Lee Hazlewood

Everybody stand in line it ain't gonna cost you a dime This show is about to start so close the door We'll turn the lights down low turn the big spot line or so You can see the real live fool if you never seen one before You're lookin' at a real live fool...

There's pictures in my mind I've never seen before There's emptiness I find my love and yes there's even more There's loneliness that cuts me like a knife And I wish I had a taste of you tonight This bottle in my hand is now apart of me It cools the fire that...

Hey there Mr Bartender now have a little pity on me Time is rough and a fuss is tough and I'm where I'm not supposed to be I'll give you my watch for a fifth of Scotch If you don't make fun cause it don't run no better than I do after six Hey there Mr Bartend...

No one to talk with All by myself No one to walk with But I'm happy on the shelf Ain't misbehavin' I'm savin' my love for you I know for certain The one I love I'm through with flirtin' It's just you I'm thinkin' of Ain't misbehavin' I'm savin' my love for yo...

I never had a job on Wall Street. Never was a man of means. There's nothing social about social security. Never found no pork in my beans. I always did what my mama told me. Do so good and pay the band. I always did what my mama told me but I never did...

Look at my eyes, I'm wasted. Look at the hurt in them. Look at my woman. She's leaving. And I'm back on the street again. Look at my head. It's hangin'. Look at my heart cavin' in. Look at my woman. She's leavin'. And I'm back on the street again. Back on th...

A soldier was sent made to go and he went to exist on the outskirts of hell. And he wrote a letter to someone wrote sometimes we fight sometimes we run it's just like playing football …with a gun. Ahhh ahhh ahhh ahhh ahhhhhh Those Baghdad Knights!...

How are you how you been funny seeing you again I'm all right hope you are too by the way I still love you Is he nice that's fine yes he once was a friend of mine That's okay it was my fault too by the way I still love you Love you more than I can say lov...

In the waking hours of some not-too-distant morning You'll come walking barefoot through this cowboy mind Selling yesterday's dreams wrapped in tomorrow's paper Whistling for a dog mankind except you'll never find It's a cold hard world, love These are cold ha...

Woke up Sunday morning and I thought that I could sing But I can't no I can't Woke up Sunday morning and I thought I heard bells ring But they don't and they won't Oh it's dark yeah it's dark in my heart Got a letter from my mama but she didn't send no cash S...

Did you ever? Not so much, that you can know this Could you ask maid how many? 8 or 9 Will you do it anymore? As soon as you walk out the door Well I just wonder, did you ever? All the time Could I fix you once more? No thanks I just had one Then how about a...

She'll be thirty two in July And she's only known one man A blue-eyed talker name of Hawkeye Sometimes he sold pots and pans He came to her house late one summer When she was ripe and twenty two He stayed awhile with her that summer And if he left we ne...

We rode on trains with hunger and pain but we didn't cry Easy and me and some other guy We hook some rides, stood side by side and watch cars go By Easy and me and some other guy The days and the nights we cared for each other The wrongs and the rights we sha...

I followed you to Texas I followed you to Utah We didn't find it there So we moved on I followed you to Alabama Things looked good in Birmingham We didn't find it there So we moved on I know you're tired of following My elusive dreams and schemes F...

Buddy can you spare a dime For a little glass of wine Buddy don't you pity me Just one drink then I'll be In a world all my own The only place I call home Where no hurt can get to me And no one but me can see Pretty flowers dance and sing Laughter is...

Five more miles to Folsom This train can't move too slow Ninety-nine years at Folsom Then they'll let me go Shot a man in Dallas He made a fool of me Thought they never catched me How wrong can one guy be Five more miles to Folsom This train can' t move too...

There's a dream I've been saving for a day like today Yellow trees, Indian waters flowing softly on their way There's a dove in the treetops singing peace on the wind Again again and again It's just a dream I've been saving for a day like today There's some h...

The hurt I hurt is nothing like the hurts I've hurt before The things I feel do not feel like things I've felt before And the loneliness and the emptiness and the hopelessless are fine Because some times my cloudy brain remembers for one moment you were mine...

Standing on the corner with a raggedy old suitcase by my side Waiting for a Greyhound bus to come along so I can hook a ride Gonna go as far as fourteen dollars will take a fool like me Gotta find a place where I can hide, you know I must forget Marie Marie,...

Johnny Blakely robbed the bank way down in El Paso He got thirty four dollars and a sack of green stamps I know He didn't tell nobody but his little red-headed girl friend She turned him in again and again And now he's four kinds of lonely three kinds of...

