Jerry Jeff Walker

Just like the sun over a mountain top You know I'll always come again Cause you know I love to spend the morning time Like sunlight kissing on your skin I've never gone so wrong as tellin' lies to you 'Cause I know I'm only what I've been There ain't a single...

Yeah, you gassed her up, You're behind the wheel Arm around your sweet one, In your Oldsmobile Barrelin' down the Boulevard, Looking for the heart of Saturday night. You got paid on Friday, Pockets a jinglin'. See the lights of town, You get all tinglin' As y...

Thank you for being beautiful in my time That's something real to evaluate all my life For the taste with which you choose and give your life to You gave me in the forms of what you're into You stand above the lifeless shells around me And fill the emptiness t...

Take me on your magic trip Show me the world you see All I can do is set you free And grant you the right to be With the gentleness of a frightened bird As sensitive as the wind She came to me so soft and warm And nestled deep within She said she was...

About her eyes, now they're misty shinin' About her hair, it's long and clean About her face, now it's soft and smiling But you can't trace her thoughts 'cause they can't be seen When she flows by you so gently She brings a breeze that just cleans the air Whe...

You know, just the other morning I was hanging around in my house I had that new book with pictures of Madonna naked I was checkin' it out Just then a friend of mine came through the door Said, she never pegged me for a scumbag before She said she didn't ever...

As the rain ruins my alibi I'm down to tellin' you my red-eyed mind It's not the sun bright path That called me from my home It's just that fine Backslider's wine CHORUS: My momma sings out in my memory Son, don't take that black eyed shine Fight for your rig...

Hey let me tell you 'bout a girl I know Billie Courntey, she's the belle of Bandera, Texas Let me tell you 'bout a girl I know back there in my hometown She's the kind I like to go dancing with when the sun goes down One time she rode her horse into the cowboy...

Yeah, well, I picked peaches in Georgia, And I've lumberjacked in Maine Been hired and fired and been in jail, In 'bout every state you can name [Chorus:] Hell, I'm bad news honey, bad news every place I go 'Cause I'm always getting into trouble Leavin' them...

On the banks of the ole Bandera runs a barefoot child Takin' Sunday-go-to-meetin' shortcuts He's out across those open fields, down those dusty drives The hills that wear blue bonnets, they look like a print dressing gown Thru the summer rains, that pur down...

Everybody get on your feet, you make me nervous when you in your seat Take off your shoes and throw them away, come back and get them some other day Barefootin', barefootin', barefootin', barefootin' Went to a party the other night, Long Tall Sally was out o...

My life for awhile was a party, but then I finally came around Once again I began to start in to get my feet on solid ground Cause living with some fallen angel was like to burn me down To where I can see that love is bittersweet, oh, oh, bittersweet I feel l...

Well I'd already turned the lights out, almost gone to sleep When a little voice inside me asked, are you all you thought you'd be? This late night singing's just like dreaming, More like talking to yourself I don't find many answers, but the music seems to...

Away back down the line you slipped and fell behind And you never got back up, you never went on But your head looked back at what you lost If you could turn your head around it would help a lot But there you sit with the blues on your mind It keeps you stumb...

It's time for a change I'm tired of that same ol same The same ol words the same ol lines The same ol tricks and the same ol rhymes Days precious days Roll in and out like waves I got boards to bend I got planks to nail I got charts to make I got seas to sail...

Just like the weather in Texas, you put me through too many changes You don't give a damn, for no livin' man And I doubt there's one that would claim you Chorus: Hey boogie mama, rock 'n roll queen, wild and strangest I've ever seen Get your leg sweaty and sh...

Everywhere I go I hear the music in the streets People pass me by, I hear the tappin' of their feet I could get down boys, With all that's goin' wrong But I was born to sing a dancin' song But in between these lines, I see the sadness in your eyes And as...

There's not much to say for what was mine today But when tomorrow comes, I'll make my way Had planned to build a dream or two today But everything I tried turned out mistakes Won't stay down long, tomorrow is my day Casting nets, catch dreams, try for what se...

How I tried not to hide our goodbye And see you crying But it had to be Still all we had good and bad Can't make us sad But only glad that Our love was free And I'll count the times I spoke the lines I love you, I love you I'd like to say in every w...

Old man sunshine listen you Never tell me dreams come true Just try it and I'll start a riot Beatrice Fairfax don't you dare Ever tell me he will care I'm certain it's the final curtain I never want to hear from any cheerful Pollyannas Who tell you fate suppli...

Hold tight to the leather fist Watch out when he starts to twist That's what daddy used to tell them boys How to ride them bulls There's a jingle in my jeans Sore places in between I'm leavin' old Fort Worth With a push and a pull Ten four buddy come...

She likes candles and cut flowers, rearranging them for hours And as she's lost in thought, I see the girl she was I watch her standing in the kitchen, Snipping stems off with her scissors And humming out a love song, like she always does Then the flowers go...

I'm on my way - got a gig in Austin today I'm loaded to the gills listenin' to the wheels Carry me away Won't you lift this yoke from around my throat Take another toke till I cough and choke Let it carry me away [Chorus:] 'Cause if dreamin's for dreamers, we...

Champagne don't hurt me baby Cocaine don't drive me crazy Ain't nobody's business but mine.. Way down in Costa Rica Smoke my hash and drink my liquor Ain't nobody's business but mine Got the good life down in Belize They let folks do just as they please Ain't...

Well, if you're ever in Austin, Texas A little run down on your sole I'm gonna tell you the name of a man to see I'm gonna tell you right where to go He's working in Capitol Saddlery And he's sewing in the back of the place He's old Charlie Dunn, the little fr...

Hey come away to Belize with me, show you how simple life can be Long hazy days in the sun, Where it seems everyone has a smile when we meet Under blue skies and emerald seas, warm winds and those coconut trees They say your heart never leaves, once you've be...

Say you have got the best years of my life and I've got yours Who will you trust to hold your own, no one That must be your answer to my question I am certain You love 'em nice and easy to the bone Chorus: Comfort and crazy, such a smooth combination That's h...

I never live my life through other people's eyes I guess I've always been the one they said was Too tall, too late, too early Yeah, he's the one You ought to be in the circus You're having too much fun Just a one-man band, a one man gypsy circus Finding out e...

Our little dream castle with every dream gone, Is lonely and silent, the shades are all drawn, And my heart is heavy as I gaze upon A cottage for sale The lawn we were proud of is waving in hay, Our beautiful garden has withered away, Where you planted roses,...

