Moe Bandy

Well I said, Friend Don't take her, she's all I've got Please don't take her love away from me I'm beggin' to ya, Friend Don't take her, she's all I've got She's everything in life I'll ever need She is life when I want to live She's everything to me i...

I had everything in my favor under God's blue sky Your good love and a baby girl homemade apple pie A dog a cat two cars and a boat a home and a piece of land And plain old ordinary everyday ends I had the world in my hands Just a few forbidden pleasures...

In the back of my mind you're calling my name I just can't believe that your feelings have changed Without you I know my future is past So I keep holding on to a ghost of a chance In all my dreams you're all I can see So I keep believing you'll come back...

They're gonna put me in the movies They're gonna make a big star out of me We'll make a film about a man that's sad and lonely And all I gotta do is act naturally Well, I'll bet you I'm gonna be a big star Might win an Oscar you can never tell The movies gonn...

Came in here to do some drinkin' not what you're thinkin' A little relexin's all I got on my mind But I tell by the way you're lookin' at me you are lonely Honey, you picked up a wrong man this time. 'Cause I got all I can handle at home I got me a lovin...

(Well all the beer and all my friends are gone) It sure was fun having all the gang around tonight Laughin' and singin' and talkin' about old times We raised our glasses high and drank and ended up half tight And at once did you even cross my mind Now a...

The touch of your lips next to mine Gets me excited, makes me feel fine The touch of your hand, your sweet hello The fire inside you when you're holding me close Your love so warm and tender The thrill is so divine It is all these things that make you mi...

Amarillo, by morning up from San Antone Everything that I got is just what I've got on Oh when the sun is high in the Texas sky I'll be bucking at the county fair Amarillo by morning Amarillo I'll be there They took my saddle in Houston, broke my leg in Sante...

Amazing grace, how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now I'm found. Was blind, but now I see. 'Twas grace that taught my heart to feel And grace my fears relieved. How precious did that grace appear The hour I first believed....

It's not working the way that I planned it We're no closer than we were at the start I can find my way to your body But I can't find my way to your heart Are we making love or just making friends Are we holding each other or just holding hands Is this t...

Away in a manger, no crib for his bed, the little Lord Jesus laid down his Sweet head. The stars in the bright sky looked down where he lay, The little Lord Jesus asleep on the hay. The cattle are lowing, the baby awakes, But little Lord Jesus no crying he ma...

A long time of loving her good timing man He's fightin' his future in a hillbilly band He promisses the good life and a big diamond ring All she wants is a baby and a sewing machine Her big old brown eyes they sparkle with love Nobody knows Lord what she...

I'm back in the saddle again Out where a friend is a friend Where the longhorn cattle feed On the lowly gypsum weed Back in the saddle again Ridin' the range once more Totin' my old .44 Where you sleep out every night And the only law is right Back i...

Who was once a bull-hooking son of a gun Now who keeps a pint hid out behind chute number one Who was riding high till a pretty girl rode him to the ground Any kid knows where to find me, I'm Bandy the rodeo clown In the riding and the roping I was cl...

I've finally found a place where I can take it all this loneliness you left behind. On a mountain that's no hill for a climber. Just one step up, sit back and pour the wine. CHORUS I climb up on barstool mountain. High above your world where there's no...

Like old Dr Pepper sometimes she's misunderstood And like the Pernal's Chicken boys she's fingelicking good She knows when I need her and she's always super quit When I reach to light a cigarette she's there to flick my big She's my big flicking baby and...

Bye bye, love, bye bye, happiness Hello loneliness, I think I m gonna cry Bye bye, love, bye bye, sweet caress Hello emptiness, I feel like I could die Bye bye my love, good-bye There goes my baby with someone new She sure looks happy, I sure am blue She was...

All day I've faced the barren waste Without the taste of water, cool water Old Dan and I with throats burned dry And souls that cry for water, cool, clear water Keep a-movin', Dan, don't you listen to him, Dan He's a devil not a man And he spreads the b...

Oh I am just a cowboy on my way back to Houston I used to play the rodeos But I can't play 'em like I used to I've given it up I'm layin' it down I've had enough of being a rodeo clown So if I see a tear running down my face Don't ask me why cause cowbo...

It was mom and daddy's anniversary You hugged my mom and kissed my daddy's hand It had been three years since you left me And it broke my heart to see you once again Don't know how you knew I'd stopped drinking But it was so good to kiss and hold the key...

