Jerry Reed

Well hello, Boogie Palace I'm sittin' here alone Listening to the music Of electric saxophones Now, there ain't no sexy dresses And there ain't no beehive hair Just boys who look like girls Who look like boys, who look like Cher I'm just a redneck In a Rock...

Tear drops fell on mama's note When I read the things she wrote She said, we miss you girl We love you come on home Well I didn't have to pack I had it all right on my back Now I'm five hundred miles away from home Away from home, away from home Cold and tire...

Staring out through the falling rain Heading lights reflecting off the highway The light ahead turns from red to green Thank God something's going my way It's been raining all my life it seems Fortune hasn't followed me around And I left a trail of broken dre...

Now this old life ain't somethin' that you live all by yourself There always comes a time you need a friend Sometimes this world can get so heavy and the road can get so long That you need someone to lend a helpin' hand Well I learned life the hard way I took...

I once was a rover. On land and on sea. Till a good woman's love. Made a new man of me. My life had no meaning. It was so incomplete. Till a good woman's love. Put me back on my feet. Now instead of roamin' I go home in the evening. And she's waiting there....

Six foot six stood on the ground, weighted 235 pounds But I saw that giant of a man brought down to his knees by love He was the kind of man who would gamble on love Look you in the eye and never back up But I saw him crying like a little whipped pup becau...

It takes A Worried Man To sing a worried song; It takes A Worried Man To sing a worried song; It takes A Worried Man To sing a worried song. I'm worried now, But I won't be worried long. Got Myself a Cadillac, Thirty dollars down; Got myself a brand new h...

I've been up and down and around and 'round and back again I've been so many places I can't remember where or when And my only boss was the clock on the wall and my only friend Never really was a friend at all I've traded love for pennies, sold my soul for le...

You oughts see Mr Jones when he rattles the bones Old Colonel Brown jumpin' round like some kinda clown Ol' aged mama she done past eighty-three shoutin' out I'm full o'pep Watch your step and help yourself Well one legged Joe jumpin' round on his ol' toe...

Alright, watch out Now my daddy was hard shelled Alabama preacher My momma was a dedicated Sunday school teacher My brother went to college and got a PHD Daddy said the only dud in the family was me He said 'oy you ain't never going to amount to a thing...

The sun is goin' down late here There's a beautiful woman on my mind Maybe I found me a ready made alibi To live my life from a poetry in rhyme If the rain should cease to fall tomorrow Then the sun would surely shine in vain And maybe it's telling me that ev...

I'm almost crazy almost crazy Couldn't go to sleep last night walked the floor until the daylight Thinkin' how it used to be when you were here with me And honey I'll live with your memory till I'm almost crazy almost crazy I've paid a million times for th...

Now, Amos Moses was a Cajun He lived by himself in the swamp He hunted alligator for a living He'd just knock them in the head with a stump The Louisiana law gonna get you Amos It ain't legal hunting alligator down in the swamp boy Now everyone blam...

I know there's a lotta talk going around today About cigarette smoking whittling your life away I've seen it and I've heard it so many times That finally it just started to prey on my mind I guess it scared me a little bit That's why I decided I was gonna quit...

Hello, there, stranger! how do you do? There's something I'd like to say to you Don't be surprised You're recognized! I'm no detective but I've just surmised. You're from the place where I long to be, Your smiling face seems to say to me, You're...

Aunt Maudie's fun garden Aunt Maudie's fun garden Aunt maudie's fun garden it's the talk of the town Aunt Maudie's fun garden Aunt Maudie's fun garden Aunt Maudie ain't never gonna live it down Well Aunt Maudie has a garden there she toils and labors Every ni...

Well if you're lovin' me like I'm lovin' you Then baby we're really in love If you're happy with me like I'm happy with you Then Cupid just give us a shove If you're thinkin' bout me like I'm thinkin' bout you Then I know what you're thinkin' of So if you're l...

Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo Livin' in a five room suite air conditioned and central heat Fourteen floors above the traffic's roar Gazin' out a penthouse view got a built-in bar a color TV too In all my dreams I never asked for more...

Well the South side of Chicago Is the baddest part of town And if you go down there You better just beware Of a man named Leroy Brown Now Leroy more than trouble You see he stand 'bout six foot four All the downtown ladies call him "Treetop Love...

Banjo man banjo man Would you play some for my friends They got the blues that just won’t end And you could make 'em laugh again With your Foggy Mountain Breakdown Kick off your boots and play for hours Banjo man you found the power to keep us smilin' So woul...

In Scarlet town where I was born There was a fair maid dwelling And every youth cried well away For her name was Barbara Allen T’was in the merry month of May The green buds were a swelling Sweet William on his deathbed lay For the love of Barbara Allen He s...

Across the river an owl was callin' As he slowly made his rounds A midnight dew was softly falling On the ground, on the ground She was standing by the campfire I watched her move into the dance And when she looked at me with those sexy eyes They seeme...

Who's that sneakin' down the fire escape Who's that peekin' through the garden gate Who's on the loose, but can't be found Big Daddy's Alabama bound Big Daddy's Alabama bound Big Daddy's Alabama bound Police is searchin' but he can't be found Big Daddy...

Well my throat was dry and it was getting late I was at this bar on the interstate When this guy with this bird on his shoulder walked through the door He proceeded to tell me the wildest thing Sir this bird of mine can sing Like no other bird you ever he...

Blue moon of Kentucky keep on shining Shine on the one that's gone and left me blue Blue moon of Kentucky keep on shining Shine on the one that's gone and left me blue Blue moon of Kentucky keep on shining... It was on the moonlight night the stars were shin...

Well now he rolled into High Point North Carolina In a 1929 Chevrolet cut down coupe Sportin' them alligator sneakers and wearin' that Real bright outta sight tight fittin' double knit and pinstriped suit He said folks I come from Hump Alabama My old man play...

I seen your clothes were missin' when I looked into the closet I saw the goodbye note ya left me on the kitchen faucet The family car was missin' and the furniture was gone You didn't even leave a towel for me to do my cryin' on After losing you this way I'll...

