A short time I have to be with you my love
But a short time is better than no time you see
So I bring to you all my posessions and would that you share them with me
I bring one springtime of robins one springtime of robins to sing
I bring you one summer of roses one summer of roses I bring
I bring you the dry leaves of autumn dry leaves will be helpful you know
To soften the fall of your snowflakes when I bring you your winter of snow
This looks like a December day this looks like a time to remember day
And I remember a spring such a sweet tender thing
And love's summer college where the green leaves of knowledge
Were waiting to fall with the fall
And where September wine numbed a measure of time
Through the tears of October
Now November's over and this looks like a December day
This looks like a December day it's looks like we've come to the end of the way
And as my mem'ries race back to loves eager beginning
Reluctant to play with the thoughts of the ending the ending that won't go away
And as my mem'ries race back to loves eager beginning
Reluctant to play with the thoughts of the ending the ending that won't go away
And this looks like a December day
Well I've been a lot of places in my life and time
I've sung a lot of songs and I've made some bad rhyme
I've acted out my love in stages with ten thousand people watchin'
Now we're alone and I am singin' my song for you
And I know your image of me is what I hope to be
I've treated you unkindly but darling can't you see
No one more important to me darling can't you please see through me
Cause now we're alone and I am singing my song for you
Well you taught me precious secrets of a truth with holding nothin'
You came out in front but I was hiding
Now I'm so much better and if my words don't come together
Listen to the melody cause my love is in there hiding
And I love you in a place where there's no space or time
I love you for my life you are a friend of mine
And when my life is over remember when we were together
We were alone and I was singing my song for you
And we were alone and I was singing my song for you
Johnny Macon has a wife and one child on the way
And Houston's runnin' out of jobs and there are bills to pay
Johnny's flying standby to Alaska on a chance
He hears them callin' all aboard his life is not a dance
All aboard the sky train there must be better times
And we keep moving down the line all aboard the sky train
Kerry Jackson lost her man to whiskey and cocaine
And all she saw in Florida were memories of pain
And the money from the condo won't last her very long
And so she's flying out today her life is not a song
All aboard the sky train the sun will always shine
Up where those lonesome engines whine all aboard the sky train
Refugees on winds of war with nothin' in their eyes
Midnight bands on endless tours in search of endless highs
Airports in the morning ahen truth is all around
We're restless millions movin' on the lost and not yet found
All aboard the sky train there must be better times
Reasons to quit the smoke and booze don't do me like before
And I'm hardly ever sober and my old friends don't come around much anymore
Reasons to quit below it always lower than the high
And the reasons to quit don't out number all the reasons why
So we keep smokin' and we keep drinkin' havin' fun and never thinkin'
Laughin' at the price tags that we pay
And we keep rollin' down the fast lane like two young men feelin' no pain
And the reasons for quittin's gettin' bigger each day
Reasons to quit I can't afford the habit all the time
I need to be sober I need to write some new songs that will rhyme
Reasons to quit they have no rhyme or reason when you're high
And the reasons to quit don't out number all the reasons why
[ guitar ]
We keep smokin' and we keep drinkin'...
And the reasons for quittin's gettin' bigger each day
She's a railroad lady just a little bit shady spending her days on a train
She's the semi good looker but the fast rails they took her
Now she's trying just trying to get home again
South station in Boston to the stockyards of Austin
From the Florida sunshine to the New Orleans rain
Now that the rail packs have taken the best tracks
She's trying just trying to get back home again
She's a railroad lady just a little bit shady spending her days on a train
Once a pullin' car traveler now a breakment won't have her
She's trying just trying to get home again
Once a high-balling loner thought he could own her
And he bought her a fur coat and a big dimaond ring
But she hug in for cold cash left down on the Wabash
Never thinking never thinking of home way back then
But the rails are now rusty and the dining car's dusty
The gold plated watches are taking their gold
The railroads're dying and the lady is crying
On a bus to Kentucky and home that's her goal
She's a railroad lady...
