Might stand out in the wind
Out on Mustang Island
Might stay up all night
Hangin' out with Hank Williams and cryin'
I slept out on the sand
So many nights that I can't remember
Yeah, but love is love and life is hard
And one undoes the other
Summer gold, winter blue
Where ever I am, whatever I do
Wrapped in you
Might find me in Paris, France, someday soon
Might drive this Malibu
All the way to China
Never can tell what I'll do
I'm busted, shot clean through
Where ever I am, whatever I do
Wrapped in you
Held you once through April
And in summer set you free
Now the cold, cold nights are coming
And I've lost everything
I've never been to Paris, France
Never even seen Mustang Island
Ol' Hank was gone before I was born
I'm not the kind to stay up cryin'
May never go far but here's the truth
Where ever I am whatever I do
I'm busted, shot clean through
Whatever you want is what I'll do
I'm wrapped in you
Wrapped in you
Sometimes it's a car
A certain shade of mystic blue
I think of you
And I wonder how on earth you are
Or sometimes, just a song
That's playing on my radio
And there I go
Just a wishin' you were singin' along.
That's all it takes,
and I just opt to dreamin' I'm in
*Chorus*
Way back Texas
you were layin' in my arms
Had a class ring necklace
We're gonna buy that little farm
Way down by the river
Yeah raise a family
Down in way back Texas
Uh-huh
Population: you and me
Me I'm doing well
No one in particular
Girl I heard
That you went and rang them weddin' bells,
They say his name is John
His daddy owns a dealership
But the slipper don't quite fit
Yet life goes on and on
So I guess that I'll hang up
And just wonder if you ever dream of
*Chorus*
Way Back Texas
You were layin' in my arms
Had a class ring necklace
We're gonna buy that little farm
Way down by the river
Yeah, live happily
Down in way back texas
Uh-huh
Population: you and me
And every now and then,
If you need me I'll be back in
*Chorus*
Way back Texas
Where you're layin' in my arms
Had a class ring necklace
We're gonna buy that little farm
Way down by the river
Yeah, raise a family
Down in way back Texas
Uh-huh
Last night I had me a nightmare
Dreamed that Texas was burning down burning down
And all them people, I had grown up to love
Leaving town
I cried "oh Holy Moses, bring blood to the Red Red Sea
Bring back Townes Van Zandt, and my heroes back to me
Because I can play their songs, but it ain't they way they do
It ain't they way they do."
I had a nightmare, a nightmare, it was a nightmare
Buddy Holly was riding on the wind
Stevie Ray, well he was too
When their star, come tumbling to the ground
Wasn't a thing that all the king's horses
And all the king's men could do
Me I've just got my ol' bar stool
And man it's burning me down burning me down
Just like a brush fire, that burns on through the night
One of these days I'm just going
Keep your head there on my shoulder.
Let's just lay here for awhile.
We can hurry when were older.
Girl don't worry about tomorrow.
That just seems so far away.
Luckily me and you, all that we have to do is follow,
just follow.
Let me be the one who sets your feet up on a road where you've never been,
oh and baby then,
you can let me take these arms and wrap you up inside a night that will never end.
I wanna be that man, if you let me.
Come on baby let me.
Baby leave those candles burning,
slide on over here to me.
If you run with me girl, you know we'll make this world stop turning,
just stop turning.
Let me be the one who sets your feet up on a road where you've never been,
oh and baby then,
you can let me take these arms and wrap you up inside a night that will never end.
I'd like to be that man, if you'd let me.
Ohhhhhh, ohhhhh.
Let me be the one who sets your feet up on a road where you've never been.
Yeah! Let me take these arms and wrap you up inside a night that will never end.
I wanna be that man, if you let me.
I'm gonna live forever
I'm gonna cross that river
I'm gonna catch tomorrow now
You're gonna want to hold me
Just like i always told you
You're gonna miss me when i'm gone
Nobody here will ever find me
But i will always be around
Just like the songs i leave behind me
I'm gonna live forever now
I'm gonna live forever
I'm gonna cross that river
I'm gonna catch tomorrow now
You're gonna want to hold me
Just like i always told you
You're gonna miss me when I'm gone
You fathers and you mothers
Be good to one another
Please try to raise your children right
Don't let the darkness take 'em
Don't make 'em feel forsaken
Just lead them safely to the light
When this old world is blown us under
And all the stars fall from the sky
Remember someone really loves you
We'll live forever you and I
Chorus
I'm gonna live forever
I'm gonna cross that river
I'm gonna catch tomorrow now
I was born down in San Antone daddy would leave us all alone
Big rig rolling thunder on a Dallas bound highway home
Mama got a job and she worked real hard
She had two little kids in a trashed out car
Yeah, but me and my brother seemed to get along just fine
Yeah and you know the highway just like a river keeps rolling on
And you know it's my way, I was born to sing this song
Have no fear, I ain't going nowhere
Everything is gonna be just fine
So I turn on the TV on a Sunday afternoon
This preacher was saying, "Boy you're gonna meet your doom
If you do to the honky-tonks and drink that ice cold beer"
Well, I've got me some friends and we're real tight
We stay up drinking and talking in the middle of the night
We talk about Jesus man I'll tell you he's one pretty cool dude
Yeah and you know the highway just like a river keeps rolling on
And you know it's my way, I was born to sing this song
Have no fear, I ain't going nowhere
Everything is gonna be just fine
Lately I've been toying with the notion
Of setting these wheels in motion
Set me out on the highway to see what I can see
Then you came in crying you were bitching at me
You said, your baby or the highway now what's it gonna' be
I said, ?Well, maybe you don't get it
It's the nature of the business?
And I'm 'bout to be moving on
Yeah and you know the highway just like a river keeps rolling on
And you know it's my way, I was born to sing this song
Have no fear, I ain't going nowhere
I got rice cooking in the microwave
Got a three day beard I don't plan to shave
And it's a goofy thing but I just gotta say
Hey I'm doing alright
Yeah I think I'll make me some homemade soup
Feelin pretty good and that's the truth
It's neither drink nor drug induced
No I'm just doin alright
Chorus:
And it's a great day to be alive
I know the sun's still shinin when I close my eyes
There's some hard times in the neigborhood
But why can't every day be just this good?
It's been fifteen years since I left home
Said good luck to every seed I'd sown
Give it my best and then I left it alone
Oh...I hope their doin alright
Now I look in the mirror and what do I see?
A lone wolf there starin back at me
Long in the tooth but harmless as can be
Lord I guess he's doin alright
Chorus
Sometimes it's lonely
Sometimes it's only me
And the shadows that fill this room
Sometimes I'm fallin
Desperately callin
Howlin at the moon...
Ahwoo!
Ahwoo!
Well I might go get me a new tattoo
Or take my old Harley for a three day cruise
Might even grow me a Fu Man Chu...
Oh Aww!
It was the coldest night in Boston in the history of winter.
black outside like a murder of crows. I was six days clean and sober with a bottle on the table. a hurt inside that nobody knows. one shot away from shooting my soal straight through the ceiling and fly away from feeling all this pain that still aint gone. but flyings kinda risky, when your wings are made of whiskey and i know that ill come crashing down right after the dawn.
when theres no one around and the silence in your soul is the only sound. when the darkness that surrounds you, are you hiding from the light? when you finally hit the bottom, will you do whats wrong or right? youre gonna find out what your made of, in the middle of the night.
listen i can keep a secret, and hold it deep inside. every sin that keeps you sinner, ever lie you ever lie. when my heart is bent to breaking, from all the hell i put it through. all the love that ive forsaken, gonna run from what is true. oh now what you gonna do?
when theres no one around and the silence in your soul is the only sound. when the darkness that surrounds you, are you hiding from the light? when you finally hit the bottom, will you do whats wrong or right? youre gonna find out what your made of, in the middle of the night.
in the middle of the night
You drink one for your memories
You drink one for yourself
You drink one for your family
Last time you saw them was a long time ago
I sing one for the children
You sing one for the miles
You sing one for them pretty green eyes
I’m headed home baby - I got a long way to go
And sing me to sleep sweet city
And let your highway be your lullaby
With nothing in my pocket
No fortune do I know
I’m headed home baby - I got a long way to go
Well you say a little prayer in the morning
You pray for those you left behind
Your heart starts to break as the sun goes down
I’m headed home baby - I got a long way to go
Sing me to sleep little darling
And do that little dance for me
Nothing in my pocket
No fortune do I know
I’m headed home mama - I got a long way to go
I will be there by the morning
And I don’t know what makes me leave anyway, anyway, anyway
And God I miss you little darling
And save that little dance for me
With nothing in my pocket
No fortunes do I know
I’m headed home baby - I got a long way to go
It’s good to be home
It’s good to be home
Stay, won't you stay
Please don't throw this all away
You're out of daydreams girl, we will be out tonight
You've been done so wrong that I can do you right
And it's something for you
And it's something for me
So take all you want and take all you need
And he let you go, now here we are
And it's finder's keepers
When it comes to the heart
Day after day
I've waited for the chance to say
Love can be a shelter but it can be a storm
My love's the kind that keeps you safe and warm
And it's waiting for you
So baby take it from me
Everything you want, everything you need
He let you go, now here we are
And it's finder's keepers
When it comes to the heart
He let you go, now here we are
Well, it's finder's keepers
When it comes to the heart
And it's finder's keepers
Stay, won't you stay
Please don't throw this all away
You're out of daydreams girl, we will be out tonight
You've been done so wrong that I can do you right
And it's something for you
And it's something for me
So take all you want and take all you need
And he let you go, now here we are
And it's finder's keepers
When it comes to the heart
Day after day
I've waited for the chance to say
Love can be a shelter but it can be a storm
My love's the kind that keeps you safe and warm
And it's waiting for you
So baby take it from me
Everything you want, everything you need
He let you go, now here we are
And it's finder's keepers
When it comes to the heart
He let you go, now here we are
Well, it's finder's keepers
When it comes to the heart
And it's finder's keepers
Delia, oh, Delia
Delia all my life
If I hadn't have shot poor Delia
I'd-a had her for my wife
Delia's gone, one more round
Delia's gone
I went up to Memphis
And I met Delia there
Found her in her parlor
And I tied to her chair
Delia's gone, one more round
Delia's gone
She was low down and trifling
And she was cold and mean
Kind of evil make me want to
Grab my sub machine
Delia's gone, one more round
Delia's gone
First time I shot her
I shot her in the side
Hard to watch her suffer
But with the second shot she died
Delia's gone, one more round
Delia's gone
But jailer, oh, jailer
Jailer, I can't sleep
'Cause all around my bedside
I hear the patter of Delia's feet
Delia's gone, one more round
Delia's gone
So if you woman's devilish
You can let her run
Or you can bring her down and do her
Like Delia got done
Delia's gone, one more round
Come down off your throne and leave your body alone - somebody must change
You are the reason I've been waiting so long - somebody holds the key
Well, I'm near the end and I just ain't got the time
And I'm wasted and I can't find my way home
Come down on your own and leave your body alone - somebody must change
You are the reason I've been waiting all these years - somebody holds the key
Well, I'm near the end and I just ain't got the time
You say you love me but you love me not
Something about true love that you must have forgot
To lose a memory I know just where to go
Somewhere between Texas and Mexico
Somewhere between Texas and Mexico
(chorus):
King fish are jumping – the moon is right
Full throttle captain til the we’re out of sight
Stars on the ocean will find me I know
Somewhere between Texas and Mexico
Somewhere between Texas and Mexico
South Padre Island to the Brownsville Bay
My heart is healing with each breaking way
But I got some real friends and they’re ready to go
Somewhere between Texas and Mexico
Somewhere between Texas and Mexico
(chorus)
It’s gonna take just a little more time
With a little help from the salt and a lime
Something about the wind and the sea sets a broken heart free out there yeah
(chorus)
Mister Gator he's a-glidin' down the bayou
Mister Buzzard he's a-slidin' through the air
Mister Turtle be a-hittin' the highway
I ain't goin' nowhere
I ain't leavin you love, babe
I ain't leavin you love, babe
Not for heaven above, babe
I ain't leavin you love, babe
The rich man's got him an airplane
Tried to cruise across the traffic jam
The poor man's got him a Chevrolet
But I'm stayin' right where I am
I ain't leavin you love, babe
I ain't leavin you love, babe
Not for heaven above, babe
I ain't leavin you love, babe
Now Hannibal he climbed the mountains
Cleopatra danced down the Nile
Lucky Lindy made it all the way to gay Paris
I'm stayin right here awhile
I ain't leavin you love, babe
I ain't leavin you love, babe
Not for heaven above, babe
I ain't leavin you love, babe
Mister Gator he's a-glidin' down the bayou
Mister Buzzard he's a-slidin' through the air
Mister Turtle be a-hittin' the highway
I ain't goin' nowhere
I ain't leavin you love, babe
I ain't leavin you love, babe
Not for heaven above, babe
I ain't leavin you love, babe
I ain't leavin you love, babe
I ain't leavin you love, babe
Not for heaven above, babe
I ain't leavin you love, babe
I feel like getting out of here
I feel like giving up
I give my best and you punch and you kick me
Then you tell me that I aint enough
Everybody know what's gonna happen
Everybody know what's in store
I give you everything that you ask me
Now I just can't give it anymore
(chorus):
Over and over and over and over
What kind a spell have you got me in
Over and over and over and over
What kind a spell have you got me in
Under the gun
Out of my mind
I lost my brain
And that's just fine
I'm just a fool
No it aint cool
But I am still in love with you
I don't know why I'm getting so angry
I just know that I'm getting bored
After all the crap that's happened
I hear my heart break & it's knocking at the door
(chorus)
Open your eyes
Hey lighten up
You look like nails
But you aint that tough
You got what you want
Cuz im still here
No I aint going anywhere
Under the gun
Out of my mind
I lost my brain
And that's just fine
I'm just a fool
No it aint cool
But I am still in love with you
Over and over and over and over
What kind a spell have you got me under
Over and over and over and over
(Pat Green)
We must be headed in the wrong direction
Cause there's nothing but pain out there
I heard you say something about the cross upon your back
The truth is, baby, life aint always fair
Your whole life is water running down a sidewalk
You Followed the rocks and the cracks as you crawl cross the ground
I ain't seen you smile in so long
You must of built a house in the misery you found
I'm tired, I'm tired now
Tired of playing the same old game
You got to get yourself together
Say to yourself I ain't going down this way
I ain't going down this way
Sifting through your memories deep in the ground with the dead
Maybe you were high on the top of the cloud with the dragon that lives in your head
Maybe you were dragging your wagon with your thoughts like old wooden toys
Maybe you were looking for something that you lost when you were a boy
You eat when your hungry
You sleep when your sleepy
You drink like there's a hole in your soul
All of your problems are begging to leave
But you never want to let them go
You never want to let them go
It's a fine line between living it up and losing it all
It's a fine line between getting up and moving on
It's a fine line between living it up and losing it all
It's a fine line between living it up and moving on
If you stay one more day babe
Don't you know your going to die, your going to die
Hearts and flowers, forget love letters
pain and anger, forget forgiveness
love ain't waiting for a guy like me
Debutants and champaign, diamonds and cocaine
I ain't the son of outrageous fortune
cash ain't status for a guy like me
Put me on a cool river
take my worries from me
fly me high on a big blue sky
well, there's no one here but me, just me
Long black limousine, pictures in magazines
all night parties, beautiful people
no super model for a guy like me
I'm just a good man, I work with my hands
I get the picture, I heard the message
hell ain't waiting for a guy like me
Put me on a cool river
take my sins from me
fly me high ov'r a big blue sky
where there's no one here but me
Put me on a cool river
take my pain from me
fly me high ov'r a big blue sky
where there's no one here but me, just me
yeah, just me
Hearts and flowers, forget love letters
pain and anger, forget forgiveness
love ain't waiting for a guy like me
So put me on a cool river
take my worries from me
fly me high ov'r a big blue sky
where there's no one here but me
Put me on a cool river
take my worries from me
fly me high ov'r a big blue sky
where there's no one here but me, just me
by Pat Green
2000 Greenhorse Music/BMI. All Rights Reserved
When I was a kid I had a rockin' horse named Ranger out on the front porch we
would ride, we would ride, little red cowboy boots, Little red cowboy hat and a
pistol that shoots straight as an eagle flies, mamma would come out say it's
time to come in,I ain't going nowhere mamma and don't ask me again,I was just
an outlaw riding on the trail knocking over stagecoaches and riding on the
rails.
