Someone's gonna get hurt before we're through
Someone's gonna pay for all the things you do
How many will it take how many hearts have got to break
Just to satisfy you to satisfy you
Another love another fool to play your little game
Another love another fool they're all the same
Someone's a gonna get hurt before we're through
And don't be surprised that someone is you babe
How many will it take...
[ guitar ]
Another love another fool...
You oughts to see Mr Jones when he rattles the bones
Old Colonel Brown jumpin' 'round like some kinda clown
Ol' aged mama she done past eighty-three shoutin' out
I'm full o'pep
Watch your step and help yourself
Well one legged Joe jumpin' round on his ol' toe
Threw away his crutch and hollered hey here we go
Well it's hail hail the gang's all here for the Alabama Jubilee
Well, I've got a long black six passenger limousine
A palace in Dallas, a club in New Orleans
Diamonds on my fingers, silk, imported clothes
And I can tell a fast train by the way she blows
Don't give me no plastic saddle
Just let me feel that leather when I ride
Don't give me no paint and powder, woman
This boy likes to feel the hide
False eyelashes and a false foundation
May build your pride
But don't give me no plastic saddle, gal
Let me feel that leather when I ride
I'm the cream of societies, I'm a man about town
Never looked long for nothin' that I ain't found
I ain't always right but I ain't never wrong
I know the words to the tune before you sang your song
Don't give me no plastic saddle
Just let me feel that leather when I ride
Don't give me no paint and powder, woman
This boy likes to feel the hide
Don't give me no plastic saddle
Just let me feel that leather when I ride
Don't give me no paint and powder, woman
You've been cryin' again you've been cryin' again
That old flame hasn't died it's still signed where it's always been
Will there always be this old memory to keep haunting me
For I see you've been cryin' again
Won't you ever forget won't you ever set his mem'ry free and fall in love with me
Yesterday's gone but you keep hanging on yes it seems he's all that's in your dreams
You've been cryin' again cryin' again
Well yesterday haunt your life this way well it never end
Did you love him so that you just can't let go
Well it must be so for I know you've been cryin' again
You've been cryin' again cryin' again
I know that it would make you cry to find that I had gone didn't even say foodbye
You'll hate me for a while because I promised love and left you just regret
But I know that I could never be the kind of man that you have in your mind on me
Though you said we must part it would break your heart
But you're young and you'll forget
You're young and I know time will help you find a perfect man who really love you
And not a man like me who's like the wind and must be free
But a man who's worthy of you
For I could never settle down to just one way of life
One woman and one town so sad to part this way but you'll be glad someday
For you're young and you'll forget
[ guitar ]
You're young and I know time...
If you put your mind to it and you try just a little bit
Well I know you could be the biggest fool of the world
You had yourself quite a woman the kind you don't find everyday
And just like a fool son you love her get away
You wouldn't know good thing if it came around
You wouldn't know a good thing if it knocked you down hmm
[ ac.guitar ]
I hate to say that you're a fool but there's gonna come a time when you'll
Curse the day you let her love slip through your hands
Waitin' till you try to find someone to take the place of her
That's when you'll find out son how big a fool you were
You wouldn't know good thing...
Well every love has got two sides and a love just cannot live
If one side always takes and never gives
So put yourself here in my place and just think how it would be
If I'd always hurt you like you hurt me
Turn it around in your mind turn it around see what you find
Look at our love from my point of view and see all the hurt I'm a goin' through
Just turn it around in your mind turn it around in your mind
[ guitar ]
Well you know I'll always forgive so you don't care if you're not true
Cause you know I'll swallow all my pride for you
But if you care for me at all then just picture if you can
How one side of our love looks from where I stand
Just turn it around in your mind turn it around see what you find
Look at love from my point of view and see all the hurt I'm going through
Just turn it around...
Yes turn it around...
Oh well it's long gone long gone you got my baby and you're long gone
But I'll be hangin' around cause I know you're gonna put her down
Well she'll need someone that's true when she wakes up one day
And find you're long gone long gone
You just wandered into town
You took her and you started messin' around with my baby
You stole her heart cause she ain't used to your kind
With your fancy clothes and uptown style
It didn't take but a little while to get your way
Cause your pretty little lies she couldn't see behind
And so it's long gone...
[ guitar ]
The man in me would like to fight to take you down by the river tonight
And change your way but that would make her hate the side of me
So there's nothing left for me to do a standin' watch by the likes of you
Hurt the girl I love while she's too much in love to even see
Oh yes it's long gone...
Long gone long gone long gone
You heard 'bout the legend of Jesse James, an' John Henery just to mention some names.
