John Prine

Darling, I can see the clouds around you And in your heart I know a sorrow grows But if you weep I'll be right here to hold you 'Til each tear you cry becomes a rose Dearest love, I know your heart been shattered And all my words can offer no relief But my lo...

By a fountain back in Rome I fell in love with you In a small cafe in Athens You said you loved me too And it was April in Paris when I first held you close to me Rome, Georgia, Athens, Texas And Paris, Tennessee No, we're not the jet set We're the old Chevro...

It was the third of July on a cool cloudy sky I set in for a storm in the makin' I relaxed as I sat up in our three room flat while my wife was in the kitchen bakin' Thoughts passed through my mind of no special kind Like faces that look like the others Tomorr...

Wanda had a baby in nineteen fifty one. The father was stranger and a stranger was the son. Call that child James Lewis, call these rooms a home. Changing all them diapers polish all that chrome. C'mon, baby, spend the night with me All around the schoolyard...

This nine pound hammer Is a little too heavy Buddy for my size Buddy for my size So I'm going on the mountain Just to see my baby And I ain't coming back No I ain't coming back Chorus: Roll on buddy Don't you roll so slow Well, tell me how can I r...

Time was once just a clock to me And life was just a book a biography Success was something you just had to be And I would spend myself unknowingly And you know that I could have me a million more friends And all I'd have to lose is my point of view But I had...

Pretty paper Pretty ribbons of blue. Man oh man, I just love Christmas it's just so darn neat. I kinda wish every day was Christmas, Except Christmas eve and the Fourth of July. We wouldn't want to miss out on the fireworks, would we? When I was a kid, we use...

He's a star But he didn't get as far As those who idolized his ways and means To prepare themselves To be better human beings Well they understood more than he had meant to say In his day But that's O.K. She's a jewel But her tactics are so cruel And her past...

He's just a small fry. A bit too gun shy. To have his heart touched without a glove He looks at strangers as potential dangers Trying to Steal his aimless love. Love has no mind. It can't spell unkind. It's never seen a heart shaped like a Valentine For if lo...

I'm a walkin' down the street like Lucky Larue Got my hand in my pocket I'm thinkin' 'bout you I ain't hurtin' nobody I ain't hurtin' no one There's three hundred men in the state of Tennessee They're waiting to die, they won't never be free I ain't hurtin' n...

You've got a life somewhere without me I've gone on without you Hasn't been easy getting used to being lonely And tonight is an all night blue And I wonder how you look Who looks at you in your nightgown I can almost feel your body Your warm and loving body w...

I wish you love And happiness I guess I wish you All the best I wish you don't Do like I do And ever fall in love with Someone like you Cause if you fell Just like I did You'd probably walk around the block Like a little kid. But kids don't know They can only...

Love gives Love takes It takes a lot of lucky breaks Lucky strikes Lucky stars I don't know how I got this far Who knows where it's coming from Or where it's going to Can I go all the way with you? You have your way You have your doubts The falling in The fal...

I am an old woman Named after my mother An old man is another Child who's grown old If dreams were thunder Lightning was desire This old house it would've burned down A long time ago Make me an angel That flies from Montgomery Make me a poster Of an old rode...

February morning, my car won't start today I turned the key at 8:03 and the battery passed away Inside a' my automobile I want my automobile I want my automobile I want to drive it all around this world Bride's gettin' married in the Springtime Widow's gettin...

I could be as happy as a sardine in a can Long as I got my woman I could run stark naked and live in and old oak tree Just as long as she's with me My woman. The cannibals can catch me and fry me in a pan Long as I got my woman I could get the electric chair...

You may go to college. You may go to school You might drive a pink Cadillac But don't you be nobody's fool Come back, baby. Come back. Come back, baby. Come back. Come back, baby. I want to play house with you Listen to me baby. What I'm talking about Come...

Well it's sure good to see you But my how you've changed Since the last time I saw you Girl you've been rearranged I always said your people Were just like my kin When I was down and out They would always take me in Chorus: Oh I love you my Baby Ruth Never li...

You didn't know I wasn't free When you fell in love with me And with all your young heart you learned to care It brought you shame and disgrace The world has tumbled in your face 'Cause they call our love a back street affair They say I wrecked your home, You...

John Prine - Bad Boy Lyrics Artist: John Prine Album: German Afternoons Genre: Country Heyo! SONGLYRICS just got interactive. Highlight. Review: RIFF-it. RIFF-it good. Send "Bad Boy" Ringtone to your Mobile Listen while you read! I've been a bad boy, I've be...

I threw a party. Nobody came. I bought all the tickets. They cancelled the game. I give you my picture. It didn't fit your frame Be my friend tonight Be my friend tonight. Be my friend tonight. Ill sleep on the couch. You can leave on that light. Well, I won'...

Way up on Bear Creek, Watching the sun go down. Way up on Bear Creek, Watching the sun go down. Well it makes me feel like I'm on my last go 'round. The water up on Bear Creek, Tastes like cherry wine. The water up on Bear Creek, Tastes like cherry wine. One...

Some of us spend hours In front of a Friday night mirror Trying to understand the kinda world where the beautiful prosper Slicking up the kinda hair That the magazine's say's a lost cause Picking out the kinda girl in your mind To go walking with you Yesterda...

It started out when she was small She was premature She wasn't nothing at all Two pounds six ounces A little pumpkin seed But she got more love Than you ever gonna need [Chorus] She got big fat love She got big fat love She don't eat enough To keep her alive...

