(Let's sing a song of the south let's sing a song of the west
Let's tag along let's everybody sing the songs we all love best)
Don't your conscience ever bother you everytime you hear my name
Well you should go somewhere hide your face and hang your head in shame
Yes someone came along and took my place and you gave me all the blame
You should go somewhere and hide your little face and hang your head in shame
[ fiddle ]
Yes someone came along and took my place and you gave me all the blame
Oh you should go somewhere and hide your little face and hang your head in shame
And hang your head in shame
With someone like you a pal so good and true
I'd like to leave it all behind and go and find
Some place that's known to God alone just a spot we could call our own
We'll find perfect peace where joys will never cease
Out there beneath the calmly skies
We'll build a sweet little nest somewhere out in the west
And let the rest of the world go by
(With someone like you a pal good and true
I'd like to leave it all behind and go and find)
Some place that's known to God alone just a spot we could call our own
We'll find perfect peace...
I bless the day I found you I want to stay around you and so I beg you let it be me
Don't take this heaven from one if you must cling to someone
Now and forever let it be me
Each time we meet love I find complete love
Without your sweet sweet love what would life be
So never leave me lonely tell me you love me only and that you'll always let it be me
Now and forever let it be me
Well I know what it means to be lonesome
And I know what it means to be blue
Oh I know what it means to be lonesome and dream
When nobody misses you
Well my sweet baby left me this morning
When the clock was just striking four
And the sweet smiling face of my darling
I may never see anymore
[ guitar ]
Well I hate the night that we parted
For nobody knows what I've been through
Well I'd give all I own just to have you back home
Cause I'm lonesome lonesome dear dor you
Well I know what it means to be lonesome....
Don't get no attention from the people on the street
They don't even notice 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 they look they can see that we don't care
I got you and you got me baby that's all we will ever need
Looking through the window of a fancy diamond store
Going window shopping for the things we can't afford
People all around us with their noses in the air
They walk right on by us just like we were't even there
But I got you and you got me...
Yeah I got you and you got me...
(Where seldom is heard a discouraging word and the skies are not cloudy all day)
Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam and the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word and the skies are not cloudy all day
Home home on the range where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word and the skies are not cloudy all day
[ harmonica ]
Home home on the range...
Here comes more tears to cry here comes more heartaches by
Here comes my baby back again
Here comes more misery here comes old memory here comes my baby back again
My arms are open wide to let more hurt inside here comes my baby back again
She's sorry once again once more I'll understand here comes my baby back again
My arms are open wide...
Here comes my baby back again (here comes my baby)
Hello Mr Blues it's me again
Spendin' nights alone no love to call my own
Remember me Mr Blue I've been here before
My heart's been kicked around can't take much more
Don't tell me Mr Blues that she's to blame
I don't care who are wright or wrong
I just know that she's the one for me
And she's gone Mr Blues she's gone
[ fiddle ]
Don't tell me Mr Blues that she's to blame...
Gonna tell the world I love you can't keep it quiet
Everything I dreamed of darling came true tonight
Love that's been needed to make my life complete
Is here beside me and ain't life sweet
I hear love's music playing in the beat of your heart
Life's only regret my darling are the times we're apart
And all life's treasures are laying at my feet you're here beside and ain't life sweet
Sweeter than honey sweeter than wine every day you make my life so fine
A smile comes with everyday I breathe I'm in love and ain't life sweet
[ guitar ]
Gonna tell the world I love you...
When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound and time shall be no more
And the morning breaks eternal bright and fair
When the saved Thy word shall gather over on that other shore
And the roll is called up yonder I'll be there
When the roll is called up yonder
When the roll is called up yonder
When the roll is called up yonder
When the roll is called up yonder I'll be there
Let us lay before the Master from the dawn till setting sun
Let us speak of all his wonderous love and care
And when this life is over and our work on earth is done
And the roll is called up yonder I'll be there
When the roll is called up yonder...
Have you ever been lonely have you ever been blue
Have you ever loved someone just as I love you
Can't you see that I'm sorry for each mistake I've made
Can't you see I've changed dear can't you see I've paid
Be a little forgiving take me back in your heart
How can I go on living now that we're apart
If you knew what I've been through then you'd know why I ask you
Have you ever been lonely have you ever been blue
If you knew what I've been through...
What this whole world needs is a lot more lovin'
A lot less shovin' around
What this whole world needs is a lot less hatin'
Just straighten up and settle down
Now lovin' your neighbor is the spice of life
MY I said your neighbor not your neighbor's wife
What this whole world needs is a lot more lovin'
A lot less shovin' around
What this whole world needs is a lot more blessin'
A lot less messin' around
What this whole world needs is a lot less fightin'
To brighten up that worried frown
Just wish yourn neighbor well and that will help a lot
Stead of whishin' you've had what's your neighbor's got
What this whole world needs is a lot more lovin'
A lot less shovin' around
[ piano - guitar ]
What this whole world needs is a lot more blessin'...
Funny how you've changed it makes me wonder have I ever really known you
How could you abuse the kindeness and all the tenderness that I've shown you
If I have known then I have shown the strenght
On which my love could make a stand
But you've mistaken tenderness and kindness for the weakness in a man
I can give you almost anything if I know what you're looking for
I can give you everything that any other man can maybe more
He may promise you the world but I can give you everything he can
So don't mistake my tenderness for any sign of weakness in your man
I may live my life alone with walls of stone inside some prison cell
But no man's gonna take the love I own and never live to tell a tale
So don't forsake the love we knew cause now you know exactly where I stand
And don't mistake my tenderness for any sign of weakness in your man
No mind mistake of tenderness no sighn of weakness in your man
Now a lot of words have spelled the same with a different meanin' you see
But here's a brand new way to spell heaven and accordin' to me
You take a K and an E and an N and a T and U C K Y
That spells Kentucky but it means paradise
You take a chicken and you kill it
And you throw it in the skillet and you fry up a golden brown
That's southern cookin' taste mighty nice
It don't cover a lot when you look on a map
But I once studied geography when I sat in my mama's lap
You take K E N T U C K Y that spells Kentucky but it means paradise
[ harmonica - guitar ]
It don't cover a lot...
Yes that spells Kentucky but it means paradise
Abilene Abilene prettiest town that I've ever seen
The women there don't treat you mean in Abilene my Abilene
Old empty boxcars standin' all alone the wheels're all rusted boys so we'd home
But what I have to do till I get back to Abilene
(Abilene) that's my home (Abilene) my home sweet home
(Prettiest town that I've ever seen
The women there won't treat you mean in Abilene my Abilene)
I've been to Chicago San Francisco too old New York City none of them will do
I'm just a waitin' till I get to Abilene (my Abilene)
Abilene Abilene...
No women there won't treat you mean in Abilene (my Abilene)
The women there won't treat you mean in Abilene (my Abilene)
(Wait for the wagon wait for the wagon
Wait for the wagon and we'll all take a ride)
Will you come with me my Susie dear beyond blue mountains free
Where the blossoms smell the sweetest come rove along with me
Wait for the wagon wait for the wagon
Wait for the wagon and we'll all take a ride
Wait for the wagon wait for the wagon
Wait for the wagon and we'll all take a ride
Now it's every Sunday morning dear when I'm by your side
Hop into the wagon and all we will ride
Wait for the wagon wait for the wagon
Wait for the wagon and we'll all take a ride
[ harmonica - fiddle ]
Where the river runs like silver and the birds they sing so sweet
I got a pretty little a cabin hon and somethin' good to eat
Wait for the wagon wait for the wagon...
Come listen to my story now it will relieve my heart
So jump into the wagon and off we will start
Wait for the wagon wait for the wagon...
There's a land beyond the river that they call the sweet forever
And we only reach that shore by fate's decree
One by one we gain the portal there to dwell with Thee imortal
When they ring those golden bells for you and me
Can't you hear the bells now ringing can't you hear the angels singing
This a glory hallelujah jubilee jubilee
In that far off sweet forever just beyond the shining river
When they ring those golden bells for you and me for you and me
(She goes walking through my mind) caring out a little at a time
Her footsteps keep it louder all the time when she goes walking through my mind
Tonight I will sleep though I'm not trying for sleep makes me dream then I start crying
Once again I'll get the glimpse of what was mine
When she goes walking through my mind
She goes walking through my mind...
I try to fight but I'm too weak I close my eyes then fall asleep
And once again there she is right on time
And she goes walking through my mind
She goes walking through my mind...
You called me Country Jimmy the night you walked away
With one who promised you a life of joy
You'd thought my life's too simple and your was much too gay
To spend that livin' with a country boy
While you're livin' in the city with riches at your door
Is this your love is this your kind of joy
How do you find there's something missin' does your heart cry out for more
Do you sometimes miss your country boy
[ guitar ]
I'm writing you this letter I write you every day
I hope that you recieved the ones before
But I've heard not one word from you and every day I pray
That you will not forget your country boy
Well it's time to end this letter the light of dawn is near
A lonely night has passed but there'll be more
Just one thing more and closing for all the world to hear
Come home I love you signed your country boy
You only think of me when you're lonely after all the laughter's been and gone
When streets are filled with neon shadows only I'm a shoulder you come crying on
Each time I take you back I know again you'll hurt me so
Still this heart of mine just lets you come and go
You only think of me when you're lonely but I'm lonely thinkin' bout you all the time
Each time I take you back I know again you'll hurt me so
Still this heart of mine just lets you come and go why I don't know
You only think of me when you're lonely but I'm lonely thinkin' bout you all the time
There you are a standing at the window again
I know there's something tuggin' at your soul
You look like you could run a hole right to the wind
You're burning up with desire to go
Your touch has a finger of the cold north wind oh I know it's all over goodbye
But I know that you don't have the strenght to leave alone
So who put the leaving in your eyes
Who planted this satisfaction in your mind
Who gave you the strenght to say goodbye
Who put that restless feeling in your soul who put the leaving in your eyes
[ guitar ]
For so long we've been headed down a oneway street we've both lost all desire to try
But I know that you ain't got the strenght to leave yourself
So who put the leaving in your eyes
Who planted this satisfaction in your mind...
Who put the leaving in your eyes yeah honey who put the leaving in your eyes
(See the sunset in the evening with the only love I know)
Where the deep blue pearly waters wash upon white silver sands
Where on the brink of love I kissed her and obeyd my heart's command
Where the deep blue pearly waters wash upon white silver sands
We watched the sunset in the evening in a far and distant land
So here beneath God's blue heaven there's a place I must go
See the sunset in the evening with the only love I know
Where the deep blue pearly waters wash upon white silver sands
We watched the sunset in the evening and obeyd my heart's command
(Here beneath God's blue heaven there's a place I must go
See the sunset in the evening with the only love I know)
Where the deep blue pearly waters wash upon white silver sands
We watched the sunset in the evening and obeyd my heart's command
And obeyd my heart's command and obeyd my heart's command
When your old wedding ring was new
And each dream that I dreamed came true
I remember with pride how we stood side by side
What a beautiful picture you made as my bride
Even though silver crowns your hair
I can still see the gold ringlets there
Love's old flame is the same as the day I changed your name
When your old wedding ring was new
(When your old wedding ring was new
And each dream that I dreamed came true
I remember with pride how we stood side by side
What a beautiful picture you made as my bride)
Even though silver crowns your hair...
When your old wedding ring was new
I can never go back to the little cafe with the candle light
That was our cafe and to go there without you just wouldn't seem right
Besides I don't want to touch that part of life that meant so much
The days the world belonged to us just us
And I'd telephone at three in the morning just to say hello
And all sleepy eyed you breathed and sighed I love you so
And sometimes we just talked for hours dreaming dreams and building towers
All the world was filled with flowers for us
And I'm gonna miss you for a long long time
I can never go back to the cabin there on the mountain side
Where I built a fire and held you close while it snowed outside
And remember you let me sleep all day so we could love the night away
Oh it just found yesterday and us
I've tried making new friends walking new streets finding new thrills
But nothing new replaces you and it never will
I'll just live my life in memory grateful that you once loved me
Thankful that there used to be and us
And I'm gonna miss you for a long long time
Under the sun more than just a sun a shinin'
Under the sun people young and love a findin'
Under the sun more than just a sun a shinin' my heart is shinin' just for you
Under the sun you can see the trees a growin'
Under the sun you can feel the breezes blowin'
Under the sun you can see the trees a growin' far beneath the trees are you and me
How I love you how I love you yes I love you when you're near or far away
How I love you how I love you yes I love you more each day
Under the sun tender words my lips are sayin'
Under the sun tender for a dream my heart's a prayin'
Under the sun tender words my lips are sayin' for a love we know we'll always be
How I love you...
Under the sun head's a dozin' love is spinnin'
Under the sun a brand new way of life's beginnin'
Under the sun head's a dozin' love is spinnin' spinnin' for the whole wide world to say
How I love you...
Under the sun head's a dozin' love is spinnin'
Under the sun a brand new way of life's beginnin'
Under the sun head's a dozin' love is spinnin' spinnin' for the whole wide world to see
She may be weary women do get weary
Wearing that same old shabby dress
But when she's weary try a little tenderness
She may be waiting just anticipating
Things that she may never posses
While she's without them try a little tenderness
Now it's not just sentimental she has her grief and her care
The words they're soft and gentle makes it easier to bear
You won't regret it women don't forget it
Love is their whole happiness
And it's all so easy try a little tenderness
Yes it's all so easy try a little tenderness
True love's a blessing true love's a wonderful blessing
True love's a blessing wait and see
When you found a right girl you found the pricest pearl
True love's a blessing yes siree
Some girls love for money some make love a game
Some girls use their love a stepping stones to fame
There are many kinds of love in this great big world
But there's no love like a love of a true blue girl
True love's a blessing...