CHORUS
I'm gone to Gallywinter
place where all the cowboys ride
place where all the outlaws ride
away from the men who want to kill them for what they've done
i'm gone to gallywinter.
I'm gone to Gallywinter sister would come out and say "Where you going anyway?"
I'm going to Gallywinter and there ain't no girls allowed, I guess things are
different now, times have changed. A girl is nice to have with you while you're
riding on the range, She can make you breakfast and talk to you at night you
can argue about things you never thought you'd argue about in your whole life,
twenty five years older and Ranger ain't here no more, been replaced by a 1958
model T-bird Ford. Baby said where you want to go, I said I don't know, maybe
Mexico anywhere where tequila flows is alright with me.
(Pat Green)
Hello California,
Sure is strange to be here today.
What's a boy from down in Austin
Doin' in the city of angels anyway?
So won't ya come on out here with me?
Find out what you can or can not see
Maybe gain a new perspective
Why we're so infected by our dreams
Yeah and baby, I'll be out here dreaming
And thinking about the life we could have
Yeah but you're back home in Texas,
And I'm wondering when's the next time I get to hold you
I just wanna hold you
It's the sweetest kind of poison
Tackle you and take away your faith
Whiskey for a lifetime
Wreck your soul with the smallest little taste
Yeah and baby, I'll be out here dreaming
And thinking about the life we could have.
Well I'm stranded in Los Angeles
Wondering when's the next time I get to hold you,
I just wanna hold you.
I am just a guitar man
That fell in love with you
Times good or bad, I'd take €˜em all the same
You could have some 9 to 5 man comin' home to take your hand
You know he's never gonna do
Is this the life I dreamed of?
Guess it's just the way it all went down
Damn right I sure am happy
With the crazy piece of life that I have found
Yeah and baby, I'll be out here dreaming
And thinking about the life we could have
Yeah but you're back home in Texas,
And I'm stranded in Los Angeles
Wondering when's the next time I get to hold you,
I just wanna hold you.
The other night I ran into my girlfriend
Sittin' at the table with another man gettin' stoned
And I'm sleeping all by myself down in Corpus
I think I'll buy myself a bottle so I can drink my ass back home
Alright, alright
Go on and live your life tonight
I'm fine man I'm doin' alright
Never needed you to be a part of my life
When you're sittin' there all alone
Why don't you do yourself a favor
And leave me the hell alone
Alright
Well I've got a handful of empty pockets
You know I've got a bucketful of broken dreams
You ever been on the wrong side of love's highway
Well let me tell ya somethin' brother
Yeah you know just what I mean
Alright, alright
Go on and live your life tonight
I'm fine man I'm doin' alright
Never needed you to be a part of my life
When you're sittin' there all alone
Why don't you do yourself a favor
And leave me the hell alone
Alright
The other night I ran into my girlfriend
Sittin' at the table with another man gettin' stoned
You ever been on the wrong side of the highway
Well it's a lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely
Lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely
Lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely
It's a lonely way back home
Alright, alright
Go on and live your life tonight
I'm fine man I'm doin' alright
Never needed you to be a part of my life
When you're sittin' there all alone
Why don't you do yourself a favor
And just leave me the hell alone
Alright
Alright, alright
Go on and live your life tonight
I'm fine man I'm doin' alright
Never needed you to be a part of my life
When I'm sittin' there all alone
I think I'll buy myself a bottle
So I can drink my ass back home
Alright
2000 Greenhorse Music/BMI. All Rights Reserved
by Pat Green
? 1995 Dead Horse Music (BMI)
September come to Texas just one time every year, so we get our guns and our
pickup trucks, and a bunch of that Lone Star beer, well we head out for the
open plains, where the birds they all flow like wine, we hunt them up then we
shoot them down, man it makes me feel so fine, The manly sport is what I'm
talking about, so you can grab you a pouch of chew, If we get bored 'cause the
birds won't fly, we'll shoot the rabbits with my .22.
Chorus
I don't wanna go to Paris, I get enough French will my fries,
just send me on down to Abilene, for the huntingman's paradise,
Honey you can stay at home all day, laugh and dance go out shopping and play,
'cause I'll be out with the boys, on a West Texas Holiday.
Hunting is a lot like religion or so it is I'm told, they're both just a simple
little way of life, and they're both good for your soul, from Robert Earl Keen
to Robert E. Lee, perfect strangers or best of friends, we all have a common
little bond between us we were born to be huntin' men, If it flies it dies or
so they say, and so often times it's true, yeah but you take yours and I'll
take mine, and we'll have us a Bar-B-Que.
Now, women and whiskey
Well, they ain't the answer
Lord I just know that this here is true
But the way that I'm feeling
I just might be thinking
Lord tonight they just might have to do
I've spent a lot of long
And lonely nights in honky town taverns
Two fisted drinking
And fighting back against the wall
And I know it's a problem, a no win situation
But I can't seem to resist that old whiskey call
And son pour me a drink
Why don't you give me the bottle
Set me down in a corner
Until we're two sheets gone
And don't tell me no stories
About a good hearted woman
I wanna hear "Your Cheatin' Heart"
And cry all night long
Me and my Billy Bob's drinkin' buddies
We've got alot in common
We all wish we could take time
And just turn it around
That take us back to the good old days
Hard work and the cowboy ways
Take us to a swingin' door saloon
This what I'm gonna say
This what I'm gonna say
Hey Miss pour me a drink
Why don't you give me the bottle
Set me down in a corner
Until we're two sheets gone
And don't tell me no stories
About a good hearted woman
I wanna hear "Your Cheatin' Heart"
And cry all night long
Hey, why don't ya pour me a drink
Oh man just give me the bottle
Set me down in a corner
Until we're two sheets gone
And don't tell me no stories
About a good hearted woman
I wanna hear "Your Cheatin' Heart"
Well I ain't looking for an indication
Apologies or a consolation
Pull them up and burn the roots
And kill their horses and steal their boots
Yeah, sweet revenge
Went to the river some years ago
And it didn't do much to save my soul
But I found out my saving grace
Is a little closed heal in a warm dark place
I got sweet revenge
And there's no second chance and there's no half way
The first time you're sorry and the second time you pay
You got your prayers when all else fails
Yeah, sweet revenge
Well my left eye know what my right eye sees
There's a line down that appears to me
Find the place and hide awhile
Let 'em dance in the devils fire
I got sweet revenge
I ain't looking for an indication
Apologies or a consolation
I got sweet revenge
A sweet revenge
I met John Wayne and Jesus when I was just a kid, they both had on their cowboy hats just like I pictured them, I stood up at the front of the class waving my American flag, saying the pledge sang amber waves of grain.
Chorus
I sing all the songs of America, Danced in the rain of Lafayette,
I'm still hanging out with John Wayne and Jesus,
and I know that is as good as life can get.
I had a big time when I was down in Houston, I fell in love and moved to New Orleans, well she said "so long" now I'm here all alone, she's still got a little bitty piece of me.
Chorus
Well John Wayne and Jesus moved out to Hollywood, workin' behind the scenes of MTV, me I'm still right down here in Texas, I know that's where I was always meant to be.
Chorus
You say you love me but you love me not
Something about true love that you must have forgot
To lose a memory I know just where to go
Somewhere between Texas and Mexico
Somewhere between Texas and Mexico
(Chorus:)
King fish are jumping €" the moon is right
Full throttle captain til the we€™re out of sight
Stars on the ocean will find me I know
Somewhere between Texas and Mexico
Somewhere between Texas and Mexico
South Padre Island to the Brownsville Bay
My heart is healing with each breaking way
But I got some real friends and they€™re ready to go
Somewhere between Texas and Mexico
Somewhere between Texas and Mexico
(Chorus)
It€™s gonna take just a little more time
With a little help from the salt and a lime
Something about the wind and the sea sets a broken heart free out there yeah
(Chorus)
Somewhere between Texas and Mexico
Well when the wind don't blow in Amarillo, and the moon along to Gunnison don't rise, shall I cast my dreams upon your love babe, and lie beneath the laughter of your eyes.
Chorus
Snowing on Raton, come morning I'll be through the hills and gone.
Mother thinks the road is long lonely, little brother thinks the road is straight and fine, will little darlin' thinks the road is soft and lovely, I'm thankful that old road is a friend of mine.
Chorus
Bid the years good-bye you cannot still them, you cannot turn the circles of the sun, you cannot count the miles until you fell them, you cannot hold a lover that is gone.
Chorus
Tomorrow the mountains will be sleeping, silently the blanket green and blue, but I shall hear the silence they are keeping, I'll bring all their promises to you.
Home from church now, so let your hair down
It's the lord's favorite day.
There's a dance river tavern, where the drums and fiddles play
So wear your new shoes, your red boots, the dress I cant forget.
Like to watch you dance around me like the rain in Lafayette.
Summers comin', my brain is hummin', said that only you can do
And the way your eyes are smilin' I know mine must be shinin' too
You're my lovely, my only, the one my alouette
Like to watch you dance around me like the rain in Lafayette.
