Mel Tillis

We're above suspicion both you and I They say that I'm a good girl and that I'm a good guy We belong to others but the power of love Is just too strong for right or wrong even when you're above suspicion Above suspicion but that's what happens when you're tied...

(Love is where you find it when you find no love at home) And there's nothing cold as ashes after the fire is gone The bottle's almost empty the clock just now stuck ten And I just had to call you to our favorite place again (We know it's wrong for us to meet...

Well I live my life on highways, from sea to shining sea So listen to my story, save yourself some agony Forget that urge to wander, like a shadow on the ground Find yourself a woman, get a job and settle down Cause there ain’t no California, where the water...

You think you took her from me but I just gave her to you I never wanted her much anyway all I ever wanted to do Was kiss her lips in the early morn hold her hands while the babies were born Take her off hurt when she got sick get off from work and come home q...

I've tried so hard to keep our home alive but you don't even care that I'm around You tell me that somehow our love has died And you'd rather be set free than be tied down All right I'll sign the papers even though you know I love you so All right I'll sign th...

All the time yes darling all the time tenderly constantly I'll love you Every day I'll prove it every day in happiness or loneliness I'll love you Other arms may tempt me but don't let that worry you For even when they tempt me I'll never be untrue All the tim...

How I'd love to be around you when the lonely night surrounds you How I'd love to be alone with you What I'd give to have the power to read your mind one hour How I'd love to be alone with you Just to be with you one night you and me alone Kiss your lips and h...

When you left I changed the locks on all the doors And I swore I'd never let you in no more But I feel your presence here just like a ghost Each time I lock the door is when I feel it most Am I locking someone out or someone in I've got a feeling you're in the...

I've had to burn most every bridge I've crossed Seems like everyone I've loved I'd lost When I met you I thought my luck had turned But our love's just another bridge to burn. I'll soon light the match and move on I've already lingered much too long Now I'm s...

Friends ask how I'll get along without you they say it's so sad we're apart (And I have to agree that I don't seem like me I'm having a ball with my heart) Anything's better than nothing nothing's not too much to lose Anything's better than nothing nothing's w...

So many times you've told me that you love me And just as many times I found that it's not true So if you've had your fun and you still need someone Come on home to the arms of a fool My foolish eyes still cry when my ears believe a lie And my foolish heart ke...

I go all to pieces at the sight of of you I tried to look the other way when you're around But that takes more strenght than can be found I just get weak as memories pass through I go all to pieces at the sight of of you How could anyone control me so complete...

When the years show in our faces from the thoughtless hand of time And our youth is just a mem'ry to revive (We'll spend many happy hours thumbing through the past desires And we'll bring each tender mem'ry back to life) But every day we live we add a mem'ry a...

The man who preached the funeral said it really was a simple way to die He laied to rest one afternoon and never opened up his eyes They hired me and Fred and Joe to dig the grave and carry up some chairs It took us seven hours and I guess we must've drunk a c...

I thought I had seen pretty girls in my time but that was before I met you I never saw one that I wanted for mine But that was before I met you I thought I was swinging the world by the tail I thought I could never be blue I thought I'd been kissed and I thou...

I look up and there you stand before me Looking so surprised at what you see Did you really think I'd be the same without you And stay the way that you remember me. I had reasons for resisting all temptation And the reason's standing right before me now And I...

I'd like to hold my head up and be proud of who I am But they won't let my secret go untold I paid the debt I owed 'em but they're still not satisfied Now I'm a branded man out in the cold When they let me out of prison I held my head up high Determined I wou...

Well I had me a girl with the golden curles she vowed to treat me right But here I am and I'm all alone on the Brooklyn Bridge tonight On the Brooklyn Bridge tonight A thousand thoughts run through my mind as I watch the city lights My love is gone I'm all alo...

When she left I locked the door and pulled the shades Now I'm living in a six room grave All my reasons for living have died so I'm living buried alive I just exist with nothing but sorrow I don't know if it's today or tomorrow I'm through living with the worl...

(Burning mem'ries burning mem'ries) Tonight I'm burning old love letters photographs and memories of you Hoping somehow I'll feel better and when the smoke is gone I won't want you Burning mem'ries burning mem'ries memories of you that I can't use My heart to...