Hello young fella my name is Fred Freud I hear you suffer neurotic afflictions, you act like a boy but you're really a man could your mama have caused these conditions? No kisses are poses can cure your neurosis or set a new time on your clock, have a few...

Friday's child, hard luck is her brother Friday's child, her sister's misery Friday's child, her daddy they call hard times Friday's child, that's me Friday's child, born a little ugly Friday's child, good looks passed her by...oh Friday's child, makes someth...

Calling out to everyone across the nation Said the world today is in a desperate situation Stealing, burning, fighting, killing Nothing but corruption It look like mankind in on the eve of destruction Oh yes it is now people let me tell you now We've got to le...

Gypsies and Indians Gypsies and Indians God cut us from the same tree Gypsies and Indians Gypsies and Indians No place to go no place to be No place to go no place to be I saw her standing by the river Gypsy guitar in her hand She sang a song that wo...

Loneliness is all I understand Happiness is in another land Tenderness is what I felt today When you touched my lonely hands And today was a day like I've never known before And your touch made me feel alone no more. When you touched my hands, you touched my h...

Heaven is my woman's love Gently rising with the sun She gives me cause to face the day And brings me joy when day is done Heaven is my woman's love Heaven is the way I live She gives me all the love she can And then somehow finds more to give And wh...

Hey cowboy, where did you get the clothes you wear Hey cowboy, where did you get the funny hair What are you doing in the land of the midnight sun 'cause you better run You're just a toy cowboy I may not look right but I sure do feel fine You hang around...

(La la la la la La la la la la...) He don't have to work at his job no more He don't have to be like he was before Got no money that he can spend somebody took good care of him And he's home ah that boy's home She don't have to worry bout the size or her wei...

Well it's lonesome in this big town everybody puts me down I'm a face without a name just a walkin' in the rain I'm going back to Houston Houston Houston I got holes in both of my shoes and I'm a walkin' case of the blues I saw a dollar yesterday but the...

Cold, cold, cold, cold, it's cold in the Hutchinson Jail Somebody help me please I'm as helpless as can be And I don't know what my life is comin' to They say I shot a man but I never shot I ran That was my first mistake I'm telling you Ah it's cold in...

I am a part of every road you walk down And I am a part of every dream that you found And when you cry I'll cry along with you And should you die I know that I'll die too I am that part of everything that you do Since I became a part of you Since I became a p...

I am the sea, you are the wind that comes me when by storm I am the land, you are the tree I've loved since it was born I am the sky that holds the stars and love but only one I am the sea, I am the land, the sky, I am the world You are the wind, the tree, th...

My old barn's about to cave in It'll fall right on the house I'm in My burial insurance is overdue again Still I might break even this year Well I got me a job and I had it made I worked three weeks but I didn't get paid Somebody stole my only chicken a...

I've seen the Golden Gate in San Francisco Bay I've seen the Empire State and walked down ol' Broadway I've seen the northern lights in some Alaskan town Since I saw you with him I move I move around I've seen a movie star at Hollywood and Vine I've seen the...

In the beginning there was nothing But it was kind of fun watching nothing grow You came walkin' into my life Carryin' your own dreams You could've been Yeah, you could've been good Then why were you so goddamn mean But till you I never had any fun But...

There were times when being together was fun And there were times when being apart was even more fun And there was times when there was nothing but time And that was no fun Well, the man just let me out And I think it's Monday morning There's a taste here in...

People used to bill and coo But that don't make it with you Coz there's other things we do In our time, baby In our time, yeah In our time, baby In our time Girls were once suffragettes Now they're out takin' bets Smokin' filter cigarettes In our time, baby I...

It had to be you, it had to be you. I wandered around and finally found the somebody who Could make me be true, could make me feel blue, And even be glad just to be sad thinkin' of you. Some others I've seen might never be mean Might never be cross or try to...

this song tells the story of a man... who went to a psychiatrist for twenty years suffering from an inferiority complex. and, at the end of twenty years, he discovered he had no complex at all... he was definitely inferior. it's an actuality, not a probabilit...

We got married in a fever Hotter than a pepper sprout We been talkin' 'bout Jackson Ever since the fire went out I'm goin' to Jackson, I'm gonna mess around (yeah?) Yeah, I'm goin' to Jackson, Look out Jackson town Well, go on down to Jackson, Go ahe...

In a small village near La Plaza Mexico lived a boy not so many years ago And hunger was his enemy every day but he never begged the boy called Jose And every day he worked in the fields he worked well And when the night came this boy slept where he fell And t...

