Jim Croce

Met her in the summer She was selling flowers In the streets of Paris And we passed away the hours Talking with our eyes and laughing 'Cause I spoke not her language Still I remember her Still we understood completely That our love would last no longer...

I was born to sing a good-time song You know that nothin' used to bring me down 'Til the day I fell in love with you And baby that's the day I found... You had me singin' the blues Singin' the blues But a good-time man like me Ain't got no business singin'...

Seems like such a long time ago I was walking on a lonely road Getting tired of dreamin' alone Like all the lonely people I had known Seems like such a long time ago There was no one who would share my song I was just a boy far from home But I became a man wh...

Doo, doo, doo, doo Doo, doo, doo, doo We had a quarrel A teenage quarrel Now I'm as blue as I know how to be I can't call you on the phone I can't even see you at your home So I'm sending you this present Just to prove that I'm telling the truth Dear,...

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...

Lazy days in mid July Country Sunday mornin' Dusty haze on summer highways Sweet magnolia callin' But now and then I find myself Thinkin' of the days When we were walkin' in the Alabama Rain Drive in movies, Friday nights Drinkin' beer and laughin' Somehow t...

My dusty feet have kicked the stones Between a thousand railroad ties From Boston down to New Orleans I left the girls a-cryin' But I've still got some ramblin' in me Got some miles left on my shoes And before I take a job again I'll have to be low-down, cryi...

Well the South side of Chicago In 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 Lover All t...

You big fat woman get your fat leg off of me You big fat woman get your fat leg off of me You feel so good Scare the hell out of me You got a great big leg Got a whoppin' thigh Great big leg Got a whoppin' thigh Now oooh You got a great big leg Got a whoppin'...

Big wheel, don't you roll? Big diesel, don't you whine Through the night as I'm runnin' down the road? Big semi, don't you stop 'Cause if you do I'm not gonna make it back To Baltimore with my load? Well, the truck stop's warm and friendly And the coffee kee...

Well, out of Southern Illinois Come a down home country boy He gonna make it in the city Playin' guitar in the studio Oh well, he hadn't been there an hour When he met a Broadway flower You know she took him for his money And she left him in a cheap hotel Oh...

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...

A child arrived just the other day Came to the world in the usual way But there were planes to catch And bills to pay He learned to walk while I was away He was talking before I knew it and as he grew He said I'm going to be like you, Dad You know I'm going t...

That's the sound of the men working on the chain gang That's the sound of the men working on the chain gang All day long they work so hard till the sun is goin' down Working on the highways and byways and wearin', wearin' a frown Hear them moanin' their lives...

I know a fool who blows a horn He comes from way down South Oh yeah and you ain't seen such blowin' Since you been born Like when a trombone's to his mouth He wails and moans, grunts and groans He can moan just like a cow And you ain't seen such blowin' Since...

She stood by the window and let down her hair Asked if I knew that I shouldn't be there Her lips said goodbye but her body said stay I knew I should go but I stayed anyway And they called her Child of Midnight And they say she'd love whomever she'd find But w...

Cigarettes, whiskey and wild, wild women They'll drive you crazy, they'll drive you insane Cigarettes, whiskey and wild wild women They'll drive you crazy, they'll drive you insane Once I was happy and had a good wife I had enough money to last me for life I...

Travelin' down that coal town road, Listen to my rubber tires whine; Goodbye to buckeye and white sycamore I'm leavin' you behind. Oh I've been a coal man all my life Layin' down tracks in the hole, Got a back like an ironwood Bent by the wind Blood veins b...

Well, I know that I shouldn't have done it I know that it just wasn't right 'Cause they got me back up to the Cotton Mouth River And I can't cross late at night I hear there's lots of stories told about the Cotton Mouth River They tell them time and again Abo...

She was just a country girl Didn't have those New York City ways When she hopped a bus in Ohio Headin' for the crowded streets where no one says a word She was just a country girl living in the lonely city Met a man who learned her name She became a woman on...