Well there's a truck drivin' legend in the south today.
A man called Bandit, from Atlanta, Gee-A
Every gear jammer knows his name.
They swear he got ice blood runin' in his veins.
A foot like lead, and nerves like steel.
He's gonna go to glory ridin' an 18-wheel.
Oh, boy!
He left Atlanta back in '63.
Haulin' him a load up to Tennessee.
He hit Mount Eagle in a drivin' rain,
so hard he couldn't even see the passing lane.
Well he started down the grade when he lost a gear.
He hit them breaks and found he had no air.
The Mount Eagle grade is steep and long,
and everybody that seen it thought the Bandit was gone.
Oh Son!
Well his truck jack-knifed, turned completly round,
he was coming down backwards 'bout the speed of sound.
Alot of folks seen him, and they all say
he had his head out the window yelling, "Clear the way!"
Well he got to the bottom, safe and sound,
and everybody asked Bandit how he made it down.
He said folks when the truck picked up too much speed I just runned along beside it and drug my feet.
You heard the legend of Jesse James, an' John Henery just to mention some names.
Well there's a truck drivin' legend in the south today.
A man called Bandit, from Atlanta, Gee-A
Every gear jammer knows his name.
They swear he's got ice blood runin' in his veins.
A foot like lead, and nerves like steel.
He's going up to glory ridin' an 18-wheel.
Oh tell 'em!
Talk to me Guitar.
Take your left foot;
put it in front of the right.
Now, take your right foot,
put 'er down in front of the left.
Whoooeeee! Son, you are on your way, now;
you is going to take a walk.
Left foot, right.
Right foot, left.
Walk on down to the dry cleaners and pick
up your walkin' pants!
Left foot, right.
Right foot, left.
Walk on down to the post office and buy
some walkin'stamps!
Whooooeeee!
My feets are tired.
Well, Son;
Sometimes I get that,
Sometimes feelin;
sometimes feelin' like a clown;
Sometime I get that sometimes feelin'
Sometimes going 'round.
I feel just like a rodeo clown;
whose pants keep fallin' down,
and sometimes;
sometimes;
not all the time;
I get the sometime feelin' dumb.
Save your dreams and all your special hopes and plans for another day another man
And save your love don't give your heart to a man like me
I got a restless soul I long to be free
But if I should ever fall in love then I'd love someone just like you
But I know that I would never be the man to make your dreams come true
Don't think of me as a man that you could have and hold
And teach to love heart and soul
For it can't be this heart of mine is a restless thing and I'll be gone someday
So save your dreams
She's nothin' but a woman just another pretty face
You can't find another girl just to take her place
No use a makin' a fool of yourself you can't find a somebody else
But honey it don't work that way and I'm just kiddin' myself when I say
I'll forget someday cause honey real love it don't work that way
[ ac.guitar ]
It looks mighty good this smile I wear actin' like I just don't care
If anybody mentions yesterday I'll just try to laugh it away
But honey it don't work...
I can walk around puttin' on there tellin' everybody that I don't care
But it's hard to hide the pain inside when a lonely heart is missin' you
And the love that we once knew
Cause I've tried to take the memory of all the love you gave to me
And put it off out of my heart so I can make a brand new start
But honey it don't work...
Everybody tells me you're a woman with the past
Quick to make a promise but your love will never last
They tell me that I'm foolish to think that your love could be fair
But they don't know that I'm too much in love to even care
I'll be satisfied lovin' and losin' you honey if it comes to that
If it comes right down to hurtin' and you'll break this heart of mine
At least I've known the happiness of havin' your love for a time
If it happens that I lose you then I'll have the memory of how you loved me
I'll be yours until it happens and I'm gonna love you all the way
I don't care what comes tomorrow as long as you're all mine today
I'll be satisfied lovin' and losin' you honey if it comes to that
[ ac.guitar ]
If it comes right down to hurtin'...
If I got on my knees and come crawlin' to you little girl
Would you love me once again
Cause I'll do anything to prove that I love you still
And that I'm sorry for the fool I've been
Haven't slept in a month of Sundays and I know one day I'm a gonna lose my sanity
Can't stop dreamin' about you and life without you just don't mean a thing to me
So if I promise to be a good boy and never hurt you anymore
Could things be like they were before
If I promise to be a good boy and be the way you want me to
Could I still have a chance with you
Cause I don't know what made me fool enough to think
That I could live without your love
I must have cried a million tears since our goodbye
Yes and misery fits me like a glove
So if I promise to be a good boy...
