Merle Haggard

There's been some things that I've wanted to say a long time Never have I spent a day without you on my mind And I've tried a lot of songs and I need to try one that's new But I don't have any more love songs to try on you We just can't ever get it tog...

In our bedroom there's a portrait done in different shades of gray That I penciled out before you broke my heart In the sketch we're arm in arm but in the background there's a storm It was soon to come and tear my world apart And before my days are over...

Oh, the love you promised would be mine forever I would have bet my bottom dollar on Well, it sure turned out to be a short forever Just once I turned my back and you were gone From now on all my friends are gonna be strangers I'm all through, ever trust...

When you're all alone and blue No one to tell your troubles to Remember me, I'm the one who loves you When this whole world has turned you down Not a true friend can be found Remember me, I'm the one who loves you And through all kinds of weather My love wil...

Think about a lullaby Baby, close your eyes Don't cry Think about a lullaby Let me sing you off to sleep Let Daddy pray your soul to keep It's safe here with your Mom and I Think about a lullaby Think about a butterfly Think about a lullaby Think about a clo...

I got those 5:01 blues another work day is over Time to go home but no one to go home to That whistle just blew bad news I'll punch out and put in Another long night again, missin' you I got these 5:01 blues I used to watch that old clock on the wall W...

(spoken) Got a call tonight Sayin' we could still be friends What a way to say goodbye What a way to end They say the darkest hour Is just before dawn So I'll just hold my head up And try to sing my song Better love next time Just don't let me lose my mind Al...

I dreamed I saw Jesus last night seated on a mountain in the moonlight. His hands held a key to a cabin that cabin I'd dreamed of all my life. Money makes the rules we have to live by. A home is just a place they send the bills. God knows why we work and...

L.A. Traffic is bad this time of year But there's a friend of yours in California Sure wishes you were here And as you lay your head on your pillow tonight just remember There's a friend of yours in California sure misses you You've got a friend in Cali...

I can hardly stand the sight of lipstick on the cigarettes there in the ashtray. Lying cold the way you left them, but at least your lips caressed them while you packed. Or the lip print on a half-filled cup of coffee that you poured and didn't drink. But at l...

For years we both have lived on pride, dear And we agree that love is gone Why, oh, why do we keep trying? A house without love is not a home The love light in your eyes has faded And I'm contented just to roam We slaved to gain a worthless treasure A...

Riches do not come in silver and in gold It comes in the happiness you find I place my gold and silver before my precious queen But now there's only memories left behind If you never lost a loved one Then you'll know just what I mean For what good are treasur...

I'll probably never see you eye to eye again This letter's meant to be my last farewell But you need to understand I'm nearly crazy You need to know my life has gone to hell Write me back and tell me why it ended Send a letter that I can show my heart...

For years I've been bustin' my rear To make a livin' but it ain't made For years I've been tryin' to pay off my bills But they ain't paid Oh, every dime I make, every soul I know The higher up I reach, the further down I go And this old broken back of mine is...

When the show is over and everyone is gone That's when this lonely feelin' comes along Everybody loves me while the show is goin' on But I need someone to love me after I sing all my songs I smile and play the music while they just cheer me on But this e...

Last night I held your body close to mine And I felt the thrill of loving you for the first time It's so good to know the feeling hasn't changed After loving you I still feel the same. The night is over and I still need you even more I know I've finally found...

I woke up with her in my arms this morning And God knows I love her over all As she whispered she loved me your memory appeared Ain't your money got no pride at all Tonight as I lay here touching her sweet body And the good familiar feeling I recall As...

All of me belongs to you all the time You're the only one that's ever on my mind There's no way that I would ever be untrue There's not one single part of me That don't miss you through and through 'Cause all of me belongs to you Eyes are worthless 'c...

Most of my lfe I've been runnin' around Playin' and havin' a ball And maybe I've been on a party too long These mem'ries are fond to recall You see we've got this thing About women smokin' and good alcohol Now I'm lookin' for a homelife And clean smellin'...

Last night all alone in a barroom Met a girl with a drink in her hand. She had ruby red lips, coal black hair And eyes that would tempt any man. Then she came and sat down at my table, And as she placed her soft hands in mine, I found myself wanting to kiss...

Always late with your kisses Won't you come to my arms, sweet darling, and stay? Always late with your kisses Why, oh why, do you want to do me this way? How long do you think I can wait When you know you're always late? 

Always wanting you, but never having you, Makes it hard to face tomorrow 'cause I Know I'll wake up wanting you again. Always loving you, but never touching you, Sometimes hurts me almost more than I can stand. I'd been better off if I'd turned away and...

If he ever gets to you I know he'll ignite the flame And it hurts to know How close he really came Last night you both kept dancing When the music ceased to play Is it all over? Do you still love me Or am I standing in your way? Tell me the way feel...

Amazing grace, how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me I once was lost but now am found Was blind but now I see It was grace that taught my heart to fear And grace my fears relieved And how precious did that grace appear The hour I first believe Thro...

If the 'Amber Waves Of Grain' should disappear And there were no wheat or barley anywhere Would we buy our bread and butter from the Toyota man Would an Idaho spud be stamped 'Made In Japan' The farm just won't get tended, if the farmer isn't here And the 'Amb...

Why don't we liberate these United States, We're the ones that need it worst. Let the rest of the world help us for a change, And let's rebuild America first. Our highways an' bridges are fallin' apart: Who's blessed an' who has been cursed? There's things to...

I was a stranger passing through your town Honey, I was a stranger passing through your town When I asked you a favor, good gal you turned me down Sure did You may see me talking, walking down that railroad track You may see me talking, walking down that rail...

I was a buck was still silver It was back when the country was strong Back before Elvis Before the Vietnam war came along Before The Beatles and 'Yesterday' When a man could still work, still would The best of the free life behind us now And are the go...

Are you lonesome tonight do you miss me tonight Are you sorry we drifted apart Does your memory stray to a bright summer day When I held you and called you sweetheart Do the chairs in your parlor seem empty and bare Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me...

You must remember this A kiss is still a kiss A sigh is just a sigh The fundamental things apply As time goes by. And when two lovers woo They still say: "I love you." On that you can rely No matter what the future brings As time goes by. Moonlight and love...

I guess my heart had settled back to her I rode a dream so wild and free for all that dream was worth But true love is both, a blessing and a curse Today my heart just settled back to earth Now I know just how you felt that night so long ago For the dream for...

Now it's back to the barrooms Right back to drinkin' again Someday you'll love me enougn to stay with me And whiskey won't be my best friend But now it's back to the barrooms again The bartender knows me, he knows how you do me And he knows why I'm back...

I've never been much at making believe, Don't have any tricks hidden up my sleeve. If life is a comedy, where's all the laughter? 'Cause here on the stage I'm a bad actor. I don't know what you want me to know. So I'll take the small parts in our family show....

Hey, I want to sing till the feeling gets right Well, let's harmonize, we'll be dynamite I'll yodel the high notes, I've done it for years Good deal old buddy and I'll pour the beer There's always some lady alone at the bar Yeah and you always let her kn...

Won't you come along with me To the Mississippi We'll take a boat to the land of dreams Steam down the river, down to New Orleans The band's there to meet us Old friends there to greet us Where all the proud and elite folks meet Heaven on earth, they call it...

What makes something you can't have always look so good Why'd do something out of reach seem so fine What makes you thrill me more than any girl I know I guess it's just because you can't be mine Why can't I be contented with what belongs to me And be s...

Well, I learned how to walk and I learned how to run in Bakersfield Should've fone time over things I'd done in Bakersfield I tasted my first taste of romance in Bakersfield I learned how to fight and I learned how to dance in Bakersfield Dancin' on Beer...

I read, they're havin' rain in California And Lord, I hope that you're not gettin' wet That's the only way on earth I have for knowin' how you're doin' When you left, you said, you call but you ain't yet And I think I was better off when I was hungry And fig...

In the town of Louisville They got a man called Big Bad Bill I want to tell you he sure was tough Yeah, all folks scared to death When he walked by they held their breath He was a mighty man sure enough Now Bill took himself a wife Now he's a different guy...

I wish things were simple like they used to be When cowboys rode horses, and were heroes to me My Mother was a lady, and my Dad was a man And I wish things were simple again I wish things were simple, like when I was a kid A man just got paid for the work tha...

I'm tired of this dirty old city Entirely too much work and never enoug play And I'm tired of these dirty old sidewalks Think I'll walk off my steady job today Turn me loose set me free Somewhere in the middle of Montana And gimme all I've got comin' to me A...

I came back to find my Annie'd moved away To some town in California close in something Somewhere else to East L.A. Don't think finding her was easy 'Cause something sure had changed my Tulsa girl But I came here to show my love And try to understand h...

Bakersfield An oil town that really had it's boon during the heart of the depression And Bakersfield also destined to become somewhat of a center for country music And even as back as the early 50's it began to gain national recognition For the popularity of s...

Billy never made the football team 'Cause Billy's size was small But Billy's brother was a mighty lad And played a lot of high school ball And Billy's daddy never favored him He catered to the bigger guys But later on in a bigger way Billy overcame his size...

I'll have a blue Christmas without you I'll be so blue just thinking about you Decorations of red, on a green Christmas tree Won't mean a thing if, if you're not here with me I'll have a blue Christmas, that's certain And when all those blue heartaches start...

They's some of you in the audience that may or may not know I wasn't actually born here in Muskogee But my family on my mother's side lived here for many years And I think most all of my dad's folks were born in between here and Checotah somewhere And around B...

One of these mornings I'm sure gonna leave this town One of these mornings I'm sure gonna leave this town 'Cause a triflin' woman sure keeps a good man down. Yes, she left me this morning midnight was turning day She left me this morning midnight was turning...

If you've ever seen that ole Mississippi The queen of the delta land Then you'll understand Why I've got the blues for Dixie If you've ever been to Tennessee When that old cotton field is white In pale moonlight Then you've had the blues for Dixie If you've...

Blues, stay away from me Blues, why don't you let me be? Don't know why you keep on haunting me Love was never meant for me True love was never meant for me Seems somehow we never can agree Life is full of misery Dreams are like a memory Bringing back your l...

Bobby wants a puppy dog for Christmas I know you plan to bring electric trains Bobby wants a puppy dog for Christmas That's the only song we hear him sing Santa, please remember Bobby's lonely The closest neighbour's farm is quite a ways And the country schoo...

Each night I leave the bar room when it's over Not feeling any pain at closing time But tonight your memory found me much too sober Couldn't drink enough to keep you off my mind Tonight the bottle let me down And let your memory come around The one true frie...

My brain is cloudy, my soul is upside down Yeah, my brain is cloudy, my soul is upside down When I get that low down feeling I know the blues must be some place around Well, you got to treat me right day by day Get out your little prayer book, get on upon you...

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 them,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 wo...

Well, let me tell you about a song that's just right to put ya'll in a good mood It's the old Bob Willis number Bring It On Down To My House Honey And if I can just hit on the fiddle it goes like this One, two a one, two, three. [Instrumental] Well, bring it...

Bartender come over here I want to buy the next round of beer Boys name your poison, don't nobody pass We're all brother of a bottle an' glass. The happiest moment that I've ever known Was the day that she told me she would be my own But the bluest moment tha...

About the time the late and great Jimmie Rodgers Career came to an end Another young fella by the name of Bob Wills Was makin' preparations to become a legend in his own time Somewhere round about 1934 He formed the group called the Texas Playboys With the he...

C.C.Waterback, one tequila sunrise One's for my achin' head, the other's for my bloodshot eyes And last night I let it all hang out, I guess that's how my head got sore C.C. Waterback, I can't stand the pain no more Last night we got invited to a party at the...

Well I'm goin' to California Where they sleep out every night I'm goin' to California Where they sleep out every night I'm leaving you, mama 'Cause you know you don't treat me right Let me tell you somethin' Mama, that you don't know Let me tell you somethin'...

My driftin' memory goes back to the spring of '43, When I was just a child in momma's arms. My daddy plowed the ground and promised someday we would leave This run-down mortgaged Oklahoma farm. Then one night I heard my daddy sayin' to my momma That he'd final...

I'm so young and you're so old This, my darling, I've been told I don't care just what they say 'Cause forever I will pray You and I, we will be as free As the birds up in the trees Oh, please stay by me, Diana Thrills I get when you hold me close Oh my darl...

Carolyn let me tell you what I heard about a man today He didn't come home from work and he went away 'Til he came to a city, bright in the night time like day There they say he met with some women dressed in yellow and scarlet Their warm lips like a honeycomb...

I remember you loved me with all of your heart And I know your's as well as my own I know you still need me and you're out there somewhere And maybe you're cold and alone. I'm carryin' fire carryin' fire Burning for you a raging desire I'm out of contro...

One night when the moon was bright on the moonlit bay That is where I found my little Cherokee maid The memory of the that night of love, is lingering yet And I know I never will forget My little Cherokee maiden, I love her so And though we're far apart...

Seems like every November When the weather gets bad I start to remember All the good times we had The long nights get longer I Wish an friend would come by The forecast is zero And the chill factors high You know the chill factors higher On a cold wi...

When I was young man I worked on my own You had the big chore Of makin' a home Now that I'm the keeper Of all that was yours I'm head of the family And I'm boss of the chores Living without you Is a chore on its own I understand what all you did Now that you...

Just as I am without one plea but that Thy blood was shed for me And that Thou bid'st me come to Thee oh lamb of God I come I come Just as I am and waiting not to rid my soul of one dark blot To Thee who's blood can cleanse each spot oh lamb of God I come I co...

There's a place where Mother Nature's got it all together She knows just when to let wild flowers bloom Somehow she always seems to know exactly what she's doin' And the Lord saw fit to furnish elbow room Have you ever been down to Colorado? I spend a lot of...