Carroll County's pointed out as kinda square The biggest thing that happens is the county fair I guess that's why it seemes like such a big event What we all call the Carroll County accident The wreck was on the highway just inside the line Walter Browning los...

Charlies somewhere in the bar and this time he's gone too far Cause she loves him still she's giving up fine While he's spreading on the charm with a new love on his arm Ill be helping Angel make it through the night And I'm holding Charlies Angel tonight I'm...

Keep the cold lonely world to my bedroom for a while Sit here beside my and let me see you smile For when I'm alone minutes are eternity so for a few fleeting moments cling to me Cling to me and let the sunshine of your sweet love come in Before I remember wha...

I called collect on the phone You say your'e tired and alone But it sounds like someone else is lying there She said don't call me no more Don't you knock on my door Its too late now, and I know you'll never change She said... You're just a Coca Cola cowboy Y...

Come on and sing girl sing boy sing a happy song Come on and sing girl sing boy this old world may not last long Most everybody's doin' too much fighting and there's not enough singing going on How many people have you ever seen fight while they were singing...

I was lonely I guess the night that we met in a tavern down on old Broadway And there were tears in her eyes and she whispered a sigh Stranger please take me out of here But it was only commercial affection cause a fool and his money will part Yes it was only...

It's been many years now since mom passed away But there's lots of sweet mem'ries that I have today And when I see autumn and leaves turning brown I feel like mama is somewhere around Don't forget to cover my flowers I still hear my sweet mother say Be sure to...

Now blue ain't the world for the way that I feel And the storm's brewing in this heart of mine This ain't no crazy dream I know that it's real You're someone else's love now you're not mine Crazy arms that reach to hold somebody new For my yearning heart keeps...

I remember when I was a lad times were hard and times were bad But there's a silver lining behind every cloud Just poor people that's all we were tryin' to make a livin' out of black land dirt We'd get together in a family circle sing out loud (Daddy sang bass...

There's a girl in a barroom we all know her well Her name it's the story that some may like to tell She may be young and pretty with lips red as wine A girl whose eyes reflect the years no makeup can't hide In her world walk the lonely the rejected and condemn...

I wanna go home I wanna go home oh Lord I wanna go home Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City And I dreamed about those cottonfields and home I dreamed about my mother dear old papa sister and brother And I dreamed about the girl that's been waiting for s...

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

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

Hear that whistle it's ten o'clock (don't let go don't let go) Come on Sherry it's time to rock (don't let go don't let go) Well, I'm so happy I've got you here (don't let go don't let go) Keeps me grinnin' from ear to ear (don't let go don't let go.) Oowee,...

Down down down came the world I went round round round round in a whirl I built every dream around one girl then down down down came the world She must have loved a little just to keep me hanging on How could lips that kiss so sweet lie and be so wrong Our lo...

Emotions what are you doin' oh don't you know you'll be my ruin You've got me crying crying again when will you let this heartache end Emotions you get me upset make me remember what I won't to forget I've been so lonely lonely too long emotions please leave m...

I must have been through about a million girls I'd love 'em then I'd leave 'em alone I didn't care how much they cried, no sir Their tears left me cold as a stone But then I fooled around and fell in love I fooled around and fell in love, yes I did I foo...

Oh the games people now every night and every day now Never meanin' what they say now never sayin' what they mean They just wile away the hours in their ivory towers Till they're covered up with flowers in the back of a black limousine Lotten da la da da...

I know I promised months ago that I divorce my wife And you say you're tired of living in this sin But please be patient and don't leave I'm just too ashamed to face it For you she stood by me through thick and thin Just give me one more day and then I'll tell...

Goodbye Lou cherche vous another man Say l'amour, portoujour if you can You're high class, you've got a past Now you're a wheel ho ho, good deal Lucille Go your way, leave today, that's your plan Leave me here, cherche vous another man Paint the town, sorrows...

Well I've been reeling around Wheeling West Virginia just a little too long Well I gotta be leaving cause one deceiving free wheeling woman done me wrong And it's goodbye Wheeling West Virginia no I don't guess I'll settle down Since she don't need me Lord I c...

Guide me home my Georgia moon Well I left my home in Georgia cought the lights of New York town But my pockets soon were empty now my luck it sure is down I'm looking at that southern moon through the glow of neon lights If that Georgia moon will guide me then...