Oh Kari I'm coming home Oh Kari I'm coming home Gatorade and lemonade And lying naked in the shade Pretending that I got it made by than Sniff and stuff and dip and snuff Till I think I have enough And then I gonna get up if I can Oh Kari I'm coming ho...

I've been where the eagle flies Rode his wings 'cross autumn skies Kissed the sun, touched the moon But he left me much too soon. His lady bird...He left his lady bird Lady bird come on down I'm here waiting on the ground Lady bird I'll treat you good...

Leather and lace, hanging in place And the fire was as warm as the wine The leather was hot, the lace, it was not So she left my side for a time Ran into town, leaving her gown of lace In a place by the door Now the leather and lace still hangs in place But I...

Last week you said we leave you Every word you say was true But last night I saw you kissin' A kissin' on somebody new And since that happened I don't believe in Chicago Or that old Eastern bunny like my four I won't be good till Christmas And the lon...

Back when I was ten Jim was my best friend We'd go down to the station and watched the trains come in The long black train the long black train Some day I told my friend we'll ride that train and then We'll make a fortune for ourselves and we'll ride it home...

People say I'm no good And crazy as a loon 'Cause I get stoned in the morning And get drunk in the afternoon Kinda like my old blue tick hound I like to lay around in the shade And I ain't got no money But I damn sure got it made 'Cause I ain't asking nobody...

Look at that woman standin' there look at that woman ain't she fair Look at that woman seems so fine Lord I wish that woman was anybody else of but mine Anybody else of but mine She can't cook and she can't love and she ain't worth a dime And Lord I wish...

Standin' on some muddy roadside With my back turned toward the rain I think I'm twenty miles from somewhere I know I'm thirty years insane And my shoes ain't worth tyin' Like my life there wearin' thin And if it wasn't for the dyin' Lord I'd like to try...

Me and Charlie shot a man this morning He was such a dreary man this morning His gun was fast and that's a fact so Charlie shot him in the back Me and Charlie shot a man this morning (Sing a song some more that's what you live for) Me and Charlie shot a...

Kiss all the pretty ones goodbye Give everyone a penny that cry You can throw all my tranquil' pills away Let my blood pressure go on its way For my autumn's done come My autumn's done come. Done come Let those 'I-don't-care-days' begin I'm tired of holding m...

My baby cried all night long My baby cried all night long She saw me dancin' with a girl named Flow A huggin' and a kissin' with the lights down low And my baby cried all night long My baby cried all night long My baby cried all night long She saw me messin'...

I know your leaving is to long overdue For far to long I've had nothing new to show to you Goodbye, dry eyes I watched your plane fade off west of the moon Than I felt so strange to walk away alone No regrets, no tears goodbye Don't want you back We'd only cr...

One night Johnny sang the truth to me On a northbound train from Nashville, Tennessee Taught me all the letters, him alone Saying freedom is where you think it is But there ain't no train to Stockholm Received your invitation to the war I sent it back, so ple...

Tell you babe I'm not the lovin' kind So you better get it off your mind Give you money I don't care take you with me anywhere Oh tell you babe I'm not the lovin' kind Tell you babe I'm not the lovin' kind It's somebody else for you to find Cast your tears in...

Male: I took the time to say nothing to her, she took the time to say nothing to me and in the time I said nothing to her she says…Nothing. Love and pain, ying and yang, still the same…Nothing. Female: So manches mal wenn er mit mich spricht schau i...

One night in a card game I lucked at a peculiar run I won a good team a woman called Red and a gun I won a valley won a mountain so high But a lion lured my mountain and a lion is a peculiar guy I worked with my team and I soon grew as rich as the land T...

Please come to Boston For the springtime I'm stayin' here with some friends And they've got lots of room You can sell your paintings on the sidewalk By a cafe where I hope to be workin' soon Please come to Boston She said no, boy you come home to me C...

She came running down the highway, naked as the sun Said she are you going my way poet, fool or bum Red hair had she, saw right through me, but what could she see? A poet? No, A fool? I hope not. A bum? No.....I'm only me When her left hand touched the w...

I'm just a pour' man with a heart full of love.. I'm just a pour' man with a heart full of love. I'm just a pour' man with a heart full of love. Just for you. Just for you. One year tomorrow since I cut Billy down. He was your lover and I cut Billy down....

Four years down and twenty one to blow Ten thousand more breakfasts to go Fourteen million seconds of living this way And I guess it's time I started to pray them bars away I wonder what you're doing since I don't see you none Are you still a doin' all them r...