Billy the bum lived by the thumb And sang of the hobo's delight He'd prove he could run Twice as fast as the sun By losing his shadow at night Now he loved every girl In this curly headed world But no one will know it seems For two twisted legs and a childhood...

Side by side we'll roll along, sweetheart you and I And to you I'll sing this song as the years go passing by I may be good or I may be bad but you never frown I couldn't find a sweeter pal if I'd searched the whole world around Blue eyed Elaine you're th...

[JP] I'm calling to tell you it’s over Yes darling, you're now free to go. You're saying you're sorry you hurt me But you hurt me much more than you know. [MW] You're asking me where this call comes from Oh, I hope that you won't end up here. If your new roma...

Feelings are strange Especially when they come true And I had a feeling You'd be leaving soon So I tried to rearrange All my emotions But it seems the same No matter what I do. [Chorus] Blue umbrella Rest upon my shoulder Hide the pain While the rain Makes u...

My heart's in the ice house come hill or come valley Like a long ago Sunday when I walked through the alley On a cold winter's morning to a church house just to shovel some snow. I heard sirens on the train track howl naked gettin' nuder, An altar boy's been...

Well, the moon is yellow and the people are too They roll eggs on a bar-b-que I was feeling kinda cocky with a head full of sake Down in Chinatown There was dragons flyin' kites high above the stores Dead fish heads laying on the floor I got a sideways hickey...

It was Christmas in prison and the food was real good We has turkey and pistols carved out of wood I dream of her always even when I don't dream Her name's on my tongue and her blood's in my strings Wait a while eternity Old Mother Nature's got nothin' on me...

I'm goin' down to the Greyhound Station, gonna get a ticket to ride Gonna find that lady with two or three kids and sit down by her side Ride 'til the sun comes up and down around me 'bout two or three times Smokin' cigarettes in the last seat Tryin' to hide m...

Clocks and spoons and empty rooms It's raining out tonight What a way to end a day By turnin' out the light Shoot the moon right between the eyes I'm sending most of me to sunny country side Runnin' through sky of blue rollin' in the sun Every day has a way o...

The last time that I saw her She was standing in the rain With her overcoat under her arm Leaning on a horsehead cane She said "Carl, take all the money" She called everybody Carl "My spirit's broke" "My mind's a joke," "And getting up's real hard" Chorus Don...

You can't live together, you can't live alone Considering the weather, oh my how you've grown From the men in the factories to the wild kangaroo Like those birds of a feather, they're gathering together And feeling exactly like you They got mesmerized by lull...

Back before I was a movie star Straight off of the farm I had a picture of another man's wife Tattooed on my arm With a pack of Camel cigarettes In the sleeve of my Tee shirt I'm headin' out to Hollywood Just to have my feelings hurt That town will make you...

Things got rough things got tough things got harder than hard We were just trying to make a livin' in our back yard We were born too late died to soon anxiety's a terrible crime if you don't come now don't come at all 'cause it's a crooked piece of time. It'...

You must be daddy's little pumpkin I can tell by the way you roll You must be daddy's little pumpkin I can tell by the way you roll Why it's quarter past eleven And you're sleeping on the bedroom floor I can see the fire burning Burning right behind yo...

Do you like me? Well I hope you do Cause if you like me Then I think I'm gonna to have to like you too We'll share our things And have some fun Then we'll say goodbye And go back home when the day is done If you tell me I'll tell you too And we'll say the th...

Dear Abby, Dear Abby... My feet are too long My hair's falling out and my rights are all wrong My friends they all tell me that I've no friends at all Won't you write me a letter, Won't you give me a call Signed Bewildered Bewildered, Bewildered... [Chorus:]...

When I woke up this morning There was a note upon my door Saying " Don't make me no coffee, Babe Cause I won't be back no more" And that's all she wrote "Dear John", I sent your saddle home" Now Jonah got along in the belly of a whale Daniel in the lion's de...

Oh, come all ye young people and listen while I tell, The fate of Floyd Collins, the lad we all knew well, His face was fair and handsome, his heart was true and brave, His body now lies sleeping in a lonely sandstone cave. Oh , mother don't you worry, dea...

While walking out, one evening Not knowing where to go Just to pass the time away Before we held our show I heard a little mission band Playing with all their might I gave my soul to Jesus And left the show that night The day will soon be over And evening wi...

Don't be ashamed of your age. Don't let the years get you down. That old gang you knew, they still think of you As a rounder in your old hometown. Don't mind the grey in your hair. Just think of all the fun you've had puttin' it there. As for that old b...

Small town, bright lights, saturday night, Pinballs and pool halls flashing their lights. Making change behind the counter in a penny arcade Sat the fat girl daughter of virginia and ray (spoken:) Lydia Lydia hid her thoughts like a cat Behind her small eyes...

Her Father was a failure Her Mother was a comfort To a doctor and lawyer and Indian Chief. The shirt ran out of buttons He lost all his marbles at a baseball game And they went on Relief. The bank took away their diplomas They locked them up inside of the ches...

That's my toaster over there It was mine before we married I bought it fair and square And that's my purple Persian Oriental polyester continental rug on the floor Pots and pans and ugly dishes One old dog and two goldfishes Broken dreams, shattered wi...

While out sailing on the ocean While out sailing on the sea I bumped into the Saviour And He said pardon me I said "Jesus you look tired" He said "Jesus so do you, Sit down son 'Cause I got some fat to chew" Chorus: Everybody needs somebody that they can talk...

