Pat Green

The other night I ran into my girlfriend Sittin' at the table with another man gettin' stoned And I'm sleeping all by myself down in Corpus I think I'll buy myself a bottle so I can drink my ass back home Alright, alright Go on and live your life tonight...

Baby I'm doing fine since you left me, And my friends seem to think I have a lot more time, But as far as I'm concerned, all the money that I earn is going to this 1-900 line. She said I was the greatest lover she'd ever heard, She said that I had too much...

Wake up, what you been dreaming about I ain't got a lot to say, but I could talk to you for hours The way you talk, the way that you breathe The way that your spirit moves into me Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up Chorus I got three days to wash the ro...

Chorus Adios days in the wide open prairie, Nights on the canyon are gone, Steven is dead and Johnny got married, Me I'm here all on my own. I used to have nights on the town of Laredo, Spinning the girls cross the floor, Now I'm too old for dancing an...

Mister Gator he's a-glidin' down the bayou Mister Buzzard he's a-slidin' through the air Mister Turtle be a-hittin' the highway I ain't goin' nowhere I ain't leavin you love, babe I ain't leavin you love, babe Not for heaven above, babe I ain't leavin...

Born lucky I guess Didn't hurt that I was in the right place, the right time too And the girl she was dandelion beautiful Damn, she was beautiful When the wind blows her like a bird And the petals on the flower fly away Sometimes it don't matter what you...

It's the same old tune, fiddle and guitar Where do we take it from here Rhinestone suits and new shiny cars We've been the same way for years We need to change Somebody told me when I got to Nashville Son you finally got it made Old Hank made it here,...

Close my eyes and ask a question Why is it I do what I do Am I looking for some happy definition Of life and love in the corners of truth Or am I just some curious bystander Looking at the world through a child’s eyes Sunlight always shining on my should...

Hello, California Sure is strange to be here today What’s a boy from down in Austin Doing in a city of angels anyway So won’t you come on out here with me Find out what you can and cannot see Maybe gain a new perspective Why we’re so infected by our dr...

Baby's just a little bit tired of the city, Billboards and bullshit got her down, Seem like you need a little hill country, A little back roads driving, little bit of the old top down, Yeah, everybody gotta get away sometime, Forget about yourself for aw...

Mama always said stand up to the truth There ain't no such thing as the fountain of youth Two wrongs never made it right Grass ain't always greener on the other side Better save your money for a rainy day Count your blessings come as they may Only Wil R...

Saw you early this morning sleeping all dressed in white, For a moment I thought you were an angel Come to take me home alive. You woke up and you caught me staring Smiled and said hey cut it out You said that I must be crazy, I said crazy about you And...

Dancehall Dreamer I found myself in bar room Doing the things I ought not to Watching life as it slowly passed me by I was holding onto lovers And disregarding others with my lies Living my whole life like this I guess its risky business Some folks sa...

My father had skin like leather, Hands like steal, From the lifetime spent in the cotton feild. know he would come home tired and dirty almost every night, He found the strenght to smile in me, Hold my momma tight. While that old trans sister radio woul...

She holds the key to Eden's Gate Somewhere deep inside When she gives to me her patience And a hundred smiles none the same Her eyes are the ocean i am drowning constantly i am lucky just to linger in the corners of her scene Chorus I am lost inside...

Every day in lunch in high school and all my senior year I’d drink my coca cola with a touch of Everclear I never had to study math, science, or history I’d have a chemical flash back to jog my memory My junior year I swore I loved sweet Miss Sherri Ann...

Verse one: Stay, won't you stay, please don't throw this all away You're out of daydreams girl, but we've got tonight You've been done so wrong but I can do you right And there's something for you and there's something for me So take all you want, and ta...

When I was a kid I had a rockin' horse named Ranger Out on the front porch we would ride we would ride Little red cowboy boots, little red cowboy hat And a pistol that shoots straight as an eagle flys Mama would come out and say it's time to come in I sa...

My brother and I used to go down to Georges Bar We'd drink Big O's until they closed down the place We'd talk about our lifelong ambition I still recall the smile upon his face He took off for the bright lights down in Austin Said Pat don't you know ther...

Lately I'm feeling kinda broken, Like a man out of sorts with the world, And I ain't got no explanation, And if I did I know I'd sound absurd. Chorus I can't change a thing no matter what I do, And you don't care what I say, I can't hide the pain anymo...

Hearts and flowers, forget love letters pain and anger, forget forgiveness love ain't waiting for a guy like me Debutants and champaign, diamonds and cocaine I ain't the son of outrageous fortune cash ain't status for a guy like me Put me on a cool riv...