Well now have you heard the latest of the bully of the town He went up late last evenin' and he shot his woman down That's why I'm lookin' for that bully of the town I'm lookin' for that bully of the town town town I ain't gonna stop until I run him down I'll...

My bills are all due and the baby needs shoes and I'm busted Cotton is down to a quarter a pound, but I'm busted I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won't lay A big stack of bills that gets bigger each day The county's gonna haul my belongings awa...

I don't gamble, I don't fight I don't be hangin' in the bars at night Yeah, I used to be a fighter But now I am a wiser man I don't drink much, I don't smoke I don't be hardly mess around with no dope Yeah, I used to be a problem But now I am a careful man...

Love, oh love, oh careless love You've fly through my head like wine You've wrecked the life of a many poor girl And you nearly spoiled this life of mine Love, oh love, oh careless love In your clutches of desire You've made me break a many true vow Then you...

Oh, have you ever been down to Haiti When the summer sun was sinkin' low There's nothin' but romance just everwhere you glance And the native hearts are all aglow But when the Cuban Queen comes upon the scene They all stare like a statue out of stone And...

Christmas time's a-comin', Christmas time's a-comin' Christmas time's a-comin' and I know I'm going home Snowflakes are falling, my old home's a calling Tall pines are humming, Christmas time's a-coming Can't you hear them bells ringing, ringing joy, joy...

Ridin' on the City of New Orleans Illinois Central, Monday mornin' rail Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail All along the south-bound odysey The train pulls out of Kankakee And rolls along past houses,...

Now I'm not one to get all excited I'm seldom tense and I'm never uptight But there's one thing in this world that really makes me upset Now that's them coin machines them nickel and dimers Them out of order and them work one-timers Those nickel an dime quarte...

Looks like my whole world is coming up roses My long lonely nights at last are at an end It looks like my whole world is coming up roses Now that you are in my arms again Gone from my life was all reason for living I lost my world the day we parted I never kn...

Watch out son mmm yeah Well did you ever hear a hound dog bayin' in the hills city boy And did you ever hear a bullfrog clappin' on his gills city boy Well did you ever see a catfish a jumpin' in the stream Well I have buddy and it's a country boy's dream And...

Well now, listen people let me tell you some news I'll sing a song called the crude oil blues We're low on heat 'n' all We're low on gas And I'm so cold I'm about to freeze myself We got the crude oil blues Cause the winter time sure gets cold to the bot...

I want to go home, I want to go home, Oh Lord, I want to go home. Last night I went to sleep in Detroit city, And I dreamed about those cotton fields and home, I dreamed about my mother, dear old papa, sister and brother, And I dreamed about that girl, w...

Last night I dug your picture out from our old dresser drawer. I set it on the table and I talked to it till four. I read some old love letters right up to the break of dawn. Yeah, I've been sittin' alone, diggin' up bones. Then I went through the jewelry...

Don't you get heavy with your talkin' Just keep it easy while I'm around Don't you get heavy with your thinkin' Don't you start thinkin' you're gonna slow me down We gonna have such a good time and I can love ya so fine But just keep in mind that I ain't the...

Don't it make you want to go home now Don't it make you want to go home All God's children get weary when they roam Don't it make you want to go home Don't it make you want to go home Oh the whippoorwill roosts on the telephone pole And the Georgia sun goes d...

Did you ever lie and listen to the rain fall did you ever own a homemade apple pie Did you ever watch a child while he was praying Friend don't let the good life pass you by Did you ever hold a hand to stop its trembling Did you ever watch the sun deser...

Ain't no use to sit and wonder why babe Cause it don't matter anyhow Ain't no use to sit and wonder why babe Not if you don't know by now When you're hearin' that rooster crowin' at the crack of dawn Take a peek out your window woman and this old boy is gone...

Early in the evening just about supper time, Over by the courthouse they're starting to unwind Four kids on the corner trying to bring you up Willy picks a tune out and he blows it on the harp Down on the corner, out in the street, Willy and the Poorboys...

Baby won't you dream sweet dreams about me Let me share your love even if it's only in your mind Dream sweet dreams about me Dream of happiness and secret pleasures we have yet to find And though we're far apart won't you keep me in your heart Till I'm back in...

In the early mornin' rain With a dollar in my hand And an aching in my heart And my -pockets full of sand I'm a long ways from home And I missed my loved one so In the early mornin' rain With no place to go Out on runway number nine Big 707 set to g...

East bound and down, loaded up and trucking A-we gonna do what they say can’t be done We’ve got a long way to go and a short time to get there I’m eastbound just watch old Bandit run. Keep your foot hard on the pedal, son, never mind them breaks Let it a...

I've traveled o'er this country wide seeking fortune fair Up and down the two coast lines I've traveled everywhere From Portland East to Portland West back along the line I'm going now to the place that's best that old hometown of mine Eight more miles an...

Endless miles of highway stretchin' out before my eyes Endless days of goin' places I don't wanna go Endless nights of bein' so alone that I could cry In an endless sea of faces I don't know A million miles of road beneath the wheels of my old car A million t...

Well all day long I've been lookin' for a song I've been searchin' through my mind for that one good old man line There's a million things to say but they just don't come my way I guess everybody has those kind of days Well now everybody has those days it's p...

Everybody needs someone everybody needs a hand to hold God knows it ain't no good when love grows cold Wish I knew where we lost it wish I knew what I could do or say Make ya bring your love on home life ain't worth livin' this way Everybody needs somebody ev...

Well girl you're fine on my mind all the time fine on my mind all the time I never met a woman quite like you and all the sweet things you do Stay fine on my mind all the time My papa said someday boy true love's gonna come your way Someday some woman's go...

I hear that train a-commin', it's rollin' around the bend And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when I'm stuck in Folsom prison and time keeps draggin' on But that train keeps a-rollin' on down to San Antone When I was just a baby, my mama told...

I was walkin' down the street, minding my own affair When two policemen grabbed me unaware They said, is your name Henry, I says why sure? He says you're the boy I been lookin' for I was framed, framed, I was blamed Framed, well I never do nothing But I...