While out sailing on the ocean While out sailing on the sea I bumped into the Saviour And He said pardon me I said Jesus you look tired He said Jesus so do you Sit down son Cause I got some fat to chew [Chorus] Everybody needs somebody that they can talk to S...

Everything is cool Everything's okay Why just before last Christmas My baby went away Across the sea to an island While the bridges brightly burn So far away from my land The valley of the unconcerned I was walking down the road, man Just looking at my shoes...

As the cafe was closing On a warm summer night And Cathy was cleaning the spoons The radio played the hit parade And I hummed a long with the tune She asked me to change the station Said the song just drove her insane But it weren't just the music playing It w...

I been thinking lately about the people I meet The carwash on the corner and the hole in the street The way my ankles hurt with shoes on my feet And I'm wondering if I'm gonna see tomorrow. Father forgive us for what we must do You forgive us we'll forgive yo...

While window shopping through the past I ran across a looking glass Reflecting moments remaining in a burned out light Tragic magic prayers of passion Stay the same through changing fashions They freeze my mind like water on a winter's night Spent most of my y...

Forbidden Jimmy Has got a mighty sore tooth From biting too many dimes In a telephone booth He's got half of his bootlace Tied to the dial Thank you operator For getting Jimmy to smile "Call out the Coast Guard" Screamed the Police Forbidden Jimmy He's got th...

I come home from work this evening There was a note in the frying pan It said fix your own supper babe I run off with the Fuller brush man Chorus: And I miss the way she used to yell at me The way she used to cuss and moan And if I ever go out and get married...

Sailin' around, Sailin' around, Sailin' around, I've been out sailin' around again I've been sailin' around But I can't get back to you. Hangin' around, Hangin' around, Hangin' around I've been out hangin' around again I've been hangin' around But I can't get...

Oh, the glory of true love Is a wild and precious thing It don't grow on old magnolias Or only blossom in the spring No, the glory of true love Is it will last your whole life through Never will go out of fashion Always will look good on you You can climb the...

Grandpa wore his suit to dinner Nearly every day No particular reason He just dressed that way Brown necktie and a matching vest And both his wingtip shoes He built a closet on our back porch And put a penny in a burned out fuse. [Chorus] Grandpa was a carpe...

Great rain great rain I thought I heard you call my name Great rain great rain I thought I heard you call my name I was standing in the station Waving down an unmarked train There's a fire at the junction Why do you do the things you do There's a fire at the...

Sam Stone came home, To his wife and family After serving in the conflict overseas. And the time that he served, Had shattered all his nerves, And left a little shrapnel in his knee. But the morphine eased the pain, And the grass grew round his brain, And gave...

The motel lights were blinkin' On my chartreuse four door Lincoln On the dock the fish were stinkin' I simply didn't have a care And the old men sit 'round the cracker barrels The children hum their Christmas carols The train tracks all run parallel But they'...

There's a rainbow of babies Draped over the graveyard Where all the dead sailors Wait for their brides And the cold bitter snow Has strangled each grassblade Where the salt from their tears Washed out with the tide Chorus And I smiled on the Wabash The last t...

We had an apartment in the city Me and Loretta liked living there Well, it'd been years since the kids had grown A life of their own left us alone John and Linda live in Omaha And Joe is somewhere on the road We lost Davy in the Korean war And I still don't kn...

There was a time When lonely men would wander Thru this land Rolling aimlessly along So many times I've heard of their sad story Written in the words Of dead men's songs. Down through the years Many men have yearned For freedom Some found it Only on the open...

Today I walked down the street I use to wander Yeah, shook my head and made myself a bet There was all these things that I don't think I remember Hey, How lucky can one man get. I bronzed my shoes and hung from a rearview mirror Bronzed admiration in the blin...

How much tequila did I drink last night? It's really anybody's guess. I poured them so fast, I couldn't keep them in the glass, But this morning I sure am a mess. My head is four or five times its normal size And I got this big old cactus stuck between my eyes...

Does he still think about her Why there was never really any doubt Every time he lights a candle Or blows a candle out The scientific nature of the ordinary man Is to go on out and do the best you can I don't think that you know That I think you don't know Th...

I forgot to remember to forget her, I can't seem to get her off my mind. I thought I'd never miss her, But I've found out somehow I think about her almost all the time. Well the day she went away I made myself a promise That I'd soon forget we'd ever met....

I had a dream last night Last night I had a dream Everything was black and white And it smelled like gasoline We stood in the corner and I held you tight I kissed your mouth till my head got light Last night when I had a dream I had a dream last night Last n...

Well I once knew a man who was going insane He let love chase him right up a tree It took the police and a fire truck Just to bring him back down Oh, I hate it when that happens to me It made the front page of the paper The gossip tongues wagged Why they even...

I don't want to be the kind to hesitate Be too shy, wait too late I don't care what they say other lovers do I just want to dance with you I got a feeling that you have a heart like mine, So let it show, let it shine Oh, if we have change to make one heart of...

When all your loves have ended When all your friends have flown Who'll be around to want you When all your loves have gone Only a fool would do it After the way you've done But how many fools would have you I know one This fool keeps wonderin' why He fell in...

John Prine & Mac Wiseman I love you because you understand, dear Every single thing I try to do You´re always there to lend a helping hand, dear I love you most of all because you´re you No matter what the world may say about me I know your love will al...

I love you so much it hurts me Darling that's why I'm so blue I'm so afraid to go to bed at night Afraid of losing you I love you so much it hurts me And there's nothing I can do I want to hold you my dear Forever and ever I love you so much it hurts me so I...