Some girls take their love too casually they flirt
Some girls use their love to break a heart to hurt
There are many kinds of love to be found that's true
But there's no love like a love I found when I found you
True love's a blessing...
True love's a blessing...
One more time true love's a blessing...
Too many times you've broken my heart too many times you said we must part
Each time you left me heart broken and then
Each time you'd say let's be sweethearts again
But too many times you sent me away this time's the last time and this time I'll stay
For if we'd never part you'll keep breaking my heart
And you've done it too many times
Yeah too many times you sent me away...
You've done it too many times
I'd walk out on all my friends to get to you
If I lose them all for your love I'll do that too
Guess they mean well when they tell me what to do
But they don't know how far I'd go to get to you
Burning bridges behind me to get to you breaking all ties that bind me to get to you
I hold your love far above what I go through
I'd give all I own for a stepping stone to get to you
If it's the last thing I do I'll get to you
Because I know just how much you want me to
You're the only thing that can bring my world in view
Every breath I take every move I make is to get to you
Burning bridges behind me...
Dear daughter I tiptoed to your room tonight
And I looked down at you smiling in your sleep
You were so lovely my heart nearly broke
And I thought how very much like sleeping beauty a little girl is
When I tuck you in at night I never know how old you'll be when you wake
One evening you crawl on your dad's lap and throw your arms around his neck
The next morning you might be much too grownup for that sort of thing
You're so quickly approachin' my awkward age
Too young to drive a car and yet too old to be carried
Into the house half asleep on daddy's shoulder
I have a secret that I've never told you Sleeping Beauty
You're going on a very exciting trip
You'll travel from yesterday all the way to tomorrow
It's a rapid journey and you'll travel light
Leavin' behind your measles mumps freckles bumps bubblegum and me
I promise not to feel too hurt when you discover
That the world is more important than your daddy's lap
Yesterday you were blue-jeaned and pig-tailed the neighborhood's best tree-climber
Tomorrow you'll be blue-organdie and ponny-tailed
And you'll view the world from a loftier perch a pair of high-heel shoes
Yesterday you could mend a doll's broken leg with a hug
Tomorrow you'll be able to break a young man's heart with a kiss
Ha ha yesterday you could get lost one aisle away from me in a supermarket
Now I have to worry about losin' you down another aisle to some strange young man
You see just at the point where your growing pains stop mine begin
Yesterday you were kind of a pain in the neck when you were around
Tomorrow you'll be an ache in my heart when you're not
Tomorrow you'll lay aside your jumprope and tie up the telephone lines
And that little boy that used to push you in the mud
Well he'll fight to set out a dance with you
The clock upstairs is countin' the minutes for you
And the sky upstairs is savin' its brightest stars
And the sun is waitin' with its shinest day
Oh I can't expect you to live in a dollhouse forever
Sooner or later the butterfly sheds its cocoon and the smallest bird must try its wings
But when you grow up and out of my arms when you finally get too big for my shirts
I'll still recall how you used to scatter dust and dolls
And partially through every room in the house but you spread sunshine too
The dust is settled your mom picked up the dolls
But the sunshine will always fill the corners of our hearts
So here I am talkin' in your sleep
Because well if you saw this look on my face you'd laugh
And if I spoke with this lump in my throat I'd cry
Yeah honey when I looked at you tonight you were a Sleeping Beauty
So I tiptoed over and I kissed you you didn't wake up I knew you wouldn't
According to the legend only the handsome young prince can open your eyes
And I'm just the father of a future bride
So you sleep on pretty thing tomorrow you'll awake and you'll be a young lady
And you won't even realize that you've changed courses in the middle of a dream
But you might notice this little change in me
I look a little different somehow a little sadder a little wiser but a whole lot richer
Tonight I kissed a princess and I feel like a king
There's a tiny drop of sadness in the corner of your eye
Even though I know you'd never let me see you cry
One thing's pretty certain I'm not doin' all that hurtin'
There's a tiny drop of sadness in your eye
We had a quarrel this evening now you tell me you're leaving
But do you really wanna go if you ask me I say no
Cause there's a tiny drop of sadness in your eye
There's a tiny drop...
[ ac.guitar ]
Maybe I was always too demanding but were you really always understanding
If we both would give our best love would take care of the rest
And drive that tiny drop of sadness from your eye
There's a tiny drop...
There's a tiny drop of sadness in your eye
There was a time when I thought of no other and we sang our own love's refrain
Well our hearts beat as one as we had our fun but time changes everything
When you left me my poor heart was broken and our romance did seem all in vain
But the dark cloud have gone there's blue skies again cause time changes everything
Well time has passed then I've forgot you mother nature does wonderful things
Well I guess now that it's true for me and for you time changes everything
You can change the name of an old song arearrange it and make it swing
I thought nothing could ever stop me from loving you but time changes everything
Twilight descends everyday ends till tomorrow tomorrow
Since we must part here is my heart till tomorrow tomorrow
Clouds drifting by echo a sigh parting is such sweet sorrow
I'm drifting too dreaming of you till tomorrow comes
[ harmonica ]
Till tomorrow tomorrow
[ harmonica ]
Till tomorrow tomorrow
Clouds drifting by...
Till tomorrow comes
A Thing Called Love
Jimmy Dean
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 acryin like a little whipped pup
Because of 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 (1)
Take your world, turn it all around
Ever since time nothins ever been
Found that's stronger than love
Most men are like me they struggle and doubt
Trouble their mind day in and day out
Too busy a livin to worry about a thing called love
But when I see a mother's tenderness as she holds
her young close to her breast,then I thank God
This worlds been blessed with a thing called love
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There shall be showers of blessing this is a promise of love
There shall be seasons refreshing sent from the Saviour above
Showers of blessing showers of blessing we need
Mercy drops round us are falling but for the showers we plead
There shall be showers of blessing precious reviving again
Over the hills and the valleys sound of abandons of rain
Showers of blessing showers of blessing we need...
There shall be showers of blessing oh but today they might fall
Now as to God reconfesing now as on Jesus we call
Showers of blessing showers of blessing we need...
There goes my last reason for living
When you loved me I was richer than a king
Now you're gone and life is such an empty thing
The tears I try so hard to hide won't bring you back to me
And there goes my last reason for living
If pride hadn't come to rule the world you live in
And take away the meaning of forgivin'
You would have heard me say as you turned to walk away
There goes my last reason for living
Now I know I was a fool to be untrue all I want is just to make it up to you
But time's run out and I'm about to lose this someone new
And there goes my last reason for living
If pride hadn't come...
You would have heard me say...
We were so happy when love lingered on back in our sweet used to be
But now it's all over and you were gone leaving a sad memory
And there's tears on my pillow each morning I cry when I dream about you
When I should be sleeping I just lay there weeping wondering if you're weeping too
I'm trying so hard to forget you but that's not so easy to do
With these tears on my pillow each morning tears that I've shed over you
Tears on my pillow each morning...
(Tears on my pillow)
Talk to me baby tell me what's on your mind please tell me baby if you'd be so kind
To tell me your problems and what I can do
To show you baby that I'm so in love with you
All yesterday's kisses still on your mind of a love that used to be
I know that my lips they're not his lips but they can be your lips
If you just hold to me
Just talk to me baby tell me what I can do
To show you baby that I'm so in love with you
(Tell me you love tell you care)
Precious Lord take my hand lead me on let me stand
I am tired I am weak I am worn
Through the storm through the night lead me on to the light
Take my hand precious Lord lead me on
When my way growith drear precious Lord linger near
When my life is almost gone
Hear me cry hear me call take my hand last I fall
Take my hand precious Lord lead me on (lead me on)
In my arms there's someone new I give my goodnight kisses to
But it's still the same old you in my heart
No other lips no other touch gets to me baby half as much
Cause it's still the same old you in my heart
I thought that I would find a newer truer love
But I might as well stop before I start
Although I try oh how I try to kiss your memory goodbye
It's still the same old you in my heart
I thought that I...
Yes it's still the same old you in my heart
All by myself in the morning all by myself in the night
I sit alone with a table and a chair so unhappy there bein' solitare
All by myself I get lonely watching the clock on the shelf
I want to rest my weary head on somebody's shoulder
Oh I hate to grow older all by meself
[ choir - trumpet ]
All by myself I get lonely...
These hands ain't the hands of a gentleman
These hands are calloused and old
These hands raised a family
And these hands raised a home
Now these hands raised to praise the Lord
These hands won the heart of my loved one
And with hers they were never never alone
If these hands do their task, then what more can one ask
For these fingers have worked to the bone
Now I'm tired and I'm old and I ain't got much gold
Maybe things ain't been all that I planned
But God above hear my plea, when it's time to judge me
Take a look at these hard working hands
Yes I'm tired and I'm old and I ain't got much gold
Maybe things ain't been all that I planned
But God above hear my plea, when it's time to judge me
Take a look at these hard working hands
Oh when I'm lonely I think of someone someone I call Sweet Misery
In her arms I was in heaven but heaven wasn't meant for me
Oh I still love her oh but I lost her ah when she walked out the hurt walked in
Now our love's gone just like an old song that no one ever wants to hear again
I count heartaches that I think fool makes and I think about my Sweet Misery
To my sorrow each new tomorrow proves there's never been a bigger fool than me
Yeah cause in her arms I was in heaven but heaven wasn't meant for me
Oh when I'm lonely I think about someone someone I call Sweet Misery
Yeah someone I call Sweet Misery yeah someone I call Sweet Misery
Pretty baby that I call Sweet Misery
Sweet hour of prayer sweet hour of prayer
That calls me from a world of care
And bids me at my father's throne
Makes all my wants and wishes known
In seasons of distress and grief
My soul has often found relief
And oft escaped the tempter's snare
By Thy return sweet hour of prayer
Sweet hour of prayer sweet hour of prayer
Thy wings shall my petition bear
To Him whose truth and faithfulness
Engage the waiting soul to bless
And since he bids me seek his face
Believe his word and trust his grace
I'll cast on him my every care
And wait for Thee sweet hour of prayer
you are my sweet sweet georgia
oh you are my sweet baby
when i first saw you down by the river
i thought that all my dreams had come true
true with you
(Well it's not my sister and it's not my brother but it's me Lord
Well it's not my father and it's not my mother but it's me Lord)
Mhm it's me it's me oh Lord a standing in the need of prayer
It's me it's me oh Lord a standing in the need of prayer
Not my sister but it's me oh Lord a standing in the need of prayer
Not my brother but it's me oh Lord a standing in the need of prayer
(Well it's not my uncle and it's not my cousin but it's me Lord
Well it's not my grandma and it's not my grandpa but it's me Lord
It's me it's me oh Lord it's me it's me oh Lord
It's me it's me oh Lord...
Not my father but it's me oh Lord a standing in the need of prayer
(Not my mother) oh it's me oh Lord a standing in the need of prayer
Oh well it's not my doctor and it's not my lawyer it's just me Lord (it's me oh Lord)
And it's not my butcher and it's not my baker it's me Lord (it's me oh Lord)
It's me it's me oh Lord...
Well it's not my father and it's not my mother a standing in the need of prayer
Stand beside me stand beside me you're the only one who ever made me care
I can't stand to think that I might be alone
Not alone again not the way it was back then
Before you walked into my heart and told me we would never part
So stand beside be don't never let me be alone again
Stand beside me stand beside me for if I should lose you I just couldn't get anywhere
Stand beside me stand beside me you're the only one who ever made me care
There'll be times when everything goes wrong
But darling I won't care if I know you're standing there
No matter what we have to do together we can see it through
So stand beside me and I'll be standing right there next to you
Stand beside me...
I know that someday you'll want me to want you
When I'm in love with somebody else
You expect me to be true and keep on loving you
Though I am feeling blue you think I can't forget you
Until someday you'll want me to want you when I am strong for somebody new
Although you don't want me now I'll get along somehow
And then I won't no I won't want you
[ trumpet ]
Until someday you'll want me...
No I won't no I won't want you
On an old far house veranda there sat Silas and Marinda dreamin' of the days gone by
He said deary don't be weary you're always bright and cheery
Now a tear did dim your eye
She said they're not tears of sadness Silas they are tears of gladness
It was fifty years ago the day we wed
Then the old man's dim eyes brighten and his old heart it lighten
As he turned to her and said
Put on your old grey bonnet with all the blue ribbons on it
While I hitch all dovin' to the shade
Through those fields of clover you'll ride up to Dover on our golden wedding day
Put on your old grey bonnet...
Put on your old grey bonnet...
On our golden wedding day
Put it off until tomorrow oh oh you've hurt me enough today
You say our love is over that you have found another
And you say you're going away
Leave me tomorrow oh oh you've hurt me enough today
I've hurt me enough today you can't believe a word that I say
But you must accept the fact I won't be coming back
Oh but stay stay just one more day loneliness isn't far away
Put it off until tomorrow oh oh you've hurt me enough today
Put it off until tomorrow oh oh you've hurt me enough today
Smoke Smoke Smoke That Cigarette
Merle Travis/Tex Ritter
1. Now I'm a fella with a heart of gold - With the ways of a gentleman I've been told
A kind of a guy that wouldn't even harm a flea
But if me and a certain character met - The guy that invented the cigarette
I'd murder that son of a gun in the first degree
2. It ain't that I don't smoke myself - And I don't reckon they'll hinder your health
I've smoked them all my life and I ain't dead yet
But nicotine slaves are all the same - At a pettin€™ party or a poker game
Everythin's gotta stop while you have that cigarette
Smoke smoke smoke that cigarette puff puff puff and if you smoke yourself to death
Tell St Peter at the Golden Gate that you hate to make him wait
But you just gotta have another cigarette
3. Now at a game of chance the other night - Ol' Dame Fortune was a doin' me right
The kings and queens just kept on comin' round
And I got a full and I bettet high - But my bluff didn't work on a certain guy
He just kept a risin' and layin' his money down
4. He'd raise me and I'd raise him - And I sweated blood you gotta sink or swim
He finally called and he couldn€™t raise the bet
I said €œaces full pal how about you€? - He said €œI'll tell you in a minute or two
But right now I just gotta have another cigarette€?