Well I was born in the Southland yes I was Some twenty odd years ago I ran away from home for the first time When I was four years old I'm a freeborn man get my home here on my back yes I have And I know every inch of highway Every foot of backroad every mile...

He was raised in the swamp in back of a slough He grew up eatin' rattlesnake meat drinkin' homemade brew Now folks here about call him Gator and everybody knows him well Meanest man ever to hit the swamp folks swear he come straight outta hell Well Gator McKl...

Georgia, Georgia the whole night through Just an old sweet song got Georgia got Georgia on my mind Georgia, Georgia, a song of you It comes soft and clear like moonlight to the pines Other arms reach out for and me other eyes smile tenderly Still in peaceful...

Oh, how I miss that Georgia sunshine Oh, how I wish that I was there To wake up every morning to the smell of them Georgia pines Each blossom's blooming everywhere My restless young heart to be wandering Far from that old hometown of mine But oh how I long ev...

Way down in southern West Virginia lived a girl they called Imogene Her old man died and left her his money he was a coal field king Now Imogene told me if you'll be my husband I'll dress you in patent leather shoes Well hello good times so long rambling goodb...

I once went a courtin'; Down in 'ol Alabama. I brought along a donkey; And a slice of salama! I saw her there a sitting; In a dirty lawn chair, And asked her nicely To watch Yogi Bear. Gom-yey-on-yo! Crying all night long; Gom-yey-onnnnn-yo!! That's...

Well I see you've looked around and found someone to take my place He paints pictures upon your mind and a smile upon your face And he's everything I've never been and all I'll never be Well good for him bad for me Yes you've been dissatisfied I've known it a...

Well it was midnight cold and rainy In the sleepy town of Fairburn population small An angry man stood out on mainstreet Shiverin' in his coatsleeves by the City Hall wall The many of a car that passed him in for an hour But they wouldn't look at him at all S...

Last Saturday night I got married And me and my wife wesettled down Now me and my wife we are parted I'm gonna take another stroll downtown Irene goodnight Irene goodnight Irene goodnight, Goodnight Irene I’m gonna see you in my dream ~~~~♫♫♫ ~~~~ Sometime...

Well I quit my job down at the carwash I left my mama a goodbye note By sundown I'd left Kingston with my guitar under my coat I hitchhiked all the way down to Memphis got a room at the YMCA For the next three weeks I went a hountin' them night clubs Looki...

Let me tell you bout a girl I know she's my baby and she lives next door Every morning when the sun comes up she puts my coffee in my favorite cup That's why I know yes I know hallelujah I just love her so When I'm in trouble and I need a friend I know she'll...

He said "I'll love you till I die", she told him "You'll forget in time" As the years went slowly by, she still preyed upon his mind He kept her picture on his wall, went half-crazy now and then He still loved her through it all, hoping she'd come back aga...

Hold tight I wanna dance with you this whole night I hope the music never slows up I hope this place don't ever close up no no Now come on hold tight Cause you're the only one who feels right Girl I know it's now or never I wanna dance with you forever So ho...

The ol' home town is sure in trouble it looks like it must have doubled It's citysize since I been gone The Neighbors all are full of killing two million people willing To die for something they have never known The city streets of drunks junk and stone A heav...

There is a house in New Orleans They call the Rising Sun, And it's been the ruin for many a poor boy, And God, I know I'm one. My mother was a tailor, Sewed my new blue jeans. My father was a gambling' man Down in New Orleans. Now, the only thing a gambler n...

Where is that tomorrow that placed in time That day when your memory don't occupy my mind That mornin' when I wake up with no regrets to find Oh how many tomorrows will that be how many tomorrows till I'm free I wonder how long until these heartaches end...

I got a gal that's mighty sweet With big blue eyes and tiny feet Her name is Rosabelle Malone And she tips the scale at twenty stone. Oh, gee, but ain't it grand to have a girl so big and fat That when you go to hug her, you don't know where you're at Y...

You left and said the test of time would tell us how we felt Well weeks have gone my love is strong but my heart's about to melt If you're not sure then please come home if only just for me And when I'm strong and feel secure again then you can leave So hurry...

Now I don't know about you babe but I know about me Baby I know that you got me reelin' I ain't sure about you hon but I'm sure about me Baby I sure like what I'm feelin' Honey you put a great big cravin' on me Showed me what lovin' was all about Your legs ar...

Just to see you there cryin' boy brings to mine All the things I've told you one time I told you she'd hurt you and leave more regret And more heartache than you could ever forget So sit there and cry boy the way that I did one time And wish you could die...

Like the pine trees lining the winding road I've got a name I've got a name Like the singing bird and the croaking toad I've got a name I've got a name And I carry it with me like my daddy did But I'm living the dream that he kept hid Moving me down the highw...

Well you call me your baby while you're holding my hand But how you can hurt me I just don't understand Well you tell me that you need me like the ocean needs the sand And how you mistreated me woman I just don't understand Well you know that I love you more t...

You know some call me a poet he has a way with words they say Hmm well why then when I try to tell you the way I feel Do all the words just slip away Or they come out sounding like dialogue from a Clark Gable movie Well frankly my dear Damn I just have so much...

Son, Well way down in the Okahanachi Swamp; Is where old lady Wiggwamp made her juu-juu juicy fruit stomp. I went to see her last night, tripped and fell in right into the alligator boo-koo-dee-doo-bamp! Put the hammer down, son! I knew right then and there;...

I'll be around in all the old places And I make believe you're with me If friends should ask me then I say I'm just fine They don't know that I've lost you and I'm losin' my mind And I'll wear a smile just to hide all my hurtin' But it's so hard to do with yo...

Well, I know it's kinda late, I hope I didn't wake you What I gotta say can't wait, I know you'd understand 'Cause every time I tried to tell you, the words just came out wrong So I'll have to say I love you, in a song Yeah, I know it's kinda strange, every t...

Woke up this morning a smile on my face Looked out at the world what a beautiful place The sun's shinin' in a blue sky above A home and family surrounded with love And I'm a happy man a happy man I won't take time to be sad I am a happy man a happy man who's...