Christmas toys all over the place Little Johnny wears a funny smile on his face Johnny has a secret, and a secret he must share He wants to tell somebody, so he tells his Teddy Bear I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus Underneath the mistletoe last night Well, she...

I lose my blues Only when I'm with you No one else can do You're in my heart to stay And when I'm gone and I'm all alone I'll be singing this song I want to be with you always I'd be happy dear If you could only be here And always be near you Forever and a da...

If I could make my living going fishing Then I would make my living with a line and pole Put food on the table pay the money to the landlord Buy some working clothes 'Cause I ain't making money going fishing Like I'm paid at the factory If I could pay all the...

Well, everytime I try to love another I never know exactly what to do I'd like to tell her just how much I want her And I could find the way if she were you Her eyes may shine for me and not another, Her lonely arms reach out to hold me too, She wants to take...

If you don't want my love If you don't want my love If you don't want my love I know who I'll give it to If you don't want my love If you don't want my love If you don't want my love Anymore. If you don't want the thrill If you don't want the thrill If you do...

If you were the woman and I was the man Would I send you yellow roses? Would I dare to kiss your hand? In the morning would I caress you As the wind caresses the sand If you were the woman and I was the man? If I was the heart and you were the head Wou...

When I woke up this morning, things were lookin' bad Seem like total silence was the only friend I had Bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down... and won And it was twelve o'clock before I realized That I was havin' no fun [Chorus] But fortunately I have...

In a town this size, there's no place to hide Everywhere you go you meet someone you know You can't steal a kiss in a place like this How the rumors do fly in a town this size In a smokey bar in the backseat of your car In your own little house someone's...

I come to the garden alone While the dew is still on the roses And the voice I hear, falling on my ear The Son of God discloses And He walks with me And He talks with me And He tells me I am His own And the joy we share as we tarry there None other ha...

Yeah, I'm going steady with Iron Ore Betty She's goin' steady with me We receive our mail in the same mailbox We watch the same TV I got rug burns on my elbows She's got 'em on her knees Yeah, I'm goin' steady with Iron Ore Betty She's goin' steady with me H...

Up in the morning Work like a dog Is better than sitting Like a bump on a log Mind all your manners Be quiet as a mouse Some day you'll own a home That's as big as a house I know a fella He eats like a horse Knocks his old balls Round the old golf course You...

It's a cheating situation A stealing invitation To take what's not really ours To make it through the midnight hours It's a cheating situation Just a cheap imitation Doing what we have to do When there's no love at home There's no use in pretending There'll...

Well it's the same old song Boy meets girl And girl meets boy They carry on They close their eyes And kiss until the world is gone Oh yes it's true It's happening to you You know what they say They pledge their love forever Then they add a day They hold their...

So you went to a party at Jacqueline Onassis If you're so amart why don't you wear glasses So you can see what you're doin' to me So you can see what you're doin' to me So you can see what tomorrow might bring Underneath your breath you know I heard you cussi...

Jesus, the missing years It was raining. It was cold West Bethlehem was no place for a twelve year old So he packed his bags and he headed out To find out what the world's about He went to France. He went to Spain He found love. He found pain. He found stores...

I've come from just the other side of no-where, To this big time lonesome town. They got a lotta ice an' snow here, Half as cold as all the people I've found. Every way I try to go here, Seems to bring me down. I seen about enough to know where I belong....

I got an airplane ticket And my shirt is stickin' out of my jeans You got me painted in the corner Where I'm livin' way beyond my means Outside my window A bird once flew Now I don't even care What kind of gum I chew And oh baby I just wanna be with y...

Leaves were falling ..Just like embers In colors red and gold they set us on fire Burning just like a moonbeam ..in our eyes Chorus: Somebody said they saw me Swinging the world by the tail Bouncing over a white cloud. Killing the Blues I am guilty of someth...

"mmmmmmm" In a small fishing village Northeast of Guam Sits a fine young chap Holding hands with his mom As the fish swim by So does Joe For his body is in Guam But his mind is in Kokomo "Kokomo, Indiana Kokomo, Indiana" "mmmmmmmm" I long to be Inside my hom...

[Chorus] We were standing Standing by peaceful waters Standing by peaceful waters Whoa wah oh wha oh Whoa wah oh wha oh Many years ago along the Illinois-Wisconsin Border There was this Indian tribe They found two babies in the woods White babies One of the...

Feeling kind of bony On the telephoney Talking to Marconi Eating Rice-a-Roni Nominated for a Tony For acting like a phoney Watching Twilight Zoney On my forty-two inch Sony This is just a long song It ain't no poem Leave the lights on till your baby gets home...

Well, I packed my bags and bought myself a ticket For the land of the tall palm tree Aloha Old Milwaukee, Hello Waikiki I just stepped down from the airplane When I heard her say, "Waka waka nuka licka, waka waka nuka licka Would you like a lei? Eh?" [Chorus]...

Dear Penthouse, I never did believe anything I ever read in your magazine until just the other night. When something happen to me that was so strange that I felt compelled to share it with your readers. I'm a student at State-U. Maybe I'm getting ahead of m...

I just found out yesterday that Linda goes to Mars Every time I sit and look at pictures of used cars She'll turn on her radio and sit down in her chair And look at me across the room, as if I wasn't there Chorus: Oh My stars! My Linda's gone to Mars Well I w...

Jehosaphat the mongrel cat Jumped off the roof today Some would say he fell but I could tell He did himself away His eyes weren't bright like they were the night We played checkers on the train God Bless his soul he was a tootsie roll But he's a dead cat just...

