Porter Wagoner

All 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 trusting anyo...

I remember daddy playing the Wildwood Flower When we'd gather round the parlor of our home Uncle Wesley played the fiddle and John R played the banjo We'd pick and sing sometimes all night long Mama played the upright piano and I guess it must've been a thing...

10-4 over and out the way we talk sometimes you'd think our love is filled with doubt But when we're all alone by the fireside of our home The angry words we spoke that day have forever gone away then it's love we talk about To the world outside we say 10-4 ov...

Well the two new people that's moved to the middle of the block And we're at the top of the town and don't you think we're not Well we found love and happiness people envy us you see For we found heaven right here on earth at 4-0-33 Yes we found what most peop...

How many times have you heard someone say If I had his money I could do things my way But little they know that is so hard to find one rich man in ten with a satisfied mind Once I was waiting in fortune and fame Everything that I dreamed for to get a start in...

I'll give you love that's above and beyond the call of love And I'll never ever make you cry I'll give you love that's above and beyond the call of love And love's something that money can't buy Well a poor boy's chances for a pretty girl's glances are someti...

If every time that you got hurt it left a scar And if every dream you ever had broke your heart If every time you made a plan the world came to an end Then you'd know why I'm afraid to love again If broken dreams are all it seems you've ever known And hurt's t...

This room is like a tomb quiet and still I can almost hear my heart breaking But it won't cause there's a chance I might see you tomorrow But oh the agony of waiting You told me that someday you'd be my baby But I wonder if you know the agony of waiting all al...

On past the Riley Fruit Farm in the country and across the Gundy Hills to Jopin Holler An old man lived alone like a prisoner serving I'd never met a man like Albert Erving Albert never held a woman or a child you could see that loneliness had drove him wild H...

Find the lonelist girl in a thousand find the saddest eyes you've ever seen Find someone who's always longing for you find that man and you found me And all I need is you all I want is you to give my loving to all I need is you Find a man who wakes up every mo...

Down in the alley alley so low down where the red wine and the tears flow Frail bodies shiver as the wind blows down in the alley where broken men go Some talk of children a wife and a home they tell their stories of how life went wrong They turn to the bottl...

Darling will your love be mine forever always always Will you keep those vows we made together always always Will your love be as strong if my dreams should all go wrong always always Darling wil you stay with me forever always always Will your love remain thr...

My latest sun is sinking fast my race is nearly run My strongest trials now are past my triumph has began Oh come angel band come and around me stand Oh bear me away on your snowy wings to my imortal home Oh bear me away on your snowy wings to my imortal home...

Another day another dollar daylight comes I'm on my way Another day another dollar workin' my whole life away The boss told me I'd get paid weakly and that's exactly how I'm paid Another day another dollar workin' my whole life away Another day another dollar...

Things seem to worsen as time goes along we stand bewildered and ask what is wrong We say it's a pity but that's not enough we've asked a question and the answer is love The answer is love to all of the problems we face We can't solve our problems still we rid...

And I don't believe you love me anymore anymore Lately you've been acting strange to me Somehow it's not the way it used to be You're doing things you never dared to do before And I don't believe you love me anymore anymore I felt your love grow colder day by...

Crushed velvet drapes the walls of the room Pillows all colors shapes and sizes on the floor Mirrors on the ceiling reflect the candles burning low Just close your eyes and travel anyplace you want to go To lover's lane or far away to the mountain peaks of Spa...

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

As long as I'm dreaming you'll be in my heart dear As long as I'm dreaming you'll never grow old I'll build you a castle at the end of the rainbow And as long as I'm dreaming I'll fill it with gold A tree full of bluebirds will wake you each morning A garden o...

The house you lived in now is quiet and the street you walk with him is bright Oh you should know that talk would get around bad news travels fast in our town Not so long ago you were my bride so I guess you know that I've got pride Oh everybody knows you've l...

Listen to the music play listen to what each word will say They'll take you and I to heaven above as we live each story in each ballad of love Play the music softly so we can hear every word That tells of the beauty the sweetest on earth Surely this feeling is...

I asked my love to take a walk just to walk a little ways As we talked about our future wedding day And when she told me she would never be mine I placed a knife against her breast as into my arms she pressed She cried oh please don't murder me I'm not prepare...

Red headed picker was sittin' on a limb Ma said chicken but Nellie shot him Wrung his neck and picked him clean the funiest chicken I've ever seen Hey (barefoot Nellie) ho (barefoot Nellie) hey (barefoot Nellie) you're the one for me Now Nelie put on her Sunda...

Barlow Chapin was a big man Barlow Chapin was a real man When he'd play ball all the girls would scream If the boys complained he'd whip the whole team Barlow Chapin was a big man Barlow Chapin was a big man not an ounce of fat was on his bones Just hard musc...

Have you ever heard the story of the pride of Little Big Horn Right from the lips of someone that saw Well I was there on that cold and fateful morning Watched General Custer and the bloody masacre There were muskets arrows cannonballs a flyin' Yellin' screami...

When you left you said you would not be returning Nothing here you'd ever want to see again But each night you've come to visit me in mem'ries And won't you be a little quieter if you can Last night I heard you walkin' in the hallway And your footsteps sounded...

A tongue can accuse and carry bad news the seeds of distrust it will sow But unless you've made no mistakes in your life be careful of stones that you throw A neighbor was passin' my garden one day she stopped and I knew right away That gossip not flowers she...

If you've never laid awake at night and prayed to be set free From the chains that bind a broken heart be glad that you ain't me If you've never walked the lonely streets in search for company Someone to tell your troubles to be glad that you ain't me Be glad...

Help me don't hurt me be proud of your man Walk with me not on me talk to me not about me Help me don't hurt me be proud of your man Laugh with me not at me look at me not through me Help me don't hurt me be proud of your man Pull with me not against me see s...

Beautiful wings mother must wear for I know she's with angels somewhere up above Great white wings with a halo so fair I know she's in glory sweet mother dear love (Precious mem'ries how they linger) all through the valley that she loved so well Her flowers h...

I'm sorry I was weak enough to step out on you Well I should have been strong enough not to step out on you too I know that I'd hurt you and I stepped out for spite Because one of us was wrong don't mean the other one was right I'm not making excuses for mysel...

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

What are we doing in this place alone is our desire to relive our past this strong True love we knew in the past is gone but our weakness lingers on Let's go home before our weakness gets too strong Long ago we let the flame of love burn out of control Now we...

At the beginning there was love and we thought it was enough We saw no farther than each other's arms And though the roof leaked o'er our heads just a blanket for our bed But then we had our love to keep us warm But the winter winds blew cold our new love was...

Let's start by stopping long enough to talk things over Since there's a new love burning between us With openminded understanding between us Let's both feel free to talk of this new love Let there be no deep dark secrets between us let's never hide behind a fa...

In the land of the Ponderosa pine there runs a giant 8-wheeler Known as the Big River Train Just before she disappears into the forset she passes by a prison Where many-a convicts has dreamed of riding her rails to freedom I'd like to tel you a story as it was...

From daylight till dusk we've been a workin' in the dust Pickin' cotton workin' side by side Well I can't forget yes I remember yet the way my daddy looked at me and cried Big wind's a comin' listen to the hummin' hurry up son be quick don't stall You know we...

When I was a young man I played my guitar I played for the people in Black Jack's Bar They danced to the music and called me a star And I took in the money in Black Jack's Bar I kept things a movin' with a crazy beat I kept up a rhythm with my two big feet I p...

Blue moon of Kentucky keep on shining shine on the one that's gone and proved untrue Blue moon of Kentucky keep on shining shine on the one that's gone and left me blue It was on the moonlight night the stars were shining bright When she whispered on high your...

Bones you've took me to places I wish that I'd never been Bones you've carried me down winding roads of love that I thought had no end But bones this time you've led me right straight to true love's door So bones let me tell you don't take me away anymore bone...

Born to lose I've lived my life in vain every dream has only brought me pain All my life I've always been so blue born to lose and now I'm losing you Born to lose it seems so hard to bear how I long to always have you near You've grown tired and now you say we...

Wino Skid Row Joe some on vegranci They've got all kinds in the Boston jail now they've got me In the county jail in old Boston they've got all kinds you see From all walks of life they come all lost their liberty Now some got wives just outside a waitin' for...

Bottle bottle why do I love you so much Gasping for air I come up from your lips amazed at the beauty at my fingertips Awed by the softness and warmth of your touch Bottle bottle why do I love you so much You give me the strenght to go on day by day You help k...

Tonight the bottle let me down I've always had a bottle that I could turn to and lately I've been turning every day But the wine don't take effect the way it used to And I'm a hurtin' in an old familiar way Tonight the bottle let me down and let your mem'ry co...

Bottle of wine truly divine when you gonna let me get sober Leave me alone let me go home let me go home and start over Ramble around this dirty ole town a beggin' for nickels and dimes Times are rough I can't get enough to buy a little bottle of wine Oh bott...

At the bottom of the bottle is where a man can hide When he must cross a river he knows is too wide When the bottle is empty even heartaches are gone Though his eyes can't see no one he don't feel alone Come go with me to the bottom of the bottle On our way do...

My beautiful rose from the bride's bouquet I went to a wedding one bright summer day The bright was a beauty the people were gay Alone in a corner I stood till it end For the girl was my sweetheart and the boy my best friend The service was over and beside the...

I wanna bring home the bacon to you I wanna share what I'm makin' with you I wanna put you in my budget I wanna keep you in my heart Cause you're the only apple in my applecart I'm all set to see the preacher and say I do I wanna spend my life makin' love to y...

Here we sit lookin' at each other seems we're at a loss for what to say Ties bind us both with someone else we don't want to hurt but we must break And tonight I'll sit home a thinkin' and tonight I'll sit home a drinkin' We both live in seperate homes where...

Well I came down there with my hat caved in Oh I'll go back home with my pocket full of tin oh doo-dah day Goin' to run all night goin' to run all day I'll bet my money on the bobtail nag somebody bet on the bay Well the camptown ladies sing this song doodah...

Can you tell me when the rains will be ending Can you tell me when the clouds will blow away Could you tell me when my love will be returning Or do you think my love has gone to stay Once my days were filled with happy sunshine At night we'd watch the stars c...

