Waylon Jennings

I've been down the Mississippi, down through New Orleans I've played in California there ain't too much I haven't seen I'm a Ramblin' Man Don't fool around with a Ramblin' Man Left a girl in West Virginia Up there where the green grass grows Got a girl in Cin...

I'm sittin' in the morning sun Sittin' when the evening comes Watchin' the ships roll in Then I watch 'em roll away again I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay Watchin' the tides roll away I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay Wasting time Left my home in Georgia...

Today there's no salvation band's packed up and gone I'm left standing with my penny in my band Down at railroad station a blind man sings his song I think he sees things I don't understand It's the 33rd of August and I'm finally touching down Eight days...

I guess it all started when I woke up This morning everything seemed okay Till I let my pet snake get loose in the kitchen Now I've been in trouble all day. I got some paint on the wall a pretty orange color And a little on the carpet and floor I covered it u...

I've got a couple more years on you babe and that's all I've had more chances to fly and more places to fall It's not that I'm wiser, it's just that I've spent More time with my back to the wall and I've picked up A couple a more years on you babe and that...

I don't look the way the average cowboy singer looks I'll admit I've taken things I never should've took You can read a different story in a lot of different books But even then you won't really know How it was a long time ago Women have been my trouble...

As i watched the tail lights disappear Suddenly it got real lonely here I know the words i could have said To make her turn around But a lot of good it's gonna do me now I could have started with i'm sorry And really meant it from the heart The rest would hav...

Yesterday, as I talked with a friend in town, I forgot to remember that you'd gone. For a moment, I found myself smiling, But a moment isn't very long. An' last night as I danced with a stranger, An' she held her cheek close to my own, For a moment, I almost...

We'll build a world of our own that no one else can share All our sorrows will leave far behind the stairs And I know you will find there'll be peace of mind And we'll live in a world of our own Close the door light the lights we're stayin' home tonight Far a...

Abilene, Abilene, Prettiest town I've ever seen Women there don't treat you mean In Abilene, my Abilene. I sit alone most every night Watch those trains pull out of sight Don't I wish they were carrying me Back to Abilene, my Abilene. Abilene, Abilene, Prett...

Down the road a ways I've heard said A new day's coming on Where the women folks are friendly And the law leaves you alone I'll believe it when I see it And I haven't seen it yet Don't mind me just keep on talking I'm just looking for my hat There ai...

Just a broken down cowboy, all down on his luck Been through the best of his friends On a long lonesome highway in an old pick-up truck Crossed Texas like a hot dusty wind He was all around cowboy back in '49 From the top, it's been long way down Sinc...

Isn’t there anyone Who’ll take me like I am? Someone who’s willing To take the blue in man Someone that’s pleased enough With himself to let me be Someone who’d love me And try to understand my needs No, I guess there isn’t And there’s no place I c...

I've held it all inward, God knows, I've tried But it's an awful awakening in a country boy's life To look in the mirror in total surprise At the hair on my shoulders and the age in my eyes Amanda, light of my life Fate should have made you a gentleman's...

Some have said, down through history If you last it's a mystery But I guess they don't know, what they're talking about From the mountains down to the sea You've become such a habit with me America, America Well I come from, down around Tennesee, But t...

Angel eyes, angel eyes The ways of the world are feeble Don't give up on simple people Angle eyes, stardust nights The blues you can't live wthout It's not what you song's about. Angel eyes, angel eyes Tell me what would we do Without the light from a...

Anita, come closer Stop crying and listen to me I guess it's too late, but somehow I must make you see What we thought was our world Was only a dream world And we just can't go on like this Anita, you're dreaming of a world That can never exist Anita, it's ov...

I've had to burn most every bridge I've crossed It seems like everything I've loved I'd lost When I met you I've thought my luck had turned But our love's just another bridge to burn So, I'll soon light the fire and move on Oh, I've already been here much too...

Don't sing them songs about the open road I've lost too many rainbows chasin' pots of gold I still remember what my baby said It's still a knockin' 'round in back of my head She said, "I'm gonna lock the doors around about midnight Put bars on the window...

Slippin' and a-slidin', playin' Dominoes Leftin' and a-rightin' ain't a crime, you know Well, I gotta tell the story before it's time to go Well, are you ready for the country? Are you ready for me? Are you ready for the country? Ain't that the sight to see?...

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

Ran my Chevy through the car wash Threw the beers cans out Emptied all the ash trays Cleaned a little house Got my Allman Brothers cassettes Stacked up on the dash Got some jack back in the trunk And a tank full of gas Stopped and bought some roses To...

You get a pen and I'll get a paper We're gonna write ourselves a song We'll drive the poetics crazy Don't think the damn thing's gonna rhyme I got a friend and I think he's goofy I guess he thinks the same about me Guess it really takes one to know one And yo...

Baby, don't be looking in my mind You might not like what you find For honey, I know you better than you think I do so baby, don't be looking in my mind Don't expect sweet, „I love you's” on and on If I didn’t love you I’d be gone Don’t change the way I live,...

Winding your way down on Baker Street Lite in your head and dead on your feet Well, another crazy day you drink the night away And forget about everything. These city streets make you feel so cold It's got so many people but it's got no soul And it's taken yo...

Oh, a tongue can accuse and carry bad news Gossip is cheap and it's lo-o-ow So unless you've made no mistakes in your life Just be careful of stones that you throw SPOKEN: A neighbor was passin' my garden one time. She stopped and I knew right away that...

I was a child and she was a child Yet our love was something to see My parents were poor, I was turned from the floor Of my beautiful Anabel Lee Now the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams Of my beautiful Anabel Lee and the stars never rise But I fee...

A vagabond dreamer, a rhymer and singer of songs Singing to no one and nowhere to really belong I met a beautiful lady, a pure Southern belle of the ball Like Scarlet O'Hara loved no one but wanted them all I'll never forget you and love you inspire of your f...

Stranded here in Dallas cold and hungry I ain't got a dime Sleepin' in the filty trainyard at the warmest driest place that I can find What have I done that would justify the way you treatin' me Big D Stranded here in Dallas cold and hungry I don't know a soul...

Billy we've come along way together And through it all you've been just like a brother to me And Billy we've had our share of ups and downs Froze our tails sleeping on the ground When the jobs were few and far between We've been knocking around together so lo...

I'm gonna write a letter, gonna mail it today Just as soon as I can think of the words to say I've been needing to send it for nearly a year 'Cause there's a woman back home who's wanting to hear I meant to tell you, oh, Susannah I'm a long way from Louisiana...

Way down in Virginia Amongst the tall grown sugar canes Lived a simple man and a dominiker hen And a rose of a different name Well, the first time I left lightning I was standing in the drizzling rain With a trembling hand and a bottle of gin And a ros...

I was sittin' beside the road in Blackjack County Not knowing that the sheriff paid a bounty For men like me who didn't have a penny to their names So he locked my leg to thirty-five pounds of Blackjack County chain All we had to eat was bread and water Each...

Well the honky-tonks in Texas were my natural second home Where you tip your hats to the ladies and the rose of San Antone I grew up on music that we called Western Swing It don't matter who's in, Austin, Bob Wills is still the king Lord I can still remember,...

Born to love only you destined to die alone without you Knowing my dreams can never come true yet Knowing that I was born to love you Night after night wanting for you living a life built around you Knowing my dreams can never come true yet Knowing that I w...

Baby, go down to the drugstore, buy me a guitar string And be sure to wear your coat, girl, 'cause it might rain 'Cause honey, you know that rain is bad for my guitar strings Put on your warm coat honey, it's gonna be cold tonight Put on the one that's warm a...

When youre weary, feeling small When tears are in your eyes, Ill dry them all Im on your side, oh, when times get rough And friends just cant be found Like a bridge over troubled water I will lay me down Like a bridge over troubled waters I will lay me down...

There's a Bible on the dresser and a sign hung on the door And a woman in my arms shouldn't be I'm to the point of no returning but I've been here before This cheatin' life is nothing new to me. There's someone to be considered I call her on the phone And say...

Flying cross the desert in a TWA Saw a women walking Cross the sand They been walking thirty miles In route to L.A. to get A brown eyed handsome man The destination was A brown eyed handsome man Milo Venus was a beautiful lass She had the world In the palm...

Each time that I hold you close, here in my arms I'm building heartaches Each time that I kiss your lips, so sweet and warm I'm building heartaches And when you say you love me We both know it's a lie An' just a dream from which I must awake That each sweet...

Tonight I'm burning old love letters Photographs and memories of you Hoping somehow I'll feel better And that when the smoke is gone I won't want you. Burning memories Teardrops fall while I am Burning memories Burning all the memories of you that I can't los...

My bills are all due and the baby needs shoes. but I'm busted Cotton is down to a quarter a pound. and I'm busted I got a cow that's gone dry and a hen that won't lay A big stack of bills gettin' bigger each day. The county will haul my belongings away, 'cause...

When the morning sun streaks across my room And I'm wakened up from another dream of you Yes I'm on the road once again it seems All I've left behind is a chain of broken dreams. But you know I love you Yes, I love you oh I love you. How I wish this love was...

Do you remember Cactus Texas nothing but a wide place in the road Eighteen wheelers never go there main Street's just too narrow for the load A little town of honest people some we haven't seen for quite awhile I was young and restless and we both were full of...

Go west young man the signs all seem to say there's San Diego Frisco or LA Leave that cold cold woman far behind warm yourself in that California sunshine Go west young man become a movie star or anything except the fool you are Expose the lonely corners of yo...

Gonna catch a freight train as far as I can Lord, I don't care which way it goes Gonna climb a mountain, the highest mountain Lord Jump off ain't nobody gonna know. Can't you see, oh can't you see What that woman's been doin' to me Can't you see, can't...

I've been quite the traveler ever since I hit the road And the Sullen county carnival has been my earn in gold I've been quite alone since I remember when I turned my ultimatums into chips and cashed them in I used to run the Ferris wheel but that'd be hard t...

Casey joins the hollow sound of silent people walking down The stairway to the subway in the shadows down below Following their footsteps through the neon-darkened corridors Of silent desperation, never speakin' to a soul The poison air he's breathin' has the...

I got a gal in Cedartown Georgia I used to have to walk nearly three miles to court her She never had much just a sharecropper's daughter But I married her and took her down to New Orleans Got a little house in the South French Quarter Got a job tookin' bales...

If I should get a look of leavin' in my eyes Put your arms 'round me, woman, and change my mind If I ever seem too restless or dissatisfied Put your arms 'round me, woman, and change my mind Don't let me separate your love from mine Don't let me leave you, I...

I gave a girl a ride in my wagon She crawled in and took control She was tired as her mind was a draggin' I said get some sleep--and dream of rock n roll Cause like a princess she was laying there Moonlight dancing off her hair She woke up and took me by the...

Their eyes were upon me as they sat they're drinking Their hands reach up for you with lust in their hearts As you dance away I know just what they're thinking As I watch them watch you it just tears me apart Dance while my heart breaks Christina Dance to the...

Down by the river where the big boats go by Each day you could see them as evening was nigh They planned to be married at the first sign of spring And Jim would take Cindy to see New Orleans The town folks would smile as they sat there alone Jim talked of the...

Dark cloud hangin' over me when will it go away Rain is in my eyes and I can't see life's become just cloudy days Why she's done me like she's done I guess I'll never know She knows I need her more than anyone I've made a point to let it show Cloudy days don't...

Clyde plays electric bass plays it with finesse and grace Set on the porch ain't got no shoes pickin' the bass and singin' the blues Misery loves company this old dog sings harmony Tambourine tied to his tail you can hear him moan you can hear him wail yeah...