A workin' on the railroad all day long a workin' on the railroad sing this song Sing about an old love I once knew sing about an old love or maybe two A workin' on the railroad a workin' on the railroad Work work workin' on the railroad I drove a lotta hot st...

I saw her reflection in the shadow of the sun Listening to the cadence of a dying drummer's drum She knew I was coming nearer, She said no but I did not hear her Rainbow woman, rainbow, rainbow woman, woman Rainbow woman When I heard her laughter I was more...

I'm down looking for upness The cold watching for heat There's a trick go fill his cupness That's life on Rosacoke Street Some girls they are a-selllin' Till they get back on their feet But Lee he ain't a-tellin' Ahh that's life on Rosacoke Street Hmm...

You were born by a railroad track Never knew your ma and your pa ain't comin' back Had to make your way the best you can But you didn't have to steal from another man Run boy run boy run boy run they're gonna get you boy run boy run They're gonna catch y...

She rolls like a river she bathes in the sand she's ice for a woman she's fire for a man She'll beat you at poker she'll cheat you at dice she's got an ace up her sleeve she makes you believe when she's in love she'll sacrifice. She's hard as a diam...

Young woman share your fire with me My heart is cold, my soul is free I am a stranger in your land A wandering man, call me sand Oh sir my fire is very small It will not warm thy heart at all But thee may take me by the hand Hold me and I'll call thee sand Y...

Once she dressed in silks and lace, Owned a Rolls Royce car Now she seems quite out of place, like a fallen star Draped around my kitchen sink , Happy as can be I just have to stop and think, Why she fell for me. I'm not much to look at, nothing to see Just g...

He can love any woman he sees he can stay as late as he please He can take a nice walk in the rain if he can do it on six feet of chain Six feet of chain six feet of chain he's a prisoner on six feet of chain He can climb up a mountain so high he can run h...

I know you're leavin' babe goodbye and so long I hope someday somebody listens to your song Those bright lights never ever spell your name it's true Maybe a change it seem would be the best for you Ah so long babe so long babe so long babe so long babe so long...

Some velvet mornin' when I'm straight I'm gonna open up your gate And maybe tell you 'bout Phaedra And how she gave me life And how she made it end Some velvet mornin' when I'm straight Flowers growing on a hill, dragonflies and daffodils Learn from us very...

It hurts to be told when you're not very old That you're an outlaw's son And the older you get they won't let you forget That you're the son of a gun a bad bad gun you son of a gun And then you'll meet someone so sweet and she says her heart you've won Bu...

Except for the dream in our mothers' eyes You and I would still ride the wind A pair of seeds that no one needs East of all souls island This land, souls island, This land, souls island, Will always be the heart of you and me Souls island Except for t...

"You've got your world, and I've got mine, and it's a shame ... Two grownup worlds that will never be the same ... Why can't we be like Storybook Children? Running through the rain, hand in hand, across the meadow ... Why can't we be like Storybook Childr...

Strangers Sit across from each other Smile across to each other Reach across for each other Strangers Dance and stare at each other Could they care for each other Why do they bother He thinks he sees something in her he needs She hopes she finds something in...

I got some troubles but they won't last I'm going to lay right down here in the grass Pretty soon all my troubles will pass Cause I'm in su-su-su, su-su-su, Su-su-su-su-su-su- sugar town I never had a dog that liked me some Never had a friend who wanted...

Strawberries cherries and an angel's kiss in spring My summer wine is really made from all these things I walked in town on silver spurs that jingled to A song that I had only sang to just a few She saw my silver spurs and said lets pass some time And I will...

There's no one in this world for me There's never gonna be There's no one in this world needs me There's never gonna be Yet sometimes in my dreams I hear Sundown, I miss you sundown Sundown, I need you sundown Come on, come on, come on, come on back t...

Woke up on Monday and I felt bad Woke up on Tuesday and I felt sad so sad I miss my mama and I miss my dad They're the best friends this poor boy ever had That old freight train go go go go go go go gonna carry me home That old freight train go go go go...

If you love somebody enough You'll follow wherever they go That's how I got to Memphis That's how I got to Memphis If you love somebody enough You'll go where your heart wants to go That's how I got to Memphis That's how I got to Memphis I know if you'd seen...

At the dark end of the street That's where we always meet Hiding in shadows where we don't belong Living in darkness to hide our wrong You and me at the dark end of the street You and me I know time's gonna take its toll We have to pay for the love we stole I...

Gather round me buddies Hold your glasses high And drink to a fool, a crazy fool who told his baby goodbye Too late he found out he loves her So much he wants to die But drink to a fool, a crazy fool who told his baby goodbye He needs her, he needs her so He...