I'm on my way to Canaan's land I'm on my way to Canaan's land I'm on my way to Canaan's land I'm on my way I'm on my way Now if you don't go don't hinder me if you don't go don't hinder me If you don't go don't hinder me I'm on my way I'm on my way I'm on my...

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

(Cassie Cassie) the first time I saw Cassie she was running through a meadow With a handful of daffodils she picked somewhere nearby Awed by her beauty I watched her as she ran She looked like an angel against the summer sky I loved her through the summer our...

A wino we called Charley had a picture that he wore around his neck upon a chain But you couldn't see the face in Charley's picture Just long brown hair and a poem in the frame We tried and tried to see old Charley's picture But we couldn't even tempt him with...

Take me far across the wide Missoury To reach where wild oak trees grow tall and slim To little hillside farm in Hopewell County Let me see my childhood playgroung once again It's been a long time since I've seen my homeplace Wonder if the trees still stand so...

Christina our first born you are so soft and warm as you lie between us softly sleeping We gaze in admiration at God's tiny creation And thank him and ask for your safe keeping You were conceived through love you are a part of us Christina you are a dream come...

You're the sweetest one I know and I just can't let you go I just dream of holding you inside my arms I go home each night to stay but I just can't stay away And we get closer closer by the hour We get closer by the hour though we've tried with all our power T...

In tomorrow's newspaper you'll read about me but they won't tell the story I know For they'll only say he plunged yesterday to the cold dark waters below I guess it all started the day we first met you promised that you'd love me so And I never thought it woul...

I got back in town a day before I'd planned to I smiled and said I'll sure surprise my wife I don't think I'll phone I'll just head on home For I didn't know the cold hard facts of life I passed a little winestore on the corner I pictured big champagne by cand...

If I had one wish I wish I could go back to my old neighborhood For the good folks they all loved you as their own Then I'd go over to my neighbor's house knock on the door and they'd all sing out Come on in and sit right down and make yourself a home I sing t...

Everyone needs someone they feel that they can run to Let me be your someone the one you always come to I wish you only happiness but that won't always be So come to me when you're in need won't you come to me Come to me when you're down I will help you up Wh...

Now and then here and there I still see her Sometimes my mem'ry lets me hear her voice so soft and low But like the wind she travels in she seems to come and go At times my mind seems crystal clear and then I think of her Then the spin of the room I'm in is no...

Oh mama I'm excited I'm almost out of breath What I saw the light that made me run myself to death I was on the mountain side when I looked down below And glory be I thought I'd better come and let you know We got company comin' company comin' we got company c...

I'm just askin' you to listen not to understand these confessions of a broken man I don't know where my story starts or I'd go back to them All I know it's a sad sad tale so for it has no end I know I drank too much though I didn't take thirst Oh I'd have a be...

I was talkin' to a farmer not long ago His face was all brown and wrinkled and his hair was as white as snow I'd gone for a drive out in the country when I stopped at his place When I first stopped and spoke to him He said don't I know you you look familiar to...

Within my prison cell so dreary alone I sit with aching heart I'm thinking of my lonely darling from her forever I must part A rose she sent me as a token she sent it just to light my gloom To tell me that her heart is broken to cheer me fore I meet my doom Sh...

When I was a little bitty baby my mama would rock me in the cradle In them old cottonfields back home When I was a little bitty baby my mama would rock me in the cradle In them old cottonfields back home. Well, when them cotton bolls get rotten you can't pi...

Oh they say that country music's gone to town Hold your flocks and put on the cap and gown What's the country boy to do what's this world a comin' to Oh they say that country music's gone to town Grandpa used to take his dear old fiddle on his knee And Uncle...

Working in the red hot sun paying for the wrong I done Work's so hard here at the County farm My calloused hands that hold the fork pitchin' hay until it's dark Boy the work is hard here at the County farm The County farm stretches the summer days so long Make...

Tonight I'm all alone in my lonely room outside the rain is falling slowly on And when I close my eyes that's when I realize inside me something keeps calling I'm cryin' loud loud loud it can't be her for you should see these teardrops falling I'm cryin' loud...

Oh somewhere the music's playin' soft and low And a stranger holds the one that I love so I was blind I couldn't see that you meant the world to me And like a fool I stood and watched you go Now I'm crying my heart out over you those blue eyes now they smile a...

Today tomorrow and forever that's how long our love will last I'll never stop loving you no never today tomorrow and forever We've got the kind of love most people dream about We're sure of our love in our mind there's no doubt And I know that you ove me by t...

A child walked in a candy store in faded overalls Put a nickel on the counter said I think I'll spend it all I've carried it three months or more you can tell it by the shine Now I need a sack of candy like my daddy needs his wine Daddy and the wine goes back...

Daddy was an old time preacher man He preached the word of God throughout the land He praeached so plain a child could understand Yes daddy was an old time preacher man He told the people of the need to pray He talked about God's wrath on Judgement Day He pre...

I have many fond mem'ries of my daddy One of the things I remember most was dad's hard work and his workin' boots My poor hard workin' daddy worked his life away for us That's the way my daddy showed to us his love And daddy's two hard workin' hands were callo...

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

Just beayond the chapel door waits the one you're waiting for The one you've chosen to fulfill your dreams So with an angel by my side I walk you down the aisle To give away our darling Debra Jean Silence fills the room as you stand beside the groom Then I hea...

Dear lonesome with a broken heart If I could write myself a letter here's how I would start Dear lonesome with a broken heart How are things since she has left you has your whole world fell apart Dear lonesome with a broken heart In answer to this letter I'd s...

Hair like strands of gold hanging past your shoulders As the wind blows through it wild and free Your body is the color of a leaf touched by autumn hmm my Denise Mayree Denise Mayree how I love you each thing we do makes golden memories You stay in my mind lik...

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

I met a gal one night in town man she really knocked me down Her hair was red her eyes were blue her talk was crazy through and through Dig that crazy moon my love dig that crazy sky Dig the stars that shine above cause you're my sweetie pie We're gonna dig di...

Doll face can erase any rain your doll face you're constantly in my dreams It seems I'm in love with you Doll face can erase any tain your doll face you're constantly on my mind I find I'm in love with you In my daydreams in my sleep in my secret heart away do...

(Don't let me cross over love's cheating line) I'm tempted my darling to steal you away don't let me cross over stay out of my way You know that I love you but I'm not the stealing kind And I'm faced with heartaches that love's cheating line Don't let me cross...

Dooley was a good old man he lived below the mill Dooley had two daughters and a forty gallon still One gal watched the boiler the other watched the spout Mama corked the bottles and old Dooley fetched them out Dooley slippin' up the holler Dooley tryin' to ma...

In dreams of yesterday I wander back to my little cabin door I strolled beside an old rock garden and saw familiar scenes once more I heard the organ softly playing its music came so sweet and low And I heard my mother softly saying as she did so many years ag...

Like the weather your heart changes with each season Springtime summer fall and winter too Though I know I'll never understand the reason I still wonder why each season changes you It was springtime when I found you like the flowers And our love grew warmer w...

Little heart you've been broken many times before But the wound always heals no matter how sore But this time is different and I can't tell you why Eat drink and be merry tomorrow you'll cry They say that time will erase all my sorrow Well I guess since I've l...

My baby left me this morning wore her brand new walking shoes I don't know where she is going everything she touches is the blues Wonder what she'll name our baby someone else is helping her to choose I only know my heart is broken everything she touches is t...

Your eyes're soft and gentle but your heart is hard and cold With the beauty of an angel and the devil in your soul Your looks're so deceiving you're so lovely yet so wild And I wish that I had never walked into your world fairchild Your lips could well deceiv...

Fallen leaves that lie scattered on the ground The birds and flowers that were here now can't be found All the friends that he once knew are not around They are scattered like the leaves upon the ground Some folks drift along through life and never thrill To t...

(Falling falling falling out of love) Darling we're falling in and out of love but each time we're falling back again We have a fight and then we make back up now here we go falling again Falling again falling again falling again out of love Each time this hap...

There's a family Bible on the table its pages torn and hard to read But the family Bible on the table will ever be my key to memory At the end of the day when work is over and when the evening meal was done Dad would read to us from the family Bible And we'd c...

(The family who prays never shall part) Satan has parted fathers and mothers filling their hearts with his envy and hate Hitting their pathway down to destruction leaving their children like orphans to stray The family who prays will never be parted their circ...

He tills the soil and plants the seeds to feed his hungry land the farmer the farmer With a hoe a shovel and a turnin' plow makin' his livin' by the sweat of the brow The farmer the farmer When the sun gets hot the fields are dry and like a brain the seeds the...

Fight and scratch fight and scratch that's all we ever do There surely must be more to love than to fight and scratch with you You you to fight and scratch with you Well you just bought a foal last month now you want a wig It looks like you couldn't understan...

You and me cannot agree cause our love's the fightin' kind Oh yes you did you started it like you start all our fights No I didn't do no such thing and that a dirty lie Nothin's ever your fault and nothin's ever mine You and me cannot agree cause our love's th...

Find out find out after you find out how true love is to find Then you'll come back and be happy with mine Someone filled your darling's head with story About how greener grass grows somewhere else And so you're searching for that perfect pasture I guess you'...

Our love just runs in circles never turning for the best With seperate dreams we can't complete in our race for happiness And trouble built within our hearts till love has been tore down And loneliness is catching us while our love goes spinning around Our hea...

Her real first name was Betty but I'd rather just forget it So I'll call her the First Mrs Jones We were married in September and it lasted till November Then one day she just took out on her own I followed her to Savannah New Orleans and then Atlanta Every da...

I find myself remembering things I thought I'd forgot I thought I'd gotten over you but I can see I've not And seeing you has made me realize how wrong I've been And the torch I've carried for so long is burning bright again The flame is burning bright again i...

I can see the sunshine again And I can see the blue sky where there once was fog and rain We know each other now clear through and through The fog has lifted between me and you I loved you the first time I saw you for it seemed like I had known you all my life...

I've never had a pair of shoes that weren't all hand-me-downs And daddy's morning coffee came from ol' left over ground My mama wore no jewelry or any storebought stuff And home was on a hillside forty miles from Poplar Bluff Forty miles back in Missoury there...