Today was supposed to be Just another day Before the meeting of our minds and What you had to say It's been a long time comin' and I guess i never saw I'll have a short time adjusting to it all You have come to your conclusion You no longer care for me And th...

I'll send away all my false pride And I'll forsake all of my life Yes I'll be as true as true can be If you'll come and stay with me. Lovers of the past I'll leave behind There'll never be another on my mind I'll do all I can so you'll feel free If you come a...

If you're in a bind,with a troubled mind I'm a mountain,come on and climb Because you look so good,to be so down It won't take much girl,to turn it all around [Chorus] Come with me,come with me The feeling's free,just come with me Will get on a cloud girl,and...

Hank let's talk about your daddy Tell me how your momma loved that man. Well, just break a bottle hoss I'll tell ya' about the drifting cowboy band. We wont talk about the habits. Just the music and the man that's all. Now Hank, you just gotta tell me Did y...

My dad talks a lot about cowboys Like John Wayne and people I don't even know I like the cartoons on Saturday morning 'Cause I'm only four years old. But my dad just loves cowboy movies He even bought me a big cowboy hat And when I put it on with my boots and...

Now blue ain't the word for the way that I feel And the storm's brewing in this heart of mine This ain't no crazy dream I know that it's real You're someone else's love now you're not mine Crazy arms that reach to hold somebody new While my yearning heart keep...

I was all right for a while I could smile for a while But when I saw you last night You held my hand so tight When you stopped to say hello And though you wished me well You couldn't tell That I'd been Crying over you Crying over you Then you said so long Lef...

I was all right for a while I could smile for a while But when I saw you last night You held my hand so tight When you stopped to say hello And though you wished me well You couldn't tell That I'd been Crying over you Crying over you Then you said So long Lef...

Deep in the west where the tall mountains grow I've gone home Where the heavens above turn red from the fire down below Are you listening to me when I'm talking to you Said together we're one divided we're through Divided we're through Silver friend at night...

I live on a big blue ball I never do dream I would fall But even the day that I do I'll jump off and smile back at you We don't even know where we are But they say that we're circling a star Well, I'll take their word, I don't know But I'm dizzy so maybe that...

Delia, oh Delia, where have you been so long? If buddy's talkin' 'bout Delia they say she's done me wrong They took my Delia to the graveyard, took her in a long black hearse If I hadn't shot my poor Delia I believe she'd have got me first Delia's gone Went d...

Delta Dawn what's that flower you have on? Could it be a faded rose from days gone by? And did I hear you say he was ameetin' you here today To take you to his mansion in the sky She's forty one and her daddy still calls her baby All the folks around Brownsvi...

Surely you know by now my heart is wild I don't want to be tied down it ain't my style Don't you think I know better world is kind of other too dis-selfish Well I can't help it I'm destiny's child I couldn't began to tell you if I try admit so much to love bef...

Hello, it's good to see you Just how long has it been I've often wondered what I'd say If we ever met again If I'd try just being clever Or pretend not to remember But it's funny how you've lingered On my mind [Chorus] Didn't we shine Didn't we shine Didn't w...

Dirt is quiet, it don't make noise It's fun to play with, especially for boys Girls don't much like it but that's okay Boys don't like girls much anyway. Dirt, dirt, good ol' dirt Dirt, dirt, good ol' dirt It may sound silly but it really don't hurt To sing a...

In the morning you go gunning for the man who stole your water And you fire till he is done in but they catch you at the border And the mourners are all singing as they drag you by your feet But the hangman isn't hanging so they put you on the street You go b...

You're so good woman,Lord you're just too good for me The way I am is the way I'll always be No all around all of my life You could have done better 'cause you've been a good wife You're so good woman,Lord you're just too good for me You're so good looking,Lo...

I've been away for so long Fought a war that's come and gone Doesn't anybody know my name? My sister upped and wed Mom was sick and took to bed And my old dog Red's gone lame. Please tell me if you can What time the trains roll in? (Two-ten, six-eighteen) ten...

I scandalized my brother While admitting that he sang some pretty songs I'd heard that he'd been scandalizing me And Lord, I knew that that was wrong. Now I'm looking at it over somethin' cool And feeling fool enough to see What I had called my brother...

The hardest thing you ever do is love yourself that gal don't love you She'll cause you sleepless nights and endless pain But if you don't like the rules don't play the game Every time that girl walks by your heart will ache your very soul will die But love on...

It ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal Like you never did before It ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal I can't hear you any more When your rooster crows at the break of dawn Look out your window and I'll be gone You're the reason I'm trav'lin' on Do...

(Don't look for me I must go.) (Don't waste your time I must go.) Don't look for me, don't waste your time I'll find another that's more my kind I'll find my happiness on further down the line Don't look for me, don't waste your time. (I must go, I must go.)...

I'm for the law and order the way it should be This song's about the night they spent protecting you from me Someone called us outlaws in some old magazine And New York sent a posse down like I ain't ever seen Don't you think this outlaw bit's done got out of...

Donna on my mind when I get up in the morning, Donna on my mind the whole day through, Love can't come so quick and real without any warning Wonder if she's thinking of me too. Once I thought that no one girl could ever hold me Even thought this thing call...

Down, down, down came the world I went round, round, round in a whirl I built every dream around one girl Then down, down, down came the world She must have loved a little Just to keep me hanging on How could lips that kiss so sweet Lie and be so wrong? Our...

Sweet dream baby, Sweet dream baby Sweet dream baby, How long must I dream. Dream baby, got me dreamin' Aweet dreams the whole day through. Dream baby got me dreamin' Sweet dreams in nighttime too. I love you and I'm dreamin' of you That won't do Dream baby,...

Sweet dream baby Sweet dream baby Sweet dream baby How long must I dream Dream baby got me dreamin' sweet dreams The whole day through Dream baby got me dreamin' sweet dreams Night time too I love you and I'm dreamin' of you That won't do Dream baby make me s...

I hope that I won't be that wrong anymore, And maybe I've learned this time. I hope that I find what I'm reaching for, The way that it is in my mind. Someday I'll get over you. I'll live to see it all through. But I'll always miss, Dreaming my dreams w...

Everybody's looking for someway in I'm looking for someway out I've been wasting my time, standing in line If this is what it's all about All I've got is a job that I don't like And a woman that don't understand So tonight in the bar, I'll get in my car And t...

Here I sit drivin' nails in the wall thinking I hear someone in my hall She said that she'd be back in no time at all here I sit drivin' nails in the wall In the dark that stacks around me dreams of you keep pounding me Leading me to where I've never been And...

Just two good ol' boys Never meanin' no harm Beat all you never saw, been in trouble with the law since the day they was born Straight'nin' the curve, Flat'nin' the hills. Someday the moutain might get 'em, but the law never will. Makin' their way, The only...

I made it through my rock and roll years With a spent dream and A few dollar bills I don't know what I learned I don't know what I know And if I don't now I never will I ain't seen it all, but it's plain to see I just might be an endangered species Like an ol...

I am the entertainer I know just where I stand Another serenader another long haired man Today I am your champion I may have won your heart But I know the game you'll forget my name I won't be here in another year If I don't stay on the charts I am the entert...

He was born and raised around Jacksonville a nice young man bout the kind to kill But the jealous fight and the flashing blades sent him on the run through the Everglades Running like the dog through the everglades Where a man can hide and never be found and n...

I've got a new car, an' it drives just like a dream. I've got money, an' can buy most anything. I've got places to go an' things to do. I've got everything, everything but you. I've got a date book that's just bulging at the seams. I've got the numbers of al...

These lines in my face, caused from worry, Grow deeper as you walk out of sight. Mine is the face of a fighter, But my heart has just lost the fight. Round one: you told me you loved me, An' I felt my heart falling there an' then. The last round: you walked...

We fell into a fallin' out You are the one that I just can't figure out But I do believe I want to Like a girl in a picture show You are the one that I'd like to know And I do, I do believe I need to And I do, I do believe that I feel like I'm watching a dove...

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

When the last breath of life is gone from my body and my lips are as cold as the sea When my friends gather round to my farewell party Please won't you pretend you love me There'll be flowers from those who'll cry when I'll go And leave you in this old world a...

I hear the train a comin' rollin' round the bend I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when Well I'm stuck in Folsom Prison and time keeps dragging on While a train keeps a rollin' on down to San Antone Well when I was just a baby my mama told me son Al...

[Chorus] I know that you've been foolin' 'round on me right from the start So I'll take back my ring, and I'll take back my heart When you're tired of foolin' 'round with two or three Come on home and fool around with me I wasn't foolin' 'round the day I said...

That's what you get for lovin' me that's what you get for lovin' me Everything we had is gone if you can see that's what you get for lovin' me Don't you shed a tear for me I ain't the love you thought I'd be I've had a hundred just like you but don't be blue...

You work like a slave for the kids and I'd go to my grave for the kids But we watched our love fade as we suffered that state With this bargain we made for the kids Divorce is a curse for the kids but this intention's much worse for the kids Yes they're now ol...

Four strong winds that blow lonely Seven seas that run high All these things that don't change come what may But my good times are all gone And I'm bound for moving on I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way I may go out to Alberta Weather's good...

I tied my bandana,took my pack from the floor You were still sleeping,as i stood at the door Once more i was heading to,God only knows where That's when it hit me,i was already there Chorus: I could ramble,a thousand miles or more Never find the light i've se...

Frisco's a mile long away You can afford to fly But it might as well be the moon, Lord, when you're as broke as I. Here I sit with my head in my hands Watching the trains roll by Lord, the Helping Hand Mission man warned me That the nights here got cold. Whe...

Well he smoked those Camel cigarettes about three packs a day Nicotine stains on his fingers when he'd stretch them out to play That old "Midnight special" is one he loved to do Then he'd sing "I'm walking the floor over you TV preachers and welfare checks fo...

Oh the games people now every night and every day now Never meanin' what they say now never sayin' what they mean oh no Well they wile away the hours in their ivory towers Till they're covered up with flowers in the back of a black limousine oh yeah Lotte...

I could tell you a story from another day in time How a high falootin' woman tried to make me walk the line She was into changin' too damn hard to please And the last time I saw her she was down on her knees Born under the sign of the Gemini twins There's two...

It's knowing that your door is always open And your path is free to walk That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag Rolled up and stashed behind your couch And it's knowing I'm not shacked By forgotten words and boons And the ink stains That have dried upon...

Lamps in the windows burnin' bright, over in Santa Fe tonight Full moon shining down along the border But the ground is hard and the night is black Over here by the railroad track And I wish to the Lord that I was back in Georgia Blue water in the Indian sun,...

I bring it up You're quick to cover it all up again Thought we were friends What are friends for? The old bones in your closet Must really embarrass you And so to save face It's a locked place [Chorus] I don't see why you don't get naked with me Get all the l...

Well, if you're travelin' in the north country fair, Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline, Remember me to one who lives there. She once was a true love of mine. Well, if you go when the snowflakes storm, When the rivers freeze and summer ends, Please s...

Girl I can tell you're trying to work it out Tryin' to get a handle on what life is all about Between womenhood and nursery rhymes tryin' to find the truth in lovers lies Girl I can tell you're trying to work it out Girl I can see you're wantin' to give it a t...

One foot on the mountain, the other one in the stream All kinds of trouble and I'm caught in between I can't change my way of doin'; it's gonna lay like it falls If I can't go down rockin', I ain't gonna go down at all. She was a child of acquired money,...

I've thought I'd take a trip to Denver and spend a little time I thought maybe out in Denver I might get you off my mind No want no want go with me, just want to be alone I might find someone in Denver that can help me carry on Gone to Denver, gone to Denver,...