Well up and at 'em, here we go I'm off again to the rodeo Sure got a lot of the little things on my mind Well, one's a song I just started writin' And the other's a girl I just finished fightin' She said it was me, but oh God, I just don't believe her I...

Cigarettes and a lighter Lonely woman, swinging door Broken pieces of a broken love affair I guess we've seen all that before Tonight she stares to the darkness Welcomes it back home again She'll cry every night 'till the day that she dies If she don't...

Lately I’m feeling kinda broken Like a man out of sorts with the world I aint got no explanation And if I did I know I’d sound absurd Yeah but I can’t change a thing No matter what I do And you don’t care what I say I can’t hide the pain any more Oh I...

Well from Dalhart to Del Rio And out El Paso way I've been doin' fine on Houston time When the sun sets on the Copano Bay From way up where the Red River flows On down to the Rio Grand I was born a little native Texan kid And i'm proud to say that I am...

We got winners. We got losers. Chain smokers and boozers. We got yuppies, we got bikers We got..thirsty hitch-hikers. And the girls next door dress up like movie stars. Mmmhmmmhmmmhmm I love this bar. We got cowboys, we got truckers. Broken hearted fo...

(Verse 1) There's a road that goes to an old friends house Where we grew up, where we hung out I've Been on this highway for three hours now And I'm trying to find it And I remember an old pinball arcade Where Where I lived out all my yesterdays And I'm...

If I had a million I would build you a mansion, A hundred miles from nowhere with all a girl could need, We would run through the hallways and dance in the backyard, If we ain't got no neighbors ain't no one will see. And if I had a speed plane we'd fly a...

I met John Wayne and Jesus when I was just a kid They both had on their cowboy hats just like I'd pictured them I stood up at the front of the class waving my American flag I said the pledge, sang amber waves of grain Chorus I sing all the song of Americ...

I was born down in San Antone daddy would leave us all alone, Big rig rolling thunder on a Dallas bound highway home. Mama got a job and she worked real hard, She had two little kids in a trashed out car, Yeah but me and my brother seemed to get along just...

Everybody's talking 'bout how everybody's feeling There's a change coming down All the people in the street are moving to the beat of a brand new sound But it's the same old theme Love is all you need *CHORUS* We got to learn how to live We got to lear...

Pretty little thing Where ya going with that "I'm about to give up" Look in your eyes I just said what I felt But I sure didn't mean To make you cry That's the thing about honesty Sometimes it stinks Sometimes it sets you free Go on, be mad at me Ju...

You thought you had this thing licked Hide under the covers when you answer the phone Pretend you're sick You built that wall around your heart so no one Could get to it You must have missed a spot somewhere baby 'Cause I walked right through it Love ha...

Check out those kids over there in the parking lot They're probably drinking a lil beer and smoking pot But I doubt they mean anyone any harm Yeah thats old man Fredrick's daughter Breakin every rule her daddy ever taught her With that wild-eyed kid on th...

Yeah Me and Billy the Kid, we never got along G--Csus9 Didn't like the way he cocked his hat, and he wore his gun all wrong. We had the same girlfriend, and he never forgot it, She had a cut little Chihuahua, that one day he over shot it. He rode the hard...

Tree blows against my window There's a storm brewin' in my heart Watchin' credits roll on a late night TV show Lonely street light peekin' Through the cracks in the window shade After all that he's seen I wonder if he truly knows Did he watch her when s...

When I was a child, my family would travel To western Kentucky, where my parents were born And there's a backward old town that's often remembered So many times that my memories are worn Chorus And daddy won't you take me back to Mulenberg county Down by...

Some things I've done make my conscience burn My very spine shutter and squirm I only hope that I've learned from my sins I heard a voice when I was thirteen Got baptized and washed up clean The world has a way if you know what I mean Stuffing you up aga...

"When the sun hits it right on its way down it was the prettiest thing in our little town. Every hour I'd sneak a glance over at the plastic frame and cracked glass that holds the picture of Ruby's two sad daughters. Last mill closed when I was nine and D...

Finally free Finally gone Finally breathing again Finally back on my own Well, I’m finally here in an otherwise empty room Where there’s no one here to tear me all apart Tonight I’m going out and going to get a little wasted I’m one of those guys, I’m...

I don't look all that ragged for all the time it's been I'm weakened underneath me where my frame is rusted thin And this years state inspection I just barely passed Won't you drive me cross the country boy this year could be my last Chorus And I'm a tai...

When the wind don't blow in Amarillo And the moon along the Gunnison don't rise Shall I cast my dreams upon your love, babe And lie beneath the laughter of your eyes It's snowin' on Raton Come morning I'll be through them hills and gone Mother thinks t...