If the time and the place was right Would you meet me some time late at night And make love like we both need to Is this something we could do It takes a lot of nerve to take a chance It would be worth it for the sweetest romance Hope we can get together...

Cold Fort Worth beer just ain't no good for jealous I try it night after night You're in someone else's arms in Dallas does Fort Worth ever cross your mind Darling while you're busy burning bridges burn one for me if you get time Good memories don't fade s...

Wildcat Kelly, lookin' mighty pale Was standin' by the Sherriff's side And when that Sherriff said, "I'm sending you to jail" Wildcat raised his head and cried Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above Don't fence me in Let me ride through...

Step by step you been leaving any day now you'll be gone Leaving me with your mem'ry and I'll miss you for tears to come And it's killin' me to know that I can't hold you All the ties that bind have somehow come undone Maybe someday I will love another bu...

Cheyenne, Cheyenne, I'm a-leavin' Cheyenne; Goodbye, old Paint, I'm a-leavin' Cheyenne. My foot's in the stirrup, my rein in my hand I'm a-leavin' Cheyenne, I'm off to Montan' Goodbye, old Paint, I'm a-leavin' Cheyenne; My horses ain't hungry, they...

You wrote Your Cheatin' Heart about A gal like my first ex wife You Moan The Blues for me and for you Hank Williams, you wrote my life The Cold, Cold Heart and a doubtful mind I have known a few myself And the gal that loved me Half As Much As she loved some...

I said I'd never do it again I swore my way that I would mend But you cheated dear and that's a sin here I am I'm drunk again I'm drunk because that you are gone at the bar I'm standing all alone Drowning my sorrows deep within here I am I'm drunk again...

Tryin' to make a livin' it's harder every day By the time I see a dollar just another bill to pay I got a wife and family and the bills are pilin' high These days it ain't easy for a working man to get by I can't help but wonder what a man suppose to do...

Do not forsake me, oh my darlin' On this, our weddin' day Do not forsake me, oh my darlin' Wait, wait along I do not know what fate awaits me I only know I must be brave And I must face a man who hates me Or lie a coward, a craven coward Or lie a coward in my...

Have a holly jolly Christmas It’s the best time of the year I don’t know if there’ll be snow But have a cup of cheer Have a holly jolly Christmas And when you walk down the street Say hello to friends you know And everyone you meet Oh oh the mistleto...

Shed be hurt if she knew I was drinkin Cause ones too much and twelves not enough She knows how it messes up my thinkin How it makes me look for someone else to love I get honky tonk amnesia I forget where all my love belongs I get honky tonk amnesia A...

Well I'm a honky tonk man and I can't seem to stop I love to give the girls a whirl to the music of an old juke box But when my money's all gone, I'm on the telephone singing Hey, hey, mama can your daddy come home Now I'm living wild and dangerously But...

People steal, they cheat and lie For wealth and what it will buy But don't they know on the Judgment Day That gold and silver will melt away I'd rather be in a deep dark grave And know that my poor soul was saved Than to live in this world in a house of...

O Lord my God When I in awesome wonder Consider all the worlds They hands have made I see the stars I hear the rollin' thunder Thy power throughout The universe displayed. Then sings my soul My Savior God, to Thee, How great Thou art How great Thou...

After hundreds of lies and fake alibis After too many times staying out all night After too many women, too Many times of acting free After all this time of cheating I've been cheatin' me Yes, I cheated me right out of you By holding the wrong ones, I...

Everybody says you let me down I should be ashamed to take you round Makes no difference what you used to do darling I could never be ashamed of you Maybe you were reckless yesterday but together we can find a brighter way In my heart I know that you'll com...

I woke up this morning feeling like I never felt before My head aches my eyes are red and I hurt places I ain't hurt before Though I don't remember I really don't believe I had a fight But I've got all the sentence so I guess I had a real good time last nig...

Today the midnight oil's all over someone And those forbidden places aren't forbidden anymore If my back door could talk it would tell me That my borrowed Angel's been this far before I just threw my last bottle at the jukebox When I heard that woman sing...

I remember when we used to be in our teens A-wearin' bobby socks and old blue jeans That was long ago, so I'd like to say I love you in the same old way, uh-hah I love you in the same old way Mmmmmm, I remember when we used to babysit your brother And w...

I'm an old cowhand from the Rio Grande But my legs ain't bowed and my cheeks ain't tan I'm a cowboy who never saw a cow Never roped a steer cause I don't know how Sure ain't a fixin to start in now Yippie yi yo kayah I'm an old cowhand and I come down f...