So your mama taught you right from wrong And you wouldn't want to disappoint her But you been lonesome a way too long And what you don't know really won't hurt her But don't be afraid to get out of the cold Come on in where it's warm 'Cause you know I wouldn'...

Corrine, Corrina, where you been so long? Corrine, Corrina, where you been so long? I ain't had no lovin' since you've been gone Corrine, Corrina Corrine, Corrina Corrine, Corrina I love you so I love Corrina, tell the world I do I love Corrina, tell the wor...

Sweet Maggie sweet Maggie where you bin so long Tell me sweet Maggie where you bin so long There hasn’t bin no lovin since you bin gone. Sweet Maggie sweet Maggie where’d you stay last night Sweet Maggie sweet Maggie where’d you stay last night You come home...

Yeah, sittin' on this plow day dreamin' thinkin' of the weeks to come Ole cotton patch is hot can't think of a worse spot To be on a hot summer day Next week I will get my hoe down and hit the field at break of day That will be so sad my feet will hurt so bad...

Crazy moon, you shine just like there's nothing wrong Crazy moon, don't you know my baby's gone? I told her she could leave or change her tune Crazy me Crazy moon Crazy moon, don't you know that she's not here? Crazy moon, can't you see that I still care? And...

Now you say you love me But you cry the whole night through You can cry me a river oh yes you're goin' to cry me a river 'cause I cried a river over you Now you say you're sorry for being so untrue You may cry a river You may cry me a river I cried a river...

There's two nails in the wall above the door in the hall Where Dad's old fiddle hung for twenty years I recall as just a boy how my heart would beat with joy When Daddy would play the song I loved to hear And Daddy would play Daddy never left us any will tell...

Chorus] Daddy Frank played the guitar and the french harp Sister played the ringing tambourine Mama couldn't hear our pretty music But she read our lips and helped the family sing That little band was all a part of living And our only means of living at the ti...

Daddy won't be home again for Christmas But I just hope that this little check will fit Daddy won't be home again for Christmas Maybe this will serve to let you know I don't forget The Christmas tree where I'll be, won't be lighted But the rain and cold will...

I used to live with the whiskey And the good time and the ladies of the night Then the whiskey took control Left me waltzing with the witches in my mind But imaginary bottles won't be everywhere To haunt me like before 'Cos I'm not dancing with those demons I...

Missed the Saturday dance Yet they crowded the floor Couldn't bear it much without you. Don't get around much anymore. Been invited on dates Might of gone but what for Awfully distant without you Don't get around much anymore. Well, it's all gone I guess But...

Julie they've taken me to prison I pulled the gun and robbed the jewelry store The only thing I took was that big diamond You know the one you said you wish was yours The diamond in the window called for money the price was just too much for me to pay But the...

Since we first said I love you it's been twenty years tonight I moved by and love refused to go It seems like only yesterday or maybe just last summer Most of all a year or so ago Don't seem like we've been together all our lives Don't seem like we've been se...

You make my eyes run over all the time. You're happy when I'm out of my mind. You won't love me but you won't let me be. Don't you ever get tired of hurtin' me? Someone must have hurt you long ago But why take revenge on me when I love you so? Surely there'...

I was looking for a place to hang my hat And a place to lay me down my heavy load I found it in the woods, in the cabin on the hill Down at the end of the road We were looking for a place to raise a child 'Cause she'd soon be giving birth, the one that showed...

Dear, I'm thinking of you while here all alone I'm wishing and longing for you and for home And I'd give this old world if I could only say I'm climbing that hill headed that way With a troubled mind and a heart filled with pain I've searched the old world fo...

Last last I dreamed that you and I were in awful storm With no place to go or shelter anywhere And it took a while to realize the reason for the dream Now the meaning of it all is coming clear The storm was on the trouble we've been having No shelter was the a...

I'm just driftwood Drifting with the winds that blow across the sky I can't always be here with you, babe I'm just driftwood drifting by Our lives came together Somehow we came to mingle for a while Like two colors of the rainbow We blended well together for...

Well I gotta keep my reputation I gotta keep my pride Can't let you know you've hurt me I can't let you know I've cried I gotta make you think I'm happy everywhere I go I gotta keep my hurt inside me I can't let it show I gotta drink up and be somebody I have...

Easy come, easy go Here, there, everywhere, crazy love is in the air Nightfall, mmm, day and nightfall So many girls in every port You gotta be a juggernaut Full speed ahead or you'll be caught Oh yeah! Oh yeah! Easy come, easy go Up, down, all around, kiss a...

She can sparkle like the moonlight on the river, At times her words can cut you like a knife, She's got a way of being tough and tender, But she'll always be the highlight of my life. Chorus: Sometimes she's hotter than the thirty-first of August, And colder...

Every fool has rainbow be But he never seems to find The reward that should be waiting At the end of the line But he'll give up a bed of roses for A life filled with thorns And go chasing after rainbows Everytime the dream is born And every fool has a rain...

Everybody's had the blues sometimes and Everybody knows the tune And everybody knows the way I'm feelin' cause Everybody's had the blues A lonely, song someone is gone A story old as time Love, hate, or want and wait till misery fills your mind But everybody...

You bring me happiness and leave me loneliness My world is in distress cause I'm falling for you You look into my eyes and tell the sweetest lies You're a heartbreak in disguise and I'm falling for you Oh darling when you're near my world is happy dear But wh...

Family Bible There's a family Bible on the table, each page is worn and hard to read. But the family Bible on the table, will ever be my key to memories. At the end of day when work was over, and when the evening meal was done. Dad would read to us from the fa...

Tonight there'll be candlelight and roses In this little country chapel that's almost falling down There'll be tears in this old farmer's eyes this evening When I give my one possession to that city boy from town His hair is a little longer than we're use to...

I hear people talkin' bad, About the way we have to live here in this country, Harpin' on the wars we fight, An' gripin' 'bout the way things oughta be. An' I don't mind 'em switchin' sides, An' standin' up for things they believe in. When they're run...

I hear that train a comin', it's comin' 'round the bend I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when I'm locked in Folsom Prison and time keeps draggin' on And I hear that train a-rollin' on down to San Antone When I was just a baby my mama told me "Son...

It's a big house on a hilltop fine carpets on the floor Expensive polished marble are the steps up to the door Vines are climbin' up to the roof top as if there's something they'd like to hide People call it a Fool's Castle and I'm the fool that lives inside T...

I live the kinda life most men only dream of I make my livin' writin' songs and singin' them But I'm forty-one years old and I ain't got no place to go When it's over So I hide my age and make the stage and Try to kick the footlights out again I throw my old...

For all I know you never cared about me And chances are I never crossed your mind Maybe you won't understand me calling But darling, it's been such a long, long time For all I know there may be someone with you now But maybe he won't mind the friendly call Yo...

Forever and ever I'll love you I swear by the stars up above you There never will be any other I'll love you forever and ever The sun in the sky may stop shining And the salty old sea may run dry The Man in the Moon may stop smiling But I'll always be by your...

Frankie and Johnny were sweethearts oh Lordy how they did love Swore to be true to each other true as the stars above He was her man he was doing her wrong Frankie went down to the corner just for a bucket of beer She says Mr Bartender has my loving Johnny bee...

From the sun years of the Fifties and the birth of rock and roll Millions screamed to see him do his thing Elvis touched the life of every ear that heard him And they couldn't help but listen when he sang It's a long way from Memphis to that mansion in the sk...

Thought I was a gambler I broke every shark in town Until I met a rounder who called all I put down I put the cards on the table and he drew an ace high hand He bet his watch and I called it and lost my money like a man. I've got them polka dot blues, the pol...

Oh, the games people play now Every night and every day now Never meanin' what they say now And never sayin' what they mean So, they while away the hours In their ivory towers Till they're covered up with flowers In the back of a black limousine La, de, da,...

You ought to see my Cindy, She lives a-way down South, And she's so sweet the honey bees All swarm around her mouth. Get along home, Cindy, Cindy Get along home, Cindy, Cindy Get along home, Cindy, Cindy I'll marry you someday. The first time that I saw her Sh...

I've seen how you tremble whenever he walks through your mind Stirring up memories that cloud up your eyes Where the light of our love ought to shine I know that he hurt you and hurt you so bad he must have been going insane Now I finally learned how to hold y...

The girl who made me laugh made me cry today After all the good times we had she just walked away But the sweet mem'ries I have will live till I die Of the girl who made me laugh and made me cry All the good times we had you left behind And what you bad times...

In old Padres Nadres Old Mexico Once in my travel I happened to go I met Maria and we fell in love It seemed like heaven came down from above Dark skin and dark eyes and dark wavy hair All kept me spellbound as love filled the air I held her tightly then t...

'm throwin' a goin' away party a party for a friend of mine So put me somewhere off in a corner with a glass and bottle of your party wine Don't worry it won't be a loud party I feel too low to get too high It's just a sad goin' away party for a dream I'm t...

My family called me on the phone and said "Grandpa would you come home?" We'd love to have you here on Christmas day We know you won't get on a plane But grandpa you can ride a train You can see the scenery along way" Going home for Christmas Coming on a trai...

Rollin with the flow Going where the lonely go Anywhere the lights are low Going where the lonely go Making up things to do Not running in all directions Trying to find you I'm rollin' with the flow Going where the lonely go I've got to keep rollin' I can't l...

Well you took my love for granted and I gave it all willingly But seeing you with someone else was the breaking point for me I know I'm goin' crazy I can feel it comin' on The signs're all around me and I know I'll soon be gone Gone crazy I may be hard to find...

A long time forgotten are dreams that just fell by the way And the good life he promised ain't what she's living today But she never complains of the bad times or the bad things he's done Lord She just talks about the good times they've had and all the good ti...

Well I'm longing to ride on a freight train Put a slouch hat down low on my ears I'm yearning to leave this old town On the flight and loose all my troubles and cares In this day of airplanes and highways Hey the slow way is sometimes the best I'm longing t...

Now, I won't think about tomorrow When the happy times are gone away And good times can't last forever But the good times are here today And I won't talk about believin' If you won't beg me to stay I wanna live just for the moment And everything is going my w...

I just remember something that I forgot to do The bedroom door needs paintin' and the walls are fadin' too Angie's bike needs fixin', that all takes time, you see And I know I'm not fooling you, goodbye comes hard for me So I'll just check for things once mor...

I'd love to hear a jukebox play I love you a thousand ways Or if you've got the money I've got the time I'd walk a mile for Mom and Dad And the good times that we had Look what thoughts will do When you sing old pal of mine But the old old man is gone There'l...

Got a letter from my kid today They let me read a line or two I lost my teddy bear, I can't remember where Daddy is he there with you? In the letter he goes on to say I'm so excited daddy dear I found a little pup, I washed and brushed him up Tell me can I ke...

Got lonely too early this mornin' Long about 3:30 am Woke up in a big empty bed room The TV had gone off again Got lonely too early this morning Hey, lonely was laying like dirt Got lonely too early this morning Before I was ready to hurt I try to stay clear...

Grandma's maiden name was Zona Villines There's ninety years to tell about in a few short lines Born in Newton County down in Arkansas Then in nineteen-one she married Grandpa We laid her soul to rest one Sunday mornin' And everybody knew she'd done her part D...

The family once received a homemade Christmas card And everyone was thrilled to read the verse inside 'Cause every line was printed where the print should be And grandma's name was neatly signed with pride It simply read my prayers and thoughts are with you A...

The old hometown looks the same as I step down from the train There to meet me is my mama and papa Down the lane I look and there runs Mary Hair of gold and lips like cherry It's good to touch the green green grass of home The old house is still standing thou...

I was born in sin and lost but Jesus paid the cost And pardoned me from all iniquity So till I see His face I'll daily ask His grace To guide me on the path He planned for me Guide me lord through the day guide me Lord this I pray Through all hardships tempta...

In a quaint caravan There's a lady they call, 'The Gypsy' She can look in the future And drive away all your fears Everything will come right If you'll only believe The Gypsy She could tell at a glance That my heart was so full of tears She looked at...

If I'd only had one arm to hold her Better yet if I had none at all Then I wouldn't have two arms that ache for you And there'd be one less mem'ry to recall If I'd only had one ear to listen Oh, to the lies that she told to me Then I would more closely resemb...

Harold's Super Service Now me, I work at Harold's Super Service We specialize in service all the way And there's only one thing that really bugs me This big ole boy in his stripped down Model A At Harold's Super Service we do grease jobs We fix thirty...fort...

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 has ever kno...

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 l...

Well, since my baby left me, I found a new place to dwell. Its down at the end of lonely street At heartbreak hotel. You make me so lonely baby, I get so lonely, I get so lonely I could die. And although it's always crowded, You still can find some room. Whe...

That psycho, that psychologist Asked me about my drinking ways Every question that he asked me All related back on to my childhood days But if the truth was known I never took the drinking long, long as she was mine But when she left me I went to hell Heaven...

Hello Darlin' Nice to see you It's been a long time You're just as lovely As you used to be How's your new love Are you happy Hope your doin' fine Just to know it Means so much to me What's that Darlin' How am I doin' Guess I'm doin' alright Except I cant sl...

Take the ribbon from your hair shake it loose and let it fall Laying soft upon my skin like the shadows on the wall Come and lay down by my side till the early morning light All I'm taking is your time help me make it through the night I don't care who's right...

All aboard America here comes the freedom train All aboard America here comes the freedom train The freedom train is rolling down two hundred years of track Two hundred years of glory never to turn back The train is called America your ticket is a dream That...