Mother Tree shake loose the leaves and the wind spins them around How beautiful the leaves they are yellow red and brown Me and Frieda stop to watch the dancing colored leaves We frolic in the autumn win and sleep beneath the trees We're awakened by the touch...

A small town in Kentucky that's called Hazzard Has been known to lay some talent on this land Gave birth to a group that's really happening Eli Stubbs and his Funky Grass Band The Funky Grass Band hits the stage a grinnin' their pickin' really turns a body on...

There'll be a great gathering in the sky when all of God's children get home We'll join the happy millions as they sing there around the great white throne I'm speakin' of a big camp meetin' where we never shall say goodbye I'm longin' for the day when I hear...

The mixture of the blood that flowed through his veins It killed his conscience and filled him with shame He was part white part black part red That's how he'd got the name George Lorey Chickashea He had no respect or feeling for anyone including himself He re...

One Saturday night in a barroom a gospel singer walked in And bravely she red from the Bible and begged them to turn from the sins Oh come into Jesus she pleaded he'll be your step in the rock When one of the drinkers said to her (why I don't believe in your G...

Gonna find me a bluebird let him sing me a song Cause my heart's been broken much too long Gonna chase me a rainbow through a heaven of blue Cause I'm all through crying over you There was a time my love was needed my life completed my dreams came true Then c...

I'll agree that we may never own a mansion And the furniture in our house might be old But we've got something that's worth so much more than money We've got each other and that's as good as gold Of course we dream of all the things enjoyed by others And we've...

(Good morning neighbor this glooming day let's go to church I'm on my way Gonna lose my sorrow and every care good morning neighbor I'll see you there) Now all I've got to wear in this old blue surge suit And boy it looks like a real hand me down But when I g...

When we married we agreed that we'd both do as we please Just as long as we done each other right Through the years our love has grown now our love is twice as strong Cause we've got a good understanding Yes we've got a good understanding and a love that has n...

In a room filled with flowers and happy people all around One stands out from all the rest dressed in cap and gown With a smile of love and kindness as she looks my way You should see the pride I feel inside Graduation Day May God always be as proud of you as...

The old hometown looks the same as I step down from the train And there to meet me is my mama and papa And down the road I look and there runs Mary hair of gold and lips like cherries It's good to touch the green green grass of home Yes they'll all come to mee...

So many never know the feeling of love and they go through a lifetime all alone Not knowing what a friendly hand would feel like on their shoulder Or hands of love to welcome them at home The hands of love can make you feel like heaven Has blessed each thing y...

Well I've never seen so many happy faces smiles are sure in style here at this place Why everyone here looks just like a neighbor You know there's love in every happy face They say that frowning makes the wrinkles deepen And loneliness will make beauty decay...

Have I told you lately that I love you could I tell you once again somehow Have I told with all my heart and soul how I adore you well darling I'm telling you now This heart would break in two if you refuse me I'm no good without you anyhow Dear have I told yo...

Haven't you heard there's a new love for me Haven't you heard you're just my used to be She held out her hand said haven't you heard I saw gold wedding band I was lost forward I wanted to cry I wanted to die when she said these words (oh haven't you heard) Ha...

He's a go-getter go-getter When his wife gets off from work well he'll go get her Now I've got a neighbor that lives down the road away His wife holds down a steady job he don't turn his hand all day I know that most of you will know the kind I'm talkin' abou...

I know a man that lives all alone he must not have a friend in the world For each night I hear him a walkin' the floor as he calls out the name of a girl He's alone again tonight I can hear him a walkin' the floor As he swears at the rain and cusses the pain h...

I think I'll go across the ocean if I don't change my notion I just got to forget you if I can Well I'm feelin' so blue I don't know what to do Because I'm head over heels in love with you Every day I'm sad and lonely I keep thinkin' of you only I just can't b...

Heaven help me for my heart has gone astray I'm tornmented by my conscience night and day I've become a prisoner of an evil heart a sinful love Heaven help me for my true love I've betrayed You promised to love to honor and obey to cherish and love me with all...

Well my wife and I were happy in our trailer But she didn't dig my runnin' around all night Well I warned you a couple of times about leavin' Oh but you just laughed and took it kinda light Well I should've paid attention to her warnin' When she told me she'd...

Today I found a dollar on the sidewalk so I went and bought a jug of wine And I'll sit here in this alley and keep drinkin' Until the thought of mama leaves my mind Here's a toast to mama do you miss me do you even think about me anymore Mama did you even stop...

On a highway headed south somewhere to Dixie Where the cotton blooms in spring and snow don't fly I'm gonna rest these chilly bones in southern sunshine And live where the weather's warm until I die North Dakota you've got my better years Montana you've got f...

Sitting in a dimlit room alone wondering where the one I love has gone And what I've done to bring an end to all our hopes and plans While my mind keeps holding mem'ries I'm holding lonely hands As I hold these lonely hands of mine that once held you so tight...

We're holding on with nothin' left to hold on to I'm so tired of holding on to nothin' The years have shown no kindness for the hard times that we've been through We've squeezed the life from every dream and still go on bluffin' With really nothin' left to hol...

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

Some people steal they cheat and lie for wealth and what it will buy (But don't they know on the Judgement 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 o...

There's nothing unusual about the way my day begins As I walk up and down the streets with my mailpouch in my hands I've run this route for years everybody knows my name Especially at the old folks home which I call the House of Shame The old folks home is my...

A squeaky gate a welcome lock a big shaggy dog that lives out back And some might even call it a shack but this is the house where love lives The paint is peelin' off of the cells the mailbox is full of bills And it's no mansion on the hill but this is the hou...

On a park bench on sunny afternoon sat a young boy and a girl bout seventeen As we stood so closely by watched them hold each other's hand On their faces love had written we're making plans Then he said to her you're my guiding light Then she said to him you m...

I've hurt all who loved me they don't understand that my life is out of control All that really matters is this bottle in my hand how far down can I go Tonight it's a bottom tomorrow what then anything that brings a happy glow Once I loved somebody I wish I co...

Howdy neighbor howdy get out and come right in We'll make a bowl of gravy to sop your biscuits in Boil a pot of coffee and bake a big fat hen Cook another country ham to feed a hundred men Drive your wagon in the yard and turn your donkey loose Kick that old...

With one nickel in his pocket and a pack of cigarettes There were no tears of sorrow no tears of regrets In a plain wooden casket the county laid him away Just a hundred dollar funeral with no loved ones to pray There must be a mother who loves him somewhere P...

From the start I promised you that I would always be Waiting here at anytime you ever needed me I love you then and I love you now as I always will And I am always waiting willing to forgive I'll be your shelter from the storm my love will keep you safe and wa...

I can lose myself in the beauty of a song I can climb to the top of a cloud in the sky I can soar through the heavens like a graceful eagle I can swing from the wings of a butterfly I can chase the wind down the canyons of my mind I can catch it in the corner...

I can't live with you and I can't live without you what in the world am I to do When we're together it's a fight to the finish when we're apart I'm sad and blue I wish I could make up my mind what there is left of it If I hate to be with you my darling if I'd...

I couldn't wait forever did you expect me to I guess you thought I'd never find somebody new I lived on dreams and promises as long as I could I couldn't wait forever the way you thought I would The lonely nights grew longer as I prayed for time to fly I lived...

I went strolling in the evening underneath the harvest moon I was thinking about you Then we met out in the moonlight the stars we shining in your eyes But another was there too I don't believe you've met my baby he looked at me he looked at you You wondered w...

I dreamed I saw America on her knees She knelt in prayer with humble outstretched hands Last night I fell asleep sittin' in my favorite chair I had read the evenin' paper news of trouble everywhere Evil spread throughout the nation like a dark cloud overhead C...

It was on a Sunday morning when I found him standing all alone starin' into space He looked like a man had lived a hard life and the hurt of it showed on his face Hunger for food showed through his loose clothes That you could tell were once tailored to fit An...

I can't stand the thoughts of you with somebody else I can't keep pretending just foolin' myself It hurts me too much to think you'll never be mine But somewhere there's someone that I've got to find I've gotta find someone who loves like I do I've gotta have...

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

I was ridin' No 9 headin' south from Caroline I heard that lone-vow-vow-some whistle blow Got in trouble had to roam left my gal and left my home I heard that lone-vow-vow-some whistle blow Just a kid acting smart I went and broke my darling's heart I guess I...

I just came to smell the flowers here in someone's darkest hour I don't even know the one they've laid to rest But anyplace there's a crowd and anywhere they're cryin' loud Just seems to be the place I love the best Surrounded by the blues in a place that los...

I had not planned on seeing you I was afraid of what I'd do But pride is strong and here am I I just can't let you say goodbye Please have no fear you're in no harm as long as you're here in my arms But you can't leave so please don't try I just can't let you...

I like girls I like girls I like their ribbons and I like their curles I like 'em cause they're soft and sweet I like to watch 'em on the street I like their hair and when they wear that perfume on their clothes Do I like girls oh I like girls and I don't care...

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

Tonight my heart's as heavy as these cold gray walls of stone Cause I know I'll see my last sunrise with tomorrow's early dawn Cause an old gray haired judge said guity for your crime you must pay So with the final curtain falling I relived my life today From...

Last night I met an old love and just to pass the time We did some other things we used to do But as I held her in my arms this thought ran through my mind Oh I should be with you I held her close but that old thrill I used to know was gone I kissed her lips a...

I said goodbye to you this morning with only these words to explain I said I've found someone I love better but I still hear your voice call my name I thought I heard you calling my name funny I still feel this way Your voice seemed so close but I knew that by...

I walked to the whispering forrest not a man made sound could I hear A pretty sound was playing there without a sign of fear I walked alone up to mountain and looked out over the sea I saw an eagle spread his wings in flight so gracefully I knew that I was wa...

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 life...

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 It's wrong to live together when our love has reached an end We stopped living when our love d...

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

I went out of my way to make you happy to love you when your other love went wrong I went out of my way when you were lonely now I'm out of my mind since you've gone I asked the fool on the stool next to me what do you do with so much misery Just one love in h...

Well I wonder how the old folks are at home I wonder if they'll miss me when I'm gone I wonder if they'll pray for the boy who went away And left his dear old parents so alone Now you can hear the cattle lowin' in the lane You can see the fields of blue grass...