I love you so much that I can't leave you even though my mind tells me I should But then you make me think you really want me Then all my thoughts of leaving do no good You've got me heart over mind worried all the time Knowing you will always be the same You...

Heartache number one was when you left me I never knew that I could hurt this way And heartache number two was when you came back again You came back and never meant to stay Now I've got heartaches by the number, troubles by the score Every day you love me le...

Everybody let's go Hearts of stone will never never break for the love you give they just won't take You can ask them please please please please break And all of your love is there to take Yes the hearts of stone will cause you pain Although you love them the...

If an angel wears a housewife's dress And fills a home with happiness One wakes me gently every morning And serves my coffee with a kiss My life is heaven everyday Because of all the love you give Your smile drives all my cares away And makes life heaven ever...

When the light from the beer sign shines on your face It shines on your wedding ring too And I know you consider telling me about him So consider what I'm telling you There are songs for a quarter on every jukebox Songs of cheatin' and back street affair...

I'd like to make everyday with you a holiday for love Every hour of the day you're all I'm a thinkin' of All week along when you're gone I sit around so blue I just can't wait on Saturday that's my holiday with you Monday Tuesday Wednesday wonder if you miss m...

We're well known in every honky tonk in town Not a night goes by that we don't make the rounds People wonder why we choose to live this way Why don't they ever stay at home I hear them say But home is where our hurt is cause love doesn't live there anymore Yes...

Well if you're sad and lonely and got no place to go Call me up sweet mama and bring along some dough And we'll go honky tonkin' honky tonkin' we'll go honky tonkin' honey baby We'll go honky tonkin' round this town Well if you and your sweet daddy have a fal...

Well I ain't never I ain't never Seen nobody like you no no no never have I ever seen nobody like you You call me up and say to meet me at nine I have to hurry hurry but I'm there on time I walk a right up and knock on your door the landlord says she ain't a h...

Everybody says you let me down I should be ashamed to take you round Makes no difference what you used to do darling I could never be ashamed of you Maybe you were reckless yesterday but together we can find a brighter way In my heart I know that you'll come t...

Hey baby, let me see your brand new saddle Let's that pretty thing up on my horse Let's get it on real tight now 'Cause we don't want you falling off Well, I got the horse and you got the saddle We like to ride side by side Aw, I got the horse and she got the...

While walking one day in the country I saw a gathering crowd And as my footsteps threw me closer I smell a sweet fragrance of flowers That looked like a family reunion and my eyes not counted the tears And the no man said by the graveside I haven't seen Mary i...

Well I was raised on corn bread and gravy I slept in a cardboard box till I was nearly three I bathed myself in muddy river runnin' by our shack By the time that I had reached thirteen I'd been through hell and back And I've been thrown from pillar to post I'v...

They're not teardrops just sincere drops they're I love you drops cause I love you They were on my pillow when I woke up this morning They were on the letter I tried all day to write And just a little while ago I saw them falling on your picture as I kissed it...

I thought about walkin' thought about talkin' thought about singin' singin' the blues Thought about tryin' once I even thought of dyin' But baby most of all I thought about you Thought of just bein' people I'm seein' thought about doin' the things they do Thou...

The first strange town I was ever in the county was hanging a man Nobody cared if he lived or died and I just didn't understand So I washed my face in the morning dew bathed my soul in the sun Washed my face in the morning dew and kept on moving along The sec...

Standin' on the corner of a busy street I'm lookin' for your face in every crowd I see Checking every honky tonk in this town Tryin' to find the places that you hang around Oh Lord I'm tired tired of living this a way Now I've been waitin' on you baby night an...

Now if I could only start over and have a new life to begin I wouldn't live like a rover and drift like a leaf in the wind Cause I'm dreaming tonight of old sweethearts and believe me I've had quite a few But I never dreamed of old sweethearts the way that I d...

If I lost your love oh how I'd cry I'd wish I could die if I lost your love You are to me a sweet dream come true don't know what I'd do if I lost your love I'm sure that my heart would break if you said It's best that we'll part cause our love is dead I live...