So let the rain fall, cant hurt us at all, get as wet as we can get.
Like to watch you dance around me like the rain in Lafayette.
So let the rain fall, cant hurt us at all, get as wet as we can get.
There are no lyrics, its just him playing and a dog howling at the end
I used to be so down and out
I used to be so blue
Now the only thing I talk about
And the only thing I do
Is stand around like a school kid
Just off the merry-go-round
And if I? m dizzy it? s because I? m headed
To the one good thing I? d found
Yeah the one thing is good as gold
I? m nothing without you too hold
Yeah the one thing I know in this world
Is that I need you to be my girl
I got so good at hiding
I couldn? t find myself
Yeah but girl you got me smiling
Feeling like somebody else
I guess you changed my makeup
I ain't the same sad clown
Yeah ever since you showed up
This ain't the same sad town
Yeah the one thing is good as gold
I? m nothing without you too hold
Yeah the one thing I know in this world
Is that I need you to be my girl
One thing is good as gold
I? m nothing without you too hold
Yeah the one thing I know in this world
Is that I need you to be my girl
You're the one thing
You're the one thing
You drink one for your memories
You drink one for yourself
You drink one for your family
Last time you saw them was a long time ago
I sing one for the children
You sing one for the miles
You sing one for them pretty green eyes
I€™m headed home baby - I got a long way to go
And sing me to sleep sweet city
And let your highway be your lullaby
With nothing in my pocket
No fortune do I know
I€™m headed home baby - I got a long way to go
Well you say a little prayer in the morning
You pray for those you left behind
Your heart starts to break as the sun goes down
I€™m headed home baby - I got a long way to go
Sing me to sleep little darling
And do that little dance for me
Nothing in my pocket
No fortune do I know
I€™m headed home mama - I got a long way to go
I will be there by the morning
And I don€™t know what makes me leave anyway, anyway, anyway
And God I miss you little darling
And save that little dance for me
With nothing in my pocket
No fortunes do I know
I€™m headed home baby - I got a long way to go
It€™s good to be home
It€™s good to be home
I€™m headed home baby - I got a long way to go
by Pat Green
?1995 Dead Horse Music (BMI)
Found myself in a barroom, doin' things I ought not to, watching life as it slowly passed me by, I was holding on to lovers, and disregarding others with my lies, Living my whole life like this, I guess is risky business, some folks say that I won't last too long, and I can't say I blame them, for saying what they're saying, 'cause right now I'm just holding on.
Chorus
I'm just an old dancehall dreamer,
living my life in the past,
holding on to dreams and them slow moving trains,
and I don't know how long I can last.
So I called out to Jesus, said Lord I really need you, you've got to carry me for a while, I've been running too long, singing these old tired songs, as the wheels keep turning out the miles, Like I said I'm just a dreamer, But I've gotta' keep believing, someday things will go my way, I'm just running from the devil, I've got one foot on the pedal, while the other one is laid up in the grave.
Chorus
Baby's just a little bit tired of the city
Billboards and bullshit got her down
Seem like you need a little hill country
A little back roads driving, little bit of the old top down
Yeah, everybody gotta get away sometime
Forget about yourself for a while
Seems to me that all you need
Is a rag top car and a ride with me
Okay, alright
Just might get a little high tonight
Okay, alright
Carry on
Ol' Walt Wilkins lives up in Nashville
You know his eyes have seen the miles
Walt, why don't you jump in Jim T's caddy
Come down to Texas and drink with me a while
Yeah, everybody gotta get away sometime
Forget about yourself for a while
Will go down to El Arroyo have some tacos and beer
Yeah, and let ourselves go
Okay, alright
Just might try to get it right tonight
I'm okay, alright
Carry on
Lover, make sure that you got your troubles
Lover, make sure that you work too hard
Ain't nobody that don't get tired
Watch your troubles pile up big in your own backyard
Sometimes you've got to grab your world with your own two hands
Set it spinning off on a course all your own
Take yourself a big bag for your shoulder
Find yourself some good times, bring them on back home
Yeah, everybody gotta get away sometime
Forget about yourself for a while
Lay your whole life upon a shelf
Got no one to blame but your own damn self
Okay, alright
Heaven only know what gonna happen tonight
I'm okay, I'm alright, I'm okay, I'm alright
I'm okay, I'm alright, I'm okay, I'm alright
Oh carry on, yeah
Mama always said stand up to the truth
There ain€™t no such thing as the fountain of youth
Two wrongs never made it right
Grass ain€™t always greener on the other side
Better save your money for a rainy day
Count your blessings come as they may
Only Will Rogers never met a man he didn€™t like
Always throw the first punch when it comes to a fight
It ain€™t over till it€™s over and the fat lady sings
Only quitters and losers throw the towel in the ring
Well I hope you ain€™t working on a rainy day
Count your blessings come as they may
It€™s a hush my mouth land sakes alive
I don€™t believe that fishermen smell the same when they die
Never put the cart before the horse
Unless he knows how to push it of course
Seems like I€™m always dreaming on a rainy day
Count your blessings come as they may
And it was grandpa who said son you can€™t buy love
You can jump in with both feet, but don€™t jump the gun
Stay out of trouble count your lucky stars
Never get drunk in two states inside the same day
Seems like I€™m always drinking on a rainy day
Count your blessings come as they may
Grandma who said silence is golden
You only answer to one he€™s the almighty beholder
Bird in the hand is better than two in the nest
Don€™t count your chickens before they hatch
Always save the loving for a rainy day
Count your blessings come as they may
It€™s a hush my mouth land sakes alive
I don€™t believe that fishermen smell the same when they die
Never put the cart before the horse
Unless he knows how to push it of course
Seems like I€™m always dreaming on a rainy day
Count your blessings come as they may
Talk being cheap well I took their advice
And the older I get the more I know they were right
Works for me may not work for you
Everything I said was the goddang truth
Well I hope you ain€™t lonely on a rainy day
Count your blessings come as they may
And they€™re etched in my mind I can never forget €˜em
See it ain€™t what you said just how you said it
Wake up, what you been dreaming about
I ain't got a lot to say, but I could talk to you for hours
The way you talk, the way that you breathe
The way that your spirit moves into me
Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up
Chorus
I got three days to wash the road out of my soul
I got three days to love you out of control
And I wish I had a lifetime to hold onto YOU this way
Love can do some healing in just three days
Yeah, and hold me and help me understand
Why on Earth I have to be such a stupid man
To live the way I do, dream the dreams I dream
So far away from you, yeah
Hold me, hold me, hold me, hold me, hold me, hold me
Chorus
Three days and nights to put some life back in this man
I ain't holding nothing back
You got all I am
Hearts and souls and dreams in the palm of your hand
Chorus
Repeat Chorus
One two, one two, one two
I don't wear my shirt tucked in
I like a little barbecue on Sunday
Well I hang out with a rougher crowd
Who drink too much, who talk too loud
But don't you know that it's all right with me
Yeah I don't go to church too much
But I know that Jesus truly loves me
And if He was here I'd be drinking beer
And hanging out and saving all of my friends, Amen
Who's to say and who are you to judge me anyway
This is my road, I take the corner as fast as I can go
Who's to say at how I got so lucky anyway
I am my own at least until the man comes and takes me home
Well I got my mama's features, and my daddy's fixtures
All day long I been looking at pictures wondering
How in the hell they came up with me
Well, I'm crazy as a loon, I'm howling at the moon
My baby, she don't know what to do
She's wondering how in the hell she's gonna stay with me
Well, she's been to church more than Billy Graham
And she knows the Bible like the back of her hand
Yeah but she drinks gin like it's going out of style
Oh, it makes me smile
Yeah, who's to say and who are you to judge me anyway
This whole world spins, never gonna take that chance again
Yeah who's to say at how we got so lucky anyway
We have a home, neither one of us will ever be alone
It's a lesson of survival to ride out every trial
It's the secret of forgiveness way down deep inside
Who's to say and who are you to judge me anyway
This is my road, I take the corner as fast as I can go
Yeah, who's to say at how I got so lucky anyway
I am my own at least until the angels come
Momma cried when you left me
You know she's always loved you so
She said, "Hey fool what the hell did you do?"
I said, "Now mom I swear to god I just don't know"
Picture book sittin' there on the table
Memories were stacked up through the years
Tonight their ain't no pictures on them pages
'Cause you're kinda gone and you're never coming back home again
Yeah tonight all the dance halls are empty
With no young lovers on the floor
So I'll sit here with my whiskey
Drink it till I just can't drink no more
And I don't know why you had to leave me
And all I really know is that you are gone, long gone
And everywhere I go I just feel lonely
You're the only life I've ever known
I guess you must've heard the highway calling
You packed up your things and headed for the coast
And I had to fight the urge to follow
I guess some time away from me is all you've ever really needed most
Yeah tonight you know this whole damn town is empty
And I don't think I can take it anymore
So I'll sit here with my whiskey
And drink it till I just can't drink no more
A late night phone call from the east coast
Guess she said she'd had enough,coming on back home
Guess she went out and got crazy for awhile
If she leaves right now, maybe she'll make Memphis by the dawn
And tonight you know this whole damn house is empty
Tomorrow will be like it was before
So I'll put away my whiskey, I guess I just don't need it anymore
Yeah I'll put away my whiskey, I guess I just don't need it anymore
I'm for wildflowers in the window
Mechanics you can trust
I'm for crackers in my chili
And leavin' grudges in the dust
I'm for drive thru order takers
Who can muster up a smile
I'm for takin' in that stray dog
That's been hangin' 'round for awhile
I'm for turning off the TV
Gettin' off the internet
I'm for learning all the words
To the Gettysburg Address
I'm for dusty pawn shop guitars
And boxers passed their prime
I'm for soakin' up the wisdom
When an old man speaks his mind.
I'm for laid off factory workers
When the wolf is at the door
You don't have to guess what I'm against
If you know what I'm for
I'm for Texas Margaritas
Gettin' outta debt
I'm for havin' faith in something
That hasn't happened yet
For the shy kid in the corner
Afraid to ask the girl to dance
For the ex-con outta prison
Who just wants a second chance
For the inner city teacher
With her heart stuck in her throat
Can still see God in every child
And never gives up hope
I'm for dusty pawn shop guitars
And boxers passed their prime
I'm for soakin' up the wisdom
When and old man speaks his mind
I'm for Detroit factory workers
When the wolf is at the door
You don't have to guess what I'm against
If you know what I'm for
I'm counting all my blessings
When the wolf is at my door
You don't have to ask what I'm against
You don't have to guess what I'm against
Mile upon mile, got no direction
We're all playin' the same game
We're all lookin' for redemption
Just to pray, to say the name
So caught up now in pretendin'
That what we're seekin' is the truth
I'm just lookin' for a happy endin'
All I'm lookin' for is you
You came upon me wave on wave
You're the reason I'm still here, yeah
Am I the one you were sent to save?
You came upon me wave on wave
I wandered out into the water
And I thought that I might drown
I don't know what I was after
Just know I was goin' down
And that's when she found me
Not afraid anymore
She said, "You know, I always had you, baby
Just waitin' for you to find what you were lookin' for"
You came upon me wave on wave
You're the reason I'm still here, yeah
Am I the one you were sent to save?
It came upon me wave on wave
Wave on wave
Wave on wave
And it came upon me wave on wave
You're the reason I'm still here, yeah
Am I the one you were sent to save?
It came upon me wave on wave
The clouds broke and the angels cried
You ain't gotta wipe the floor
That's why it put me in your hands
When it came upon me wave on wave
Yeah, it came upon me wave on wave
You're the reason I'm still here, yeah
Am I the one you were sent to save?
And it came upon me wave on wave
Yeah, it came upon me wave on wave
You're the reason I'm still here, yeah
Am I the one you were sent to save?
And it came upon me wave on wave
Wake up, what you been dreaming about
I ain't got a lot to say, but I could talk to you for hours
The way you talk, the way that you breathe
The way that your spirit moves into me
Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up
Chorus:
I got three days to wash the road out of my soul
I got three days to love you out of control
And I wish I had a lifetime to hold onto you this way
Love can do some healing in just three days
Yeah, and hold me and help me understand
Why on earth I have to be such a stupid man
To live the way I do, dream the dreams I dream
So far away from you, yeah
Hold me, hold me, hold me, hold me, hold me, hold me
Chorus
Three days and nights to put some life back in this man
I ain't holding nothing back
You got all I am
Hearts and souls and dreams in the plam of your hand
Chorus
I got myself a threadbare gypsy soul
Likes to dance and drink and go wherever the wind blows
Got a little threadbare gypsy soul
Got a little threadbare gypsy soul
Got a little wild streak in my heart
I guess that I have had it since I heard the music start
I got a little wild streak in my heart
I got a little threadbare gypsy soul
I like to hear the highway sounds
And I don?t think that I?ll ever settle down
I can?t change and it?s a sin, hope St. Peter gonna let me in
Come on Pete, won?t you let me in?