Tonight I'm sad my heart is weary wondering if I'm wrong or right To dream about you though you've left me I wonder where you are tonight The rain is cold and slowly falling upon my window pane tonight And though your love was even colder I wonder where you ar...

Yes it's true that he and I were sweethearts now he's about to steal your heart away You're asking me to tell you all I know about him and I have only one thing to say I wouldn't buy a used car from him don't trust the man that's every woman's friend Those kin...

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 I'll fly away oh Glory I'll fly away when I'll die hallelujah by and by I'll fly away (When the shadows of this life have gone I'll fly away Like a bird fro...

We'll get ahead somedays we'll get ahead someday If the sun comes up and my wife cuts down we'll get ahead someday Well I get up early work hard all day listen to the troubles of my friends But I don't realize till I get home whan an awful shape we're in The...

The one I love don't want me hanging round All she does is put me on and put me down Tonight she's with a stranger at a party in her home And I'm here at a tavern gettin' stoned Cause if I gotta go I'll go down swinging Where there's lights and laughter booze...

On Sunday when the church bells start ringing they're ringing for you and for me Let's all gather round at the altar and pray that our souls may be free I'll meet you in church Sunday morning and we'll all kneel down and pray We'll pray to our Lord up in heave...

I know that it's not healthy to think of you this way And hunger for your love from day to day For the love you gave was never meant to bring me any sorrow And I know I must forget you but I think I'll start tomorrow First thing tomorrow I must start to stop a...

I'm a long way from home a long way from home Lord please watch over me I just can't get a custom to the hunger no one seems to notice that I'm cold This life's not making me no younger I wish I'd stayed at home like I was told But I'm a long way from home I'v...

For nighttime I'll borrow sunshine from tomorrow I'm day dreamin' tonight We make love together my dreamin' gets better I'm day dreamin' tonight Oh should the flame smother I dream up another whose lovin' is such a delight Who's crazy about me and can't live w...

Well I finally got a job last Monday I hadn't worked in a month to Sunday And everything was gettin' hungry but everything's all right now So gather round all you children gather round all you children Gather round all you children cause I'm a gonna feed you...

"I'm not in your town to stay," said a lady old and gray to the warden of the penitentiary "I'm not in your town to stay And I'll soon be on my way I'm just here to get my baby out of jail Oh warden, I'm just here to get my baby out of jail" "I tried to raise...

All week long I've had the blues it's about to get me down This loneliness is just too much for anyone to be around But tonight I'm a gonna have some I'm gonna drive it off of my mind So you better watch out you pretty little girl I'm steppin' out tonight I'm...

(There'll be no detours in heaven no rough roads along the way I'm using my Bible for a roadmap my last stop is heaven some sweet day) I'm using my Bible for a roadmap the Ten Commandments they tell me what to do The twelve disciples are my road signs and Jes...

There's nothing left to tie us to each other anymore The love we knew is gone and that's a fact we can't ignore There's nothing left to loose ends on all the ties that bind I'm wasting your time and you're wasting mine There's no use in wasting the good years...

Now friend if you'll just listen to me you'll get some good hard earned advice Now I don't aim to meddle in your business I'm just tryin' to save you an awful price You see these teeth that I ain't got and these knots on my bald head I'll guarantee you boys I...

Last night you went out again with what you said was your best friend You say you need some time away from me The sun was high when you got in but not as high as you had been And I wonder how you would act if I done just the way I pleased I've been married jus...

Hmm (oh ain't he cute) ah well I don't like to get up if I feel like sleeping No and I don't like to sweep my floor if I don't feel like sweeping If you don't like the way I am then you can move along You can't change the way I am I've been this way too long I...

I've enjoyed as much of this as I can stand You look lovelier tonight than I remember I'm so glad I got to see you once again I've enjoyed just sitting down and reminiscing But I've enjoyed as much of this as I can stand So you say you're happy now you've foun...

Well I tumble from my good warm bed shake the sleep out of my head I'd rather lay back down instead but I've got work to do Then I stumble to the coffee pot I like my coffee strong and hot It helps me get out on the job and I've got work to do I've got work to...

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

Mama it's so good to be back home again I'm so proud to see that you are looking well Yes I know that I look a little weary oh but mama I have been through living hell Mama you know how much I've always loved her Well she done things to me I couldn't understan...

An acre of diamonds I'd offer to you A solid gold mansion, an airplane or two This whole world would be yours to have and to hold If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold [Chorus:] If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold I'd have all the...

Soon we'll come to the end of life's journey and perhaps we'll never meet anymore Till we gather in heaven's bright city far away on that beautiful shore If we never meet again this side of heaven As we struggle through this world and its strife There's anothe...

Darling it's not really over it just seems to be Darling I don't really think that we want to be free A raging storm of anger made us want to end it all Darling don't you know in each love some pain must fall These tiny drops of pain that's falling down our fa...

In the presence of you I wonder Why I can't say the things that I want to All the pretty words that I planned to say when I'm with you I lose them in the presence of you Your nearness makes my voice tremble There's a weakness that I feel through and through S...

In the shadows of the wine I see your face before me all the time And there you're smiling from this glass of mine in the shadows of the wine I'd lift the glass and there you're standing the love I won and lost no longer mine I see the past unfold before me in...

You came into my life at a time when I was down And I thought I'd never love again but I think different now You took my hand and helped me up and I thank you for your precious love And words cannot express the way I feel but is it real Is it real this love th...

(It keeps right on a hurtin' since you're gone) I cry myself to sleep each night wishing I could hold you tight Life seems so empty since you went away The pillow where you lay your head now holds my lonely tears instead And it keeps right on a hurtin' since y...

I'm lookin' for a way to get out there's no hope for you and me We'll never get along everything we do is wrong You and I both know one of us has to go and it might as well be me We stopped loving a long time ago and now all we do is disagree There's no use to...

You know things look a whole lot different when you're a kid a growin' up Than they look when you become about 21 Or at least they did for me in the Jasper County law Daddy died when I was a baby mama done her best to raise me To be the kinda man my daddy was...

Her two little feet would come rinning into our bedroom almost every night Her soft little face would be wet from her tears And her little heart pounding with fright She'd hold out her arm then she'd climb in beside us In a small voice we'd hear her remark Mom...

The past ten years just flashed before my eyes I remember the day my daddy died He left mom four boys and three-year old Ginny Lou She got sick and we almost lost her too Times were rough even when dad was here but things got worse year after year Six years ag...

When I married Julie she was just seventeen pretty as the answer to any man's dream From the start I gave Julie all the love that I had But everyone told me that Julie was bad For Julie liked parties and clothes that fit tight Drinking and dancing and out late...

So I feel so blue sometimes I want to die and so I've got a broken heart so what They say that time will heal all wounds in mice and men And I know that someday I'll forget and love again But just between you and me I've got my doubts about it Just between you...

There's a place where the music plays softly and the lights are turned way down low Sweetheart before you leave will you go there with me Then maybe you'll decide not to go The admission to the place is a tear on your face Or a lonely look of love that's gone...

There's a picture that I carry one we made some time ago When they ask who's in the picture with me I say just someone I used to know Just someone I used to spend some time with just a flame that's lost its glow But I don't tell them of the nights I cried with...

No we can't control the evil that surround us But as long as we're together that's enough If there were just the two of us how different things would be No one could come between us from now on The wagging tongues would speak no more the sounds of gossip gone...

Two sisters lived alone out in the country their names were Katy and her sister Liz They farmed to raise the food that graced their table Liz never went to town but Katy did Katy went to town each Saturday morning to sell the eggs and buy for her and Liz Their...

In my search for ways to stop the pain of loving you in my darkest moments all alone In the middle of a million sweet love mem'ries searching for a reason to go on Though we never said I do I never said I wouldn't And though you say we're through there's no re...

You are the keeper of the key You have gone and yet I'm still your prisoner Although you're with your new love I'm not free For you have placed a lock around my heart dear and you are the keeper of the key Love locked inside like mine burns constantly oh darli...

Folks tell me I should go to the city and go to school and learn a lot of things But I already know what makes the fox fire glow And just what time the robbin redbreast sings Well I know that the possum likes persimmons And I know that fishes breathe out throu...

Could you walk away and leave a man that's drowning And let the swirling water take his life And not even try to rescue him in his last chance of living Can you take your love from me knowing I could not survive You're my last chance for happiness You're the o...

If there ever was an angel then surely you must be one If there ever was a perfect love when I look at you I see one If there's heaven on earth then this must surely be And I want you to be the last one to touch me The last thing I remember before I go to slee...

It's a lesson too late for the learning made of sand made of sand In the wink of an eye my soul is turning in your hand in your hand Are you going away with no word of farewell will there be not a trace left behind I could've loved you better didn't mean to b...

You look at me with eyes of admiration as though you'd like to live a life like mine You just seen me smile with happy conversation But there's something deep within I must hide The love that's lived and died inside of me if there was just some way you could s...

The ceremony's beginning for the late love of mine But there's no one attending but me and the mem'ries she left behind I watched as her love for me died a little at a time She tried in every way she could the late love of mine How could I expect a good woman...

A corporation owns the factory I work in Someone else owns the house we call our home The bank owns the car we drive around And we've got something we can call our own We've got love happiness surrounds us And we thank the Lord for every single day And with l...

There's a legend about a church in our town the steeple so high seen for miles around Look on the hill and you'll realize the steeple's too big for the churches size It seemes it was a long time ago when this church had no steeple Just four walls and the roof...

A little boy knocked at the warden's door of Sing Sing then in tears Said sir I understand that 83968 lives here Well that's my daddy sir and I just got to be near him If you can't let him out you just got to let me in Let me in let me in 83968's my dad I watc...

Oh let's go all the way When you love half way someone's got to pay I would have get the part of you so let's go all the way Love me day and night then I'll know it's right Love me till I hear you say oh let's go all the way All the way means happiness living...

Let's live for tonight dear it's better that way tomorrow we might be apart Let's live for tonight dear let love let its way For tomorrow we could have two broken hearts Lets cast all our worries and heartaches inside forget what the future might hold Let's li...

Time waits for no one time never will But moments of happiness can make time seem still But time moves on swiftly passes life by while life rides the train time always flies Life rides the train for some it moves slow Some never find where their train of life...