Just one more dance just one more chance so I can talk to you Don't live too fast forget the past and I will try to prove I would do anything you want me to Don't run around don't turn me down let me talk to you Don't go too far with that crowd at the bar That...

If she seems cold and bitter I beg of you Just stop and consider all she's gone through Don't be quick to condemn her for things she might say Just remember life turned her that way She's been stepped on and walked on so many times And I hate to admit it but...

Woke up this morning, found you were gone; Sitt'n here wondering where you are. Looked in the closet and under the stove; Checked the garage and trunk of the car. And I know, any day now; You'll be back, You'll jump from hiding, And then you'll attack; You'll...

If mem'ries were gathered like flowers each day I would pick a bouquet To last through these long lonely hours but mem'ries aren't gathered that way For mem'ries don't grow like the roses when kissed by the sunshine and dew And mem'ries aren't carefully chosen...

I'm prayin' for rain in California so the grapes can grow and they can make more wine And I'm a sittin' in a honky in Chicago with a broken heart and a woman on my mind I match the man behind the bar about the jukebox And the music takes me back to Tennessee W...

Stomp stomp them grapes and make that wine Put it in a bottle boy and ship it on down the line I got up this morning and made it downtown Started mighty early just makin' my rounds Well I had me a woman she left me alone I got to lose these blues before I tak...

Now life is filled with ups and downs and we both had our share And everytime I slip and fall you're still there to care (Together we can stand against the world as it goes turning And we'll go on through life together living and learning) Let's call all the f...

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa Giddy up, giddy up, giddy up steed In the mornin' you will get A bale of loco weed Now ole Jimmy Jackie was a ring tail tooter He could shoot nine times from a colt 6 shooter He got a wild one night and he threw his a lasso Surrou...

Do you remember me lonely girl in your guilty memory My love you traded for the night world where all your dreams met with tragedy Now do you remember how I love you so On my knees I cry and I beg you please don't go Now it's too late for us lonely girl and I'...

Don't know what I'm gonna do since my baby said we're through I've really got a case of blue oh I walk the Lonely Street Ever since she said goodbye all I do is sit and cry And that's the only reason why oh I walk the Lonely Street Well she would give a litt...

My name's in the paper where I took the boy scouts to hike My hands're all dirty from working on my little boy's bike The preacher came by and I talked for a minute with him My wife's in the kitchen and Margie's at the Lincoln Park Inn And I know why she's th...

Oh Mary don't you weep for me oh Mary just await for me The war's gonna soon be over oh Mary don't you weep Jimmy sent a letter to his bride back home for three long years he's been gone He left her crying on her wedding day And went to fight the battle of th...

Everywhere there's a memory mem'ries made this house The chairs and the table standing in the corner it seems were always filled With good food and happy people where laughter used to live I look at the cast through tear filled eyes at the marks our baby's Nel...

Walkin' all over this lonely city Nothing in my heart but I could stand pity 'Cause I'm still in love with a girl that didn't do me right But there ain't no way for me to forget her I ain't never been cheated any better And I'll bet she's cheatin' someone els...

I hope the friend you've thrown yourself with gets drunk and loses his job And that the road you're walking on gets cold rocky and hard I couldn't make you love me you only made me blue So all in all should the curtain fall I hope it falls on you I hope it fal...

Long train rumbles low in the distance hear it blow Don't engineers know I miss you? And they're reminding me how lonely nights can be When it's midnight, me and the blues Car's going down the street, no traffic jams to meet This time of night they'll drive r...

Missing you can't help but wish that you were in my arms tonight making love to me Kissing you that's all I want to do it never seems just right now that we are apart I always spend my time just writing lines to you Can't wait for you to write saying you love...

Well I dropout the school when I was young I thought living was just all fun Then I met trouble in every turn Now I'm one step away from being a bum Lord I tried everything within my power But I can't make but just a dollar an hour You can't make a living on t...

He was a man and a friend always he stuck with me in the hard old days He never cared if I had no dough we rambled round in the rain and snow And here's to you my ramblin' boy may all your ramblin' bring you joy And here's to you my ramblin' boy may all your r...

You are my special angel sent from up above The Lord smiled down on me and sent an angel to love You are my special angel right from paradise I know that you're an angel heaven is in your eyes The smile from your lips brings the summer sunshine The tears from...