You and me Sittin' in the back my memory Like a honey bee Buzzin' 'round a glass of sweet Chablis Radio's on Windows rolled up And my mind's rolled down Headlights shining Like silver moons Rollin' on the ground We made love In everyway love can be made And w...

So long we've been married Life's burdens we carried Though faith kept us humble and made our love true But plans that we make up Someone seems to break up Oh, darlin', what else can we do? We may have to leave here To find peace of mind, dear Someplace where...

Loretta, she's a barroom girl, wears them sevens on her sleeve Dances like a diamond shines, tells me lies I love to believe Her age is always 22, her laughing eyes are hazel hue Spends my money like waterfalls, loves me like I want her to Loretta, won't...

I Can't work late Although I need the money Gotta get home to my lovin' honey She'll be there waitin' Waitin' Impatiently Love is on a roll, love is on a good roll Ah, love is on a roll Ah, love is on a good roll I'm a songwriter A professional dreamer Mostl...

He stumbled through the alley with his long coat on Nothing but a bottle in his hand She sat in her apartment lonesome to the bone Wondering what had happened to her man [Chorus] Love, love, love, love Nobody ever understands All the things that go, Between a...

One evening getting dark We first met at the park Just sitting by the fountain all alone I lifted up my hat And then began to chat She said she'd allow me to see her at her home Chorus: Such a star I've never seen She's as pretty as the queen She's as perfect...

Maureen, Maureen, I shot a doctor last night on the airplane Well, they said he wouldn't hurt us But he got me real nervous and mean He was fat and he stank And God knows that he drank more than we do So I shot him in the first class Then I bailed out and ran...

Well, tonight I'll throw a party And I know who I'll invite There's a strange and lonely person With whom I'll spend this night There'll be no old sad memories To haunt me till I die In that room there'll be a bottle And me, myself and I In that room there'll...

It got so hot, last night, I swear You couldn't hardly breathe Heat lightning burnt the sky like alcohol I sat on the porch without my shoes And I watched the cars roll by As the headlights raced To the corner of the kitchen wall [Chorus:] Mama dear Your boy...

I was sitting in a diner With a girl named Flo She wouldn't say yes But she couldn't say no She said "Darling, Can I get a middle man?" She was engaged to a fellow On the lay a way plan But she carried all her money In a coffee can She said "Darling, Can I get...

I'm gonna get on that old turnpike and I'm gonna ride I'm gonna leave this town 'til you decide Which one you want the most them Opry stars or me Milwaukee here I come from Nashville, Tennessee Milwaukee is where we were before we came here Working in a brewe...

I saw you all dolled up Singing a song in your pickup truck You put me on a morning train You put me on a morning train Ain't no need to explain You put me on a morning train Hey, hey, Brother Ray What'd you mean by, what'd I say You put me on a morning train...

Far away over the sea There's a river that's calling to me That river she runs all around The place that I call my hometown There's a valley on the side of the hill And flowers on an old windowsill A familiar old picture it seems And I'll go there tonight in...

I'm beginning to like you But, you know that ain't right 'Cause you'll just twist and twist and twist Till I'm all crooked inside Then you'll take all you gave me Like it never was there And I think that I might, No! I know Yes, I will help you there 'Cause ....

Full blown silence in an empty room A former bride and a former groom A folding table and a folding chair A folded hand of poker there All new directions must go everywhere Big round people in a cool little square You can't cut it with a boat or a plane Man it...

This nine pound hammer Is a little too heavy Buddy for my size Buddy for my size So I'm going on the mountain Just to see my baby And I ain't coming back No I ain't coming back [Chorus:] Roll on buddy Don't you roll so slow Well, tell me how can I roll When t...

I got a girl that ain't got no home She ain't very fat just skin and bones She don't cast no shadow because she's so thin Never knows where she going but she knows were she's been She Never knows where she going but she knows were she's been The girl I love a...

I know that you're sad I know that you're lonely You lie awake 'till way past when I want you to know That I'm leaving you only 'Cause I might not get the chance again. [Chorus:] I'm cold and I'm tired And I can't stop coughing Long enough to tell you all of...

If you're fond of sand dunes and salty air Quaint little villages here and there You're sure to fall in love with Old Cape Cod If you like the taste of a lobster stew Served by a window with an ocean view You're sure to fall in love with Old Cape Cod W...

Old Dogs and Children and Watermelon Wine "How old do you think I am," he said? I said, well, I didn't know. He said, "I turned 65 about 11 months ago." I was sittin' in Miami, pouring blended whiskey down When this old gray, black gentleman was cleaning...

On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross, The emblem of suffering and shame; And I love that old cross where the dearest and best For a world of lost sinners was slain. So I'll cherish the old rugged cross, Till my trophies at last I lay down; I wil...

The rain came down On the tin roof Hardly A sound was left From the birthday party The kitchen light Fell asleep On the bedroom floor Me and her were talking softer Than all the time Before I lost her Picture sat on top Of the chest of drawers Chorus: One red...

You may live alone and close your eyes Some folks do You may dream a dream that's twice your size All night through When the morning comes who's to tell your dreams to Only you [Chorus] Only love, love only, only love Will do Only love, love only, only love C...

Forty-five minutes Forty-five cents Sixty-five agents sitting on a fence Singing, hey brother Look what we got for you We're gonna rope off an area And put on a show From the Canadian border Down to Mexico It might be the most Potentially gross Thing that we...