It's four a.m. in New York City, three a.m. in Dallas The night is still early here in Frisco Market street's still going, the same old shows are showing And I'm still all alone here in Frisco They say it's raining in Chicago, but it's cold and clear in Denve...

High on a hilltop overlooking a city I can see the bright lights as they gleam And somewhere you're dancing in some dingy bar room And the lure of the gay life takes the place of our dream High on a hilltop my heart cries, Oh Lord Forgive her she knows not th...

Ho-bo Bill-Y Riding on that eastbound freight train speeding through the night Hobo Bill a railroad bum was fighting for his life The sadness of his eyes revealed the torture of his soul He raised a weak and weary hand to brush away the cold Ho-bo Bill No war...

Tonight as I lay on a boxcar Just waiting for train to pass by What will become of the hobo Whenever his time comes to die. There's a Master up yonder in heaven Got a place that we might call our home Will we have to work for a livin' Or can we continue to ro...

This old smoke filled bar is something I'm not used to But I gave up my home to see you satisfied And I just called to let you know where I'll be living It's not much but I feel welcome here inside And I've got swinging doors, a jukebox and a bar stool And my...

Holding things together Ain't no easy thing to do When it comes to raisin' children It's a job - meant for two Alice please believe me I can't go on and on Holding things together With you gone. Today was Angie's birthday I guess it slipped your mind I tried...

It may be down the south in Alabama Or maybe just a little old one horse town It could be on the back streets of Chicago But if it's home it's still the greatest place around Home's where the kid grows up and spends his younger days Home is where I long to be...

I never seen you look quite so sad An' I never felt me feel quite so bad An' I know we both feel that we've been had I guess that we're just not that strong 'Cause I lost my woman and you've lost your man Who knows who's right or who's wrong? But I still got...

I'm a honky tonk night time man I can't stand no light I'm a honky tonk night time man I can't stand no light I get my rest in the daytime I make my running round at night I had the blues this morning I had the blues all day today I had the blues this morning...

When you were sad and lonely and have no place to go Call me up, sweet baby and bring along some dough And we'll go honky tonkin'. honey baby We'll go honky tonkin', honey baby We'll go honky tonkin' 'round the town When you and your baby have a fallin' out C...

If you go down to the bottom Better watch the way you act If you fool around them honkies You will never make it back. When you get in trouble The best you can do is lose For them honky tonky moma's They'll give you the honky blues. I went down to the bottom...

My house of memories, is all I own, I live in misery, now that you're gone. A constant reminder, of what used to be, Is torturing me, in my house of memories. My house is a prison, where memories surround me. There's no place to hide where you're memory won't...

How did You find me, how did You know I'd be here in this hole in the ground I can't even see out, over the edge Lookin' up from all the way down I thought I had been left here to die When I saw your face appear What a surprise How did You find me here I tho...

A canvas covered cabin in a crowded labour camp Stand out in this memory I revived; Cause my daddy raised a family there, with two hard working hands And tried to feed my mama's hungry eyes. He dreamed of something better, and my mama's faith was strong An...

That old white haired judge in Dallas Didn't pay my story no mind They're takin' me down to Huntsville I'm bringin' in a load of time They caught me on a caper that I planned for days And proved everything I done I'm on my way to Huntsville Bt I'm looking fo...

Well , I ain't got nobody nobody cares for me And I'm so sad and lonely Won't somebody come and take chance with me I'll sing you sweet love songs honey all of the time You' can be the pretty mama of mine I ain't got nobody nobody cares for me [ guitar - dixi...

I've had good luck and bad luck And no luck it's true But I always get lucky with you I've been turned on and turned down When the bars close up too But I always get lucky with you I keep two strikes against me Most all of the time And when it's down to a...

I came close, so close to failure I came close to living alone I know the kids still love me and their mama But I came so close to losing my home I felt small enough to drown in each teardrop But big enough to admit I was wrong When I think of what I've done...

It's a way of mine to say just what I'm thinking And to do the things, I really want to do And you want to change the part of me I'm proud of So I can't be myself, when I'm with you Oh, you never liked the clothes I wear on Sunday Just because I don't believe...

I've been runnin' from life I keep runnin' from life Hey, I'm still runnin' from life But I can't get away I'd settle down if I could 'Cause there's one thing well understood We all know run is no good We can't get away I'd run my thoughts in a glass Take an...

I've flown around the world in a plane Had ladies drove me insane The North Pole I have charted But can't get started with you Around a golf course I'm under par The movies have asked me to star I've got a house - a showplace, But can’t get no place with yo...

I'm going off of the deep end And I'm slowly losing my mind And I disagree with the way (ha-ha) I'm living But I can't hold myself in line You give me no reason for my drinkin' But I can't stand myself at times And you're better off to just leave and forget...

I can't stand me sine I lost you and I can't stand nobody else I can't stand me since you went away and I gotta get away from myself I used to be a high-stepper with a lot on the ball my friends all called me Ace It took woman like you to bring a good man dow...

I can't stop loving you, I've made up my mind To live in memories of old lonesome times I can't stop wanting you and it's useless to say So I'll just live my life in dreams of yesterday Those happy hours that we once knew So long ago still make me blue They s...

Oh, I was born a good boy, my mama loved me so And she gave me every chance she could to make my life a gold But I fell in with the wrong crowd and the wrong crowd led me on But I could have gone right just as easy as I went wrong I went to the places where s...

Oh, I was born a good boy, my mama loved me so And she gave me every chance she could to make my life a gold But I fell in with the wrong crowd and the wrong crowd led me on But I could have gone right just as easy as I went wrong I went to the places where s...

I come home and I sat down by the door I just sat and dream my lonely life away I just can't stand a thought that I won't see you anymore I guess I die ten thousand times a day If that soulful life comes to its end I ceased to live the night you went away I...

I don't want to sober up tonight I don't want to act like things are alright And I don't want to change just to make you think I'm happy That's my right, I don't want to sober up tonight I want to keep my mind a little hazy I don't care if all my friends thin...

I woke up this morning, cried till my eyes were sore I dreamed you didn't love me, anymore It was like my world had ended, I got up, and walked the floor I dreamed you, didn't love me, anymore In the dream you didn't want me, you wanted someone new There was...

Memory is a gift a man can't live without And in times we can't control the things we think about So sometimes I still remember you in every way But for a little while I forget you every day Seems like I forget you just in time Cause it's always just before I...

We met downtown in the barroom Both of us needing a friend And you brought me home to your doorstep It was there you invited me in We spent the wee hours dancing To your favorite home stereo sounds We talked about what we been needin' Discussin' our ups and o...

I just wanna look at you one more time I always like to know how much I leave behind Let this be the picture that I'll always have in mind I just wanna look at you one more time If I can't do you right I'll never do you wrong That's why I think it's best for...

A man may have his trials and tribulations and at times he feels so low and so blue But from now on I will be entirely different and I knew the moment I lost you Well to all my worries and my disappointments there is still a little light shining through Still...

I love you; I'll prove it in days to come I swear it's true, darling; you're the only one I've been so blue and lonesome since you've gone I love you; I'll prove it a thousand ways I'll be nice and sweet to you And no more will you be blue I'll prove I love...

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 always see me through I love you...

Deep inside this lonely prison where the pleasures are so few; Where the walls are strong and the days are long and there's nothin' new. I learned to play the guitar. I'm doin' the best I can. I guess things could be worse 'cause I made the prison band. I mad...

I can's stand to see a good man go to waste One who never combs his hair or shaves his face A man who leans on wine over love that's told a lie Oh, it tears me up to see a grown man cry So I never go around mirrors I can't stand to see me without you by my si...

I wandered so aimless, life filled with sin I wouldn't let my dear Saviour in Then Jesus came like a stranger in the night Praise The Lord, I saw the light I saw the light, I saw the light No more darkness, no more night Now I'm so happy, no sorrow in sight P...

Today I started lovin' you again And I'm right back to where I've really always been I got over you just long enough to let my heartache mend Then today I started loving you again What a fool I was to think I could get by With only these few memories of mine I...

When I was young My dad would say "c'mon son, let's go out an' play" Seems like only yesterday When I was all by myself I'd climb up the closet shelf Find his hat an' fix the brim Pretending I was him No matter how hard I try No matter how many tears I cry N...

Things I learned in hobo jungle Were things they never taught me in a class room Like where to find a hand out While bummin' through Chicago in the afternoon Hey, I'm not braggin' or complainin' I'm just talkin' to myself man to man This ol' mental fat I'm ch...

Could be holding you tonight, Could quit doing wrong, start doing right. You don't care what I think. I think I'll just stay here and drink. Listen close and you can hear, That loud jukebox playing in my ear. Ain't no woman gonna change the way I think. Think...

When you first left me baby I thought I would surely lose my mind Everyday of life was just another day gone by Well you really had me down in a deep depression I wanted real bad just to crawl off and die But now I think I'm gonna live forever Hey dyin' ain'...

I think we're livin' in the good old days So cheer up friends and be glad I think we're livin' in the good old days The best anybody ever had We think we're doin' now maybe memories later So let's live it up all the way And let's make the night one more night...

Once I lived a life of wine and roses And I drank a lot back then for one concern Success for me lay just around the corner I thought my social friends would help me make the turn But now I'm paying for the days of wine and roses A victim of the drunken lif...

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

We stopped living when our love died and I wanta live again Our love grew cold a long time ago we both know love is gone Yet we stay together we just keep hanging on But it's wrong to live together when our love has reached an end We stopped living when our lo...

I wish things were simple like they used to be When cowboys rode horses, and were heroes to me My Mother was a lady, and my Dad was a man And I wish things were simple again I wish things were simple, like when I was a kid A man just got paid for the work tha...

I pulled into Memphis thirteen minutes early first time in two weeks There's where she came to meet me as I stepped down off of 51 and needed sleep And the baby's overdue I know you need some things But the more that we discuss it it's the same Long train roll...

There's not much a man can do inside a prisoner Just take his mem'ry trips and fights the pain And a word from home can mean so much to a prisoner It's been years since that last letter came Not a day goes by that I don't think of mama And my nights are fille...

I wonder if I'll find you in some honky tonkin' bar I wonder if I'll find the hidden place you parked the car I wonder if I'll find you holdin' someone tight Oh, I wonder where I'll find you at tonight A walking's not the fastest way I know to make a town But...

I feel like a stranger in this home I built for you And I can't understand this awful change you're going through But lately I've been watching you grow colder every day And I'd rather be gone than in your way I'd rather be gone than in your way I'd rather s...

I'd trade all of my tomorrow's for just one yesterday For my life's no good if I can't have your love I'd trade all of my tomorrow's, they're worth less anyway If I can't hold the one I'm dreamin' of Just an empty world is all I have before me I'd give anythi...

After you have finished all your running round And you find the cards against you stacked After you are weary and so sick inside I'll always be glad to take you back After life has taught you dear to really care After all the rest is through with you Just giv...

Revenge must be the reason, Why forgiveness was a thing I never knew. And someday soon I know you plan to hurt me, But don't plan on getting by with the things you do. 'Cause I'll always know when you been cheating. And I'll always know you've been untrue. I'...

All because I walk a different street And not helloed by some I meet That don't mean that what I do ain't right Those that said that I was wrong Now say thay knew it all along 'Cause I'll be a hero when I strike I'll be a hero when I strike Come up tight and...

(spoken) Here's a great old stamp song I'm sure that everybody know written about the year I was born 1937 called "I'll Be Somewhere Listening" When the Savior calls I will answer When He calls I'll for me I will hear When the Savior calls I will answer I'll...

Slowly the long day turns to night And soon they'll turn out the prison lights But in my cell I'm making plans To be with you at home again. These walls and bars can't hold a dreamin' man So I'll be home to tuck the babies in They can chain my body but not my...

Some glad morning when this life is o'er I'll fly away To a home on God's celestial shore I'll fly away. Chorus: I'll fly away, oh glory I'll fly away (oh glory) When I die, hallelujah, by and by I'll fly away. --- Instrumental --- Oh your missing all the W...

I'll get by as long as I have you Though there'll be rain and darkness too I'll not complain, I'll see it through Poverty may come to me, it's true But what care I, say I'll get by as long as I have you Poverty may come to me, it's true But what care I I'll...

If the world keeps on turning and I'm sure it's bound to do Then I'll keep on loving you And if the dawn comes tomorrow and we know that it is true Then I'll keep on loving you What the thing changes sky to fall the dawn wouldn't come the world wouldn't stall...

A loser doesn't always know he's losing Till he's lost the game and it's too late to win I hope I'll call in time and you'll forgive me Cause I want so much to come back home again. And I'll leave the bottle on the bar If you'll take me back to start anew I'l...

I'll look over things you do because I love you so, And I'll be standing on the sidelines while you play. It's your life to live the way you want to live, And I'll look over you if you'll just let me stay. It's no fault of yours if I can't give the thrill you...

I'll sign my heart away in court tomorrow, When I sign the papers that will set you free. But to part this way is to my sorrow, My heart will brake to see them take your love away. I'll tell my friends I'm glad it's all over, But when I do I'll wipe the tears...

If you don't want to run around if you wanna settle down I'll take a chance on loving you If you will be my very own If you'll be mine and mine alone I'll take a chance on loving you There's a lotta pretty girls in this wide wide world But none of them sho...

Yeah I'm a good loser born to be that way this dog he never had his day Yeah I'm a good loser so don't worry bout my pride Me don't look back you can't see my hurt inside There must be a sin I'm payin' for cause I felt my share of heartaches long before This s...

Down every road there's always one more city I'm on the run, the highway is my home I raised a lot of cane back in my younger days While Mama used to pray my crops would fail I'm a hunted fugitive with just two ways: Outrun the law or spend my life in jail...

