I've been throwin' horseshoes over my left shoulder
I've spent most all my life searching for that four leaf
clover
Yet you run with me chasing my rainbows honey I love you
too that's the way love goes
That's the way love goes babe that's the music God made
For all the world to sing it never gets old it grows
Losing makes me sorry you say honey now don't you worry
Honey I love you too that's the way love goes
[ piano ]
Once I thought I loved just you and I thought you loved
me too
But just look what thoughts will do for today you say
we're through
Now another wears the crown and you think that you have
found
Just what makes your world go round watch those thoughts
they'll get you down
[ steel ]
If within your future years your new love should bring
you tears
Then you'll think of me I'm sure but those thoughts won't
help you dear
Thought I'd build a home for two just a home for me and
Thought we'd have some kiddies too but just look what
thoughts will do
[ piano ]
Now I know just how you feel that your love was never
real
Guess to you I don't appeal so we'll just forget the deal
So goodbye and here's to you and I'm happy through and
through
Yes you thought that I'd be blue but just look what
Please release me let me go I don't love you anymore
To live together is a sin release and let me love again
Oh I have found a new love dear and I will always want
her near
Her lips are warm while yours are cold release me please
darling let me go
[ fiddle - steel ]
I once loved your lovely face but now someone will take
your place
Can't you see that you can't win release me and let me
love again
Please release me let me go I don't love you anymore
I can's stand to see a good man go to waste
One who never combs his hair or shaves his face
A man who leans on wine over love that's told a lie
It tears me up to see a grown man cry
I never go around mirrors I can't stand to see me without
you by my side
I never go around mirrors cause I've got a heartache to
hide
[ fiddle ]
I never go around mirrors...
Last night my best friend drove me home
Cause he knows I drink too much since you been gone
He knows I'll mhmm and die I can't get over you to save
my life
Suzy and Mary Lord how they tried to cheer me
And honey said honey please don't you cry
I said mhmm let me die I can't get over you to save my
life
[ steel ]
Tonight if some old buddy don't come by to drive me home
and talk to me a while
I might mhmm and die I can't get over you to save my life
Suzy and Mary...
Her hands are burned from the torch that she carries
Her closets are full of old dreams she can't wear
I sit beside her but it's you on her mind it's a party
you're giving but I buy the wine
She'll dance with me but it's you that she's holding
And she does her best to hide it from me
But I've always known she can leave me behind
She brings the mem'ries and buy the wine
I buy the wine that makes her unwind and makes her forget
about you
Then in the darkness with our bodies entwined
She cries out a name but Lord it's not mine
Ten years ago on a cold dark night,
someone was killed 'neath the town hall lights.
There were few at the scene, but they all agreed,
that the slayer who ran looked a lot like me.
Chorus ~ She walks these hills, in a long black veil.
She visits my grave, when the night winds wail.
Nobody knows, nobody sees, nobody knows, but me
The Judge said son, what is your alibi,
if you were somewhere else, then you won't have to die.
I spoke not a word, though it meant my life,
for i'd been in the arms of my best friends wife.
Chorus*
Now the scaffold is high, and eternity's near.
She stood in the crowd, and shed not a tear.
But some times at night, when the cold wind moans
In a long black veil, she cries over my bones
Chorus ~ She walks these hills, in a long black veil.
When the cold winds blow, and the night winds wail.
No body knows, no body sees.
WATERMELON TIME IN GEORGIA
(A) Thank you, Detroit, you treated me good
But I?ve been here longer (A7) than I should
I en-(D)-joyed the money, but I miss my honey (A) so
One (E) thing on my mind, it?s (E7) watermelon time in
(A) Georgia
(A) Well it makes a country boy get down in the mouth
When his body?s up north but his (A7) hearts down south
I (D) said I?d be back; I?d better make tracks to-(A)-
Lawdy (E) I gotta go, it?s (E7) watermelon time in (A)
Georgia
(A) Daddy?s sitting in the sun, keeps the fish from
having fun
My old coon dog is a (A7) wantin? to run
And (D) I can?t reach, my little Georgia peach too (A)
soon
One (E) things on my mind, it?s (E7) watermelon time in
(A) Georgia
(A) So long Detroit, so long friends
If you?re ever down in Macon, won?t you (A7) please
stop in?