The lamp is broken on the mantle My mind is blown and I'm turning away It's Gettin' more than I can handle It's Gettin' more than I can say CHORUS: I couldn't stay here if I wanted I couldn't stay here if I tried You were always disappointed in me Guess I cou...

A love for others shouldn't lack in courage Or shadows thicked in anger hold you down Your love is always traveling there beside you With the strength to turn this world around In your mind you're free and love can blossom In solitude you cultivate its range Y...

We've been here a week or so, Now it's finally time to go. Can't believe how quickly time has flown, Packin' up the bathin' suits, Getting out the cowboy boots, That’s a sign we must be going home.... Time just stopped for a little while, We were part of a...

There ain't nothin' in the world That can take away my memories Of my travels through the great northwestern Mountain scenery With my woman by my side With her lips like cherry wine She kissed me, said she loved me As we crossed the borderline. [CHORUS] Don't...

Curly would drive that old pickup truck Lilly would roll a cigarette They never sweated the money the made They get by just fine on anything they get Curly worked the Dobro for seven long years Always on the road not at home He told Lilly one day before it al...

Well here I sit-a high, just gettin' ideas Ain't nothing but a fool would live like this Out all night, and runnin' wild Woman sittin' home, she got a month old child Dang me, dang me They oughta take a rope and hang me High from the highest tree Woman...

It's a one, two, it's a one, to, three, yea Hey, come on in, sit down my friend, Sure good to see you again. Put your feet up, there's wine in a cup And there's no fences to mend. Haven't seen your smile for quite a while So just unwind, relax your mind Let th...

Go ahead and live your life And love it every day 'Cause if you don't, I think you'll see How it slowly slips away Till one day you wake and find All your dreams committed suicide And there you go You got a dead man on your hands Now everyone has other lives...

Yeah I used to run with whiskey Stay out with the ladies of the night 'Til the whiskey took control And left me waltzing with them witches in my mind Now imaginary bottles won't be everywhere To haunt me like before I'm not dancing with them demons, no Deali...

Well I guess it finally happened I'm tired of running 'round I thank you for waitin' on me While I was paintin' the town For years and years you stood by me Tellin' me I'm ruinin' my life I'm tired of all these honky tonks And that fly by night life Wel, toni...

Oh my dearest darling - you're on my mind tonight Now that spring is coming I see the leaves are bright But when I read your letters I remember those lines Oh no, deeper than love Oh that mountain music, it makes me think of you When I hear that mountain musi...

Yeah Susan you are a jewel 'Bout the rarest I've ever seen And I wish I could polish off all the edges Of my craziest dreams But you know the way I am There's nothin' you could do 'Cause anything you don't want me to do Say go ahead and tell me to Yeah and it...

I played the Red River Valley He'd sit in the kitchen and cry Run his fingers through seventy years of livin' "I wonder, Lord, has every well I've drilled gone dry?" We were friends, me and this old man Like desperados waitin' for a train Desperados wait...

Travelin' down life's crooked road, Lots of things there I never knowed Because of me not knowin' now I pine, Trouble got on my trail I spent the next five years in jail, Should have read that detour sign [Chorus] Detour - there's a muddy road ahead Detour...

I've been gone for so long, don't it feel good to get back home To the friends and the people that you'd love to see There's a twinkle that's in her eye both smiling as you go by They know what you what you really wanna feel Chorus: Don't it make you wanna da...

It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe It don't matter, anyhow An' it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe If you don't know by now When your rooster crows at the break of dawn Look out your window and I'll be gone You're the reason I'm trav'lin' on D...

Yeah down in Texas we got our own style We say we're fixin' to in a country mile Ten gallon hats and store-bought cowboy boots We say "Howdy y'all", they go "Howdy doo" We're laid back crazy 'cause it's understood When you live down in Texas, life is good, lif...

Took the bus out of Austin, band was all on board Everyone's so excited, who knows what lays in store Hey look out the window, there goes Baton Rouge Nobody there knows us, band's still paying its dues Yeah we're paying dues First show in New Orleans, saw the...

I'm singing about a driftin' way of life Yes it's different from the many that I've known Yeah and everyday you're bound to walk A strange new road by myself I keep living it right or wrong Now I hop a train about a 100 thousand miles Yeah and I've had good l...

Started traveling A mind to unravel Footloose tramp upon a plain Now the nights aren't warm now I'm singing a different song now Don't believe I'll ever change my way 'Cause I am a rambler Love youth of gamble Of songs that sing a rambler's blues Leave some t...

Shadows come creepin' down the alleys, Lonesome lines the boulevard Neon flickers to the rhythm of the night, But this evenin', sleep is coming hard Down the concrete hallways in this part of town You can hear the young hearts drowning in thirst for life The b...

Life is like a roller coaster It's up and down, it's over and over again 'Til it ends The way I figure it, it's grist for the mill A lesson you learn in every hard spill you take There's no mistake [Chorus:] We're all diamonds in the rough We'll all shine soo...

I make a date for golf and you can bet your life it rains I try to give a party and some guy upstairs complains I guess I'll go through life Catchin' colds and missin' trains Everything happens to me Oh, I never miss a thing I've had the measles and the mump...

count all your jewelry and your lace count all the shoes beneath your bed and while your counting all those things in your head try and wrest the sorrow from your face when you were young you courted all the pretty boys and laughed aloud with ones they knew a...

Who will walk her tonight out in the heather Who will laugh away the teardrop in her eye She wants someone to love her forever But every new love only brings another lie Empty winds you hear her say, fickle winds they shift away I don't need him in my life for...

Let the rivers rock you like a cradle Climb to the treetops, little child, if you're able Always let your hands tie a knot across the table Come and touch the things you cannot feel Fold your fingertips, girl, and find where I can't hold you Let the sun ray...

Sometimes I think about old Saturday's child And all the happy times, we were running wild I was searching for the dolphins in the sea And sometimes I wonder, do you ever think of me And I look back, I will remember all the good times All the warm days in...

Yeah now, Gertrude Was just a one-eyed gal Workin' down in New Orleans Gertrude, she's a regular pal One of them Cajun Queens Soft hearted hooker in a two bit dive A regular Saint Sadie - got just one eye Got a set of arms like a lumberjack But Gertrude's got...

Oh some times, seems I can't find the lines, babe to tell you are mine But I feel I have to keep trying, all my funky running around Just about to bring me down, oh I got to get it out Yeah I got to get it out, yeah I get so damn low, All I do is sigh and moan...