Her eyes were once so full of dreams. Her young heart filled with lover schemes. Now every second she must borrow. They take her life tomorrow. Is she guilty? She says no. The girl on death row. Now someone holds her trembling hand. Another who don't...

The girls in Paris are special and unique You see it in their eyes when they walk down the street They sing a song my poor heart never can forget This night I wish that I was still in Paris yet Hear 'em singin' (la la la la la la li la la la la li...) The gi...

I wake up Sunday morning With my mind all in a haze Tearstains on my pillow And make-up on my face I see those empty whiskey bottles And records scattered on the floor And from the next room, I hear crying Then I remember the night before I saw her dancing at...

Her skin was the color of the mountains' first winter snow His skin was the color of the hot sun summer glow And they met by a river called Okemah in an August of another time She fell in love with this red man and left her people behind And she learned these...

See the candle light burning in a cabin not so far from a river wild, that's friendly as a child, to an old man and his guitar. Spends each lonely night just wishing on some long forgotten star dreamin' dreams until only dreams seem real to an old man and his...

them girls call me such and such them girls with society's touch a long blond hair and a money to spent them girls did me in them girls took the boys so fine runned his world and warped his mind them girls did that to me I let them Lord don't you see them gir...

(Here's a little song bout boots and a darlin' named Nancy) You keep a sayin' you got something for me something you call love but confess You've been a messin' where you shouldn't been a messin' (that's right) And now someone else is a gettin' all your best...

This town, is a lonely town Not the only town like this town This town, is a make-you town Or a break-you-town and bring-you-down town This town, is a quiet town For a riot town like this town This town, is a love-you town And a shove-you-down and push-you-'r...

Ramona, come closer, Shut softly your watery eyes. The pangs of your sadness Shall pass as your senses will rise. The flowers of the city Though breathlike, get deathlike at times. And there's no use in tryin' T' deal with the dyin', Though I cannot explain th...

Trouble's little and it's lonesome. You won't find it on any map. But you can take three steps in any direction, and you're there. It's a place to be born. And it's a place to live. And it's a place to die and be forgotten. It's a town called Trouble. An...

Oh she may be weary Them young girls they do get wearied Wearing that same old miniskirt dress But when she gets weary You try a little tenderness Oh man that Un hunh I know shes waiting Just anticipating The thing that youl never never possess No no no But w...

Nobody loves me in this town this town this town Nobody loves me in this town this town this town To their parties they never invite me even my own dog bites me And they call me they call me Ugly Brown Nobody wants me in this town this town this town Nob...

Vem ken siyla forutan vind? **who can sail without the wind? Vem ken ru itan oror? **who can row without an oar? Vem ken shilyas fron vennen sin, **who can say goodbye to their love utan att fella torar? **without crying? yo ken siyla forutan vind. **I can sa...

Hmm, the searching fingers of the dawn Are slowly creeping up the Eastern sky So I won't disturb your sleep and I'll just touch your cheek And leave without goodbye But if you find regrets are waiting for yah In the early mornin' light Aww, don't blame...

Sorry for the things I've said Sorry for the things I've done I'm sorry but, could not help myself Awwww but it's gonna be alright It's gonna be alright It's gonna be alright Wait and see Wait and see You know I'm just a man like any other man Perfe...

Cowards and heroes Listen my friends If you have money Or nothing to spend It'll make no difference In a hundred years or so Sooner or later We all make the little flowers grow Wise men and fools Two 'll get you five You'll never get Out of this wo...

She knew I'd take her side In everything she did Even if it might be wrong That's why she stayed so long She doesn't know it yet And I don't know how I'll tell her That she doesn't need me And what's more, I don't need her We discovered what love means Then...

I know you'll hurt me and it's such a crying shame Cause when I'll die with my last breath I'll call your name I never thought you'd be so cruel Lemme tell you that happens when a fool loves a fool With every breath I take with every kiss I kiss With every te...

If you got a place where the grass is green and the sky is blue and the air is clean and you got a church but you never go that's a white people thing that's a white people thing. If you know your neighbours and you neighbour is good and you like your...

Come on over baby whole lotta shakin' goin' on Yes I say come on over baby baby you can't go wrong We ain't fakin' whole lotta shakin' goin' on Well I say come on over baby we've got chicken in the barn Come on over baby really got the bull by the horns We ain...

Stranger's arms reach out to me cause they know I'm so lonely Then my mind goes back to you your sweet love sees me through Your sweet love sees me through Stranger's eyes see through me they know I need company Then I stop and think of you your sweet l...