Why do you always seem to criticize me Seems like everything I do just turns out wrong Why don't you come on out and despise me So I could pack my bag and baby I'd be gone Remember when you used to call me honey I'd turn around and call you honey too You migh...

Barley malts and does eat oats and little girls are lively And your liveliness has left me in a brew So I'm sitting here just drinking beer 'Cause there's nothing else to do And when I'm out of love, I'm out of you. We were so happy, honey when we were togeth...

When I was a child my family would travel Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered So many times that my memories are worn Chorus: And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County Down b...

People who are sad - sometimes they wear a frown And people who are kings - sometimes they wear a crown But all the people who don't fit Get the only fun they get From people puttin' people down People puttin' people down People without love - sometimes build...

A young man from a small town With a very large imagination Lay alone in his room with his radio on Looking for another station When the static from the mouthpiece Gave way to the sound below James Dean went out to Hollywood And put his picture in a Picture Sh...

Lay that pistol down, Babe. Lay that pistol down. Pistol packin mama - Lay that pistol down. Oh, drinkin beer in a cabaret Was I havin fun! Until one night she caught me right And now I'm on the run. Oh, lay that pistol down, Babe. Lay that pistol down....

Woke up this morning Put on my slippers Walked in the kitchen And died And oh, what a feeling! When my soul Went through the ceiling And on up into heaven, I did ride When I got there, they did say "John, it happened this way You slipped upon the floor And h...

I got a friend in Fremont, He sells used cars, ya know. Well, he calls me up twice a year Just ask me how'd it go Pretty good, not bad, I can't complain Actually everything is just about the same I met a girl from Venus, and her insides were lined in gold Wel...

Strolling down the highway with my shoes in my hand I don't talk much I'm a quiet man Beauty and silence both run deep And running like crazy while you are alseep [Chorus] You got news for me,I got nothing for you Don't pin your blues on me Just go ahead and...

I don't want your big French Fry I don't want your car I don't want to buy no soap From no washed-up movie star You are so much louder Than the show I want to hear With your sugarless gum Gee, but I'm dumb Non-alcoholic beer It's enough to make a grown man Blo...

The station was empty The trains were all gone I reached in my pocket And I wanted for dawn Chorus: The clock played drums And I hummed the sax And the wind whistled down The railroad tracks Hey three for a quarter One for a dime I'll bet it's tomorrow By Roc...

The movie wasn't really doing so hot said the new producer to the old big shot its dying on the edge of the great Midwest Sabu must tour or forever rest. Hey look ma here comes the elephant boy bundled all up in his corduroy headed down south towards Illinois...

I wish, I hope, I wonder Where you're at sometimes Is your back against the wall? Or just across the line Have you been standing in the rain Reciting nursery rhymes? Trying to recall Some long lost kind of peace of mind Peace of mind Try spending the night som...

Well, he never got too lonely And he never got too sad But he never got too happy And that's what's just too bad He never reached much further Than his lonely arms would go He wore a seatbelt around his heart And they called him Safety Joe (Chorus:) Safety Jo...

I was born in Saginaw Michigan I grew up in a house on Saginaw bay My dad was a poor hard working Saginaw fisherman Too many times he came home with too little pay I loved a girl in Saginaw Michigan the daughter of a wealthy wealthy man But he called me th...

You got everything that a girl should grow I'm so afraid to kiss you I might lose control You can hold me tighter but turn loose of my gun It's a sentimental present all the way from Saigon Honey, Honey, Honey, please call me You don't need no money we can do...

Sailin' around, Sailin' around, Sailin' around, I've been out sailin' around again I've been sailin' around But I can't get back to you. Hangin' around, Hangin' around, Hangin' around I've been out hangin' around again I've been hangin' around But I can't get...

Sam Stone came home To his wife and family After serving in the conflict overseas And the time that he served Had shattered all his nerves And left a little shrapnel in hs knee But the morphine eased the pain And the grass grew 'round his brain And gave him al...

Moonlight shining on the back of my hand Cat fight rattlin' the garbage can Looks like somethin' chased you up a tree Same thing, same thing happened to me Wild wind blowing down the neck of my shirt Old men sitting on a bench in the dirt Seems that another s...

She is my everything From her suntanned shoulders Down to the freckles On her wedding ring Here feet are so warm They could melt the snow In the early Spring She is my everything She goes everywhere from Copenhagen To making eggs and bacon down in Jackson Squ...

I seen you in your pajamas Drinking coffee at the House of Pies You was flipping for the check And talking like your tongue was paralyzed You were saying something That I don't understand Bout looking other places While you're holding my hand Let's stop Let's...

There's a pine tree in a window in a house on a hill With a tree top angel sitting perfectly still She's watching the shoppers walk through the snow With their arms full of treasures and hearts all aglow Chorus: We held hands and stared at the lights on the t...

City Sidewalks, busy sidewalks Dressed in holiday style In the air there is a feeling of Christmas Children laughing, people passing Greeting smile after smile And on every street corner you'll hear. Silver Bells, Silver Bells It's Christmas time in the city...

Wanda had a baby in nineteen fifty one. The father was stranger and a stranger was the son. Call that child James Lewis, call these rooms a home. Changing all them diapers polish all that chrome. See'mon, baby, spend the night with me All around the schoolyard...

Where are the boot straps To lift myself up? Where is the well Where I once filled my cup? Where does this sorrow All turn into joy? And where oh where is the sleepy eyed boy? Where is my true love When the wind starts to moan? Is she out in the wild, Is she...