Smoke smoke smoke...
[ piano ]
5. Now the other night I had me a date - With the cutest little gal in the fifty states
One of them highbred up-town fancy little dames
She said she loved me and it seemed to me - That things were just about like they oughta be
So hand in hand we strolled down Lover's Lane
6. She was oh so far from a chunk of ice - And our smoochin' party was a goin' real nice
So help me Hannah and I think I'd of been there yet
I give her a kiss and a little squeeze - And she said €œwould you excuse me please
But I just gotta have another cigarette€?
Smoke smoke smoke... X 2
You just gotta have another cigarette
Some people say a man is made outta mud.
A poor man's made outta muscle and blood.
Muscle and blood, skin and bones;
A mind that's weak and a back that's strong.
You load sixteen tons an' what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
St Peter don't you call me cause I can't go:
I owe my soul to the company store.
Well, I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine.
I picked up a shovel, an' I walked out to the mine.
I loaded sixteen tons of Number 9 coal,
An' the store boss said: "Well, bless my soul."
You load sixteen tons an' what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
St Peter don't you call me cause I can't go:
I owe my soul to the company store.
Well, I was born one mornin', it was drizzlin' rain.
Fightin' an' trouble was my middle name.
I was raised in the canebreak by an old mama lion,
Can't no high-toned woman makes me walk the line.
You load sixteen tons an' what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
St Peter don't you call me cause I can't go:
I owe my soul to the company store.
Well, if you see me comin', better step aside.
A lotta men didn't, an' a lotta men died.
One fist of iron, the other of steel.
If the right one don't get you, then the left one will.
You load sixteen tons an' what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
St Peter don't you call me cause I can't go:
I owe my soul to the company store.
Here's a song I love to sing it's about the girl that wears my ring
And even though I'm tempted I know she'll make sure that I get everything
Cause when I'm cold I know she's warm and she warm me in her arms
And when I'm sad she makes me glad and she's my shelter from the storm
She's my song when I feel like singing and she swings when I feel like swinging
I don't know what she's doin' right but it makes me come home at night
And when I'm home she makes sure I'm never alone
And that's why I keep singing my song
Yeah and when I'm home...
Singing my song
(Shutters and boards cover the windows of the house where we used to live)
All I have left is a heart full of sorrow since she said she'd never forgive
The house that we've built was once filled with laughter
But I changed that laughter to tears
And now I must live in a world without sunshine oh how I wish you were here
Shutters and boards...
Last night I dreamed that you came to our house and took an old book from the shelf
If you'll open the shutters I'll tear down the boards
Cause I drove every nail by myself
Shutters and boards...
All I have left is a heart full of sorrow since she said she'd never forgive
Oh Shenandoah I long to see you away you rolling river
Shenandoah I long to see you away I'm bound to way across the wide Missouri
Oh Shenandoah I love your daughter away you rolling river
Shenandoah I'll cross your waters away I'm bound to way across the wide Missouri
Cross the wide Missouri
[ harmonica ]
(Oh Shenandoah I'm gonna leave you away you rolling river
Oh Shenandoah I long to see you away I'm bound to way across the wide Missouri
Cross the wide Missouri)
Farewell my love I'm gonna leave you away you rolling river
Shenandoah I not deceive you away I'm bound to way across the wide Missouri
Cross the wide Missouri
Just because I asked a friend about her just because I spoke her name somewhere
Just because I rang her number by mistake today she thinks I still care
Just because I haunt the same old places
Where the mem'ry of her lingers everywhere
Just because I'm not the happy guy I used to be she thinks I still care
But if she's happy thinking I still need her then let that silly notion bring her cheer
But how could she ever be so foolish oh where could she get such an idea
Just because I asked a friend about her just because I spoke her name somewhere
Just bacause I saw her then went all to pieces she thinks I still care
Ah she thinks I still care
You've painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair
Ruby are you contemplatin' going out somewhere
The shadows on the wall tell me the sun is going down
Oh Ruby don't take your love to town
For it wasn't me that started that old crazy Asian war
But I was proud to go and do my patriotic chores
Ruby I know I'm not the man that I used to be but Ruby I still need your company
It's hard to love a man whose legs're bent and paralized
And the wants and the needs of a woman your age Ruby I realize
But it won't be long I've heard them say until I'm not around
Oh Ruby don't take your love to town
She's leaving now cause I just heard the slamming of the door
The way I know I heard it slam one hundred times before
If I could move I get my gun and put her in the ground
Oh Ruby don't take your love to town Ruby for God's sakes turn around
Though they say she's not your kind if you love her pay no mind
It is hard a wise man knows a rose is a rose is a rose
From the finest part of town or a shack that's tumbling down
In a gown or shabby closthes a rose is a rose is a rose
There may be tracks through the heart of town keepin' the two worlds apart
But someday you'll find as I have found there are no tracks in your heart and soul
If you feel that she's the one makes no difference where she's from
Cause no matter where it goes a rose is a rose is a rose
Cause no matter where it goes a rose is a rose is a rose
Wish that I was on old Rocky Top down in the Tennessee hills
Cause there ain't no smoggy smoke on Rocky Top ain't no telephone bills
Once I had a girl on Rocky Top half bear the other part cat
Wild as a mink but sweet as a soda pop and I still dream about that
Rocky Top you'll always be home sweet home to me
Good ole Rocky Top Rocky Top Tennessee Rocky Top Tennessee
Once two strangers climbed old Rocky Top lookin' for a moonshine still
Strangers ain't come down from Rocky Top reckon they never will
Corn won't grow at all on Rocky Top dirt's too rocky by far
That's why all the folks on Rocky Top get their corn from a jar
Rocky Top you'll always be...
[ banjo - harmonica ]
Rocky Top you'll always be...
Rocky Top Tennessee
Rock of ages cleft for me let me hide myself in Thee
Let the water and the blood from Thy wounded side which fload
Thee of sin the double cure save from raft and make me pure
While I draw this pleading breath when my eyes shall close in death
When I rise to worlds unknown and behold the own Thy throne
Rock of ages cleft for me let me hime myself in Thee
Reuben James in my song you'll live again
And the phrases that I rhyme are just the footsteps out of time
For the time when I knew you Reuben James
Reuben James all the folks around Madison Caunty cussed your name
Just a no count sharecroppin' colored man who'd steal anything he can
And they always put the blame on Reuben James
Reuben James you still walk the furrowed fields of my mind
The faded shirt the wrinkled brow the calloused hand upon the plow
I loved you then and I love you now Reuben James
Flora Gray the gossip of Madison County died with child
And although your skin was black you were the one who didn't turn your back
On a hungry white child with no name Reuben James
Reuben James with your mind on my soul and Bible in your right hand
You said turn the other cheek there's a better world waitin' for the meek
In my head these words remain from Reuben James
Reuben James you still walk...
Reuben James one dark cloudy day they brought you from the fields
And that lonely pinebox came just a preacher me and the rain
To sing one last refrain for Reuben James
Reuben James you still walk...
If you're all alone and blue no one to tell your troubles to
Remember me cause I'm the one who loves you
If the whole world turned you down and not a true friend can be found
Remember me cause I'm the one who loves you
Through all kinds of weather you know I'll never change
Through the sunshine and the shadows I'll always be the same
Oh we're together right or wrong and where you go I'll tag along
Remember me cause I'm the one who loves you
Yes through all kinds of weather...
Remember me cause I'm the one who loves you
Oh it don't worked out the way that I planned it's over but it's so hard to understand
So I read the letters that you wrote to me I read 'em and weep read 'em and weep
Mem'ries keep coming back with each tender lie
Oh why why do I read 'em time after time
Tears keep on falling till I can hardly see I read 'em and weep read 'em and weep
They all start my dearest darling and end if you recall
With yours alone forever and then you seal them all
With kisses oh why should leave these mem'ries behind
Burn 'em and try to get you out of my mind
All the letters remind me all that used to be I read 'em and weep read 'em and weep
Read 'em and weep read 'em and weep
Rainbow girl you chase the dark clouds out of my world
You put the sunshine back in its place you put a smile back on my face
Goodbye rain so long pain my skies turn to blue when I found you rainbow girl
Now the world got a way of looking bad
When you've lost the only love you've ever had
And I guess that mine would still be looking wrong if you hadn't come along
Rainbow girl...
[ trumpet ]
Life to me is just an empty glass painted with the flavor of the past
You came along and took it from my hand and filled it up with something grand
Rainbow girl...
Rainbow girl
Now give me that old time religion give me that old time religion
Give me that old time religion Lord it's good enough for me
Makes me love everybody makes me love everybody
Makes me love everybody and it's good enough for me
I said give me that old time religion...
Now it's good for our fathers it was good for our fathers
It was good for our fathers and it's good enough for me
Oh give me that old time religion...
Oh makes me love everybody...
In '43 they Set to sea
13 men and Kennedy
Aboard the PT 109
To fight the Brazen enemy
On the isle of ol lusana
in the strait beyond nehru
A Jap deatroyer in the night
Cut the '109 in two.
CHORUS:
Smokin fire upon the sea
Everywhere they looked was the enemy
the heathen gods of old Japan
Yeah, the thought they had the best of a mighty good man
On the coast, commanderos, lookin thru this periscope
Australian niven saw the battle
For the crew had little hope
two were dead, some were wounded, all were clinging to the bow
Fightin fire, fightin water, trying to save their lives somehow.
CHORUS:
Smokin fire upon the sea
Everywhere they looked was the enemy
the heathen Gods of old Japan
Yeah, the thought they had the best of a mighty good man
Mac Me hun, the irishman, was burned so badly he couldn't swim
leave me here, go on he said, cause if you don't we'll all be dead
the PT's skipper wouldn't leave him, a man to die alone at sea
with his strap, between his teeth, he towed the irishman to the sea.
CHORUS:
Smokin fire upon the sea
everywhere they looked was the enemy
the heathen gods of old Japan
they thought they had the best of a mighty good man
He led his men thru water's Dark
rocky reefs and hungry skarks
braved the enemy's bayonets
a .38 around his neck
4 more days, 4 more nights,
a recue boat pulled into sight
the PT 109 was gone,
but Kennedy and his crew lived on
So who could Guess, and who could possibly know
that this same man named Kennedy, would,
be the leader of a nation,
be the one to take command,
the PT 109 was gone but Kennedy lived to fight again,
Smokin fire upon the sea,
Everywhere they looked was the enemy,
but JFK and his crew lived on,
which proves it's hard to get get the best of a man named John
Big John
Big John
Big John
Precious mem'ries how they linger sent from somewhere to my soul
How they linger ever near me and the sacred past unfolds
Precious mem'ries how they linger how they ever flood my soul
In the stillness of the midnight precious sacred scenes unfold
In the stillness of the midnight echoes from the past I hear
All time singing gladness ringing from the lovely land somewhere
Precious mem'ries how they linger...
(singers)
Just picture a lad, between Mom and Dad
Its Sunday the tables all set
There's uncles, there's aunts, and cousins galore
There's plenty of food to be et
The blessing is said, they reach for the bread
It's a feast a king could afford
There's clatter, there's chatter, but something's the matter
There's someone who's being ignored
(spoken)
Uh, would you please pass the biscuits?
Uh, would you pass the biscuits please?
Same thing ever Sunday since I can't remember when
Kinfolks all around the table and the biscuits at tuther end
I got a plate of chicken and taters, and a lot of stuff like that
All, all I need is a biscuit, but I wish you'd look where they're at
I guess I could reach across the table,
But that's ill-mannered, Mom always said
I wish I had a biscuit, I just can't eat without bread
Uh, would you pass the biscuits
Uh, excuse me, would you please pass the biscuits
All I want is a biscuit, nobody seems to care
If they wouldn't talk so dog-gone loud
They might be able to hear
Hot doggies, they're half-finished eatin' and I ain't even begun
I wish you'd look at them biscuits disappear, I'll be luck if I get a one
Same thing ever Sunday, always company to be fed
They're talkin' like they're wound up
Boy, I wish I had a piece of bread
HEY!!!! Would, would, would you please pass the biscuits
It looks like somebody would notice that I ain't started eatin' yet
Sure be glad when they get their fill, and go into the parlor and set
Then, by golly, I won't have to use my manners
I'll just get a biscuit myself
Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle, there ain't a biscuit left
The only day of the week we get Sunday-fed
And they've et up all the biscuits
And, uh, I just can't eat without bread
(singers)
There's something the matter, no bread on the platter
And he just can't eat without bread
Well I'm tired and so weary but I must go along
Till the Lord comes and calls me calls me away oh yes
Well the morning is bright and the lamb is the light
And the night night is as black as the day
There will be peace in the valley for me some day
There will be peace in the valley for me oh Lord I pray
There'll be no sadness no sorrow (oh my Lord) no trouble I see
There will be peace in the valley for me
Well the bear will be gentle and the wolf will be tame
And the lion shall lay down by the lamb oh yes
The beast from the wild shall be lead by a child
And I'll be changed changed from this creature that I am (oh yes)
There will be peace in the valley...
Pass me not oh gentle Saviour hear my humble cry
While all others now are calling do not pass me by
Saviour Saviour hear my humble cry
While all others now are calling do not pass me by
Trusting only in Thy merit would I seek Thy face
Heal my wounded broken spirit save me by Thy grace
Saviour Saviour hear my humble cry...