A long time forgotten the dreams that just fell by the way The good life he promised ain't what she's livin' today But she never complains of the bad times Or the bad things he's done, lord She just talks about the good times they've had And all the good times...

Just the good ol' boys Never meanin' no harm Beats all you've never saw, been in trouble with the law Since the day they was born Straightenin' the curves Flate'nin' the hills Someday the mountain might get 'em But the law never will Makin' their way The onl...

Everybody's gone away said they're moving to LA There's not a soul I know around everybody's leaving town Some caught a freight some caught a plane Find the sunshine leave the rain they say this town'll waste your mind Must be right cause it's wasting mine Som...

There are songs that birds don't sing to people There are secrets that keep right through to the end There are heroes who hide until forever And I'm singing this song for one of them He's the man that you passed on the road there The one with his life on the...

Green River I've come back to you do you remember me Do you remember Molly with the soft blue eyes I left here with a lot of dreams none of them came true What I wanted was here waiting all the time Green River did she come here every evening Like the neighbor...

That cold north wind is blowing grey eyes you know The years are quickly going grey eyes you know And the good life I promised you so long ago Is dead but for a dreaming grey eyes you know We never had much money grey eyes you know More rainy days than sunny g...

If you loved me half as much as I love you You wouldn't worry me half as much as you do You're nice to me when there's no one else around You only build me up to let me down If you missed me half as much as I miss you You wouldn't stay away half as much as yo...

It's true you have me twisted round your finger and it seems that's where I belong You know how to hold me to thrill me and control me Just enough to keep me hangin' on For now tomorrow and forever I guess I'm tied to you right or wrong My love keeps a growing...

Ramblin' about, down through the south I find things are a changing a lot Especially me, it's easy to see Montgomery's still hot and I'm not I stopped by today at Hank William's grave My hero from the days of my youth Was that him or me that I used to be In t...

He went to Paris looking for answers to questions That bothered him so He was impressive, young and aggressive Saving the world on his own Warm summer breezes, French wine and cheeses Put his ambition at bay The summers and winters scattered like splinters And...

Heartache number one was when you left me I never knew that I could hurt this way And heartache number two was when you came back again You came back and never meant to stay I've got heartaches by the number, troubles by the score Every day you love me less E...

I called you on the phone to say I love you that I stop by for you at nine My heart broke when you said that it's all over Someone else would take up all your time And that's a lot of heartaches for a dime I'll never know what made you change your mind I only...

Well sometimes it's heaven And sometimes it's hell Sometimes I don't even know Sometimes I take it as far as I can And sometimes I don't even go My front tracks're found for a cold water And my back tracks're covered with snow Sometimes it's heaven Someti...

I'm gonna change my ways of doing things around here I'm turning over a new leaf gonna get myself in gear 'Cause I've got a woman who's better than most And I've made a mess of her plans So startin' today all I'm gonna be is her man I've been a wild catter an...

[Chorus] Hey Willie let's pack up and catch us a slow train And go back to Phoenix to a far brighter day Where stars were for shining in the Arizona sky And music meant more than fortune or fame Willie, we wandered from border to border Singing our stories an...

Well, I'm sick and tired of wakin' up, sick and tired As of today there's gonna be some changes made Well, you might as well keep your feet on the ground 'Cause I won't stand still for you're movin' around It's high time you quit your lowdown ways, yeah Anyt...

Well, I don't know who or where I am I don't know who do give a damn It's a hell of a mess that I've got me in Hittin' the bottle again I can't walk so I can't go home No need to talk 'cause I'm alone If I stay here they're gonna lock me in Hittin' the bottle...

Don't you worry don't be sad Just lean on me girl when times are bad When the day comes and you're down In a river of trouble and about to drawn Just hold on I'm comin', hold on I'm comin'. I'm on my way your lover If you are cold I will be your cover...

Well I left my home down on a rural route And I told my folks I'm goin' steppin' out To get the honky tonk blues the jumpin' honky tonk blues Well Lord I got 'em I got the honky tonk blues In and out of every joint in this town The city life has really got me...

Low down leaving sun, I've done Did everything that needs done Woe is me, why can't I see I'D best be leaving well enough alone Them neon light nights, couldn't stay out of fights Them keep a-haunting me in memories There's one in every crowd, for crying out l...

Low down leaving sun, I've done Did everything that needs done Woe is me, why can't I see I'D best be leaving well enough alone Them neon light nights, couldn't stay out of fights Them keep a-haunting me in memories There's one in every crowd, for crying out l...

I've been walking in the shadows for so long that I forgot the sun could shine I've turned away from everything and everyone that wanted to be mine Somehow I always shot my eyes and heart to anything that I might share Now I'm standing still and I wonder how l...

How much is it worth to live in L.A.? That land of silk and money where the pretty people play When they itemize insanity, how much will you pay? How much is it worth to live in L.A.? Now I'm not here to criticize or to put nobody down But they're wierding ou...

Like a raging flood that ruins a poor man's land You keep doing things to hurt me all you can But the thickness that we knew is growing thin how much rain can one man stand How much rain can one man stand I gave you everything but my right hand If you won't le...

I look for trouble and I found it son Straight down the barrel of a lawman's gun I tried to run but I don't think I can You make one move and you're a dead man friend Ain't living long like this Can't live at all like this,can I baby? He slipped the handcuffs...

Take back the weed take back the cocaine baby Take back the pills take back the whiskey too I don't need them now your love was all I was after I'll make it now I can get off on you I can get by on little or nothing at all I know I can get high just thinkin' a...

You know I can't stand to be around you cause you know I'm still in love with you And my arms keep reaching to do what my thoughts do all the time I just can't keep my hands off of you Cause it's like looking at heaven while I'm standing in hell We shared some...

[Chorus:] In my own way I'm a believer In my own way right or wrong I don't talk too much about it It's something I keep working on I don't have too much to build on My faith has never been that strong There's a man in that old building He's a holy man, they...

I can't understand, She let go of my hand An' left me here facing the wall. I'd sure like t' know Why she did go, But I can't get close t' her at all. Though we kissed through the wild blazing nighttime, She said she would never forget. But now mornin's clear,...

I don't mind, I don't mind I did for a time but I don't mind. It used to break my heart each time you cheated I tried to leave the Lord knows how I tried But I stay here no matter how I'm treated And all it really cost me was my pride. But I don't mind, I don...

You don't know what's good for you you won't leave me alone I know you've got a family sleepin' at home Don't make me go out off my way don't tempt me please Don't you be so nice to me I fall in love so easily I'm all alone and need someone I guess that it sh...

I took my woman down to the local depot From there to anywhere if you want to you can go I said now pretty momma I've had myself enough Of your fussing and your fighting and it's sure gonna get rough [Chorus] I got the train sittin' waitin' Leaving right on t...

Don't get no attention from the people on street They don't even see us they just step right on our feet Just two unnoticed people in this great big world are we And when I think about it yes that's all we'll ever be But I got you and you got me and if the...

When I was one, till I was three My mom and dad took care of me Now I'm four and the world's alive And I just can't wait until I'm five. I just can't wait until I'm five. When I am six there is a rule Kids like me all start to school Somewhere between seven...

You tear me down a hundred times a day I've cried enough to wash the world away I've tried so hard to be what you've wanted me to be 'Til somewhere along the way I lost me To give and keep on giving I have learned There's no way but yours where you're concern...

Well my baby you're a looker and I know what you're looking for You've been looking over, every man at the bar Honey, I know I've got a few years on you But if you're shopping around let me tell you a thing or two Well I look a little rough and I got a few mi...

Little girl don't be so quit to give your love so free Little girl what makes you want to throw yourself with me Just in your teens you're lookin' more like twenty one You run ahead of life when it's only just begun Don't you know I may never pass this way aga...

The sun is filled with ice and gives no warmth at all The sky was never blue The stars are raindrops searching for a place to fall And I never cared for you I know you won't believe these things I tell you No, you won't believe Your heart has been forewarned...

Silver coins that jingle jangle Fancy shoes that dance in time Oh, the secrets of her dark eyes They did sing a gypsy rhyme. Yellow clover entangled blossoms In a meadow silky green Where she held me to her bosom Just a boy of seventeen. I recall a g...

I don't drink campaign in crystal glasses I don't sowed my beans in a silver pot You won't catch me climb to the social classes I don't spend money that I ain't got. I don't waste my time with yesterday's troubles I just try to do the job and hang I ain't del...

So long to you, hope I don't make you blue, Think I'm gonna kill myself, think I'm gonna myself. Apart we've grown, now I can't go on alone. Think I'm gonna kill myself, think I'm gonna myself. Now dig my grave with a silver spade, a gold chain lay me down an...

How many times must I tell her How many times must I say I won't be around to pick her up again From now on she'll have to find her own way. How many years have I loved her While she stood by so unconcerned But the things she don't know I'll teach her when I...

This world that I live in is empty and cold the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul I'm no child of destiny and no fortune's son I've just chased you so long now I'm too weak to run A new day is here but nothing is new alone in my room I tremble for you [...

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine I keep my eyes wide open all the time I keep the ends out for the tie that binds Because you're mine, I walk the line I find it very, very easy to be true I find myself alone when each day is through Yes, I'll admit...

Your love, I'm no longer sure of Seems there's times you'd rather be alone And if I'm losing you tell me what did I do Oh, I wonder just where I went wrong Even though I still feel the same I can't help but feel I'm to blame Have I done all that I can do to s...

Ah! It's just another wasted mornin' While I'm holdin' up the wall Too much tequila makes me wonder Why I'm headin' home at all Get that honky tonk feelin' Every time your arms grow cold I suppose that's the reason I need a home away from home So I'll say one...

I'll go back to her where I'm wanted and maybe I can make up for the wrong in spite of all I've done she still wants me so I'll go back to her where I belong Walking out on her wasn't easy but without a second thought I left her there I gave my all and did it...

I'm a long way from home And so all alone Homesick, like I never thought I'd be I'm a long way from home And everything is wrong Someone please watch over me I'm not accustomed to these feelings The lonliness is burning in my soul Sometimes the mind is so mi...

I'm coming back to you one more time To give you one more chance to clear your mind I know how much you don't want to be free so I'm doing this for you not for me All you have to do is apologize I'll be there soon as I dry my eyes I know how much you don't wan...

I'm not Lisa, my name is Julie Lisa left you years ago My eyes are not blue But mine won't leave you 'Til the sunlight has touched your face She was your morning light Her smile told of no night Your love for her grew With each rising sun And then one winter...

Hey, little lady is your man at home Did he go and leave you all alone And oh, I got a bad desire Oh, oh, oh, I'm on fire. Tell me little lady is he good to you Can he do to you good things I don't do I can take you higher Oh, oh, oh, I'm on fire. Like someo...

I've always been crazy and the trouble that it's put me through And busted for things that I did, and I didn't do I can't say I'm proud of all of the things that I've done But I can say I've never intentionally hurt anyone I've always been different with one...

I've got a tiger by the tail it's plain to see I won't be much when you get through with me I'm losing weight and turning mighty pale And it looks like I've got a tiger by the tail. Well, every night you drag me where the bright lights are found There ain't n...

When I look at you I think many strange things And it's hard to express all of my feelings I belong to a girl you hang around with But I must admit I've got eyes for you. I had to call and tell you just how I felt You should know by now that When you're near...

I've got me a woman she's a pretty good woman at that We live with a monkey and a Chinese acrobat She calls me Tex and makes me wear a cowboy hat But I don't care 'cause she's a pretty good woman at that I like nothin' better than to spend my nights at home L...