In this fast moving word that we're living when my mind feels heavy from the load As the problems of life overtake us darling you always lighten the load Thank you for love that's much greater and much stronger than the problems we know And thank you for lovin...

Mom the tears are showing in your face and your steps are slowing with the time Since daddy's gone away to live in heaven I know you're lonesome for him I see heaven on your mind Now the years have took away the roses that were in your cheeks not long ago And...

Beauty is a rere perfume precious yet doesn't last long Youth is but a playful breeze that blows our way once then moves on Love is a hidden treasure some never find where it lies And memory is a little bird flies through life and never dies Little bird take m...

When you said you were leaving tomorrow that today was our last day You said there'd be no sorrow and you'd laugh when I walked away But a little bitty tear let me down spoiled my act as a clown I had it made up not to make a frown but a little bitty tear let...

Darling I don't know whether you can hear me or not Because of this lump in my throat I can't talk very loud But I've got to tell you bout our little son's prayer tonight If you could've heard it honey you'd've been so proud I'd already left a note on the tabl...

Tonight I'm alone without you my dear but in my heart's a longin' for you still All I have to do now is sit alone and pine in our little cabin home on the hill Oh someone has taken you from me and left me here all alone Just listen to the rain beat on my windo...

I can't forget the day that I was born was on a cold and frosty winter's morn The doctor said I was a chubby chap and when the nurse she took me on her lap Oh she bathed me all over I remember and after powder-puffin' me you see She put me in the cradle by the...

I'm living in the past a life I once knew you left me behind what else can I do I'm crying in my sleep my dreams won't come true I'm living in the past with mem'ries of you You say you've found a new love and I should find one too You tell me to forget you tha...

I woke up this morning in a strange place looked into the mirror at a strange face Then I looked for you but you could not be found then I felt the lonely comin' down Then I felt the lonely dripping down my face as I realized no one could take your place I won...

Well I'm movin' from the bright lights of the city To a place where the sun don't shine and it never will A town where no one knows the population I'm movin' to a place called Lonelyville The street lights there are black as the bottom of a coalmine And the fa...

When you held me in your arms for the first time I found happiness like I had never known Right then I knew that I was one of the chosen few That sweet love and happiness had smiled upon And I wish you'd look look look look what love has done to me I wish you'...

They say the love we steal is a disgrace That we should be ashamed to look the world in the face But they don't know how much love we must hide While the world looks down upon our pride Seems there's always someone looking down down down Not knowing inner feel...

I have many dear loved ones who've gone on their way On that great final morning well I hear them all say Come and join in our singing and play in our band Lord build me a cabin in a corner of gloryland Lord build me just a cabin in a corner of gloryland In th...

I've wandered far away from God but now I'm coming home The path of sin too long I've trod Lord I'm coming home Coming home coming home never more to roam Open wide Thine arms of love Lord I'm coming home (I've wasted many precious years now I'm coming home I...

This is not at all like me I never thought that I could be So overcome by anyone like this But you caught me by surprise caught me before I realize Now I am lost forever in your kiss So take me if you want me love me if you will (For you have all control of me...

Welcome to Love City population two It isn't a big place our little town but it's filled with lovely sights all around A park filled with flowers a beautiful lawn The streets of the driveway that leads to our home Just a small house on an acre of ground we cal...

I wasn't looking for you when I found you I just turned and I saw you there And I was so lonely and lost when I found you and I needed somebody to care And it had been so long since I'd been happy or needed or wanted or loved And now that I've found you let my...

As blue skies and daylight darken into night Surrounding us with beauty as the stars make their light They spell out our names all the stars up above As they flicker and shine like letters of love Then a warm breath of air whispers through the trees As the le...

I know what you're thinking when you look at me The love in your eyes is so easy to see It's real and it's good what I feel for you love is worth living when you love like we do I understand when you're not feeling well If there's something on your mind I alwa...

Your love's as fresh in my mem'ry as this morning's sunrise And still just as beautiful to me I can still feel the soft touch of love warm and tender You give me love to remember Nights with no ending filled with love I'm remembering Each night that I spent wi...

When your heart feels like a feather in a whirl wind And you see stars in the middle of the day And you feel so light you could fly and you think that any moment The slightest breeze might blow you away That's love you're feeling that's love with feeling Touch...

As night falls around us love's tender embrace replaces the sun's golden light Then love show us beauty only love can describe love you're sure beautiful tonight As you fill our hearts with tenderness and emotion inside Lost in each other with the world closed...

Honey they can tell by lookin' at us that we're in love Why it's written all over our faces Love came down like the rains from heaven Love's al over us dripping like the morning dew We can't hide it anymore you can't hide real love When it's all over all over...

I'll never understand dear as long as I live I guess I will always wonder why You told me that you loved me with all of your heart And then without a warning said goodbye Lovin' lies that I believed and now how I grieved You didn't mean it from the start you t...

(A wish that Malena had wings) Malena for hours would run in the meadow well Malena would go to play every day She chased butterflies and she'd say with the smile If I had wings I could fly that away Maena would cry when we try to explain That little girl's wo...

(Mama mama it's gettin' closer to the end mama mama can I come home again) Where did the years go mama Why it seemed like only yesterday that we were man and wife That was in the springtime of our years when everything pointed to the good life It started when...

(Mama's Bible pages trimmed with gold mama's Bible guiding our soul) Mama died years ago left us kids so alone But before she left she told me son you've got to carry on You're the oldest boy Bill so teach your brothers right Then she handed me her Bible said...

Smokin' cigarettes bar the garden drinkin' coffee by the town Slowly pullin' my hair out by the rules Acting funny lookin' at the mirror making faces like a clown Just sittin' here waitin' for the man in the little white suit Everybody told me you would drive...

I've seen lost love make one bend like a willow with its branches blowing in the wind And I've seen love die leaving some so low and humble with no courage left to try again Oh what love can do love can hurt you love can thrill you Some warms you then chills y...

Like a bird that's lost its mate in flight I'm alone and oh so blue tonight Like a piece of driftwood on the sea may you never be alone like me I believed the lies you told to me when you whispered dear I worship Thee Now here am I alone and blue all because I...

Today I burned your old love letters I burned them slowly one by one Before I'd light the flame I'd read them to try and find the wrong I done The first you wrote me was the sweetest the last one broke my heart in two And all alone I left you weeping for the a...

I drifted into Arkansas in the middle of September I hadn't planned to stay for long just to visit an old friend that I remembered Quite surprised he asked if I could stay till late October And help him with his crops till harvest time was over He offered me a...

I'm sitting at the table where we used to sit Thinking of love I knew would never last Thought I heard the band start playing our favorite song But it's only lonely mem'ries from the past I'm all alone tonight seeing visions of you I wish I knew how long this...

You'll meet many just like me upon life's busy streets With shoulders stooped and heads bowed down and eyes that stare in defeat Or souls that live within the past where sorrow plays all parts Where a living death is all that's left for men with broken hearts...

Mendy is sixteen and uncontrolable Mendy is only a child Mendy is in with the in-crowd Mendy is ever so wild Mendy's hair hangs straight and long Mendy feels this is a must Mini skirts and many friends and many horrors for us Mendy finds a plenty to do but Men...

Midnight I've spent another lonely day thinkin' of you Midnight tomorrow is on its way empty and blue I'm so lonely so lonely at midnight for you Midnight oh what a lonely time to weep I ought to know Midnight I should have been fast asleep hours ago Still I'...

I'm a gonna get on that ol' turnpike and I'm gonna ride I'm a gonna leave this town till you decide Which one you want the most them Opry stars or me Milwaukee here I come from Nashville Tennessee Milwaukee is where we were before we came here Workin' in a Blu...

So break out the bottle bring on the crowd Just gather round me cause misery loves a company I've just left my home friends where I couldn't sleep For missin' a woman that I couldn't keep She just walked out and left me for somebody else Now her memory keeps h...

I see the sky and wonder why it's blue instead of red I see a tree that's lost its leaves and wonder why it's dead And the sun that keeps us warm and fills the day with light Then I marvel at the stars that twinkle through the night The mountain peaks that sta...

When you're rocking back and forth there by the window And the sun shines through the silver in your hair I'll think of all the years we've spent together And of all the good and bad times we have shared We've seen happiness that could match heaven's beauty An...

She has always turned the lights on for me But she turns them on for so many others too Yes my arms who's her each night at sundown Cause my baby turns the lights on uptown I keep fighting for a love that I can't win Cause she'd rather have her nightlife and h...

Well my baby's not here in town tonight this old town just don't seem right Even my old friends don't seem the same to me Well my baby's not here in town tonight these old lights don't shine as bright And I'm hidin' tears till I can hardly see Well he's been a...

Don came into my world when I had just first begun He stuck with me in the hard old days And I think as much of him as I do my own son He built me up when I was down and the way was hard to find But he was on my side in all that we tried and sometimes we would...

My daddy was a hard working farm man with dirt on his hands most all his life But inside my daddy's soul was as clean as white linen And his heart was as pure as solid gold Like most boys when I was growin' up I wanted to be just like my dad Cause I felt that...

You're my greatest weakness I love you so much And I rise to paradise anytime we touch You do something to me you and all your charms Can resist the little kiss when I'm in your arms You're my weakness my greatest weakness There's more for sure but somehow you...

To be with you is what I want more than anything But I must share my life with the one who wears my ring And there are tiny places I look into each night I love you but my hands are tied I know how much they need you and dear I understand I know you'll never l...

(Going home going home tell all my friends that I'm going home) If you should see me and I can't walk then if you should speak and I can't talk Feel of me if I'm cold there's a shovel in the car to dig the hole No I don't expect this last favour for nothing ca...

(Attention please Southbound bus loading Gate No 8 All aboard for Willow Springs Taboule Rogersville Paskanaw Ravanden Belaford Johnsborro Marktree and Memphis all aboard South all aboard please) I drive for the bus line to all points south I drive Guess I've...

My name was Stranger on the night that we met And then it was Sweetheart and it might have been yet But my arms grew careless like a fear that they would Now my arms are empty my lips are so cold and my name is Mud My name is Mud my darling is gone She won't e...

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

A little girl stood up in church in a worn and faded dress She made her way up to the front to make a special prayer request She said pray for God to help my mama cause she can't help herself Preacher pray for mama that's my special prayer request Mama started...