Thou the springer of my confort more than life to me
Whom have I on earth beside Thee whome in heaven but Thee
Saviour Saviour hear my humble cry...
Mhm I'd like to be the one you say good mornin' to
Then I could spend my days seein' just how many ways
I could make your dreams come true
So if you're a looking for someone to travel through the world with you
I'd like to be the one you say good mornin' to
Oh I like the way you say hello when I see you walkin' down the street
That smile you leave behind lingers on my mind and makes my day complete
In fact I find it very easy to like most everything you do
And I'd like to be the one you say good mornin' to
I'd like to be the one you say good mornin' to...
Oh yeah I'd like to be the one you say good mornin' to good morning sunshine
One last time one last time let me kiss you and pretend that you're still mine
Wantin' you so before you go let me hold you let me love you one last time
You tell me that the love you have for me is gone
That you no longer care and we just can't go on
Though I've lost your love and we will break the final time
If we must part please give my heart one last goodbye
One last time...
You tell me someone new takes all your time today
That my love no longer thrills but just gets in the way
You ask me to forgive because you love him so
I'll try and understand but please before you go
One last time...
Let me hold you let me love you one last time
(Once a day every day all day long)
When I found somebody new I thought I never would
Forget you for then I thought I never could
But time has taken all the pain away until now I'm down to hurtin' once a day
Once a day all day long and once a night from dusk till dawn
The only time I wish you weren't gone is once a day every day all day long
I'm so glad that I'm not like a guy I knew one time
He lost the one he loved then slowly lost his mind
He sat around and cried his life away lucky me I'm only crying once a day
Once a day all day long...
Once a day all day long
How old was I when I first seen Old Rivers
I can't remember when he weren't around
That old fellow he did a heap of work he spent his whole life walkin' plowed ground
He had the one roomed shack not far from us well we's about as poor as him
He had one old mule he used to call Midnight I'd tread along after then
He used to plow them rows just straight and deep and I'd come along behind
Bustin' up plows with my own bare feet Old Rivers he was a friend of mine
The sun had get high and that old mule he'd work Old Rivers he'd finally say whoa
He'd wipe his brow and he'd laid back on them reins
He'd talk about that place he's wanna go
He used to say one of these days I'm gonna climb that mountain
I'm gonna walk up there among them Clouds
Where the cotton's high and the corns're growin' and there ain't no fields to plow
I got a letter today it's from the folks back home
They're all doin' fine the crop's a little dry
Mom said down near the end, you heard Old Rivers died
Sittin' here now on this new plowed earth just tryin' find a little shade
Well sun's beatin' down cross them fields now I can see that mule Old Rivers and me
I hear 'em sayin' one of these days...
With the sun beaitin' down cross them fields (I see) that mule Old Rivers and me
The General just gave me a medal oh I'm a sight for mom to see
But when the news gets round that I ain't got ole Bill
Some kids gonna think a whole lot less of me
You see she gave me that puppy and said he'd protect me through the night
And if I got hurt he'd go for help or he'd back me up in a fight
He growed all the while I was trainin' forget him I never will
Cause you'd never see me with right at my heels was Oklahoma Bill
We hit a long ridge one sunup and it seemed like death held all the cards
Cause we payed and payed with lives of men for every hard fought yard
When finally we drove up to the top there wasn't nothin' but death behind
And as we all dug in we all thanked God though we numbered only nine
And as the snipers switched their guns as darkness closed that hill
My soul companion in the night was Oklahoma Bill
There's no glory in a battle once you've seen its awful cost
But there's glory in the knowledge that your flag is never lost
And yet in the stillness of the nightime and all alone you hold a post
You start cryin' like a baby sittin' there with all the ghosts
You feel your buddies are pattin' your back though their guns're silent and still
It's only a dog tryin' to love you my Oklahoma Bill
I gave my note to the Colonel and I bound a shattered leg
And I said Bill we're sure in trouble he never whimpered or begged
I could tell he hated to leave me I was the only God he ever knew
But quick as a flash he took of through the night like a fightin' marine would do
I kept firin' till help finally came it was him though that saved that hill
A dyin' dog had got through the lines my Oklahoma Bill
That little ol' kid will always wonder what happened to her dog
But she'll find out on Judgement Day when she sees the big Skipper's log
We'll all walk in and bugles'll blow and we'll stand our last revue
And men who've died for men on earth will get their heavenly dues
And if all brave hearts are there that day I'll get my greatest thrill
When I hang this medal around the neck of Oklahoma Bill
Everybody knows now everybody knows
Well 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
You sit and hold each other's hand in front of all our friends
Now everybody knows now everybody knows why my heart cries
There's no need to tell you you're too in love to see
Everything I've told you baby you thought was jealousy
But if he ever breaks your heart the same as you broke mine
Just come on running back to me you're welcome any old time
Cause everybody knows yeah everybody knows why my heart cries
Everybody knows how your love for him grows as our love dies
I gotta get up I gotta get goin' rain or shine sleetin' or snowin'
Nothing can stop me stop me stop my loving you
Wander through woods climb a high mountain
Love's in my heart like waters in a fountain
Nothing can stop me stop me stop my loving you
Cross the fire walk through river you'll be the taker and I'll be the giver
I'll give you lovin' lovin' honey that's what I'll do
Climb a big wall I'd tear into pieces I gotta get to your love and kisses
Nothing can stop me stop me stop my loving you
[ piano - guitar ]
I can't stop praisin' the day I found you
I'd walk a hundred miles just to be around you
Nothing can stop me stop me stop my loving you
Nothing at all nothing in the world can
Make me stop fallin' for you my girl friend
Nothing can stop me stop me stop my loving you
Cross the fire walk through river...
Cross the fire walk through river...
North south east or west where can I forget her best
North south east or west which way should I go Lord I just don't know
They say that Maine is beautiful and so is old Vermount
But beauty makes me think of her and that's what I want
I've heard that California sun makes living seem worthwhile
But snshine makes me think about the way she uised to smile
North south east or west...
[ ac.uitar ]
They tell me Pennsicola Bay has sand that's snowy white
But I think about your soft white skin and yearn to hold you tight
I've heard that northern Canada gets forty five below
But cold would make me think about the love I wanted so
North south east or west...
When life seems full of clouds and rain and I am filled with not but pain
Who soothes my thumpin' bumpin' brain nobody
When winter come with snow and sleet me with hunger and cold feet
Who says here's too bit more to eat nobody
I ain't never done nothin' to nobody and I ain't never got nothin' from nobody no time
And until I get some from somebody sometime
I don't intend to do nothin' for nobody no time
Well I'm tyrin' hard and schemin' a plan to do the very best I can
Who says look at that handsome man nobody
Well all day long things go a mess and I go home to find some bliss
Who's waitin' there with a lovin' kiss nobody
I ain't never done nothin'...
Nobody no time
Well that nine pound hammer is a little too heavy
For my size honey for my size
Roll on buddy pull a load o'coal
Now how you gonna roll roll roll when the wheels won't roll
Well it's a long way to Harlem it's a long way to Hazzard
Just to get a little brew my friend get a little brew
And that nine pound hammer it done killed John Henry
It ain't a gonna kill me no siree it ain't gonna kill me
Roll on buddy pull a load o'coal
Now how you gonna roll roll roll when the wheels won't roll
I'm goin' on that mountain I'm gonna see my baby
And I ain't comin' back no siree I ain't comin' back
And when I'm long gone well you can make my tombstone
Out of number nine coal my friend number nine coal
Roll on buddy pull a load o'coal
Now how you gonna roll roll roll when the wheels won't go
Yeah roll on buddy pull a load o'coal
Now how you gonna roll roll roll when them wheels won't go
When them wheels won't go roll on buddy
Take that night train to Memphis take that night train to Memphis
And when you arrive at the station
I'll be right there to meet you gonna be right there to greed you
So don't turn down my invitation
Hallelujah hallelujah I'll be shoutin' hallelujah all the day
There'll gonna be a jubilee down in Memphis Tennessee
And we'll shout hallelujah all the way
Take that night train to Memphis take that night train to Memphis
You know how I'm longing to see you
Leave that 3-50-7 and arive at eleven and then I'll be shoutin' hallelujah
Hallelujah hallelujah...
[ guitar ]
Night train to Memphis take that night train to Memphis oh yeah
Keep that engine stack a smokin' I'm not a kiddin' I'm not a jokin'
I'll soon be with my gal I'm hopin'
Hallelujah hallelujah...
I'm gonna shout hallelujah all the way I'm gonna shout hallelujah all the way
Six foot six 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 a 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 nothing's ever been found stronger than love
[ guitar ]
Most men are like me they struggle in doubt
Trouble their minds day in and day out
Too busy of livin' to worry about a thing called love
But when I see a mother's tenderness as she holds her young close to her brest
Than I thank God that this world's been blessed with a thing called love
Can't see it with your eyes...
Standing on the road walking down the highway
Ain't going nowhere but that's my way of life
Well I ain't never had much ambition but I always made my own way
By turnin' a couple of jobs in some ladies' backyard I averaged about a dollar a day
I wake up early each morning and before I started on my way
I get some cigarettes and a couple of cups of coffee a sweepin' the local city cafe
Standing on the road...
Ain't never had no one to love me never had girl to call my own
I never would take a chance to fool with romance I guess I'm used to being alone
Nobody wants a drifter so I'll keep moving on
There's nothin' to tie me down when I wanna leave town
Nobody's gonna miss me when I'm gone
Standing on the road...
It would be a comfort to know you'd never doubt me
Even though I give you cause most every day
Sometimes I think that you'd be better off without me
Although I love you in my own peculiar way
Though I may not always be the way you'd have me be
Though my faults may grow in number day by day
Let no one ever say I ever been untrue I'll always love you in my own peculiar way
Don't doubt my love if sometimes my mind should wonder
To a suddenly remembered yesterday
My thoughts could never stay too long away from you
Because I love you in my own peculiar way
Though I may not...
I'll always love you in my own peculiar way
Sometimes I wonder when things go so wrong has God forsaken and left me alone
Then I remember through trials of distress
He's always with me I'm most richly blessed
I asked for strenght that I might achieve
I was given weakness that I might learn humbly to obey
I asked for health that I might do great things
I was given informity that I might do better things
I asked for riches that I might be happy I was given powerty that I might be wise
I asked for power that I might have the praise of men
I was made weak that I might feel the need of God
I asked for all things that I might enjoy life I was given life that I might enjoy all things
I got nothing that I asked for but everything that I hoped for
And almost despite myself I among men am most richly blessed
He's always with me I am most richly blessed
Money marbles and chalk sweetheart but I still feel like I'm poor
Cause my money won't spend and my marbles won't roll
And my chalk it don't ride anymore
Now there's an old saying that's been all around I heard it before I could walk
How some's got health and some's got wealth others money marbles and chalk
I got money marbles...
While you were near me I was happy and gay your presence made me feel so proud
But now that you left me it's a lonely old world and I feel I'm alone in a crowd
I got money marbles...
Now the money and marbles and chalk are just fine for a miser who loves only gold
But just give me a chance to say our romance cause I love you with all of my soul
I got money marbles...
(Now everybody) money marbles...
A harvest of sunshine a sky full of blue
A haystack of happiness and buckets of dreams come true
And all the things in whole the world all that I wish for you
It's just a harvest of sunshine and a sky full of blue
(A harvest) a harvest (of sunshine) nothing but sunshine (and a sky full of blue)
And a great big sky full of blue
A haystack of happiness and buckets of dreams come true
Hey look and see though you may be one of one hundred and two
You've got a harvest of sunshine and a sky full of blue
[ rh.banjo ]
A great big harvest of sunshine and a sky full of blue
Wagon train mile long train
Four hundred mules six hundred men they didn't know the devil was in
This mile long train wagon train
A man in black no one knew his name he was a devil for sure a leadin' that train
He said all you miners mule skinners too fifteen days I'll save for you
You see that plain those mountains there I'll take you across ha ha ha if you dare
Wagon train mile long train...
Now the only way out was the way they came in
And the shiftin' sand coverd track where they've been
So one by one they all died of thirst
And the the devil has laughed in this mile long hurst
That's where the name Death Valley began for there's no way out and only one way in
Wagon train mile long train...
RAMBLIN' ROSE
(Noel Sherman - Joe Sherman)
© '62 Sneco Music
Ramblin' rose ramblin' rose why you ramble heaven knows
Wild and wind blown that's how you've grown
Who can cling to a ramblin' rose
YOUR CHEATIN' HEART
(Hank Williams)
© '52 Fred Rose Music
Your cheatin' heart will make you weep
You'll cry and cry you'll try to sleep
But sleep won't come the whole night through
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you
JAMBALAYA (ON THE BAYOU)
(Hank Williams)
© '52 Fred Rose Music
Goodbye Joe me gotta go me oh my oh
Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou
My Yvonne the sweetest one me oh my oh
Son of a gun we're gonna have big fun on the bayou
Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and fillet gumbo
Cause tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher amio
Pick guitar fill fruit jar and be gay-o
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou
I'M SO LONESOME I COULD CRY
(Hank Williams)
© '49 Fred Rose Music
Hear the lonesome whippoorwill he sounds too blue to fly
And as I wonder where you are I'm so lonesome I could cry
KING OF THE ROAD
(Roger Miller)
© '64 Tree Publishing
Trailer for sale or rent rooms to left fifty cents
No phone no pool no pets I ain't got no cigarettes
Ah but two hours of pushing broom gets a eight by twelve four bit room
Well I'm a man of means by no means king of the road
King of the road king of the road
TUMBLING TUMBLEWEEDS
(Bob Nolan)
© '34 Williamson Music
See them tumbling down pledging their love to the ground
Lonely but free I'll be found
Drifting along with a tumbling tumbleweeds
Cares of the past are behind nowhere to go but I'll find
Just where the trail will wind
Drifitng along with a tumbling tumbleweeds
I CAN'T STOP LOVING YOU
(Don Gibson)
© '58 Acuff-Rose Music
I can't stop loving you I've made up my mind
To live in memories of the lonesome times
I can't stop wanting you oh it's useless to say
So I'll just spend my life in dreams of yesterday
Make the world go away and get it off my shoulder
Say the things you used to say and make the world go away
Do you remember when you loved me before the world took me astray
If you do then forgive me and make the world go away
Make the world go away...