And (D) meet the little girl, that?s always been my
whole (A) world
Well, I?m (E) leaving today, it?s (E7) watermelon time
in (A) Georgia
(A) Yes, I?m (E) leaving today cause it?s (E7)
C FWell I know that she loves you but she once love me
tooG7 CSo take a fools advice and treat her right FYou're
a fool if you step out she'll leave when she finds outG7
CSo take a fools advice and treat her right F CIf you
leave her all alone you'll come in and find her goneD7
G7And gone are the dreams of holding her so tight C
FBecause she loved me so I didn't think she'd goG7 CBut
take a fools advice and treat her right FWell there's no
chance for me I trifled don't you seeG7 CSo take a fools
advice and treat her right FNow here's someone who knows
who's broken heart still showsG7 CSo take a fools advice
Dreaming of you and your eyes of blue I've loved you
forever it seems
I've longed for you dear wanted you near you are the girl
of my dreams
Although I have met you just now I'll tell you of my love
somehow
If I could but win your heart little girl then I would
have treasures untold
The kisses you gave me in life's sweetest dreams are even
more precious than gold
I love your sweet face and your dear smiling eyes how
often this story's been told
If I could but win your heart little girl then I would
have treasures untold
[ piano - dobro ]
I had a dream last night I thought my good gal had gone
Well I woke up this morning she really had done me wrong
I know it's not fair but my good gal has done caught
there
I'm goin' away leavin' today I'm gonna bring my baby back
If that eight wheel driver don't jump the railroad track
I take her from that man gonna bring her home if I can
[ dobro ]
My gal's been triflin' round about a week I know
Several of my friends just told me so and so
She's findin' new man and now I can't understand
So I'm goin' away...
[ piano ]
Well it's true my baby's gone I know it won't be long
We'll both be on that train my baby's coming home again
She's been triflin' round but now she has turned him down
(I'll keep looking through the eyes of a fool.)
If I see someone hold her tight that's all right they're
just dancing
If they're together in the moonlight they're just talking
not romancing
If I see her out with someone it's just some old friend
from school
That's how it looks through the eyes of a fool.
If her phone rings and she whispers I can talk now I
don't care
A private matter and she'd better not discuss it with me
there
If I see her smile at someone that's not breaking any
rule
That's how it looks through the eyes of a fool.
They say that seeing is believeing believe me it's not
true
You can teach your eyes to only see the things you're
wantin' to
So I'd rather keep pretending like a little child in
school
And now keep looking through the eyes of a fool.
The waltz of the Angels I hear each night.
I hold you tightly in these arms of mine.
It's surely from heaven, this music I hear.
When your lips say I love you
In waltz time my dear.
Chorus
There must be a higher world, much higher than ours.
A writer of love songs way up in the sky.
The maker of roses, of love sweet and true.
And the waltz of the Angels
the moonlight and you.
Instrumental Break
There must be a higher world, much higher than ours.
A writer of love songs way up in the sky
The maker of roses, of love sweet and true
And the waltz of the Angels
I'm Lookin' Up From Somewhere Below
The Atmosphere Is Warm And They've Got Plenty Of Coal
Maybe Someone Above Can Hear My Story
How A Fool Lost His Soul For A Moment Of Glory
Chorus
And That's All, That's All, That's All
THAT'S ALL THAT I CAN REMEMBER
Now Bill Was My Friend, Throughout My Short-Lived Life
'Til I Caught Him Out With Mary, My Wife
Then The Wheels In My Head Started Turnin'
A Death Plan I Made Up For Both Of Those Concernin'
REPEAT CHORUS
They Took Me To Prison And They Locked Me In A Cell
They Gave Me My Last Big Meal Then Strapped Me To A
Chair
Then My Life Before My Eyes Came Returnin'
Then They Turned On The Juice, And I Felt Somethin' A
Burnin'
REPEAT CHORUS TWICE.
SPECIAL NOTE... Alternate First Verse exists... it was
only ever used in Burl Ives' rendition of the song...
Neither Lefty Frizzell nor Cowboy Copas used it in
their renditions. Frankly, I like the first verse in
the Frizzell and Copas versions better... however I
have printed the alternate first verse below:
Come Listen While I Tell You 'Bout A Man That's Gonna
Be Patient With Me Won't You Please, If I Should Start
To Cry
Maybe One Of You Can Understand My Story
Signed sealed and delivered
pack that's containing my heart
To open remove the wrapper
But please don't tear it apart.
You tore up this heart when you left me
You left me alone and so blue
I'm sending this special delivery
Please handle with care it's for you.