Most of my life I've almost been a winner I've come so close but never really won Just when I thought I finally made it I found myself back where I started from I hate to say I'm giving up but I believe Losin's just become a way of life for me Losin' wouldn't...

Said an old man to a good lookin' girl Well I've been around this big wide world That home on the hill well honey that's mine I've got the money if you've got the time Well I'm not too old to cut the mustard anymore I can stlll get around like I did before So...

Yeah I'm bringin' home some good news Got some things you'll be glad to hear Like I'm leavin' town and won't be back Around just long enough to get my gear There won't be any goodbye kisses Well I'm puttin' on my leavin' shoes This is the end we're through...

Though I haven't got a penny to my name I've got wealth beyond compare just the same In my mind the greatest treasure there could be Just to live the way I live because I'm free I'm not bound to anyone that takes my time or pleasures that will pray up on my mi...

I'm gonna break every heart I can I'd be a find-'em-and-fool-'em man I'm gonna dedicate my whole life to this one plan Well if I live and have enough time I'll get evil with the woman kind I'm gonna break every heart I can in everyone I find I'm gonna think...

Hold on honey I'd like to say I'm busting out and breaking away I'm letting you go like a hot horse shoe I can't take another heart ache from you Think about how it's gonna be When you start back to needing me When your dancing shoes have lost their shine I'm...

I lost my mind the day I lost your love I lost everything except the will to cry If you find me crawling back from time to time It's not you I want, I'm lookin' for my mind 'Cause I lost my mind the day I lost your love I'm not crazy but sometimes I wish I wa...

I knew someday you'd find out about San Quentin And your heart would break And your faith would go away But it's time you knew the truth about your papa I've not always been the man I am today It's true I've done some time in prison Let me be the first to te...

Did you ever steal a quarter when you was 10 years old? Ever wear a brogan with a hole in the sole? Did you ever ride a freight train while runnin' from the law? I've done it all, Lord, Lord, I've done it all Did you ever spend a winter in a dirty jail? Did y...

I've got a yearning to hold you tight At burning desire I live with day and night Everything I lose keeps on hanging on This feeling isn't leaving and by now it should be gone. I keep on thinking those thoughts that keep making me want you all the time I shou...

I seen 'em when they stepped down on the moon I seen 'em sail around the world in a hot balloon I've seen many a great tomorrow turn to yesterday I've seen 'em, boys, and I've seen it go away I've seen my share of good times come and go I seen Bob Wills and E...

We're all friends you and I me and him And it's wrong to want you like I do And no way can wrong be right but I'd give the world tonight If I could just be him holding you I know that you could never trade his love for mine And I know my dreams can never be Ca...

I almost felt you touching me just now I wish I knew which way to turn and go I feel so good and then, then I feel so bad I wonder what I ought to do If I could only fly, if I could only fly I'd bid this place goodbye to come and be with you But I can hardly...

You made plans to leave a thousand times I know And a thousand times I should have let you go But each time I'll always beg you back somehow If I'd left it up to you it'd all be over now It'd all be over now cept the crying I'd be used to spending all my nig...

If we make it through December Everything's gonna be alright I know; It's the coldest time of winter And I shiver when I see the falling snow; If we make it through December, Got plans to be a warmer town come summer time; Maybe even California, If we make i...

If we never meet again, this side of heaven As we struggle through this world and it's strife There's another meeting place somewhere in heaven By the side of the river of life Where the charmin' roses bloom forever And where separations come no more If we ne...

We can call Mrs. Johnson to keep the kids a day or two. Take the early flight to Florida, just the way we used to do. Have room service bring us breakfast, make love all through the day. If We're Not Back In Love By Monday, we can go our seperate ways. --Chor...

You must have been mad at me when you said I'm in love with you And you made me believe in you and that you wanted me If you really had love in mind and it hurtin' me all this time I wonder what you would do if you hated me If love causes this much pain and re...

If you see my baby while making your rounds In some crowded nightspot or cafe in town Tell her I miss her and I'm still around If you see my baby in this lonesome old town Tell her to call me when she's all alone 'Cause I'm always waitin' by my telephone I'd...

You say that you like ridin' In my Cadillac When I try to kiss you You keep on pushin' me back You say you like to party and the money that I earn But if you don't give me a sample Before I sign that deed Don't look at me Like maybe you don't understand.... If...

If you've got the money, I've got the time We'll go honky tonkin' and we'll have a time We'll make all the night spots, dance, drink beer and wine If you've got the money, honey, I've got the time There ain't no use to tarry, so let's start out tonight We'll...

If you've got time to say goodbye Have mercy on a guy that's gonna miss you I know you're in a hurry But consider all the hurt I'm going through Let me brace my heart so I can face the part That I've been dreading for so long If you've got time to say goodby...

The Blood Red Sun Beat Down And Baked The Red Clay Ground Dust Kicked Up Around His John Deere Wheels No Trace Of Rain In Sight A-gain He'll Lose The Fight And Have To Watch His Crops Die In The Fields They Stood There Both In Tears --- His Wife Of Many Years...

Save me from loneliness Rescue me with your love I'll be safe just as long as you keep me Wrapped tightly in the arms of love The arms of love are all I need around me But I don't know what I'd do if you should go So please give me what I dream of The kind o...

We got up before sunup to get the work done up We'd work in the fields till the sun had gone down We've stood and we've cried as we helplessly watched A hailstorm a beatin' our crops to the ground And I've gone to bed hungry many nights as a lad In the good o...

I'd love to shout my feelin's from a mountain high Tell the world I love her and I will till I die There's no way the world will understand that love is colour blind That's why Irma Jackson can't be mine I remember when no one cared about us bein' friends We w...

I just don't seem to know you anymore You're only with me every now and then. And you don't kiss me like you did before Is this the beginning of the end ? Is there a broken heart for me in store? While I'm holding you do you pretend that I'm someone else you'...

Sometimes I think that love is somewhere Living on an island all alone I can see it in the darkness, I can feel it in the distance Then it's gone An' then I know it's time That I go an' find my favorite girl An' when I look into her eyes I see all the love th...

If I see some little angel fallin' down And it suits the time to maybe stick around I don't care what her name is I got no place to go Why should it matter why should I care. If she says that she is free the rest the night And she's in the mood for dancin' an...

Hm hm hm, hm hm Hm hm hm, hm hm I made a big mistake when, I introduced her to my friend Gave him a chance to dance with her As I watched them in the crowd, I could hear my heart beat loud 'Cause it meant goodbye to me when she said hello to him Hm hm hm, hm...

Many a tear has to fall But it's all in the game All in the wonderful game That we know as love You had words with him And your future's looking dim But these things your heart can rise above Once in a while he won't call But it's all in the game Soon he'll...

They were so much in love with life, happy every way. But love the movie began with, some how got lost in the play. Like a fire burning out of control, You got caught up in the actor's role, And you cried on my shoulder when it came to an end. But that's all...

Last night we had a hell raisin' time Nippin' on tequila and suckin' on limes Sunrise chased the good time away And good morning would have been the wrong thing to say 'Cause the poundin' in the top of my head Hey didn't leave me any too soon I can't say we've...

Well, I might have gone fishin', I got to thinkin' it over The road to the river is a mighty long way Well, it must be the reason, no rhyme or no reason I'm takin' it easy, it's my lazy day. I never mind callin' 'cause I ain't comin' Just get you on by me and...

She was always there each time I needed you Holding on to me like I held on to you We still don't have what you and I once had No, it's not love, but it's not bad No, it's not love, not like ours was. It's not love But it keeps love from driving me mad And...

Singing in a honky tonk, working for the door And missing you a thousand ways, or maybe more Lately, I can't justify the whole thing anymore And I'm haggard, like I've never been before Livin' on the road today, don't have the same appeal Hey, nothing li...

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

The warden threw a party in the county jail. The prison band was there and they began to wail. The band was jumpin' and the joint began to swing. You should've heard those knocked out jailbirds sing. Lets rock, everybody, lets rock. Everybody in the whole cell...

Like the ancient Roman empire, this world is doomed to fall And it's much too big a thing for mortal man Just take a look around and see the writing on the wall Somehow we've got to find a helping hand This world has never been in the awful shape it's in And...

The way I've been treated, sometimes I wish I were dead Ah, the way I've been treated, sometimes I wish I were dead I ain't got no place to lay my weary head I feel so bad, the whole round world looks blue Lord, I feel so bad, the whole round world looks blue...

I love the women, I love 'em all the same But I don't love nobody, well enough to change her name Women make a fool out of me Hey my pappa scolded me, My mamma she sat and cried Oh my pappa scolded me, My mamma she sat and cried I got too many women, For any...

I'll tell you a story of Jimmie the Kid he's a brakeman you all know He was born in Mississippi away down south and he flagged on the T N & O He yodeled to fame on the Boston Main the Wabash and the Teepee From the old Grand Trunk to the cotton belt and he...

The way I been treated sometime I wish I were dead The way I been treated sometime I wish I were dead Cause I ain't got no place to lay my weary head. When I want you woman I always find you gone Everytime I want you I always find you gone Lord you've gone al...

Dashing through the snow In a one-horse open sleigh Through the fields we go Laughing all the way Bells on bob-tail ring Making spirits bright What fun it is to ride and sing A sleighing song tonight Jingle bells, jingle bells Jingle all the way Oh, what fun...

I am weak but Thou art strong Jesus keep me from all wrong I'll be satisfied as long As I walk, let me walk close to Thee Just a closer walk with Thee Grant it Jesus is my plea Daily walking close to Thee Let it be, dear Lord, let it be When my feeble life i...

Hold me and love me And tell me that you decided to stay At least put it off till tomorrow And keep me from cryin' today. Help me make ready with the heartache Rhat's soon will be coming my way Consider how little I'm asking of you And keep me from cryin' tod...

There's a dark and a trouble side of life There's a bright and a sunny side too Though we meet with the darkness and strife The sunny side we also have in view. So keep on the sunny side, always on the sunny side Keep on the sunny side of life It will help yo...

I wanted more from life, than four kids and a wife And a job in a dark Kentucky mine A twenty acre farm, with a shackey house and barn Thats all I had and all I left behind. But at gambling, I was lucky, and so I left Kentucky And left behind my woman and my...

I'll never swim Kern River again It was there that I met her It was there that I lost my best friend And now I live in the mountains I drifted up here with the wind And I may drown in still water But I'll never swim Kern River again I grew up in an oil town B...

Kids get lonesome too So this song's just for you When you get lonely All ages go insane Even young love causes pain When you get lonely Bad days come in pairs It's good to know somebody cares When you get lonely Kids have bad days too I wish I could be with...

Why do you treat me as if I were only a friend And what have I done that has made you so distant and cold Sometimes I wonder if you'll be contented again Will you be happy when you are withered and old I cannot offer you diamonds or a mansion so fine I cannot...

If you find yourself in lock up, Write a song about a jail. And if you set your boat on fire, In the middle of a gale. If you lose your only lover, Go find someone (something?) sweet and soft, And laugh it off. Ha ha ha ha. Laugh it off. If a joke about the p...

Once I made a promise that I'd never do no wrong But I feel the yearn to love you even though I know it's wrong You'll have to take my hand and lead me slowly through the door I'll be wrong in what I'm doin' but I can't refuse anymore Lead me on and take cont...

Do the mornin's still come early, are the nights not long enough? Does a tear of hesitation fall on everything you touch? Well, it all might be a lesson for the hasty heart to know Maybe leavin's not the only way to go Maybe lyin' at your feelin's, grow accus...

Bonnie was a waitress in a small cafe Clyde Barrow was the rounder that took her away They both robbed and killed until both of them died So goes the legend of Bonnie and Clyde The poems that she wrote of the life that they led Told of the lawmen left dying o...

[Chorus] When Leonard finally came to California He was twenty-one years old, as I recall He loved to write a song and pick on the guitar And he came to hang a gold one on the wall The town in which he lived is not important But you'll know which town I mean...

Let's chase each other 'round the room tonight Let's play the games we played on our wedding night To lock and bolt the door is only right Let's chase each other 'round the room tonight Seems like lately people love to play with fire The other games they play...

The jury found the verdict first degree They swore I planned her death to be I prayed they sentence me to die But they wanted me to live and I know why So I do life in prison for the wrongs I've done And I pray every night for death to come My life will be a b...

Well it really has been nice bein' with you but I'm afraid that I've got to leave As you know I'm a rodeo cowboy and there's a rodeo down in Mesquite That's the life of a rodeo cowboy breakin' broncs or gettin' broke That's the life of a rodeo cowboy and that'...

Somehow things just never came together Fate had different plans for you and me Love used to be the most important thing in life But life's just not the way it used to be If lovin' someone all the way Is gone for good with yesterday Then what am I? I'm just a...

Life is like a mountain railroad With an engineer that's brave We must make the run successful From the cradle to the grave Watch the curves, the fills, and tunnels Never falter, never fail Keep your hand upon the throttle And your eyes upon the rail...

[Chorus] Now I'm lying here with Linda on my mind And next to me my soon to be The one I left behind And lord it's killing me, to see her crying She knows I'm lying here beside her With Linda on my mind Yes I know that I once loved her And I placed no one abo...

Listening to the wind Trying to hear the voice of a distant friend Wishing you and I were close again Listening to the wind Listening to the breeze as it whispers through the poplar trees Do you think of me way back then? Do you listen to the wind? Listening...

I'm praying for rain in California So the grapes can grow and they can make more wine And I'm a sittin' at a honky'n in Chicago With a broken heart and a woman on my mind I match the man behind a bar for the jukebox And the music takes me back to Tennessee Whe...

I wanna live and love under the stars above I wanna hold you close to my heart You gave me hopes anew when I was sad and blue Nothin's gonna tear us apart I sang a lonely song until you came along I'm headed for that bright sunny day Honey I'm tellin' you wha...