Lets take a slow boat to china. leave from south carolina Lets take our time and go the long way On a junk boat to thailand with your hand in mine hand I sure hope we got something to say Well, this old boats go no sail so won't you please hold our mail- For a...

We used to have good times together But now I feel them slip away It makes me cry to see love die So sad to watch good love go bad Remember how we used to feel dear You said nothing could change you mind It breaks my heart to see us part So sad to watch good...

Mmmm Mmmm x4 Some humans ain't human Some people ain't kind You open up their hearts And here's what you'll find A few frozen pizzas Some ice cubes with hair A broken Popsicle You don't want to go there Some humans ain't human Though they walk like we do The...

Well, I got time on my hands and I got you on my mind And the moon and the stars up above There's a warm summer breeze Blowing down through the trees And somewhere someone's falling in love Well, if this world where we live is the only one we have Then there's...

I don't care if the sun don't shine But it better or people will wonder And I couldn't care less if it never stopped rainin' 'Cept the kids are afraid of the thunder [Chorus:] Say sour grapes You can laugh and stare Say sour grapes But I don't care I couldn't...

All the snow has turned to water Christmas days have come and gone Broken toys and faded colors Are all that's left to linger on I hate graveyards and old pawn shops For they always bring me tears I can't forgive the way they rob me Of my childhood souvenirs...

Space monkey, space monkey, what you doing out there? Why it's dark as a dungeon, way up in the air Come gather 'round me you little monkeys and a story I'll tell About a brave young primate, outer space knew him well He was born at the top of a big old tree...

She was a level-headed dancer on the road to alcohol And I was just a soldier on my way to montreal Well she pressed her chest against me About the time the juke box broke Yeah, she gave me a peck on the back of the neck And these are the words she spoke [Cho...

You come home late and you come home early You come on big when you're feeling small You come home straight and you come home curly Sometimes you don't come home at all [Chorus] So what in the world's come over you And what in heaven's name have you done You'...

I'm awfully tired of the same old business Kiss the babies, make 'em cry I'm only lookin' for one good woman Cross my heart and hope to die Stick a needle in my eye, eye, eye Got a load of mashed potatoes Holdin' gravy like a fishin' hole I know something that...

I can hear the wheels of the automobiles so far away Just moving along through the drifting snow It's times like these when the temperatures freeze I sit alone just looking at the world through a storm window Down on the beach, the sandman sleeps Time don't f...

I got kicked off Noah's Ark I turn my cheek to unkind remarks There was two of everything But one of me And when the rains came tumbling down I held my breath and I stood my ground And I watched that ship go sailing Out to sea. [Chorus] Take it back Take it b...

Now, Right now, Look at the place I` m in, When i think about things that i could have done It´s impossible for me tp pretend. But i see it now as the lights grow dim and the world starts to close its eyes. i just wanted to say goodnight, Sweet Suzanne. I hea...

I seen my old lady's boyfriend. He don't look nothing like me, 'Cept for a bit of confusion; Same kind she laid on me. You don't know what you're getting into; She's gonna tear you apart. You're going places I've been to; Take a look at my heart. Take a look...

Robert was a sailor For the best years of his life His captain was his mother And the ocean was his wife Only fresh out of the cradle Life's one and only spring He was sworn to do his duty And got blood on his high school ring [Chorus:] And it's hello Californ...

A man came to our house I believe it was yesterday I would have invited him in But I didn't have a lot to say His anticipation of me opening the door Outweighed my apprehension as it never had before And drove my concentration Right through that hardwood floor...

Like a bolt of lightning Like a bolt of thunder Like a cloudy day Down at the Zoo Like a drowning man That will never go under That close to you Yeah, that close to you In the middle of the night You'd ask me to make you smile You'd come on like a one armed c...

I know a guy that's got a lot to lose. He's a pretty nice fellow but he's kind of confused. He's got muscles in his head that ain't never been used. Thinks he own half of this town. Starts drinking heavy, gets a big red nose. Beats his old lady with a rubber...

Back in 1899, when everyone was singing "Auld Lang Syne" A century took a long, long time for every boy and girl. Now there's only one thing that I'd like to know Where did the 20th century go? I'd swear it was here just a minute ago All over this world. Chor...

Last night I saw an accident on the corner of Third and Green two cars collided and I got excited just being part of that scene It was Mrs. Tom Walker and her beautiful daughter Pamela, was driving the car they got hit by a man in a lite blue sedan who had ob...

Here's the story of a man and his family And a big trip that they took Well, I heard all about in a restaurant And I read it in a history book They rented a car at the Erie Canal But the car didn't have no brake Said Ma to Pa "My God this car" "Is gonna fall i...

I knew a girl who was almost a lady She had a way with all the men in her life Every inch of her blossomed in beauty And she was born on the fourth of July Well she lived in an aluminum house trailer And she worked in a juke box saloon And she spent all the mo...

Black faces pressed against the glass Where rain has pressed it's weight Wind blown scarves in top down cars All share one western trait Sadness leaks through tear-stained cheeks From winos to dime-store Jews Probably don't know they give me These late John Ga...

The moon is down All over town The forecast is grey Now that she's gone away The stars in the sky They're out of her eyes They shattered when they hit the ground And now the moon is down The sun will be fine It'll still shine all the time The sky will be blu...

She's got the mind of a child And a body peaking over the hill Well, she would if she could And she should but nobody will With her nails painted red And her hair so unnaturally curled Well I think that she may be The oldest baby in the world She's tasted the...