You'd known so long that you were wrong But still you had your way You told her lies and alibies And hurt her more each day But now your conscience bothers you You've reached your journey's end You're asking me for sympathy I'm sorry for you, my friend...

I'm not here just drinking someone's men'ry away But I wish I had someone I could leave so I could stay I'm not the kind who runs around and cheats on his wife So if I had someone to cheat on I'd go home tonight I don't like this honky tonking drinkin' al...

She'd like to give me things that you've stopped giving She sees in me the things you used to see And she'd like to feel these arms that you've left defeat So how long can I keep loving you if she keeps loving me How long can I hold on to nothing If she...

I drove through the park and I searched all the bars Where I made out with love too many times It was always so easy to find and unhappy woman Till I started looking for mine Some beer drinking devil is holding my angel And I know what he'll do if he's my kin...

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

Goodbye Joe me gotta go me oh my oh Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou My Yvonne the sweetest one me oh my oh Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou Jambalaya a crawfish pie and fillet gumbo Cause tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher amio Pick guit...

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. Refrain: 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. T...

She was a lady from the country of eleven hundred springs She could drink more beer than I could buy She was a lady from the country of eleven hundred springs I'd get wiped out but she would never get high Well when I think about it I almost shed a tear...

Oh the weather outside is frightful But the fire is so delightful And since we've no place to go Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! It doesn't show signs of stopping And I've bought some corn for popping The lights are turned way down low Let It Snow! Let...

I don't know if we can make it But baby, let's give it a good try We're both comin' off of losin' It ain't easy, tellin' love goodbye You don't look a thing like her And I don't guess I measure up to him Oh, but then, maybe together We can get each oth...

I'd love to meet some boy Who I'd love because I'm such a lonely, lonely girl; I'd like to be the girl Some guy like to call his one and only, only girl. He doesn't have to be especially handsome, As long as he cares for me and he's kind of romance-some!...

(Love is what life's all about) I've climbed the mountain and looked down on valleys below I've been everywhere and I've tried everything So I think that I ought to know I've sampled the bitter and tasted the sweet I've turned this ole world inside out...

I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love with a girl, That's what's the matter with me I'm in love, I'm in love, with a beautiful girl, But she don't give a darn about me to make her love me I tried, How I sighed and I cried But she just refused And ever sin...

Well if the wife and I are fussin' brother that's our right Cause me and that sweet woman's got a licence to fight Why don't you mind your own business mind your own business Well if you mind your own business then you won't be minding mine Well I got a littl...

Well I've just left my home friends where I couldn't sleep For missin' a man that I couldn't keep She just walked out and left me for somebody else Now her memory keeps haunting me but I'm by myself So break out the bottle bring on the crowd Tell funny s...

(I'll never forget the night that Lefty Frizzell Call me at home back in December of 1974 He sang me a song on the phone that he and D. Shafer written And they called it a Bandy And A Rodeo Clown I was really thrilled and flattered that he take enough time...

Came in last night at half past ten That baby of mine wouldn't let me in So move it on over (move it on over) Move it on over (move it on over) Move over little dog cause the big dog's moving in She's changed the lock on my front door My door key don't fit no...

(No deal, no deal) Now the cards are all stacked against me For reasons I don't understand And since he's taken my place at your table Then he'll have to play out my hand He thinks, he knows a winning hand when he steals one But all too soon another ste...

Nobody gets off in this town Trains don't even slow down My high school sweetheart's married and gone They met on a bus to San Antone They Greyhound stops! Somebody gets on But nobody gets off in this town Nobody gets off in this town Old folks 'round...

O holy night! The stars are brightly shining, It is the night of the dear Saviour's birth. Long lay the world in sin and error pining. Till He appeared and the Spirit felt its worth. A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices, For yonder breaks a new and glorio...

Everybody's going out and having fun I'm just a fool for staying home and having none I can't get over how she set me free Oh lonesome me A bad mistake I'm making bout just hanging round I know that I should have some fun an paint the town A love sick f...

Many months have come and gone Since I wondered from my home In the Oklahoma hills where I was born Many page in life has turned Many lessons I have learned Yet I feel that in those hills I still belong Way down yonder in the Indian nation I'd ride my...

One of a kind love affair is The kind of love that you read about in a fairy tale Like the sun that shines on a rainy day, it's a cloud of love One of a kind love affair is When your down is up and your up is down, but love stays around When you know you...