I fell in love with a working girl Lord she sure was sweet I met her down in a red-light tavern Working on Bourbon Street Way down in the old French Quarter Bright light side of town Day time life sure is cozy Living with the shades pulled down Living with t...

There hasn't been one bit of laughter in this house in so long, Just the howling of the wind asking why. And I know this house ain't growing, but it seems bigger since you're gone. And this loneliness is eating me alive. If there's any forgiveness in you wrap...

Silent night, lonely night I don't have you for Christmas Silent night, lonely night I don't have you this year But I'll have twelve long months to remember And I'll have twelve long months to forget And I've had a few lonely parties But this is the loneliest...

There's a long line of mourners coming down our street Their fancy cars are such a sight to see They're all of your rich friends that knew you in the city And now they finally brought you back to me The papers told of how you lost your life Of the party and t...

If some time we're thrown together by our friends And we're forced to see each other once again I may lose control inspite of how I try Please look over me while I cry. If I'm fool enough to keep on loving you After all the grief and heartache I've been throu...

Once I thought I loved just you And I thought you loved me too But today you say we're through Just look what thoughts will do Now another wears the crown And you think you have found Just what makes your world go 'round Watch those thoughts they'll get you d...

I lost my mind the day I lost your love I lost everything except the will to cry If you find me crawling back from time to time It's not you I want, I'm lookin' for my mind 'Cause I lost my mind the day I lost your love I'm not crazy but sometimes I wish I wa...

Lord, don't give up on me I'll be right some day Lord, don't tune me out, don't go away I'm just a wandering pilgrim, all alone And lord, I'm only halfway home Wait just a little longer, I need some time Make me just a little stronger, so I can climb I...

I'm a rollin' stone all alone and lost For a life of sin I have paid the cost When I pass by all the people say Just another guy on the lost highway Just a deck of cards and a jug of wine And a woman's lies makes a life like mine Oh, the day we met, I went as...

Love and honor a promise to obey sacred vows that we both made yesterday But when someone tempted you you ease to cross the line And I'll bet love and honor never cross your mind You're the woman that once gave me her hand And I'm the fool who's tryin' hard to...

Love don't hurt every time Sometimes love can be kind So don't turn away from these arms of mine Love don't hurt every time Love has a mind of its own Sometimes it's one way alone This time could be that once in a lifetime This feeling we feel comin' on Love...

I'd love to forget every time that you kissed me I'd love to forget that you're gone I'd gladly hold back each tear that I'm crying But love has a mind of its own Love is a ruler the greatest of kings Love sets a peon a throne Forgetting you darling is not my...

Lately I've been losin' the darkness in my head The years are catchin' up with you and me but we don't care We're growin' old together but we won't be along In lots of ways we've fallen off but love keeps hangin' on Lately I've been watchin' the strength of t...

Love me tender, love me sweet, never let me go You have made my life complete and I love you so Love me tender, love me true, all my dreams fulfill For my darlin', I love you and I always will Love me tender, love me long, take me to your heart For it's there...

I know you can't alway be here with me You can't find what all you need is just one man You're hardly ever free and seldom lonely What I'm tryin' to say is love me when you can And don't feel like I expect you to be through me Any time you'll have leave I'll...

I ain't never robbed or beat up on nobody I ain't never failed no lie detector test But tomorrow I'm gonna be the town's most wanted man But tonight I'm gonna love somebody to death I'm gonna shave shower shine my shoes and shampoo Break out my pinstriped sui...

You can't hide yourself away from the problems of today You can't hide yourself at night just turn off the bedroom light And you can't try to hide your feelings they'll be heavy on your mind You can't hide yourself from love cause love will come and find you e...

I got a feelin' called the blues, oh, Lord Since my baby said goodbye Lord, I don't know what I'll do All I do is sit and cry, oh, Lord That last long day she said goodbye, Well, Lord I thought I would die She'll do me, she'll do you, she's got that kind of...

In downtown Modesto, I was workin' the Holiday Inn I would stick with a gig that would last us throughout the weekend I was singing a new song I'd wrote on the way into town When she came in the front door and found her a place to sit down Hey, I knew right a...

Making believe that you still love me It's leaving me alone and so blue But I'll always dream, still I'll never own you Making believe, it's all I can do? I can't hold you close, darlin' when you're not with me You're somebody's love and you will never be min...

Mama did she leave to go to Memphis Are you taking care care of Brady while she's gone And mama is she down there drown the memories Surely she won't be in Memphis very long Mama since I left her I've been crazy I bet she thinks my love for her is gone I stopp...

The first thing I remember knowing, Was a lonesome whistle blowing, And a young un's dream of growing up to ride; On a freight train leaving town, Not knowing where I'm bound, No-one could change my mind but Mama tried. One and only rebel child, From a...

I lost a woman I believe to be perfect for me You could replace her But you're so much younger than me Our lives are so different Our music is not the same kind It's like we're just out of focus With no way to bring us in line I'm like a man from another tim...

Mary's mine and she'll always be till the end of time She gave her heart to me No truer love could I ever find than Mary's love And Mary's mine I once lived the life without meaning Just the face with no place in this world At last I found reason for living A...

Billy never made the football team 'Cause Billy's size was small But Billy's brother was a mighty lad And played a lot of high school ball And Billy's daddy never favored him He catered to the bigger guys But later on in a bigger way Billy overcame h...

Now that it's alright to burn the stars and stripes Yes, nobody really needs old Uncle Sam Might as well burn the bill of rights as well And let our country go straight to hell Only me and crippled soldiers give a damn Should they throw away their purple hear...