Now folks I got this smoking habit see And I know The Habit's bad But the worse thing about smoking Is it makes them nonsmokers so mad They say if you gonna puff them things Go sit in the smoking section please They put us in a ward like a bunch of cows With t...

Folks sit around with their face in a frown and they gape at the way things they are They're happy to recieve but they hardly ever want to give Well neighbor I'm so tired of complaining so in the time remaining I'm gonna do my best to make the world a better p...

Please don't whisper love words tenderly Not occure just playing games with me If you only plan to leave me some day Then don't make me learn to care this way Cause I'm not playing games with you This time my love is really true To spend my whole life loving...

If I ever dream again Well it's because I’ll be dreamin' of you If I ever smile again Well it's because I’ll be thinkin' of you If I ever touch the hand of another woman It’s because I just need a hand to hold Some people are made to love again and they do Oh...

If I got on my knees and come crawlin' to you little girl Would you love me once again Cause I'll do anything to prove that I love you still And that I'm sorry for the fool I've been Haven't slept in a month of Sundays and I know one day I'm a gonna lose m...

Everybody tells me you're a woman with the past Quick to make a promise but your love will never last They tell me that I'm foolish to think that your love could be fair But they don't know that I'm too much in love to even care I'll be satisfied lovin' an...

My girl, my girl, don't lie to me Tell me where did you sleep last night In the pines, in the pines Where the sun don't ever shine I would shiver the whole night through My girl, my girl, where will you go I'm going where the cold wind blows In the p...

Historically speaking people are a sucker for sad songs and sad movies And uh well I would say that this song is probably one of the sadder of your songs It's merely a song about a man who has a bad back Laid back in the sack Jack On my back in the sack Jack...

Well fast talk and sidewalks They bring me down and they leave me sad They leave me sad Down home's a callin' New York City don’t be mad Don't be mad You know your country cookin' and Saturday night jukin' Ain't the worst I ever had Sand is in my shoes I love...

She's nothin' but a woman just another pretty face You can't find another girl just to take her place No use a makin' a fool of yourself you can't find a somebody else But honey it don't work that way and I'm just kiddin' myself when I say I'll forget some...

Gather round men the ones I grew up with My old friends that I used to raise hell with I've got a woman on my mind You all had your turn to cry And I was always standin' by Friends friends of mine Stand by me cause it's my time It's my time it's my time it's...

Well mister let me hear your sad and pitiful song About how this whole world picks on you How nothin' ever goes right everything goes all wrong And when you're finished cryin' then I'll tell you some news It's tough all over (tough all over) It's tough all ov...

John Hardy, he was a desperate little man Carried two guns every day Shot a man down by the West Virginia line They saw John Hardy get away They saw John Hardy get away They cornered John Hardy on the Tombstone bridge He thought that he was free 'Til t...

When John Henry was a little baby Sittin' on his mama's knee Well he picked up a feather and a piece of steel And said that's gonna be the death of me Lord, Lord, Lord that's gonna be the death of me Well John Henry had a little woman Name of Polly Ann...

Now every day you'd see him out on the front porch with a guitar across his lap He'd be a sittin' there a diggin' that transistor radio pickin' all them hit songs out While the other kids would sit around and whittle on sticks Little Johnny got his guitar down...

Someone's gonna get hurt before we're through Someone's gonna pay for all the things you do How many will it take how many hearts have got to break Just to satisfy you to satisfy you Another love another fool to play your little game Another love another...

Kentucky you are the dearest land outside of heaven to me Kentucky I miss your laurels and your redbud trees When I die I want to rest upon a graceful mountain so high For that is where God will look for me Kentucky I miss the songs they're singing in the sil...

(Ko-ko Joe Ko-ko Joe Ko-ko Joe Ko-ko Joe) Way up in Appaloosa County there's a place called Ko-ko ridge Sets a right on the bend on the Etowah River Where the water washed away the bridge Cotton Mouth Country a river rats knee high Way up around the back bord...

Take the last train to Clarksville And I'll meet you at the station You can be there by 4:30 'Cause I've made your reservation Don't be slow Oh no no no, oh no no no 'Cause I'm leaving in the morning And I must see you again We'll have one more night...

Now when I'm down and all dejected and everything's goin' wrong I just call upon my mem'ry and start dialin' on the phone Cause she knows when I'm in need of someone to lend an ear To listen to the problems that my mind can only hear And all I gotta do is let...

Woman, I can tell what's on your mind 'Cause I can see the love light shine You want me to settle down And quit all my ramblin' around Come on woman this heart of mine Just lives one day at a time Tomorrow is a brand new song And I might be a-movin' it on So...

See outside the rain it pours the lightning flashes the thunder roars Woman you'd stand a better chance at tryin' to tame the elements Rather than try to tame my soul Or think your love could ever hold to the likes of me It ain't I wouldn't like to stay live...

Little things that you do Make me glad I'm in love with you Little things that you say Make me glad that I feel this way. The way you smile, the way you hold my hand And when I'm down you always understand. You know I love those little things that...

Oh well it's long gone long gone you got my baby and you're long gone But I'll be hangin' around cause I know you're gonna put her down Well she'll need someone that's true when she wakes up one day And find you're long gone long gone You just wandered in...

Well, if you're one of the millions who own one of them gas-drinking, piston-clanking, air-polluting, smoke-belching, four-wheeled buggies from Detroit City, then pay attention. I'm about to sing your song son. Well now, I'm not a man appointed judge To b...

Chasing the night crowd out on the town Every night a new party and I'm always the clown Losing your love woman is making a fool out of me And if everyone's noticed since you've been away How I'll over do it with this new part I play Losing your love woman is...

Now Louisiana lady come down to Mississsippi won't you shine shine shine Deep water paddle wheel eatin' up the river makin' time time time Sweet harmonica music sounds so fine fine fine A carry me down to New Orleans I wanna see that woman of mine It's been so...

You're gone so long to my heart to my happiness But there'll be memories of you just as long as I live I guess Ever since you've been gone everything has turned out wrong And without your love happiness is a stranger to me I take a long walks and small talk w...