We're man and wife on paper but the things just ain't the same you Lovers now are strangers how we've changed It's the end of our forever and we just can't stay together And I think it's time to break these paper chains Paper chains can't hold us together...

Every time I see your face it reminds me of the places we used to go. But all I got is a photograph and I realize you're not coming back anymore. I thought I'd make it the day you went away, but I can't make it till you come home again to stay. I can't...

This is not my first time at a party And I know when a woman's comin' on But I don't know how long I can resist her So if she's your woman please take her home Please take her home tonight and love her Love needs more than words to keep it strong Please...

From this valley they say you are going We will miss your bright eyes and sweet smile For they say you are taking the sunshine That has brightened our pathways awhile Come and sit by my side, if you love me Do not hasten to bid me adieu Just remember th...

When I looked at her, she was standing there Pretty long, black, shinny hair And I heard her say Do you need a little company But in that old bar, the lights were dim And I'll bet she didn't notice them Two old faithful friends Right here with me I'...

He'll dust off his hat, clean out his old pick-up truck He's goin' playin' when he should be prayin' for luck For tomorrow he's ridin' the meanest bull you'll ever seen But tonight he'll forget all about it, he's headin' for some cowgirl's dream He's a ro...

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 him You would even say it glows All of the ot...

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 hea...

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...

Papa it's so good to see you seeing you off of the wine Papa you barely miss mama she won't try to hold you this time One day her tears did stop falling she gave up on walking the floor She just sat down in her rocker and never got up anymore Papa some pe...

Once I had a warm and willing woman And it never crossed my heart to cross the street But lately baby's left me cold and hungry For the kind of love that made me want to cheat Her woman's intuition must have told her That I was in to wishing I could leav...

All she said she wanted was a piece of me Even if the part she got could never be free So I gave her love that I knew you could spare But sweetheart she took more than her share And the time it took for turning out the lights And the time it took for me...

This wild crazy look in my eyes Only means I'm trying to drink her from my mind And as I watch her at the bar with all those men around I know before closin' time one or two won't be turned down She's everybody's woman and I'm nobody's man I'm starving f...

I was following the rodeos in Texas And being chased by fathers of my ex's I was a looking for romance but it happened just like that When I saw her it melted the brim of my hat She's got that Oklahoma look all about her She's a rounder I'm glad I found...

Everybody that we meet Says she's lookin' good There's no doubt about it She's lookin' good There's just one thing that worries me It began this way before She's lookin' good and I'm afraid she'll find What she's lookin' for There was a time her love...

Not a hair out of place Then she makes up her face Then she makes up a lie She's dressed fit to kill And it takes all his will Not to cry She don't know that he knows And he won't let it show As she's leavin' 'Cause she'd not really cheatin' She's just gett...

Silent night! Holy night! All's asleep, one sole light, Just the faithful and holy pair, Lovely boy-child with curly hair, Sleep in heavenly peace! Silent night! Holy night! God's Son laughs, o how bright. Love from your holy lips shines clear, As the...

Oh how hard we fought today behind that courtroom door Devidin' up the things we both had worked together for Now we go our seperate ways the ties no longer bind And so much will belong to you and so much will be mine It's over now the paper's signed Wha...

Well, it really tears me up when I hear a hurtin' song And I'm someone who likes a good cold beer Baby's gone and after hurtin' all day long My heart feels the need to come in here 'Cause I need soft lights and hard country music Those cheatin' songs assure m...

There's a young girl that I know she just turned twenty-one She comes from down in southern Colorado I just out of the service and I'm lookin' for my fun Someday soon she'll go with me someday soon. Her parents cannot stand me cause I work the rodeo They...

I come here tonight to discover a lover that I'd never known Someone to talk to and smile at and laugh with 'till I take her home I come here to find me a stranger somebody that I never met Someone to love me then leave me alone but someone that I can forg...

Calling Sister Midnight You've got me reaching for the moon Calling Sister Midnight You've got me playing the fool Calling Sister Midnight Calling Sister Midnight Can you hear me call Can you hear me well Can you hear me at all Calling Sister Midnight...

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 Honey, I love you too That's the way love goes. That's the way love goes, babe That's the...

I just spent my last nickel tryin' to drive my tears away Tryin' to mend a broken heart that you once led astray I know life is funny this old world is built that way So many disappointments, that's what makes the jukebox play Every time I see your new lo...