OK buckaroos, Scamp Walker time again I'm trying to slide one by you once more Don't matter how you do it Just do it like you know it I've been down that road once or twice before Chorus: Just gettin' by on gettin' bys my stock in trad Living it day to day Pi...

They call us the gonzos, the gonzo compadres Los cinco caballeros, mirado las estrellas And they call us the gonzos, the gonzo compadres Los gatos con queso, and we love our mommies We live by the mountains, we live by the sea We live by our wits, we live to...

At the start of each day I dread what I face And the race that is runnin' outside I jump back in bed And I cover my head But that only blocks out the light No my trouble's still there You know it hangs in the air I know things are comin' my way There's thin...

Well the sun went down On Easy Street She's been closed down for the winter She stopped to take a rest Or maybe push us from the nest It's just a dance that the shadows do Chorus: And it's goodbye, goodbye Easy Street Once you say goodbye, it is good...

Well I was down at the Cotton Club last night With a couple of my buddies drinking beer We were lookin' for something I ain't never seen Boys, I'm grinnin' from ear to ear When I see her long legs come walking in the door And her high heels clicking on the flo...

Some people say I'm a no count, others say I'm no good, But I'm just a natural born travelin man, Doin what I think I should, Oh yeah, Doin what I think I should. Chorus And I don't give a damn about a greenback dollar, Spend it fast as I can, For a wailin...

Well he came down on vacation, 'cause he liked the tropic sun Margaritas and the music, made it all seem fun He bought a piece of heaven on the Carribean seas He's a happy little camper in Belize He began to build a condo, but the labor cost was high His part...

I'm Gypsy Songman yes sir you'd like to hear a song Well I'll pick it for you now and play it all night long If the blues is all you see this song is what you need Gypsy Songman passing by My whole life is a song and I'll share it with you now Pickin and a s...

This song it was written down In a pea green windowless room Four o'clock and the TV's dead Wired up with nothin' to do I drunk all my whiskey I smoked all my beer I'm already gone I just got here An old hairy ass hillbilly Still up and hangin' on Mad...

At a time when my world, seemed to be swinging, Reeling out of control There were some believers, Deceivers, a few in-betweeners Who seemed to have no place that they could go It's the same old song, It’s right when you're wrong Living's just something to d...

If there's anything in this world you want Better go for yourself Learn to pick it up with your own two hands Don't count on somebody else If there's a dream that you are working on Don't be surprised If any old thing that you're counting on Just suddenly die...

This song is called harmonica talk Pick up your soul, let your rhythm rock First you roll left, then you roll right Watching them blues jumping out of sight When I wrote this song it was one of them days One of them days that never pays Looked about the...

He was a friend of mine, yeah, he was a friend of mine He never had no money, he never was satisfied But he was a friend of mine He died on the road, he died on the road He was just a poor boy, a long way from home Cause he was a friend of mine I stole away...

Just standin' on the shoulder Of a road I did not know. Turn my guitar case over, I'm gonna let my good side show. We made love on the porches, And the back roads of Mexico. We must of burned out all our torches In about a week or so. Chorus: But, I...

Hear me now and use your love to listen well 'Cause I'm trying to tell you why I know It's time for me to go I drifted into the city to sing my songs of the gypsy life Be free, be kind, be strong I sang at walls and you came down to hold my head When the concr...

Last night I was dreaming I laying drowning in a stream But in the light of day I see it's much more than a dream Life is like a river that carries you on down It's time we make like we was making tracks for higher ground I'm always taking chances and got me...

Sometimes I just wake up hummin' Feelin' like the world is right Want to jump right up and run outside And take in the morning light And feel the music running through me makes me want to dance Clap my hands and dance Sometimes it just takes my lady To smile a...

Every night I play the places Neon lights and smilin' faces People laugh and talk away the evenings while I play Ask myself, "Why do I do it?". Guess there must be somethin' to it. Getting' paid for doin' something I'd be doin' anyway [Chorus] And I'm...

As a tot, when I trotted in little velvet panties, I was kissed by my sisters, my cousins, and my aunties. Sad to tell, it was hell, an inferno worse than Dante's. So my dear I swore, "Never, never more!" On my list, I insisted that kissing must be crossed ou...

I look for trouble and I found it son Straight down the barrel of a lawman's gun I tried to run but I don't think I can He said one move and you're a dead man friend You ain't living long like this I can't live at all like this, can I baby? He slipped the han...

I fall in love too easily, I fall in love too fast I fall in love too terribly hard, for love to ever last My heart should be well schooled, 'cause I've been fooled in the past And still I fall in love too easily, I fall in love too fast I fall in love too ea...

I could live my whole life Without a phone call The likes of which I got today. It was only my wife Said hello then goodbye And told me she's goin' away. I didn't cry It was all cut and dried I hung up before I realized Turned up my stereo I walked to the win...

Spent some time up in Oregon, spent some time up in Maine And each time the ones who knew me then, now they don't know my name But there comes a time you know you realize, that there's never really anyone Who's been there all the time (yodel) you know I'm gonn...

Some gal told me today Boy you're wasting your life away You need to eat some tacos, or nachos Get some color back into your face I like to sleep late in the morning I don't like to wear no shoes Make love to the women while I'm living Get drunk from a bottle...

I've been a fool, fool hearted, stumbled once or twice You came and put me back on my feet Patchin' together all the busted pieces Of everything that I'd broken runnin' from me [Chorus:] I love you, yeah I love you Some day we're gonna travel far away We're g...

I makes money, money don't make me, that's the way I am and it's plain to see Get right for yourself, they can't put you on a shelf Live and let live, you know its plain enough There ain't a dollar in the world can make me change my stuff I met lots of men wh...

For your birthday, I thought that I'd give you A little something from me A gift you would treasure, something you'd always keep At first I thought maybe some jewelry With lots of diamonds or gold But any man with deep pockets can go and buy one of those Chor...

I spent all my money lovin' you Just like a fool - I sure was a crazy fool I spent all my time pleasin' you But now I see - I just spent it all like a fool You know how I bought you what I wanted Everything you could need I bought you diamonds for your finge...

There's no stronger wind than the one that blows Down a lonesome railroad line There's a prettier sight than looking back On the town you left behind, Nothing is as real as a love that's in your mind Chorus: Close your eyes, I'll be here in the morning Close...

If they'll play another love song And if that Miller High Life sign stays dim And if you'll keep my glass full of whiskey I'll whisper words I wish I'd said to him Just ask me to dance all the slow ones Hold me close and take me 'cross the floor I'll ge...