I'm just a man No more or no less Bad as the worst Good as the best If you like what you see It's a pretty good bet What you see Is just what you'll get And I've got my faults that I can't deny Nobody knows that better than I do Some not so good traits from...

Come on now Willie don't look at me that way I know you like a paperback book cause I've read every page I know what you're thinkin' and I don't think you're thinkin' at all This is old hoss that's you're talkin' to the one with the perfect recall No I ain't...

This morning as I watched a bird Just spread its wings and fly It was then a thought came over me And I wondered why can't I Oh why, oh why can't I? If I could only fly you see A lot of problems would be gone When you think of just How much I'd save on shoes...

Well, I've come here to tell you boys I'm ragged but I'm right I'm a tramp and a rounder I stay out late at night. I pour a high steak Three times a day for my board That's more than any loafer In this old town can afford. A big electric fan Keep me cool whi...

She left the cradle when she learned to crawl With mama on the front porch she walked off Headed for the city in a pair of high heeled shoes And if she'll leave her mama son she'll sure leave you Don't take it so hard and blame yourself Cause you ain't the fir...

My friends all say that you're deceiving me And things are going on that I don't see I pay them no mind I love you so And if you're guilty then I just don't want to know. But if the shoe fits then wear it If your mind hurts then bear it It's your conscience t...

Funny a woman can come on so wild and free Yet insist I don't watch her undress or watch her watch me And stand by the bed and shiver as if she were cold Just to lie down beside me and touch me as if I were gold. One night of love don't make up for six nights...

If you really want me to, I'll go It's not that I want to, but I'll go If you've found somebody who could love you more than me If you really want me to, I'll go. I don't know just what you're tryin' to do You told me that your love for me was true I don't un...

If you see her and she mentions my name Tell her the times have but I have not changed All my friends know that I still feel the same If you see her and she mentions my name If you see her ask her for me If the dreamer in her ever set her free Does she know n...

Willie, we've been constant companions You know the light and shade We have spent a million dollars Find out what we made We have made the maidens marvel The things we do and say Down, down and out brother Up, up in the way If you see me gettin' smal...

If you were mine to lose I'd gladly let you go Cause that would mean you once belonged to me I'd gladly take the heartache of losing you some day Cause then at least I'd have the memory Through all the years I've known you you've never noticed me Just a friend...

If you're goin' girl in the summertime Then you'd better take the shinin' sun And you'd better take all the golden fields And the perfume of the clover and the corn If you're goin' girl in the winter time Then you'd better take all the sparkling snow And you'...

That's the very same door that I carried her through On the night we were married last June And right over there is the very same chair that she sat in when she said we're through Over here you can see where I got on my knees and I begged but her heart was a s...

There's something on your mind, why don't you tell me? You act as though your heart is miles away. I speak to you but you don't even hear me. Don't be unkind: is there something on your mind? You look at me with eyes that never see me. You're watching memorie...

Now that I've made up my mind you're gone it should be easier now Perhaps now my heart will stop hanging on it should be easier now The lesson I've learned from you gold can't buy a heart can be broken and still survive Thanks to you now a much wiser man am I...

[Verse 1:] If anyone ever finds a better way to love It'll be her,loving me If anyone ever goes out of their way to show they care It'll be her,loving me [Chorus:] She's every women I've ever known rolled up in one If I'm ever loved anymore,she'll be the one...

Well my baby used to stay out all night long she made me cry she done me wrong Come home each morning tellin' me them same old lies But now table has turned and it's her turn to cry Because I used to love her but it's all over now Oh yes I used to love her bu...

J. J. Cale's my hero, best I ever heard But you gotta sing a little louder, hoss, 'cause I can't hear the words Some folks call it rock and roll, others call it blues But I detect a country soul, when I seen his cowboy shoes And it's alright It's alright It ma...

It's not supposed to be that way you're supposed to know I love you But it don't matter anyway if I can't be there to control you And like the other little children you're gonna dream a dream or two But be careful what you're dreamin' or soon your dreams'll be...

Well, it's only rock and rollkeep you running from yourself When the only way to slow down is to fall It's only rock and roll that caused you to leave home When the only way to get back is to crawl. But the record people love you they can get you on the bill...

It's so easy to fall in love. It's so easy to fall in love. People tell me love's for fools So here I go breaking all of the rules Well it's so easy, so dog-on easy Well it's so easy Where you're concerned my heart's concerned. It's so easy to fall in love....

Jack of diamonds, Jack of diamonds, take my money You can take my life of luxury You can take my precious silver studded saddle, oh But you cannot take my soul, cannot take my soul today Sweet mama, oh sweet mama say you love me Let me hold you, hold you in m...

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've had Though everyone told me that Julie was bad Julie liked parties and clothes that fit tight Drinking and dancin' around la...

Just across the way a house is dark I can hardly see Just a cross the way lives a girl who's so in love with me But I'm such a bitter soul who's mem'ries seemed to always get their way So I live here with my memories she lives there with her love just across t...

Do you ever think about the one who thinks about you Do you ever wonder dear why he's always waiting here for you Inspite of all the things you've said and done I'm a fool and you're the only one I'll keep waiting while you'll have your fun just for you Can't...

Love that runs away from me Dreams that just won't let me be Blues that keep on botherin' me Chains that just won't set me free Too far away from you and all your charms Just out of reach of my two empty arms Each night in dreams I see your face Memories time...

We got a lot of politicians Up there on Capitol Hill Ain't it funny how they prosper While the country stands still Maybe I should run for office But I just like to talk I ain't about to run for nothing I don't even like to walk Aw that's just a lot of talkin...

Someone's gonna get hurt before you're through Someone's gonna pay for the things you do How many hearts must break,how many will it take To satisfy you,just to satisfy you Another love,another fool To play your game Another love,another fool They're all the...

Kentucky woman She shines with her own kind of light She'd look at you once And a day that's all wrong Looks all right And I love her God knows, I love her Kentucky woman If she get to know you She goin' to own you Kentucky woman Well, she ain't the kind Mak...

I've learned to turn the other cheek Is not what love's about I've turned mine so many times That I damned near wore 'em out I've grown used to your abuse And I thought I'd never quit But I woke up this morning Couldn't find my shiv-a-git You've always liked...

Bessie was a lovely child from west Tennessee Leroy was an outlaw wild as a mink One day she saw him starin' and it chilled her to the bone And she knew she had to see that look on a child of her own. 'Cause ladies love outlaws like babies love stray dogs Lad...

South bound out of Shreveport heading hell bent for his grave He reads a sign on the barn door that says the good lord Jesus saves But I don't think Jesus knows him 'cause he ain't the Jesus kind He's a laid back country picker with a laid back country mind H...

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

[Verse 1:] Traveling down on different roads Trying hard to leave the load We take it there but we can't let go It's so hard to lay it down [Verse 2:] Back in Eden we were tried Found ourselves dissatisfied Seeking wisdom that she denied Trying hard to lay it...

Now they say Hank Jr. has strayed away From all them songs that put his daddy in an early grave But his daddy would be proud if he could see Bocephus now Why don't you leave that boy alone, let him sing his song? Oh, Waylon has been known to play half time He...

There she goes again see her smiling so happy with the new love that she's found See her whisper in my ear all those things I used to hear Oh how that hurts me so I'm leavin' town she's the reason why I'm leavin' town I'm going far away where no one knows me w...

Can I stay with you awhile right awhile behind your smile You don't have to say the things you used to say Just let me sleep here for a time in the want of your loving mind And tomorrow I'll be on my way Just hold me in the want of your gentle smile Just tonig...

Just one more dance just one more chance so I can talk to you We've both have paid don't be afraid just let me try to prove I would do anything you want me to Just one more dance just one more chance let me talk to you Don't go too far with that crowd at the...

Some quiet morning let me let me tell you my mind Before the sun find you here beside me one more time Let me tell you my mind How I want you to stay and never think about goin' away Oh oh, baby let me tell you my mind. Oh oh, baby let me tell you my mind. Cr...

Cowboys they are ladies men all right they'll love 'em up and talk 'em up all night But they're lonely when there's nothing else to do And that's what makes the cowboys sing the blues He does a little Shakespeare and he sings he plays the mandolin and other th...

Darling let's turn back my years And go back to yesterday Let's pretend that time has stopped And I didn't go away. We had our love to make us happy It wasn't meant to bring us tears Love like ours should never die So darling, let's turn back the years. We h...

I want to be free from the noise of the grind So I live on the outskirts of the back of my mind With a strong hand a songman and God on my side I'm writing that freedom a line at a time On the highway to nowhere that runs through my mind A yellow line stretch...

Down the street a baby just cried When he woke up all alone A train's leavin' town and that lonesome old sound Is chilling me right to the bone. A song is playing I can barely hear About a love that's gone wrong The freezing rain on my window pane Listen they...

Was it bitter then with our backs against the wall? Were we better men than we'd ever been before? Say, if she came again today, would you still answer to the call? Tell the truth, my friend, don't it matter anymore? We were simple men by her side when she was...

Someday I won't come running when you call The way you hurt me it's a wonder I'm still here at all Someday you'll wake up and you'll find yourself alone Lock, stock and teardrops I'll be gone. I can't go on the way you make me live Make me cry and every time...

Well, I make it alright From Monday morning till Friday night Oh, those lonely weekends Since you left me I'm as lonely as I can be Oh, those lonely weekends. Said you'd be true to me You said our love's never gonna die Said you'd be true to me But baby you di...

Oh well, it's long gone, long gone You got my baby and you're long gone But I'll be a hangin' around I know you're gonna put her down She'll need someone that's true When she wakes up one day To find you're long gone, long gone. You just wandered into town To...

Look into my teardrops and darling you will see The reflection of an angel that made a fool of me Look into my teardrops and you will see the eyes That promised me so many things but all of them were lies Look into my teardrops the mirror of my soul And you w...

I'm lookin' for a feeling that I once had with you Lookin' for a feeling I have grown accustomed to I've had love and I've had lovers but they never seem to do I keep lookin' for a feeling that I lost when I lost you I said when it was over I'd be over you in...

I'm just a stranger in this town I'm just a drifter looking round I might stay a lifetime or a week it all depends if I'll find what I seek You're looking at a heart that needs a home and a little girl to love me and me alone One who wants a gentleman and acce...

In my darkest hour, woke up to a storm I turned to hold my baby but she was gone I looked all around me, calling her name No letter, no word of goodbye, walked out in the rain Looking for Suzanne Strangest of notions, chilled me to the bone Something whispere...

The years creep slowly by, Lorena, The snow is on the grass again, The sun's low down the sky, Lorena, The frost gleams where the flowers have been. But my heart beats on as warmly now, As when the summer days were nigh, The sun can never dip so low, Or down a...

I got a gal in Baton Rouge she calls me Louisiana She gives me a [Incomprehensible] an' something to eat She knows just what I want, she treats me right Lord, Lord, Lord, treats me right, yes, she do Treats me right Yeah, take it [Incomprehensible] I went do...

Livin' on free food tickets Water in the milk from the hole in the roof Where the rain came through What can you do? Ummhum Tears from your little sister Cryin' because she doesn't have a dress Without a patch, for the party to go But she knows, she'll get by...

Oh the sun's gonna shine, in my life once more Love's gonna live here again Things are gonna be the way they, were before Love's gonna live here again. Love's gonna live here Love's gonna live here Love's gonna live here again No more loneliness, only happine...

I have seen the morning burning golden on the mountain in the skies Aching with the feeling of the freedom of an eagle when she flies Turning on the world, the way she smiled upon my soul as I lay dying Healing as the colors in the sunshine and the shadows of...