Son,
Well way down in the Okahanachi Swamp;
Is where old lady Wiggwamp made
her juu-juu juicy fruit stomp.
I went to see her last night,
tripped and fell in right into the
alligator boo-koo-dee-doo-bamp!
Put the hammer down, son!
I knew right then and there;
I should stayed home.
I should never left house,
Should just sit polite like,
hands folded in lap!
Son!
Well, old lady Wiggy-wamp,
a pork-a-pork-achop!
Don't stop the pork chop stampy stomp!
Son, heh-he!
Hee-haw!
Give me a cigerette.
Please?
Nooo!
Contempt of court!?!
What happened?
Awww, man.
I should stayed home.
Just to see you there cryin' boy brings to mine
All the things I've told you one time
I told you she'd hurt you and leave more regret
And more heartache than you could ever forget
So sit there and cry boy the way that I did one time
And wish you could die boy to get that woman off of your mind
Go on and fall all to pieces boy the way that she made me do
I know what you're goin' through and I feel for you
[ ac.guitar ]
When you took her from me you've thought you'd found
The woman to fill your whole world around
I'd tried to tell you but you wouldn't see
She'd leave you for someone the way she did me
Now sit there and cry boy...
Yes I know what you're goin' through and I feel for you
Where is that tomorrow that placed in time
That day when your memory don't occupy my mind
That mornin' when I wake up with no regrets to find
Oh how many tomorrows will that be how many tomorrows till I'm free
I wonder how long until these heartaches end
Till yesterday's forgotten till the hurtin' wears in
And how much time your mem'ry is there left for me to spin
Oh how many tomorrows will that be how many tomorrows till I'm free
Oh they say that time can break the chains that bind your heart to yesterday
But deep inside of me is the love for you that time will never take away
It's there to stay
So a million tomorrows won't ease all the pain
And every day without you will be more the same
Achin' just to hold you inside these arms again
Oh how many tomorrows will that be how many tomorrows will that be
Let me tell you bout a girl I know she's my baby and she lives next door
Every morning when the sun comes up she puts my coffee in my favorite cup
That's why I know yes I know hallelujah I just love her so
When I'm in trouble and I need a friend I know she'll stick with me untill the end
Everybody asks me how you know I smile at them and say she told me so
That's why I know yes I know hallelujah I just love her so
And when I call her on the telephone say her honey Jerry's all alone
By the time I count from one to four I hear her on my door
In the evening when the sun goes down when there ain't nobody else around
She looks at me and she holds me tight and tells me Jerry everything's all right
That's why I know yes I know hallelujah I just love her so (pick it son)
[ guitar ]
And when I call her...
Yeah hallelujah I just love her so hallelujah I just love her so
I once went a courtin';
Down in 'ol Alabama.
I brought along a donkey;
and a slice of salama!
I saw her there a sitting;
in a dirty lawn chair,
And asked her nicely
to watch Yogi Bear.
Gom-yey-on-yo!
Crying all night long;
Gom-yey-onnnnn-yo!!
That's the name of this song.
I once digged me a hole;
down in 'ol Tennesee.
I brought along a pickle;
and a little monkey.
I saw her there a sitting;
on a rusty old chair;
and asked her while crying;
to please sniff my hair!!!
Gom-yey-on-yo!
Crying all night long;
Gom-yey-onnnnn-yo!!
That's the name of this song.
Well girl you're fine on my mind all the time fine on my mind all the time
I never met a woman quite like you and all the sweet things you do
Stay fine on my mind all the time
My papa said someday boy true love's gonna come your way
Someday some woman's gonna love you right out of your mind
You'll lose your appetite it won't be able to sleep at night
For thinkin' bout some woman all the time
Well girl you're fine...
[ ac.guitar ]
Well if papa could just see me Lord I know how tickled he'd be
To know some woman got me talkin' to myself
And it's been like this since it come first time we kissed
I can't seem to think about nothin' else
Yes girl you're fine...