There was a time I was feeling so hopeless, It's a wonder I didn't cave in Kept throwing love at all the wrong people, Never to see it again [Chorus:] Oh, Lord, won't you look what I've found? Staring me right in the face Yeah' I'm through being lonely, I'm t...

[Chorus] I'm gonna tell on you Tell all the people what you do Yes I'm gonna tell on the whole round world just exactly what it is that you do, yes you do! I've got to tell how you inspect Everything I like how you reject With your law books on your sh...

Hey, I'm not strange, I'm just like you I like to do what normal people do I comb my face and shave my hair And keep a live chicken in my underwear Chorus: I'm not strange, I'm just like you We're not strange, We're just like you I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'...

Well, I'm not the kind of man who sits and complains I've always been the kind of man who likes to take a chance I have lived my life to the fullest, I have no regrets Most of the time I feel I've had the best of it Chorus: But I see life's a one way street,...

Oh these days, I'm a nervous wreck, Trying to live my life so politically correct Don't smoke here, don't you stand over there Drink bottled water, don't you breathe the air World's so crowded, you can't hardly move Everybody telling you what to do People rel...

It's a good night for singing, I got too drunk and my ears are still ringing It's so good to be here, it's a brand new day We been singing weary midnight tunes, We started at noon, it's a slip of the moon And we still got time, it's a brand new day I wonder...

Well now it won't be but a week or two 'Til you'll be out lovin' someone new Seems like it's happened a hundred times before But I can see you been spreadin' yourself too thin It's a lonely stage that we been goin' through So don't get up I can find my own way...

Janet says it looks like a rainy day today Just another rainy day As I lean my chin slowly up against the window pane It's another gray rainy day but go on try it again Try, try, try, try to get goin' But the rain comes down, forcin' you to stay inside Holdin'...

Dashing through the snow In a one horse open sleigh O'er the fields we go Laughing all the way Bells on bob tails ring Making spirits bright What fun it is to laugh and sing A sleighing song tonight Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells Jingle all the way Oh, what f...

Would you like to know why I feel like dancin' Well, I feel like I got a brand new lease on life I got my baby with me, she didn't up and quit me So we're out here dancin' just to celebrate Things have been a little strained at our house lately But we feel li...

Texas in October, is about as pretty as it gets But Texas in the springtime, is even prettier yet You miss it so much when you're gone It's hard for you to say Texas gets more beautiful, with every passing day Got a letter from my family, said they'd had a l...

Pack up all your dishes Make note of all good wishes Say goodbye to the landlord for me That sum-bitch has always bored me Throw out them old LA papers And that moldy box of vanilla wafers Adios to all this concrete Gonna get me some dirt road back str...

Last night I fell in love again and I didn't think I could I thought by now I was probably over that for good With too much on my mind, too many things to do Then last night I fell in love again with you I heard love comes in waves, each one stronger that the...

Well this might be the last song that I'm ever gonna write Cause the world seems more confused to me than any time in my life I know it all sounds crazy but, if it turns out to be true Than the last song I ever write, will be a song I wrote for you This might...

Layin' my life on the line, that's what I do all the time Well I find myself each night, facing a white light Layin' my life on the line Driving the road here tonight, my thoughts were of Susan and I Now her love sustained me, the road almost claimed me They'...

Texas this morning the sounds they just sing to me I feel alive again and with every footstep that's settin me free Hey old friends, keep alive the good times we've had in those rollin', rollin' hills They will always be a part of me whenever I think of Texas...

Well, my woman left me yesterday, Sure do need this drink My mind's so damned turned around, That I can hardly think I'd like some peace and quiet, While I drink my booze Winnin's something I ain't done, Since I began to lose Chorus: Oh please don't play...

Last night I sat out on the boat dock and smoked a big cigar Let my mind drift back along the road of life I’ve traveled down so far Started out a dreamer with a suitcase in hand A guitar on my back without a care or a plan A gypsy boy hitchhiking down the r...

Well some people take this life They keep it all up inside But me I can take the picking Hell I just let things ride When all has got you down You got nothing left to lose Just slide on boys And just lose those blues Just let it ride Just let it ride Don't st...

We held a funeral and a wake at the Diamondback Saloon With every old-time cowboy agathered in one room Swappin' tales and tellin' lies from days when they were young Fearless buckaroos who always let the ponies run I still see us behind the chutes, standin'...

Last year we went to London and Paris, Texas We went on a bus tour, the great Texas honky tonk tour Here are some snapshots about life on the road..... Let me tell you 'bout the life I lead It ain't all it's cracked up to be Of what you been told, 'bout life...

Lately I'm feeling lousy all the time I picked up my pants sat down tried to figure out why I had it whittled down to a page or two And the paper trail led me straight to you I see life's too short to put up with the things you do Spell you cast been messing...

I found comfort and courage in bottles of whiskey I swear to you friend that old high life sure gives me a scare Now I walked away lonely from those I thought would burn me I blocked up my ears so that no one should learn me But the lady beside me is the one,...

The finger picking pattern is up to you to figure out. I don't know how to explain it well enough. That's the key, though. Let your ears teach your fingers Just like they taught your tongue how to talk Little bird come and sat upon my window sill. Sat the...

Hey little man, you're quite a man, You make me smile when no one can And days when I don't give a damn, You come and you take my hand And we go walking a long, long ways, seeing what we'll see Doin' things that can make me smile, When you do things that remi...

There's a little old town called New Orleans I know There's a little old town called New Orleans I know Hey, it's alright, everything swings all night In a little old town called New Orleans I know The quarter comes alive a little bit after sundown The quarte...

1st verse Well, when you're down on your luck, and you ain't got a buck, in London you're a goner. Even London Bridge has fallen down, and moved to Arizona, now I know why. And I'll substantiate the rumor that the English sense of humor is drier than t...

Frosty breath on the hillside, see that sun goin' down Tracks in the snow to the city below The lone wolf now he's coming to town Lone wolf, he's lonesome and looking tonight Oh you lone wolf, lock up your women and hide Sneakin' down the back streets of town,...

I once knew a woman And she loved only me And she knew how to touch me, And how to turn to me She knew how to kiss, and she knew just what to whisper No need to explain how I felt about her And her it was brown, So soft brown in the sun You could blo...

Seemed like only yesterday, we first drove up that road Looking back I see it's more like twenty odd years ago We were young and so in love, with a long long row to hoe We came and went and our lives were spent up a long old dusty road When we first got m...

Love will abide, take things in stride Sounds like good advice but there's no one at my side And time washes clean, love wounds unseen That's what someone told me but I don't know what it means 'Cause I've done everything I know try and make you mine And I th...