When you're sick in the bed baby you call the doctor When you run out of pills you call your pharmaceutical man yeah When you run out of grits and fatback honey You go see the fellow down at the all night Buy Right Market Stand Ah but when you're lonesome and...

Oh, what a night for romancing, Stars in the sky above This is our chance for sweet romance Let's make this a night of love Here we are together, the moon is hanging low There's magic in its silvery light It seems to say the time is right Love me tonig...

The road of love with you got rough and rocky woman And I turned out the loser of the game Because you turned out to be everything but in love with me And when a woman's been untrue it can leave a mark on you Cause I got love prints that soap and water can't...

Lovin' someone lovin' someone Found a sweet child and I'm lovin' someone She gave me life she ended my strife She made me find myself don't have to look twice When the sun don't shine and the bad times lay me down She knows how to soothe me Lord she can bring...

Spring was never waiting for us, girl It ran one step ahead As we followed in the dance Between the parted pages and were pressed In love's hot, fevered iron Like a striped pair of pants MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark All the sweet, green icin...

One fine day as I was a-walkin' down the street Spied a beggar man with rags upon his feet Took a penny from my pocket In his tin cup I did drop it I heard him say as I made my retreat [Chorus] "May the bird of paradise fly up your nose" "May an elepha...

Maybe in time I'll be over you And maybe in time I'll find someone new Who will take your place and set me free From the past and your memory But by a time baby by a time Honey I done lost my mind Your sweet love and your kisses have left a taste Time hasn't...

Way down in the state of Georgia, Through the swamps and the everglades. There's a big ol' hole in Tiger Mountain. God help the man who gets lost in Miller's Cave. I had me a girl in Waycross, Georgia, But she had unfaithful ways. She made me feel I was...

Sweet love is so fine so when ya find it Uh brother you better mind it like it was pure gold Well you better be there when that girl needs carin' Because if you don’t mind that love someday that love will grow cold Because love is like a flower you can’t brea...

Good mornin', Captain Good mornin' to you, Shine Do you need a new mule skinner Down on your new mud line? Hey, hey, hey Gonna do a little bit a new skinner blues Well, I'm goin' to town, honey What do you want me to bring you back? Bring me a pint of cold h...

Now trouble didn't motivate my presence And I don't plan on stayin' very long Cause I don't crave the big taste of your city I just want my guitar and my song I'm what you might call a transient stranger Just a foster child of yesterday Adopted by the silence...

To your way of thinkin' a promise is easy to make Because to your kind of woman a promise is something to break And a lie fits your lips honey like a hand fits a glove And your kind of woman just don't understand my kinda love The heartaches you caused me don...

Now for my first impersonation friends I would like to do for you A simple lovin' family man with a simple attitude See him loved by friends and neighbors see the self-respect he gains See him warm see him tender watch him change Now for my next impersonation...

Train I ride sixteen coaches long Train I ride sixteen coaches long Well that long black choo-choo got my baby and gone Train train coming around the bend Train train coming around the bend Oh well it took my baby but it never will again ( guitar ) Train tra...

Nashville woman sing your country songs to me Nashville woman sing your country songs to me I ain't had no lovin' since I left you and Tennessee Nashville woman let me lay down across your bed I need you woman let me lay down across your bed Cause babe I got...

When skies seem full of clouds and rain And I'm all filled with naught but pain Then who soothes my thumpin' and my bumpin' brain Nobody And when winter comes with the snow and the sleet And here I am all hungry and I got cold feet Who says why come on in her...

I filled my ol' car up with gas North to Chicago I was goin' Just drove ten miles and I turned around I couldn't leave without you knowin' I had to see you one last time And be with you once before I go To talk with you just one more time And then I'm bound no...

Please don't hang up on me honey I've just called to say That I'm leavin' and I won't be back again And asked you if you'd see me and be with me one more time Not as a sweetheart but just as a friend Not as a sweetheart for I know your love is gone for me But...

Oh Shenandoah I hear you calling Look away you rolling river Oh Shenandoah I'd love to see you Away I'm bound the way across the wide the wide Missouri Oh Shenandoah our hearts are broken Look away you rolling river Oh Shenandoah I'd love to see you Away I'm...

Oh what a woman she treats me uncommonly good yeah she does My my woman she treats me like my woman should yeah she does Well she's good as a woman can be anything to satisfy me Well oh what a woman she treats me uncommonly good Watch me now tell you bout my w...

I can almost smell the hick'ry smoke hear the fireside talk of the old homefolks See the roses on the hillside growing wild I can almost touch the dogwood trees taste the air and memories Scenes that I grew up on as a child Where there were babies runnin' nak...

On the road again Just can't wait to get on the road again The life I love is making music with my friends And I cant wait to get on the road again On the road again Goin' places that I've never been Seein' things that I may never see again And I can't...

We been runnin' away from Somethin' we both know We've long run out of things to say And I think I better go So don't be gettin' excited Oh, when you hear that slammin' door 'Cause there'll be one less set of footsteps On your floor in the mornin' And we've...

I have spent my time in goin' Never carin', never knowin' Just what it was I might be goin' to And I'd planned on leavin' you the same Just up and gone the way I came But you may have noticed I'm still here with you Yes, there's one sweet reason Why you've y...

Rock-a-bye me old Sunday chair Sing me a song was a long time back there I sat on his lap sure felt good to be Only a child on my papa's knee Now Papa would sing a little off key But he'd fill me with feelings of sweet harmony Now I'd like to hear that old tu...

I see patches of blue all the clouds drift away Your love put the blue skies back in my lonely days I thought the sun would never shine in this lonely world of mine Then you came by now there's patches of blue in my lonely sky Yesterday was gone still I kept...

Living for today is part of living for tomorrow For tomorrow's something we all have to find It's black on black at midnight so your faith must be the guide light To erase the fear of darkness from your mind You've got to pave your way into tomorrow You've go...

Well I'm the Nashville Phantom And I've been hangin' around Saturday Night Live since 1925 When the Opry first came to town I live in barnyards boxcars and freight yards There ain't a honky tonk where I ain't been Raised on goo goo bars moonshine from fruit j...