I wear this cowboy hat upon my head
And you can take it off me some time after I am dead
Got a cowboy hat up on my head
Got a little threadbare gypsy soul
I wear these crusty shoes down on my feet
I could write a book about the places that they?ve seen
I got these crusty shoes down on my feet
I got a little wild streak in my heart
An' I like to hear the highway sounds
Sometimes I wonder if I?ll ever settle down
An' I can?t change an' it?s a sin, I hope St. Peter's gonna let me in
Come on Pete, won?t you let me in?
An' I know this crazy livin' just ain't right
Most of the time I?m smoking, drinking, looking for a fight
But I?ve been talking to Jesus everyday
Well, I?ve been talking to Jesus everyday
An' I got this girl back home I call my wife
If you ever met her I swear she would change your life
She?s got a little wild streak in her heart
But she?s been saying hallelujah everyday
I like to hear the highway sounds
An' I don?t think that I?ll ever settle down
An' I can?t change and it might be a sin, hope St. Peter gonna let me in
I can hear the wind whisper my name.
Tellin' me it's time to head out again.
My horses are trailered and the lights are shut down,
An' I'm long overdue for headin' outta town.
Got a fever that they call the rodeo.
Just enough winnin' to make the next show.
Sometimes you make eight, sometimes you hit dirt.
Go on, pin another number to the back of my shirt
And I'll ride that pony fast,
Like a cowboy from the past.
Be young and wild and free,
Like Texas in 1880.
Just like Texas in 1880.
Ah, from Phoenix to Tulsa to the Astro Dome;
New York City down to San Antone;
There's boys that are ridin' for legendary fame,
And our money's all gone but we still ride the same.
Our hearts'll get broken, and our heads'll get busted.
But we'll always believe the things that we trusted.
There'll be those nights when glory comes round,
And we'll tip our hats and wave to the crowd
And then ride that pony fast,
Like a cowboy from the past.
Be young and wild and free,
Like Texas in 1880.
Just like Texas in 1880.
Someday when you're older,
Someone'll see,
That buckle hangin' there on your belt.
Ask you just how it felt!
To ride that pony fast,
Like a cowboy from the past.
Be young and wild and free,
Like Texas in 1880.
Just like Texas in 1880.
Just Like Texas.
Take me home to Texas
Ah play it just like Texas
Well I believe in hope and marriage
Forever and I do
But love suffers pain when you try to hard
And tonight we're living proof
If we fell in love already
We can fall in love again
There is no doubt, we can work it out
Find a way to fall back in
Do you remember when I met you?
What I whispered in your ear?
Be my temporary angel
And I'll be your love for just one day
Hold me for the moment
Let the moment fade away
When you wake up in the morning
And your heart tell you to stay
Be my temporary angel forever
When forever comes our way
We can start this thing all over
Let tomorrow wait it's turn
Forget about the past, it will never last
Strike a match and watch it burn
Do you remember when I met you?
What I whispered in your ear?
Be my temporary angel
And I'll be your love for just one day
Hold me for the moment
And watch the moment fade away
When you wake up in the morning
And your heart tells you to stay
Be my temporary angel forever
When forever comes our way
Close the door
And turn the lights down
Let it all come
Come down to right now
Be my temporary angel
I'll be your love for just one day
Hold me for the moment
Let the moment fade away
When you wake up in the morning
And your heart tells you to stay
Be my temporary angel forever
Be my temporary angel
I'll be your love for just one day
Hold me for the moment
And let the moment fade away
When you wake up in the morning
And your heart tells you to stay
What the hell am I doing up in Kansas City?
Know damn well it ain't where I belong, no no
I think I'll quit my job, come five o'clock
Find my lonely way back home
Well, my baby said, "Just what are you trying to prove here?
Really want to leave me here all alone?"
Said, "I'm tired of staring at this ocean full of Yankees
I'd rather be in Texas on my own", oh yeah
Now we were southbound 35
We were headed down the road
Hit the border by the morning
To let Texas fill my soul, to let Texas fill my soul
Well, the tears start to flow about the time that I was leaving
She said, "I guess you better take me along"
She said that, "God might have made her born a little Yankee child"
She said, "It's time that I made Texas now her home"
So we loaded her stuff on down into my pickup truck
Said, "Adios" to all my friends
Called my brother Dave living down in Austin
I said, "I'm headed home again" oh yeah
Now we were southbound 35
We were headed down the road
Hit the border by the morning
To let Texas fill my soul, to let Texas fill my soul
He had her feet up there on the dashboard
Holding my hand and wearing only a smile
Said, "It's gonna be hard just to start all over
The feeling I have well it makes it all worthwhile", oh yeah
Now we were southbound 35
We were headed down the road
Hit the border by the morning
To let Texas fill my soul, to let Texas fill my soul
Pourin' rain, cracked front window
I turned off my radio and reached to my boot
For my favorite sterling horseshoe flask
To take a drink of what it holds
She was looking at her feet when I saw her on the street
She was holding tight to someone else's hand
So I kept rollin' and now here I am
And I'm gonna sing 'til I stop crying
Well, the earth moves slow, out west of llano
Better pull this car of mine off road awhile
And reached to the back for my daddy's old Martin
Hold it oh, so close to me
I'd sing me some Jones or sad Newberry song
I'm gonna sing 'til I stop crying, crying, crying
Pull out my smokes, I pull out my Zippo
And fire it up 'cause there's nothing left to do
Well, the morning sun it's a comin' on
Guess its safe to say that I won't make work today
But a Roger Miller song sure sounds fine to me
I'm gonna sing 'til I stop crying
I'm gonna sing 'til I stop crying
Conway run to find Miss Tammy
Willie won't you call Miss Emmy Lou
Cause I'm gonna sing 'til I stop crying
Finally free
Finally gone
Finally breathing again
Finally back out on my own
Well, finally here
In an otherwise empty room
Where there's no one here to tear me all apart
Yeah, tonight I'm gonna go out
I'm gonna get a little wasted
I'm one of those guys
Yeah, I'm one of those guys
Well, I gotta run
Gotta be free
Don't hold me down
No, baby
Yeah, and speakin' of faith
I finally found me a song
I'm in the same old place
But there's a lot less screamin' and carryin' on
Too much pain
And too much hate
Not enough fire
Now it's way too late
Yeah, tonight I'm gonna go out
I'm gonna get a little wasted
I'm one of those guys
I'm one of those guys
Well, I gotta run, gotta be free
Don't hold me down
No, baby
Yeah, I gotta run, I gotta be free
Don't hold me down
No, baby
You're looking back at me with your pretty little eyes
And you want so bad for me to try and change
You tried that one before, win the battle, lose the war
Just count your losses, baby, and go
But just count you losses, baby, and go
Well, I gotta run, gotta be free
Don't hold me down
No, baby
Yeah, I gotta run, I gotta be free
Don't hold me down
No, baby
Yeah, I gotta run, I gotta be free
Don't hold me down
We left home when were barely past eleven-teen
We've been back and fourth and all around through hell and rain
I've loved you half of your life and Ill keep on loving you
But I can't change and live the way you want me to.
We spent a lot of time out on the highway
Coming from some town we played along the way
After thirty years and knowing me the way you do
You know I cant change and live the way you want me to .
That red bandana tied around your auburn hair
You look like you ought to be somebody's wife somewhere
You ain't never going to be no bobby Mcgee but your trying to
But I can't change and live the way you want me to
Every time you leave the stage I know you've had your fill
And I wonder why you grew up and why I never will
Hey I'm forty-one today still going on twenty-two
But I can't change and live the way you want me to
That red bandana tied around your auburn hair
You look like you ought to be somebody's wife somewhere
You ain't never going to be no bobby Mcgee but your trying to
But I can't change and live the way you want me to
Some things I've done make my conscience burn
My very spine shudder and squirm
I only hope that I've learned from my sin
I heard a voice when I was thirteen
Got baptized, washed up clean
But the world has a way
If you know what I mean
To scuff you up again and again
I can't explain a blessed thing
Not a falling star, or a feathered wing
Or how a man in chains
Has the strength to sing?
Just one thing is clear to me
There's always more than what appears to be
When the light's just right
I swear I see, yeah man it's poetry
But somebody made every thing
From the soul, inside out to saturn's rings
How my baby smiles and how Ray Charles sings
Of course we were created
The clouds make rain, the ocean makes sand
The earth breathes fire, and lava makes land
Now that took a mighty hand
And a wild imagination
I can't explain a blessed thing
Not a falling star, or a feathered wing
Or how a man in chains
Has the strength to sing, yeah fly away
Just one thing is clear to me
There's always more than what appears to be
And when the light's just right
I swear I see, yeah oh Lord poetry
The dreams I dreamed came back ten-fold
The friends I have to the woman I hold
I look down, I'm on streets of gold
After all the mud along the way
But sometimes the big old mystery
Just leans right in on me
Says that I'm home and I am free
And I'll take that any day, any day
I can't explain a blessed thing
Not a falling star, or a feathered wing
Or how a man in chains
Has the strength to sing, like a bird
Just one thing is clear to me
There's always more than what appears to be
And when the light's just right
I swear I see, yeah
Just one thing is clear to me
There's always more than what appears to be
And when the light's just right
When I was a child, my family would travel
To western Kentucky, where my parents were born
And there's a backward old town that's often remembered
So many times that my memories are worn
Chorus
And daddy won't you take me back to Mulenberg county
Down by the Green River, where Paradise lay
Well I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in askin'
Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
Well sometimes we'd float right down the Green River
To an abandoned old prison down by Atry Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill
Chorus
Then the coal company came, with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man
Chorus
When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin'
Just five miles away from wherever I am
I hope you get to be on a TV game show
And win a million dollars 'cause that's lucky
And I hope a bartender appears with a shot and a beer
Every time you holler 'cause that's lucky
And I hope you get to live in a big old crib
And a fancy neighborhood 'cause that's lucky
And you never have to fight for an invite
To the coolest parties out in Hollywood, oh that's lucky
But if you were just a regular guy
Living beneath this red, white and big blue sky
With your job, your car, your family, your friends
The love of a girl that you know will never end
Then you've already got it made every single day
Yeah, you know what it's like to be lucky
Well, I hope you get the chance for a paparazzi romance
With a supermodel 'cause, yeah man that's lucky
And I hope you're getting chased first place full throttle
In a NASCAR race, oh that's lucky
But if you were just a regular guy
Living beneath this red, white and big blue sky
With your job, your car, your family, your friends
The love of a girl that you know will never end
Then you've already got it made every single day
Yeah, you know what it's like to be lucky, yeah
Well, don't you feel lucky?
But if you're just a regular guy
Living beneath this red, white and big blue sky
With your hopes, your dreams, your faith and your prayers
Every breath you take, every moment you share
Then you've already got it made every single day
Yeah, you know what it's like
Yeah, brother you know what it's like to be lucky, yeah
To be lucky yeah, to be lucky yeah
Come on, don't you feel it?
Yeah, you're lucky
My little brother got an engine on him
got an engine on him
and he cant slow down
My little brother got an engine on him
got an engine on him
and he cant slow down
But he dreams, and he holds on,
Better than anyone I've ever known,
In this world, In this world.
My little brother got an engine on him
got an engine on him
and he cant slow down.
My little sister is pretty as a princess,
and hotter than a pistol when the sun goes down.
My little sister is pretty as a princess,
and hotter than a pistol when the sun goes down.
And all the dreams make her role on.
Trying to find a place to call her own.
In this world, In this world.
My little sister is pretty as a princess,
and hotter than a pistol when the sun goes down.
It must have fallen pretty hard,
when you fell in love with money,
'cause looking at her now,
the sunny days don't seem so sunny.
But the clouds are filled with music.
so let it fall on us like rain,
I can feel it in the air,
see it dancin' on my window pain.
I guess the gods that hold the key,
stone waters to believe,
in this world i believe,
in this world i believe.
My little guitar got a few songs in her,
got a few songs in her,
that ain't been found.
My little guitar got a few songs in her,
got a few songs in her,
One night in New Orleans I met a painted lady
She swore that she knew just how to save me
She said it wouldn't take long just to do you a minute
Believe me boy you won't soon forget it
But I was too dead and I told her no
She grabbed my hand and she wouldn't let go
She said listen here boy we aint that different you and me
And it's human nature been that way since Cain and Able
If there's bread in your pocket it don't matter how you got it
As long as there's food on the table.
Yeah and sooner or latter your gonna figure it out honey
If you aint in it for love... your in it for the money
Ahh your in it for the money
I met and old-timer behind Tootsies Lounge
In the shadow of the Ryman as the sun when down.