Felt like writing a song, one that kind of rolls along One simple and true, easy to sing Little ditty about me and you, and all the things love can do Cause love comes along and changes every little thing that you do You know the secret of our happiness is to...

I'm just sitting here counting my money Wondering why I'm in love with you honey And why everybody is so high strung these days Price of living here has gone sky high But guys like me we're always getting by Babe told me, "A lean dog can run a long race."...

I watched the feather river glide Over shinin´ golden sand Struck a silver ribbon wide Held a million in my hand But beside the lookin´ for The finders always take And there´s nothin´ drives a gambler Like the lovin´ of the game All my life I´ve searched arou...

I woke up this morning feelin' like a million bucks Looked over on the pillow, there lay my lady love And I thought how much we'd grown to love the life we chose to live Ain't it funny how things fall in line, when you take what life gives Music people tell m...

Narrator: In a bar in Arizona On a sultry summer day A cowboy came in off the road just to pass the time away He pulled a stool up to the bar and pushed his hat back on his head I listened to the stories told to the words that cowboy said. He said... Cowboy:...

Manny was a maker of hats, Manny was much more than that He was the kind of guy, you and I would want for a friend Manny was a regular guy, with an old soul look in his eye He was a man of word, and true to himself to the end Chorus: Manny liked to laugh and...

Life's calling you son, time to travel on To see the world, and to learn just how to sing your song But as you go, though we love you so And may the road before you be a joyous one Right from the start, sing 'em from the heart Let every song be part of who an...

Ah to be up and leaving this town Heading down an open road To New Orleans, maybe Mexico The whole world topsy turvy, you feel like you're upside down Everyday it's a push and a shove, ah, people trying to get around Working hard, breaking even's good, to liv...

Busted flat in Baton Rouge Waitin' for the train Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans Bobby thumbed a diesel down Just before it rained Rode us all the way to New Orleans I pulled my harpoon out of my dirty red bandanna And was playing soft While Bobby sang the b...

I think I see a wagon rutted road With the weeds growing tall between the tracks, And along one side runs a Rusty barbed wire fence and beyond there Sits an old tar paper shack. [Chorus] Mississippi, you're on my mind, Mississippi, you're on my mind, Mis...

I’m a moon child Have you understand I’m not Mr. sunshine I’m the moonlight man -chorus- I’m just like the moon yeah Hanging out now High in the sky I come with the night And I’m gone in the morning light The days are uptight Controlled by the law Everybody...

Well, have I not been quite far enough How many times do you have to die now How many sets has it been Not another one, oh no And would you believe That it happens more often than not But here's to all the people That I'm not with tonight Wherever they are We...

As the morning light stretched in across my bed I thought of you, hmmmm. Remembering your laughing eyes and all we said I love you too, hmmmmm. As all my thoughts of you pass 'fore my face a thousand times, The way they race my heart I cannot say all in lines...

I'm going away to leave you, you said I'm going down that road To see what I'll see you, see what I've never known And one things resting on my mind, You said I'm off to see what I wonder I'll find I'll be in the mountains of Mexico Said I see smiling faces,...

Looking at the clock, See it's time to go Time to get movin', Take the Gonzo show down the road I told Freddy to get ready Loosen up the kit After this song we're long gone That's that and this is it CHORUS: I hope everybody here is really feeling fine Speak...

I knew a man Bojangles and he danced for you In worn out shoes Silver hair, a ragged shirt and baggy pants The old soft shoe He jumped so high He jumped so high Then he'd lightly touched down Mr Bojangles Mr Bojangles Mr Bojangles Dance I met him in a cell...

My favorite picture of you is one where you're staring straight into the lens It's just a Polaroid shot smeone took on the spot No beginning no end Just a moment in time you can't have back you never left but your bags were packed Just in case My favorite pc...

My funny valentine, sweet comic valentine You make me smile with my heart Your looks are laughable, un-photographable Yet, you're my favorite work of art Is your figure less than Greek? Is your mouth a little weak? When you open it to speak Are you smart? Don...

My old man had a rounder soul He'd hear an ol' freight train and he'd have to go Said he'd been blessed with a gypsy bone And that's the reason I guess that he'd been cursed to roam Came to town back before the war Didn't even know what it was he was lookin'...

Well it's two eggs up on whiskey toast Home fries on the side, You wash her down with the roadhouse coffee That burns up your inside, It's just a canyon, Colorado diner, A waitress I did love, We sat in the back 'neath an old stuffed bear, A worn out Na...

One night while I was out a ridin' The grave yard shift, midnight 'til dawn The moon was bright as a readin' light For a letter from an old friend back home And he asked me Why do you ride for your money Tell me why do you rope for short pay You ain't...

Thinking lonely thoughts about tomorrow Like my emptiness today At how I know that the blues will haunt me 'Til I die or rambling' sets me straight I do not doubt that you are really trying It's just that I must break things down I cannot see myself in your sh...

One year later I saw her Wearing her face in a strange disguise Carries a smile that they taught her Gives it away at the edge of her eyes And didn't I see the sunshine through the rain before She's crying and she knows it She's crying and she knows it...

Well, our story starts in Texas, where he's tempered by the heat That skinny Alvin boy believes his fastball can't be heat So he brings it and he brings it and it passes every test They're talkin' he's a wild man might be the fastest in the West Well, he's dr...

Throwing rods down from North Cumberland Left my gal that I love way back there But I'll be back some old day yes I will I'll be back some old day How bout another round Went to Texas to build me up a home Told my gal I was going to make it there on my own Bu...

Say if you're South of Oklahoma, east of New Mexico, West of Louisiana, where Papa Charles always go We gotta a little place called Texas Where the women grow on trees There right there for the pickin' good buddy Just as easy as a man could please [Chorus] Ru...

Bye buckaroos it's the end of another go round I can see by the look in our eyes that we're finally windin down To the end of the wrong long time out on the trail it seems It's time we were headed home to beddie bye and dreams I'am headed for the 0. D. Co...

Well my time went so quickly, I went lickety-splickly out to my old '55 As I drove away slowly, feeling so holy, God knows, I was feeling alive. Now the sun's coming up, I'm riding with Lady Luck, freeway cars and trucks, Stars beginning to fade, and I lea...

The other night we was having fun Seemed like the party had just begun Everybody was getting loose A couple friends I was talking to They said, whoa yeah it feels just like it used to Oh yeah it feels so fine Oh yeah it feels like 1959 Took me back to the goo...