She's a rose where roses never grow Behind the swinging doors she pours the wine that flows She keeps on pretending that she's having fun But it's a blue, blue rose that grows beneath the neon sun She's my sunshine lady Maybe just a little bit shady Someday I...

Now and then an old friend tries to help me By telling me there's someone that I should meet Hey, but I don't have the heart to start all over 'Cause my heart is laying at another's feet You just don't put new patches on old garments Hey, I don't want no one...

Take that night train to Memphis take that night train to Memphis And when you arrive at the station I'll be right there to meet you I'll be right there to greed you So don't turn down my invitation Hallelujah hallelujah I'll be shoutin' hallelujah all the day...

Honey bee loves the honey chickadee loves the sky Everybody loves somebody but no love have I no love have I Standing on the corner lovers pass me by How my heart is crying cause no love have I no love have I Every night in my prayers I pray for some lost love...

Normally Norma's kissing me just about this time every morning With the wink in her eye she whispers goodbye Then she tells me somethin' sweet and knocks me off of my feet And normally Norma thinks of me as just as the swellest guy in the world Oh but normally...

I always called her old faithful she was always there when I came home And I never thought the day would come she'd leave me But for me those kind of thinking days are gone Cause old faithful ain't faithful anymore she's stepping out to even up the score She's...

(Lord they're on their way on their way) Saw a man an angry man killed his brother with his own hands Brother laid on the ground sinner man you'd better kneel down He's on his way Lord on his way on his way Lord on his way He's on his way Lord on his way oh oh...

See that house across the street from this barroom bottle The people who live in it I love so So I come here every night and I pray that I'll see them Think I'll have one more drink and then I'll go There's the lights in her bedroom tonight bottle just like me...

I wonder what the power is that you hold over me I never get to love you long just your memory And I make a vow each time you leave that this will draw the line Then you come back and just like now I'm falling one more time One more time my lips may kiss you o...

You were mine for just a while, Now you're puttin' on the style And you've never once looked back At your home across the track. You're the gossip of the town But my heart can still be found Where you tossed it on the ground. Pick me up on your way down. Pick...

You tell me pretendin' that it's only a game Say that I never loved you or that you have my name But no matter what happens I can't lie to my heart I die just a little everyday we're apart Why should I pretended in this land that's so free All that matters is...

All your poison love has stained the life blood in my heart and soul dear And I know my life will never be the same All my pleas and prayers have been in vain for you and you alone dear And you know that you are guilty of a shame Into each life a love is born...

You've painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair Ruby are you contemplating goin' out somewhere The shadow on the wall tells me the sun is going down Oh Ruby don't take your love to town It wasn't me that started that old crazy Asian war But...

Well, once I was a slave at the sawmill Talk about a poor boy, talk about a poor boy Never saw a dollar bill Well, my work was so hard at the sawmill Think about a poor boy, think about a poor boy When you go to write your will Well, seen my teardrops fallin...

No one wants to go down to Tucson in the summer So this time the boss chose me I’ve been sort of restless yes he thought it might help if I got away from my wife and family There’s been no other woman since the mother of my children And in each and every way...

Pour me hard liquor over soft music at a table with only one chair From the first lonely song till the last drop is gone she'll be hanging round somewhere She may appear like an angel through a smoky crowd Or fall in a teardrop I can't hold back now Pour me h...

Grab you stuff and let's go; It's Saturday night, tTime to bowl! Put the pins in a row; I'll bowl a strike, Before I get old! Two a.m. down at the alley, Three beers in my tummy, Four old ladies named Sally, Five dollars says I'll Ba-ba-ba-bang one!!! Shine,...

I've been a lot of places and I've seen a lot of faces I've crossed a lot of bridges and I've even branded through But when I look behind me the only thing that blinds me Is a tear that I cry over you Cause you are something special to me something special as...

Well I was born in a tumbled down shack one quarter of a mile from a railroad track Mama was a drifter daddy was a bum and they didn't want a little hobo son But things do happen and here I am just outside of Birmingham Train's slowing down and I'm gonna jump...

They say my tears come from the bottle that stands beside me all the time But I wonder if they know the sorrow that always overtakes the wine I drink to find forgetful valleys where I can leave old memories behind But always just before I reach them sorrow ove...