I'm sorry if I hurt you I'll make it up day by day
Just say you love me like you used to and make the world go away
Make the world go away...
Say the things you used to say and make the world go away
(And it keeps right on a hurtin' since you're gone)
I cry myself to sleep at night wishing I could hold you tight
Life seems so empty since you went away
The pillow where you lay your head now holds my lonely tears instead
And it keeps right on a hurtin' since you're gone
It keeps right on a hurtin' every minute of the day
Every hour you're away I feel so lonely
I can't help it I don't think I can go on
And it keeps right on a hurtin' since you're gone
They say a man should never cry but when I see you passin' by
My heart breaks down and cries a million tears
You broke my heart then set me free but you forgot your memory
And it keeps right on a hurtin' since you're gone
It keeps right on a hurtin' every minute of the day...
Yes it keeps right on a hurtin' since you're gone (since you're gone)
God put a song in the heart of an angel
And softly she sang it to me
I get to thinkin' lotta times
About back when I was a lad
The old homeplace where I grew up
And of the days both good and bad
My overalls were hand-me-downs
And my shoes full of holes
But I used to walk four miles to school every day
Through the rain, the sleet and the cold
I've seen the nights when my daddy would cry
For the things that his family would need
But all he ever got was a badland farm
And seven hungry mouths to feed
And yet and yet our homefire never flickered once
'Cause when all the things went wrong
Mama took the hymn book down
And mama sang a song
(What a friend we have in Jesus)
Yeah, I've been rocked to sleep many a night
To the tune of 'What a Friend'
And come morning 'Rock of Ages'
It gently wake me once again
Then daddy'd reach up and take the Bible down
And he'd read it, oh, he read it loud and strong
And I always felt that maybe our home was blessed
When daddy would say "Mama sing a song"
Sister left home first I guess
And then Bob and Tommy then Dan
By then my dad's hair was turning white
And I had to be mama's little man
But when my daddy's back grew weak
It seem my mother's faith grew strong
And those were the greatest days of all
When mama sang a song
(Rock of ages cleft for me, let me hide myself in Thee)
I guess the old house is still standin'
I don't get back [Incomprehensible] much anymore
No voice is left to fill those halls
And no steps to grace the floor
You see mom sings in heaven now
Around God's golden throne
But I'll always believe that
This old world is a better place
Because one time my mama sang a song
Make the waterwheel roll make the waterwheel roll
Bossman bossman my hands're cold (shut up boy and make the waterwheel roll)
Make the waterwheel roll make the waterwheel roll
Grind that corn and make that meal the bossman's belly just gotta be filled
Grind that corn and make that bread the bossman's young un's all gotta be fed
Make the waterwheel roll make the waterwheel roll
Bossman bossman he sure is mean thinks of my body as a steam machine
Make the waterwheel roll make the waterwheel roll
Ole Willie John don't work too hard cause he's got a woman in the rich man's yard
I wanna run away but I'd be found cause the bossman's got two big blood hounds
Make the waterwheel roll...
Feel that rhythm in my soul sing my song while the waterwheel rolls
Workin' all day in the cold cold rain I wish my Lord would call my name
Make the waterwheel roll make the waterwheel roll
Make the waterwheel roll make the waterwheel roll
Make the waterwheel roll make the waterwheel roll
It's good to see you you're looking fine love sure looks good on you
That smile you're wearing makes it so plain to see
Love looks good on you but how this blue look on me
I'm glad you're happy and I wish you the best love sure looks good on you
Now you've got everything except my memory
Love looks good on you but how this blue look on me
Now I'll admit that he's won you and I'll admit that love becomes you
Now you've got everything except my memory
Love looks good on you but how this blue look on me
[ trumpet ]
I'll admit that he's won you...
Love looks good on you but how this blue look on me
I played the losing game when I fell in love with you
Held a losing hand when you told me we were through
Played the losing game when I gave my heart to you
I played it wrong when I fell in love with you
For me the sun will shine no more darkness from now on
I never failed to get the blues whenever you are gone
I played the losing game when I gave my heart to you
I played it wrong when I fell in love with you
[ guitar ]
For me the sun will shine no more...
You've heard me sigh you've seen me cry you've helped to brush my tears away
When things go wrong you're my comfort cause every night you make my day
Your love and touch can do so much your smile helps me to find the way
Straight to the arms that I live for where every night you make my day
Cause every night you make me happy with all the little things you do
You make my life worth living you make my dreams all come true
When day is through I think of you and all my troubles slip away
It's that I long to be near you for every night you make my day
It's that I long to be near you for every night you make my day
I hope I won't disturb you with this call but I'm just in town for such a little while
And I thought perhaps you'd like to hear the news
Jeannie's grades were the highest in the school
Billy sure does look a lot like you I understand your other son does too
Billy said tell mom I miss her so
These were some little things that I thought you'd like to know
If you remember Sam and Peg who lived next door
With them it seemed we always laughed so much
Well Sam and Peg don't live there anymore I understand they broke up just like us
The house we lived in now has been torn down of all the things it was the last to go
The freeway now runs through that part of town
These were some little things I thought you'd like to know
These were some little things I thought you'd like to know
Well, my pretty baby just left me this mornin'
Said she didn't wanna see me no more
Told me not to call her on the telephone
And never come a-knockin' on her door
Well, I fumed and I fussed, and I might have cried a little
My head went a-spinnin' around
But with a little bit of luck, and my little black book
I'll have another'n before the sun goes down
What my baby didn't know was the same thing happened
Not once, but a half a dozen times
And she didn't realize that with a telephone call
I'd have another fickle chicken on the line
But every time I leave I do my best to play the part
Of the lovesick, heartbroke clown
But with a little bit of luck, and my little black book
I'll have another'n before the sun goes down
Now I haven't got a thing against a pretty little woman
Like her walk and her talk and her smile
I've been likin' pretty girls since I found they wasn't boys
And let me tell ya buddy, that's been quite a while
I like the huggin' and the squeezin' and the kissin' and the teasin'
But don't you let 'em push me around
'Cause with a little bit of luck, and my little black book
I'll have another'n before the sun goes down
Now that little girl's out a-tellin' everybody
How she made a big fool out of me
But while I'm out tonight a-rompin' and a-stompin'
She'll be watchin' Dr. Casey on TV
So girls, let me tell ya, better do a little thinkin'
'Fore you tell your lovin' man to leave town
'Cause with a little bit of luck, and a little black book
He'll get another'n before the sun goes down
'Cause with a little bit of luck, and a little black book
He'll get another'n before the sun goes down
Life is like a mountain railroad with an engineer that's brave
We must make the run successful from the cradle to the grave
Watch the curves the fields the tunnels do your duty never fail
Keep your hand upon the throttle and your eye upon the rail
Blessed Saviour Thou must guide us till we reach that blissful shore
Where the angels wait to join us in Thy praise forevermore
Blessed Saviour Thou must guide us...
Let's talk about love all day long let's talk about happiness sing happy song
You'll put away the sadness and let sunshine in
Yeah let's talk about love love love that will never end
Just give me your hand and brother you take mine
And we're gonna have love that'll be so fine
Put away the teardrops and no things go wrong
Yeah let's talk about love love love all the day long
We can be happy wear the smile there'll be love love love if we'll only try
Let's talk about the sweet things that'll here to stay
Let's talk about love love love love love to live all day
[ piano ]
We can be happy wear the smile...
Can we talk about love love love love love to live all day
words and music by Cleavant Derricks
Verse 1:
I once was lost in sin, but Jesus took me in,
And then a little light from heaven filled my soul;
It bathed my heart in love and wrote my name above,
And just a little talk with Jesus makes me whole.
Course:
Now let us, Have a little talk with Jesus,
Let us, tell Him all about our troubles,
He will, Hear our faintest cry,
And He will, answer by and by;
Now when you, Feel a little pary'r wheel turning,
And you, know a little fire is burning.
You will, Find a little talk with Jesus makes it right.
Verse 2:
Sometimes my path seems drear,without a ray of cheer,
And then a cloud of doubt may hide the light of day;
The mists of sin may rise and hide the starry skies,
ut Just a little talk with Jesus clears the way.
Verse 3:
I may have doubts and fears, my eyes be filled with tears,
But Jesus is a friend who watches day and night;
I go to m in prayer, He knows my every care,
And Just a little talk with Jesus makes it right.
I am weak but Thou art strong Jesus keep me from all wrong
I'll be satisfied as long as I walk let me walk close to Thee
Just a closer walk with Thee grant it Jesus is my plea
Daily walking close to Thee let it be dear Lord let it be
In this world with toil and snare if I falter Lord who cares
Who will all my burdens bear none but Thee dear Lord none but Thee
Just a closer walk with Thee...
(Jim Jim) Jim I did everything I could do but your fever just wouldn't die down
So I tied your horse to the wagon and last night I brought you to town
When I got you there Jim you's gone and there was nothin' nobody could do
So I bought you a suit and a tie Jim and today I wore one too
Jim I wore a tie today the first one that I ever wore
And you'd've said that I looked like a dummy out of a dry goods store
Jim they said a lot of things but I couldn't tell you one thing they said
Somehow my mind kept wanderin'
Wanderin' down back that trail back to the times that we've had
One thing bout you old friend is side by side sun or rain
How many times pannin' gold on the cuff
We did about everything in the book I guess
And prob'ly some things that they never read or thought up
Well Jim you're ridin' on ahead and I I guess that's the way that's gotta be
But Jim when you reach them streets paved with gold nobody stake a claim out for me
(Jim hmm Jim) Jim I wore a tie today
Jean Jean roses're red and all of the leaves have grown green
And the clouds are so low you can touch 'em and so come out to the meadow Jean
Jean Jean you're young and alive come out of your half dreamed dream
And run if you will to the top of the hill open your arms bunny Jean
Tell the sheep in the valley come on my way
Tell the stars all around me and find me along
When the sun comes to singing I'll still be waitin' for Jean
Jean roses're red and all of the leaves have gone green
Why the hills are to blame with the moon yellow hay come into my arms bunny Jean
Jean Jean you're young and alive come out of your half dreamed dream
And run if you will to the top of the hill come into my arms bunny Jean
In the 1957 blue and green two door sedan
We divided all we own and I've packed all I can
The back seat's piled high with things in the front seat tears are flowin'
And I'm drivin' down a lonely road without a single thought to where we're goin'
But January April and me we're pullin' out so you can be the girl you wanna be
You go ahead little miss uptown ride high ride free
But say goodbye to January April and and me
[ guitar ]
The tiny rocker teddy bear and dolls are gone and won't be in your way
I forgot that ol' pipe you never liked just throw it away
I don't think April understands but January's cryin'
I know what her heart is goin' through
Here we are the three of us leaving yet not knowin'
For a long time you'll be a pretty big part of everything that we do
And knowin' you'll be a part of all we do
But January April and me...
We got married in a fever hotter than a pepper sprout
We've been talking bout Jackson ever since the fire went out
I'm goin' to Jackson (you just think you're one) I'm gonna mess around
Headed to Jackson look out Jackson town
Well you go on down to Jackson go ahead and wreck your health
Play your hand like a lovin' man make a big fool of yourself
Honey you just go on to Jackson well you go comb your hair
I'm gonna snowball Jackson oh see if I care
Hmm I breeze into that city all them people gonna stoop and bow
And them Jackson women gonna make me teach 'em what they don't know now
I'm goin' to Jackson get your brother hands off of my coat
I'm headed to Jackson goodbye that's all she wrote
When they laugh at you in Jackson I'll be dancin' on the pony keg
When I'll lead you round town like a scalded hound
With your tail tucked between your legs
Go on to Jackson you big tall Texas man
I'll be waitin' right there in Jackson behind my Japan fan
We got married in a fever hotter than a pepper sprout
We've been talking bout Jackson ever since the fire went out
We're goin' to Jackson and that's a fact
Yeah goin' to Jackson ain't never comin' back
OPRAVIT
(Break my heart) it'll be easy (tear it apart) it'll be easy
All you have to do is say our love can't be that's enough for me
(Say goodbye) tell me it's over (make me cry) hurt me all over
If you wanna break my heart it'll be easy
I can tell you're searching hard to find a way to say we're through
You're trying not to be unkind so I'll make it easy for you
Just say that you don't love me it's better not to lie
But let me keep one memory fore you say goodbye
(Break my heart) it'll be easy...
If you wanna break my heart it'll be easy
The chimes of time ring out the news another day is through
Someone slipped and fell was that someone you?
You may have long for added strength your courage to renew
Do not be disheartened for I bring hope to you!
It is no secret what God can do what he's done for others he'll do for you
With arms wide open he'll pardon you, it is no secret what God can do.
There is no night for in His light you'll never walk alone
Always feel at home, wherever you may roam.
There is no power can conquer you, when God is on your side.
Just take him at his promise, don't run away and hide.
It is no secret what God can do...