Yea, well I spent a lifetime Just makin' up my mind to be, More than the measure of What I thought others could see. Good luck and those fast bucks Are too few, and too far between, Those other Cadillac drivers And those old five and dimers like me. You know...

The old Nashville cowboy Was burdened with time He was bent by his years And the fight with the wine With a head full of music And an old nursery rhyme A heart full of sadness And dark sunken eyes He told me they’d cheated He told me they’d stole The strength...

Old road she keeps callin' to me, Old road she keeps callin' to me, Travel on down, Travel on down, Travel on down and see. (Harmonica) 13 and 3-0-1, 13 and 3-0-1, 250 West, 250 West, 250 West to 9. (Harmonica) Lonely, so cold and blue, Lonely, so cold and...

Down the street the dogs are barkin' And the day is a-gettin' dark As the night comes in a-fallin' The dogs'll lose their bark An' the silent night will shatter From the sounds inside my minds For I'm one too many mornings And a thousand miles behind. From th...

People are saying that times take care Of people like me And that I'm living too fast and they say I won't last Much longer But little they see that their thoughts of me Is my savior And little they know the beat ought to go A little faster So pick up the te...

Yea, I used to look forward to Saturdays When me and my grandpa'd get way We'd hop in his pickup truck and we'd go to town We had a couple chores that we had to do It didn't take long before we were throughC Then we'd let the pickup truck just wander around...

[Chorus] Pissin' in the wind, bettin' on a losing friend Makin' the same mistakes, we swore we'd never make again And we're pissin' in the wind, but it's blowing on all our friends We're gonna sit and grin and tell our grandchildren About the time I called th...

Please let me be Happy to just watch you smile Oh, let me be Resting here with you awhile There is no need to Feel you have to Say a word to me Just be yourself Free within, without a sound Your smile's enough Don't speak out to tie us down Why use...

Lace your shoes with country blues Ramble down that dusty ole road Take your money down in the town Gonna get rich in the game Come on home drunk at day break You got no room to complain Chorus: Cause the pot can't call the kettle black Cause the train's all...

Harmony gets melody Orchestra gets symphony Continents get seven seas..... Boy gets girl and all you got was me and a promise I'll try to be honest I'd like to give you nothing to fear Where we could grow into a circle Big enough to understand everyone We'd b...

Got my irons in the fire down in Texas Got a toe hold in Tennessee Got my foot in the door of that California Store Now I'm up to my ears in me Chorus: Don't be concerned if the song sounds familiar Don't be concerned if it all seems the same Just be concerne...

A baby child is born along the highway A tiny little thing upon the land An okie with his dreams out on the byway Lifts the tiny baby in his hand The woman smiles a little smile of knowing And whispers something softly in his ear Perhaps a little prayer to hel...

She's a railroad lady, just a little bit shady, Spending her days on the train. She's a semi good-looker, but the fast rails they took 'er, Now she's tryin', just tryin' to get home again. South Station in Boston to the freight yards of Austin, From the Flori...

Ramblin', Scramblin' Tryin' to get my mind untangled.... Ain't never seen nothin' in the whole wide world That give more trouble than to try 'n love a girl 

Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain Telling me just what a fool I've been I wish that it would go and let me cry in vain And let me be alone again The only girl I care about has gone away Looking for a brand new start But little does she know that when s...

Take it from me it's a mystery, where all my money goes How I make it week to week, only God almighty knows Tonight's the night, I make it right, I'm fixin' to go into town Buy all the drinks, kiss all the girls, spread my charming self around Chorus: Tonight...

Well I boarded my first train in Oklahoma City Riding high on the southbound coach I'm in the dining car with my Fender guitar Cool country-western approach As I drove by the stock yard I can hear that Santa Fe song This time when I'm leaving Oklahoma Feels li...

Hey, if you want to go rockin' on a Saturday night I know a place down the river where the rhythm is right The joint is always jumping and there's always a crowd Libations are delightful and the music is loud Everybody's dancing and they're dancing in pairs S...

Yeah, I work all week just to make a draw, Sometimes I don't ride 'em at all. But I'm hooked in and I got to ride that train. When I get down in that chute, I can't keep from thinkin' about all that loot, I'm a ro-do-o de-o de-o cowboy Bordering on the i...

Even as she sleeps, she feels his restless turning As he struggles with an old dream all night long And when she awakes, she turns to reassure him She whispers to a shadow and finds him gone Way out in the barn a single lamp is burning She faintly hears a rad...

Yeah I say rollin' wheels and blackjack deals are all the same to me. Yeah traded away everything I made and headed out to Santa Fe. Laid my money down, the filly came around, She's six lengths in the lead. Yeah grabbed that money and 1 kissed my honey...

Round and round, and everything keeps tumblin' down Make a sideway move till you're standing at the edge of town 'Cause everything in this world's got you turned around How many times must we play the game of hide and seek between ourselves Speak about ideals...

You know Dasher and Dancer And Prancer and Vixen Comet and Cupid And Donner 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 him You would even say it glows All of the ot...

Well, there I am in Mexico, man, I'm sittin' on a big hot rock with the blues, Watchin' this sailboat drive by, and I'm wonderin', "Where's mine?" Hell, I know where there's ship in a bottle, I mean a schooner with a worm on board, yeah. Chorus: I think I'm g...

Being down on the corner singing for quarters Trying to save the soul of man It's heart to God and it's hand of man 'Cause they say they know Just what the good book is saying Life is to share with someone who cares Singing and saying a prayer For it's salvat...

Friends come for Saturday night Man it's nice to make up some sangria wine It's organic and it comes from the vine Oh, and it's legal and it gets you so high And I love that sangria wine When I'm drinkin' with old friends of mine Yeah I love that sangria wine...

I just came back from a lovely trip along the Milky Way Stopped off at the North Pole to spend a holiday I called on dear old Santa Claus To see what I could see He took me to his workshop And told his plans to me, so [Chorus] You better watch out, you bette...

Tonight I could wrestle the devil I feel I just can't lose Go on out and find me some fallen angel To help me with these lowdown blues She be knowin' bout the lowdown blues [Chorus:] I got me a Saturday night special In case things should get too rough I've...

There is less light and the night is longer now The air is full of something strange No more at ease, the geese fly stronger now Because they know the seasons change The gentle dove knows love is over now And wanderlust sets him aflame My heart must start to...

Sometimes out here on this road Too late to call I see the telephone My mind's a line running straight for home And I can see her lying soft and warm Chorus: She knows her daddy sings We know all that the money brings She thinks our world must be everything D...