I sing songs about Texas I sing them often as if she was some old lover I used to know I wish I could follow them back to the homeland everytime I hear one on my radio Twin fiddles playing in my memory My daddy sang the wonders of old Cowtown Silver hai...

What the hell am I doing down in Kansas City Know damn well it ain't where I belong, no no Think I'll quit my job come five o'clock Find my lonely way back home Well, my baby said just what are you trying to prove here Really want to leave me here all alone S...

Well I don't know why I came here tonight I've got the feeling that something ain't right I'm so scared, I might just fall off my chair And I'm wondering how I'll get down the stairs Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right Here I am stuck in the mi...

Let you hair down Wear somethin' pretty Don't you know, how you make us both look good We'll call your mama And tell her we're going out tonight We're going to be late Hey, we might not make it back at all Chorus: So take me out to the dancehall And...

I can hear the wind whisper my name. Tellin’ me it’s time to head out again. My horses are trailered and the lights are shut down, An' I’m long overdue for headin’ outta town. Got a fever that they call the rodeo. Just enough winnin' to make the next sho...

I woke up this morning Texas on my mind Thinking about my friends there And a girl I'd left behind The way she held me when we kissed The loving that we'd done And how I left her waving goodbye standing in the Texas sun Chorus: I've got a half a mind...

My daddy was an outlaw, Mom died giving birth to me, They both let me all alone when I was on bended knee, If you don't like my story I suggest you turn the page, I don't need no preachin' I ain't got no soul to save. My name is Arkansas Dave Rudebaugh a...

Now women and whiskey, they ain't the answer Lord, well I just know that this here is true But the way that I'm feeling, I just might be thinking Lord, tonight they just might have to do I've spent a lot of long and lonely nights in honkey tonk taverns I...

Got myself a threadbare gypsy soul Likes to dance and drink and go wherever the wind blows Gotta little threadbare gypsy soul Gotta little threadbare gypsy soul Gotta little wild streak in my heart I guess that I have had it since I heard the music start...

Wake up, what you been dreaming about I ain't got a lot to say, but I could talk to you for hours The way you talk, the way that you breathe The way that your spirit moves into me Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up Chorus: I got three days to wash the r...

Marty had a boutique on the corner, Stanley was a trucker by his trade, And every time that Marty would shake her tail feathers, It would go and make old Stanley's day. They'd go bowling every Tuesday, Down there at the Waco Fair Lanes, They'd drink a co...

Virginia Belle Comes walking down the street I wonder if she'd stop and talk to me Would I stumble Would I fall Would I say anything at all Just to know her (yeah yeah) How great it would be Just to show her (yeah yeah) I can already tell Virginia B...

Mile upon Mile I got no direction We’re all playing the same game We’re all looking for redemption Just afraid to say the name So caught up now in pretending What we’re seeking is the truth I’m just look for a happy ending All I’m looking for is you I...

Sometimes it's a car, a certain shade of mystic blue, I think of you and I wonder how on Earth you are. Sometimes just a song, that's playing on my radio, and there I go just a wishin' you were singin' along. That's all it takes, and I just opt to drea...

As we speak my sister's packing up the speakers on her stereo She's out the door on a man she said she's love forever a couple of years ago He's a standup guy so I don't know why she would ever leave him I guess we've all got our reasons There's a guy we...

Momma cried when you left me, Know she's always loved you so, She said hey fool what the hell did you do I said now mom I swear to God I just don't know, Picture book sittin on the table, Memories were stacked up through the years, But tonight their ain'...

I don't wear my shirt tucked in I like a little barbecue on Sunday Well, I hang with a rougher crowd Who drink too much, who talk too loud Don't you know that it's all right with me Yeah, I don't go to church too much, but I know that Jesus truly loves me...

Over the ground lies a mantle of white A heaven of diamonds shine down through the night Two hearts are thrillin' in spite of the chill in The weather Love knows no season love knows no clime Romance can blossom any old time Here in the open we're walkin' and...

It's just you and me and a voice on the radio It keeps telling you and me Should have turned around hours ago Just two innocent bystanders Victimized by the night That'll be our alibi in the morning light *CHORUS* So come on in and hold on Don't you...

Wrapped Pat Green Might stand out in the wind out on Mustang Island Might stay up all night hanging out with Hank Williams and crying I've slept out on the sand so many nights that I can't remember Yeah, but love is love and life is hard and one undoes t...

So tell me a story about something pretty A gaurdian angel up in the sky Make me believe in the hill for a climber Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies I'm hangin on mouth hangin open World spinning faster round and around Hey whats the m...

I got a sister out in Charlotte I love her cause she's crazy in her head I got a brother he's a pilot Sometimes I pray I'll just see him again My father told me once he said son Only a fool stays out at night Well it's 4 a.m. and I'm out here on the boul...