--- Instrumental ---
It's all that I have to offer
But darling you know that it's true
Signed sealed and delivered
The postman will bring it to you.
I thought perhaps you would keep it
Just for a while don't you see
Oh darling, please keep it forever
Without you it's no good to me.
Signed sealed and delievered
A pack that's containing my heart
I send it to you as a token
She said if I ever deceived her she'd be gone before I
could count ten
I guess that I didn't believe her cause look at the
trouble I'm in
She's gone gone gone gone gone gone crying won't bring
her back
The more that I cry the faster than train flies further
on down the track
[ ac.guitar ]
I've lost every right to be happy but I lost the heaven
I'd found
She warned me she'd leave and she left me before my first
tear hit the ground
She's gone gone gone...
[ ac.guitar ]
If I only knew where to find her I'd crawl there on my
hands and knees
Each tick of the clock's a reminder she's one second
further from me
I like the way that she unlocks my door
To the places that you've never hungered for
You loved me, girl, but not enough to stay
She found the key that you threw away
She found the key that only fits one door
To the room that I wore out walking the floor
You'd be locked out, girl, if you came around today
She found the key that you threw away
She found the key that only fits one door
To the room that I wore out walking the floor
You'd be locked out, girl, if you came around today
She found the key that you threw away
I was born in Saginaw, Michigan
I grew up in a house on Saginaw Bay
My dad was a poor, hard-working Saginaw fisherman
Too many times he came home with too little pay
I loved a girl in Saginaw, Michigan
The daughter of a wealthy, wealthy man
But he called me that son of a Saginaw fisherman
And not good enough to claim his daughter's hand
Now I'm up here in Alaska looking around for gold
Like a crazy fool I'm digging in this frozen ground so cold
But with each new day I pray I'll strike it rich and then
I'll go back home and claim my love in Saginaw, Michigan
I wrote my love in Saginaw, Michigan
I said honey I'm coming home please wait for me
And you can tell your dad I'm coming back a richer man
I hit the biggest strike in Klondike history
Her dad met me in Saginaw, Michigan
He gave me a great big party with champagne
Then he said son you wise young ambitious man
Will you sell your father-in-law your Klondike claim
Now he's up there in Alaska diggin' in the cold, cold ground
The greedy fool is looking for the gold I never found
It serves him right and no one here is missing him
Least of all the newlyweds of Saginaw, Michigan
We're the happiest man and wife in Saginaw, Michigan
Now, when the big bad wolf got in grandma's house
And Little Red Riding Hood was scared as a mouse
And, just like her, I'm scared through and through
That some two-legged wolf would run away with you
So, run 'em off
No use to talk all day
Run 'em off
They're tryin' to get you to play
Run 'em off
Make 'em let us be
If you don't run 'em off I'll swear you're cheatin' on
Now there's an iceman, milkman, and folks out of town
They don't come to visit, they just hang around
They act just as friendly as can be
But I don't think they care a thing about me
So run 'em off
Don't talk too long
Run 'em off
So we can be alone
Run 'em off
And make 'em let us be
If you don't run 'em off I'll swear you're cheatin' on
No matter where you are or what you do
Folks all a-whistle and howl at you
When they get too close then I want to say, shoo
'Cause it looks like they want to take a bite of you
So run 'em off
Don't talk too much
Run 'em off
You're gonna get in dutch
Run 'em off
And make 'em let us be
If you don't run 'em off I'll swear you're cheatin' on
Now once I ended this song but I'll write some more
'Cause there's a half a dozen wolfs comin' up to my
door
I can tell by lookin', 'cause it's plain to see
That they're not here to make eyes at me
Run 'em off (run 'em off)
Don't want them hangin' around
Run 'em off (run 'em off)
You'll be the talk of the town
Run 'em off (run 'em off)
And make 'em let us be
If you don't run 'em off I'll swear you're cheatin' on
She's a railroad lady just a little bit shady spending
her days on a train
She's the semi good looker but the fast rails they took
Now she's trying just trying to get home again
South station in Boston to the stockyards of Austin
From the Florida sunshine to the New Orleans rain
Now that the rail packs have taken the best tracks
She's trying just trying to get back home again
She's a railroad lady just a little bit shady spending
her days on a train
Once a pull man car driver not a breakment won't have her
She's trying just trying to get back home again
Once a high-balling loner thought he could own her
He bought her a fur coat and a big diamond ring
But she hug in for cold cash left down on the Wabash
Never thinking never thinking of home way back then
But the rails are now rusty the dining car's dusty
The gold faded watches have taken their gold
The railroads're dying and the lady is crying
On a bus to Kentucky and home that's her goal
She's a railroad lady...