Well, yes, I guess the blues got me Brought me pretty low this time Down to where I'm tellin' you Everything that's one my mind She kept telling me If I need to be so free Well, I can just go off on my own (CHORUS:) All she left me holdin' was time on my han...

As a teenage girl in Texas, raised on dust and weeds and cactus She first saw pictures of the river Seine From her window late at night, she'd pretend the stars were lights Of the cafes in the St. Germain des Pres [Chorus 1: ] And she longed to see the wo...

How many times in the lonely night Someone you'd like to know passed you by With heartfelt words a chance to speak But two ladies down the street Cast off that shell Don't resist the unknown Your understandin' is open-handed Hold it closed and you're alone S...

Me and my friends are getting long in the tooth After three or four decades of seeking the truth Trying to recover from misspent youth And gradually giving in to knowledge I know a picker who moved to Nepal And another buddy's got a little shop in a mall Some...

We come on the sloop John be My grandfather and me Around Nassau town we did roam Drinking all night Got into a fight Well I feel so broke up I want to go home So hoist up the John be 's sail See how the mainsail sets Call for the Captain ashore Let me go ho...

When the telephone woke me this morning, I'm sorry was the first thing I said From that point it get's a bit fuzzy, thinking with half a head Putting the pieces together, it's shocking to flash on the past 'Cause when you are known as a rascal, you can bet you...

As I walked into a run down bar The sign said a one man band He was sittin' on top of a bar stool A guitar held in his hand And the lines he was singing 'bout a memory ringin' I heard this old broken down star Singing women and whiskey you know they will get y...

A soldier rides on a train to Tennessee And half asleep he dreams it isn't a dream With each flick of the wheels a new face goes by With each face he loves he turns and sighs And he's headed home Yes, yes, he's headed home Tryin' to find his life again 'Cause...

For some kicks I went drinking, with some old hounds I ran with While you were away for the day Now the guys hadn't changed much, the scene seemed the same In the way that the night games are played [Chorus] Without you I'd be one of the ones who just stumble...

I don't drink as much as I used to 'Cause lately that just ain't my style. And the hard times don't hurt like they ought'a They pass quickly like when I was a child. And lately I've learnt how to listen To a sound like the sun going down In the magic that mor...

Well, I was standin' at a big hotel, just wishin' everybody well If anybody paid me any mind, it was hard to tell Then a big cop on his beat, took out his pistol and pointed at me Lookin' down the barrel, I swore I saw the gates of hell Standing at the big hot...

Woke up today, rain comin’ down, Wonderin’ where all my friends are now. They’re not around; no they’re not in town Used to be me on my way, Now I’m the one who sits and stays, And lays em down, and kicks the blues around. When those old blues come rollin’ ‘r...

I first ran into Stoney. . . it was a bar downtown; Was Richmond, Virginia. . . we were bumming around, Suitcase to suitcase. . . we started him talking, Finding out about the things we've shared in the miles we've been. He had a gray pillowcase full of b...

I tried my best just to stay at rest When the moon and the wind both died But you locked me in with your best friend Honey your window was open wide I escaped in time to see your man Truckin' in that bar again He was fondlin' Lucy and singin' to Suzy Suckin' u...

Here I go again, I hear those trumpets blow again. All aglow again, takin' a chance on love. Here I slide again, about to take that ride again. Starry-eyed again, takin' a chance on love. I thought that cards were a frame-up, I never would try. Now I'm taking...

I'm takin' it as it comes And you know that it comes to everyone I'm just sittin' back here Gettin' high and drinking beer And I'm just takin' it as it comes Well you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't Makes a man stop and wonder if he will or...

Hadn't slept in days and had no sense of time, My mind and body ached and I just wanted to unwind. So I made my way along a road by some cactus trees, To a little house of wood and stone where I heard she'd be. The word I heard was she could take your blues aw...

I woke up this morning, Texas on my mind Thinking about my friends, and a girl I left behind The way she held me when we kissed, the loving we've done And how I left her waving goodbye, standing in a Texas sun Chorus: I've got half a mind to call her, half a...

Well I found her in a pawnshop Somewhere up in Ohio Where I guess some rounder came up short And he had to let her go Cost me ninety dollars But she's worth much more by far Cause I never had a better friend Than that old beat up guitar She didn't look like t...

And that old time feelin' goes sneakin' down the hall, Like an old gray cat in winter, keepin' close to the wall. And that old time feelin' comes stumblin' up the street, Like an old salesman kickin' the papers from his feet. And that old time feelin' dra...

The cycle of life is here To see in all of its fine simplicity But the way we live it seems to be, Something very weird to me And I cry out For pettiness like lady's chatter Seems to complicate the matter I grit my teeth as my senses chatter For nothing g...

Eight years old with a floursack cape Tied all around his neck He climbed up on the garage Figurin' what the heck He screwed his courage up so tight The whole thing came unwound He got a runnin' start and bless his heart He headed for the ground He's one of t...

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire Jack Frost nipping at your nose Yule-tide carols being sung by a choir And folks dressed up like Eskimos. Everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe Help to make the season bright Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow Will fi...

I guess it all started, the day my brand new car wouldn’t So I took it to this dealer Recommended as a good’un He told me four hundred bucks would fix it So I asked about the guarantee He just smiled and he told me Slim that ran out last week (chorus) I been...

The Dutchman is not the kind of man To keep his thumb jammed in a dam that holds his dreams in. But that's a secret only Margaret knows. When Amsterdam is golden In the morning Margaret brings him breakfast. She believes him. He thinks the tulips bloom b...

Yeah a mile around the bend down the Ohio Comin up the river for the Sunday show There's a tuba and a banjo and a steam calliope Sittin on the deck of the big paddlewheel What a thrill it must have been play in Dixie for the folks Up and down the river on...

In a boarding house, I'd lay upstairs, And dream of how I'd live someday Downstairs there sat, a man who had A guitar he never learned to play For my thirteenth birthday, grandma bought the guitar Told me I should learn how to play And the gift she gave me c...

So that's where my head was at In a book and a funky hat On the road with Kerouac Searching for the truth Sometimes I'm amazed Looking back at a certain phase Wet my thumb and I turn the page Oh, what was I trying to prove? I just shake my head and I laugh a...

She is fixed in his mind like the picture He's kept in his wallet for years And the image has never been tarnished By the blood, sweat, and tears And to him it appears That the moon is still over her shoulder And the ribbon is still in her hair And he can sti...