Sometimes my soul gets weary and my mind begins to wonder And like that old train "The Hummingbird" it goes to Alabam They say home is where the heart is and mine is down in Dixie And when you go down to Dixie you're heading for higher ground (Southern rain) b...

Stand beside me behind me so loneliness can't find me I need your love to make it from now on Stand before me and with me so sorrow's hand can't touch me Without your love I know I won't last long I'm reaching out my soul to you my heart my hand my all for you...

Well the Japany's moon is bright tonight and Tokio is full of life Busy people everywhere but busy people just don't care I wanna go stateside oh Lord I wanna go stateside In and out the honky tonks but nothing's there I really want Sat awhile and look around...

Well, you've all seen my little blue-eyed Sally She lives a-way down on Shinbone Alley The number on the gate and the number on the door The next house over is the grocery store Stay all night, stay a little longer Dance all night, dance a little longer Pull...

Stomp, stomp them grapes and make that wine Put it in a bottle, boys, and ship it on down the line Well, I got up this morning and made it downtown Started mighty early just makin' my rounds Well, I had me a woman she left me alone I got to lose these blues b...

Infant turtles racing to the sea seagulls screeching crying hungr'ly Twisting kicking jerking in their craws oh wonder why God made these kind of laws Preachers preaching loudly on the streets While deaf and dumb men cannot hear or speak Twisted legs can't cha...

Standing alone at an old country crossroad Wondering which way will lead me to home Ever so weary from chasing a dream Thinking of Mary sweet Mary and the miles in between Crossroads around me tell me you found me Found me to lead me to the end of my dreams Th...

I slipped out of the house about sundown while mama was a washing her hair And you can bet your bottom dollar she'll come looking for me When she finds that I'm not there And if she catches her sweet thang out runnin' around I know there'll be the debit to pay...

You're the sweetest mistake I ever made I've heard it said your life is strewn with broken hearts Of fools like me who make mistakes and aren't very smart But I took the chance and threw my life away For you're the sweetest mistake I ever made You're the sweet...

Take my hand and walk with me along life's road in harmony My body's warm my heart is free take my hand and walk with me Take the love I offer you all I want is your love to Happiness is all I see take my hand and walk with me (You're the reason that I live I...

Waitin' waitin' for the redcoats to come But all I hear in my frozen ears is ten thousand drums Ten thousand drums Johnny Johnny don't be afraid We can whip those redcoats settin' in the shade Settin' in the shade We've got the best of all the rest of Genereal...

Well there's nothing quite like Texas on a Saturday night Nothin' can compare to it no matter how you try Nevada never closes New York City's got bright lights But it's nothing quite like Texas on a Saturday night Everybody's goin' San Antonio on a Saturday ni...

Maybe tomorrow I won't come home maybe you won't even care At seven you'll throw a kiss toward the door and smile at my empty chair For there's nothing here for a man to cling to nothing to keep me at home Only a girl that's a stranger to me breathing on flame...

Oh boy that's where my money goes I've got a gal in Monroeville she won't dance but her sister will Oh boy that's where my money goes And I've got a gal out in Florida she won't swing but the show will sway Oh boy that's where my money goes Work my fingers to...

The old gang's gone I'm the only one that's left And I guess that it's about time I moved on out myself Cause there ain't no use in hanging round a town that's grown so cold With its used-to-be's and its memories it makes a man feel old My friends have wed an...

(If you're leaving in the morning don't wake me up to say goodbye I'll be dreaming back of you or so back to our first hello And don't want to wake up just to cry) I'll just kiss you for the last time if you're asleep you'll never know I'll tuck the covers rou...

Any girl who hangs out in a honky tonk who smokes my cigarettes and drinks my wine Some call her a bad girl but to me she means the world Cause she's holding these lonely hands of mine She listens while I cry on her shoulder she runs her slender fingers throu...

There's a thoudand miles in back of me and many more to go Ridin' on a freight train feeling mighty low I keep a wonderin' why she quit me but I guess I'll never know Yes she used to be my baby a thousand miles ago A thousand miles ago I started feeling bad Ca...

Hang down your head Tom Dooley hang down your head and cry Hang down your head Tom Dooley poor boy you're bound to die I met her on the mountain there I took her life Met her on the mountain and stubbed her with my knife Oh boys now hang down your head Tom Do...