Now I live across town from the only one I love No woman wants a man that drinks too much I know she'd take me back again if I could quit for good Lord knows I'd quit if I could I'm not holdin' the bottle the bottle's holdin' me I could win that goal I'v...

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire Jack Frost nipping at your nose Yule-tide carols being sung by a choir And folks dressed up like Eskimos. Everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe Help to make the season bright Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow Will fi...

If you see your man in clothes that's old and ragged And he walks from bar to bar in worn out shoes If people point and whisper God have mercy Would you deny the man that you once knew Would you be ashamed to remember I'm the same man that lost everythin...

Come along boys and listen to my tale, I'll tell you of my troubles on the old Chisholm trail. Come a ti yi yippee, come a ti yi yea, Come a ti yi yippee, come a ti yi yea. Oh, a ten-dollar hoss and a forty-dollar saddle, And I'm goin' to punchin' Texas...

I was hanging round town, just spending my time Being out of a job and not earning a dime A fellow walks up and he says, "I suppose You're a bronc rider, from the looks of your clothes" "Well, you figured me right and I'm a good one, I claim Would you ha...

You wouldn't read my letters if I wrote you You asked me not to call you on the phone But there's somethingI'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 You...

The old man used to dream of the fortune he'd seek Now he lives in the room where you pay by the week His hands're all bothered and his pony's gone lame And his bones always ache when the sky looks like rain Well he dreams of the old days with bronc busti...

Your fingertips touched me round midnight And your shadow crossed in front of my nightlife I've done my best to make it here in this house since you've been gone But the ghost of your memory stayed home I've heard your voice from out in the kitchen Then...

If life is like a candle bright Death must be the wind You can close your window tight And it still comes blowing in So I will climb the highest hill And watch the rising sun And I pray that I don't feel the chill Till I'm too old to die young Let me watch m...

I'm a roaming cowboy riding all day long, Tumbleweeds around me sing their lonely song. Nights underneath the prairie moon, I ride along and sing this tune. See them tumbling down Pledging their love to the ground Lonely but free I'll be found Drifting...

It was dark, it was lonely, it was late, it was Monday And I was looking and she was sittin' at the bar She was crying and I was trying to give her attention But she didn't seem to notice that I was standing there at all Two lonely people, one lonely nigh...

Six nights a week, the band and me We keep singing our songs The girls come in alone, and we turn 'em on We start the fire but somebody else takes 'em home They like our music, and they all dance to it But somehow it all turns out wrong 'Cos when we clo...

Last night I wandered through my mind to the place I'd love once live When I got to your sweet love my eyes began to fill Then I tried to remember why love turned out so sad But all I could remember was the good times that we had What happened to our love...

Hello, ladies {Hello} How are y'all doin' tonight {Fine} Can I keep it real {Yes} And say what's on my mind {Yes} There you are in that chair Waiting for me to take you there To break it down and sing to you And make you feel these words are true Who...

The twilight shadows deepen into night, dear The city lights are gleaming o'er the snow I sit alone beside the cheery fire dear I'm dreaming dreams from out the long ago I fancy it is springtime in the mountain The flowers with their colors are aflame An...

Well why don't you love me like you used to do How come you treat me like a worn out shoe My hair's still curly and my eyes are still blue So why don't you love me like you used to do Ain't had no lovin' like a huggin' and a kissin' in a long long while We do...

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 along Walking in a winter wonderland In...

When you live in the country everybody is your neighbor On this one thing you can rely They'll all come to see you and they'll never ever leave you Y'all come to see us bye and bye Y'all come (y'all come), y'all come (y'all come) Oh, you all come to...

Lord, I love to hear Hank Williams sing And there's a lot of Lefty's now with different names But it'll never be the way it was before Take me back to yesterday once more How I miss ole Tex, those days were good And nobody else could sing like Jim Reeves coul...

I'm a cowboy who knows just how far you can go And still lose a love of your lady If you're a real cowboy you'll live with the pain But you'll bow down your head like a tramp in the rain And it's yippi cry ai I'm ridin' again Holding my sack till my brok...

The news is out, all over town That you've been seen, a-runnin' round I know that I should leave but then I just can't go, you win again This heart of mine could never see What everybody knew but me Just trusting you was my great sin What can I do, you...

Your cheating heart will make you weep You'll cry and cry and try to sleep But sleep won't come the whole night through Your cheating heart will tell on you When tears come down like falling rain You'll toss around and call my name You'll walk the floor the w...