Tony Joe White

It's come down to just the two of us Me and my shadow on the wall Radio playing softly somewhere down the hall And over in the next room The hollow sound of a cigarette cough Oh I'm sitting across from midnight And morning's a long way off There's a fire in a...

I've been laying low Living in the shadows Spending time alone Conversations with the wall Hanging on I'm just trying to matter And I remain Trying to make some sense of it all I've been here before I'm familiar with the pain But I ain't running no...

As the crow flies, baby Will I ain't so far from you As the crow flies, baby Will I ain't so far from you But since I don't have wings I can't get home as fast as I want to As the crow flies, baby Will I ain't so far from you As the crow flies, baby Will I ain...

Baby, please don't go Baby, please don't go Baby, please don't go, down to New Orleans You know I love you so Before I be your dog Before I be your dog Before I be your dog I get you way'd out here, and let you walk alone Turn your lamp down low Turn...

You got me runnin', you got me hidin' You got me run, hide, hide, run, any way you wanna let it roll Yeah, yeah, yeah, you got me doin' what you want me to, baby why ya' wanna let go I'm goin' up, I'm goin' down I'm goin' up, down, down, up, any way you wanna...

I try to be cool but you turn on the heat You got sexy ways tantalize me It's there between us and you know it's true Just roll with it baby I'm gonna take care of you We got the feeling and that's all we need Gonna get down to the bare necessities I don't n...

Across the river an owl was callin' As he slowly made his rounds A midnight dew was softly falling On the ground, on the ground She was standing by the campfire I watched her move into the dance And when she looked at me with those sexy eyes They seemed to sa...

The moss hangs like witches hair from the big oak tree And from across the swamp there comes riding on the breeze The sound -- the sound -- Bi-Yo rhythm -- Bi-Yo rhythm The rooster is born a fighter Wears those surgeon blades on his legs Hot blood, cold eyes...

Boom boom boom boom, (I'm) Gonna shoot you right down. Right off of your feet. Take you home with me, Put you in my house. Boom boom boom boom. A-haw haw haw haw Mmm-hmmm-hmmm-hmmm Mmm-hmmm-hmmm-hmmm I love to see you strut Up and down the floor When you talk...

Strong instinct for survival Romantically insane Moving soft along the edge of time Like a panther in the rain Manipulated rebels With a total disregard for the rules When pride comes tumbling off the great white stallion You move closer to the truth...

Cool Town Woman I was dreaming about you baby When th I was dreaming about you baby And the dog just howled all night I just laid there thinking about you 'Til the morning light I been missing you baby But my alimony ain't been paid I been missing you baby Bu...

Did somebody make a fool out of you Did somebody mistreat you Well I know that you're holdin' back You got a lot more love than that Did somebody make a fool out of you Did somebody make a foolout of you Has somebody mistreated you -Oh, yeah. Did somebody run...

Love the way you wear you hair down long Like the way your voice sounds on the telephone You know you're looking sexy in tight blue jeans But there's one thing I got to ask you please Do you have a garter belt Would you wear stockings Do you have a garter bel...

Before you go walk out on me Take a look around tell me what you see Here I stand like an open book Is there something here you might have overlooked 'Cause it would be a shame if you should leave And find that freedom ain't what you thought it would be The y...

One foot on the mountain And the other one in the stream All kind of trouble And I'm caught in between I can't change my way of doin' It's gonna lay like it falls Cause if I can't go down rockin' Ain't goin' down at all She was a child of acquired money Had...

Take it away Eric the Orchestra Leader A-one, two, a-one two three four Half a bee, philosophically, Must, ipso facto, half not be. But half the bee has got to be Vis a vis, its entity. D'you see? But can a bee be said to be Or not to be an entire bee When...

There's a cold wind blowing Downtown tonight Oh, I'm all done Walking around, I don't feel right I'm so used to feeling warm Having you hanging on my arm I can't believe you just cut me loose You're gonna look good in blues They still got a cool band In the...

Once there was a young girl Who was a good time fun girl She went through her younger life a saint Then at the time of sixteen She got into a new thing She dug the groups and the songs that they were singin' Into her life there came a long hair Who sa...

It was said of the sheriff to Calhoun Parish Not to ever touch his daughter Emily For to look at her with lustful eyes was certain To get you a time in the penitentiary It was true, she was quite voluptuous And it was true, she had eyes for me Then one...

I met a pretty girl who really turned me on But we didn't make it very far It's hard to make love to a lady When she's munching on a candy bar And I couldn't help but say: "Ain't no time for Milky-Way" And she goes: "I get off on it I get off on it G...

You light up a room the moment you walk in You could break a heart without even knowin' Just in the way you smile the way you move You say hello I want to be with you And when I feel your warm embrace you make it seem like yesterday Touchin' in that spec...

I've got something to tell you That I think you ought to know That my eyes are on you baby Since a long time ago And now I fin'ly got the nerve And I'm gonna make my move Now don't you try to turn me off Cause it's gonna be hard to do I've got a thin...

