Hayes Carll

You came a ragin' At my front door You said, "Hey, I never see you no more." You broke a window And you climbed on through I could never be friends with a lover like you You kissed the chef He quit the band Now you're walkin' around with a ring on you...

You were smokin' on a cigarette Talkin' about the deficit Putting all them wild boys down Like a drunken Monalisa Or the leanin' tower of Pisa You're hanging off the edge of town I overheard Afghanistan Is safer than a minivan Left me wonderin' what to do You...

Well I hide behind my guitar like a sparrow in the night Hopin’ I might fly away anew Cause they’ll love you when you’re wrong And then leave you when you’re right Tell me baby, what’s a boy to do? Well I came to town a stranger, not knowin’ how to act...

Arkansas, my head hurts I love to stick around and maybe make it worse I got a girl out in Henrietta Her love’s like tornado weather Its Girls like this that keep me trying She goes off like and air-raid siren Come in clean leave torn apart A Bad liver...

My first hangout when I moved to Galveston was the Old Quarter Cafe. It’s the best bar ever, except they don’t have liquor, food, or customers. So, in between sets I went across the street to drink whiskey, eat peanuts, and stare at the cigarette machine. I’...

I saw you leanin' on a memory With your back turned to the crowd In that little bar on Murphy Where they play guitar too loud There were people drinkin' whiskey There were hearts about to leave It was cold as hell for Houston It was almost New Years Eve...

Well, I followed my feet all acrooss this land A tune in my heart and a bottle in my hand From the cold, cold east To the woods out west Ain't no home just lucky I guess I've seen the sunrise over the water Howled at the moon by the embers glow Stole me...

You laughed and called me lucky for having you around And you stepped up to the bar and started swaying The crowd all sang Ophelia as we drank another round Oh bye bye, bye bye baby The rain fell on the window as we watched the sailors dance You kissed my...

Chances are I took the wrong turn Every time I had a turn to take And I guess I broke my own heart Every chance I had a heart to break And it seems I spent my whole life Wishin' on the same unlucky star And as I watch you cross the barroom, i wonder Wha...

I walked the highway since I can't remember I cut my poor family right down to the bone From the shadows of hell to the winds of December They dined with the strangers, woke up all alone Chorus So dont let me fall, cause iI might not get up again Just h...

Verse 1: Thrift store cowboys, five and dime junkies Red dirt plowboys, asphalt monkeys Holy rollers, signal callers Truck stop angels, backstreet brawlers Van Zandt groupies, guitar slingers Hallelujah gospel singers Freight-train mamas, pistol shoote...

I got a woman who's wild as Rome She likes bein' naked and gazed upon She crosses a bridge, she sets in on fire She lands like a bird on a telephone wire I'm gonna hollar and I'm gonna scream I'm gonna get me some mescaline And then I'm gonna rhyme that with...

Jamie was a barmaid at the Underground Longrail Seems like every Friday evenin’ She’d find herself in Jail Not a friend this side of Houston With the time to throw her bail But she’ll be fine, she’ll be fine Spent a lifetime walkin’ Through the walls o...

The record player's scratchin' out an old and dusty tune On the front porch, on a Sunday, on an Arky afternoon We were lyin' 'round like gypsies, thinkin' 'bout goin' to town And Jimmy's drinkin' whiskey straight and lyin' in the shade Jamie's dancin' roun...

Well you like flowers and I like liquor Your way’s nice, but my way’s quicker I been watchin’ you all night long And I gotta say something, don’t care if it’s wrong I’m feelin’ outrageous Hope it’s contagious I want to spend the night with you Well I’m...

Theres a girl downtown with freckles on her nose Pencils in her pocket and ketchup on her clothes Shes a real nice girl, pretty as a plate The boys call her Katie when they ask her on a date And who knows Katie? Maybe you could be the one Theres a bo...

we used to run around skippin' school and drinkin' beer one drink and the good lord would get us out of here but now those days are gone, and everything has changed it's all been turned around, everybody's rearranged hey, hey, where did all my good friend...

Another Sunday on the corner Of the neighborhood Leavin worries right where they lie I'm just peelin off the labels And a feeling good Watchin' all this life go by There's music on the window of the record store Kids running wild in the heat Couldn't...

Well, we'd all head to Waco, for the birth of our Lord My folks and my brother in an '82 Ford We'd pull in the driveway filled up with cars Old aunts and old uncles, Lord I see stars And then we'd run to the kitchen, you know kids and their games Play fet...

Well, after all these years of running 'round Always flying high and falling down I gotta get back to the way I was Gonna turn it all 'round just because And everybody's talking about the shape I'm in They say, "Boy, you ain't a poet, just a drunk with a band...

Six-pack of something, bottle of pills Got to be a better way to get my thrills Lord you know sometime livin’ ain’t hardly enough Not when you’re waitin’ on a sign from Heaven above. Lyin’ round the house wastin’ sleep all day Everything I wanted keeps s...

Well they took all my clothes and they took all my money told me dirty jokes, not a damn one funny been alright if they'd of seen my honey hey baby where you been well i wear big britches and i walk real tall i'm eatin' sweet potatoes, if i'm eatin' much...

After all these years of runnin' 'round Of flying high and falling down Well, the time has come at last To rest my heart and ease my past I'm gonna leave these blues behind For some other fool to find He don't care and I won't mind Hide me, babe, hide me, bab...