Well I've got a long black six passenger limousine A palace in Dallas a club in New Orleans Diamonds on my fingers silk imported clothes And I can tell a fast train by the way she blows Don't give me no plastic saddle just let me feel that leather when I...

Well I can see Pointer's Rock I can see it from my window It makes me think about you and the trouble you got me into Can't forget you Well it woulda been better if I'd never met you Well you had your way of doin' things that's fine But I got mine Well I hel...

Todays foolish pride could be tomorrows sad regret The one mistake boy you might never forget Which one was right which one was wrong Could it matter any less Ah but any fool could tell ya son That pride has no place in real happiness So run to her now boy an...

Come with me upon my rainbow ride Let me share the love I feel inside And if perhaps a little bit of color touches you Then you can spread a little bit of color somewhere too I would like to ride a rainbow for a while I'd paint the world the color of your smi...

Well I'm a red hot picker I'm a six string tickler I'm a finger pickin' whadda ya know Well I'm a time bomb ticker a real bumper sticker Stand back honey here I go Well I met a little cutie a real sweet patooty So I figured well I'll come on slow I said my na...

Every night I go down to this same little joint Fill up my glass till I reach the point past remembering Where the music is loud the conversation is free A dance or two with someone to keep me from remembering The fool I've been the hurt I've caused the g...

Now the Georgia courtroom was crowded Ellie May took the stand She was accusing the Reverend Joe Henry of bein' a no good preachin' man Yes she was She said the Reverend partook of my lovely body The Reverend said Judge she lied The judge said listen I’ll do...

You've got the right string baby but the wrong yo-yo No need hangin' round my door I went this mornin' by the hardware store Got a brand new string for my yo-yo Went to the doctor got the string put on He made a mistake put the string on wrong I said hey doc...

Well I'm rollin' in my sweet baby's arms I'm rollin' in my sweet baby's arms I'm gonna lay around the shack till the mail train comes back I'm rollin' in my sweet baby's arms Now I ain't gonna work on the railroad I sure ain't gonna work on the farm I'll lay...

Well old Rooster Jones got a junkyard just outside a town We buy and we sell says the sign out front by the piece or by the pound Big scrap iron piles and tore up cars in the front yard by the store But the way old Rooster really makes his money is right out h...

I am a roving gambler I gambled all around Wherever I meet with a deck of cards I lay my money down Lay my money down boys I lay my money down Yes I do ooh mercy I've gambled in Frisco I've gambled in Maine I'm on my way to Atlanta GA I'm gonna knock down my...

You've painted up your lips And rolled and curled your tinted hair Ruby are you contemplating Going out somewhere The shadow on the wall Tells me the sun is going down Oh Ruby Don't take your love to town It wasn't me That started that old c...

I knew this would happen Sooner or later I'd run into you Finally I'm happy But I can say I've missed you too Don't ask me to dance I don't think I'm quite where you are just yet Please understand I'm not ready to take that step If I do I'm sure I will regret...

As the rain drops gently on my window It's splashin' very quietly to the ground I see myself a running through the springtime With someone who I have never found And someday I know she's gonna make me happy Oh she's waiting in the seasons of my mind As the su...

Well I bet we sure look shabby to the pryin' eyes of town You in your tattered dungarees me in my hand me downs All they see of you and me are the worn out clothes we wear They don't see the rich love that we share For a second hand satin lady and a bargain b...

The man behind the grin had a weapon known as sin And he called himself the Semi-Great Predictor He would always try in vain to logically explain Why Noah saved the Boa constrictor Now Noah seems to think as they slowly near the brink Of embarking in an oversi...

I could tell you everything About the way us country lovers do our thing And honey I could tell you everything About the mountains and the country type of thing Oh yes I could tell you everything But what's the good of things that ain't no use I only like to t...

Well, I guess it was back in sixty-three When eatin' my cookin' got the better of me So I asked this little girl I was goin' with To be my wife Well, she said she would So I said, "I do" But I'd-a said "I wouldn't" if I'd-a just knew How sayin' "I do"...

She understands me and she cares how I feel And she's always there to hold my hand And somehow she knows it when this old world's got me down Yes she she understands her man Cause we've seen the rain and the sunshine together And many times she's watched me s...

It was our 25th anniversary and I was watching the superbowl When suddenly she started cursin' me Hell, I almost dropped my remote control Then she said that's that and grabbed her hat And headed out into the snow And that was almost two long years ago Now s...

Her heart has had more knocks Than a gypsy's tambourine Yet it's worth more gold Than any man has ever seen And although no one has fallen for her Like she's fallen for them She says her heart isn't broken It's only broken in She's ready for someone to love...

Well it was in the spring one sunny day When my woman left me and she went away Oh but now she's gone I don't worry Cause I'm sittin' up here on top of the world Mississippi River is deep and wide That woman I love love is on the other side Oh but now she's g...

Some people say man is made out of mud A poor man's made out of muscle and blood Muscle and blood and skin and bone A mind that's a-weak and a back that's strong You load sixteen tons and what do you get Another day older and deeper in debt Saint Peter don't...

Yesterdays Oh, how many do you wish you could relive? Turn the page and go back Oh, I wonder what you'd give? Looking back, does it seem That when you've planned And when you've dreamed You forgot the most important thing Smell the flowers while the...

So fine so fine so fine yeah My baby's so doggone fine She loves me come rain or come shine Oh oh oh yea yea so fine She thrills me she thrills me she thrills me yeah My baby thrills me all the time Sends cold chills up and down my spine Oh oh oh yea yea so f...

(Some of these days some of these days (Some of these days some of these days) Well some of these days you're gonna miss me honey Some of these days you're gonna be so lonely You'll miss my hugging you're gonna miss my kissing You don't know what a good thing...

Someday you'll call my name and I won't answer Someday you'll call my name and I won't be there For you've grown tired of all the love I gave you But someday you're gonna wish that I still care All through these years oh how I've loved you Still I know I clai...