Long haired young girl,here beside me Fit my body,warm my mind Sleeping quiet,never knowing By tomorrow she'll be one more thing i'm gonna leave behind [Verse 2] Like them big wheels,i'll be rolling Like them rivers,gonna flow to sea 'Cause i'd rather leave...

In a bar in Toledo,across from the depot, On a barstool she took off her ring. I thought I'd get closer So I walked on over. I sat down and asked her her name. When the drinks finally hit her, She said,"I'm no quitter, But I finally quit living on dream...

Lucille, you won't do your daddy's will Oh Lucille, just won't do your daddy's will Well, it ain't nothin' to you but I love you still Well, I woke up this morning Lucille was not in sight I asked my friends about her But all their lips were tight...

The only two things in life that make it worth livin' Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin' women I don't need my name in the marquee lights I got my song and I got you with me tonight Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of love Let's go to Luckenb...

Cowboys ain't easy to love, and they're harder to hold They'd rather give you a song than diamonds or gold Lone Star belt buckles and old faded Levis And each night begins a new day If you don't understand him, and he don't die young, he'll probably just ride...

I'm a man of constant sorrow I've known trouble all my days I'll say goodbye and leave tomorrow And I won't be back this way Misery is nothing new to me Memories will pay in time Another day some new tomorrow Just might ease my troubled mind I'm a man of con...

Tonight down here in the valley I'm lonesome and, oh, how I feel As I sit here alone in my cabin I can see your mansion on the hill Do you recall when we parted The story to me you revealed You said you could live without love, dear In your loveless ma...

I saved up my money to buy my sweetheart some flowers For Saturday's date and I restlessly counted the hours Then today in the mail I received a short little note And I'd broke down inside at the message that her mother wrote Mary Ann regrets she's unable to s...

Someone who knows me well is spreading rumors About the hearts I've broken in my time From northern Maine down to Palestine, Texas They're talking 'bout my Mason Dixon lines My Texas draw just kills them in Ohio In Dixieland my New York flow is fine North or...

You don't know me from Adam, madam May I introduce myself to you' I live one floor down below I hear and know almost everything you do I used to hear four feet dancin' Now I'm countin' only two May I borrow some sugar from you' You can call me nosy neighbor...

Busted flat in Baton Rouge an' headed for the trains Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans Bobby thumbed the diesel down just before it rained Took us all the way to New Orleans I took my har'poon out of my dirty red bandana I was playin' sad while Bobby sang the...

Lord, it's been rough and rocky travelin' But I'm finally standing upright on the ground After taking several readings I'm surprised to find my mind's still fairly sound I thought Nashville was the roughest But I guess I've said the same about them all Upon h...

I thought to leave your bed for the street Was as simple as saying goodbye I couldn't see how blind a man can be Or how quickly life can fly [Chorus] As the lines in my face grow deeper And the well of my soul runs dry I find that I drink more and more From t...

I hope that the friend You've thrown yourself with He gets drunk and loses his job And every road that you travel on Is dusty, rocky and hard I couldn't make you love me You only made me blue So all in all, if the curtain should fall Lord, I hope that it falls...

I gotta run to keep from hidin' I'm bound to keep on a ridin' I got one more silver dollar I ain't gonna let 'em catch me no I ain't gonna let 'em catch a midnight rider [ steel + guitar ] Well these ain't my clothes I'm wearin' this old road goes on forever I...

The reflections of the trees are cut by the bow of my pirogue And spattered by the paddle of my eager hand That Mississippi woman is a wavin' over yonder Wavin' her lantern for her Louisiana man. How I love that Mississippi woman How I love that Mississippi g...

I can give you golden tinkling bells to even dangle through your long black hair I can give you magic satin slippers woven just to take you anywhere I can give you all the love and tenderness a broken heart can spare But Mona take the love I give don't ask for...

The best things in life are free, but you can give them to the birds and bees. I need money. That's what I want. (That's what I want. That's what I want.) That's what I want, that 's what I want. (That's what I want. That's what I want.) Your love gives me su...

So long I've been trying to give you the things that you've wanted But your thirst for riches is more than my pockets can stand And I know that you're dreaming of things you could have with another 'Cause to your way of thinking the money is what makes the man...

Tell us once again this morning old friend how did you win the war Everybody loves a hero it don't matter if they've heard the tale before And tell us of the time when almost everybody knew you were a star And how intelligent you are Prove that you're alive Mr...

What is it that brings you to this part of town curiosity conscience or fate I know it's not love for I once gave you love and all you gave me was the gate I got a feeling you've come back to just rub it in and it really put me in my place You've already put b...

I've been around a long time, more than I can say Search for the truth, still looking today Rode aboard a warship, went down in 42 But my God and I, we got through Wasted in a dungeon, martyred in my time But my God and I, we're doing fine Here I stand in His...

I grew up a-dreamin' of bein' a cowboy, And lovin' the cowboy ways. Pursuin' the life of my high-ridin' heroes, I burned up my childhood days. I learned all the rules of the modern-day drifter, Don't you hold on to nothin' too long. Just take what you need fr...

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

I've been chasin' the big wheels All over Nashville Waitin' for my big break to come Livin' on ketchup soup, homemade Crackers and Kool Aid I'll be a star tomorrow, but today I'm a Nashville bum I look good in cowboy clothes And I sing through my nose Webb sai...

They call me the Nashville Rebel they say leave that boy alone Don't you give him advice or he'll turn to ice and you might as well talk to stone But I've got things to do and things to say in my own way I don't have time for your parties my love's little gues...

If it wasn't for the powder and the fine tooth comb If it wasn't for the powder and the fine tooth comb You know the Nashville women might as well stay home, yeah. If the blues was booze I'd stay drunk all the time If the blues was booze you know I'd stay dru...

Well I've never been to Spain but I kinda like the music Say the ladies are insane there and they sure know how to use it They don't abuse it can't refuse it never gonna lose it Well I've never been to England but I kinda like the Beatles I was headed for Las...

I've always loved the ladies Ladies love the games Seems the things they want the most is They always want to change The only thing that changes Is my mind I never could toe the mark And I never could walk the line Some things don't come easy Others should b...

When the evenin' sun goes down You will find me hangin' 'round Oh, the night life, it ain't no good life But it's my life Many people just like me Dreamin' of old used-to-be's Oh, the night life, it ain't no good life Ah, but it's my life Listen to the blues...

[Verse 1:] She was a good looking woman no doubt A high steppin' mover that men talk about But everything bad in me She brought it out And she was just no good for me [Verse 2:] She was wonderfully wicked and wild With the looks of a woman And the ways of a ch...

Read in the paper nearly everyday People breaking up and just walking away from love And that's wrong don't you know that's wrong A happy little home comes up for sale because two fools half tired and failed To get along and you know that's wrong A man hurts...

I know your leavings too long overdue For too long I've had nothing new to show you Goodbye dry eyes I've watched your plain feet off west to the moon It felt so strange to walk away alone No regrets no tears goodbye don't want you back we'd only cry again Say...

Well I nearly got caught at a Burger King And a couple of times on a plane I thought I was safe from detection With all of the weight I had gained But walking around in a jumpsuit That didn't work worth a damn So I bought me some Levis and grew me a beard...

I once had a girl or should I say she once had me She showed me her room isn't it good Norwegian Wood She asked me to stay and she told me to sit anywhere So I looked around and I noticed there wasn't a chair I sat on a rug biding my time drinking her wine We...

The way you caught my eye in Paris, Tennessee Selling seduction, well I'm seduced You sell a war then we sell a truth It's the truth So baby, just close your eyes Nothing catches Jesus by surprise Confusin' love for heated passion Got what I want but no sati...

You have made no secret of your new love affair He buys you pretty presents and he takes you everywhere You seen him all the places where you and I once went Sit and hold each other tight in front of all our friends Everybody knows, everybody knows Why my hea...

New York woman tryin' to make me love her a sad eyed girl with rollers in her hair Down the hall somebody's cooking cabbage kids're running up and down the stairs I'd like to leave this God forsaken city but I can't go no matter how I try But once again I'll b...

Old age and treachery always overcomes youth and skill Ain't too much that we won't do what Waylon won't Willie will Even though we've spent our lives charging up the wrong side of the hill Old age and treachery always overcomes youth and skill Some people say...

Blow on you restless wind Up to your old tricks again Bear down you Texas sun You make the desserts dry And the brush fires run Splintered wood, rusty chains This old front porch swing remains A pendulum of memories Goes back and forth on a summer breeze Sin...

I've spent the lifetime making up my mind to be More than the measure of what I thought others could see Good luck and fast bucks are too far and too few between Catalog buyers and old five and dimers like me. She stood beside me letting me know she would...

Was it really years ago It seems like only yesterday The last time that I saw You laugh at me and fly away. I remember all of the good times And the songs we used to sing Old friend we sure have missed you But you ain't missed a thing. Lord you shoul...

I grew up in Wyoming In and around Jackson's hole In the shadows of the Tetons Where summers are hot And winters unbearably cold But the Spring and the Fall Are always as good as it gets For over 70 years now I'd watch the sun rise and set I've been a cowboy...

[Chorus] Omaha you've been weighing heavy on my mind I guess i never really left at all I'm turning all those roads i've walked around the other way And coming back to you,Omaha [Verse 1] Omaha,Nebraska wasn't good enough for me I always thought i was the roa...

On the road again Just can't wait to get on the road again The life I love is making music with my friends And I cant wait to get on the road again On the road again Goin' places that I've never been Seein' things that I may never see again And I can't wait t...

It took a while for me to know What I was looking for And every heart I've ever known Has left me wanting more One good love Can turn it all around Take hold of a restless heart Lead it back to solid ground You can search the world for happiness And never ge...

I gotta quit this smokin' It's because of my chokin' I gotta quit this drinkin' It's been messin' up my thinkin' Baby, you're included in my plan You're one of my bad habits I'm gonna quit you if I can I gotta quit this cryin' 'Cause you won't quit your lyin...

Down the street the dogs are barkin' And the day is a-gettin' dark As the night comes in a-fallin' The dogs'll lose their bark An' the silent night will shatter From the sounds inside my minds For I'm one too many mornings And a thousand miles behind. From th...

everybody knows you've been stepping on my toes and I'm Getting pretty tired of it you keep a steppin' out of line and a messing with my mind if you had any sense you'd quit cause ever since you were a little bitty teeny girl you said I was the only man in...

It's midnight at a liquor store in Texas I's closin' time another day is done When a boy walks in the door and points a pistol Me can't find a job but Lord he's found a gun. He pulls it off with no trace of confrontation They let the ol' man run out in the st...

I sat at a bar having a beer Trying to hold down the stool When a stranger walked in stood there beside me And plopped down there like a fool. He started drinking then he started talking About things that were wrong in his life The more that I heard the more I...

To the people up in Texas it's the nearest thing to heaven here on earth The lifestyle up in Texas is just go on out and live for all it's worth Where the men are all men and the ladies there are born with ways to please And the people up in Texas think that t...

Some people are saying that time Will take care of people like me That I'm living too fast And they say I can't last much longer. But little they see That their thoughts of me is my saviour And little they know I might live forever. So pick up the te...

Down in the place where I call home I've been workin' my fingers to the bone Pickin' white gold, pickin' white gold All day long in Louisiana sun Pickin' and a pullin' white cotton by the tons Pickin' white gold, pickin' white gold I fill my sack and I put i...

As I wander on life's pathway know not what the future holds As I ponder hope grows fonder precious sacred seems unfold Precious memories how they linger how they ever flood my soul In the stillness of the midnight precious sacred scenes unfold Precious memor...