Highway 87 is a dangerous place to be When you pissed off all the local boys and your back’s against the sea The cops all know your number Bars all know your name After six straight months of drinkin’ boy, you’re never gonna be the same And I ain’t seen...

When I'm lyin' in my bed at night, I don't wanna grow up Nothin' ever seems to turn out right, I don't wanna grow up How do you move in a world of fog that's always changing things Makes me wish that I could be a dog When I see the price that you pay I don't...

Eight line machine and a sailor's daughter Somethin' makes 'em crazy growin' up on the water Playin' for my supper six nights a week Hurricanes, Easter and New Years Eve Four tin walls now there ain't much left Lookin' like a homeless Cheers on meth Homer's...

The time has come, there is no second chance We've been drifting on an empty aching sea You were the girl I never knew I wanted I was the boy you hoped you'd never see And it's a shame that we ain't lovers We could have been somethin' so big and grand Just ki...

Well, daddy joined the Air Force Said it was a good source Danger, love, and money, but it only led to divorce Ended up in Abilene Working at a Dairy Queen Put me in the Army on the day that I turned seventeen Here I am standin' in the desert with a gun...

i keep knockin over whiskeys no ones laughin at my jokes they got me spinnin round in circles like a tin can in the spokes when i left town this mornin with a smile upon my face ahh babe i swear i never knew id end up in this place chorus: run away...

don't take me down that road again i been there once before my friend it seems i've lost near everything and i can't lose no more well dreams are made for restless hearts i should have known that right from the start that every lover plays their part o...

Verse 1: Wake up in the morning long and lean Stoppin’ at the corner cigarettes and gasoline Pullin’ down Main Street shiftin’ through gears Rollin’ up that highway they been working on for years One eye on the sunrise, one eye on the clock Come tomorrow...

Well, I’m doin’ ten to twenty In the frozen granite state And every day I go to work To stamp out license plates Everyday I got to work And every night I cry Cause every license plate I make tells me to Live Free or Die Chorus Live Free or Die Oh Lo...

Ramblin' boy you been around From Dallas to the underground High above and down below Places I was scared to go You sang it loud in case they heard Hangin' on to every word Gentle as a lullaby Firecrackers in your eyes CHORUS: And I would give anyth...

Well it’s hard to write a song When your three-fourths gone And Crazy Legs keeps pickin’ on my guitar I try to clear my head And reflect on what she said But the only thing reflectin’ Seems to be the bar A shot of Bourbon Never hurt no one So I recko...

Hayes: I never been the lucky one Watched my dreams all turning wrong They left me alone, thinking, they’d come back some day Well it turns out I was wrong Time don’t wait for anyone Now I stand here like a school kid hoping that it’s not too late Cai...

You told your mama, you told your pa Mama called the preacher Daddy called the law But it’s alright, it’s alright We did not need them anyway We just won’t come home on Christmas or any other Holiday You say behave yourself, I say I’ll try You say don...

I could be the perfect lover if you let me I could be the only thing you’ve ever known I could scream out all your lonely heart’s desires I could hold all your life’s pain inside my own I could bring the clouds for you to walk among them I could raise th...

Richey Lee was his Father’s boy Big, loud, Hard-drinkin’ bundle of Joy A walkin’ laugh wrapped up in corduroy Richey couldn’t do no wrong Grew up with a fast runnin’ crowd Good bunch of boys, just a little too loud Can’t fault a man for being proud Ric...

Take me to a rivertown where you can't tell night from day Everything's forgiven that did not wash away Where dreaming comes too easy, livings twice as hard And everything is burried, beneath the water and the stars AND HERE I am OFF COURSE AGAIN, wayward...

We've been dating since high school we never once left this town We use to go out on the weekends and we'd drink 'til we drowned But now she's acting funny and I don't understand I think that she's found her some other man She left me for Jesus and that j...

I been drinking all day for a livin' been dreaming bout movin' on Seems like every little thing I do they been putting in a country song And I saw you on the TV man is that some kind of joke You been making a killing off the shoes I'm filling while I'm s...

Oh, Little Johhny caught a bullet last night Running from the guitar store He took a left down the alley, guess he shouldve gone right Now he ain't taken nothing no more, more,more Everybody knows it's a hard time Livin' with hate and the greed Most folk...

Rain beatin' down, on a midnight moon Oh babe, I'll be leavin' soon Take me away The winds are howlin' like an old freight train Oh babe these are the winds of change Take me away CHORUS: Cause I been sittin' on the front porch Watchin' the world go...

I got all night to remember you by I got half-packed bag and a wonderin' eye Gonna love you baby till the day I die Don't worry It's just sometimes people get a little fed up Tired of not drinkin' from the lovin' cup Gotta walk on my own like a little b...

Well I'm wild as a turkey, higher than a Christmas moon Empty as my wallet on a Sunday afternoon I come around too fast, and I always leave too soon Ain't that what they all say? I come down from Memphis, with a broken down Corvette A suitcase full of me...

i drink too much and i smoke too much i laugh at all my own jokes too much im hard to tell and soft to touch and easy at sayin goodbye i broke your heart, a thousand times with wasted nights and ramblin rhymes i thought id leave, you thought behind but...

Shootin' stars and whiskey bottles all scattered across the yard I'd-a stayed back home in houston If I'd known it be this hard Oh but as it is I'm busted I broke down across the bay And I might not make December If we keep carrying on this way Pretty...