Memories and drinks don't mix too well Jukebox records don't play those wedding bells. Looking at the world through the bottom of a glass All I see is a man who's fading fast. Tonight I need that woman again What I'd give for my baby to just walk in. Sit down...

~~~♫♫♫ ~~~ I'm growing tired of the big city lights Tired of the glamor and tired of the sights In all my dreams I am roaming once more Back to my home on the old river shore. I am sad and weary far away from home Miss the Mississippi and you you, dear Days a...

With friends around and even pals that I know are true Still I'm lonely homesick and blue There's no one who can cheer me when I'm alone Longing for my Mississippi home Way down on the delta on that Mississippi shore In that muddy water, I long to be once mor...

Oh, you poor, broke, mixed up, mess of a heart Yeah, a little, bitty woman gonna tear you all apart I warned you a thousand times But you wouldn't listen nor pay me no mind You poor, broke, mixed up, mess of a heart Yeah, I watched her buy her tickets in Char...

When my baby moved out and the blues moved in There wasn't nothin' I could do But mosey around with my head in my hands Yelling, "What am I comin' to?" And I just keep moanin', moanin' the blues Well, I wrote a nice long letter sayin', "Mama, please come hom...

I'd walk for miles Cry or smile For my mama and daddy I want them I want them to know Now I feel my love is real For my mama and daddy I want them to know I love them so In my heart joy tears start 'Cause I'm happy And I pray every day For mom and pappy...

Silver and gold made you say goodbye One day it may make you wanna cry When you're alone with a heart that's blue Who will you take your heartaches too Love can't grow on a money tree not the kind you had with me Some day when you're older a wiser girl you'll...

I showed her most of Tennessee that's all I could afford I even thought of stealing so I could show her more But she never did seem happy and I often heard her say Hey I like it here, but I love Montego Bay Oh I should have gone with her at least I wouldn't k...

More than my old guitar More than my old guitar I love my old guitar like God loves the poor But I love you e-ven more You know there's love in our family And not a lot of hate to ignore And love is for music and guitar for loving But I love you e-ven more T...

I had a home down in Texas down where the bluebonnets grew I had the kindest old mother how happy we were just we two Till one day the angels called her that debt we all have to pay She'd call me close to her bedside these last few words to say. Son don't sta...

Big wheels rollin', big wheels rollin' Movin' on. Big wheels rollin', gotta keep 'em goin', Big wheels rollin', Movin' on. The white line is the life line to a nation. And men like Will and Sonny make it move. Livin' like a gypsy, always on the go Doin' what...

Good morning, Captain Good morning, Shine Do you need another mule skinner Out on your new mud line? I like to work I'm rolling all the time I can carve my initials On a mule's behind Hey, little water boy Bring that water round If you don't like your job Se...

Well, my baby's just like money True while you hold her tight But if you let her go, she'll blow like dough Honky-tonk day and night 'Cos a friend of mine came and wised me up This is what he said "Money goes from hand to hand And your baby goes from man to ma...

Moon moon I can see you sinking low You make me think of a sweetheart a little girl that I love so After I wonder the whole night through wondering if you think of me Why am I lonesome thinking of someone I'm thinking only of you My Carolina sunshine girl you...

The first time we met Is a favorite memory of mine They say time changes all it pertains to But your memory is stronger than time I guess, everything does change Except what you choose to recall There's a million good daydreams to dream on But baby, you are m...

She came her to see me today In prison where I have to stay But this time she came here To tell me goodbye Pretending that I understood I held back the tears best I could But I know that she knew I wanted to cry 'Cause my hands are tied I'm locked here insid...

I still love you as I did in yesterday Many years have gone by though it seems just like a day It's no wonder that I love you; you have been so kind and true There will never be another; it will always be just you We've come along the way together when you've...

I take a trip every evening Strolling down memory lane I'm walkin' again those familiar paths Dreaming those dreams again And I can always see my sweetheart Just as she used to be Waiting for someone at the garden gate And I know that someone is me Big bro...

I'm thinking of you tonight old pal And wishing that you were here I'm dreaming of the time and the days gone by When you filled my heart with cheer. I remember the nights when all alone We sang Sweet Adoline No other face can take your place In my heart old...

Cowboys and outlaws, riht guys and southpaws, Good dogs and all kinds of cats. Dirt roads and white lines and all kinds of stop signs, But I stand right here where I'm at, 'Cause I wear My Own Kind Of Hat. There's two kind of lovers and two kind of brothers,...

(I'll always love you in my own peculiar way) It would be a comfort just to know you never doubt me Even though I give you cause most every day Sometimes I think that you'd be better off without me Although I love you in my own peculiar way Don't doubt my love...

The girl I love so much just walked in the door My past is present but she's not mine anymore Did she stop by to hurt me or does she even know I'm here My past is present, could it be that she still cares For without her there's no future, she's close yet far...

Everybody's talking bad about Ramona They say she's changed a lot since I've been gone They say she may not be too glad to see me 'Cause Ramona doesn't know I'm coming home But everybody's wrong about Ramona They're just going by the way she's actin' now I ju...

For years and years I've rambled I drank my wine and gambled But one day I thought I would settle down I have met a perfect lady She said she'd be my baby We built a cottage in the old hometown But somehow I can't give up My good old rambling ways Lord, the...

You stayed with me through thick and thin Watched me lose, you watched me win You picked me up off of the ground You never one time let me down And you put me on a natural high And I can fly, I can fly I was drowning in a sea of make-believe As helpless as a f...

I'm just as blue as I can be Since Susie said goodbye to me My life is a failure, I see And she won't be my gal No more, no more, no more, no more, no more I'll pack my things in a grip Take me a long ocean trip Out on a great big steam ship She'll never see...

I got a barrel of flour Lord I got a bucket of lard I got a barrel of flour Lord I got a bucket of lard I ain't got no blues got chickens in my backyard. Got corn in my crib cotton growin' in my patch I got corn in my crib cotton growin' in my patch I got tha...

Today something told me not to call you But with trembling hands I dialed the telephone And as it rang the seventh time I knew I'd lost what once was mine There'll be no more you and me from now on There'll be no more you and me there'll be only misery Cause y...

Once I had a girlfriend, she loved to hear me sing But I left her in Nashville, flew west on a silver plane My family can't kid me anymore They never really liked my songs before Now I'm all grown up and I'm a lonely man And there's no one to sing for but the...

There's a circle of people where I'm no longer welcome I'm ashamed to say that I'm no longer fit I could sober up tomorrow and face my friends again But I've got no reason to quit No I've got no reason for living right and there's no other way to forget I cou...

You say Im crazy when I look at you but you cant tell me what to do let it go, lose control, get out of hand you know I'm not an angel I'm more of a devil and you can't stop a rebel You say I need help but I just don't care You say I need love but its all in...

Nobody knows I'm hurtin' and nobody cares Nobody knows I'm yearnin' and no one's nowhere I'm even livin' with more heartaches in my share Nobody's cryin' for me and I got nobody to care Well I'm not to find me someone who'd do a little somethin' for me I'm loo...

Come lay by my side little darlin' come lay your cool hand on my brow Promise me that you will always be nobody's darlin' but mine You're as sweet as the flowers of springtime You're as pure as the dew from the rose And I'd rather be somebody's darlin' than a...

The oil tanker train from down on the river In Southern Pacific and Santa Fe names Would rumble and rattle the old boxcar we lived in And I was a kid then and I loved that old train Loaded with crude oil, headed for town The boxcar would tremble from the top...

We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee We don't take our trips on LSD We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street We like livin' right, and bein' free We don't make a party out of lovin' We like holdin' hands and pitchin' woo We don't let our hair grow lo...

Let me tell you bout a song called Doc Brown And it needs no introduction He was just an old country doctor in a little Kentucky town Fame and fortune had passed him by though we never saw him frown As day by day in his kindly way he'd serve us one and all Ma...

I've got that old fashioned love in my heart There it shall always remain Like an ivy clinging vine, clinging closer all the time Through the years, through these tears, just the same I've got that old fashioned faith in my heart And nothing can tear us apart...

Downtown tonight, I saw an old friend, someone who I use to take comfort from long before I met you I caught a spark from his eyes of forgotten desire With a word or a touch, I could have rekindled that fire Old flames can't hold a candle to you No one can li...

Comin' home, home, home Thought I'd better warn you So I called you on the phone Get rid of Joe the grinder You better be there alone 'Cause the old man from the mountain's Comin' home I've been a-workin' in the sawmill I'm all up-tight and tense And I got...

I'm only human I'm just a man Help me to believe in what I could be and all that I am Show me the stairway that I have to climb Lord for my sake teach me to take one day at a time One day at a time sweet Jesus that's all I'm asking from you Give me the strengt...

The southeast Georgia red clay dust is groundin' to my blue jeans A heavy hundred pound cotton sack a draggin' long behind Wanting believe this place so bad I forgot it how I got here Workin' my way back home one row at a time It's along old cotton road betwee...

One, sweet hello and one, sad goodbye Two empty arms and these lonely nights to cry Together it was heaven, but how quickly time did fly With one, sweet hello and one, sad goodbye These precious memories linger on Haunting my mind since you're gone These litt...

Just watch the sunrise on the other side of town Once more I've waited and once more you've let me down This would be a perfect time for me to die I'd like to take this opportunity to cry You gave your word now I return it to you with this suggestion as to wha...

Lady I know your out there somewhere Like me your feeling lost Maybe right now we both need each other But our paths may never cross People like us never find each other Love is our greatest loss Baby I know you are out there some where But our paths may never...

It's midnight at a liquor store in Texas. Beneath the neon, close up's just begun. When a boy walks in the door and points a pistol. He can't find a job, but man, he's found a gun. But a change of heart before there's confrontation. Let's the old man live...

Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high There's a land that I've heard of once in a lullaby. Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue And the dreams that you dare to dream, Really do come true. Someday I'll wish upon a star And wake up where the clouds are...

When it's peach picking time in Georgia apple picking time in Tennessee Cotton picking time in Mississippi everybody picks on me And when it's roundup time in Texas the cowboys make whoopee And way on down in Alabama it's gal picking time to me Yodel le-ee oh...

Every time it rains, it rains Pennies from heaven Don't you know each cloud contains Pennies from heaven You'll find your fortunes falling All over the town Make sure that your umbrella Is upside down And trade them for a package of Sunshine and flowers If y...

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...

Hello Mr. D.J. wont you play a song for me' The girl I love just said good-by and I'm blue as I can be Oh please Mr. D.J. play that song I heard you play And send it out to someone who broke my heart today You won't have to call her name she'll know it's mean...

Precious Lord, take my hand Lead me on, let me stand I am tired, I am weak, I am worn Through the storm, through the night Lead me on to the light Take my hand precious Lord, lead me home When my way grows drear Precious Lord linger near When my life is almos...

Precious memories unseen angels Sent from some where to my soul How they linger ever near me And the sacred paths unfold Precious memories how they linger How they ever flood my soul In the stillness of the midnight Precious sacred scenes unfold Precious fath...

Love's always lovely when first two lovers meet Hand in hand, arm in arm, walking down the street Always seen together in everything they do Love is always pretty when it's new Love is always special Especially to the heart When it's love on sight and all is...

I might be over the hill But you make growing old quite a thrill So promenade and take me by the hand You make me proud to be your old man There's a lot of young men who covet your love And you place me beyond and above It's amazing how you understand 'Cos yo...

Two lovers sat one evening beneath the pale moon light Tomorrow he must go away, life's battles for to fight He told her that he loved her and that he'll return someday And he took her for his darling wife and then he heard her say "Put me in your pocket so I...

There's a big, brown cloud in the city, And the countryside's a sin. An' the price of life is too high to give up, Gotta come down again. When the world wide war is over and done, And the dream of peace comes true. We'll all be drinkin' that free bubble up Ea...

My hat don't hang on the same nail too long My ears can't stand to hear the same old song And I don't leave the highway long enough To bog down in the mud 'Cause I've got ramblin' fever in my blood I caught this ramblin' fever long ago When I first heard a...

Reasons to quit the smoke and beer don't do me like before And I'm hardley ever sober and my ole freinds Don't come round much anymore Reasons to quit the low is always lower than the high And the reasons for quitin' dont outnumber all the reasons why So we...

We left home when were barely past eleven-teen We've been back and fourth and all around through hell and rain I've loved you half of your life and Ill keep on loving you But I can't change and live the way you want me to. We spent a lot of time out on the...

They told us that we'd never reach the tower They said that we would prob'ly not But we row the boat of lightnin' through the sky You and I we're ridin' high You and I we're ridin' high We're ridin' high upon the wings of love You even changed the color of my...

Right or wrong I'll always love you Though your're gone I can't forget Right or wrong I'll keep on dreaming Still I wake with the same old regret All along I knew I'd lose you Though I prayed that you'd be true In your heart please just remember Right or wron...

Roly Poly eatin' corn and taters Hungry every minute of the day Roly Poly gnawin' on a biscuit Long as he can chew it it's okay He can eat an apple pie And never even bat an eye He likes everything from soup to hay Whoa, Roly Poly, daddy's little fatty Bet he...

We'll have roses in the winter We'll have good times with the bad We'll have roses in the winter Love is all we have to have There'll be a garden every season Cause love makes the sun shine every day We'll be blessed with spring forever With love and roses al...

You know Dasher and Dancer And Prancer and Vixen, Comet and Cupid And Donner and Blitzen. But do you recall The most famous reindeer of all Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer Had a very shiny nose And if you ever saw it You would even say it glows All of the oth...

Now when the big bad wolf got in grandma's house A little Red Ridinghood was scared as the mouse And just like her I'm scared through and through Some two legged wolf would run away with you. So run 'em off no use to talk all day Just run 'em off they're tryi...

She's my run away mama Always chasing other men She's my run away mama She's somewhere and gone again. If you see this kind of lady, Kind of tall, kind of slim. She's my runaway mama. Call the law and turn her in She's got lots of pretty things That a m...

I was born the running kind, leaving always on my mind Home was never home to me at anytime Every front door found me open I would find the back door open There just had to be a lesson for the running kind Within me there's a prison, surrounding me alone As r...

There's a certain hill outside of town called Sam Hill And a certain guy used to go there every day They said a certain girl lived up in Sam Hill Aw, a pretty girl, not hep to city ways This certain guy would come down the hill a smilin' Headed back to town...

Deep within my heart lies a melody A song of old San Antone Where in dreams I live with a memory Beneath the stars all alone It was there I found beside the Alamo Enchantment strange as the blue up above A moonlit pass that only she would know Still hears my b...

Santa Claus and popcorn Jingle bells and reindeer horns Christmas trees and mistletoe Jesus loves me this I know Carols singing Silent Night Crosby dreams of Christmas white We celebrate 'cause the King was born With Santa Claus and popcorn Children dancing...

I just came back from a lovely trip along the Milky Way Stopped off at the North Pole to spend a holiday I called on dear old Santa Claus To see what I could see He took me to his workshop And told his plans to me, so [Chorus] You better watch out, you bette...

The lights in the harbor, they don't shine for me I'm like a lost ship adrift on the sea Sea of heartbreak, lost love and loneliness. Memories of your caress so divine I wish you were mine again, my dear I'm on this sea of tears, sea of a heartbreak Oh how...

We left out of Tucson with no destination in mind We were runnin' from trouble and the jail-term the Judge had in mind And the border meant freedom, a new life and romance And that's why we thought we should go And start our lives over on the seashores of old...

Well I'm gonna get me a seeing eye dog To help me find my way I'm so much in love with you I can't even see the light of day My mind is cloudy like a winter storm Before the rain come pourin' down I feel so good and I gotta get my feet On the ground, on the g...

If you think you've had enough if you think our life's been rough Why not take your love line off of me and set me free If you think our love's all wrong if you feel the fire is gone If that's not what you'd like for me to be set me free Set me free and let me...

On a long lonesome journey I'm going Oh darling, please don't you cry Though in shackles and chains they will take me To a prison to stay till I die And at night through the bars, I will gaze at the stars And long for your kisses in vain And the fable I'll us...

Yeah I'm a shade tree fix-it man I don't need any helping hand I'm a Jack-of-all-trades when I'm workin' in their shade I'm a shade tree-fix-it man Well I headed outa west from Arkansas my Ruby ran fine for a while Then a rock started knockin' a guage started...

Just because I ask a friend about her Just because I spoke her name somewhere Just because I rang her number by mistake today She thinks I still care Just because I haunt the same old places Where the memory of her lingers everywhere Just because I'm not the...

I know I'm only Shelly's winter love She only seems to need me now and then I know I'm only Shelly's winter love But she's mine alone till springtime comes again When springtime comes I know that she'll be leavin' When those friends of her's start callin' her...

Down through the ages men have died for their women And they've done so so many times But each time I loved one I always lost one And I guess the right one is so hard to fine So I'm shopping for dresses with no one to wear them One in each color and one in ea...

The Levis that I'm wearin' have beeen good to me They just won't admit they're growin' old Though my shirt's made contact with the gutter, now and then At least it keeps my body from the cold Thank God, folks back home in Harland County Can't see what success...

Silent night, holy night. All is calm, all is bright. 'Round yon virgin mother and child. Holy infant so tender and mild. Sleep in heavenly peace, Sleep in heavenly peace. Silent night, holy night. Shepherds quake at the sight. Glorious strains from Heaven af...

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

Silver wings , Shining in the sunlight, Roaring engines, Headed somewhere in flight They're taking you away Leaving me lonely Silver wings Slowly fading out of sight Don't leave me I cried Don't take that airplane ride But you locked me out of your mind Left...

There's got to be some folks around With memories just like mine Who'd give the world to stop the clock And turn back the hands of time To an evenin' spent like so many spent With mom and dad at home When dad would get the old guitar down And sing a family so...

Sing me a song of sadness And sing it as blue as I feel If a tear should appear It's because she's not here Sing a sad song and sing it for me She's unhappy with me She told me so I'm unhappy without her And I still love her so Oh, sing me a song of sadness...

The warden led a prisoner down the hallway to his doom I stood up to say good-bye like all the rest And I heard him tell the warden just before he reached my cell 'Let my guitar playing friend do my request.' (Let him...) Sing me back home with a song I used...

One summer day, she went away; Gone and left me, she's gone to stay. She's gone, but I don't worry: I'm sitting on top of the world. All the summer, worked all this fall. Had to take Christmas in my overalls. She's gone, but I don't worry: I'm sitting on top...

Well not long ago I was a happy man Money in my pockets with the rings on my hands My money's all Gone and I'm feelin' low Standin' on the corner of Skid Row My girl friend left me she don't want me no more We had a great big fight just a night before She sa...

Hey, I'm a sky-bo and I see the world from an airplane That's a hobo that can't get around fast enough on a train But from an airport to depot the motive for leaving's the same I'm a sky-bo, that's a new kind of hobo for planes Hey, I took a flight job in Pho...

Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling Calling for you and for me See on the portals He's waiting and watching Watching for you and for me Come home, come home ye who are weary come home Earnestly tenderly Jesus is calling Calling oh sinners come home Why sho...

I'm writing this down in a trench, mom Don't scold if it isn't so neat, the way that you did When I was a kid and I'd come Home with mud on my feet The captain just gave us our orders And mom we will carry them through And I'll finish this letter the first ch...

This old road of love ain't for Sunday drivers Has very few survivors in a world of hit and run But we cared enough to hold on to each other We pulled the load together, look how far we've come Our love is solid as a rock like the moon and stars We built our...

We all come along, in our own given time No way to compare, such unique design But there's one common trait, To the scheme of it all Some of us fly, all of us fall When life deals you a hand you don't throw it away The cards that you draw are the cards that y...

There'll always be a few of us To keep the barrooms busy And there'll always be fools like me With no place else to turn 'Cause liquor has the charmin' taste To keep you coming back For it's true I guess That some of us never learn A crowded bar Can't ever c...

Some other world has all the sunshine 'Cause there's no sunshine in mine Out of the darkness came thunder and rain Leavin' my dreams all in vain Some other world there sleeps my darlin' There, where the skies are always blue Why don't they take me out of th...

I've always been the kinda guy that didn't love a lot I took all the love they offered me with ease And it didn't make much difference if they loved me or not 'Cause I'd love 'em for a while then I'd leave Yeah, I can't believe it's really me hurtin' like I d...

Someday when our dream world finds us And these hard times are gone We'll laugh and count our blessings In a mansion all our own If we both pull together tomorrow's sure to come Someday we'll look back and say it was fun We live on love and pennies And the...

Someday when things are good I'm gonna leave you I can't seem to go when things are bad I'll be one more love that you can dream about And one more man that you can say you've had You'll always be the kind to dream of yeasterday And the way of life I never und...

I played the brand new record on the jukebox And I scarcely could believe the song I've heard It told of how you left me for another It was almost like I'd written every word Someone told my story in a song The lyrics told of happiness and home Then it told...

There's no magic way For me to get over you There's not much left to say And not a thing left to do Seldom I laugh And seldom I ever cry But there's times I drink too much And there's times when I lie Sometimes I hate myself And wish I could scream Sometimes...

[Chorus] Somewhere between your heart and mine There's a window that I can't see through There's a wall so high it reaches the sky Somewhere between me and you I love you so much I can't let you go And sometimes I believe you love me But somewhere betwe...

I'm gonna lose myself somewhere on Skid Row Since I lost you I just don't seem to care I'm gonna lose myself somewhere on Skid Row So the wine won't let your mem'ry find me there Well I've been everywhere running both day and night With the pain of loving you...

Oh, the path was deep and wide From footsteps leading to our cabin Above the door there burned a scarlet lamp And late at night a hand would knock And there would stand a stranger Yes, I'm the son of Hickory Holler's tramp. Yeah, the weeds were high, the corn...

Down below the Rio Grande The senorita held my hand And sweetly sang an old melody Without a wary heart or care A rose she gave me from her hair And then she whispered “Sie, Senor, sie, sie” In a caberet, we danced the hours away Her eyes told more than words...

I hate to see that evening sun go down I hate to see that evening sun go down Cause my baby, he's gone left this town Feelin' tomorrow like I feel today If I'm feelin' tomorrow like I feel today I'll pack my truck and make my give-a-way St. Louis woman with...

And now the purple dusk of twilight time Steals across the meadows of my heart High up in the sky the little stars climb Always reminding me that we're apart You wander down the lane and far away Leaving me a song that will not die Love is now the stardust of...

(spoken) Biffy on the drums and Dennis, you on the bass When I count this off, ya'll give me a little Texas Playboy type rhythm, okay One, two, three four (spoken) Gather round friends, why hurry Let's all stay a little longer (sing) Ya oughta see my blue ey...

You know we got a real talented group here We're gonna anyway Bobby wrote me a song especially for this album This is kind of a comedy song we wanna do And if ya'll think it 's funny laugh it's about a service station attendant You write song about truck drive...

Still water runs the deepest Like a love complete and through So peaceful and dependable I can't say the same about you Your love is cold and selfish And it never could be true One time I loved you truly I can't say the same about you I'm leaving, and I...

Hey stop the world and let me off I'm tired of going round and round I've played the game of love and lost Hey, stop the world and let me off My dreams are shattered don't you see Cause you no longer care for me I miss the wonder of your kiss Why did you...

I can't be with you this evening I can't be with you tonight Somehow you must have read me wrong I need you to read me right I'm a stranger in the city A gypsy passing through My heart's at home with someone else I'd be killing time with you I'm a stranger i...

Many years ago in days of childhood I used to play till the evening sun would come Then winding down that old familiar pathway I heard my mother call at set of sun "Come home, come home it's suppertime The shadows lengthen fast Come home, come home it's sup...

My world is like a river as dark as it is deep Night after night the past slips in and gathers all my sleep My days are just an endless stream of emptiness to me Filled only by the fleeting moments of her memories Sweet memories, sweet memories, hmm She slipp...

Well, I looked over Jordan and what did I see Coming for to carry me home A band of angels coming after me Coming for to carry me home. Swing low sweet chariot Coming for to carry me home Swing low sweet chariot Coming for to carry me home. Well, if you get...

This old smoke filled bar is something I'm not used to But if gave up my home to see you satisfied And I just called to let you know where I'll be living It's not much but I feel welcome here inside And I've got swinging doors a jukebox and a barstool And my...

My good gal's trying to make a fool out of me Lord my gal's trying to make a fool out of me Trying to make me believe I ain't got that old T.B. I've got the T.B. blues When it rained down sorrow, it rained all over me When it rained down sorrow, it rained all...

Yes I know I've been untrue And I should have been good to you But please have mercy on this heart of mine Take me back and try me one more time If my darling you could see Just what your leaving's done to me You know that love is still the tie that binds Tak...

Where's that gal with red dress on some folks called her Dinah Stole my heart away from me way down in Louisiana Take me back to Tulsa I'm too young to marry Take me back to Tulsa I'm too young to marry Little bee sucks the blossom big bee gets the honey Poor...

Take these chains from my heart and set me free You've grown cold and no longer care for me All my faith in you is gone but the heartaches linger on Take these chains from my heart and set me free Take these tears from my eyes so I can see Just a spark of the...

You taught me how to love with all my heart With all my soul I trusted you And now you say we'll have to live apart A thing I don't know how to do You say someday I'll find somebody new And I'll have not one regret Stay a while if what you say is true Stay a...

I get this going fever everytime I hear a tune That talks about South Texas where the cactus is in bloom I feel I oughta be there every evening after dark To hear the fiddler fiddlin' around a tune called Old Joe Clark We played that show in Tulsa then it was...

Each time I see a little girl Of five or six or seven I can't resist a joyous urge To smile and say Thank heaven for little girls For little girls get Bigger every day Thank heaven for little girls They grow up in The most delightful way Those little eyes So...

The pieces are all falling together The picture is coming in view When I thought the end was upon me I found my purpose in you And let the power that made Help me to prosper and be fair in all things that I do The love I've been needin' I just found in your h...

Suddenly it's over, the war is fin'lly done Soldiers in the desert sand, still clingin' to a gun No-one is the winner an' everyone must lose Suddenly the war is over: that's the news. Suddenly celebrity is somethin' back in style Back to runnin' tabloid for a...

I've been throwing horseshoes Over my left shoulder I've spent most all my life Searching for that four-leafed clover Yet you ran with me, Chasing my rainbows And honey I love you, too That's the way love goes. That's the way love goes, babe That's the music...

Each night, I leave the barroom when it's over Not feeling any pain at closing time But tonight, your memory found me much too sober Couldn't drink enough to keep you off my mind Tonight, the bottle let me down And let your memory come around The one true fr...

You've got the bull of the wood You've got the beaver from Missouri We can't get nothin' done on this C.B You've got the bull of the woods You've got the beaver from Missouri We oughta get together, you and me If you'll give me your ten-twenty I'll be glad t...

Your strange love was what I found The day the rains came down And I remember we found shelter in the cave With the rain clouds up above In the darkness we found love The day the rains came I became your slave As the rains made rivers swell I fell deeper in yo...

I only call when I've had that one too many And my lonely room goes spinning in a whirl And tonight I couldn't even find my pillow I've got the emptiest arms in the world I no longer wear the gold band on my finger And from time to time I find myself a girl B...

Let me tell you about a man Tommy Collins A veteran in country music who interrputed his career by his own choice To become a minister and by the way I understand he was very successful And during this period of his life Tommy pasteured a small Baptist church...

Well the girl turned ripe and the pickers came today Had an uncle who was farmin' down in Tennessee And I stopped by to see him there brought this friend with me He had a daughter seventeen whose name was Clementine And sure enough they fell in love her and t...

The long distance love affair We just had on the phone Left me with "Don't worry darling, I'm on my way home. So break out the champagne; We've got good love on the mend. I know you're coming tomorrow, I hope I can make it till then. I could be fishing, Or r...

The longer you wait to leave me the longer I'll hurt when you're gone And the longer it takes you to break my heart the longer the pain lingers on How long will you prolong my misery wish I could leave on my own Cause the longer you wait to leave me the longer...

Let me tell you about a song That was brought to me by a good friend of mine who's a good songwriter And everytime he brings me a song I'm always willing to listen But the story and the reasons for writing this song Were even more interesting to me than the so...

Early one mornin' while makin' the rounds I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down I went right home and I went to bed I stuck that lovin' .44 beneath my head Got up next mornin' and I grabbed that gun Took a shot of cocaine and away I run Made...

Well, me and Roy Nichols And couple other fellows in the band Got to talking it over Thought we'd take off a little time if we can I don't mean to say I'm quitting I'm just tired of making love to a telephone I'm coming home so I can find me a flight this mor...

(Verse One) 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. (Refrain)So I'll cherish the old rugged Cross Till my trophies at last I l...

I receive my big promotion, down at the lumber yard And my income tax return will soon be due I just made my last big payment on my 68 Corver The only trouble with me is you I came up with a winnin' ticket on a ocean liner cruise And the trip and everything w...

You're on the road On the road to my heart. Just follow that old love light, That brings you back to me. You've found the way To make me want to stay. Make me want to stay around And never part. You read my mind I guess, You're good at bringin' out my best, An...

I left the four lane highway took a blacktop seven miles Down by the old country school I went to as a child Two miles down a gravel road I could see the proud old home A tribute to a way of life that's almost come and gone. The roots of my raising run deep I...

A man sat on a mountainside A carpenter by trade Teaching his disciples While they knelt and prayed He blessed the poor and simple And he brought the mourners joy He came to heal the blind and lame They came not to destroy When smitten by his enemies He turn...

On a cold and rainy night I was sittin' in the light Oh my switchman shack of mine post on the mountain The storms were pretty bad and the telephone was dead But it was just eleven hours till the dawn. Then much to my surprice the telegraph jumped in the ligh...

Oh the sunny side of my life is the side you're living on Grey skies never come when I'm with you Good times hang around only when you're here at home The sunny side of my life is here with you Standing at my window watching raindrops hit the ground Countin'...

For years I've tried to leave this poor man's valley On a train that's on its way to richer ground Where rivers never overflow and dreams cannot be drowned But the train never stops at our town. I'd like to buy a mansion for my darling On a way upon a mountai...