Eastbound and Down
Jerry Reed
from Smokey and the Bandit
Eastbound and down, loaded up and truckin'
Ah we gonna do what they say can't be done
We've got a long way to go, and a short time to get there
I'm eastbound, just watch old Bandit run
Keep your foot hard on the pedal
Son, never mind them brakes
Let it all hang out cause we got a run to make
The boys are thirsty in Atlanta
and there's beer in Texarkana
We'll bring it back no matter what it takes
Eastbound and down, loaded up and truckin'
Ah we gonna do what they say can't be done
We've got a long way to go, and a short time to get there
I'm eastbound, just watch old Bandit run
Eastbound and down, loaded up and truckin'
Ah we gonna do what they say can't be done
We've got a long way to go, and a short time to get there
I'm eastbound, just watch old Bandit run
Old Smokey's got them ears on
He's hot on your trail
And he ain't gonna rest 'til you're in jail
So you've got to dodge him, you've got to duck him
You gotta keep that diesel truckin'
Just put that hammer down and give it hell
Eastbound and down, loaded up and truckin'
Ah we gonna do what they say can't be done
We've got a long way to go, and a short time to get there
I'm eastbound, just watch old Bandit run
[ instrumental ]
I'm almost crazy almost crazy
Couldn't go to sleep last night walked the floor until the daylight
Thinkin' how it used to be when you were here with me
And honey I'll live with your memory till I'm almost crazy almost crazy
I've paid a million times for the way I've been so blind
Cause everytime I think of you my heart wants to break in two
And I'm no notning nothing but the blues till I'm almost crazy hmm
I thought I didn't need your love to share hmm
I had to lose you to find out how much I care now I'm almost crazy almost crazy
I see the fool I've been and if I'd get you back again
Well I'm gonna prove to you that my love is really true
Cause honey I've cried and cried for you till I'm almost crazy almost crazy
I'm almost crazy
Songwriter: Reed, Jerry
I'm breakin' loose, runnin' free
The open road is callin' me
My soul is restless, and my feet just won't be still
I don't know where I'm bound,
But I'm bound to ramble 'round
Tastin' this ole life until I've had my fill
There ain't no tellin' where tomorrow's gonna find me
Maybe ridin' some ole boxcar sleepin in the rain
Might strike it rich in California
And then lose it all on the east coast in a loaded poker game
And it don't matter where I go or what I'm doin'
'Cause I plan to do it all before I'm through
I'm gonna drink all the beer, love all the girls
See a great big piece of this world
He was raised in the swamp
in the back of a slough
He grew up eatin' rattlesnake meat
and drinkin' homemade brew
Now folks here about call him Gator
and everybody knows him well
Meanest man ever to hit the swamp
folks swear he come straight outta hell
Well Gator McKlusky sittin' on a stump
hammer pulled back on a twelve gauge pump
Watchin' that swamp lookin' out for the law
while he make the best corn liquor you ever saw
(Rock gut whiskey)
While he's makin' that mash
he watches and he looks
Ol' Gator he knows that swamp like a book
Somethin' out there movin'
Gator, whaddaya see?
Ain't nothin' but the snakes
and the gators and me
Everything's okey-dokey
in the Okefenokee
that sheriff ain't snoopin' around
So cook that moonshine down
'til it's good and clear
Everything's okey-dokey
in the Okefenokee
that sheriff he'd soon
mess around with the devil
than to get his self long
messin' around in here
One day he was cookin'
some mash he was almost done
when they spotted the law
and they had to run
So he headed for the swamp
and they followed him in
but the law might as well
been a-chasin' the wind
(Look out for that snake, sheriff)
Well they chased on back
through the muck and the slime
to the back of that swamp
where the sun don't shine
But the law won't never
catch Gator my friend
'cause he knows that swamp
like the back of his hand
Watch out boys, ol' smokey's
in the Okefenokee
The sheriff's out
there snoopin' around
So shut that business down
and let's disappear
Look out boys, ol' smokey's
in the Okefenokee
but that sheriff he's really
gonna catch the devil
if he keeps on snoopin'
around in here
(Gator's in the swamp, sheriff)
(Go get him)
(If you can)
(Careful, sheriff)
(Don't let that gator bite
(chorus)
Well if I can keep it on the ground
when I put that hammer down
then I'll be Texas bound and a flyin'
I've got my ten in the wind
let it all hang out again
'Cause how you gonna win if you ain't tryin'?
Now we're all back together
and we're burning up the road
and that ol' sheriff's out there doggin' us again
He thinks he's really got cookin'
plans to do a lot of bookin'
The only trouble he keeps lookin'
where we've already been
(chorus)
(instrumental)
(chorus)
Now Smokey and the Bandit
is a tale you don't forget
'Cause everytime you hear
an engine scream and whine
well you'll have to think about ol' Bandit
Ol' Buford, Frog and Fred and Snowman
their story is a legend
that will live on in time
Well, I'm gonna get out my sycamore and shine up my shoes
Meet my baby and tell her the news
I bet my bundle on a swayback nag
And I came home winner with a plenty o'swag
One foot, two foot slew foot drag
Swing your honey to the sugar foot rag
Do a little jig and a zig and a zag
And listen to the fiddles as they play that sugar foot rag
Well, I got a big jug o'cinder and a bottle of wine
One's for my honey and the other is mine
Sip on the cider and sip on the wine
They both sip together and a have a good time
One foot, two foot slew foot drag
Swing your honey to the sugar foot rag
Do a little jig and a zig and a zag
And listen to the steel guitar as they play that sugar foot rag
I'm gonna spend all my money and a git on a jag
Swing my honey to the sugar foot rag
Walk right up and stomp on the floor
And swing up the middle with a shoofly four
One foot, two foot slew foot drag
Swing your honey to the sugar foot rag
Do a little jig and a zig and a zag
And listen to Jerry, he's gonna play you that sugar foot rag
Do a little jig and a zig and a zag
Yesterdays
Oh, how many do you wish you could relive?