From the bells of St Mary To the Count of Monte Cristo Nothing can stop Nothing can stop Nothing can stop The sins of Memphisto Sally used to play with her hula hoops Now she tells her problems to therapy groups Grampa's on the front lawn staring at a rake Wo...

The night club was burning From the torch singer's song And the sweat was floodin' her eyes The catwalk squeaked 'Neath the bartender's feet And the smoke was too heavy to rise [Chorus:] She sang of the love that I left her And of the woman that she'll never...

There's something about her You know, it's the way that she carries herself She's just so bad Ooh, I don't know Her style, her mind Compares to nothing on this Earth She's not the kind to share Only God knows what she's worth I got to show her that I want he...

If today the sun should set on all my hopes and cares There is still one smiling face the Gods would see But she'll walk along beside me up those golden stairs Oh, they'll never, ever take her love from me What a fool I was to go and break the trust she gave...

The sun goes down and leaves me sad and blue Even another night of this cold war with you Though you won't speak and I won't speak it's true Two stubborn people with a cold war to go through Oh why, oh why should love ever come To a couple like you and me Who...

This guitar is for sale, I'll let her go cheap She's pretty to look at but she don't earn her keep She can roar like the west wind, she can weep, she can wail But the tunes that she plays just ain't selling today This guitar is for sale She lay close bes...

I can taste your lipstick in the wine I can feel your heartbeat close to mine With your love wrapped around me I'm silent and still I know that this love is real I have tasted other lips I thought were true I have looked into the eyes I thought were you Now t...

Well, I rocked over italy and I rocked over spain I rocked in memphis it was all the same Till I rocked to africa and rolled off ship. And seen them natives doing a odd looking skip I parted the weeds and looked over the swamp I seen them cats doing the ubangi...

You make me unlonely. I feel like the only Person in the world That ever had a girl like you. You make me feel wealthy. I almost look healthy With you on my arm. Yeah, together we could charm This whole wide world. Once I was lonely; Nobody but me. My heart...

In an Appalachian, Greyhound station She sits there waiting, in a family way "Goodbye brother, Tell Mom I love her Tell all the others, I'll write someday" [Chorus:] From an teenage lover, to an unwed mother Kept undercover, like some bad dream While unwed fat...

Night is falling We're doing the things we do You are acting just like me I'm acting just like you Do you remember When you were my friend? That's the way I'd like things Just like way back then Baby's sleeping Brother is on the run I am out undoing All the g...

Chorus: Way down Way down it must be I can't stop this misery It must be way down Spring is just a smile away Laughing at a summer day Turn around Look at fall Winter, hear my lonely call Way down ... The air is thin and the sky is fat I'm gonna buy me a bra...

Down the hall upstairs from me There's a girl I swear I never see I hear the ringing of her phone She must live up there all alone She hangs her clothes out on the line They're hanging there right next to mine And if the wind should blow just right She could b...

If anyone could find the joy That true love brings a girl and boy We could We could - you and I If anyone could ever say Their true love was here to stay We could We could - you and I When you're in my arms I know you're happy to be there And just as long as...

We said our goodbyes long ago Never thinking we'd miss each other so All the memories we can't leave behind Oh, we must have been out of our minds I thought I loved another, not you How foolish, I thought the same too They both turned out to be the wrong kind...

I got the invitation that you sent me, You wanted me to see you change your name I couldn't stand to see you wed another But dear I hope you're happy just the same I planned a little cottage in the valley, I even bought that little band of gold I thought some...

It's Wedding Day in Funeralville Your soup spoon's on your right The King and Queen will alternate With the refrigerator light They'll be boxing on the T.V. show The colored kids will sing Hoo ray for you And midnight's oil Lets burn the whole damn thing Feli...

Your world was so different from mine, don't you see And we couldn't be close, though we tried We both reached for heavens, but ours weren't the same. That's what happens when two worlds collide Your world was made up of things sweet and good My world co...

Where the blue of the night Meets the gold of the day Someone waits for me And the gold of her hair Crowns the blue of her eyes Like a halo, tenderly If only I could see her Oh how happy I would be Where the blue of the night Meets the gold of the d...

You've heard about the dirty dozen and the tales of the green beret The men that sank the Bismarck and the fighting C.I. A. But if you're talkin' danger then one name comes to mind Make an unwise decision call the wonderful 99 It was way back in the nineties...

Oh I get drunk most every night Seems like all we do is fight The more I drink The less I feel blue Sometimes I feel like an awful fool Spendin' my life on an old bar stool And yes I guess they oughta name a drink after you If this date were to be our last I'...

Is there ever enough space between us To keep us both honest and true? Why is it so hard just to sit in the yard And stare at the sky so blue? I've got a new way of walking and a new way of talking Honey when I'm around you, But it gives me the blues when I've...

A girl meets a guy A car passes by The moon shines down on a tree A kid in the park Should have been home by dark You mean so much to me The snow on the ground A merry-go_round A sight that was somethin' to see Some cigarette smoke Some laughter a joke You mea...

It was a teenage wedding And the old folks wished 'em well You could see that Pierre Did truly love the Mademoiselle. And the young Monsieur and Madame Have rung the chapel bell, "C'est la vie," -Say the old folks It goes to show that you never can tell They...

While digesting Reader's Digest In the back of a dirty book store, A plastic flag, with gum on the back, Fell out on the floor. Well, I picked it up and I ran outside Slapped it on my window shield, And if I could see old Betsy Ross I'd tell her how good I fee...