Go on look down your righteous nose at me But you've made me everything that I've turned out to be In very few words I can tell you where everything went wrong Two arms two lips too lonely too long Two arms that almost died from loneliness Two lips that cried...

Come on and write write write me a letter send that letter by mail Send that letter in care of the Tupelo County jail Come on and wish me the best of love dear there's no one to go my bail There's never been a place so lonely as the Tupelo County jail Fill th...

As I walked through my garden today picking flowers for a pretty bouquet Never many shades of blue white lilies and violets too But I've picked these long stem roses just for you I'm sending roses twelve long stem roses will you not let them wither and die I'v...

Well how can you have the unmitigated gal to come back now expecting me to fall Right down on my knees and kiss your feet yeah feet Feet that one day went a walkin' out on me with a fast talkin' Slob you hardly knew his name your mind is de-arranged And where...

A violet fell in love with a rose and started it flashing from its head to its toe Then one day the rose was kissed by the dew A new love was born and the violet turned blue Roses are red violets are blue I'm sending red red roses to you If you care to send so...

I'm like a cloud driftin' from town to town and each new love just helps me on my way No one woman's ever gonna tie me down When one gets too close I just back up and say Well I gotta be walkin' on new grass singin' a new song Tomorrow there's no telling where...

Mama's workin' now I'm playing games it's sunny outside but I don't care if it rains Cause soon she'll be back home where I want her to be And it's hard to add one and one and make it three Daddy went away some time ago and though it seems so long I love him s...

There she lies still sleeping Dreaming the whole world is in her hands What she thought was love last night Was just the wine and the weakness in a man But now the passion's gone and all that's left Is cold gray facts and cold gray morning light As I promptly...

I tried so hard to make you love me and all alone your love's been dying I'll let you go because there's nothing I can do what's the use in just me trying I'd give the world just to hold you if you could say you love me without lying I know there's no chance f...

If my years were less if my shoes were new I'd pack my things and I'd leave you Hitch myself to some westbound train you'd never see me again If I could dream as I once could I'd be gone it'd be good I don't want to live haven't never try in some old house whe...

Cross the table over coffee just this morning My woman caught me by surprice without a warning She said honey you talked in your sleep and then she began to weep And she said tell me now and tell me truly who's Julie With a blank look on my face I searched my...

Wine pretty red wine pretty red wine pretty red wine pretty red wine It cost me my family cost me my home and gave me a dark dirty street to roam Made me a drifter made me a bum a lookin' for a hand out a lookin' for a chum To get wine pretty red wine pretty r...

I'm the center of attention in this barroom Cause I've got a biggest heartache of the year And each night those swinging doors reach out for me and draw me in Cause they know each night that I'll come back to wine me up again Wine me up turn me on and watch me...

I see my wife working, ironin' my shirts And my mind goes to another day And to another woman who might have been my wife If things hadn't turned out this way Lord knows I love her but I often wonder If fate should pull back the blind How would my wife feel i...

World what have I done to make you frown on me to cast me endlessly Into your variety what have I done what have I done World what have I done to numb my brain with wine to lose all track of time To know no peace of mind what have I done what have I done I can...

It takes a worried man to sing a worried song I'm worried now but I won't be worried long Well this train I ride is twenty one coaches long This train I ride is twenty one coaches long This train I ride is twenty one coaches long The one I love she's on that t...

I've been a saint I've been a sinner I've been a loser I've been a winner You name it and I claim it that's me I've been up I've been down I've been stranded many of town Oh you name it honey I'm gonna claim it that's me Now if there's a situation I ain't been...

Your kind of living has got me to wishing that I had never even heard your name While my name you're wearing with barroom trash a sharing Dragging it down down down just as low as you can Your kind of living has got me to giving consideration to leavin' this o...

My children come sit here and hold to daddy's hands For I must tell you something that I don't understand Lately we've been living in the shadows of surprise Since I'm not the only man in your mother's eyes I can't say it's my fault and I won't say it's hers C...

May the fruit of my toil be yours love may the food from my soil be yours love And from this moment on may a love that is strong and lives on and on be yours love May the sons that I raise be yours love may the comforts I praise be yours love If I ever get wea...