Turn the page and go back
Oh, I wonder what you'd give?
Looking back, does it seem
That when you've planned
And when you've dreamed
You forgot the most important thing
Smell the flowers while the roses bloom
Take the time my friend and sing a happy tune
Oh, how precious every mile, so take a minute, learn to smile
My friend, let's stop a while and smell the flowers
Smell the flowers
Got a troubled mind, friend
Did you let too much worry rule your days?
When you look back
Do you feel like something precious slipped away?
Oh, my friend are you the man
That the world slip through your hands?
Can you remember
When you smelled the flowers?
Smell the flowers while the roses bloom
Take the time my friend and sing a happy tune
You won't have this day again 'cause every road has got to end
So don't forget my friend to smell the flowers
Smell the flowers
Smell the flowers while the roses bloom
Take the time my friend and sing a happy tune
Oh, how precious every mile, so take a minute, learn to smile
Every night I go down to this same little joint
Fill up my glass till I reach the point, past remembering
Where the music is loud, the conversation is free
A dance or two with someone to keep me from remembering
The fool I've been the hurt I've caused
The good woman that I loved and lost
For she's constantly with me in memory
I go home but I couldn't sleep
And after hours I'd be walkin' the streets remembering
A good woman's love is hard to find
And my woman's love was just that kind
And I'm the reason that she's gone today
I miss her so and the price that I pay is remembering
I take her to sleep in my dreams every night
Then start all over in the morning light remembering
The way it was when she loved me
Then like a fool how I carelessly
Broke her heart
Then watched my world fall apart
I'd give this world for yesterday
Just to have her love me the way I remember
Well, I quit my job down at the car wash
And left my mama a goodbye note
By sundown, I'd left Kingston
With my guitar up under my coat
I hitchhiked all the way down to Memphis
Got a room at the YMCA
For the next three weeks
I went a hauntin' them nightclubs
Lookin' for a place to play
Well, I thought my pickin'
Would set 'em on fire
But nobody wanted to hire
A guitar man
Well, I nearly 'bout starved to death down in Memphis
I run out of money and luck
So I bummed me a ride down to Macon, Georgia
On a overloaded poultry truck
I thumbed on down to Panama City
Started checkin' out some of them all night bars
Hopin' I can make myself a dollar
Makin' music on my guitar
Got the same old story
At them all night piers
"There ain't no room around here for a guitar man
We don't need a guitar man, son"
So I slept in the hobo jungles
I bummed a thousand miles of track
Till I found myself in Mobile, Alabama
In a club they call Big Jack's
A little four piece band was jammin'
So I took my guitar and I sat in
I showed 'em what a band would sound like
With a swingin' little guitar man, show 'em, son
Yeah
So if you ever take a trip down to the ocean
Find yourself down 'round Mobile
Well, make it on out to the club called Jack's
Till you got a little time to kill
Just follow that crowd of people
You'll wind up out on his dance floor
Diggin' the finest little five piece group
Up and down the Gulf of Mexico
And guess who's leadin'
That five piece band
Why, wouldn't you know
(chorus)
East bound and down
loaded up and truckin'
We're gonna do what
they say can't be done
We've got a long way to go
and a short time to get there
I'm east bound
just watch ol' Bandit run
Keep your foot hard on the pedal
Son never mind them brakes
Let it all hang out
'cause we got a run to make
The boys are thirsty in Atlanta
and there's beer in Texarkana
And we'll bring it back
no matter what it takes.