I see you every day Walking down the avenue I'd like to get to know you But all I do is smile at you Oh, baby When it comes to talking My tongue gets so tight This sidewalk love affair Has got me high as a kite Yeah, yeah, there's something Bout you, baby, I...

Well, Son; Sometimes I get that, Sometimes feelin; Sometimes feelin' like a clown; Sometime I get that sometimes feelin' Sometimes going 'round. I feel just like a rodeo clown; Whose pants keep fallin' down, And sometimes; Sometimes; Not all the time...

I went down to the St James Infirmary I heard my baby moan I felt so broken hearted That woman used to be my own So let her go let her go God bless her Wherever she may be She might search this whole wide world over She ain't never gonna find a simple man li...

Well I hate to see that evening sun going down I hate to see uh that evening sun going down That good gal of mine she done up and left this town all right Well I got the St Louis Blues just as blue as I can be Oh that woman's got a heart like a rock in the de...

Well, I'm gonna get out my sycamore and shine up my shoes Meet my baby and tell her the news I bet my bundle on a swayback nag And I came home winner with a plenty o'swag One foot, two foot slew foot drag Swing your honey to the sugar foot rag Do a litt...

One two sunshine Everybody do what you're doing Smile will bring a sunshine day Everybody do what you're doing Smile will bring a sunshine day Everybody do what you're doing Your smile will bring a sunshine day Everybody do what you're doing Your sm...

Sweet love feelings just eatin' up my soul Drivin' me crazy Well I've got a deep down cravin' I just can't control I need ya baby Well is it the music or the dancing or the magic of the night Of feelin' you so close and holdin' me tight I don't know what's ha...

Sweet memories, sweet memories My world is like a river, As dark as it is deep; Night after night the past slips in And gathers all my sleep. My days are just an endless stream Of emptiness to me, Filled only by the fleeting Moments of her memory. Sweet memor...

Take your left foot; Put it in front of the right. Now, take your right foot, Put 'er down in front of the left. Whoa! Son, you are on your way, now; You is going to take a walk. Left foot, right. Right foot, left. Walk on down to the dry cleaners and...

(Take it easy in your mind take it easy in your mind) Well you wake up in the morning and your hands are shakin' and your nerves are all uptight Your back is sore and your head's a splittin' cause you ain't slept all night You stumble to the kitchen, you ligh...

Huh, yeah Here we come Well I remember when I was just children A time when people used to treat the neighbor like a fellow man And all their singin' and their big prayer meetin's When a man was proud to walk up and shake his neighbor's hand Oh, You talk abo...

Well, if I can keep it on the ground When I put that hammer down Then I'll be Texas bound and flyin' I've got my 10 in the wind Let it all hang out again 'Cause how're you gonna win If you ain't trying Well, now we're all back together And we're burn...

Thank you girl for lovin' me (for lovin' me) Thank you girl for lovin' me (lovin' me) I never thought that I would find a girl like you A girl to make me feel the way you do Before you came along nobody noticed me I thought that I was born to be a loner Until...

Up in the mornin' out on the job, work like the devil for my pay But that lucky old sun has nothin' to do But roll around heaven all day Fuss with my woman toil for my kids Sweat 'til I'm wrinkled and gray While that lucky old sun has nothin' to do But roll...

Your memory just won't let me be Keeps reminding me that I was wrong And without your love I just can't go on And I've learned to cry since you said goodbye And I know that I will lose my mind most any day But baby that's the price that you pay Cause that's...

They call you the bandit An outlaw untamed Shackled only by freedom You wear no man's chain Some say they despise you Well maybe they do But deep down inside them I bet they wish they were you Bandit you're reckless And you live much too hard Bandit...

Well now, listen people let me tell you some news I'll sing a song called the crude oil blues We're low on heat 'n' all We're low on gas And I'm so cold I'm about to freeze myself We got the crude oil blues Cause the winter time sure gets cold to the bot...

Yeah, I've had my share of broken dreams And more than a couple of falls And in chasin' what I thought were moonbeams I have run into a couple of walls But in lookin' back at the places I've been The changes that I've left behind I just look at myself to find...

She's elegant she's gracious a lady of the finest social set And you're the rich man that can buy her all the world And what she wants she gets You give her charge to count some cheque books Thinking that's the way to keep her satisfied But what she needs the...

You heard about the legend of Jesse James John Henry just to mention some names But there's a truck driving legend in the south today A man called Bandit from Atlanta G.A. Every gear jammer knows his name They swear he got ice water running in his veins...

The preacher went out a huntin', it was on one Sunday morn' It was against his religion, but he took a shotgun along He got himself a mess o' mighty fine quail and one old scraggly hare And on the way home he crossed the path of a great big grizzly bear We...

Ya ever drop your last dime in a public phone Have it keep your dime not even give you a tone And you beat that silly contraption with your fist till it comes off the wall Or did you ever place a call to St Louis direct And get the Civil Defense in Connecticut...

Well now Bill Jackson went to poor ol' Dub To join the Uptown Poker Club And he cursed the day he ever told anybody he joined Cause his money used to go like it had wings When he had queens somebody else had kings And every night he'd just sit there donatin' a...

Last night I slept in a hobo camp down south of Cairo Georgia About five miles out of town by the railroad track Well I eat their stew I drunk their brew and I smoked their stale tobacco I stood up to their open fire and I warmed my back And in the meantime m...

There was a time my world was so cold No one to touch there was no one to hold But now you are mine and it's time for love Baby it's time for love Life without love is the loneliest thing Nights are so long when there's only your dreams But now you are mine a...

If I could save time in a bottle the first thing that I'd like to do is to save every day 'til eternity passes away just to spend them with you If I could make days last forever if words could make wishes come true I'd save every day like a treasure and then...

I’ve been awake in my dreams I’ve never known what it means To be in your eyes with you in my mind Sharing each heartbeat of time To love you No other voice have I heard Say what you say without words Watching my air castles fall by the way Knowing I live eve...

Today Is Mine When the sun came up this morning I took the time to watch it rise. As its beauty struck the darkness from the skies. I thought how small and unimportant all my troubles seem to be, and how lucky another day belongs to me. And as the sleepy world...

