over so fast, You take the future, and I'll take the past. You take the future and don't look for me, I'll be behind you with old memories....

Last night I dreamed a sweet sweet dream I thought I saw my home sweet home And oh how grand it all did seem I made a vow no more to roam By that dear old village church I strolled while the bell in the steeple sadly called I saw my daddy old and grey I heard...

Well it's easy for me to be true depend on me I'll always be faithful to you honey you just wait and see I'll never have a roving eye my love for you will never die And honey here's the reason why you're easy to love You made me happy as I could be I'm satisfi...

(Walking the floor feeling so blue losing sleep over you) I lay here at night toss and I turn longing you so how my heart yearns Honey you're the reason I don't sleep at night Just walking the floor feeling so blue smoke cigarettes drink coffee too Honey you'r...

On the raging field of battle in a dugout dark and cold Lies a soldier in tears and wracked with pain. We gathered close beside him as our Captain said a prayer, We knew his chance to live was all in vain. He opened up his big blue eyes ans smiled thro' flowi...

Nights may be long, skies may be gray, Maybe you're worried and blue. Fear not noble soldier, you've the whole world to gain, For someday your dreams will come true. CHORUS Your mother is praying for you, son, Tho' she's hiding each tear with a smile, Asking...

When the winds going down They floating on the sky The main difference between Zappelins and planes The planes cannot flying slowly The planes are bigger but l don understand Lets build a zeppelin and fly across the world I will show you the beautiful sk...