(chorus)
(instrumental)
(chorus)
Ol' Smokey's got them ears on
and he's hot on your trail
He aint gonna rest
'til you're in jail
So you got to dodge 'em
and you got to duck 'em
You got to keep
that diesel truckin'
Just put that hammer down
and give it hell
Alright, watch out
Now my daddy was hard shelled Alabama preacher
My momma was a dedicated Sunday school teacher
My brother went to college and got a PhD
Daddy said the only dud in the family was me
He said, "Boy, you ain't never going to amount to a thing
You set around with that silly looking guitar and sing
You hang around them juke joints all the time
Making music like some wild man done lost his mind"
Going sock it to me
Well, what's that supposed to mean
Boy, you just a wild man
Well, then one day Daddy told me
"Boy, I've had enough now you just
Pack up that guitar, you just pack up your stuff"
So I left home and organized myself a band
Called myself the Alabama Wild Man
Well, I worked all them joints from the east to the west
Never making no money and a starving to death
A living on coffee and cold sardines
Soda crackers and pork n beans
But I finally went to Music City USA
Said I'm the Alabama Wild Man and I'm here to stay
Took my guitar and showed 'em what I'm talking about
So we made a little record and we put it out
With me going
Sock it to me, honey
Haha, hook it, boy
Play that guitar
Well, now I'm driving, the Cadillac's a city block long
The Alabama Wild Man could do no wrong
'Cause I'm selling them records
And I'm working them shows
And people love me everywhere I go
But a funny thing happened about a week or so back
I was a showing my hometown and the place was packed
Guess who was sitting on the front row seat
Was my daddy grinning up at me batting at me
Yelling
"Sock it your daddy, Wild Man
Hook it boy, hook it
Play that guitar, show 'em, son"
"Yeah, that's my boy, alright
Taught him everything he knows
Bought him his first guitar
Ah, sock it to your daddy, son"
"Go ahead put it to me, put it to me
Keep them checks coming in, boy
Six foot six he stood on the ground
Weighed two hundred and thirty five pounds
But I saw that giant of a man brought down
To his knees by love
He was the kind of man that would gamble on luck
Look you in the eye and never back up
But I saw him cryin' like a little whipped pup
Because of love
Can't see it with your eyes hold it in your hand
But like the wind that covers our land
Strong enough to rule the heart of any man
This thing called love
It can lift you up, it can let you down
Take your world turn it all around
Ever since time nothings ever been found
Stronger than love
Most men are like me they struggle in doubt
They trouble their minds day in and day out
Too busy with livin' to worry about
A word called love
But when I see a mother's tenderness
As she holds her young close to her breast
Than I thank God this world's been blessed
With a word called love
Can't see it with your eyes hold it in your hand
But like the wind it covers our land
Strong enough to rule the heart of any man
This thing called love
It can lift you up, it can let you down
Take your world turn it all around
Ever since time nothings ever been found
Well me and Homer Jones
and Big John Talley
had a big crap game
goin' back in the alley
And I kept rollin' them sevens
winnin' all them pots
My luck was so good
I could do no wrong
I just kept on rollin'
and controllin' them bones
And finally they just threw
up their hands and said
"When you hot, you hot"
I said "Yeah?"
When you're hot, you're hot
And when you're not, you're not
Put all the money in
and let's roll 'em again
When you're hot, you're hot
(La la la la la la la)
(La la la la la)
(La la la la la la la
when you're hot, you're hot)
Well, now every time I
rolled them dice I'd win
and I was just gettin'
ready to roll 'em again
When I heard somethin' behind me
I turned around and
there was a big old cop
He said "Hello, boys" and then
he gave us a grin 'n' said
"Look like I'm gonna hafta haul you all in
and keep all that money for evidence"
I said, "Well, son when you hot, you hot"
He said "Yeah"
When you're hot, you're hot
And when you're not, you're not
You can 'splain it all down at City Hall
I say, yeah, when you're hot, you're hot
You're hot
(La la la la la la la)
(La la la la la)
(La la la la la la la
when you're hot, you're hot)
Well, when he took us into
court I couldn't believe my eyes
The judge was a fishin'
buddy that I recognized
I said "Hey, judge
old buddy, old pal
I'll pay ya that hundred I owe ya
if you'll get me outta this spot"
So he gave my friends a little fine to pay
He turned around and grinned at me and said
"Ninety days, Jerry, when you hot, you hot"
And I said "Thanks a lot"
When you're hot, you're hot
And when you're not, you're not
He let my friends go free
and throwed the book at me
He said "Well, when you're hot, you're hot"
I said "well I'll tell ya
one thing judge, old buddy, old pal
"If you wasn't wearin' that
black robe I'd take out
in back of this courthouse
And I'd try a little bit of your honor on
You understand that, you hillbilly?
Who gonna collect my welfare?
(When you're hot, you're hot)
Pay for my Cadillac?