In the same old way I still love you and the same foolish heart still beats for you
Nothing's changed about me since you walked out that day
And I still love you in the same old way
In the same old way your mem'ry haunts me
But I know in my heart you'll never want me
Yes you're gone but I still love you just like I did yesterday
Yes I still love you in the same old way
Oh I suppose that I should feel better the same time I know I never will
Cause I still love you and I can't change the way I feel
In the same old way I'm crazy bout you
Can't help wonderin' how I'm gonna live without you
We've said our last goodbye now you've gone so far away
And I still love in the same old way yes I still love in the same old way
I come to the garden alone while the dew is still on the roses
And the voice I hear falling on my ear the son of God discloses
And he walks with me and he talks with me and he tells me I am his own
And the joy we share as we tarry there none other has ever known
He speaks and the sound of his voice is so sweet the birds hush their singing
And the melody that he gave to me within my heart is ringing
And he walks with me and he talks with me...
If the whole world stopped lovin' the way you stopped lovin' me
Have you ever stopped to wonder what kind of place this would be
If the whole world stopped lovin' the way you stopped lovin' me
If every heart was broken the way that you broke my own
And the whole world stopped lovin' how long would livin' go on
Hear the church bells in the steeple as they ring their song through the air
If the whole world stopped lovin' there'd be no steeple bell there
The tears would fill the river till the river's flooded the sea
If the whole world stopped lovin' the way you stopped lovin' me
If the whole world stopped lovin' the way you stopped lovin' me
If it's wrong to love you wrong I'll alway be
Though the world may scorn me darling can't you see
If it's wrong to want you when my day is through
Gladly will I pay for all my dreams of you
Though we met too late dear and you'll never know
That without a right to I have loved you so
I can't change my heart mow you're a part of me
If it's wrong to love you wrong I'll always be
Though we met too late dear...
If you found someone new who means more than me to you
I'll never stand in your way
If you feel that we must part don't let pity rule your heart
I'll never stand in your way
I love you much too much to ever lose you but what is to be will be and I'll obey
I'll be blue when you go but I'll never let it show and I'll never stand in your way
[ strings ]
I'll never stand in your way
(I'll fly away fly away)
Some glad morning when this life is o'er I'll fly away
To a home on God's so lasted shore I'll fly away
I'll fly away oh Glory I'll fly away (in the morning)
When I'll die hallelujah by and by (oh Glory) I'll fly away
[ organ ]
When the shadows of this life have gone I'll fly away
Like a bird from prison bars have flown I'll fly away
I'll fly away oh Glory...
[ organ ]
Just a few more weary days and then I'll fly away
To a land where joy shall never end I'll fly away
I'll fly away oh Glory...
I'll fly away
I wish that you had turned to me before my dear
I might have saved some heartaches and some pain
Oh I wish that you had come to me for now I fear
That you may never love again... /etc.
Monday morning and I best be on my way got a feeling it will be a busy day
Doing something I'm not looking forward to wish I didn't have to miss you
Broke the clock because I wound it up too tight
Lucky me I didn't sleep a wink last night
So I was up on time to do what I must do wish I didn't have to miss you miss you
Wonder whose glasses that I'm seeing through
Cause I'm seeing everything but you everything but you
Now it's Saturday and I may go for a hike
Cause when it's Sunday it'll be Sunday day and night
Red is red black is black and blue is blue wish I didn't have to miss you miss you
[ guitar ]
Wonder whose glasses...
Wish I didn't have to miss you miss you
I was just walkin' out the door it's too bad you didn't come before
I waited so long so long so long I won't have to wait anymore
How I cried for you day and night wanted letters that you didn't write
But now it's alright alright alright you won't have to write anymore
Not so long ago you will never know what this day to me would have been
It's all over now but darling anyhow it was so nice to see you again
Well it's almost a quarter of four sorry I can't stay anymore
I must be on my way you see it's my weddin' day and I was just walkin' out the door
I was just walkin' out the door
How many arms have held you and hated to let you go
How many how many I wonder but I really don't want to know
How many lips have kissed you and set your soul aglow
How many how many I wonder but I really don't want to know
So always make me wonder and always make me guess
And even if I ask you darling don't confess
Just let it remain me your secret cause darling I love you so
How many how many I wonder but I really don't want to know
No I really don't want to know want to know
Me and that navy ain't speakin' at sailin' I tell you I'm through
On the advice of a doc I got me a shock I had to have somethin' to do
These nerves I got are from soakin' too long when the ship got hit by a plane
And right here about four years back I met Grasshopper MacClain
The sun was a burnin' and the desert red hot when his mother drove in with a flat
She went inside to cool off with a beer and I saw her kid in the back
He lay on the seat in the swelterin' heat with hair the color of flame
A red headed mite but smilin' and bright was little ol' Grasshopper MacClain
I fixed her tyre and was totin' him round when she asked me how much she owed
I just laughed and said boy I settle for him
And to my surprice she drove off down the road
I figured she'd sober and come hurryin' back but for three long years she never came
And all that time I was mother and dad to little ol' Grasshopper MacClain
I'd tell him of ships I'd sailed on the seas when I put him in bed at night
And that freckle faced kid was as sharp as a tack and quick as a mate for a fight
I thought I'd wait till he growed a bit and let him pick out his own name
One day he came in with a bug in his hand and he said me Grasshopper MacClain
Oh he'd mimic my walk and he'd mimic my talk
Like my shadow he just tagged me around
Even had to be checked every time I was checked by the navy doc over the town
The doc'd laugh and thump his little ole chest and say feller you're right as rain
Then he'd turn to me and tell me that I'd be a new man
Thanks to Grasshopper MacClain
I guess you wonder why I'm tellin' you this well that's why I'm here doin' time
For a bang and a sheriff and a red headed dame that came to take what was mine
Oh but you should've seen the way he fought you could tell that kid was navy trained
But this lonely cell wouldn't be so much like hell if I only had Grasshopper MacClain
I've laid around and played around this old town too long
Summer's almost gone yes winter's comin' on
I've laid around and played around this old town too long
And I feel like I gotta travel on
Well papa writes to Johnny but Johnny can't come home
Johnny can't come home no Johnny can't come home
Papa writes to Johnny but Johnny can't come home
Cause he's been on the chain gang too long
High sheriff and police ridin' after me ridin' after me yes comin' after me
High sheriff and police they're comin' after me and I feel like I've gotta travel on
I've laid around and played around...
Well I wanna see my honey and I wanna see her bad
Wanna see her bad oh wanna see her bad
I wanna see my honey wanna see her bad she's the best gal this poor boy ever had
I've laid around and played around...
Travel on travel on travel on
GLAD RAGS
NOW HONEY, YOU DO THE DISHES AND I'LL FEED THE OLD SOW
ALSO THE CHICKENS AND OUR ONE JERSEY COW
TAKE DOWN YOUR CURLERS AND POWDER YOUR NOSE
BIG TIME AT JONES' PLACE, SO WEAR YOUR BEST CLOTHES
THERE'LL BE NO EVENING GOWNS, NOT EVEN A TUX
THEY'LL COME IN WAGONS, BUGGIES AND PICK-UP TRUCKS
WE'LL DO SQUARE DANCIN' UNDER KEROSINE LIGHT
WE'LL WEAR GLAD RAGS TONIGHT, MY HONEY...
WE'LL WEAR GLAD RAGS TONIGHT !!
BIG TIME AT JONES' PLACE, SO WEAR YOUR BEST CLOTHES !!
SILVESTER COMIN', HUM AND FIDDLE A TUNE
RED HEADED KIDS WILL SWIPE AWAY HIS SPITTOON
THEN RUN AND HIDE BEHIND A BALE OF HAY
BUT THAT OLD SITTIN' HEN WILL SCARE 'EM AWAY
LOOK FOR ME BESIDE THE OLD CIDER KEG
I'LL SET MY CUP DOWN AND WE'LL BOTH SHAKE A LEG
NEVER A BALLROOM HAD A PRETTIER SIGHT
WE'LL WEAR GLAD RAGS TONIGHT, MY HONEY...
WE'LL WEAR GLAD RAGS TONIGHT !!
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I was born in Dixie in a boomer shack
Just a little shanty by the railroad track
The humming of the drivers was my lullaby
And a freight train whistle taught me how to cry
I got the freight train blues lawdy lawdy lawdy
Got them in the bottom of my ramblin' shoes
And when the whistle blows I gotta go
Oh lawdy I guess I'm never gonna lose the freight train blues
[ guitar - fiddle - steel ]
Now my pappy was a fireman and my mammy dear
Was the only daughter of an engineer
My sweetie is a brakeman and it ain't no joke
It's a shame the way she keeps a good man broke
I got the freight train blues...
The first thing every morning and the last thing every night
I think of you and all the things I say and do
If only you were here to whisper sweet things to
I tell you how much I love you how I'm longing to hold you tight
The first thing every morning and the last thing every night
Oh I tell you how much I love you...
The very first thing every morning and the last thing every night
Won'tcha come along with me (come along with me)
Down to the Mississippi (down to the Mississippi)
We'll take the boat to the land of dreams
Steamin' down that river down to the New Orleans
Now the band's gonna meet us (band's gonna meet us)
Lotsa old friends to greed us (old friends to greed us)
Now that's with a high and a low brown beat
With heaven on earth they call the Basin Street yeah
Basin Street now that's that street where the elite always meet
New Orleans that land of dreams
Well you'll never know how nice it seems or just how it really means
Oh I'm glad to be oh yes siree where these folks say kinda how you do me
And I can lose my Basin Street blues
In that night the piano player woke up ha ha ha
[ piano ]
Yeah I'm glad to be...
And I even slept on the Bourbon Street after awhile
That bird with feathers of blue is waiting for you
Back in your own backyard
You'll see your castles in Spain through your window pane
Back in your own backyard
Oh you can go to the East or go to the West
But someday you'll come
Weary at heart back where you started from
You'll find your happiness lies right under your eyes
Back in your own backyard
That bird with feathers of blue...
Yeah you can go to the East or go to the West...
Go to the West
But someday you'll come
Weary at heart
Back where you started from
You'll find your happiness lies
Right under your eyes
Back in your own backyard
As I look at the letters that you wrote to me it's you that I am thinking of
As I read the lines that to me were so sweet I remember our faded love
I miss you darling more and more every day
As heaven would miss the stars above
With every heartbeat I still think of you and remember our faded love
As I think of the past and all the pleasures we had as I watch the mating of the dove
It was in the springtime when you said goodbye I remember our faded love
I miss you darling...
I remember our faded love
Why does the sun go on shining why does the sea rush to shore
Don't they know it's the end of the world cause you don't love me anymore
Why do the birds go on singing why do the stars glow above
Don't they know it's the end of the world it ended when I lost your love
I wake up in the morning and I wonder why everything's the same as it was
I can't understand no I can't understand why life goes on the way it does
Why does my heart go on beating why do these eyes of mine cry
Don't they know it's the end of the world it ended when you said goodbye
Do you love me do you want me do you feel the way I do
Are you yearning yearning burning burning I am too
Do you lay awake and think about me all night through
Then you'll know just how I'm feeling cause you feel the way I do
Do you love me love me love me like I'm loving you
Do you feel each day as if you're walking opon a cloud
Does your heart beat fast and make you sing out loud
Are you gettin' butterflies at just thought of me
Then you'll know just how I feel I love you just as much you see
Do you love me love me love me like I'm loving you
[ guitar ]
If it's true that love is blind and I can't see a thing
Got that crazy kind of feeling only love can bring
Can't help thinking out you baby all the time
And I won't be satisfied until I've made you mine
Do you love me love me love me like I'm loving you
Do you love me love me love me like I'm loving you
Dear heart wish you were here to warm this night
My dear heart it seems like a year since you went out of my sight
A single room a table for one it's a lonesome town alright
But soon I'll kiss you hello at our front door
And dear heart I want you to know I'll leave your arms never more
[ harmonica ]
A single room a table for one...
But soon I'll kiss you...
Back home again in Indiana oh it seems that I can see
That gleaming candlelight still burning bright
Through the sycamores for me
That new mown hay sends all its fragrance
From the fields I used to roam
Oh I dream about the moonlight on the Wabash
Then I long for my Indiana home
Back home again in Indiana oh it seems that I can see
That gleaming candlelight still flickering bright
Through the sycamores for me
Lotsa mown hay sends all its fragrance
From the fields I used to roam
When I dream about the moonlight on the Wabash
And I long for my Indiana home
(Aura Lee Aura Lee maid of golden hair
Sunshine came along with thee and swallows in the air)
As the blackbird in the spring neath the willow tree
He sat and piped I heard him sing praising Aura Lee
Aura Lee Aura Lee maid of golden hair
Sunshine came along with thee and swallows in the air
[ harmonica ]
(Aura Lee the birds may flee the willow's golden hair)
Swing through winter fitfully on the stormy air
Aura Lee Aura Lee maid of golden hair
Sunshine came along with thee and swallows in the air
Hello there neighbor how do you do
There's something I'd like to say of you
You're from my own land my sunny homeland tell me is it true
Are you from Dixie I said from Dixie
Where the fields of cotton beckon to me
Hello how do you feel I'm glad to see you
Here's the friends I waited to see
If you're from Alabama Tennessee or Caroline
Anyplace below that Mason Dixon line
Then you're from Dixie hurray for Dixie cause I'm from Dixie too
Are you from Dixie I said from Dixie...
First time I soared, my heart felt a little bit funny
I knew right away, I just had to have honey
Lips like cherry wine feel good touchin' mine, she makes everyday sunny
I'm such a fool about, don't want to live without honey
When I'm a rounder, my heart keeps to beaten like thunder
And then when we kiss, I keep a thinkin', no wonder
Heaven couldn't be sweeter than when she starts me feeling so funny
I'm such a fool about, don't want to live without honey
I'd buy diamonds if I had the barrel of money
I want her to know, nothing's too good for my honey
Lips like cherry wine feel good touchin' mine, makes my everyday sunny
I'm such a fool about, don't want to live without honey
I'm such a fool about, don't want to live without honey
Bill Jackson was a poor old dub,
Who joined the Darktown Poker Club
But cursed the day he told them he would join.