He said they'll steal your soul in a radio song
They say you want fame but it won't last long
He said you'll be tempted but you better say no
He grabbed my hand and he wouldn't let go
He said cowboy we aint that different you and me
Yeah it's human nature been that way since Hank and Waylon
You put fame in your pocket but as soon as you got it your star is already fadin'
Yeah and sooner or latter this old town sure seems funny
And you aint in it for love your in it for the money
For the money
Everybody's temped
Well everybody's temped
Well have you been temped
Yeah yeah yeah
And it's human nature been that way since Cain and Able
If there's bread in your pocket it don't matter how you got it
As long as there's food on the table.
Yeah and sooner or latter you better ask yourself honey
Do you do what you do for love
Do you do what you do for love
And if you aint in it for love
Then your in it for the money
If I was the Devil I'd hang out in blue eye, Missouri
Where the water and the mountain collide
And I'd scare all the little children and rumble around beneath the beds
Tell them all kind of stories, I can't help but get them stuck in their heads
Then I'd take out some of your livestock
You can blame it on the beast of the night
You know it was me same as you know wrong and right
If I was the Devil I'd go and find your preacher man
Crusty and white hair
I'd tell him that hell is on the way, scare him right out of his skin
See the brimstone in his eyes
And then a band of fat white deacons would take him far away
And that would be just fine with me
If I was the Devil
If I was the Devil I'd gather up all of your dreams
And drop them to the bottom of a black lagoon
And I'd steal away all your patience and steal away all your pride
Leave you with nothing but uncontrollable fear
And then I'd reveal in my masterpiece as I dance around with the night
Well, if I had a million
I would build you a mansion
A hundred miles from nowhere with all a girl could need
We would run through the hallways
And dance in the backyard
If we ain't got no neighbors
Ain't no one will see
If I had me a speed plane
If I fly across the land
Settle in some little border town
Drink margaritas
And dance to mariachis
Put you on my speed plane and I
I would bring you on back home
If I had me a steamboat
Sail across the ocean
Dock in some little port of call
We would have a fine time
With Swiss cheese and French wine
Put you on my steamboat and I
I would bring you on back home
I ain't got a million
I ain't got a speed plane
I ain't got no boat upon the sea
All I've got on these two strong arms
I can hold you so tightly
So baby won't you, won't you please
Come back home with me
I ain't got a million
I ain't got a speed plane
I ain't got no boat upon the sea
All I've got on these two strong arms
I can hold you so tightly
And baby won't you, won't you please
I'd have to be crazy to stop all my singin'
And never play music again.
You'd call me a fool if I grabbed up a top hat
And ran out to flag down the wind
I'd have to be weird to grow me a beard
Just to see what the rednecks would do
But I'd have to be crazy; plumb out of my mind
To fall out of love with you
I know I've done weird things;
I told people I hear things
When silence was all in the bounds
There's been days when it pleased me
To be on my knees
Following ants as they crawled 'cross the ground
Been insane on a train, but I'm still me again
In the place where I hold you it's true
So I know I'm all right, 'cause I'd have to be crazy
To fall out of love with you.
You know I don't intend to, but should there come a day
When I say that I don't love you, you can lock me away
I sure would be dingy, to live in an envelope
Waiting alone for a stamp
You'd swear I was loco to rub for a genie
While burning my hand on the lamp
And I may not be normal, but nobody is
So I'd like to say 'fore I'm through
I'd have to be crazy, plumb out of my mind
To fall out of love with you
I'd have to be crazy, plumb out of my mind
Lately I'm feelin' kinda broken
Like a man that swerves through the world
And I ain't got no explanation
And if I did, know I'd sound absurd
But I can't change a thing
No matter what I do
You don't care what I say
I can't hide the pain anymore
Oh, I'm going away
Just a need a way to keep the rain out
And land with my both feet on the ground
But everytime I go to stand up on my own
You come along, come along and then you knock me down
But I can't change a thing
No matter what I do
You don't care what I say
I can't hide the pain anymore
Oh, I'm going away
So maybe I'd break out for the mountains
Maybe I'd be south bound to Mexico
When you comin' beggin', pleadin' you said, "Baby please don't leave"
Well I made up my mind, I made up my mind it's time to go
I can't change a thing
No matter what you do
But you don't care what you say
I can't hide the pain anymore
When I was a kid I had a rockin' horse named Ranger
Out on the front porch we would ride, we would ride
Little red cowboy boots, little red cowboy hat
And a pistol that shoots straight as an eagle flys
Mama would come out, sayin', "It's time to come in"
I said, "I ain't going nowhere mama, don't ask me again"
I was just an outlaw riding on the trail
Knocking over stage coaches riding on the rails
I'm going to Galleywinter, a place where all the cowboys ride
The place where all the outlaws hide
Away from the men who want to kill them for what they've done
I'm going to Galleywinter, I'm going to Galleywinter, go
My sister'd come out and say, "Where are you going anyway?"
I'm going to Galleywinter and there ain't no girls allowed
I guess things are different now, times have changed
A girl is nice to have with you when you're riding on the range
She can make you breakfast, talk to you at night
You can argue about things you never thought you'd argue
About in your whole life
Twenty-five years older Ranger ain't here no more
Been replaced by a 1958 model T-bird Ford
Baby say where you want to go? I said, "I don't know maybe Mexico
Anywhere where tequila flows is all right with me, yeah"
I'm going to Galleywinter, a place where all the outlaws hide
A place where all the cowgirls ride
You know that it's all right with me
Footsteps of our Fathers ~ Pat Green/Brett James (2009)
We are walking in the footsteps of our fathers
Standing in the shadows of our mothers
Trying to learn from those who came before us
We see the road maps in the lines upon their face
And as I look out on this crazy congregation
The truth is inside we’re all the same
Come on all my sisters and my brothers
Let’s go walking
Walking in the footsteps of our Father
Now I’m the first to say I don’t know what I’m doin’
And I ain’t gonna preach what I don’t know
I ain’t no deep theologer, no PhD psychologer
I’m makin’ all this shit up as I go
But I know for sure we’re all in this together
And in a thousand years we still won’t get it right
So let’s rip a page out of ole’ Hank Williams’ hymnal
Let’s have a little church right here tonight
As I look down at the brother of my daughter
As I kneel and kiss my sister of my son
I only hope I leave a righteous path to follow
As they go walking
Walking in the footsteps of their Father
We are walking in the footsteps of our fathers
Standing in the shadows of our mothers
Trying to learn from those who came before us
We see the road maps in the lines upon their face
And as I look out on this crazy congregation
The truth is inside we’re all the same
Come on all my sisters and my brothers
Let’s go walking
Walking in the footsteps of our Father
We are walking in the footsteps of our Father
I woke up this morning with the afternoon at my window
I must have tied one on pretty tight last night
I don't even know if I picked up the phone to call you
If I did babe I apologize
I can't believe I even made it out here
Praise the Lord baby, I'm glad I did
Most times I'm just kinda laid back looking for nothing
Never thought someone who looked like you come looking for me
I live my life one drink at a time, happily out of my mind
I never thought I'd find somebody like you to give my whole life to
Hope I don't let my hopes get up too high
I don't know tomorrow you might change you're mind
But I'm feeling pretty good tonight
Tell you something baby, you're as pretty as a Sunday morning
But every Sunday morning's gotta have a little Saturday night
Maybe I could help you make it through 2000 Tuesdays
Maybe you just get wasted away sometime
I live my life one drink at a time, happily out of my mind
I never thought I'd find somebody like you to give my whole life to
Hope I don't let my hopes get up too high
But I don't know tomorrow you might change you're mind
But I'm feeling pretty good tonight
I live my life one drink at a time, happily out of my mind
I never thought I'd find somebody like you to give my whole life to
Babe I might have finally got things right
But I hope tomorrow you don't change you're mind
'Cause I'm feeling pretty good tonight, feeling pretty good tonight
Every day at lunch in high school and all my senior year
Id drink my cup of cola with a touch of Everclear
I never had to study math, science, or history
Id have a chemical flash back to jog my memory
My junior year I swore I loved sweet Miss Sherri Ann
One night I put some Everclear in her Dr. Pepper can
Well I thought itd make her easy
She took it pretty hard
I took her home and rang her doorbell left her lying in the yard
Chorus
Tequila dries me out
Beer just makes me fat
Whiskey makes me nauseas
Now tell me who the hell needs that
So if youre thinking about drinking
Well the answers crystal clear
Its the invisible, intoxicating
Its called Everclear
I remember my church picnic
In the spring of 89
Yeah they had four fresh watermelons
Sliced right off the vine
When they bowed their heads giving grace for the food
Hey I pulled out my bottle and I soaked them melons good
Well they never knew what hit em
When that potion went to work
They had grandmas doing back flips
Grandpas looking up their skirts
They were singing hallelujah and Willie Nelson songs
Preacher said it was the best dang picnic
That the Baptists had ever thrown
Chorus
Tequila dries me out
Beer just makes me fat
Whiskey makes me nauseas
Now tell me who the hell needs that
So if youre thinking about drinking
Well the answers crystal clear
Its the invisible, intoxicating
Its called Everclear
When Im drinking Everclear
I think Im king of this whole world
Im bigger and badder than John Wayne
Cooler than Steve Earl
Until I wake up and Im face down in the hall
Hey Im completely naked for a reason I cant recall
A thick plush blue carpet at my feet
A peacock stained glass window
Starin' back at me
A nine foot crushed white velvet
Sofa in the hallway
There's a TV in the kitchen
She's cookin' in her panties
Flippin' them little sandwiches
Like she's flippin' her hair
Sure is nice to have someone to hold me
Well I'm the King of kings you see
Now everything you need
Baby, I'm Elvis
(Baby, baby, I'm Elvis)
(Baby, baby, I'm Elvis)
Hahaha
(Baby)
I got a hundred golden records in this one room
I got fifty golden knobs upon my door
I got one black twenty five foot stretch Cadillac
To drive you home, drive you home
Well downstairs there's a room in the basement
(Ahh haa)
It's mostly made of yellow and black
Some folks call it the jungle
I just think it's a nice place to relax
(Haa)
But I'm the King of kings you see
Now everything you need
Baby, I'm Elvis
(Baby, baby, I'm Elvis)
(Baby, baby, I'm Elvis)
(Elvis)
Once a year they all come to see me
I watch them throwin' flowers at my toes
There's a line that stretches down the driveway
Past my plane and ends at the gift shop
Woo ooo
But I'm the King of kings you see
Now everything you need
Baby, I'm Elvis
(Baby, baby, I'm Elvis)
(Baby, baby, I'm Elvis)
But I'm the King of kings you see
Now everything you need
Baby, I'm Elvis
(Baby, baby, I'm Elvis)
(Baby, baby, I'm Elvis)
Baby, baby, I'm Elvis
Baby, baby, I'm Elvis
She holds the key to Eden's gate
Somewhere deep inside
Well, she gives to me her patience
And a hundred smiles, none the same
Her eyes are the ocean
I am drowning constantly
I am lucky just to linger
In the corners of her scene
And I am lost inside the walls of Eden
Don't you ever set me free
I am lost inside the walls of Eden
And I'll never go back, no I'll never go back again
Outside, the world's a bastard
The son whose father never cared
It keeps on raging like some crazy storm
Knocking here
And I am lost inside the walls of Eden
Don't you ever set me free
I am lost inside the walls of Eden
And I'll never go back, no I'll never go back again
And all it cost me was my whole life and all it gives me is everything
A love like fire, the taste of skin, the feeling of falling again and again
It's a long drink from a deep cool well
It's everything baby, it's everything baby, it's everything
And I am lost inside the walls of Eden
Don't you ever set me free
I am lost inside the walls of Eden
Don't you ever set me free
I am lost inside the walls of Eden
And I'll never go back, no I'll never go back
Never go back, no I'll never go back
I found you in a Louisiana roadside park
Beat up, broke down no place left to turn
I took you back to Texas under a harvest moon
We found a little place to call our own
We shared all the hopes and dreams of our younger years
Married at the tender age of twenty-one
Rollin' down the highways, dirt roads and the byways
You liked to drive so I would go shotgun
We'd go down to the river
Where I could hold your body close to mine
We'd listen to the rhythm
Of that old water rollin
You can stay with me until the morning light
Somewhere through the year somebody turned your head
And has taken my sweet love so far from me
Yeah he swept you off to Boulder
Where the air it gets much colder
Than this southern boy would ever like to see
I think of calling you on lonely nights
When being alone gets the best of me
Yeah but this here whiskey bottle
Will take me to a place
Where you and I will always be
We'd go down to the river
Where I could hold your body close to mine
We'd listen to the rhythm
Of that old water rollin
You can stay with me until the morning light
When you came back home everybody said I was a fool
'Cause I took you back without a word to say
But I couldn't go on living thinkin' about all I was missin'
And I don't give a damn about what those people say
We'd go down to the river
Where I could hold your body close to mine
We'd listen to the rhythm
Of that old water rollin
My father had skin like leather
Hands like steel
From a lifetime spent
In the cotton fields
Though he'd come home tired and dirty
Almost every night
He found the strength to smile at me
And hold my mama tight
While that old transistor radio
Would play the opry out in the hall
I'd sit and watch their shadows
Glide across the wall
And they'd dance to a Dixie lullaby
A picture of love beneath the southern sky
Oh my, what a beautiful life?