Don't you know, I had a dream last night That you were here with me? Lyin' by my side, so soft and warm And we talked a while and shared a smile And then we shared the dawn But when I woke up, oh, my dream it was gone Don't you know, I had a dream last night...

Well, she was standing by my dressing room after the show Asking for my autograph and asked if she could go Back to my motel room but the rest is just a tragic tale Because five short minutes of lovin' Done brought me twenty long years in jail Well, like a f...

Some people say I'm a no count Others say I'm no good But I'm just a natural born travellin' man Doin' what I think should, oh yeah Doin' what I think should When I was a little baby my mama said "Hey son travel where you will and grow to be a man But sing wh...

And you think you've seen trouble Well, you're lookin' at the man, ah ha Oh, the world's own original hard luck story And a hard time losin' man Oh, sometimes skies are cloudy And sometimes skies are blue And sometimes they say that you eat the bear But somet...

In old Savannah, I said Savannah, The weather there is nice and warm! The climates of a Southern brand, But here's what I don't understand: They got a gal there, a pretty gal there, Who's colder than an Arctic storm, Got a heart just like a stone, Even...

Hey, tomorrow where are you goin'? Do you have some room for me? 'Cause night is fallin' and the dawn is callin' I'll have a new day if she'll have me Hey, tomorrow I can't show you nothin'? You've seen it all pass by your door So many times I said I been cha...

Perhaps, I'll never show this world all I could be I just can't sing to any man the song he wants to hear And I know that some won't like me Others try to be my friend But I'm all of me and that's all that I am And if life is for the living Then why can't men...

I want to believe If you tell me so I want to believe 'Cause you oughta know That kicking is hard But the bottom's harder So I'm taking your card But I cannot get my head around it, baby I cannot get my head around it, baby 'Cause that's just not the way You...

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 t...

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...

The kind of life you're livin' since you’ve left me I'm sure is not the kind you chose That honky tonkin' world is not so flashy Bright lights and booze is all it really knows. Well, I remember when you held our baby's bottle But the one you're holding now's...

Snowy nights and Christmas lights Icy windowpanes Make me wish that we could be Together again And the windy winter avenues Just don't seem the same And the Christmas carols sound like blues But the choir is not to blame But it doesn't have to be that way Wh...

If it were just another day You know I might have stayed But I couldn't hang around To be beaten to the ground You asked me for something You know I couldn't lend You tried to make me break But it hurt too much to bend And the more I see of what used to be o...

He struggled so hard to be king Working night and day Dreaming of only one thing Never a holiday Somewhere along the way He forgot she was only a girl Now his kingdom has fallen And it's really quite a tragic tale 'Cause he built a castle to harbor his queen...

I guess that it was bound to happen Was just a matter of time Now I've come to my decision And it's a one of the painful kind 'Cause now it seems that you wanted a martyr Just a regular guy wouldn't do But baby, I can't hang upon no lover's cross for you You...

Smoke another cigarette Have another drink or two Sit by the telephone 'til morning She never tells me where she's goin' But I think it's mighty plain Maybe tomorrow she'll be back home again She wasn't like this when I met her Whatever made her change? Now...

With just a sleeping bag and an old guitar, I left the band in New Orleans I did some time with the bottle, some with the river queens I never thought I would meet a girl who could turn my head around Till I met that Mississippi Lady in sleepy Gulfport town S...

Hey love don't be afraid to stay until tomorrow Lover's dawn is waiting just this side of day If you thought I loved you yesterday I'll love you more than that tomorrow Hey love don't be afraid to hear the songs of morning Birds will sing them as they're call...

Well, things were spinnin' 'round me And all my thoughts were cloudy And I had begun to doubt All the things that were me Been in so many places You know I've run so many races And looked into the empty faces Of the people of the night And something is just...

If you get to feelin' all alone When your good time friends have all got up and gone Don't come knockin' around my door Because I've heard your lines before And there ain't gonna be a next time this time 'Cause woman startin' right now I'm gonna forget you na...