Whadda you mean 'contempt of court',
(When you're hot, you're hot)
I?m gonna tell you a story that?s all about
This job I had one time as a talent scout
I had a hard day at the office and the boss wasn?t in town
The day this hired legged guitar picker just happened to come around
Well, he walks into my office with a great big grin
And folks that?s where my story really begins
He said, ?Son my name is Boregard Rippy
I come to you from Tupelo Mississippi
I write songs that?ll sing like a bird
I play licks on my guitar like you ain?t never heard"
"But I?m down on my luck, things are just a little slack
I gotta quarter in my pocket and a shirt on my back
But you buy me some supper, give me a place I can sleep"
He said, ?I?ll sing you some songs
That?ll knock your head to creak, I got talent boy"
Said, "Back home they call me the Tupelo Mississippi Flash"
Well, I knew I was in a room with some kind of a nut
When he pulled out that pack of used cigarette butts
So that?s when I told him, ?We can?t use you today?
So I handed the boy a dollar and I sent him on his way
Well, the boss got back and we both had a laugh
When I told him ?bout the Tupelo Mississippi Flash
And pretty soon I had the story circlin' around
About this Mississippi nut that we had in our town
I said, ?Watch him everybody, the boy?s squirrely
He walks around callin' himself the Tupelo Mississippi Flash?
Well, and it happened one day while I was drivin' to my home
I just happened to have my car radio on
When I heard the jockey ravin' about a brand new smash
By a kid called the Tupelo Mississippi Flash
Well, I almost wrecked my automobile
I went through a red light, I hit the traffic cop, why
Well, my story?s got an ending and it?s short and sweet
The boss man he fired me and left me out in the street
But I got a new job now and I?m learnin? real fast
I?m drivin? the bus for the Tupelo Mississippi Flash
And his Cadillac, I?m driving that for him too
And that yacht he?s got, and his aeroplane
Well, chauffeur, so good, I always say
Tupelo Mississippi, who ever heard of it, why
I'll kill the boy
Six foot six he stood on the ground
Weighed two hundred and thirty five pounds
But I saw that giant of a man brought down
To his knees by love
He was the kind of man that would gamble on luck
Look you in the eye and never back up
But I saw him cryin' like a little whipped pup
Because of love
Can't see it with your eyes hold it in your hand
But like the wind that covers our land
Strong enough to rule the heart of any man
This thing called love
It can lift you up, it can let you down
Take your world turn it all around
Ever since time nothings ever been found
Stronger than love
Most men are like me they struggle in doubt
They trouble their minds day in and day out
Too busy with livin' to worry about
A word called love
But when I see a mother's tenderness
As she holds her young close to her breast
Than I thank God this world's been blessed
With a word called love
Can't see it with your eyes hold it in your hand
But like the wind it covers our land
Strong enough to rule the heart of any man
This thing called love
It can lift you up, it can let you down
Take your world turn it all around
Ever since time nothings ever been found
Well I guess it was back in '63
When eatin' my cookin'
got the better of me
So I asked this little girl
I was goin' with to be my wife
Well she said she would
so I said "I do"
But I'd have said "I wouldn't"
if I'd have just knew
how sayin' "I do" was
gonna screw up all of my life
Well the first few years
weren't all that bad
I'll never forget the
good times we had
Cause I'm reminded every month
when I send her the child support
Well it wasn't too long
till the lust all died
And I'll admit I
wasn't too surprised
the day I come home and found my
suitcase sittin' out on the porch
Well I tried to get in
but she changed the locks
Then I found this
note taped on the mailbox
that said "Goodbye, Turkey!
My attorney will be in touch" Mm-hmm
So I decided right then and there
I's a-gonna do what's right
and give her her fair share
But brother I didn't know her
share's gonna be that much
She got the gold mine
She got the gold mine
I got the shaft
I got the shaft
They split it right
down the middle
and then they give
her the better half
Well it all sounds sorta funny
but it hurts too much to laugh
She got the gold mine
I got the sha-a-aft
Now listen, you ain't
heard nothin' yet
Why, they give her the
color television set
Then they give her the house
the kids and both of the cars! See?
Well then they start talkin'
'bout child support, alimony
and the cost of the court
Didn't take me long to figure out
how far in the toilet I was!
I'm tellin' ya they
have made a mistake
'Cause it adds up to more
than this cowboy makes
Besides everything I ever
had worth takin'
they've already took
While she's livin'
like a queen on alimony
I'm workin' two shifts
eatin' baloney askin' myself
"Why didn't you just
learn how to cook?"