Just like a Dixie lullaby
I left home at 18
In a hand me down Chevrolet
Packed my mamas goodness
My old mans stubborn ways
It was college, work and love
Then the babies came
The youngest one got
His granddaddy's name
And in the early morning hours
When my children could not sleep
I'd rock them in my arms
To a Jimmy beat
I'd sing them a Dixie lullaby
Hush baby, don't you start to cry
Oh my, what a beautiful life?
Just like a Dixie lullaby
My father was a mountain of a man
That was the description that I gave
The morning that we laid him in his grave
There with my mama by his side, we said our last goodbye
To a man we thought would never die
As I stood there in the fields of amazing grace
Oh, how the tears ran down my face
And I sang him a Dixie lullaby
We'll meet again, by and by
Oh my, what a beautiful life?
Just like a Dixie lullaby
Oh my, what a beautiful life?
Found myself in a barroom
Doin' things I ought not to
Watching my life as it slowly passed me by
I was holding on to lovers
And disregarding others with my lies
Living my whole life like this
I guess, is risky business
Some folks say that I won't last too long
And I can't say I blame them
For saying what they're saying
'Cause right now I'm just holding on
I'm just an old dancehall dreamer
Living my life in the past
Holding on to dreams and them slow moving trains
And I don't know how long I can last
So I called out to Jesus
Said Lord, I really need you
You've got to carry me for awhile
I've been running too long
Singing these old tired songs
As the wheels keep turning out the miles
Like I said I'm just a dreamer
But I've gotta keep believing
Someday things will go my way
I'm just running from the devil
I've got one foot on the pedal
While the other one is laid up in the grave
I'm just an old dancehall dreamer
Living my life in the past
Holding on to dreams and them slow moving trains
Didn't even see it coming
How'd I know you're mine
Freight train just came roaring around that bend
Should of heard those rails a singing
Somewhere far off down the line
Yes, I hope it was just a crazy wind
You know sometimes I feel like breaking
That ol' pawnshop radio
And hear those songs you sung me way back when
Take the pieces to a boxcar
And let them ride to Mexico
Let the songs come drifting back on a crazy wind
Chorus
Maybe somewhere in a dream
When the whiskey starts to take me soft and low
And if you can't seem to find me
You know right where I've been
Somewhere out there on that crazy wind
Repeat chorus
I didn't even see it coming, I wonder how I got so blind
The circus just came spinning to an end
I should've seen that spotlight fading
Hell I never knew about my fire
Hiding out there on that crazy wind
You know sometimes I hear those lies you told me way back when
Like to float on down the river
Just to see where they might go
Until the truth comes drifting back on a crazy wind
"Country Star"
Well I sure am tired of these coffee house gigs
Cause there ain't no money and there ain't no chicks
It's gettin harder and harder to get my kicks so I bought a little ticket to Nashville
Cause I wanna see my name up in neon lights drink pink champagne and party every night
All them lucky muthers up there livin the life man I gotta get my ass to Nashville
Cause
I wanna be a country star
and take it all way to far
drinkin free in every bar
just like Bocephus
A I think it'd be a cryin shame
not to have my own airplane
I wanna go up in flames me and my guitar
Man I wanna be a country star
Well I got a drinkin problem so I'll fit right in
Gonna sing me some hits and get some famous friends
I'll be ridin shotgun with Kenny, Faith, and Tim
And I wonder how they lived without me
I'll get "Big & Rich" rich and build a big ol' house
With a big ol' fence to keep the rif raf out
Call my old girlfriends say "how ya like me now"
C'mon baby tell me what ya love about me
I'm gonna be a country star
and take it all way to far
breakin all the young girls hearts
just like Keith Urban
Man I'm thinkin that sure sounds fun
Rockin out with Brooks and Dunn
All the way to number 1
Me and my guitar
Man I wanna be a country star
Playin golf with Vince and Willie
Hangin out with Carrie UNDERneath those big spotlights
YEAH YEAH
YEAH YEAH
I'm wanna be a country star
take it all way to far
breakin all the young girls hearts
just like Keith Urban
Man I think it sure sounds fun
Rockin out with Brooks and Dunn
All the way to number 1
Me and my guitar
Man I wanna be a country star
Country Star
We were just dumb kids with a six pack
That a bad fake ID bought
Sittin' on the livin' room couch
Hopin' that we didn't get caught
And when we did, my dad
Had some good advice for me
He said, "Son, there's a time and place
For just about everything, it's called 'College'"
Next thing I know I'm packin' up
And hey I'm outta here
A backseat full of clothes
And my old cavalier
And there was empty pizza boxes
Attacked all around the room
A couple of beers on a Tuesday
And one in the afternoon, hey college
Those were the best days of my life
I found my friends, myself, and my wife
I learned almost everything that I know
Without ever gaining knowledge
In college, in college
I had such a good time in those four years
That I stretched it into six
And I'd like to thank ole George's Bar
For the the classes that I missed
I was searchin' for the meanin' of life
When I saw her walk my way
There was not doubt in my my mind
That it wasn't about a GPA
Those were the best days of my life
I found my friends, myself, and my wife
Learned almost everything that I know
Without ever gainin' knowledge
In college
Those were the best days of my life
I found myself, my friends and my wife
Learned almost everything that I know
Might have gained a little knowledge
In college
In college
In college
We were just dumb kids with a six pack
That a bad fake ID bought
Sittin' on the livin' room couch
Hopin' that we didn't get caught
And when we did, my dad
Had some good advice for me
He said, "Son, there's a time and place
For just about everything, it's called 'College'"
Next thing I know I'm packin' up
And hey I'm outta here
A backseat full of clothes
And my old cavalier
And there was empty pizza boxes
Attacked all around the room
A couple of beers on a Tuesday
And one in the afternoon, hey college
Those were the best days of my life
I found my friends, myself, and my wife
I learned almost everything that I know
Without ever gaining knowledge
In college, in college
I had such a good time in those four years
That I stretched it into six
And I'd like to thank ole George's Bar
For the the classes that I missed
I was searchin' for the meanin' of life
When I saw her walk my way
There was not doubt in my my mind
That it wasn't about a GPA
Those were the best days of my life
I found my friends, myself, and my wife
Learned almost everything that I know
Without ever gainin' knowledge
In college
Those were the best days of my life
I found myself, my friends and my wife
Learned almost everything that I know
Might have gained a little knowledge
In college
In college
In college
Girl, you are my kind of lover
I'm still amazed that we found one another
'Cause I'm just a man, selfish and proud
You could've been gone but you're standing here now
And I know, I don't say it enough
But I long for your body and live for your touch
Or the moments when it's just you and me
Right where I know I should be
'Cause you save me baby, from myself
Can I be saved? Only time will tell
You're the difference between luck and love
Baby, when I was looking at all, looked like a cannonball
Tear down the walls, look like a cannonball
Tonight well I said what I said
I had too much to drink and went out of my head
But I'm sorry, I'll give up the fight
So let's lay down together and get through tonight
Closer and closer, right by my side
Here in the dark where there is nothing to hide
We'll spend a lifetime, under these covers
There is so much to you and I'm yet to discover
'Cause you save me baby, from myself
Can I be saved? Only time will tell
You're the difference between luck and love
Baby, when I was looking at all, looked like a cannonball
Tear down the walls, look like a cannonball
'Cause you save me baby, from myself
Can I be saved? Only time will tell
You're the difference between look and love
Baby, when I was looking at all, looked like a cannonball
Tear down the walls, look like a cannonball
Look like a cannonball
Look like a cannonball
Hello, California
Sure is strange to be here today
What's a boy from down in Austin
Doin' in the city of angels anyway?
So won't you come on out here with me?
Find out what you can or cannot see
Maybe gain a new perspective
Why we're so infected by our dreams
Yeah and baby, I'll be out here dreaming
And thinking about the life we could have
Yeah but you're back home in Texas
And I'm wondering when's the next time I get to hold you
I just wanna hold you
It's the sweetest kind of poison
Tackle you and take away your faith
Whiskey for a lifetime
Wreck your soul in smallest little taste
Yeah and baby, I'll be out here dreaming
And thinking about the life we could have
Well I'm stranded in Los Angeles
Wondering when's the next time I get to hold you
I just wanna hold you
I am just a guitar man that fell in love with you
Times good or bad, I'd take 'em all the same
You could have some 9 to 5 man comin' home to take your hand
You know he's never gonna do
Is this the life I dreamed of?
Guess it's just the way it all went down
But damn right I sure am happy
With the crazy piece of life that I have found
Yeah and baby, I'll be out here dreaming
And thinking about the life we could have
Yeah but you're back home in Texas
And I'm stranded in Los Angeles
Wondering when's the next time I get to hold you
Close my eyes and ask myself a question
Why is it I do what I do?
Am I lookin' for some happy definition
Life and love in the corners of the truth?
Or am I just some, curious bystander
Lookin' at the world through a child's eyes
Sunlight always shinin' on my shoulders
While the storm rages on deep inside, deep inside
And it seems so hard to keep it all together
When the walls are fallin' down on every side
Yea, but I'll be damned, if I give up on it easy
I've worked too hard, to get the barricades this high
Is this world's a stage we're meant to play on?
Direction from inside on what to do
I know I should have all of the answers
Deep inside I haven't got a clue, not a clue
And it seems so hard, to keep it all together
When the walls are fallin' down on every side
Yea, but I'll be damned, if I give up on it easy
I've worked too hard, to get the barricades this high, yaa yeah
Told myself that I would be okay
Told myself I'd be all right no doubt
Somewhere low I know that I've been lying
Can't believe it took me thirty years
To figure that shit out
And it seems so hard, to keep it all together
When the walls are fallin' down on every side
Yea, but I'll be damned, if I give up on it easy
She stops and checks her reflection
In a car parked on the corner
She says its hell on me This working down at the diner
Some people say man she was hot
Back when she was younger
Yeah well she was a dancer when she lived in LA
She was someone's baby doll
A beauty queen to someone long ago
From the midnight show
And if you close your eyes
You can hear the music playing
You can see her dancing underneath the spotlight
And when she sleeps
She dreams she's back in Hollywood
Back when all the world was young
She was someone's baby doll
She stops and checks her reflection
In the bathroom on her lunch break
She says “I still look good
For someone half of my real age”
Some people say “Man, I bet she still makes love
Like an earthquake”
Yeah, but man she ain't easy
She ain't lettin' you in my friend, my friend
Its time to wake up, baby doll
Put your best dress and your high heels on
And dream you're gone
And when you close your eyes
You can hear the music playing
You can see her dancing underneath the spotlight
And when she sleeps
She dreams she's back in Hollywood
Back when all the world was young
And she was someone's baby doll
She stops and calls an old friend
From the payphone at the subway
She says I feel like I'm just sitting here
Wasting my days away
It's time to move on, baby doll
And walk away just like you did before
When you wanted more
When you close your eyes
You hear the music playing
You can see her dancing underneath the spotlight
And when she sleeps
She dreams she's back in Hollywood
When she was a younger girl
A pretty heart in a tainted world
Not sure who you wanna be
Your daddy's little drama queen
I hope that when you find yourself
It's the same old tune, fiddle and guitar
Where do we take it from here
Rhinestone suits and new shiny cars
We've been the same way for years
We need to change
Somebody told me when I got to Nashville
Son you finally got it made
Old Hank made it here, we're all sure that you will
But I don't think Hank done it this way
I don't think Hank done it this way
Ten years down the road, making one night stands
Speeding my young life away
Tell me one more time just so I understand
Are you sure Hank done it this way
Did Ol' Hank really do it this way?