There's no love left our love's beyond help Why do we keep on tryin' when there's no love left The feeling we felt for each other for a long time now has been dying We'd both be better off without each other We can't bring it back to life why do we keep tryin...

There is no love and there is no hate there is no feeling at all I look at you and you look at me but we might as well stare at the wall Cause you don't see me and I don't see you just the shadow of love that is gone There is no love and there is no hate no re...

What a beautiful morning the sun shining bright As I look from the window with tears in my eyes The eastern horizon just gave birth to the light But it's raining in my world and not a cloud in the sky When you were my shelter and the clouds would appear You'd...

Nothing between lost love and lonely just a few broken vows and a million old dreams The days are so long and the nights last forever When you live day to day with nothing between Once we were close there was so much between us When love filled our world as we...

I remember when I was just little mama used to cook in an old black kettle On an old wood stove she'd had since she was wed Now the oven door was sprung a little bit So we propped it up with a forkhead stick That didn't matter cause mama kept us fed My mama an...

Long ago when just a boy at old camp meetin' time How my heart would beat with joy to hear the old bells chime Calling all the saints of God onto the house of prayer Oh such prayin' singin' shoutin' for the Lord was there How I like the old time preachin' pray...

While strolling along in the country reviewing the scenes new and old I found an old fashioned log cabin so beautiful there to behold A stranger was standing in silence his eyes firmly fixed on the door My heart ached in pity to see him for these were the word...

Like someone drowning I reach for a stroll Grasping for love where there's no love at all Slowly I'm sinking as time drags by and sometimes an old memory gets in my eyes I struggle for strenght to face the dawn And I'm freezing to death without you to keep me...

High on the mountain what do you see Bear tracks bear tracks lookin' back at me You better get your rifles boys before it's too late The bear's got a little pig and headed through the gate He's big around the middle and he's broad across the rump Doin' ninety...

How long will you love me how long will you stay by my side Will it be for a lifetime or just for a while From now on yes on and on If you will love and stand by me I'll give all my love to you That's the way that it will be from now on yes on and on From now...

Life has dealt us our fair share of pain along the way And many dreams have withered on the wine But dreams are all such fleeting things and happiness is now We'll just live our lives one day at a time In all the stormy weather love has always seen us through...

From a small country town to a big and lonely city From a sweet country girl to a woman with no pity Once a man with money now so ragged and funny as he cries One dime for wine Mister one dime for wine From a cool shady lane to a hard concrete jungle From a ma...

Standin' on the corner of a busy crowded street A holdin' out my hand to all the people that I meet I've been here all mornin' and I've got to have my wine And I'd have enough to buy it if I had one more dime Mister have you got a dime hey Miss how bout you Ha...

Once I thought your love I'd win but your old flame showed up in town again Now I know your love I'd lose I've got a one way ticket to the blues I've got a one way ticket to a world that's full of tears All my dreams and hopes are gone we built up through the...

Love left behind is forgotten as a new way of life fills your mind You left me and went to the city each letter from you is overdue New friends and new sights in the city must have taken my place with you Out of sight out of mind that's the story ss old as the...

Silence was around me as I walked along my mind was so troubled I felt so alone I had no desire to live I had not a will to go home Then out of the silence came a song The words were sharp and they cut deep into my troubled mind The melody was pursy as it tore...

You just can't stand to see me happy seems you hurt me all you can Still I go on loving you but I'll never understand Oh the pain of loving you oh the mis'ry I go through Never knowing what to do oh the pain of loving you To love and hate at the same time the...

As we were dressing to go out our little girl and boy Came in and asked if they could go this time We told them little girls and boys don't belong at parties And that they should be in bed asleep by nine The babysitter came in then and we kissed the kids goodb...

Tomorrow be payday tomorrow be payday It's gonna be payday in Lowcane gonna take my money to town I worked like a donkey climbed trees like a monkey It's gonna be payday in Lowcane gonna chase all women around Eat black eyed peas and fried banana smoke big cig...

Lay down your weapons of the war peace on earth begins today I dreamed last night a dream so real about a blood drenched battlefield With weapons aimed and set to kill a perfect stranger on the hill Then something made me hesitate a voice I swear I heard say w...

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...

In the world's mighty gallery of pictures hang scenes that're painted from life There's pictures of love and of passion and there's pictures of piece and of strife There hung pictures of youth and of beauty and of old age and a blushing young bride But the sad...

Please, please don't stop loving me For I couldn't live with you gone Please, please don't stop loving me For I couldn't make it alone You bring me the sunshine when none is in sight And when I'm in darkness, you bring me the light You opened my eyes when I co...

Come on down have a look around at rich folks living in a poor folks town We got no money but we're rich in love that's one thing that we've got a plenty of So come on down have a look around at rich folks living in a poor folks town We got no carpets on the...

As time goes by the tales grow taller about possum in Possum Holler As a young man I'd go a courtin' with my sweetheeart so young and fair Down the mountain to Possum Holler that's where he'd always find me waitin' there Now I tell my mama that I's goin' out w...

There's a place where no one cares about tomorrow Where you'd never see a smile there's only sorrow And love can't break your heart when you're inside It's a private little world where losers hide I'm living in a private little world where tears are payment f...

Put it off until tomorrow oh oh you've hurt me enough today You say our love is over that you have found another And you say you're going away Leave me tomorrow oh oh you've hurt me enough today You've hurt me enough today I can't believe the words you say But...

Cindy was a ragged angel just a poor girl on her street Cindy's eyes showed signs of hunger never had enough to eat Cindy was a ragged angel golden hair and eyes of blue Cindy loved her paper dolly that's the only love she knew Cindy never knew her daddy and h...

I wandered again to my home in the mountains Where in youth's early dawn I was happy and free I looked for my friends but I never could find them I found they were all rank strangers to me (Everybody I met seemed to be a rank stranger No mother or dad not a fr...

I believe we have the right combination our love and happiness both seem so strong I believe we have a firm foundation that our love can build and last forever on There'll be times when you may doubt my reasons But I know your love will always make a way And...

Oh Thou blessed rock of ages I am trusting Lord in Thee Keep me till my journey's ended till Thy blessed face I see (Hide me oh blesseed rock of ages Hide me till Thy blessed face I see Thy face I see oh glory) When the storms around me regest rock of ages hid...

(Rock a bye boogie rock a bye rock a bye boogie rock a bye Rock a bye boogie rock a bye) Rock a bye boogie it's late to sleep rock your baby to sleep Rock a bye boogie it's guaranteed for which your baby sleep Well it don't mean a thing unless you sing rock a...

Wish that I was on old Rocky Top down in the Tennessee hills Ain't no smoggy smoke on Rocky Top ain't no telephone bills Once I had a girl on Rocky Top half bear the other half cat Wild as a mink but sweet as soda pop and I still dream about that Rocky Top you...

(Snow is falling on the meadow and roses now are out of season) I just had to be with you today sweetheart cause today you seem so close I knew you'd be excited since today's our first big snow I built you this big snowman here cause I knew that you'd be thril...

In a buildin' tall with a stone wall around there's a rubber room When a man sees things and hears sounds that's not there He's headed for the rubber room Illusions in a twisted mind to save from self-destruction hmm it's the rubber room Where a man can run in...

Run that by me one more time to make sure that I heard you right I hope you don't expect me to believe that line I might be crazy but I ain't dumb and I know a lie when I hear one Would you run that by me one more time Well you're late again I see what's your...

Satan's got river (Satan's got river deep and wide) so deep and wide Satan's got a river and it's so deep and wide And he's got folks a swimming (he's got folks a swimming) in the warm smooth tire But some day Satan's river (Yes some day Satan's river is gonna...

Say forever you'll be mine Forever is the love that is filled with understanding Forever is the love that is true and undemanding Forever is the love that can stand the test of time Forever I am yours, say forever you'll be mine Trouble clouds may fill our sk...

Seeing you only reminded me of you A girl walked by don't know her name caught my eye but I'm not to blame Seeing you only reminded me of you Carried me back to old memories carried me back to what used to be Seeing you only reminded me of you I went to my roo...

Comb your hair and paint and powder you act proud and I'll act prouder You sing loud and I'll sing louder tonight we're settin' the woods on fire You're my gal and I'm your feller dress up in your frock of yeller I'll look swell but you'll look sweller settin'...

Oh she burnt the little roadside tavern down (oh yeah) The only one for miles and miles around I saw many hours of pleasure tumble down When she burnt the little roadside tavern down It was my home away from home those many nights of gettin' stoned're gone Th...

She left me love enough to last a lifetime if I live to be time's oldest man So I have no reason to search for new love she left me love enough for any man My mind is filled with mem'ries sweet and tender My heart is filled with love she left for me Each thoug...

She walks in my mind like the shadow someone speaks her name and she appears I can see her face in total darkness oh she's everywhere She left a memory I can't forget and a picture of all her loveliness I still smell the fragrance of her perfume in the air oh...

Shopworn and aged what's left of a man Will never be useless for he's part of God's plan Did you ever think of life as just a shop along the street And yourself as a product displayed in easy reach And you laid there for some quite some time now and pondered a...

These Levi's that I'm wearin' have been good to me They just won't admit they're growin' old And though my shirt's made contact with a gutter now and then At least it keeps my body from the cold Thank God the folks back home in Harlan County Can't see what suc...

No we don't do much talkin' down here on the Row you might call us the Silent Kind But the only time we do much talkin' is when we need a dime or two for wine But if you could only hear when our mind talks to our soul My God friend you'd hear stories that's ne...

In silver sandals she goes walkin' up those golden stairs And though we miss her so we know she's happy to be there She walks with us in memory we see her all the time In silver sandals walkin' through our minds So many times we let our thoughts turn back to...

I know that you could have more than a poor hard workin' man I love you and I need you and I ask you for your hand And my calloused hands will work for you from sunup to sundown If only you'll accept me as simple as I am I speak to you with simple words I know...

The warden let the prisoner down the hallway to his doom And I stood up to say goodbye 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 the song I used to...

In a pickup truck we bought in 1962 And paid each month till it belonged to me and you The cardboard boxes in the back hold everything we own Things we've saved for sixteen years to start a brand new home We're holding sixteen years of love in cardboard boxes...