At the time I was too young for the men But it's become much clearer through the years We gathered round the boy in his army clothes Said goodbye and his mother shed her tears Every day she watched for the postman But the long awaited letter was overdue...

I've kept it inside much too long There's no relief Carry it around just like a stone Too heavy for me I have paid the price of standing On the outside looking in It's time to let the healing begin A boy is strung out he's going through hell His mother we...

And I wake up in the mornin' With my hair down in my eyes and she says "Hi" And I stumble to the breakfast table While the kids are goin' off to school goodbye And she reaches out 'n' takes my hand And squeezes it 'n' says "How ya feelin', hon?" And I lo...

Wanna be your main squeeze, baby Wanna be your only love Wanna be your main squeeze, baby Wanna be your only love When you close your eyes at night Wanna be the one you're dreaming of Wanna be your main squeeze, baby Wanna be close to you Wanna be your main s...

I was feeling bad, kind of sad And I did not know the cause or the reason Then you came, walking by And you took away that sad and lonesome feeling All the girls was look from you, girl you made me smile Won't you come up close to me, let me talk to you...

It was pretty this morning Put some flowers in the ground Sun was shining this morning Planted flowers all around Got my business out of the way And all I want to do is not one bad thought One bad thought Oh, yeah I got a mockingbird It sings the song out o...

If some of ya'll never been down south too much I'm gonna tell you a little bit about this So that you'll understand what I'm talkin' about Down there we have a plant that grows out in the woods And in the fields looks somethin' like a turnip green And everyb...

Hoverin' by my suitcase Tryin' to find a warm place to spend the night A heavy rain a fallin' Seems I hear your voice callin' "It's all right" A rainy night in Georgia A rainy night in Georgia I believe it's rainin' all over the world Neon signs a flashin' T...

This is about two cats They're sittin' down by a river in the swamps They're sittin' down on the logs One of them is kind of a big fellow And the other one is a little bit smaller And he's got a long billed cap And they're sittin' there ponderin' On what they...

Lightinin' streets That you can hear the thunder I see your face I can't help but wonder Praying for a dime It feels like trouble When you see me calling Better run for cover Half body heat It started global warming Mary, you and me We can calm the storm and...

The evening falls on Padre Island, Something is wrong, the birds don’t fly. They sit quietly in the sand dunes, And watch the sky. They seem to know someone is missing, Even the ocean settles down. They wait patiently since sunrise, But she don’t come...

I was thinking about parking the other night We was out on a back road My and my woman was just getting' right All systems on overload The radio blasting in the front seat Turning out the music fine We was snuggled up in the back seat Making up for lost time...

Taking the midnight train Taking the midnight train I can't stand this pain Just can't stand this pain To have somebody hurt me for no reason For no cause, for no cause Left home very young Left home very young To the California sun The California sun And t...

Come on ... come closer baby And lay your lovely face against my skin Please don't ... don't turn away from me baby Cause we may never pass this way again I can't stop myself from wanting you And woh I don't believe it Won't ya even try? I can't...

You know sometimes a song needs singing, and sometimes it needs something else; And I believe the best way to get this to you would be to Tell yawl about it; Mmm! It's about a time of the year, and we call it the fall; oh yea! It's a time when you can feel a...

The look of love Is in your eyes A look your smile can't disguise The look of love Is saying so much more than Just words could every say And what my heart has heard Well it takes my breath away [Chorus] I can hardly wait to hold you Feel my arms around you...

They say these are dangerous times Got to be on guard Bad news across the land Rumors of war And all along the border lines You can feel the strain And loking back through the years Ain't nothing changed They shook the redman's hand And forever changed his d...

Monday looked like a downer Tuesday looked like rain A bad altitude And I knew I needed a change Head out on the highway Cruising way down south I knew a little place Where I might could work it all out I'm so tired of fighting with myself Gonna spend a litt...

She was my lover She was working undercover Oh the woman knew all of the moves She really had me rompin' We were barefoot stompin' She just kept igniting my fuse I was blinded by the blackness Of her long silk stockings She was rocking with an optical illusio...

What does it take to win your love for me? How can I make this dream come true for me? Oh, I just got to know, Oh, baby, 'cause I love you so, Gonna blow for you I've tried, I've tried, I've tried, I've tried in every way I could to make you see how much I...

Willie and Laura Mae Jones were our neighbors a long time back They lived right down the road from us in a shack, just like our shack We worked in the fields together, and we learned to count on each other When you live off the land you don't have time to thin...

You stood by me in my darkest hour And you give all your heart in my time of sorrow When I was down in bad time you come to me in the night And you eased my mind Now I'm here to tell the world I know There ain't nothin' like a woman with soul When I was...

You just get better all the time Darling, don't you change a thing Lately you're the only song I want to sing You're my reason to try You just get sweeter every day The little things you do and say If only you could see you through my eyes You just get...