I've seen the world with a five piece band
Looking at the back side of me
Singing my songs and one of his now and then
But I don't think Hank done 'em this away
No I don't think Hank done 'em this away
Now baby, I'm doing fine since you left me
And my friends seem to think I have a lot more time
But as far as I'm concerned, all the money that I earn
Is going to that little girl out in Caroline
Well, she said I was the greatest lover she'd ever heard
Yeah, she said that I had too much love for you
And for a small five dollar cover she'd be my long distance lover
And as long as I pay she'll never say we're through
Well, I'm a 1-900 user, I'm a telephone abuser
I've got an 800 dollar credit line, oh baby don't wanna make it less, oh fine
And I've got you to thank baby, that the money in the bank right out here
Is going to that little girl out in Caroline
Well, she said that her phone name was Madonna
And she said that she was just like a virgin, too
I said, "I don't care about your old virginity just boost my masculinity
And tell me that your love is ever true"
Well, I'm a 1-900 user, I'm a telephone abuser
I've got an 800 dollar credit line, oh baby don't wanna make it less, oh fine
And I've got you to thank baby, that the money in the bank right out here
Is going to that little girl out in Caroline
Baby, I'm doing fine since you left me
And I'm glad that you just up and let me be
Yeah, and you can tell your mother, that I done found another
And I wouldn't call even if you were toll free
Well, I'm a 1-900 user, I'm a telephone abuser
Well, I've got an 800 dollar credit line, oh yeah
And I've got you to thank baby, that the money in the bank right out here
Is going to that little girl out in Caroline
There's a road that goes to an old friends house
Where we grew up and we hung out
And I've been on this highway for three hours now
And I'm trying to find it
And I remember an old Pinball Arcade
We lived out all our yesterdays
I'm sure it's torn down and gone away
And I'm trying to find it
And there's a feeling that I left behind
Felt it once running down my spine
The fear of God the joy of life
And I'm trying to find it
And there's a spot on Earth where man can go
To find himself and free his soul
A place somewhere between Hell and Heaven
Where no one hurts and all is forgiven
The door that leads to light and grace
But the keys are in the darkest place
Though I feel like I've been there before
Though I don't know what I'm looking for
I'm trying to find it
I'm trying to find it
There's a attic in my old man's house
Bit a history I need to know about
If I let and live too long without
And I'm trying to find it
I'm trying to find it
I'm trying to find it
And I know you're up there in your room
And I want so bad to heal the wound
But I hurt you in so many ways
And I don't know why you choose to stay
And I know it's me that let it by
There's a fire that's aglow when I look in your eyes
An inner sense that you once had
A piece of you I miss so bad
And I'm trying to find it
I'm trying to find it
I'm trying to find it
It's 3am and I'm on my knees
She cried and her eyes looked down on me
As I searched for the book
That she loves to hear her daddy read
I'm trying to find it
I'm trying to find it
There's a road that goes to an old friends house
Where we grew up and we hung out
Everybody's talking about
How everybody's feeling there's a change going down
All the people in the street
Well they're moving to the beat of a brand new sound
But it's the same old thing
Love is all you need
We got to learn how to live
We got to learn how to live together
We got to learn how to give
If we're ever going to stay together
Stay together
Well I hear what you saying to me, saying to me baby
That maybe it's time that I change my ways
But I would be the fool standing out in the rain
Saying,? Take me back please, open your door?
But it's the same old song
Baby I know I was wrong
We got to learn how to live
We got to learn how to live together
We got to learn how to give
If we're ever going to stay together
Stay together, stay together
We got to learn how to live
We got to learn how to live together
We got to learn how to give
If we're ever going to stay together
I don't know why it is that we keep each other down
We only want to chase you
Turning around and around and around and around
Can you help me out with somethin'
'Cause I feel a little sad inside?
Did you turn me on for nothin'?
Are you sad or satisfied?
It was long before today
That I felt you were slippin' away
And you can't change anythin'
You can't change anyone
You can't do nothin' about the way I feel
You can lay into me
It won't change anything
Won't change nothin' about how I feel
About my little Heaven
My little Heaven
Can I pay you some attention?
Tell me, would it be okay?
I'm a little imperfection
In your picture perfect day
And I don't think I could take it
If I thought you were tryin' to fake it
And you can't change anythin'
You can't change anyone
You can't do nothin' about the way I feel
You can lay into me
It won't change anything
Won't do nothin' about how I feel
About my little Heaven
My little Heaven
If you want me baby, I'll be there
Take me away
You can't change anythin'
You can't change anyone
Can't do nothin' about the way I feel
And you can lay into me
It won't change anything
Won't do nothin' about how I feel
About my little Heaven
My little Heaven
"When the sun hits it right on its way down it was the prettiest thing
in our little town. Every hour I'd
sneak a glance over at the plastic frame and cracked
glass that holds the picture of Ruby's two sad
daughters. Last mill closed when I was nine and
Daddy left and Momma cried again, I spent my
nights cleaning Ruby's floors, just another caf' on
a wind swept highway the farmers bitched, we're no
good at football anymore.
CHORUS
In this land that knows no laughter in this land that
holds no water, we were all in love with Ruby's two sad daughters.
One went way out west, one went way wrong,
one left at seventeen and the other couldn't wait that long.
Neither went anywhere with me,
not to the games or the Dairy Queen.
Both split with the first boy who lied sweet and looked vaguely mean.
CHROUS
why so pretty and forlorn why so permanently blue
I guess ours wasn't much of a kingdom to rule.
Now when the sun hits it right on its way down,
it's still the prettiest thing in our little town.
Every hour I sneak a glance over at the plastic frame
and I fix the glass that holds the picture of Ruby's two sad daughters.
Well, I can't believe how much I think about you
Don't know why?
How'd I ever even get along without you
Through the long night?
Days are so long, you're not around
But I only know one thing
Tired of sleeping with the lights on
And writing all these sad songs, I know where I belong
It's tangled up in your arms, so tell me that you're all right
You're missing me tonight, you can't wait till I come home
And I wonder if you're starin' out the window
Watchin' cars go by
And I wonder if it ever really gets to you
With no one by your side
Walkin' through this lonely space
I need you so much every day
This is the life I know
Tired of sleeping with the lights on
And writing all these sad songs, I know where I belong
It's tangled up in your arms, so tell me that you're all right
You're missing me tonight, you can't wait till I come home
It's getting closer every day
Just thinking about it makes me shake
But I know I need you now
Tired of sleeping with the lights on
And writing all these sad songs, I know where I belong
It's tangled up in your arms, so tell me that you're all right
Missing me tonight, you can't wait till I come home
Tell me that you're all right
It's just you and me
And a voice on the radio
It keeps telling you and me
Should've turned around hours ago
Just two innocent bystanders
Victimized by the night
Oh, and it'll be an alibi
In the morning light
So come on in and hold on
Don't you tell me that it's wrong
It's okay, it's alright
It's just you and me tonight
It's alright, it's okay
We won't let love get in our way
The boulevard is on fire tonight
You've can go on by the flames
The burning street lights
Look at those two fools on the corner
They have that look in their eyes
But I'm under the steel
Oh, just a brilliant disguise
So come on in and hold on
Don't you tell me that it's wrong
It's okay, it's alright
It's just you and me tonight
It's alright, it's okay
We won't let love get in our way
Just two innocent bystanders
Victimized by the night
Oh, and it'll be an alibi
In the morning light
So come on in and hold on
Don't you tell me that it's wrong
It's okay, it's alright
It's just you and me tonight
It's alright, it's okay
We won't let love get in our way
Love get in our way
Won't let love get in our way
Well I think it's about time baby
Have things ever been this good
I think it's gonna get a lot better
Don't you think we should
Well just for grins I bought you these flowers
Got a table at the best place in town
There's a shiny ring in my pocket
And its got me coming unwound
Yeah I got a secret
And I gotta tell ya
Those little things that you do and you don't even know
Got me thinking lately
Well maybe its time to jump start forever
Maybe its time to let the good times roll
Maybe its time we lay these two hearts down
Well maybe its time
Well I hope to God that I don't crumble
There's a pretty good chance I will
But its time for this ((NO IDEA WHAT HE SAYS HERE))
Sign the papers and close the deal
Yeah I got a secret
And I gotta tell ya
Those little things that you do and you don't even know
Got me thinking lately
Well maybe its time to jump start forever
And maybe its time to we let your daddy know
Maybe its time that we lay these two hearts down
Well maybe its time
It's time I said this in front of God and everyone
I don't intend to ever let you go
Yeah maybe its time to jump start forever
Maybe its time we lay these two hearts down
It's time we seal this love we've found
Well up and at 'em, yeah here we go
I'm off again to the rodeo
Sure got a lotta other little things on my mind
Well, one's a song I just started writin'
And the other's a girl I just finished fightin'
She said it was me, Lord, I just don't believe her
If you wanna know where I'm a-coming from
You just sit right there and I'll tell you, son
This life I lead ain't as wonderful as it appears
CHORUS:
Yeah but I here I go again
Singin' it in this dive
Lonestar beer in my cereal
But it's keepin' me alive
I gave up on Nashville a long time ago
Yeah, but here I go, Lord, once again, here I go
Now, I don't need to be too rich
I'm just an old hard-headed son of a bitch
My eyes are still set way back on my glory days
Back in the time of the Dukes of Hazzard
I was listenin' to Willie and old Merle Haggard
Smilin' just a little as I poke along in my truck
There's a lot of poor folks in my situation
With the years of heartache and frustration
Kindly watching as the dreams turn into years
CHORUS
Let me tell you folks, it don't really matter
That beer drinkin' never really made you fatter
It's all those nights on the couch with a TV dinner
After twelve years with the Copenhagen
Well, I finally found out that I was mistaken
It's not gonna be something to add the years to my life
Yeah, and that's why I'm still dippin' it today
And each and every morning I hear Mama say,
"Boy that shit's gonna kill you if the women don't get you first!"
verse 1: i left Houston, Texas on a gulf coast hurricane i was blowed down by a
tornado washed up by the rain well my pappy wasnt happy with mehe told me to go
so i stole my daddy's cadillac and head on down the road i had a grin from ear
to ear with each and every mile i was headed for the border man and i was going
down in style
verse 2: now i hit Corpus Christi and the wind was at my back i drove them
women crazy with my daddy's cadillac ya i cruised them down that boulevard i
treated them like queens took em all the places that they wanted to be seen and
when i had to leave em i'd tell with a smile im headed for the border man and
i'm goin down in style
bridge: well you gotta take your chances if they ever come along close your
eyes and listen to the great big engine wind it dont really matter weather you
are right or wrong cause when you cross the border man you leave this world
behind
verse 3: i stomped on down the peddle set the cruise control 500 raging horses
be on by the state patrol lord the sirens were a screamin lights flashin red
there's a dozen more waitin at the road block up ahead had them scatteren like
chickens a heard one of them say he's headed toward the border and he's going
down in style
verse 4: now when you cross the border you aint never comin back there aint to
redemption when the cops are on your tail when the closest thing to heaven is a
great big cadillac the city lights of Houston or the firey gates of hell well
the nabbed me on the hill that over looks the Rio Grande and i was feeling just
like moses lookin on the promise land well they hauled me back to Houston put
me in the jail where my momma started crying my daddy paid the bail well im
sorry im not there to hear the outcome of my trial cause im headed for the
by Pat Green
? 1995 Dead Horse Music (BMI)
I can remember my grandpa when I was five years old, he'd pull me up on his knee, and I remember every story that he ever told, He and my grandma well they would always be, two southern lovers just kissing on each other so tenderly.
Chorus
And he'd say, all I ever wanted to be was your family man,
to work real hard girl and give you everything I can,
I just want to be your family man,
tell the children that I'll always lend a helping hand,
I just want to be your family man,
just want to be your family man.
Mom and Dad worked real hard to raise us kids, they were always there for me, and it didn't matter what is was I did, they've seen the hard times, sickness and the hell, it didn't really take too long, before they found that money it don't mean wealth.
Chorus
Last night I had a dream from heaven up above, he taught me how to win her heart and win her love, He said it I was going to love you then listen to what he said and do it His way.