Pretend I never happened Erase me from your mind You will not want to remember Any love as cold as mine I'll be leaving in the morning For a place I hope I find All the places must be better Than all the ones I leave behind I don't suppose you'll be unhappy...

(Jim Hurt - Billy Nelson - Roy Clayborne) I've been on the road most all of my life Traveled from coast to coast In search of some pleasures and treasures and things Whatever pleased me the most. Like bandanas and blue jeans and old cowboy clothes That bring...

I feel tears wellin' up cold and deep inside Like my heart's sprung a big break And the stab of loneliness, sharp and painful That I may never shake. You might say I was taking it hard Oh, she wrote me off with a call But don't you wager that I'll hide the so...

Well, I've come here to tell you boys I'm ragged but I'm right I'm a tramp and a rounder I stay out late at night. I pour a high steak Three times a day for my board That's more than any loafer In this old town can afford. A big electric fan Keep me cool whi...

Oh rainy day woman I never seem to see your for the good times or the sunshine You have been a friend of mine, rainy day woman That woman of mine, she ain't happy 'Til she finds something wrong and someone to blame If it ain't one thing it's another one on th...

The little things that you say and do Make me want to be with you You rave on, it's a crazy feelin' I know, she's got me reelin' When you say I love you, rave on The way you dance and hold me tight The way you kiss when we say goodnight Rave on, it's a...

[Verse 1] Reno and Me hit the freeway,south out of town on the run Reno was driving he asked me to roll him one I turned on the radio, I found us some sweet Emmylou I sang the harmony,low down and out of key Reno just howled at the moon [Verse 2] Somewhere ou...

Somewhere in Vietnam a 19-year-old soldier walked out of a barroom And he said I must be seeing things that bourbon hit me like a baseball bat In Belfast Ireland a little lady dropped her shovel in her garden She raced across the yard and ask her neighbor Mrs...

This highway she's harder than nine kinds of hell Light there it scares as the rain When you're down to your last shop with nothing to sell And too far away from the train. It's been a good month of Sundays and a guitar to go Had a tall drink of yesterda...

You do the things that hurt me so right before my eyes Just because I love you so I overlook your lies Let you make a fool of me yes that's what I'll always be Cause I pretend not to see what's right before my eyes Everyone keeps telling me what's right before...

Almost out of adolescence and into a world we didn't know Not necessaryly love but in trouble with a fire down below Looking back for a feeling it's just something far away and long ago I can still recall the name but she's really someone I don't even know Bu...

I remember when you said with this ring I Thee wed Now you've gone betrayed my trust rings of gold have turned to rust Tears can't wash away the sin love that's dead can't live again Knowing there's no hope for us turns these rings of gold to rust Love before...

I was born and raised on the river It's the only life that I know People 'round here have put a name on me And I hear it wherever I go They call me river boy, river boy Good for nothin' river boy This old world don't hold a whole lot of joy When you're nothin...

By the banks of the river where the willows grow cold Wild birds warble the strange soundin' song By the banks of the river where the waters run cold Well that's where I first listened the lies that she told He lays there each night all alone and he weeps Not...

There's a road runs clear to the sky Calls to my spirit, calls to my heart She's been a harbor, a port in a storm She's got one more sundown and one more dawn Fiddles don't make violins Motel rooms don't make homes You can't turn water into wine You can't mak...

She was a flower for the takin', Her beauty cut just like a knife He was a banker from Macon, He swore he'd love her all a his life He bought her a mansion on the mountain, With a formal garden and a lot a land But paradise became her prison, that Georgia...

You've painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair Ruby, are you contemplating going out somewhere The shadows on the wall tell me the sun is going down Oh, Ruby don't take your love to town. It wasn't me that started that old crazy Asian war...

Sally used to carry my books to school Sally was a good ole girl Helped me with my homework 'cause I was a fool 'Cause Sally was a good ole girl. If you wanted just a kiss or a little bitty squeeze She was always willing to do her best to please Yeah, girls w...

His daddy was a honest man,a red dirt Georgia farmer His mama lived a short life having kids and bailing hay He had fifteen years of ache inside to wander He jumped a freight in Waycross and wound up in L.A. The cold nights had no pity on that Waycross Georgi...

This letter that I'm writing would probably be The hardest thing I'll ever do But you see there's something you should know I guess I should be the one to tell you. While you faithfully waited for me I met someone new and I fell Though you may not wanna hear...

Wish I was a millionaire I'd play rock music and grow long hair I tell you boys I'd drive a new Rolls Royce Pretty women hangin' on me I'd give 'em all the third degree Satin sheets to keep 'em off of the streets Hallelujah hear me talkin' to ya praise the Lor...

He offers you so many things that I can't give I know your young heart just can't turn him down And like you say you're free and it's your life to live See you around on your way down You're much too young to know the value of a love that's true I don't think...

Verse 1: Well you say i'm the greatest bound for glory But the word is out and i learned I got the latest side of the story You're pulling out before you get burned Verse 2: Your hands are squeezing me down to the bone I've never seen you breaking befo...

She called me “Baby, Baby” All night long. Used to hold and kiss me ‘Til the dawn. Then one day I awoke, And she was gone. There’s no more “Baby, Baby” All night long. She called me “Baby, Baby” All night long. Kissed my tears away When things went wrong O...

When loneliness is knocking at my mind happiness is something I can't find Pleasure seem forty miles behind she comes running If I stand in someone else's rain feelin' forty million miles of pain She know just what and who's to blame she comes running If my...

Well now I can see you're dancin' every dance with her And it seems to me you're dancin' much too close to her When you sat at our table you sat next to her But I know that it's true she loves me she don't love you Well let me tell you friend I'm wise to your...

She said if I ever deceived her She'd be gone before I could count ten Well, I guess that I didn't believe her 'Cause look at the trouble that I'm in. And now he's gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone Cryin' won't bring her back The more that I cry the faster t...

My friends never understood my rough and rowdy ways They think I'm the only fool my daddy ever raised But I'm gonna shine shine shine shine see me shine With a little luck and greenback dollar you're gonna see me shine. Here's to the ones who do believe and d...

You changed mylife you saved my soul You let your sweet love shine on me I found my strength when I lost control You let your sweet love shine on me Reflections of the pain and fear Are closer than they may appear Almost gone and almost here Hey let your swee...

Shooter you are a friend of mine I never know for sure what's on your mind Your imagination's working overtime but I don't mind Shooter you are a friend of mine You've got the whole world by the tail A little puppy on your trail You even have a friend no one...

I left the light in my window burning bright for you And the door to this heart of mine I left that open too We once had a love together I believe that it was true But now you search for somethin' better so I'm shutting out the light on you Yes I'm shutting ou...

Oh baby, whatcha gonna do Oh baby, whatcha gonna do I'm sick and tired of foolin' around with you Wake up in the mornin' fix you somethin' to eat, 'fore I go to work I even brush your teeth Get home in the evenin' and you're still in bed Got yourself a rag ti...

He stands in the doorway, his hands upon his hips She stands by the jukebox, a sweet smile on her lips He slowly walks up to her, she reaches out for him It's almost like some magnet is pulling both of them Then he says, and she says Silent partners,they don...

Travelin' down this lonesome railroad Silver Ribbons with no ends A million miles a cross, ties mark a million miles I've been I've picked peaches down in Georgia apples up in Maine Pulled cotton out in Texas ridin' on the train I was just a lad of seventeen m...

Widow Jones couldn't make it on her own Frank was electrified leaving six kids half grown In her misery she sent for me the singer of sad songs And I sympathized and eulogized Frank Jones And she cried singer of sad songs I need your services today Doctor of b...

In days gone by but not forgotten I plowed in the fields and I pulled in the cotton Things you'd never think I've done when you see me now I pick and sing and they think I'm a star but every time I look down at my old guitar I know I'm just six strings away fr...

Come here and look through the window over He open up the shatters tell me, watch you see Was that his knock that I heard at the door Or is it six white horses coming down the road? Come here and touch me and say that it's all right You know that to my eyes t...

All your ol' stations are being torn down, and the high flying trains no longer roar The floors are all sagging with boards, at a suffering from not being used anymore Things are all changing, the world's rearranging a time that will soon be no more Where has...

I got a slow rollin' low Ain't a mother would want me Done got me so down bent out of round Don't know my head from my toes Ain't a hand here to hold Ain't a shoulder to cry on Ain't a lesson to learn or a corner to turn Twixt the dyin' and me Lord I wante...

Tall, don't always mean bigger Short, don't ever mean small If you make up your mind you never can tell You could be the biggest and the bestest of all. 'Cause some things come in small packages Sometimes heroes do too If you have the courage and you have the...

You got a smokey on your front door, a smokey on your back door too Lord a mercy buddy, I wouldn't wanna be in your shoes I can hear you talkin', I can hear you singin' the blues You got a smokey on your front door, a smokey on your back door too. You got a w...

No all around all of my life You could have done better 'cause you've been a good wife You're so good woman,Lord you're just too good for me Verse 2: You're so good looking,Lord you could have done better than me You're so good looking, you know could have d...

City light are shining like diamonds Coming from the southwestern lows Big jet engines screaming like ten thousand horses Another town, another show. I don't talk about the women that I've known from time to time You know that I just can't be alone You know t...

Some other time, I'll forget you. And start my life anew. But not just now, I won't forget you, 'Cause I've spent too much time loving you. I know I could forget you if I wanted to. But there's still ten thousand dreams that I must dream of you. Some other t...

Disappointments weigh so heavy leave its wreckage all around Once a good man once respected sorrow breaks a good man down Had a good love had a good life now the sadness all around Dread the darkness hate the daylight sorrow breaks a good man down I remember...

There's a ramshackle shack in old Caroline it's callin' me back to the woman of mine Guess if I had the wings of a beautiful dove Don't you know I'd fly away to the woman I love When the whippoorwills called on the hills far away We're gonna sing a little son...

Can't go home if you're goin' by the mill 'Cause the bridge's washed out at the bottom of the hill Big Creek's up and Little Creek's level plow my corn with a double shovel Stay all night stay a little longer dance all night dance a little longer Pull off you...

Stop the world and let me off I'm tired of going round and round I've played the game of love and lost so stop the world and let me off My dreams are shattered don't you see now you no longer care for me I miss the wonder of your kiss how could you leave me he...

Storms never last do they, baby Bad times all pass with the winds Your hand in mine steals the thunder You make the sun want to shine Oh, I followed you down so many roads, baby I picked wild flowers and sung you soft sad songs And every road we took, God kno...

A tiger always walks at night And marks his prey while everything's still He waits until it's unaware And then he strikes and makes his kill. That's the way you've done me girl You never let me be Couldn't feel the way I felt So you'd tried to punish me. Bab...

Oh such a waste of love true love and devotion Oh such a waste of love on a heart so cold with no emotion I might as well just wrap it up and wash it down the drain 'Cause the little happiness I knew just wasn't worth the pain You build me up and for a little...

This place is too damn lonesome I think I'll change and go out for a while On second thought where could I go with a closet full of clothes that's out of style It's another night of TV or another night of nothin' on my hands I gotta change my way of thinkin' '...

Well I woke up Sunday morning With no way to hold my head That didn't hurt And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't Bad so I had one more for dessert Then I fumbled through my closet For my clothes And found my cleanest dirty shirt And I shaved my face And com...

I left the old farm down in Texas And bummed all around for a time Then one day I found myself staring At a sign that read Sunset and Vine The big cars and the beautiful women Put beautiful thoughts in my mind I decided to be a great actor On the corner of Su...

My long and lean and hungry looks really used to turn her on Till she found two hundred pounds or true love muscle and bone I made up my mind to keep what was mine he made up mind I was wrong To take my Ann took a hell of a man but it sure didn't take him too...