~~~~♫♫♫ ~~~~ Every dreams with you I'll sway dear To the waltz you saved for me Every dreams while I'm away dear You'll hear this melody Whisper goodbye and gently say dear That in all the days to be You will sometimes remember The waltz you saved for me 

Wish I was down on some blue bayou, With a bamboo cane stuck in the sand. But the road I'm on, don't seem to go there, So I just dream, keep on bein' the way I am. Wish I enjoyed what makes my living, Did what I do with a willin' hand. Some would run, ah, but...

Sixty-six was still a narrow two-lane highway Harry Truman was the man who ran the show The bad Korean war was just beginning And I was just three years too young to go Country Music hadn't gone to New York City yet And a service man was proud of what he'd don...

You wouldn't read my letters if I wrote you You asked me not to call you on the phone There's something that I'm wanting to tell you So I wrote it in the words of this song I didn't know God made honky-tonk angels I might have known you'd never make a wife Yo...

Such a little time has passed since you went away Where are all these heartaches coming from? I can hardly stand the pain of missing you today And I know the worst is yet to come If there was something I could find to drive these tears from me Then I'd go rig...

Bet it ain't a rainin' back home bet your sister's still on the phone Bet mama's in the kitchen cookin' fried chicken wishin' that I hadn't went wrong Oh but mama don't you worry everything's gonna be alright They're teachin' us a lot of new things in here The...

There goes my only possession! There goes my everything! I hear footsteps slowly walking As they gently walk across a lonely floor And the voice is softly saying Darling, this will be goodbye for evermore! There goes my reason for living! There goes the one...

I guess it's no secret eh that I did a few years in San Quentin And on my release I noticed that a lot of different things had come to pass While I was out of circulation Like the girls dresses were shorter and the freeways were wider And the ole steam engines...

We used to laugh a lot We never cried But things are all different now Since your sweet love has died Seems we've lost the way to find All the good times we found before Yeah, we used to laugh a lot Things aren't funny anymore If I knew how to change your min...

The sun goes down and leaves me sad and blue The iron curtain falls on this cold war with you 'Cause you won't speak and I won't speak, it's true Two stubborn people with a cold war to go through. Why, oh why, should love ever come to couples, like you and me...

This song is for you, you know who you are I won't embarrass you for callin' out your name You're here every night, several night of drinks Wearin' your superficial smile You still wear the wedding band and you left hard work in hand For a memory of a man who...

Sometimes songs are done by singers that don't mean them And at times I've done the same and couldn't sing them At times I've written songs about some things I didn't do But these are my words and mine alone these words are true I've written words in many ways...

Today's the day I leave forever This town where we once loved together Now that love is gone I guess I'm free I'll leave behind both you and sorrow And take just what I'll have tomorrow When there's miles and miles and miles Between this town and me This town...

There was a time when I thought of no other and we sang our own love's refrain Our hearts beat as one and we had our fun but time changes everything When you left me my poor heart was broken our romance it seemed all in vain The dark coulds're gone and there's...

To all the girls I've loved before, who traveled in and out my door. I'm glad they came along, I dedicate this song to all the girls I've loved before. To all the girls I once caressed, and may I say, I've held the best, for helping me to grow, I owe a lot, I...

A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won't come true To each his own to each his own and my own is you What good is a song if the words just don't belong And a dream must be a dream for two No good alone to each his own and for m...

Today I started loving you again I'm right back where I've really always been I got over you just long enough to let my heartache mend Then today, I started loving you again What a fool I was to think I could get by With only these few millions tears I cry...

Be close to me but please don't ever love me Don't let your feelings carry you that far I'll hold you in my arms, buy you clothes and pretty charms And I'll give you everything except my love Because there's too many bridges to cross over Too many places I ai...

Today I heard my woman say something I never heard her say before She just told me that she was going to leave me and that she didn't love me anymore But I know that the loving kindness and the understanding is still there somewhere So I'm gonna get down on my...

I sit alone at my table and watch all the others have fun And I'm tired of sittin' on the sidetrack, watchin' the mainline run I'm tired of havin' no future, livin' on things that I've done And I'm tired of sittin' on the sidetrack, watchin' the mainline ru...

When a woman gets the blues she hangs her little head and cries When a woman gets the blues she hangs her little head and cries But when a man gets blues he grabs him a train and rides. I can't understand how come you do me like you do I can't understand how...

I know we know I won't be here for long A travelin' man will do what he can till he hears that travelin' song Born in a little town I left home around bout the age of nine Been everywhere a time or two doin' what I want to do leavin' little girls behind I know...

I had a dream last night I thought my good gal had gone I woke up this morning she had really done me wrong I know it's not fair but my good gal has done caught air My gal's been trifling around just about a week I know Several of my good friends just told me...

Just old Rambling Bill, just old Rambling Bill Some day I might get married and, baby, I might settle down I ain't got no home, I'm here all alone All the clothes I've got, I've got them on Just old Rambling Bill, just old Rambling Bill Some day I might get m...

Feelin' tired and weary from my head down to my shoes Feelin' tired and weary from my head down to my shoes Got a low down feelin' truck driver's blues Keep them wheels a rollin' I ain't got no time to lose Keep them wheels a rollin' I ain't got no time to lo...