Chorus
Virginia Belle
Comes walking down the street
I wonder if she'd stop and talk to me
Would I stumble
Would I fall
Would I say anything at all
Just to know her (yeah yeah)
How great it would be
Just to show her (yeah yeah)
I can already tell
Virginia Belle
My Virginia Belle
Virginia Belle
Don't you know who I think I am
I've got a very intricate but simple plan
Lets take a walk
Lets grab a drink
We'll hold hands
Cause that's alright
Just to know her (yeah yeah)
How great it could be
Just to show her (yeah yeah)
I can already tell
Virginia Belle
My Virginia Belle
My opprotunity has passed
When she took that taxi cab
Will I ever see her again
Did I stand a chance
Just to know her (yeah yeah)
How great it could be
Just to show her (yeah yeah)
I can already tell
Virginia Belle
Virginia Belle
When the rain falls on Washington Avenue, We would close our eyes and hold our breath, That's when I met you, so many years ago, Yes, I fell in love, and I ain't forgot yet
CHORUS
You make the time go by
Just like it never happened
And I can feel your love down in my soul
So take my heart and take my life if you want to
Because without you I don't need them at all
And so good night, Dream of me while you're sleeping, Yes and kiss me when, You leaving with the dawn
CHORUS
And yes we'll dance
Dance our way through our lives
Well she was standing there
At the edge of outta control
Hair wild and her eyes
Filled with the pain
She took her heart on a string
And tied it to a red balloon
And she watched it fly up
High into the clouds
Don't break my heart again
We're one and the same
Baptized by tears
And washed in the blame
You can let your heart go
But I will hunt you down
Your love is all I want to win
So don't break my heart again
He dreams of a girl
With a heart tied to a red balloon
He wants her so bad
She wants him too
They're standing there at the edge
Of another lonely night
House empty
And the walls are caving in
Don't break my heart again
We're one and the same
Baptized by tears
And washed in the blame
You can let your heart go
But I will hunt you down
Your love is all I want to win
So don't break my heart again
It's hard to find love
It's hard to find love
It's hard to find love
It's hard to find love
Don't break my heart again
We're one and the same
Baptized by tears
And washed in the blame
You can let your heart go
But I will hunt you down
Your love is all I want to win
So don't break my heart again
It's hard to find love
But I will hunt you down
Your love is all I want to win
Tree blows against my window
There's a storm brewin' in my heart
Watchin' credits roll on a late night TV show
Lonely street light peekin'
Through the cracks in the window shade
After all that he's seen I wonder if he truly knows
Did he watch her when she slammed the door
Like a hammer against a nail
Leavin' me in what's become
A lonely prison cell
Chorus
I thought always meant forever
Guess you couldn't play second fiddle to my guitar
Like an old man drinkin' down at the tavern
I was one for the road so your headed on back home
I met you at a party seems like only yesterday
We were fallin' in love and livin' to chase our dreams
I gave you flowers on Valentines
And I had a strong feelin' deep and down inside
That someday we'd make a home and a family
I'd say I'm sorry in a heartbeat
If you would only let me
I could learn to forgive if you would only forget
A hotel room down in Austin
After another one night show
I caught your silouette creepin' down the street
Under a moonlight glow
And as you took my hand
So went all my pain
We stepped right off the platform and caught the midnight train
Chorus
And I guess always means forever
And I won't make you play second fiddle to my guitar
Like an old man drinkin' down at the tavern
Marty had a boutique on the corner
Stanley was a trucker by his trade
And everytime that Marty would shake her tail feathers
It would go and make ol' Stanley's Day
They would go out bowling every Tuesday
Down there at the Waco Fare Lanes
They'd role a couple of spares
Drink a Couple Beers
Then it's off to the trailer
Willy Nelson all the way
CHROUS
Life there in the trailer park is fine
And you know we've been living it every day
I got me a good lookin' women
I got me some indoor plumbing
And i wouldn't have it any other way
Well the trailer was a sight to see don'tcha known
Stanley said man double wide
Is the only way to go
You've got the hurricane package
Tires up on the roof
Satellite dish
And tin foil in the window
CHORUS
Well thing sure got a lil tight that summer
Marty had to take a second job
Seems money was the answer
So she became a dancer
Down there at the local topless bar
Pretty little thing where ya going with that
"I'm about to give up", look in your eyes
I just said what I felt but I sure didn't mean
To make you cry
That's the thing about honesty
Sometimes it stinks, sometimes it sets you free
So go on, be mad at me
Just don't leave
'Cause I'd still be lost, without you
I'd still be lost without you
Who would I be? Baby, I don't know
Where I'd go or what I'd do?
'Cause I'd still be lost, I'd still be lost
Without you, without you, without you
Days come and go, time passes
Hard to remember, it's easy to forget
The velvet sky, that kiss
That first taste of your perfect lips
That's the thing about you and me
Sometimes we just disagree
But baby, I just need
You to see
That I'd still be lost without you
I'd still be lost without you
Who would I be? Baby, I don't know
Where I'd go or what I'd do?
'Cause I'd still be lost, I'd still be lost
Without you, without you, without you
Without you, without you, without you
'Cause I'd still be lost without you
I'd still be lost without you
Who would I be? Baby, I don't know
Where I'd go or what I'd do?
'Cause I'd still be lost, I'd still be lost
Without you, without you, without you
I wish I could hold you back
I know I can't help you pack
'Cause it's all that I can do
To pretend I'm not watching you
Go find yourself somewhere else
Chase some dreams on the streets of L.A.
Don't let this town tie you down
When a bigger life's calling your name
You'll find who you are if you follow your heart
With it wherever it leads
Get on back fast
When find yourself missing me
I wish I could tag along
This town is where I belong
Take this old ring of mine
Maybe I'll get it back some time
Go find yourself somewhere else
Chase some dreams on the streets of L.A.
Don't let this town tie you down
When a bigger life's calling your name
You'll find who you are if you follow your heart
With it wherever it leads
Get on back fast
If you find yourself missing me
Oh, missing me
Go find yourself somewhere else
Hope you keep me in some of your dreams
I won't let you down, I'll be here
If it turns out that I'm what you need
You'll find who you are if you follow your heart
With it wherever it leads
Get on back fast
When you find yourself missing me
As we speak my sister's packing up the speakers on her stereo
She's out the door on a man she said she's love forever a couple of years ago
He's a standup guy so I don't know why she would ever leave him
I guess we've all got our reasons
There's a guy we got loading trailers on the dock
Must be out of his mind
He's got a couple of degrees from some university, he's way over qualified
We all wonder what it is about this work the genius finds so pleasin'
I guess we've all got our reasons
There's history and mystery hidden beneath our skin
It's all a part of who we are and the life we live
If I ever get to heaven and I got one question
Hope the Good Lord ain't offended
Gave me a world of pain between the cradle and the grave
Is that what was intended
I don't have to know why he put the stars in the sky
Or fooled with the change of seasons
I guess we've all got our reasons
As we speak me sister's packing up the speakers on her stereo
She's out the door on a man she said she'd love forever a couple of years ago
He's a standup guy so I don't know why she would ever leave him
I guess we've all got our reasons
I sing songs about Texas
I sing them often as if she was some old lover I used to know
I wish I could follow them back to the homeland everytime
I hear one on my radio
Twin fiddles playing in my memory
My daddy sang the wonders of old Cowtown
Silver haired and he's still there under a sky so warm and fair
I'll tell you friends there's a song in every town
Chorus
So won't you sing me one more song about ol' San Antone
It seems like a dream now it was so long ago
And Jerry Jeff Walker can be just like a coat from the cold
I'm going on home
There's nothing short of the gospel hymns
I guess that why folks keep writin' them when I die I wanna go there too
Some day I hope to walk along heaven street
And I'll still be lookin' for my taco meat
And swear I hear steel guitars rising in the air
Chorus
So won't you sing me one more song about ol' San Antone
It seems like a dream now it was so long ago
And Robert Earl Keen he can be just like a coat from the cold
I'm going on home
When the night is real real still I swear I can hear a wipporwill
She knows there's music in the dirt down there
Hill country rain its a cleansing thing
And all I have to do is see one and i'm sittin' in a shallow creek
Ain't got nothing to do ain't got nothing to do
Chorus
So won't you sing me one more song about ol' San Antone
It seems like a dream now it was so long ago
And ol' Guy Clark he can be just like a coat from the cold
I got a sister out in Charlotte
I love her cause she's crazy in her head
I got a brother he's a pilot
Sometimes I pray I'll just see him again
My daddy told me once he said son
Only a fool stays out at night
Well it's 4 a.m. and I'm out here on the avenue
I got no money but you know I'm doin' alright
CHORUS
Yeah, you gotta know
There ain't nothin' bout money
That's ever gonna save your soul.
And the dreams of the young
Ain't never been nothing
But the last request of the old.
Heaven is a fiddle on a weeknight radio.
You can't find redemption,
Brother if ya got no soul.
You Gotta Know.
Her name was Amy, she was a friend of mine
Wanted to be a rich man's wife
She fell in love with cars and expensive wine
She must have forgot what it means to live your life
CHORUS
Weathered hands on a steel guitar
He plays every evening till they turn them bar lights down
You know he's tired of them dammed old cigarettes
Now he's saving up his money so he can move on out of town
The other night I ran into my girlfriend
Sittin' at the table with another man gettin' stoned
And I'm sleeping all by myself down in Corpus
I think I'll buy myself a bottle so I can drink my ass back home
Alright, alright
Go on and live your life tonight
I'm fine man I'm doin' alright
Never needed you to be a part of my life
When you're sittin' there all alone
Why don't you do yourself a favor
And leave me the hell alone
Alright
Well I've got a handful of empty pockets
You know I've got a bucketful of broken dreams
You ever been on the wrong side of love's highway
Well let me tell ya somethin' brother
Yeah you know just what I mean
Alright, alright
Go on and live your life tonight
I'm fine man I'm doin' alright
Never needed you to be a part of my life
When you're sittin' there all alone
Why don't you do yourself a favor
And leave me the hell alone
Alright
The other night I ran into my girlfriend
Sittin' at the table with another man gettin' stoned
You ever been on the wrong side of the highway
Well it's a lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely
Lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely
Lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely
It's a lonely way back home
Alright, alright
Go on and live your life tonight
I'm fine man I'm doin' alright
Never needed you to be a part of my life
When you're sittin' there all alone
Why don't you do yourself a favor
And just leave me the hell alone
Alright
Alright, alright
Go on and live your life tonight
I'm fine man I'm doin' alright
Never needed you to be a part of my life
When I'm sittin' there all alone
I think I'll buy myself a bottle
So I can drink my ass back home
Cigarettes and a lighter
Lonely woman, swinging door
Broken pieces of a broken love affair
I guess we've seen all that before
Tonight she stares to the darkness
Welcomes it back home again
She'll cry every night 'till the day that she dies
If she don't find out how to let love in
I need somebody to save me
I need to learn how to fly
Walk on the clouds with the angels
Laugh when the devil cries
I've got to take my chances
Spend my nights in wild romances
And hold on to what is holdin' on to me
Doesn't this all seem familiar
You said I took the words from your mouth
So maybe if we sit here and talk for awhile
Mmm, we just might work it all out
And the hardest thing about leaving
Is knowing when a friend is a friend
A couple more drinks and I'll be on my way
Sleeping and down, safe in your arms again
I need somebody to save me
I need to learn how to fly
Walk on the clouds with the angels
Laugh when the devil cries
I got to take my chances
Spend my nights in wild romances
And hold on to what is holdin' on to me
I got to take my chances
Spend my nights in wild romances
I woke up this morning
Texas on my mind
Thinking about my friends there
And a girl I'd left behind
The way she held me when we kissed
The loving that we'd done
And how I left her waving goodbye standing in the Texas sun
Chorus:
I've got a half a mind to call her
Half a mind to go
Jump a big jet liner
And wing it on my way back home
And all the morning it was raining on the streets of Liverpool
So I stayed in and played guitar and sang the lovesick blues
My mind kept going back in time when we both had fun
And how I left her waving to me standing in the Texas sun
Chorus:
I've got a half a mind to call her
Half a mind to go
Jump a big jet liner
And wing it on my way back home
In my dreams she's still in love with me
But I'd have to travel home to see
If she's found another man to take the place of me
Guess I'll have to keep on dreaming sunny memories
Wishing I was back there doesn't help me much at all
When I want to hold her it doesn't help me much to call
Stuck here in this seaport town longing for the one
That I left behind me there standing in the Texas sun
Chorus:
I've got a half a mind to call her
Half a mind to go
Jump a big jet liner
And wing it on my way back home
I've got a half a mind to call her
Half a mind to go
Jump a big jet liner
My daddy was an outlaw, mom died giving birth to me, they both let me all alone when I was on bended knee, if you don't like my story I suggest you turn the page, I don't need no preachin' I ain't got no soul to save.
My name is Arkansas Dave Rudebaugh and this here is Tennessee Jack, don't you give us any lip now boy or today will be your last, when the bank was dry we said good-bye and walked out to the street, when a cloud of bullets came a thundering down and took Tennessee to his knees.
I just stood there and watched him bleeding like a fool out in the rain, didn't have time to think when I jumped through the banks front window pane, grabbed the teller in a blink of an eye put a colt up to his head, said careful son don't try to run or tomorrow will be your last.
Chorus
I've got to fly like an eagle, free like a bird on the wind,
hell fire and brimstone are coming down on me,
mister I was born of sin.
Sat down in the corner and rolled a little home grown, said if I'm gonna die today I sure as hell ain't goin' alone, so I ran out the bank a shooting I was two for two at first, until I felt a painful sound as a bullet tore my shirt.
Chorus
I crawled back to the alley way where I knew my horse was tied, and that's where all the legends say that Arkansas Dave Rudebaugh died, but I was in a place so far from there in a time so long ago, in the arms of a pretty little senorita on the Gulf of Mexico.
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