They give her the gold mine
She got the gold mine
They give me the shaft
I got the shaft
They said they're splittin'
it all down the middle
but she got the better half
Well it all sounds mighty funny
But it hurts too much to laugh
She got the gold mine
I got the sha-a-aft
Well, she got the gold mine
She got the gold mine
I got the shaft
I got the shaft
They split it all
down the middle
and then they give
her the better half
Well I guess it all
sounds funny, Hoo hoo hoo
ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
But it hurts too much to laugh
She got the gold mine
I got the sha-a-aft
(They ain't kiddin' me
I got the shaft)
Well I do't have to worry 'bout
totin' a billfold anymore
Hahahahaha
I let my wife tote it
I'm gonna be carryin' food stamps
You get it, Judge?
I'm on-a be¦ Just! Hahahaha
Ah it's not funny
Huh? Huh? Huh?
Contempt of court?
Whaddaya mean?
Well, if you're one of the millions who own one of them
Gas drinking, piston clinking, air polluting, smoke belching
Four wheeled buggies from Detroit City, then pay attention
I'm about to sing your song son
Well, I'm not a man appointed judge
To bear ill-will and hold a grudge
But I think it's time I said me a few choice words
All about that demon automobile
A metal box with the polyglass wheel
The end result to the dream of Henry Ford
Well, I've got a car that's mine alone
That me and the finance company own
A ready made pile of manufactured grief
And if I ain't out of gas in the pouring rain
I'm a-changing a flat in a hurricane
I once spent three days lost on a cloverleaf
Well, it ain't just the smoke and the traffic jam
That makes me the bitter fool I am
But this four wheel buggy is a-dollaring me to death
For gas and oils and fluids and grease
And wires and tires and anti-freeze
And them accessories, well honey that's something else
Well, you can get a stereo tape and a color TV
Get a backseat bar and reclining seats
And just pay once a month, like you do your rent
Well, I figured it up and over a period of time
This four thousand dollar car of mine
Costs fourteen thousand dollars and ninety-nine cents
Well, now Lord Mr. Ford, I just wish that you could see
What your simple horseless carriage has become
Well, it seems your contribution to man
To say the least, got a little out of hand
Well, Lord Mr. Ford, what have you done
Now the average American father and mother
Own one whole car and half another
And I bet that half a car is a trick to buy, don't you?
But the thing that amazes me I guess
Is the way we measure a man's success
By the kind of an automobile he can afford to buy
Well now, red light, green light, traffic cop
Right turn, no turn, must turn, stop
Get out the credit card honey, we're out of gas
Well, now all the car's placed end to end
Would reach to the moon and back again
And there'd probably be some fool pull out to pass
Well now, how I yearn for the good old days
Without that carbon monoxide haze
A-hanging over the roar of the interstate
Well, if the Lord that made the moon and stars
Would have meant for me and you to have cars
He'd have seen that we was all born with a parking space
Lord Mr. Ford, I just wish that you could see
What your simple horseless carriage has become
Well, it seems your contribution to man
To say the least, got a little out of hand
Well, Lord Mr. Ford, what have you done
Come away with me Lucille
Now, Amos Moses was a Cajun
He lived by his self in the swamp
He hunted alligator for livin'
He just knocked 'em in the head with a stump
Louisiana law gonna get you Amos
It ain't legal huntin' alligators down in the swamp boy
Now, everybody blamed his old man
For makin' him mean as a snake
When Amos Moses was a boy
His daddy'd use him for alligator bait
Tie a rope around his neck and throw him in the swamp
Alligator bait in the Louisiana bayou
About forty-five minutes south of Thibadoux Louisiana
Lived a cat named Doc Milsap, his pretty wife Hanna
Well, they raised up a son that could eat up his weight in groceries
Named him after a man of the cloth, called him Amos Moses
Everybody in south Louisiana said Amos was a helluva man
He could trap the biggest and meanest alligator and just use one hand
That's all he got left 'cause a alligator bit it
Left arm gone clean up to the elbow
Well, the Sheriff caught wind of Amos
In the swamp trappin' alligator skins
That Sheriff went lookin' for Amos
Boy, you know he never come out again
I wonder where the Louisiana Sheriff went to
You can sure get lost in the Louisiana Bayou
About forty-five minutes south of Thibadoux Louisiana
Lived a cat named Doc Milsap, his pretty wife Hanna
Well, they raised up a son that could eat up his weight in groceries
Named him after a man of the cloth, called him Amos Moses
About forty-five minutes south of Thibadoux Louisiana
Lived a cat named Doc Milsap and his pretty wife Hanna
Well, they raised up a son that could eat up his weight in groceries
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