For years and years I've rambled I drank my wine and
gambled
But one day I thought I would settle down
I have met a perfect lady she said she'd be my baby
We built a cottage in the old hometown
But somehow I can't forget my good old rambling ways
The railroad trains are calling me away
I may be tough I may be wild I may be rough and it's jut
my style
I can't give up my good old rough and rowdy ways
[ dobro ]
I'm thinking of you tonight old pal and wishing that you
was here
I'm dreaming of the time and the days gone by when you
filled my heart with cheer
I remember the nights when all alone we sang sweet dotted
line
No other face can take your place in my heart old pal of
mine
The old pals are always the best you see new friends you
could find every day
But they can't fill the places or ever be like the old
pals of yesterday
[ fiddle ]
I'm wondering just where you are tonight and if you ever
think of me
It would make my weary heart so light sweetheart your
face again to see
But in my checked life I find nothing comes right it
seems
Still you'll always be a pal of mine though it may be
only in dreams
Yeah, my bucket's got a hole in it
Yeah, my bucket's got a hole in it
Yeah, my bucket's got a hole in it
I can't find no work.
Well, I'm standing on the corner
With my bucket in my hand
I'm waitin' for a woman
That ain't got no man.
'Cause my bucket's got a hole in it
Yeah, my bucket's got a hole in it
Yeah, my bucket's got a hole in it
I can't find me no job.
Well, I went upon the mountain
I looked down in the sea
I seen the crabs and the fishes
Doin' the bebop bee.
'Cause my bucket's got a big hole in it
Yeah, my bucket's got a hole in it
Yeah, my bucket's got a hole in it
I can't find no work.
Well. it ain't no use for me
Workin' so hard
When I got a woman
In the boss man's yard.
'Cause my bucket's got a hole in it
Yeah, my bucket's got a hole in it
Yeah, my bucket's got a hole in it
I'd walk for miles cry or smile for my mama and daddy
I love them I want them to know
Now I feel my love is real for my mama and daddy
I want them to know I love them so
In my heart joy tear starts cause I'm happy
And I pray every day for mom and pappy and each night
I'd walk for miles cry or smile for my mama and daddy
I want them to know I love them so
[ fiddle - guitar - piano ]
I'd fight in wars do all the chores for my mama and daddy
I want them to live on till they're called
I'd work and slave and never rave to my mama and daddy
Because I know I owe them my all
In my heart joy tear starts...
My baby I know that you want me each lonely night and day
Your deep blue eyes how they haunt me though you're far
away
Oh why did she take you away from arms and leave nothing
to cherrish there
She's left me so blue but when she took you too it seems
more than l could bear
My baby I want you tonight dear after my work is through
To rock you to sleep in my arms dear and sing lullabys to
[ fiddle ]
A dream of you baby caresses dimples and golden hair
And reach out to clasp you in my arms to find only
emptiness there
Your future has been the chief thing in my life you'll
never know how it means
My plans and my schemes are all blasted it seems for you
are my only embrace
My baby I want you tonight dear after my work is through
Just to rock you to sleep in my arms dear and sing
I can't get no money for my pockets I can't get into the
swing of things
But someone keeps my picture in her locket
And she patches up the hole in my dreams
Lucky arms I got the world in my arms I ain't got no
money but I got honey
Keep all your cash and spend it I'll still be intendent
Cause I've got the world in my arms
[ piano - steel ]
Hey mister rainy skies dry your eyes so you can see my
special girl
My arms are full of country country sunshine
And we're hurrying to the top of the world
I love you, I'll prove it in days to come
I swear it's true,
Darlin', you're the only one
I think of you, of the past and all our fun
I love you, I'll prove it in days to come
You're my darling, you've been true
I should have been good to you
You're the one that's in my heart
While we're apart
I'll be true,
I'll prove it to you someday
My love is for you,
In my heart you'll always stay
I've been so blue and lonesome all these days
I love you, I'll prove it a thousand ways
I'll be nice and sweet to you
And no more will you be blue
I'll prove I love you everyday
All kinds of ways
Darlin' please wait,
Please wait until I'm free
There'll be a change,
A great change made in me
I'll be true, there'll be no more blue days
James River is long and it's narrow
It's rocky and wide and deep
The women are dark eyed beauties
And the men don't ever sleep.