We're caught in a trap, I can't walk out Because I love you too much, baby Why can't you see what you're doing to me? Oh, when you don't believe a word I'm saying? We can't go on together With suspicious minds We cannot build our dreams On suspicious minds S...

Where it began I can't begin knowing but I know it's growing strong First was the spring and spring became the summer who'd believe you'd come along Hands touching hands reaching out touching me touching you Sweet Caroline good times never seemed so good I'm i...

She's the womb that you left and she's the pride that you kept She's the innocence that you left back in your youth She's the poems that you read she's the mouth that you feed And she's the holy and she's truth. Sweet dream woman of the night Come and love me...

She said sing a song sweet music man Cause I won't be there to hold your hand like I used to I'm through with you You're a hell of a singer and powerful man But you surround yourself with people who demand so little of you You touched my soul with your beautif...

All alone at the end of the evening And the bright lights have faded to blue I was thinkin' about a woman Who might have loved me and I never knew. You know I've always been a dreamer Spent my life running 'round And it's so hard to change Can't seem to settle...

Got me a habit that I surely gotta quit Ain't gotta have it just hooked a little bit Shouldn't come to see ya 'cause you're nearly never home Wouldn't call at all but you give good phone Talk good boogie but you won't get down Tell me that you love me but you...

Tennessee oh what I'd give to be back there once again with all the old friends Who were so kind to me oh Tennessee I was happy as could be Never got too much done but livin' sure was fun in Tennessee This big city just depresses me though everybody's as kind...

Sunday morning in the valley we would gather for the service Emily Jane would run to meet me she'd smile at papa kinda nervous All the people came from miles around I can still hear the sound As they sang thanks to the Lord for the sun up in the sky For the co...

Well you think that you can lie and tell me alibis And it's alright Keep the grapevine line working overtime On your late nights You think you can say some words, take away the hurt And I'll still be your number one But when it ain't working out we got a sayin...

I gave my heart, I gave my all You built me up then you let me fall You wore my ring upon your hand But then you changed your mind. But that's all right I looked around And found true love. You made me laugh, you made me cry I wished that day that I could di...

I come from the country Grew up over [Incomprehensible] There are places I ain't welcomed And I had to loot and cry I slipped in the back door Still I never got my share But the blues don't care My best friend had to tell me What I could never see What that...

I only meant to love you don't you know it babe Why couldn't you be contented with the love I gave I've given you my heart and now you want my mind Your love scares me to death girl it's the chokin' kind. You can kill a man with bullets poison or a knife But...

I go out with the crowd, I play the game Pretending out loud but it don't seem the same For the heart of the crowd is gone from sight And my part of the crowd is not with me tonight. I remember the times, each dance with you All those crazy things that we use...

His father was a Princeton lawyer A man of means His mother summa-cum-laude Former beauty queen With a house as big as a hotel On Spencer boulevard That's where he got his start Eighteen years of summer camp And private schools All american golden boy With a...

Just a kid with a song when he wandered from home In search of the phantom of fame She promised she'd wait but he got back too late Just a scene from the dark side of fame In the wrong frame of mind he took to the wine Holding pieces of love's broken chain I...

When I noticed her the first time I was outside running barefoot in the rain She lived in the house next door And her nose was pressed against the window pane When she looked at me She smiled and showed a place, where two teeth used to be And I heard her, ask...

Saw your picture in the paper and i see you married good And i know that he can give you all the things i never could But i know that he can't give you what you need most of all So the door is always open,and the lights on in the hall [Chorus] Yes the door is...

[Verse 1] Lord knows i am peaceful when i'm left alone I've always been an eagle,been awhile since i have flown My claws are sharp as ever,so is my eagle eye Somethings gonna go tonight,when the eagle flies [Verse 2] Lately i've heard rumors that the eagle ma...

People sit around and they talk and talk, How their dreams all ended too soon. Guess they never hung out under the stars, Howlin' at the moon. I guess we're as different and nine and eight, I see it in a different light. I don't think much about the good ol' d...

Each time you hurt me, you say you're sorry. I try to understand, and say: "OK." But there must be an end to understanding, And the end of mine can't be too far away. I try to understand that you're "only human". And "we all make mistakes" every day. Bu...

They said in her younger days Her beauty was enough to drive men wild But the hunger in her body then Was not the hunger of some lonely child. Like a butterfly in springtime Searching every field for loving's sweetest rose The embrace of many strangers Still...

I've taken chances on everything in my life Even against all the odds I've rolled the dice Count me in on any deal that comes around Right or wrong never slowed me down. I've always loved you silent but strong Deep down in your heart you've always known It's...

I'm not some long lost someone Just dropped in to say hello I'm the same old lover man Baby, lost so long ago Cause I was born to believe I never could deceive, believe me I hear no children's voices Have they gone back to school It's the same old lover man...

Like a muddy river running wild and deep You've got a flaming memory that keeps burning me Just when I think you love me, doubt creeps in I still feel the shadow of your distant friend It's a major heartache when you lose your trust When you love the feeling,...

I wish I had button eyes and a red felt nose A shaggy cotton skin and just one set of clothes Sittin' on a shelf in a local department store With no dreams to dream and nothin' to be sorry for [Chorus:] I wish I was a teddy bear Not livin' or lovin' nor goin'...

You ask me how much I need you Must I explain I need you oh my darling Like roses need rain You ask how long I'll love you I'll tell you true Until the Twelfth of Never I'll still be loving you Hold me close Never let me go Hold me close Melt my heart like Ap...

[Waylon Jennings] You wouldn't read my letter if I wrote you You asked me not to call you on the phone But there's something I'm wanting to tell you So I wrote it in the words of this song. I didn't know God made honky tonk angels I might have known you'd nev...

I'm not here to forget you I'm here to recall the things we used to say and do I don't wanna get over you I don't wanna get over you I haunt the same places we used to go Alone at a table for two I don't wanna get over you I don't wanna get over you...

I'm not here to forget you I'm here to recall the things we used to say and do I don't want to get over you I walk the same places we used to go Alone at a table for two I don't want to get over you They oughta give me the Wurlitzer prize For all the silver I...

Welcome to 2003 minus 25 Oh, say can you smell her for the smoke God's still up there laughin' so He's gotta be alive Who says He can't take a dirty joke Power isn't, power does and power slips away It's so easy to abuse Who'd've thought them Arabs would've b...

I remember the day that Clayton Delaney died They said for the last two weeks that he suffered and cried It made a big impression on me although I was a barefoot kid They said he got religion at the end and I'm glad that he did Clayton was the best guitar pic...

Down the dusty Dixie road my old Levi's draggin' tracks Nobody cares about where I'm going they all know I'm coming back Wish I had me a true fine woman let her rock me all night long Baby we could get it together like people do in them old love songs I can h...

Bet it ain't raining back home, Bet you sister's still on the phone, Bet momma's in the kitchen cooking fried chicken, Wishing that I hadn't done wrong. Momma, don't you worry about it none though, Everything's gonna be alright, momma, They're teaching us a...

I'll play the tambourine follow the sun I'll never let you down in these new changing times You're going places in these new changing times Making your mark in this world is a long straight line You need someone to go to go along with you To love you and help...

There are still places where people like me can hang out With nothing at all in this whole world to worry about They ain't tore 'em all down yet and said every man for himself Or polished them up until nothing worth keeping is left. They ain't got 'em all If...

I came down with broken heart, just to start to my summer. Boy when you lose the one you love, it's a stone cold bummer. I just called you up to tell you I don't know what to say. I wish you knew the way I felt. [Chorus] This is gettin' funny, but their ain't...

This time if you want me to come back, it's up to you But remember I won't allow the things you used to do You're gonna have to toe the mark and walk the line This time will be the last time This time if I should feel unwanted, I won't stay Each tomorrow will...

Girls have been a weakness all of my life But I made a big mistake and I took one for a wife I've thought that she was different, I could settle down But she won't and I didn't by now I'm leavin' town This time tomorrow I'll be gone This time tomorrow I'll be...

Gotta catch a new train, I gotta go This train is getting just a little too old Gotta find a new way, to live my life Any other way has got to be alright Shame on you girl, same ol' you Same ol' trouble you're always Puttin' me through Same ol' me girl, bod...

Three days that I dread to see arrive Three days that I hate to be alive Three days filled with tears and sorrow Yesterday, today, and tomorrow There are three days I know I will be blue Three days I'll dream of you And it does no good to wish these days to e...

Just like the sun over the mountain top you know I'll always come again You know I love to spend my morning time like sunlight dancing on your skin And I have never gone so long just for telling lies to you What you've seen is what I've been There is nothing t...

With iron in my brain I'd laid down to rest not caryin' if I live or die Woke up a freezin' with rain pourin' down so hard I can open my eyes I been chased from the yard with dogs at my heels searchin' for shelter at times But there's nothing so hard for a man...

Woman you get meaner every day and your naggin' is hard to stand So I'll pack my things and I'll be on my way cause it's time to bum again This house gets smaller with every day and the walls are closin' in I guess I've said all there is to say and it's time...

It seems I see you everywhere you and your new lover there Time will tell the story of your new love Do you think he'll ever be the man you've tried to make of me Time will tell the story of your new love The day when he's a used-to-be he'll be just as blue a...

It was winter time in Nashville down on Music City Row I was lookin' for a place to get myself out of the cold To warm the frozen feelin' that was eatin' at my soul And keep the chilly winds off my guitar My thirsty wanted whiskey and my hunger needed beans B...

Today I started loving you again I'm right back where I've really always been I got over you just long enough to let my heartaches mend And today I started loving you again What a fool I was to think I could get by with only these few million tears I cried I...

Her head rolls back and forth Against the billows of her long black shiny hair As she contemplates the ecstasy Of another love she wishes was there. If she could only realize That the love I have could beckon her command Instead of laughing endlessly And push...

Each night I leave the barroom when it's over not feeling any pain at closin' time But tonight your mem'ry found me much too sober I couldn't drink enough to get you off my mind Tonight the bottle let me down let your memory come around The one true friend tha...

I have battled with the demons for my soul Like a soldier unafraid, stood straight and tall With strong convictions fought for what I thought was right and wrong But I wonder when it stands in judgement hall Will it go down as one too close to call I have fac...

When I first saw New York city I was green down to the core You could see my red neck glowing For a mile or maybe more Between the hustlers and the hookers I must have made their day Cause they peeled me like an apple, Lawd And sent me on my way When you're p...

I know that somewhere there's someone You love more than me... Someone you love more than me. And I hate to say it But you have a right to be free I know that's the way it should be. But I'm too far gone Too far gone. I've loved you so much for so long And I'...

I was so ugly the doctor slapped my momma when i was born Then he took out his pocket knife and cut off my horns He said lady if you ain't already picked out a name Go ahead on and call him trouble man He's gonna be wild, I'm giving you warning He's gotta hav...

He's a sad song singer he plays a gut-stringer With vagabond fingers that follow his mind To far away places he reaches for traces And touches the faces he's long left behind He'll keep you from knowing where he's been or going You'll see the distance right t...

On a long and lonesome highway east of Omaha you can listen to the engine moanin' out its one note song or you can think of the woman, the girl you knew the night before your thoughts will soon be wondering the way they always do when your ridin' sixteen hour...

You load the horses I'll pack the rigger Let's tell 'em goodbye and walk out the door One drink and one kiss can lead to too many We ought to know cause we been there before Eight hours of ridin' will put us in Houston Two hours of sleep to make it or bust Eig...