Hey Sam hey Sam on the piano play me a little travelin' music Sam That woman she don't want me lord she put them misery's on me I played her Hearts And Flowers she don't wanna dance So let's have a little travelin' music Sam Just play it low and play it slow...

I'm gonna tell you a story that's all about This job I had one time as a talent scout, hmm. I had a hard day at the office and the boss wasn't in town The day this hired legged guitar picker just happened to come around. Well, he walks in my office with a...

Well every love has got two sides and a love just cannot live If one side always takes and never gives So put yourself here in my place and just think how it would be If I'd always hurt you like you hurt me Turn it around in your mind turn it around see wh...

Now, I'm a U.S. Male 'cause I was born In a Mississippi town on a Sunday morn. Now, Mississippi just happens to occupy a place In the southeastern portion of this here United States. Now, that's a matter of fact, buddy, And you know it well. So, I just c...

I ain't gonna drink no more tobacco I ain't gonna smoke no more moonshine I'm through lookin' at good lookin' women ain't gonna bother now to waste my time Ain't gonna drink no more black coffee thinkin' about her till the break of daylight I'm gonna go out an...

Hmm, from the big Atlantic ocean To the wide Pacific shore As she climbs along the woodlands To the hills and by the shore Well, she's a mighty big and handsome And she's known quite well by all She's a regular combination Called the Wabash Cannonball Well,...

I am a poor wayfaring stranger While journeying through this world of woe; And there's no sickness, toil nor danger In that bright land to which I go. I'm going there to see my Father, I'm going there no more to roam; I'm only go-going over Jordan, I'm only g...

We called it heaven and we called it perfect We called our sweet love a beautiful song So we called the preacher and friend's for the weddin' But I guess we just called it all wrong Cause now we're callin' our lawyers and signin' up papers And callin' the who...

Westbound and down, 18 wheels a-rollin' A'we gonna do what they say can't be done We've got a long way to go and a short time to get there I'm westbound just watch ol' Bandit run Keep your foot hard on the pedal... son, never mind them brakes Let it all...

Those memories that linger in my heart Memories that make my little heart grow cold But some day they gonna live again sweetheart And my blue moon again will turn to gold When my blue moon turns to gold again When the rainbow turns the clouds away When my blu...

Well me and Homer Jones and Big John Talley Had a big crap game goin' back in the alley And I kept rollin' them sevens , winnin' all them pots My luck was so good I could do no wrong I jest kept on rollin' and controllin' them bones And finally they...

Whiskey River, take my mind Don't let her memory torture me Whiskey River, don't run dry You're all I got, take care of me Whiskey River, take my mind Don't let her memory torture me Whiskey River, don't run dry You're all I got, take care of me I'm drowning...

With his pants in his hand Out the window down the alley He's travelled mountains and valleys With his pants in his hand Ole Boston town so sincere Beautiful girl young musketeer Then comes along ole Paul Revere Says hey the redcoats are here So with his pan...

With you missing you such a funny thing to do Almost lonely thing to do with you missing you Don't try to pretend that we can make it live again But we've already seen an end with you missing you Maybe time has taken from us the things that may be good ones...

Well, I had just got out from the county prison Doin' ninety days for non-support Tried to find me an executive position But no matter how smooth I talked They wouldn't listen to the fact that I was a genius The man say, "We got all that we can use" Now I got...

By the time we left Kentucky all that was on my mind Was the way I spent my trouble like a dime When we got back to Nashville things were still the same Lord my thought went back to Texas and I hoped to ease the pain Cause you fall like tree when you're cut d...

Uptown got its hustlers The Bowery got its bums 42nd Street got Big Jim Walker He's a pool-shootin' son of a gun Yeah, he big and dumb as a man can come But he stronger than a country hoss And when the bad folks all get together at night You know they all call...

The way I love you ain't no mystery It's plain to see that you got a lock on me Your puppy dog that's all I am I just follow you around cause you got a lock on me I never quite felt this way every night Every day you're always there on my mind And sayin' good...

Hey you know what girl No what boy Well I'm gonna tell it to ya like it is ooh You'll find you’re destroyin' my mind And woman I like it feelin' like this Cause you know what girl No what boy I think I'm losin' control of myself Cause woman you make me all jum...

Remember the day we first got together You were the rage in silk and leather You talked me into wearing my hair long You never could do one thing without me You told the world you were mad about me And you made my life a song Remember all the times we used to...

You took all the ramblin' out of me girl With the finest lovin' I ever done seen Now all I wanna do is sit home and play my little guitar And sing songs about all the places that I've seen Your country loving and your country cooking Done blowed my mind and s...

If you put your mind to it and you try just a little bit Well I know you could be the biggest fool of the world You had yourself quite a woman the kind you don't find everyday And just like a fool son you love her get away You wouldn't know good thing if i...

It looks like you're so busy climbing the ladder of fame Making yourself a big name in this world I guess that's all that matters you're so wrapped up in yourself That you'd better take time for other girls not even your girl But you'd better take time take t...

When you walk through a storm Keep your chin up high And don't be afraid of the dark At the end of a storm is a golden sky And the sweet silver song of a lark Walk on through the wind Walk on through the rain Tho' your dreams Be tossed and blown Walk on Walk...

Well have you ever felt turned down And have you ever felt nowhere is where you’re bound And have you ever felt like the only miserable man around Well you need somebody you just need somebody That special someone someone who keeps you carryin' on And have yo...

I know that it would make you cry to find that I had gone didn't even say foodbye You'll hate me for a while because I promised love and left you just regret But I know that I could never be the kind of man that you have in your mind on me Though you said w...

You've been cryin' again you've been cryin' again That old flame hasn't died it's still signed where it's always been Will there always be this old memory to keep haunting me For I see you've been cryin' again Won't you ever forget won't you ever set his m...

Well now who's got the lovin' I would walk a mile for And who's got the kissin' that I'm just wild for Well now who makes me tremble at the touch of a hand Well who's got the love that makes me feel like a natural man Well you've got it let's ride it sweet lo...