A dark eyed bundle of a woman
Stands waving on the bank I see
The dangers are plenty but the pleasures are many
I know James River man will ever stop me.
So when the sun goes down and I sneak around
Trouble is everywhere
My boat head the bank so they can see
No James River man will ever stop me.
--- Instrumental ---
The holes in my boat are many
Hot licks flyin' again
The James River boys're jealous
They all hate the mountain man.
There's a sweet bundle of a woman
Stands waving on the bank I see
The dangers are plenty but the pleasures are many
I know James River man will ever stop me.
I know James River man will ever stop me
I know James River man will ever stop me
If you've got the money I've got the time we'll go honky
tonkin' and we'll have a time
We'll make all the night spots dance drink beer and wine
If you've got the money honey I've got the time
[ steel ]
There ain't no use to tarry so let's start out tonight
We'll spread joy oh boy oh boy and we'll spread it right
We'll have more fun baby all way down the line
If you've got the money honey I've got the time
[ piano ]
If you've got the money I've got the time we'll go honky
tonkin' and we'll have a time
Bring along your Cadillac leave my old wreck behind
If you've got the money honey I've got the time
[ fiddle ]
Yes we'll go honky tonkin' make every club in town
We'll go to the park where it's dark we won't fool around
But if you run short of money I'll run short of time
Cause you with no more money honey I've no more time
[ guitar ]
If you've got the money I've got the time we'll go honky
tonkin' and we'll have a time
We'll make all the night spots dance drink beer and wine
It may not make me tremble the soft touch of her hand
But she won't break my heart the way you do
So I'm gonna try to give her the best love that I can
If she just helps me get over you
If she just picks me up when I get down
If she's there when the mem'ries walk around
Maybe someday I'll love her as much as I've loved you
If she just helps me get over you
[ fiddle ]
I don't suppose that loving will ever be the same
But she wants me the way I wanted you
So I'm gonna try to give her the best love that I can
If she just helps me get over you
If she just picks me up...
If I had half the sense a fool was born with I wouldn't
let my pride keep hangin' on
To put up with the things you come up with I'd pick
what's left of me and move along
Knowing just how much you liked to hurt me don't mean
I've got to stand it every day
If I had half the sense a fool was born with I'd pack my
bags and I'd be on my way
But I guess I'm twice as dumb as a biggest fool every
morn
Cause even a fool leaves home when he knows the love is
gone
If I had half the sense a fool was born with I'd leave my
pride around
And cover me some ground and find myself to cry in
another town
[ guitar + steel ]
I don't want to talk it over one more time
No there's not much use in talkin?. If you?ve made up
your mind
And darlin I don't need to tell you why
You know that I?m not that good at goodbye
Please don't tell me you're leavin if you go
Just let me turn my head while you walk out the door
'Cause if I see you leavin? I will die
You know that I'm not that good at goodbye
Lord goodbyes just make it harder anyhow
So if you really feel like leavin? do it now
And let me keep a little of my pride
You know that I'm not that good at goodbye
I don't want to know you're leavin? when you go
'Cause if we reach the part where you're standin? at the
door
Well I know I'd just break down again and cry
I'M AN OLD, OLD MAN (Tryin' To Live While I Can)
As recorded by: Merle Haggard
Writer: Lefty Frizzell
[C] Said an old man to a good-lookin' girl
Well, I've been around this big, wide [G] world
That [F] home on the hill, well, honey that's mine
I've [C] got the money if [G] you've got the [C] time.
CHORUS
Well, I'm not too old to cut the mustard anymore
I can stlll get around like I did before
So come along with me my sweet, sweet hon
I'm an old, man lookin' for fun.
What I can do now, most young men can't
There's not a town this old boy can't paint
I can make all the night clubs any old time
I may be a little old but I'm doin' all right.
CHORUS
Well, I'm not too old to cut the mustard anymore
I can stlll get around like I did before
So come along with me, my sweet, sweet hon
I'm an old, old man lookin' for fun.
Don't take me wrong I just want have fun
Have someone along to help me spend my mon
'Cause you don't live but once, so please understand
That I'm an old, old man tryin' to live while I can.
SOURCE:
Merle Haggard/The Way It Was In '51
1978 Capitol Records R150047
NOTE.