Two streaks of steel stretchin' cross the land too far to reach for my baby's hand I stood and watched her disappear and in the distance I could hear whooe Tomorrow I'll see coming down the track That same old train that she ain't coming back For her sweet lov...

[Jessi] I swore the last time that you let me down that I wouldn't see you if you came around [Waylon] I can't tell my heart what's right or wrong And I've been so lonely since you've been gone [Together] You've got me under your spell again saying those thi...

My woman goes about her way hangin' on from day to day God knows she's tried To do her best for her and me knowin' that she'll always be unsatisfied. She tells me everything's alright but when she should be sleepin' nights I've heard her cry But she greeys me...

Got me a rocker without no arms Ol' wood stove to keep me warm My firewood out of the rain I sit and watch the seasons change There's a woman in Little Rock Got plenty of money down in her sock She come to see me time to time We sit on the porch and drink our...

Like a sail that's torn and can't ride the wind Here I stand looking both ways again I'm a dollar short on a three dollar night Turning left because I ain't got no right I keep thinking this time may be it But somehow all the pieces just won't fit But I'll al...

I hear the echo of your footsteps they're right in step with marching time Since you've walked out of my life and out of my world please walk on out of my mind I know you're hidin' there in the darkness and it's got me running scared and blind Since you've wa...

After carefully considerin' the whole situation I stand with my back to the wall Walkin' is better than runnin' away And crawlin' ain't no good at all. If guilty's the question, truth is the answer I've been lyin' to me all alone There ain't nothin' worth sav...

When we dance together my world's in disguise It's a fairyland tale that's come true When you look at me girl with those stars in your eyes I could waltz across Texas with you Waltz across Texas with you in my arms Waltz across Texas with you Like a storybook...

It's been a long time since I've had a good time And I think it's high time I did Could I have this dance it feels like romance And it's good to be feeling like this The lights are down low, the band's playin' slow To the beautiful Tennessee Waltz How many lo...

I've been thinking it over wondering what to do Up to now I've been leaving it up to you But you'll always be the way you've always been I ain't got the time to go through that again. I've been wasting time and I'm to blame Living with things I couldn't chang...

I'm just here to get my things and I'll be leaving And I've got somebody waitin' just outside So don't start to cry to me about your hurt and misery 'Cause the only thing that's hurtin' is your pride Wave goodbye to me and I'll be leaving walk me to the door...

Well, I woke up this mornin' it was drizzlin' rain Around the curve come a passenger train Heard somebody yodel and a hobo moan Jimmy he's dead, he's been a long time gone Been a long time gone, a long time gone If you wanna get to Heaven, gotta D I E You got...

I can hear the wind a blowing in my mind Just the way it used to sound Through the Georgia pines And you were there to answer when I called You and me we had it all Remember how I used to touch your hair? While reaching for the feeling That was always there...

Boy, this week sure had a lot of Mondays I ain't never seen it quite so hard Getting over a Sunday before I guess there's a simple solution Good times sometimes just end We made it as lovers That's as close as we've ever been We made it as lovers We just coul...

Funny, how you've changed, it makes me wonder have I ever really known you How could you abuse and use the kindeness and tenderness that I have shown you If I have known then I have shown the strength on which my love could make a stand But you've mistaken...

I could lay aside my better judgement I could turn my back on all the pain Make believe you mean it when you touch me And be fool enough to think you'd change I'm no fool and you're not changing You know I'm telling the heartbreaking truth You've gone wild an...

What makes me wanna roam When I got so much love at home What makes a man wander What makes a man wander The whistle of a train Does something to my brain What makes a man wander What makes a man wander I know I love you as much as I ever could Love anyone y...

Staring at the door Every night I'm thinking more and more About walking out that door. I know some day I will Although I'm standing still someday I will I know someday I will. As right as we were we are wrong Nothing's going to change what we've done The on...

I'm looking for Blue Eyes, has anyone seen him' Don't you tell me, he gave up on me. I'm looking for blue eyes, I've got to find him. Oh something tells me, he's looking for me There was a time when blue eyes said there was no other His one and only love, he...

I've been cheated, mistreated, broken man, defeated No one wanted or needed any part of me I've been bothered and shattered till my heart's torn and tattered Baby, are you sure you want what's left of me? I've been busted, disgusted, hurt by those I trusted T...

I might drive a truck, I might drive a train I might sail a boat or fly an airplane Might take a rocket ship to the moon I'm growin' pretty fast so it might be soon. When I get big, when I get big That's what I'm gonna do when I get big. Someday I'll leave m...

As we sat on the front porch Of that ole gray house where I was born and raised And stared out at the dusty fields Where daddy's always worked hard every day I think it kinda hurt him when I said daddy there's a lot that I don't know But don't you ever dream a...

Time keeps changing lanes and shifting gears Racin' down the road that disappears Where do we go from here? Sometimes, it's hard to live like I was Tryin' to survive these modern days The old fashioned way Time keeps changing lanes and shifting gears Racin'...

There's a photograph in a gold frame on the mantle I've never seen two people more in love What a stark contrast to the picture of us standing On the edge of giving in and giving up Something so real don't just disappear If it goes away it must go somewhere T...

If my years were less if my shoes were new I'd pack my things and I'd leave you Hitch myself to some westbound train you'd never see me here again If I could dream as I once could I'd be gone gone for good I don't want to live haven't another try in some old h...

You take the lady...I'll take the lesson I can't say that anyone's...Doin' me wrong Cause I allways knew....That the girl had a weakness For whistlers and jugglers....and singers of songs Now she was a child...Back when I first met her And the woman inside he...

Well in North Carolina way back in the hills Lived my old pappy and he had him a still He brewed white lightning 'til the sun went down, And then he'd fill him a jug mmm-hmm and pass it around Mighty mighty pleasin' you're pappy's home-squeezin' Bwsh, white l...

Tell me why baby why baby why baby why You make me cry baby cry baby cry baby cry You know that I'll love you til' the day that I die So tell me why baby why baby why baby why Well I got a crow I want to pick with you Just like last time when the feathers fle...

Why do I have to choose to see everybody lose To walk around and sing the blues well darling I refuse Love is hard to find love of any kind And a love like yours and mine creates it's own design So why do I have to choose see everybody lose To walk around and...

Straight out of nowhere And a little bit out of our minds We were courting disaster With one foot over the line It was one for the show And two for ol' shorty and me We were the wild ones We had this town up a tree [Chorus] We were the wild ones The ones the...

Through the chill of winter Running across the frozen lake Hunters are out on his trail All odds are against him With a family to provide for The one thing he must keep alive Will the wolf survive? Drifting by the roadside Climbs each storm and aging face Wan...

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...

Three fingers whiskey pleasures the drinkers And moving does more than the same thing for me Willy he tells me that doers and thinkers Say, Movin' is a closest thing to being free Willy rosins his riggins laid back his wages He's dead certain ridin' the big r...

Yes I guess I let you make a fool of me So I'll just go my foolish way and let you be But if you should find some human in my misery All I ask is please don't laugh woman don't you ever laugh at me All I expect is your respect for the pride inside of me All I...

Woman, let me sing you a song Woman, let me sing you a song That tells how you've done me wrong So it's your fault if it's long Woman, let me sing you a song Well, the neighbors all say I run around Yeah, the neighbors all say I run around But baby, if...

Women do know how, to carry on, When they don't need too much, crying time alone. They'll be right back putting, bread and bacon on, Women do know how, to carry on. When she can't keep love afloat, she will survive, In her soft and sexy ways, she's gonna shoc...

Every since the day I was big enough to put my pants on by myself You could find me somewhere with the radio turned on Then one night I gave my heart to an old beat-up guitar It never left my arms till I was almost grown I had to try my hand as a workin' man t...

Well the road can be a circus,a death defying act But the clowns don't come around no more since the monkeys off my back I stand here on the stage,as the house lights fade to black Your love helps me forget,i'm working without a net [Chorus] Up on the high wi...

Would you lay with me in a field of stone If my needs were strong would you lay with me Should my lips grow dry would you wet them dear In the midnight hour if my lips were dry Would you go away to another land walk a thousand miles through the burning sand W...

You call us heathens with zero respect for the law We are only songwriters just writing our songs and that's all We write what we live and we live what we write is that wrong If you think it is Mr. Music Executive Why don't you write your own songs [Chorus] A...

It was a picture perfect wedding We had the whole world at our feet Everyone thought we were heading Down a lovers easy street We'd have a house out in the country A picket fence, the whole nine yards They said our love would last forever It was written in th...

If my years were less if my shoes were new I'd pack my things and I'd leave you Hitch myself to some westbound train you'd never see me here again If I could dream as I once could I'd be gone gone for good I don't want to live haven't another try in some old h...

I've been telling you there's someone else, Virginia. Your not listening and this time I think you should. But, you've never cared for me, have you Virginia? So you just can't see how anybody could. [Chorus:] Yes, Virginia. There is another woman. And she lov...

Miracles appear In the strangest of places Fancy meeting you here The last time I saw you Was just out of Houston Sit down let me buy you a beer Your presence is welcome With me and my friend here This is a hangout of mine We come here quite often And l...

Long ago and far away In my ol' common labor shoes I turned the world all which a way Just because you asked me to. Like unto no other Feel Simple love is simple true There's no end to what I'd do Just because you asked me to. Let the world call me...

I've walked through many towns with fortunes lost and found Seen the beauty of this land made by nature and by men But when I leave I don't look back for I've only left my tracks I've crossed the burning bridges and walked through miles of sand Seen the lawles...

Well, you can have her, I don't want her She didn't love me anyway She only wanted someone to play with But all I wanted was love to stay The girl I love, up and left me She ran away with my best friend Comes home at night for just one hour When daylight come...

You're the one who took the time Looked for a reason to believe Five hundred pounds of Which shines on the better side of me More than anyone You're a part of all I say and do When it's all said and done When they remember me, they'll think of you Yo...

I blew in from Texas And you don't know who I am Most of you could care less And the rest don't give a damn But you might take special notice When you take a look at me I'm everything you've ever been And ever want to be My game is the winner take all I live o...

I work so hard to win myself a place in life And leave behind the slums and poverty Now I have wealth, a fancy home, a pretty wife She loves the ground I walk on but she don't love me You like the places that I take you, don't you girl? At last you were where...

We started with nothing but each other and reached for the stars From a one room apartment with a dream and a pawnshop guitar God gave the talent but you found the will to survive In this city of songs where dreamers are eaten alive. I made the music but you...

There'll come a time girl, you'll look for me In each horizon, in each face you see You'll look for love like love used to be There'll come a time girl, you'll look for me Look all around you if you have the time Look at me once more if you can You once said...

You have her now she's your life You're saying how she'll be your wife And I wish I could be happy for you But you see my friend, I've been there too That's one more thing that'll bother you When she treats you like she's treated me, you'll think of me When t...

Pretty soon this old town I'll be leaving and I'm going just as far as I can go 'Cause ever since you've put me down I can't stand to stay around This old town and all the friends we used to know And when that old north wind comes a howlin' and your cold arms...

Here I stand head in hand Turning my face to the wall If she’s gone I can’t go on With no love at all Everywhere people stare Each and every day I can see them laugh at me I can hear them say You’ve got to hide your love away You’ve got to hide your love awa...

That Jimmy Brown died at just 25 And they lowered him under the ground Right at his head was a mark that had read I leave the world young widow Brown He left her for me now it's plain to see Just why old Jim ain't around I know that I’ve tried but the man ain...

May the fruit of my toil be yours love may the fruit from my soil be yours love And from this moment on may a love true and strong And lives on and on be yours love May the sons that I raise be yours love may the comforts I praise be yours love If I ever get...