James McMurtry piosenki

the air raid siren at the high school blew every weekday, twelve o'clock noon "dinner time, people" as if we didn't know I guess the city fathers liked to hear that thing blow the boys were chasing the city truck spraying DDT it kept the mosquitoes...

Turned off the TV, sat down to dinner Phone rang, we were saying grace Grandma died left us sixty acres The last of the old home place Sixty acres up on the cap rock What am I supposed to do with that Uncle Claude got a eight wheeled tractor Plow it un...

Where have been? I don't want to know Probably some place I wouldn't want to go Who were you with? What did you see? Whatcha talk about? Whatcha say about me? Where have you been? I won't let it drop What were you thinking? When you gonna stop? Wh...

A Good idea 'til your will is due Is go out to that place on the Tortous Bayou Maybe get lucky, maybe get shot Couldn't be half the trouble I got Tortous Bayou, turn around Tortous Bayou, turn around It's just another night with the misses and me Fitt...

are you who you look like or are you just yourself are you somebody famous or just somebody else can you play "Stairway to Heaven" are you good enough were those songs real or did you make them up I only wanted to shake your hand equal to equal man...

Where'd you go last night? I never heard you leaving I woke up in such a fright When I could no longer feel you breathing And I could smell the rain from the storm blowing in And I looked outside where your car should have been Just a street light's gla...

Ugly pictures on the wall Traffic outbound slowing to a crawl Evening papers on the manicured lawns It never ceases it just goes on and on The people next door don't mind at all They've got 'em a spiked fence ten feet tall (chorus) In the candyland In...

Ive got it all to myself now Crack the window just a hair Dark and close, the way I like it Black tobacco chokes the air I keep to myself, I lack the language I measure out my life with coffee grounds The trees are the color of ashes In Charlemagnes hom...

Another unknown soldier Another lesson learned Kicked the gas can over Strike a match, sit back and watch that sucker burn Keep smiling for the camera Keep waving to the crowd Don't let up for an instance Stay the course and make your mama proud You'...

Aunt Clara kept her bible right next to the phone In case she needed a quote while she talked to someone In my memory she smiles while the blessings said And visions of freeze tag dance in my head She says I'll grow up big if I eat all my roast That I'll...

Strap them kids in Give 'em a little bit of vodka in a cherry coke We're going to Oklahoma to the family reunion for the first time in years It's up at uncle Slayton's cause he's getting on in years You know he no longer travels but he's still pretty spry He's...

Is that smile for me? Did You come by it honestly? Can I show you around? Can I help you tear your fences down? 'Cause I know you foster few illusions, suffer no fools You don't leave much to chance But you're out past the breakers, driftin fast I can s...

Bills are paid but it makes no difference To the gods that seem to rule our home Heat shut off for no known reason This old building's got a mind of its own I can tell your footsteps on the stairs from three flights up I know the jingling of your keys Y...

My thoughts were gnawing at me so I tried hard not to think I took a pint of whiskey and I poured it down the sink I'd get my act together, I swore it to myself I looked up at your picture and I knocked it off the shelf Every little bit counts Every litt...

He was a drinking man with a guitar problem Didn't have a dollar to his name He didn't seem to mind it all that often He mostly took whatever came And if it came too late or it came to nothing He'd swear beneath his breath There's gotta be something to...

My name is Alice Walker, they never told me why I'm not named for anybody, it's a name out of the sky They thought it was pretty I guess, way back when I'll change it some day I like to pretend, I'm Just a visitor here Like on one of those shows In a hou...

Down the highway South I'll go Wewahitchka to Port St. Joe I'm gonna walk the beach with a pirate's ghost We'll haunt that old forgotten coast I'm gonna trade my car and change my name Put Wesson Oil in my bar and chain I'm gonna fix a road kill black b...

Last time I saw you it could've been Christmas eve it could've been someone's birthday it could've been make believe for all I know it could've been make believelast time I saw you you had the room upstairs I never knew for certain what went on up there...

I got a room with a freeway view I'm only home at night I ain't ever coming back to you Or then again I might Or then again I might get lonely Then again I might not know I'm blind I got a job on a survey crew Pays enough for me I ain't ever coming b...

When I was maybe three or four The Fuller Brush man would knock at the door He'd always tell me, "Boy, you're gonna miss the fun! Time you're old enough the honky-tonks'll all be gone." Momma had no sense with cars She drove a Sunbeam and she drove it ha...