I Want 2 B Wid u Always
I lose my blues, hunny, wen Im with u
Noone else can do wot u do, ur in my heart 2 stay
when Im gone, and Im all alone
I'll b singing this song for u, I want to b with u always
I'd b happy, deariest, if u could only b here
And always be nearer, forever and a day
Then we'd travel far, we'd be some big, shinin' star
Just you and my guitar, and stay there, sweetheart, for always
i just wona love u baby
u mean so much 2 me, u dont no how i feel,
im krazy in my lil world
I hope you feel the same, you really want my name
Well, you'll be the one who's to blame, if it works out wrong that day
'cause my love is true, my love is only for you
When my gal and I go on a date
We always come in kinda late
When I say goodnight at her front door
I always beg for one kiss more
Give me more, more, more of your kisses
I want more, more, more tender kisses
And when I finally go
You can hear the rooster crow
Oh please give me one more tender kiss
Now I'll admit I lose some sleep
By staying out so late
But when I kiss my gal goodnight
The sleep will have to wait
Give me more, more, more of your kisses
I want more, more, more tender kisses
The neighbors all raise Cain
And I know that it's a shame
But I've got to have another tender kiss
Now all the neighbors in her block
Have offered things, you see
They'll even pay the wedding bills
To just get rid of me
Yelling more, more, more of your kisses
I cry for more, more, more tender kisses
And when I leave her door
You can hear me beg for more
Forever and always my love will be true
I'd wait for a lifetime if you ask me to
You make me so happy, then leave me so blue
But I'd wait forever and always for you
Each night I pray that God above will let my dreams come true
To hear my prayer and make you care, my life I'd offer you
For riches won't buy you a heart true as gold
Forever and always to have and to hold
Each night I pray that God above will let my dreams come true
To hear my prayer and make you care my life I'd offer you
For riches won't buy you a heart true as gold
Please don't stay away so long darling I love you dear
with all my soul
And sweetheart there can never be no parting
If you won't stay away till love grows cold
We'll share all kinds of weather the rain the sun the
cold
If we can always be together our love just can't grow old
So please don't stay away so long darling don't stay away
till love grows cold
[ piano - fiddle - guitar ]
Won't you tell telephone me that she can go I set her
free
For I don't want to say goodbye and let her see me cry
Tell to her just any old thing say I went somewhere the
same
For I just can't look her in the eyes and let her see me
I don't want to see or talk to anyone I know until she's
gone until she goes
So you see the reason why I want you to tell a lie
And just for me say goodbye and don't let her see me cry
[ ac.guitar ]
[D] I guess I'll take a walk tonight, I [G] know that I
can't sleep
And [A] I don't go to bed at all, I just lay there and
[D] weep
Instead I'll make our favorite spot, that's [G] what I
think I'll do
I've [A] got those smokin' cigarettes and drinkin'
coffee [D] blues
[G] Smokin' cigarettes and drinkin [D] coffee all night
long
[G] Wonderin' how a love so right could [D] suddenly go
[A] wrong
I'd [D] take the next bus out of town, but I [G] gotta
be near you
I've [A] got those smokin' cigarettes and drinkin'
coffee [D] blues
[D] [G] [A] [D]
[D] Sittin' at the table where I [G] call baby's name
[A] Wonderin' where our love went wrong, wonderin'
who's to [D] blame
Listenin' while the jukebox plays the [G] songs that
make me blue
[A] Another cup of coffee and a cigarette or [D] two
[G] Smokin' cigarettes and drinkin' [D] coffee all
night long
[G] Wonderin' how a love so right could [D] suddenly go
[A] wrong
There's a [D] lot of other people know the [G] misery I
go through
I [A] got those smokin' cigarettes and drinkin' coffee
Portland Maine is just the same as sunny Tennessee
Portland Maine is just the same as sunny Tennessee
Any old place I hang my hat is home sweet home to me
I went to the depot and looked up on the board
I went to the depot and looked up on the board
It says it's good times here but it's better on down the
road
[ fiddle ]
I'll eat my breakfast here get my dinner in New Orleans
I'll eat my breakfast here get my dinner in New Orleans
I'm gonna get me a mama Lord I ain't never seen
Where was you mama when the train left the shed
Where was you mama when the train left the shed
Always late with your kisses.
Won't you come to my arms
Sweet darling and stay
Always late with your kisses
Why, oh why, do you want to do me this way?
How long do you think I can wait
When you know you're always late
Always late with your kisses
Why, oh why, do you want to do me this way?
--- Instrumental ---
Always late with your kisses
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