Skid Row Joe last night that's who I found in the dirty part of town Lost forgotten with no place to go Tormented with a bitter taste outcast by the human race A mask of torture was the face of Skid Row Joe He walked up to where I stood on the street Said pard...

Sleep sweet and deep visit me for awhile Sleep come over me let me rest and dream awhile Of two young lovers making plans of dreams I dreamed when dreams began Of things that could and should have been before the eternal sadness moved in Sleep take over me set...

You jark back your hand away from mine and I move my lips away from yours Then quietly we sit tryin' to forget Those deep running thoughts that run wild across our minds You quickly stop the words you start to say and we realize just how close we are And we bo...

All the snakes crawl at night that's what they say When the sun goes down then the sneaks will play Well I watched that car pull right in my driveway Then I saw a shadow slipping from my house So I hurried straight and looked into her bedroom And I found out...

Somewhere along the way we drifted apart As we walked the road of love we lost our way Now it's too late to start all over for there's no turning back We lost each other somewhere along the way mhm Somewhere along the way we neglected one another Our careless...

I love you so much I can't let you go and sometimes I believe you love me But somewhere between your heart and mine there's a door without any key Somewhere between your heart and mine there's a window that I can't see through There's a wall so high it reaches...

Daylight won't find me out in public places nighttime I'll look for only friendly faces I know I must forget you and all the love we knew And somewhere in the night I'll find forgetfulness of you Somewhere in the night is where I'll find love waiting all alone...

Just pour me sorrow on the rocks bartender sorrow on the rocks will do I'm tryin' to drown my troubles so make it a double mhm mhm mhm The seat of my pants is slick from my barstool and my hand's in the shape of a glass My eyes look like a roadmap of Georgia...

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

I met you and we married we planned our future well We built our home on happiness then suddenly it fell It wasn't long there after our love began to tilt Sorrow's tearing down the house that happiness once built First came the weekly parties that never seemed...

(Will he take the soul of a convict could I be one of those he choosed) I was taught the Bible from childhood at my mother's knee I learned to pray I was taught of God and all his goodness and the devil and his evil ways There's good in the bad and bad in the...

I can hear the rippling water falling gently From the waterfall that I have found From the meadow I hear meadowlarks a singing Seems there's sounds of nature all around I can hear the wind go whistling through the treetops I hear raindrops falling softly to t...

Hear the evening breezes start to blowing See the evening shadows start to come Listen to the nightbirds start their singing Now the sounds of night have just begun A lonely hootowl cries out in the darkness For its mate that's nowhere to be found Then a lone...

I'm a walkin' southern bound down the highway The cars and the buses and the big trucks pass me by I walk awhile then I thumb they must think I'm a bum Cause no one will give this country boy a ride Well I left to get a job in that big city cause Lucy's dad sa...

Stella dear dear sweet Stella My memories of you are sweet my thoughts of you are kind You're as warm as summertime as colorful as autumn As gentle as the snowflakes falling on a winter's day You're as fresh as springtime like a ray of sunshine Sweeter than th...

Now listen to a story a stranger just told me of a love that he's not ashamed He has her no longer but proud he once owned her Though she shares another man's name He told of the good times they had in the springtime before she was stolen away He blamed her oh...

(Sugarfoot rag sugarfoot rag) Gonna get out my sycamore and shine up my shoes meet my baby and tell her the news I bet my bundle on a swayback nag and I came home winner with a plenty o'swag One foot two foot slew foot drag swing your honey to the Sugarfoot Ra...

Look at the sunshine the movin' black clouds listen to the thunder movin' away Even the lightening has stopped it's flashin' You know the sun don't shine on the same dog every day And I'm due a little sunshine it's been a long long time And the sun don't shine...

Many years ago in days of childhood I used to play till evening shadows come Then winding down an 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 suppertime we're...

Haven't you heard there's a new love for me Haven't you heard you're just my used to be She held out her hand said haven't you heard I saw gold wedding band I was lost forward I wanted to cry I wanted to die when she said these words oh haven't you heard EAT...

Sweet Rachel Ann sweet Rachel Ann when are you ever coming home Sweet Rachel Ann we've waited here through many seasons now We've waited here but you have not returned When you left you promised us that you'd return someday We miss you and our love for you sti...

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 barstool My new ho...

We don't take away one happy moment we won't take away any of the new We'll do anything to make each other happy Love is give and take but we don't take away I never thought that love could make you feel so happy I thought I'd found love once but I wasn't eve...

I supposed I ought to say congratulations for you've won the only girl I ever loved But I've hurt too much to face the situation Just take good care of her take good care of her Just to be around her was my greatest pleasure She was everything my future held i...

Her eyes were blue her hair was auburn her smile was like an angel dear She was her daddy's only daughter on the Tennessee border One night I took a ride just across the line I picked her up in a pickup truck and she broke this heart of mine Her mother said no...

Along about 18-and-25 I left Tennessee very much alive I never would've got through the Arkansas mud If I hadn't been a ridin' on the Tennessee Stud I had some trouble with my sweetheart's pa one of his brothers was a bad outlaw I send her a letter by my Uncle...

I hear bells a ringin' and my heart is singin' a song The way I'm a feelin' I know it won't be long So get closer to me say lip-to-tip just a little closer that's it that's it baby that's it The blues start wingin' and the bells start ringin' above We both kno...

When you feel the pain of loneliness inside you you feel the emptiness that lives within When all the things around you had no meaning And the lips you love can kiss you once and then That's when love (love) will mean the most that's when love (love) will hold...

Let me walk in the sunshine of your smile Let me hide in the shadows of your eyes Let me lie in the safety of your arms And let me be the fire that keeps you warm I'll keep you warm Let me be the someone that you need Let me be the shelter that you seek Let me...

Oh the power of love can make you leap tall buildings Love can make you cry like a little bitty child Oh the power of love can make you sad and lonely Or wanna kick up your heels and face the world with a smile Love has the power of a giant with a touch like...

Your soft body lying here so close to me as you move your hand slowly across my face Your touch is as soft as the words you speak to me Oh such beauty in the way I see you I compare you with the beauty in the dawning Or when the sunset that paints its picture...

There was a time we'd sit in the backyard cause the house would get so hot From the summer sun there was no way of sleepin' And you'd play your old guitar we'd fight mosquitos and enjoyed You backyard concerts for we had no television We'd just begun our life...

Have you ever noticed when things were going right something just gotta go wrong And you don't understand why this must be But when there's a lotta joy there's gotta be sorrow to make things come out even Cause this old world is a perfect place there'd be no n...

A mother sings as she rocks her babies Children sing the noted nursery rhymes The old church bell is ringing for the Sunday morning singing Music is as old as the time As the farmer works the fields he sings a song The songbirds in the trees sing along And th...

There'll be love love love oh precious love Just as long as there's two people there'll be love In spite of hate that fills the land love will always have command As long as there's two people there'll be love God created man and woman at the start and he pla...

When burdens seem to overcome there's a higher power Who's able and refusses none there's a higher power Then why ask men to help you through there's a higher power They're helpless pilgrims just like you there's a higher power So sing and shout walk and talk...

There's a rainbow in every teardrop you're crying There's a love song in every treetop above There's a star's face in every snowflake that's falling There's hope when our hearts dream of love There's a diamond in every dewdrop that glistens There's a gold mine...

There were five of us boys in the family we told our dear mama goodbye And left our little home down in Georgie our luck in the city to try We agreed to go back there and see her when two years had passed away She told us that she would be waiting that two yea...

It's a sad but true story from the Bible it came And it tells us how Judas solved the Saviour in shame He planed with the counsel of high priest that day Thirty pieces of silver was the price they would pay (Thirty pieces of silver thirty shekels of shame Was...

Here we are again going in this cheap place What if was seen by a friend and they recognize our face We both know that it's wrong we both should be at home This time has gotta be our last time I know that you want me just as much as I want you You've got a fam...

Thoughtfulness tenderness makes love grow stronger Thoughtfulness brings happiness makes love last much longer Love is like a tender young flower it needs care from the time you sow Tender words of love are like summer showers Makes love strong when cold wind...

I'd've always thought I'd see a lotta thoughtful things in life Until a blind man showed me something That was more beautiful than anything I'd ever seen One morning I was standing on a street corner waitin' for a bus When I heard the tap of a cane The he walk...

The road of love is steep it's a hard climb all the way To stay in love we must keep working at it every day We have our ups and downs but we take it with a grin Cause we've promised to stick together through thick and thin We don't always see eye to eye and w...

I've crossed many valleys that I'd always find another mountain much higher to climb I've wasted so much time where the sun never shines On my way through this world of mine I've oded a lot of hinges on a lot of swingin' gates And I've cored many seeds from s...

Travelin' down a lonely highway I knew not where the road would end Not a penny in my pocket all alone without a friend Met a lad while on my travel tryin' hard to play the game Though his legs were very very crippled and he couldn't even speak his name But he...

Today tomorrow and forever that's how long our love will last I'll never stop loving you no never today tomorrow and forever We've got the kind of love most people dream about We're sure of our love in our mind there's no doubt And I know that you ove me by t...

You and I have been together for a long long time And we vowed that we would stay together always Life at times has been unpleasant down the trails where fate had led us But we pray that God will let us be together always Together together together always you...

Dad's old faded trouser and mama's old crept dress They're not much in the passions now they can't afford the best I know they feel neglected and sometimes in the way Because the last time I was home I heard my mama say Well you kids have all got married off n...

We never have a kind word for each other angry words are all we speak The home where we once lived and loved now echoes with the angry words we speak Too selfish and too proud to admit it when we know that we are wrong Now it's too late to rebuild the home we'...

Right behind my left eye is a hurtin' thumpin' sound And the bottom part of the back of my head is spinnin' around and around I've been town down yes I've been town down Well I've looked all around this shaky room my woman can't be found There's a little bitty...

(Town drunk he's the town drunk He was once a man of means but just look how low he sunk The bright lights that glitter led him to the gutter now he's the town drunk) I know it I know I'm the town drunk but once I had a good life A fine home and a lovin' wife...

A little bitty croonin' a little bitty spoonin' A little bitty swoonin' and a lotta honeymoonin' That's my trademark that's my trademark Always tryin' to keep satisfyin' that's what I'm noted for A little bitty invitin' a little bitty exicitin' A little bitty...