His money used to go like it had wings
If he held Queens, someone had Kings
And each night he would contribute all his coins.
He said I'm going to play em tight tonight
No bobtail flush is gonna make me bite
When I get's in, my hands going to be a peach.
So he played em tight, but lost his pile
And Bill got peevish after a while
So he rose, got up, and made this speech.
He said - Now you all see this brand new razor
I've had it sharpened just today
And I'm comin''- in with my own rules
That you must follow as you play.
Now keep them boney hands on the table when you deal'em please
And don't be slipp'en any aces down there in between your knees.
And don't make any of them funny signs like your trying to tip off your hand
Just talk in American, boy American - so's I can understand.
And don't be dealing off the bottom, cause Oh! that's rough
Just take Five, Five - then stop, that's enough.
Now when you bet, put up them chips, cause I don't like it when you shy.
If you get busted - go get some, cause I won't be here by & by.
Pass them cards for me to shuffle every time before you deal
Then if anything wrong, I must see.
Cause you ain't going to play this game according to Mr. Hoyle,
You're going to play this here game according to me.
Now sitting right there at that there clan
There chanced to be a one eyed man
And Bill kept watching from the corner of his eye.
If ol' one-eye would deal'em then
It would have cost that Bill another five or ten.
So he rose, looked all around and with a sigh,
He said 'Lord' he said - but it's an awful shame,
But there's someone cheating in this here game
Of course it don't do for me to name the guy.
So I'll refrain from mentioning the party's name
But if I catch him cheating just once again
I'm gonna take my fist and close that other eye.
Now you all see this brand new razor
Well I've had it sharpened just today
I'm comin' in with my own rules
That you must follow when you play. - Egad
Keep your hands up there when you deal'em please
And don't be puttin' those wildies slip in between your knees.
And don't make them funny signs like your trying to tip off your hand
Just talk American - Big A-A-A so's I can understand.
And don't be takin' off the bottom, cause I've told you before - that's rough!
This is the Army game, Five, Five - then halt, that's enough.
When you bet, let's see them Reds and Blues, cause I don't like it when you shy.
If you run out of gas - go get pumped up, I won't be here by & by.
Pass them pasteboards for me to shuffle every time before you deal - let me ripple.
Anything's wrong, I wanna see.
I mean you ain't gonna play this game now according to Mr. Hoyle,
You're going to play this game according to me.
Henry, if you break the seal on them new set of Bicycles - we'll go on from here....Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.
Sent by Gerald Loban rogers.com>
Have you ever passed the corner of 4th and Ground
Where a little ball of rhythm has a shoeshine stand
People gather round and they clap their hands he's a great big bundle of joy
He pops a boogie woogie rag Chattanooga shoeshine boy
Well he charges you a nickel just to shine one shoe
He makes the oldest kind of leather look like new
You feel as though you wanna dance when he gets through
He's a great big bundle of joy
He pops a boogie woogie rag Chattanooga shoeshine boy
Well it's a wonder that the rag don't tear the way he makes it pop
You oughta see him fan the air
He opens up for business when the clock strikes nine
He likes to get 'em early when they're feelin' fine
Everybody gets a little rise and shine with a great big bundle of joy
He pops a boogie woogie rag Chattanooga shoeshine boy
[ guitar ]
Well it's a wonder that the rag...
Carolina moon keep shining shining on the one who waits for me
Carolina moon is pining pining for the place I long to be
How I'm hoping tonight you'll go go to the right window
Scatter your light say I'm alright please do
Tell her that I'm blue and lonele dreamy Carolina moon
Keep shining on the one who waits for me I'm pining for the place I long to be
The Cajun Queen
Jimmy Dean
She kinda breezed into town from New Orleans,
And said, "Boys, I'm Big John's Cajun Queen,
Now I didn't come here to argue or waste anbody's time,
I just came to get my man from your dirty old mine,
'Cause he moves me!
Now where you give up's where old Queenie's gonna start,
'Cause I got a powerful love in my heart,
So just show me the hole way down in the ground,
And tell the whole wide world Big John's been found,
And he's livin'!"
So down in the mine without a sign of a light,
Old Queenie went a-lookin' for John that night,
She found him there at the bottom of the pit,
And placed a red hot kiss on those cold blue lips!
He started breathin'!
She waited a minute and then she kissed him again,
And old John got the power of a hundred men,
Up he come a-clawin' and a-diggin' like a mole,
And said, "Come on Queenie, we're gonna leave this hole!"
They started walkin'!
Now a roar from the crowd greeted this fine pair,
As they both walked out in that cool night air,
And up for silence went Big John's hand,
And the Queen said, "I told you I'd get my man,
'Cause he moves me!"
You can find them today, they're down in New Orleans,
Big Bad John and his Cajun Queen,
They're a little bit wrinkled from the strain of time,
But their love's just as strong as that night in the mine,
A hundred and ten grandchildren!
Now the moral of this story has a real clear omen,
Don't you ever underestimate the power of a woman!
From: Kathy and Tom Haug
Bye bye baby bye bye what pleasure it gives you when I cry
The love that I borrowed brought nothing but sorrow so bye bye baby bye bye
This time my fond time brought tears time
Though every moment's of lovely and dear time
When love is one sided somehow you can't hide it bye bye baby bye bye
No more red wine and soft lights gone now those happy and gay nights
Once more I'll kiss you then oh how I'll miss you bye bye baby bye bye
Go now quickly from my sake don't look back or you might see the heartache
No tears will you spy dear dead men don't cry dear bye bye baby bye bye
Blues stay away from me blues why don't you let me be
Don't know why you keep on haunting me
Love was never meant for me true love was never meant for me
Seems somehow we never can agree
[ harmonica ]
Tears so many I can't see
Well these years don't mean a thing to me
Time goes by and still I can't be free
Time goes by and still I can't be free
Anytime you're feeling lonely anytime you're feeling blue
Well anytime you feel down hearted that will prove your love for me is true
Anytime you're thinking bout me that's the time I'll be thinking of you
So anytime you say that you want me back again
That's the time I'll come back home to you
(Anytime you're feeling lonely anytime you're feeling blue)
And anytime you see a rainbow that will be a shinin' that the storm is through
Anytime you're thinking bout me...
Anytime you say...
The birthday party was over toys were scattered here and there
Seven candles lay by the last piece of cake in front of an empty chair
A mother said son I know you're disappointed but please try to understand
Your daddy's been awfuly busy because you see he's a very big railroad man
So you go on to sleep now she kissed him turned out the light
But moments later a window opened and this little boy slipped out into the night
He was on his way to the depot the express wasn't due till ten
But who knows it might run a special if daddy's comin' in
That mighty scream of the 9:15 wripped through the winter night
And the whirl of the wheels and the clang of the steel
Seemed that jarred the country side
It was a southbound freight and it was runnin' late tryin' hard to make up time
When a great big man with a sack in his hand bound off that train like a lion
He hit the road like an old pro then he got up off the ground
Brushed the snow from off his grimy clothes
And he said hey kid what's the name of this town
The frightened boy said Grandville sir and the man said well what do you know
I used to live in this little ol' one horse town bout six or seven years ago
I told my wife when I left here that I was coming back in style
Ha oh well anyway I'm back I guess I might as well visit for awhile
So if you'll be so kind as to point the way to the Joneses
Well I'll go now and leave you be
And the young boy said the only Joneses that live around here sir
Is my mama and my daddy and me
Of course dad's been gone for a long time now
Course now he don't want to be ye understand
It's just that my daddy's got lotta important things to do
You see sir he's a very big railroad man
Oh he sends me birthday presents and mama reads me what he writes
In his last letter daddy promised that he was gonna try and make it home tonight
The man scratched the side of his head and said
Grandville Grandville I thought you said Denville
Oh well it's a kida natural mistake
Now if you'll just point the way to the depot
I'm gonna be checkin' in on the fast freight
I'll tell you what you do oh boy you run on home now
You tell your mom to go ahead and fix up your daddy's room
Cause I've got the strangest feeling
That your dad just might become home pretty soon
Big John
Big John
Every morning at the mine you could see him arrive
He stood six-foot-six and weighed two-forty-five
Kinda broad at the shoulder and narrow at the hip
Everybody knew you didn't give no lip to Big John
Big John
Big John
Big Bad John
Big John
Nobody seemed to know where John called home
He just drifted into town and stayed all alone
He didn't say much, kinda quiet and shy
If ya spoke at all, ya just said hi to Big John
Somebody said he came from New Orleans
Where he got in a fight o'er a cajun queen
And a crashin' blow from a huge right hand
Sent a Lousianna fella to the promised land, Big John
Big John
Big John
Big Bad John
Big John
Then came the day at the bottom of the mine
When a timber cracked and men started cryin'
Miners were prayin' and hearts beat fast
And everybody thought they'd breathed their last, 'cept John
Through the dust and the smoke of this man-made hell
Walked a giant of a man that the miners knew well
Grabbed the saggin' timber and gave out with a groan
And like a giant oak tree, just stood there alone, Big John
Big John
Big John
Big Bad John
Big John
And with all of his strength he gave a mighty shove
Then a miner yelled out, there's a light up above
And twenty men scrambled from a would-be grave
now there's only one left down there to save, Big John
With jacks and timbers they started back down
Then came that rumble way down in the ground
As smoke and gas belched outta the mine
Everybody knew it was the end of the line for Big John
Big John
Big John
Big Bad John
Big John
Now, they never re-opened that worthless pit
They just placed a marble stand in front of it
These few words are written on that stand,
At the bottom of this mine lies one Hell of a man, Big John
Big John
Big John
Big Bad John
Big John
Somewhere the sun is shining somewhere the songbirds dwell
Hush then your sad repining God lives and all is well
Somewhere somewhere beautiful isle of somewhere
Land of the truth where we live anew beautiful isle of somewhere
Somewhere the load is lifted close by an open gate
Somewhere the clouds are rifted somewhere the angels wait
Somewhere somewhere beautiful isle of somewhere...
Be honest with me dear whatever you do remember you're mine dear so always be true
Wherever you wander on land or on sea if you really love me be honest with me
My poor heart would break dear if you were untrue
Asleep or awake dear I'll dream about you
Oh you are my darling you're all that I see if you really love me be honest with me
Someday I'll return dear and make you my own
And how I will yearn dear when I'm all alone
I'll never forget you your sweet memory if you really love me be honest with me
If you really love me be honest with me
(People laugh and love and cry) I'm still missing you
The paper boy still comes around just like he used to do
But he's a little taller now and I'm still missing you
The leaves are piled against the fence the sky is hazy blue
There's talk about an early snow and I'm still missing you I'm still missing you
The swirlin' wind of time brings many changes
But it's funny they only blow across the surface of my heart
They can never touch the memory I have of you that's burried so deep inside me
Dick and Jane came by today their baby's almost due
People laugh and love and cry and I'm still missing you I'm still missing you
May the fruit of my toil be yours, love
May the food from my soil be yours, love
And from this moment on
May a love that is 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 weak
May the love words I speak
And the arms that I seek, be yours, love
May the Lord's shining grace be yours, love
May the happiest face be yours, love
May the last fingertips
That touch these two lips
As life from me slips, be yours, love
And from this moment on
May this love that is strong
Pale moon shinin' on the fields below
Oaks are croonin' so soft and low
No need tellin' 'cause I know
It's sleepy time down south
Soft wind blowin'
To them pinewood trees
Folks down there
They live a life of these
When my mama falls on her knees
It's sleepy time down south
Steam boats on the river
Keep a comin' and a goin'
Splashin' the night away
Hear the banjos ringin'
Folks keep a singin'
They dance till break of day
Dear old south land
With your dreamy song
Take me back there
That's where I belong
Oh, I'd love to be
In my sweet mama's arms
When it's sleepy time
This ole house once knew my children
This ole house once knew my life
This ole house was home and comfort
As we lived through storm and strife
This ole house once rang with laughter
This ole house heard many shouts
Now she trembles in the darkness
When the lightning walks about
Ain't a-gonna need this house no longer
Ain't a-gonna need this house no more
Ain't got time to fix the shingles
Ain't got time to fix the floor
Ain't got time to oil the hinges
Nor to mend the window panes
Ain't a-gonna need this house no longer
I'm a-gettin' ready to meet the saints
This ole house is gettin' shaky
This ole house is gettin' old
This ole house lets in the rain
This ole house lets in the cold
On my knees I'm gettin' shaky
But I feel no fear or pain
'Cause I see an angel peekin'
Through a broken window pane
I ain't a-gonna need this house no longer
Ain't a-gonna need this house no more
Ain't got time to fix the shingles
Ain't got time to fix the floor
I ain't got time to oil the hinges
Nor to mend the window panes
Ain't a-gonna need this house no longer
I'm a-gettin' ready to meet the saints
This ole house is afraid of thunder
This ole house is afraid of storms
This ole house just groans and trembles
When the night wind flings its arms
This ole house is gettin' feeble
This old house is needin' paint
Just like me it's tuckered out
But I'm a-gettin' ready to meet the saints
Ain't a-gonna need this house no longer
Ain't a-gonna need this house no more
Ain't got time to fix the shingles
Ain't got time to fix the floor
I ain't got time to oil the hinges
Nor to mend the window panes
Ain't gonna need this house no longer
I'm a-gettin' ready to meet the saints
She kinda breezed into town from New Orleans
And said, "Boys, I'm Big John's Cajun Queen
Now I didn't come here to argue or waste anybody's time
I just came to get my man from your dirty old mine
'Cause he moves me"
"Now where you give up's where old Queenie's gonna start
'Cause I got a powerful love in my heart
So just show me the hole way down in the ground
And tell the whole wide world Big John's been found
And he's livin'"
So down in the mine without a sign of a light
Old Queenie went a-lookin' for John that night
She found him there at the bottom of the pit
And placed a red hot kiss on those cold blue lips
He started breathin'
She waited a minute and then she kissed him again
And old John got the power of a hundred men
Up he come a-clawin' and a-diggin' like a mole
And said, "Come on Queenie, we're gonna leave this hole"
They started walkin'
Now a roar from the crowd greeted this fine pair
As they both walked out in that cool night air
And up for silence went Big John's hand
And the Queen said, "I told you I'd get my man
'Cause he moves me"
You can find them today, they're down in New Orleans
Big Bad John and his Cajun Queen
They're a little bit wrinkled from the strain of time
But their love's just as strong as that night in the mine
A hundred and ten grandchildren
Now the moral of this story
Has a real clear omen
Don't you ever underestimate
I slipped out of the house about sundown
While Mama was a washin' her hair
And you can bet your bottom dollar
She'll come lookin' for me, when she'll find that I'm not there
And if she catches her sweet thang slipping around
I know, there'll be the debit to pay
'Cause she'll come blowin' like a cyclone, right through that door
And I hear exactly what she'll say
Well, has anybody here seen sweet thang?