Nobody loves a fat girl But, oh, how a fat girl can love Nobody seems to want me I'm just a truck upon the highway of love I'm all alone inside of my form When ev'ry ounce of me is dyin' to keep somebody warm Nobody loves a fat girl But, oh, how a fat girl ca...

Ol' man river, that ol' man river He must know something, but he don't say nothing That ol' man river, he just keep rollin' along He don't plant 'taters, he don't plant cotton 'Cause them that plants them is soon forgotten And ol' man river, he just keeps rol...

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...

Operator, well, could you help me place this call? See, the number on the matchbox is old and faded She's living in L.A., with my best old ex-friend Ray Guy, she said she knew well and sometimes hated Isn't that the way they say it goes? But let's forget all...

Photographs and memories Christmas cards you sent to me All that I have are these To remember you Memories that come at night Take me to another time Back to a happier day When I called you mine But we sure had a good time When we started way back when Morni...

It was early last September As near as I can remember While strolling down a lane in tipsy pride Not a word did I utter As I lay down in the gutter And this pig came up and lay there by my side Not a soul was I disturbing As I lay there by the curbing When thi...

When I was a boy in the days of the train I'd sit by the tracks on a long summer day And I'd wave at the brakesman, and he'd wave back at me While the thunderclouds rolled out of East Tennessee But the dreams of a boy disappear when you're grown And though I...

The railroads and the riverboats that bred the mighty man That we read about and we dream about, the men who built this land And the farmers and the lumbermen and the men who worked the mills And the poor hard working miners who died inside the hills Whil...

Oh, Rapid Roy, that stock car boy He, too much too believe You know he always got an extra pack of cigarettes Rolled up in his T-shirt sleeve He got a tattoo on his arm that say, “Baby" He got another one that just say, "Hey" But every Sunday afternoon He is...

Used to be that I could see A reason to be happy 'cause I was free But then, recently it seems I’ve been lettin' your memory get to me Used to be that I could pretend That I wasn't really hurt back then But then, recently it seems I’ve been lettin' your memor...

Gonna tell you a story that you won't believe But I fell in love last Friday evenin' With a girl I saw on a bar room TV screen Well, I was just gettin' ready to get my hat When she caught my eye and I put it back And I ordered myself couple o' more shots and...

Sometimes I think about our good old high school days You would always kid about my adolescent ways Oh, Mary, Mary, good to see you too Haven't seen to many of the old crew The time just flew, and how are you? Strange we should meet here Seeing off our friend...

I drive a broke down rig on 'May-Pop' tires Forty foot of overload A lot of people say that I'm crazy Because I don't know how to take it slow I got a broomstick on the throttle I got her opened up and head right down Nonstop back to Dallas Poppin' them West...

Spin, spin, spin Spin around, spin around The harlequin dances In a costume of green Spin around But under his makeup His age can't be seen Spin around But where are you spinnin' When will you know That life is for livin' That it isn't a show? Spin, spin, s...

Well, I got my mail late last night A letter from a girl who found the time to write To her lonesome boy somewhere in the night She sent me a railroad ticket too To take me to her loving arms and the big steel rail Gonna carry me home to the one I love...

It's been too many years inside this prison Too many years just for one little fight He got what was comin' and I think I served enough time, I'm goin' home tonight That stone looks mighty cold and the guard That walks that wall is just waitin' to get a convi...

Sun come up in the morning Blues 'round my head I've got a troubled mind And plenty of time to roam As I walk this crooked highway Never knowin' where to go You know the only life I know Is bein' on the road I've got holes in my shoes that I fill with paper...

Hear the bells ring six o'clock In three more hours i must go And catch that train out of colorado Head for the texas rodeo Hear the bells ring seven o'clock Wish i could stay here in your arms And hold you tight like i did last night And never forget...

Four-and-twenty virgins come down from Inverness, And when the Ball was over, there were four-and-twenty less, Singin' balls to your partner, your ass against the wall, If ya never been had on a Saturday night, ya never been had at all.. There was doin' in t...