Tulare dust in a farm boy's nose Wondering where the freight train goes Standin' in the field by the railroad track Cursin' this strap on my cotton sack I can see mom and dad with shoulders low Both of 'em pickin' on a double row They do it for a livin' bec...

When the whole world turns against you and life won't let you be When you need someone to turn to, turn to me When questions go unanswered and you wonder what will be When you need someone to turn to, turn to me I stand on every corner I'm just around the ben...

You can find me in a dim light bar-+room If your coldness should ever turn warm But the chances of you ever changing Are as slim as your two loving arms So I'm turning off a memory As quickly as time will allow Yes, I'm turning off a memory And the wine seems...

Twinkle, twinkle lucky star Can you send me luck from where you are Can you make a rainbow shine that far Twinkle, twinkle lucky star. Can you really make a wish come true And do you shine on just a chosen few Is it over, have I gone to far Twinkle, twinkle lu...

The ladies of the garden club say His home is just a disgrace to the town If the Mayor wants re-elected He'd better pass some laws and tear it down They wanna cover it with flowers Maybe even plant some dogwood trees I guess that they've forgotten When we wer...

I lost my job in Saginaw working on the railroad After twenty years they just put me on the side Now I'm hungry in the street with no place to hang my hat And nothin' but an empty dream to ride But under the bridge, I can make believe I'm living in a castle U...

Unforgettable That's what you are Unforgettable Tho' near or far Like a song of love that clings to me How the thought of you does things to me Never before has someone been more Unforgettable in every way And forever more, that's how you'll stay That's why da...

Blow whistle blow, watch them old freight trains roll As they roll through Union Station They say they are trying to tear it down It's a shame for so long it's been around A tribute to our nation the historical Union Station Blow whistle blow, watch them old f...

Valentine Won't you be my valentine? And introduce your heart to mine And be my valentine Summertime We could run and play like summertime With storybooks and nursery rhymes And you could be my valentine Candy heart If anyone could, you could have a candy he...

All around the water tank Sleepin' in the rain A thousand miles away from home Waitin' for a train I walked up to a brake-man Just to give him a line of talk He said if you've got money I'll see that you don't walk. Well I haven't got a nickel Not a penny ca...

Wake up, don't just lay there like cold granite stone Wake up, we're too close to be alone Wake up, and please, darling, hold me if you would Don't just lay there like you've gone away for good There's too many empty pages with so many things in store I...

If I could be you and you could be me for just one hour If we could find a way to get inside each other's mind If you could see me through your eyes instead of your ego I believe you'd be surprised to see that you'd been blind. Walk a mile in my shoes, walk a...

I've been in here so long I forgot what I did wrong Just a kid when they put me here inside I don't have long to live and Lord what I would give Mhm just to walk on the outside Phones would even end when they put me to this pen And that told me planes would ne...

You left me and you went away You said that you'd be back in just a day That day has come and gone but you're still away from home I'm walking the floor over you I'm walking the floor over you I can't sleep a wink that is true I'm hoping and I'm praying as my...

Well, way down yonder in New Orleans in the land of the dreamy scenes There's a garden of Eden, ah-you know what I mean Yeah, Creole babies with flashin' eyes softly whisper with tender sighs And then you stop! Oh won't you give your lady fair a little smil...

We're caught in a trap like prisoners in a cage Growing old from hate not from age The runnin' love we had is down to crawl We hardly ever talk and we never touch at all You go out with someone else while I'm out with someone too Yet we come back to prison wh...

We're falling in love again, after all these years; We're smiling for real again, after all these tears. Somehow, life took its toll, and caused us to frown, We're falling in love again, after all these years; We're smiling for real again, after all these tear...

What a friend we have in Jesus All our sins and grieves to bear What a privilege to carry Everything to God in prayer Oh what peace we often forfeit Of what needless pain we bear All because we do not carry Everything to God in prayer Have we trials and t...

I can make it for a day or two without you And maybe I can make it through the night I can smoke I can drink and probably be alright until morning But what am I gonna do with the rest of my life I've got things that I can do I've got places I can go to this ev...

It used to be Andy & Barney Fife Now its Howard Stern and the brothel life Too much crap can drive the world insane Everybody's singing the jailhouse blues Don't believe a word of the evening news Truth that stood for years is down the drain Trailer parks...

I remember it all started in 1929 when me and Diana came to Alaska To homestead some of this free government land Forty mile from the nearest gravel road we cut our life in the ponderosa pines We sweated hard to beat the winter snow But the cabin's up and we'v...

What love can do Is build a bridge for two And make our dreams come true That's what love can do. What love can do Is make his need to live And make you want to give Thats's what love can do And when your whole world Goes spinnin' out of control and you're a...

He spoke of a morning and an uncloudy day With no sorrow and hardship to bear He said that where I am you also shall stay What will it be like to be there? He spoke of a life where we'd never grow old In a city he's gone to prepare He said that the streets wo...

The boys are wantin' me to go out drinking They want me to leave my Julie home I know Julie don't mind my drinking But Julie don't like to be left here at home. So what's wrong with stayin' home with Julie Julie's always been good to me What's wrong with stay...

It gets longer in between each time you call I'd be safe in saying you no longer care at all We're never seem together like we used to Be tell me darling whatever happened to me I once played a big part in your world Think back and I know you'll agree You st...

It used to be right that you love me, you said so and I thought so too We'd talk maturely about old puppy love, comparing the old with the new If it's so right we love each other then why you had rather be gone You seem to take pride in deceiving But when did...

When the ceremony was over A lad stood alone in tears For he had just said goodbye To the one he had loved through the years He stood all alone with his head bowed down As though his heart would break The parson came over and took his hand And to him these...

Memories that linger in my heart Memories that make my heart grow cold But some day we'll live them all again And my blue moon again will turn to gold. Your lips that used to thrill me so Your kisses were meant for only me In my dreams we'll live them all aga...

When my last song is sung and my life's work is done And my old faithful guitar loses tone You won't find me troubled then, wishing I could sing again When my last song is sung I'll be gone What a gift the Lord has shared with a man who never cared Claiming e...

I don't know how long I stand at the window Watching crosswinds erase all her tracks in the snow In her mind, it's springtime, she goes to pick some flowers In the cold dead winter, when no flowers grow Many doctors have tried But tried in vain, to make my da...

Now tell me where could I go but to the Lord Living below in this old sinful world hardly a comfort can afford Striving alone to face temptation sore where could I go but to the Lord Where could I go oh where could I go seeking a refuge for my soul Needing a...

Where does the good times go Where does the river flow Where does the north wind blow Where does the good times go Lips that used to burn with love Now are cold beneath my touch Still I love you oh so much Where does the good times go Where does the good tim...

Look around you, look at your friends They're still out there, but where have you been? You better get busy, start calling them in 'Cause they still love you, but where have you been? You better get friendly and keep all your friends If you wanna be loved, yo...

Once I stood in the night with my head bowed low In darkness as black as the sea In my heart felt alone and I cried oh Lord Don't hide your face from me. Hold my hand all the way every hour every day From here to the great unknown Take my hand let me stand Wh...

Where's all the freedom that we're fightin' for? Is it still our creed from shore to shore? Every soldier fights, should we read him his new rights? There's not that many to read any more Where's all the freedom that we're fightin' for? Where's all the freedo...

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, Just like the ones I used to know. Where those tree-tops glisten, And children listen To hear sleigh bells in the snow. I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, With every Christmas card I write, "May your days be merry and bright...

White line fever, a sickness born Down deep within my soul White line fever, the years keep flyin' by Like the highline poles The wrinkles in my forehead Show the miles I've put behind me They continue to remind how fast I'm growin' old Guess I'll die with th...

The old man paid no mind to color 'Cause he knew that I'd been down and out Old Joe said that I was a soul brother From the things I'd been singin' about Well, he liked how I played my old guitar So he sit down beside me to sing. And together we hummed out an...

Who do I know in Dallas Who can I call on the phone Who do I know in Dallas Who'll make me forget she's gone I can's spend the night without someone The loneliness will drive me insane Who do I know in Dallas Who'll make me glad I came It was Shirley cons...

Not so long ago you held our baby's bottle But the one you're holding now's a different kind And you'd never know whose lips you'll soon be kissin' 'Cause it all depends on who will buy the wine. Whoever sets 'em up and tips the waitress Your kind of love jus...

Come on over baby, whole lotta shakin' goin' on, come on over baby, Baby you can´t go wrong. we anin´t fakin' a whole lotta shakin' goin' on Well, I said come on over baby, we got chicken in the barn. I said come on over baby, yeah, I got the bull by the ho...

Hey, why am I drinkin' Rthere's no real reason to quit And why am I thinkin' God know I'm trying to forget. And why does that woman Who stay on my mind night and day And why am I drinkin' Why am I hurtin' this way? Is love just another word for mem'ry And is...

Why me Lord, what have I ever done To deserve even one Of the pleasures I've known Tell me Lord, what did I ever do That was worth loving you Or the kindness you've shown. Lord help me Jesus, I've wasted it so Help me Jesus I know what I am Now that I know th...

Oh, the moon lights so bright makes me lonely tonight Everything seems to make me feel blue here I'm down hearted now I'm lonesome somehow 'Cause you are proving untrue. But why should I be so lonely Why should I be so sad Though another is taking from me The...

Just outside these prison walls a hanging tree is waiting Tomorrow I'll meet darkness as death will say hello Darling put you lips to mine and tell me that you love Hold me close again before you go [Chorus] T Will you visit me on Sundays, Will you bring me p...

With my ears I have heard the eagle call my name He flew in from the night to talk to me We talked about his freedom and he spoke with great concern He said, "Mother earth is aging rapidly" He said, "The winds of change are blowing And the land is disappearin...

Warm red wine you know that place where you take me some times Where my caress have wings and fly right off my shoulder Where I leave my cares behind and for a while find peace of mind Help me friend of mine wine take me away Wine take me away where I can los...

Sleigh bells ring are you listening In the lane snow is glistening A beautiful sight we're happy tonight Walking in a winter wonderland Gone away is the bluebird Here to stay is a new bird He sings a love song as we go alone Walking in a winter wonderland In...

Watching while some old friends do a line Holding back the want to end my own addicted mind Wishin' it was still the thing even I could do Wishin' all these old things were new. Watching while some young men go to jail And they show it all on TV just to see s...

It's a big job just gettin' by with nine kids and a wife I been a workin' man dang near all my life I'll be working long as my two hands are fit to use I'll drink my beer in a tavern Sing a little bit of these working man blues I keep my nose on the grindst...

Well, I went down South to give 'em a hand Wound up workin' at Opryland Look at me, workin' at Tennessee Got no money, got a lot of flies Down here workin' with the rest of the guys Look at me, workin' at Tennessee Well I went down lookin' for Grandpa Jones...

Worried, unhappy, lonesome and sorry Yeah, that’s how I feel every day Worried, unhappy, lonesome and willing To give in and see things your way I’m fair and determined to have things my way I turned off a love that was mine And the misery that followed was m...

Wouldn't that be something If I spread my wings and showed you I could fly away? Wouldn't that be something If I ask you to fly with me on some wild and windy day? Wouldn't that be something If we both fell together and you threw your arms Around me like you...

(I'd like to do a song now that was recoded by a pretty pearly country group known as The Beatles I know you heard them many times from the Grand Ole Opry ha-ha... But seriously this is the song that as a songwriter myself I appreciate very much and I'd like t...

Sometimes this ol' world's a drag, it really puts me down I try so hard but nothin' comes around Then I look up to find that I've no reason to be blue I've already found the whole wide world with you And if there's nothin' else I do To spend my whole life thr...

Our love keeps drifting and you keep giving me to blame I go on loving you although it's all in vain Now you stop carrying so what a chance have you and I I give my everything but you don't even try I've done all I can do and I'm standin' at the end Although...

~~~♫♫♫ ~~~ You always find a way to hurt my pride If I'm not cryin' you're not satisfied I don't know why you want to hurt me so If you're tryin' to break my heart, You don't have very far to go You don't have very far to go before the heartache begins I alre...

Well, if you love your mama and you treat her right But she keeps on fussin' at you every day and night And she's triflin' on ye they'll do it every time And when your baby starts to steppin' Lord you nearly lose your mind Now if your mama's mean take a tip f...

If the one you'd think is true ever turns his back on you You've still got a place in my heart If every road you take proves you've made a big mistake Baby you've still got a place in my heart. If I'm a fool to pray that you'll come back some day Well then I'...

My legs and my feet Have walked 'till they can't hardly move from tryin' to please you And my back is sore From bendin' over backwards to just lay the world at your door. I've tried so hard to keep a smile on a sad face while deep down It's breakin' my hea...

Admitting you're to blame Won't heal my wounded pride It's too late to be ashamed I've already stepped aside Just let me live again And please don't come around If you never loved me then You'll never love me now You fooled me all the way Each time you held...

You're nobody 'til somebody loves you You're nobody 'til somebody cares You may be a king and you may possess The world and all its gold But gold won't bring you happiness When you're growin' old The world is still the same, you'll never change it Just as lo...

Beautiful isle of somewhere If you've got two or three minutes I'd like to tell you a story And this a story about a preacher And I know there's a lot of stories about a lot of preachers But this is a story of one particular preacher Who went overseas to fig...

What a twisted game you're playin' With the highest takes of all Somewhere along the way the rules got changed From this narrow ledge we're walkin' And there's no way you can fall. 'Cause you're the only girl in the game You're the only winner there's no way...

I can almost hear the stillness As it yields to the sound of your heart beating And I can almost hear the echo Of the thoughts that I know you must be thinking And I can feel your body tremble As you wonder what this moment holds in store And as I put my arms...