Nestled in the heart of the Tennessee Hills There neat the pines midst the rocks and the rills There stands my old homestead of long long ago It brings back sweet memories of the one I loved so I'll tell you the reason why I left her there To roam this old wor...

If you want her if you need her if you love her treat her kind Once her love was mine and my world was filled with riches Though my pockets didn't carry one thin dime Then I took her love for granted and I lost her For a woman's love can't live unless you trea...

Don't scorn me if I slip around on you don't hate me if I fancy someone new Don't blame me if my love just can't be true It's the tricks of the trade I've learn from you How many nights have I cried over you and how many time has your love been untrue So don't...

(Rock of ages cleft for me) It was a stylish congregation you could see they'd been around And they had the biggest pipe organ of any church in town But over in the Amen Corner of that church sat Brother Ira And he insisted every Sunday on singing in the choir...

I have just cheated and I know I was wrong But temptation found me when I wasn't strong Oh I chanced a lifetime for one careless night Shall I tell her the truth and break her heart Or spare her the sorrow and tell her a lie Could she live with the truth could...

Just try being lonely and you'll know just how I feel I saw you with your new love and oh it hurt me so Funny how I see your face everywhere I go You smiled and looked to be so happy as you passed by So I stepped around the corner so you wouldn't see me cry Su...

Take me back try me one more time Yes I know I've been untrue and I've hurt you through and through But please have a mercy on this heart of mine take me back try me one more time If my darling you could see just what your leavin's done to me You'd know that l...

I'm havin' a hard time tryin' to forget the blues They're playin' lonely music on the jukebox The song they're singin' makes me wanna cry Cause it reminds that you've gone and left me I feel a teardrop comin' to my eyes I'm havin' a hard time tryin' to forget...

This smoke filled barroom just suits one fine Just what I need dear to get you off of my mind I'd be so happy if they'd leave us alone I'd stop my drinking pack my bags and go home Turn the jukebox up louder they're playing our song It's too late now to try to...

I thought I'd been in love before but so did you I thought that I would love no more but so did you We'll always be together forever yours forever mine You and me you and me are two of a kind There's so much between you and me like sadness disappointment jealo...

Two sides to every story we didn't stay that out if we'll take time Two sides to every story you tell yours and I tell mine Well where were you last night when I came home When I came in you were out and gone Well I waited up till up to two then I went downto...

Oh the people would come from far away they'd dance all night till the break of day When the caller hollered do-se-do we knew Uncle Pen was ready to go Late in the evening about sundown high on the hill and above the town Uncle Pen played the fiddle and oh how...

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

Here the labor is so hard and the workers are so tired And our weary hearts are yearning for a rest And we find we're gettin' anxious to be in that happy home Where we'll reseive such peace and happiness (Wait a little longer please Jesus there are so many wan...

Far away on yonder hill old Blue's a barking at a coon I guess he's chased all night And it's just about two hours before dawning and Jacob's cabin doesn't show a light In the ruffle of the leaves beside my pathway a small animal appeared black and white And a...

Wakin' up the crowd wakin' up the crowd Everybody's havin' fun we're wakin' up the crowd Wakin' up the crowd wakin' up the crowd Everybody's dancin' now we're wakin' up the crowd Now all you boys that sittin' round don't pass up this chance Wrap the gal that'...

He lived six miles south of Brandsville in a little ole shack On the banks of the river Big Mole A strange man he was always seen alone folks called him Waldo the Weirdo He'd walk to Brandsville every day and just sit and watch the people go by And the clothes...

Here I am where I know I shouldn't be a lettin' pretty girls make a fool out of me Spendin' money I know I shouldn't spend walk on fool make the circle again Hard luck seem to be my coverty when they sail the ocen give all hope on me Guess I'll never mount to...

It seems we lost the feeling somewhere along the way The distance now between us grows farther day by day We never love each other we're just passing off the time Wasting love yours and mine Wasting love love divine wasting love yours and mine There's nothing...

Watching my watch tick the time away Watching through the window the skies turning grey My eyes get so lonesome at times I can't see these long lonely walls keep watching me Watching your pillow unused since you'd left Makes the pain sharpen that runs through...

Just today I met a stranger I met a man in misery He asked about you oh my darling And the way he said your name chilled the heart inside of me Pardon me sir said the stranger I love her so oh how is she Surely you could hear him darling And the way he said yo...

Lately we're acting as if we were strangers For a moment with each other we don't take time With our work and busy schedules of things we think important Seems we've left the most important things behind And we can't let this happen to us the hills that we cli...

If anyone could find the joy true love brings a girl and boy We could we could you and I If anyone could ever say that their true love was here to stay We could we could you and I When I'm in your arms you know I'm happy to be there Just as long as I'm with yo...

We've been a searchin' for the love that lost its feeling That one time filled our hearts with fire with love revealing We thought that love had gone never more to be returning And the fire that we thought had gone out again is brightly burning Oh we found it...

Crazy crazy we'd have to be crazy to put up with the crazy things we do Crazy crazy we'd have to be crazy but you know I'm crazy about you Either I'm crazy or you are one or maybe it's me and you For we'd have to be crazy to live like this and go through what...

I've learned to live my life just a little bit lighter Gonna look on the lonely days a little bit brighter My heart's been throwed around it ain't done enough laughin' What is to be will be what ain't to be just might happen It don't do no good to worry none J...

I'm locked behind steel ribbons in a building made of stone This prison cell will be my home for life Forgotten men surround me and curse cause they were born Lord what I'd give to hear a baby cry If I could hear a baby cry just one more time I could fight the...

(What would you do what would you do if Jesus came to spend some time with you) If Jesus came to your house to spend a day or two If he came unexpectedly I wonder what you'd do When you saw him comin' would you meet him at the door With arms outstretched and w...

Sweet reief awaits me forgetfulness is mine when I drink my wine when drink my wine I can feel no pain no shame I leave it all behind When I drink my wine when I drink my wine I forget there ever was a love I once called mine When I drink my wine when drink my...

Oh that city on Mont Zion though a pilgrim yet I love Thee still I'll not leave Thee through the ages when I reach that city on the hill On the top of Mount Zion is a city and the earth with its glory it doth fill And I look upon its beauty in the morning whe...

There is ice today on your lips as you kiss me And a cold wind blows strong through our bedroom But not long ago our love was fire but it was soon forgot When you're cold you're cold when you're hot you're hot When you're hot you're hot and good times fly by a...

When lips grow so familiar with the one they love And the fire that burns so high then flickers low Where does love go where does love go When your love is stronger than the one you love And nothing you can do makes their love grow where does love go where doe...

Once I stood in the night with my head bowed low In the darkness as black as could be 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 stan...

Well I'm dreamin' about Dixie cotton fields and whippoorwills Where I spent my happy childhood among the rocks and among the rills I can see my dear old mommy as around the place she goes To my home in Louisiana where the old Red River flows Hi-lee-oh-layoo yo...

To Canaan's land I'm on my way where the soul never dies My darkest night will turn to day where the soul never dies No sad farewell no tear dimmed eyes where all his love and the soul never dies And I will spend eternity where the soul never dies A rose is b...

They say the love bug will get you at the age of 23 Well I'm not tellin' my age but somethin' got a hold on me I'm just cravin' some lovin' in the old fashion way Honey linger near and listen to all I had to say Why don't you haul off and love me one more time...

Now will you love me little darlin' when I'm in some distant land And you know I can't be with you or will you be lovin' another man Will you be lovin' another man will you be lovin' another man When I return will you be waiting or will you be lovin' another m...

On the wings of a snow white dove he sends his pure sweet love A sign from above on the wings of a dove (When troubles surround us when evils come the body grows weak the spirit grows numb When these things beset us he doesn't forget us He sends down his love...

The clatter of the garbage cans in the dark and lonely alley Searching for a bottle with a drop or two of wine The wino makes his rounds from garbage cans to gutter Running like a wild man to every bottle that he finds The wine makes him happy for a little whi...

I want to love you and always be with you Share all life's pleasures and heartaches with you And I want you to love me and need me and want me And I want to share my love with you With you with you I want to be with you Make every plan and dream each dream wit...

Without you The days come and go they mean nothing to me Nothing means nothing without you My eyes overflow till all I can see Is a future I can't face without you Without you without you it's not like before How can I face life without you The days are as da...

I was in a lonely cafe by the roadside all unfriendly people no one said a word When in there stepped a starry eyed old stranger He sat down threw up his arms and then I heard Let me have about me lots of words and music Gather round and tell me anything you k...

Oh the world needs a washin' so why shouldn't it rain Maybe the rain will wash away the pain Oh the world needs a washin' so why shouldn't it rain Let it rain et it rain let it rain Forty days and forty nights that's what it look last time To wash the world c...

Once my world was filled with music sweet and low When your love was mine and mine alone Now my world has lost its melody and my world is without music since you've left me A world without music not a song to sing Days filled with silence and nights never endi...

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 never never leave you Saying y'all come to see us by and by Y'all come y'all come oh you all come to see us when you can Y'all come y'all...

You and me and her and him must get together and see if maybe we can find a way To put an end to hurting one another Cause he don't know and she don't know how much we hurt each day It's not fair and you and I both know it to have to hide and love the way we d...

You can't change the daylight to dark and you can't make a heel toe the mark I warned you not to give your love to me I knew that I would only break your heart I'm the kind you just can't ever change cause you can't make a heel toe the mark You can't stop time...

Me and brother Bill was goin' a fishin' down to the river one day Had a can of worms and a willer pole a big can of minners and a lot of sourdough The fish were a bitin' we're gonna have fun Then the big man come said I'm a game warden chases me and brother Bi...

(You're not home you're not home you're not home yet I can still hear my Lord's voice ringing There'll be a crowd to greet you a choir of angels to meet you) If you've got two or three minutes I'd like to tell you a story It's a story about a preacher But thi...

Saw the boy in the mansion on the hill has asked you to become his steady jill There'll be parties by the score the wine will flow But here's the reason I beg you not to go Cause they're not your kind of people your kind of friends They'll turn your laughter t...

Today I burned your old love letters I burned them slowly one by one Before I'd light the flame I'd read them to try and find the wrongs I done The first you wrote me was the sweetest the last one broke my heart in two And all alone I left you weeping for the...