You may talk of gin and beer When you're stationed way out here An' you're sent to penny fights an' Aldershot it But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work for water An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it. Now in Inja's sunny clime...

Where there is a dream there is a hope for you Where there is a love there is a way Coming from the edges of the night to you Coming from the edges of your day Waiting in all your towers, keeping all my flowers If you need me come close now and receive me...

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...

I'm a dreamer by nature and I've always been tryin' To dream myself out of this world that I'm in In my dreams I escape all the troubles around And it hasn't cost a penny for the pleasures I've found What is the part that I'll play today Beggar, a business ma...

Pickin' wasn't easy Kept you brown and thin Been a child for every season That the fruit was on the limb Pack the truck Maria Tell the kids, we're off again Cross a dozen states or more We'll teach 'em what we can Teach 'em what we can We can't do m...

The last face that I looked on Can't recall too much about The image of it left me Each time the lights went out The last mind that I wandered I remember how I ran Just to find the road had ended Just where it began The next man that I marry There ain't nothi...

Once we were lovers but somehow things have changed Now we're just lonely people tryin' to forget each other's names Now we're just lonely people tryin' to forget each other's names What came between us? Maybe we were just too young to know But now and then I...

This land is your land This land is my land From California to the New York Island From the redwood forest To the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me As I was walking that ribbon of highway I saw above me that golden skyway I saw below me the...

Well it started out just like a dream And like a dream I knew that what we had, Would have to end Cuz I was lookin' for a, Lifetime lover and, You were lookin' for a friend Someone to be there After all your night time lovers had gone, The way they came Someo...

If I could save time in a bottle The first thing that I'd like to do Is to save every day till 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 an...

Well, I'm sorry for the things that I told you But words only go so far and if I had my way I would reach into heaven And I'd pull down a star for a present And I'd make you a chain out of diamonds And pearls from a summer sea But all I can give you is a kiss...

Well, if you're lookin' for a good time Look hard as you want but you ain't gonna find The kinda good time you will Come every Friday, Saturday evening at the Top Hat Bar and Grille Well at the Top Hat Bar and Grille There is a waitress name of Lil Well, she'...

I'm not a dream Not an angel I'm a man You're not a queen, You're a woman, Take my hand We'll make a space In the lives that we planned And here I'll stay Until it's time for me to go We were different, Worlds apart Not the same We laughed and played At the...

I'd like to think about her and the way she used to love me But I just can't live without her 'cause her arms are not around me And the season's getting later and my body's getting colder And the vespers ring and I'm all alone, without my love beside me She'd...

I'm walkin' back to Georgia And I hope, she will take me back Nothin' in my pockets And all I own is upon my back But she's the girl who said she loved me On that hot dusty Macon road And if she's still around, I'm gonna settle down With that hard lovin' Geor...

How come we can't talk the way we used to do? Nothing seems to be the same Have we forgotten all the things we knew Was it you or I who changed? We got to find the answer, let the secrets fly Enough of telling stories and our well meaning lies Things don't se...

There's ice and snow on the northern roads And the Jersey Pike is closed Have to go and do some drivin' tonight They say I'd be a fool if I would ride those icy roads But a little storm ain't stoppin' me tonight I'm gonna wear out the turnpike Rack up t...

Tell me, what do people do When there ain't nothin' to do? When there's nobody else around to do Nothin' with or to Have you ever been in that position in a small town motel room Where the diners all close at nine And the trucks keep a rollin' by And you just...

Oh my room will always have some people You see Johnny Carson is a friend of mine And my music box will always play me something If something's what I need to ease my mind Take what you want I'll feel much better Don't hang around Till I get myself together Yo...

Which way are you goin'? Which side will you be on? Will you stand and watch while all the seeds of Cain are sown? Will you stand with those who say that His will be done? One hand on the Bible, one hand on the gun One hand on the Bible, one hand on the gun W...

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...

Uptown got it's hustlers The bowery got it's 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's stronger than a country horse And when the bad folks all get together at night You know they al...