Let me tell you a little story about a trip I made to Mexico, with some friends Of mine that had a pocket full of Mauis and some bad intentions.... Me and old Sue and this feller we knew went down to Mexico To have a little fun and soak up the sun And drink a...

Skinny young kid who sits in the back of the class Nobody knows his name, nobody cares to ask They just sit up front and tell him he won't go far Not knowing one day he'll grow up to be a movie star Chorus: Got to hold your head up high if you're gonna see at...

If I took a rollin' wheel And rolled it ten times round Would it travel far from here Or would it just go round Round and Round As a young boy I helped the old man Workin' in the fields And everyday, we hauled the hay To the rollin' of the wheels 'Til one da...

Well come gather around me friends of mine, While I sing to you about a minstrel band Of children in their witches hats, Painting pictures with the pipes of pan How a young boy and his sister played some tunes Upon a whistle made of tin And led me through...

We were wild and young and willing to give up anything it took To get to where we were going, you could read us like a book Our nights were hot, filled with a lot of lovers and dreams and songs And mornings mostly found us in places we did not belong But thos...

This is a time to be cautious; this is a time to be smart This is a time to consider the options, be careful with games of the heart A time for young fellas to carry umbrellas And considering the climate, you really might find it The right time to stay at home...

This song is a letter sung to a special friend of mine One who stopped his singing somewhere back along the line I wondered if he'd had enough of the rip-offs and the jive Or did he sing his song one night and lose the will to write It never was a business de...

Going gray around the temples Usually days when I won't shave Have a habit of tripping over ripples, And watching them roll in to waves [Chorus] I've been too long riding this range Running wild, without reins Always traveling against the grains And pretty gi...

From my window shadows of the buildings in the night Run like a river, broken only by city lights Running like a thousand whispered lines Broken only by the ancient railroad ties Chorus: Out where the tracks run through the city Tracks run through the city I...

Well I was raised in a sophisticated kind of style But my taste in music and women drove my folks half wild Mom and Dad had a plan for me, it was debutantes and symphonies But I like my music hot and my women wild You see I like my women just a tad on the tras...

Well somewhere the sun today's soakin' up a cornfield dry But it's shining a love song on some snowy clouds And I know my fingerprints will be brushed away By the hard plate every day of the century But the other night when you cried and you woke me up Just t...

He was born in Oklahoma And his wife's name is Betty Lou Thelma Liz He's not responsible for what he's doing His mother made him what he is And it's up against the wall, redneck mother Mother who has raised her son so well He's thirty four and drinkin' in a h...

It's easy to see that we've just a very short time So why don't we just go to the hill and climb We'll go up just as high as John T. Booker got low Yeah, singin' the songs that don't rhyme Carryin' those pennies that do shine Laughin' at the minutes that fall...

Mama said you lazy boy You better get yourself a job You can't go on living like this You know you upset your pa And can't you hear how the neighbors talk You're making me the laughing stock for blocks Playing on your guitar (you foolish kid) All you w...

There's a place I know where we all go, A little way down the road, It ain't far from here, we like to sit and drink beer, Play dominoes and tell jokes. We've been stopping by since 49, Ain't nothing fancy, just kids and ranches and Clean white shirts and jean...

Over the ground lies a mantle of white A heaven of diamonds shine down through the night Two hearts are thrillin' in spite of the chill in The weather Love knows no season love knows no clime Romance can blossom any old time Here in the open we're walkin' and...

Now I'm wanted down in Costa Rica I'm wanted on Ambergris Caye I'm wanted back in Austin Texas I'm wanted down in New Orleans Yes, I'm wanted back across the border But they're never gonna catch me there And the way things are goin' hell son before ya know it...

Was your road to Mexico, diamonds or stones Did you need that lucky piece I slipped in your hand Were you ready for the cold winds that caught you at the Rio Grande We were kinda crazy then Need'n lovers more than friends Songs on my guitar, you said were lik...

We wish you a merry Christmas We wish you a merry Christmas We wish you a merry Christmas And a happy New Year. Glad tidings we bring To you and your kin; Glad tidings for Christmas And a happy New Year! We want some figgy pudding We want some figgy pudding W...

Amoeba man, he runs from hot, wraps up from the cold, old evil man, he worries a lot 'bout how he's gonna save his soul, easy man, maybe he like whiskey, silly girl, maybe she got caught, and old lazy bones, maybe he stays home, saw more than he sought. The w...

Yeah, I'm sittin' here, drinkin' again I'm just spendin' some time with my friend Then I know that I should be by your side What am I doin' with our lives? I know that you are someplace tonight And I hope you're happy and you're all right But you know it's tr...

You ask me what I like about Texas I tell you it's the wide open spaces! It's everything between the Sabine and the Rio Grande. It's the Llano Estacado, It's the Brazos and the Colorado; Spirit of the people down here who share this land! It's another burrito...

When I had you I had things to do I never took time for you. Now that you're gone And all I got it time All I do is think of you. Chorus We never want the thing we already got. We only want what we can't have. And just like child Who's thrown away his toy,...

Well I was raised on a little farm Off a dirt road on RD#3 And once a week we'd go to town Just to see what there was there that was going down Then behind the barn watching trains go by Until the day I jumped up caught one on the fly Goodbye farm life...

On a black and white TV, in a dark saloon I was watching Neil Armstrong walking on the moon And later on I got high and climbed up on the bar I told everybody there I could fly above the stars I was in a Dallas disco the night that John Lennon died And the DJ...

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...

Will There Be Any up in heaven Will There Be Any I've got to know Will There Be Any up in Heaven Lord before I go I've got to know Well, we're on our last legs as you can see Lord so we're down to the bendin' end as they say we just wanted to check out...

Even as she sleeps, she feels his restless turning As he struggles with an old dream all night long And when she awakes, she turns to reassure him She whispers to a shadow and finds him gone Way out in the barn a single lamp is burning She faintly hears a rad...

Hello momma I'm callin' you to tell you that I'm comin' home What shape I'm in I wouldn't dare an try to tell you on the telephone I been gone so long this song seems to be fallin' apart at the seams I been makin' up heartbreak hotel so well that most of th...

I found a woman in Texas, Who liked what she saw in me Yeah, I found a lady, Who figures that maybe, There might be a chance for me Who lady who, Is showing me the things True love can do She's a woman I love her, I put none above her, She's right for...

Don't you think I know You don't want me anymore How you've turned off to me Like the closing of the door When I search your eyes For a sign that you care All I see is goodbye And you wish that I weren't here [Chorus] Won't you give me one more chance To make...