I got a notion, he'd be headed this way
'Cause when my sweet thang's out, tomcattin' around
Finds a sandbox like this, to play
I wanna warn all you bar room roses
If my sweet thang should have a bite
You'd better take my advice
If you'll blink more than twice
You'd better have somethin' in your eyes
I gave my baby, all my money on pay-day
Except a little, she don't know that I got
'Cause there's a little cute waitress, down at the corner cafe
And she seems to like me quite a lot
We were sittin' in the back booth, just havin' a chair
And she believed in every word that I said
When that door blew open, and Mama walked in
Yellin' loud enough to wake the dead, and she said
Slowly, I'm falling more in love with you
And slowly, you're winning a heart that can be true
Now, I can't hide my feelings, no matter what I do
Slowly, I'm falling more in love with you
More and more, I need you and want you by my side
More and more, I love you, as each day passes by
No, I can't hide my feelings, no matter what I do
Slowly, I'm falling more in love with you
Skip a rope
Skip a rope
Listen to the children
While they play
Now ain't it kinda funny
What the children say
Skip a rope
Daddy hates Mommy
Mommy hates Dad
Last night you shoulda heard
The fight they had
Gave little sister
Another bad dream
She woke us all up
With a terrible scream
Skip a rope
Skip a rope
Listen to the children
While they play
Now ain't it kinda funny
What the children say
Skip a rope
Cheat on your taxes
Don't be a fool
Now what was that they said
About a golden rule?
Well, never mind the rules
Just play to win
And hate your neighbor
For the shade of his skin
Skip a rope
Skip a rope
Oh, listen to the children
While they play
Now ain't it kinda funny
What the children say
Skip a rope
Stab 'em in the back
That's the name of the game
And Mommy and Daddy
Are who's to blame
Skip a rope
Skip a rope
Just listen to the children
While they play
It's really not funny
What the children say
Skip a rope
Skip a rope
Skip a rope
Skip a rope
Skip a rope
In forty-three they put to sea thirteen men and Kennedy
Aboard the PT 109 to fight the brazen enemy
And off the isle of Olasana in the straits beyond the roo
A Jap destroyer in the night cut the 109 in two
Smoke and fire upon the sea
Everywhere they looked was the enemy
The heathen gods of old Japan
Yeah they thought they had the best of a mighty good man
And on the coast of Kolombangaro looking through his telescope
Australia's Evans saw the battle for the crew had little hope
Two were dead, some were wounded, all were clinging to the bow
Fighting fire and a-fighting water trying to save their lives somehow
Smoke and fire upon the sea
Everywhere they looked was the enemy
The heathen gods of old Japan
Yeah they thought they had the best of a mighty good man
McMahon the Irishman was burned so badly, he couldn't swim
Leave me here go on he said 'cause if you don't we'll all be dead
The PT skipper couldn't leave him a man to die alone at sea
And with a strap between his teeth, he towed the Irishman through the sea
Smoke and fire upon the sea
Everywhere they looked was the enemy
The heathen gods of old Japan
Yeah they thought they had the best of a mighty good man
He led his men through waters dark, rocky reefs and hungry sharks
Braved the enemies bayonets, a thirty-eight hung round his neck
Four more days and four more nights a rescue boat pulled into sight
The PT 109 was gone but Kennedy and his crew lived on
Now who could guess or who could possibly know
That this same man named Kennedy
Would be the leader of the nation, be the one to take command
The PT 109 was gone but Kennedy lived to fight again
Smoke and fire upon the sea
Everywhere they looked was the enemy but JFK and his crew lived on
Which proves it's hard to get the best of a man named John
We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee
We don't take our trips on LSD
We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street
'Cause we like living right and being free
We don't make a party out of loving
But we like holding hands and pitching woo
We don't let our hair grow long and shaggy
Like the hippies out in San Francisco do
And I'm proud to be an Okie from Muskogee
A place where even squares can have a ball
We still wave Ol' Glory down at the courthouse
And white lightning's still the biggest thrill of all
Leather boots are still in style for manly footwear
Beads and Roman sandals won't be seen
And football's still the roughest thing on campus
And the kids here still respect the college dean
And I'm proud to be an Okie from Muskogee
A place where even squares can have a ball
We still wave Ol' Glory down at the courthouse
And white lightning's still the biggest thrill of all
No one will ever know how much I love you
Although a million tears start to flow
I may cry myself to sleep but I'll wake up smiling
Oh, I'll miss you but no one will ever know
I'll just tell them we grew tired of each other
And that our love has never meant to be
Oh, I'll even make believe I never loved you
Then no one will ever know the truth but me
I'll just tell them we grew tired of each other
And that our love has never meant to be
Oh, I'll even make believe I never loved you
If the wife and I are fussin' brother that's our right
'Cause me and that sweet woman got a license to fight
Why don't you mind your own business?
(Mind your own business)
I said, "Mind your own business"
(Mind your own business)
If you mind your own business
Then you won't be mindin' mine
Now the woman on the party line's a nosey thing
She picks up her receiver when she knows it's my ring
Why don't you mind your own business?
(Mind your own business)
Hey mind your own business
(Mind your own business)
I said, "If you mind your own business"
Then you won't be mindin' mine
Well I got a little gal that wears her hair up high
The fellows all whistle when she walks by
Why don't they mind their own business?
(Mind your own business)
Yeah, mind your own business
(Mind your own business)
Oh mind your business
And you won't be mindin' mine
If I wanna honky tonkin' round till two or three
Brother that's my headache don't you worry 'bout me
Why don't you mind your own business?
(Mind your own business)
Yeah, mind your own business
(Mind your own business)
I said, "Mind your business"
Then you won't be mindin' mine
Well I tell a lot of stories that may not be true
But I can get to heaven just as quick as you
So mind your own business
(Mind your own business)
Yeah, mind your own business
(Mind your own business)
Oh, mind your business
Then you won't be mindin' mine
Mindin' other people's business seems to be high tone
But I got all that I can do just to mind my own
And I'm gonna mind my own business
(Mind your own business)
Yeah, mind your own business
(Mind your own business)
If you mind your business
Then you won't be mindin' mine
Rest is yours friend
I am perfectly capable of taking care of
My own affairs, and I'd appreciate it if
Don't look so sad we know it's over
Life goes on and this old world will keep on turning
Let's just be glad we had some time to spend together
There's no need to watch the bridges that were burning
Lay your head upon my pillow
Hold your warm and tender body close to mine
Hear the whisper of the raindrops falling softly against the window
And make believe you love me one more time for the good times
I'll get along, you'll find another
And I'll be here if you should find you ever need me
Don't say a word about tomorrow or forever
There'll be time enough for sadness when you leave me
Lay your head upon my pillow
Hold your warm and tender body close to mine
Hear the whisper of the raindrops blowing softly against the window
And make believe you love me just one more time for the good times
While resting the other evening by the side of the road
I saw an old farmer in the field that he just hold
His face was all brown and wrinkled by the sun and the wind
And he was talking to the Lord just like he'd be talking to a friend
Well, he said with his voice calm and quiet
Them corn tassels need sucking, I got no strength to tie it
Had no rain in so long that the fields are mighty dusty
And it's been so unbearable hot that the kids were even gettin' fussy
Now that grass down and the pasture it should be knee high if we
Could just have a little shower Lord it might keep the calf from going dry
Oh, but listen to me talking, you'd think I wasn't grateful, why if you
Didn't know me so well Lord you'd think I was down right hateful
You'd think I forgot about that new calf that you sent
And the money in the mail that took care of the rent
Mama's cough's better and Johnny's home from the navy
And that good Sunday dinner of hot chicken and dumplings and gravy
And that new preacher you sent us, Lord he's sure a fine young man
Why he's just convertin' them sinners to beat the man
Well, I guess, I'll mosey on home now, Lord, I won't take no more your time
I guess, there's plenty folks here about waitin' to ring your line
Evening to you, Lord, and watch us over tonight
Got an old slauch hat, got my roll on my shoulder
I'm as free as the breeze and I'll do as I please, just a bummin' around
Got a million friends, don't feel any older
Got nothing to lose, not even the blues, just a bummin' around
Whenever worries start to botherin' me
Well, I grab my coat, my old slauch hat, hit the trail again, you see
I ain't got a dime, don't care where I'm goin'
I got nothing to lose, not even the blues, just a bummin' around
Whenever worries start to botherin' me
Well, I grab my coat, my old slauch hat, hit the trail again, you see
I ain't got a dime, don't care where I'm goin'
Big John
Big John
Ev'ry mornin' at the mine you could see him arrive
He stood six foot six and weighed two forty five
Kinda broad at the shoulder and narrow at the hip
And everybody knew, ya didn't give no lip to Big John
(Big John, Big John)
Big Bad John
(Big John)
Nobody seemed to know where John called home
He just drifted into town and stayed all alone
He didn't say much, he kinda quiet and shy
And if you spoke at all, he just said, "Hi" to Big John
Somebody said he came from New Orleans
Where he got in a fight over a Cajun Queen
And a crashin' blow from a huge right hand
Sent a Louisiana fellow to the Promised Land, Big John
(Big John, Big John)
Big Bad John
(Big John)
Then came the day at the bottom of the mine
When a timber cracked and men started cryin'
Miners were prayin' and hearts beat fast
And everybody thought that they'd breathed their last, 'cept John
Through the dust and the smoke of this man made hell
Walked a giant of a man that the miners knew well
Grabbed a saggin' timber, gave out with a groan
And like a giant Oak tree, he just stood there alone, Big John
(Big John, Big John)
Big Bad John
(Big John)
And with all of his strength he gave a mighty shove
Then a miner yelled out, "There's a light up above"
And twenty men scrambled from a would-be grave
Now there's only one left down there to save, Big John
With jacks and timbers they started back down
Then came that rumble way down in the ground
And then smoke and gas belched out of that mine
Everybody knew it was the end of the line for Big John
(Big John, Big John)
Big Bad John
(Big John)
Now they never reopened that worthless pit
They just placed a marble stand in front of it
These few words are written on that stand
At the bottom of this mine lies a big, big man, Big John
(Big John, Big John)
Big Bad John
(Big John)
(Big John)
Before you take another step, there's something you should know
About the years ahead and how they'll be
You'll be living in a world where roses hardly ever grow
'Cause all I have to offer you is me
There'll be no mansions waiting on the hill with crystal chandeliers
And there'll be no fancy clothes for you to wear
Everything I have is standing here in front of you to see
All I have to offer you is me
Sweetheart, I'll give you all my love in every way I can
But make sure that's what you want while you're still free
The only gold I have for you is in this wedding band
'Cause all I have to offer you is me
There'll be no mansions waiting on the hill with crystal chandeliers
And there'll be no fancy clothes for you to wear
Everything I have is standing here in front of you to see
By Icehouse
Jimmy Dean
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Iva Davies / Robert Kretschmer
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there's a mist over broadway
breathing cool sheets of rain
lights his last cigarette and
turns his back to the wind
she says baby I don't know
just how to explain
and I can't see the sense
and I can't play this game
but he's not even listening
he stares at the ground
and she won't ever know
what was on his mind
well now he's a rebel without a cause
hey c'mon let's make a deal
see your name in lights just like Jimmy Dean
live and die behind the wheel
opened out on the highway
leaving her far behind
there's a star down on sunset
he says yeah this one's mine
she says baby I don't know
just how to explain
and I can't see the sense
and I can't play this game
but he's not even listening
he stares at the ground
and she won't ever know
what was on his mind
well now he's a rebel without a cause
hey c'mon let's make a deal
see your name in lights just like Jimmy Dean
live and die behind the wheel
well now Mr D whispered in his ear
hey c'mon let's make a deal
engines running hot singing Jimmy Dean
any time there's time to kill
he drove like a demon
and he burned up the screen
but he never looked back no
she just wasted my time
well now he's a rebel without a cause
hey c'mon let's make a deal
see your name in lights just like Jimmy Dean
live and die behind the wheel
gonna let those horses loose again
hey c'mon let's make a deal
see them running wild just like Jimmy Dean
overdrive in chrome and steel
hey c'mon
hey c'mon let's make a deal
well now he's a rebel without a cause
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