[ instrumental ]
[ instrumental ]
Today's gonna make a wonderful yesterday
One on which I know that I can look back and smile
And with you here with me the hours have flown away
And today's gonna make a wonderful yesterday
Today we have made a thousand and one memories
That we can recall when today is a sweet used to be
And with you in my arms the future seems so far away
And today's gonna make a wonderful yesterday
Grab your coat and get your hat leave your worry on the doorstep
Just direct your feet to the sunny side of the street
Can't you hear a pitter pat and that happy tune is your step
Life can be so sweet on the sunny side of the street
I used to walk in the shade with those blues on parade
But I'm not afraid this rover crossed over
If I never have a cent I'll be rich as Rockefeller
Gold dust at my feet on the sunny side of the street
[ piano - harmonica ]
Sweet dreams of you dreams I know can't come true
Why can't I forget the past start loving someone new
Instead of having sweet dreams about you sweet dreams about you
You don't love me it's plain I should know you'd never wear my name
I should hate you the whole night through
Instead of having sweet dreams about you
[ guitar ]
You don't love me it's plain I should know you'd never never wear my name
And I should hate you the whole night through
Instead of having sweet dreams about you
I think I should speak to you stranger your problem is clear now to me
You think that the whole world's against you and tell everyone that you see
Just suffer in silence speak no bitter words the world offers no sympathy
Though trouble surrounds you and you long to be heard just suffer in silence like me
I'll give you a lesson in living I hope it stays with you awhile
You're the reason for all of your sorrows so just suffer in silence and smile
Somewhere in Texas a cowboy dreams of the days when the buffalo roamed
And he wished he had lived then cause he knew that he could have been
The best cowboy the world had ever known
He went dancing that night with his San Antone rose
The one he would marry someday to the music of Bob Wills and polkas and waltzes
I'll be loving you, always
With a love that's true, always
When the things you plan
Need a helping hand
I will understand, always, always
Days may not be fair, always
That's when I'll be there, always
Not for just an hour
Not for just a day
Not for just a year, but, always
Days may not be fair, always
That's when I'll be there, always
Not for just an hour
Not for just a day
May the Lord's shining grace be yours, love
May the happiest face be yours, love
May the last fingertips
That touch these two lips
As life from me slips be yours, love
May the fruit of my toil be yours, love
May the food from my soil be yours love
And from this moment on
May a love that is strong
And lives on and on be yours, love
May the sons that I raise be yours, love
May the comforts that I praise be yours, love
And if I ever get weak
May the love words I speak
And the arms that I seek be yours, love
May the Lord's shining grace...
I cried and cried my heart out but what good does it do
Crying never bothers anyone so cold as you
I've thought the whole thing over and now I'll go and find
A beeter place where angels heal broken hearts like mine
You made me live you made me love and now you'll make me die
I'll never live or love again there's no need now to try
I'll say farewell to this old world this is my last goodbye
You made me live you made me love and now you'll make me die
[ steel ]
And just for night is over I'll never see the day
I'll hold your picture to my heart then I'll be on my way
Now we all know the violin plays sweetly
And the steel guitar thrills all the world completely
But for all around good fun there's really only one
And it's round and firm and fully packed and puts the blues on the run
And you just can't play a sad song on the banjo
A banjo tune will have to make you smile
And when you're feeling low and melancholy just pick up the ol' banjo by golly
Cause you just can't play a sad song on the banjo
[ guitar ]
Now bad news just won't hang around the banjo
Old dismal gloom will have to disappear
A sad song can't be played so please don't be afraid
You are my sunshine my only sunshine you make me happy when skies are grey
You'll never know dear how much I love you please don't take my sunshine away
The other night dear as I laid sleeping I dreamed I held you by my side
When I awoke dear I was mistaken and I hung my head and cry
You are my sunshine...
You told me once dear you really loved me and no one else could come between
But now you've left me and you love another and you have shatered all my dreams
You are my sunshine...
I'll always love you and make you happy if you will only say the same
But if you leave me to love another you'll regret it all some day
You are my sunshine...
You look like the devil in the morning you've been out a working through the night
Holdin' hands and kissin' everybody I'm glad to say that you can't blow my mind
You look like the devil when you're cryin' I'm so glad that you feel so strong that way
You got a great big smile for everybody I'm so glad I've met you yesterday
[steel]
You look like the devil in the morning...
[guitar]
You look like the devil when you're cryin'...
She thinks if she just holds on he will get it back together
On his good days he's a good man and he fills up all her dreams
On his bad days he's the devil and it's hell to stand beside him
But she thinks if she will love him life will be what once it seemed
Women who love too much burning fires they have to touch
Give until there's nothing left to give use up life to help men live
Women who love too much just can't leave the dark alone
Fall in love with the unknown they will go until they're gone
He knows he loves too little and he takes her in his knowing
On the bad days when he needs her she's the best hope that he's had
And he knows that he's the weak one and he doesn't want to know it
And he holds on to her loving though he knows it's all so sad
Women who love too much...
You tell me today that you're leaving
But just think a while I'm sure that you must know
Today might be the day that you walk away
But you left me a long long time ago
Today's just the day that ends it all
Except the usual mem'ries that always linger on
And today might be the day that you walk away
But you left me a long long time ago
[ piano ]
I stood with helpless hands and watched me lose your love
A little more each day then it was gone
And I kept wondering just how long until this day would come
Just how long could your pride keep hangin' on
So please don't say you're sorry don't say anything
Don't try to say why you must leave just go
And today might be the day that you walk away
But you left me a long long time ago
You left me a long long time ago
Would you lay with me in a field of stone
If my needs were strong would you lay with me
Should my lips grow dry would you wet them dear
In the midnight hour if my lips were dry
Would you go away to another land walk a thousand miles through the burning sand
Wipe the blood away from my dying hand if I give my love to you
Will you bathe with me in the stream of life
When the moon is full will you bathe with me
[ piano - guitar ]
Will you love me when I a'm down and out
In my time of trials will you stand by me
If this is a game we play and if this is a roll I play
Where are the words I say to you
The words don't fit the picture anymore
And if we've been acting all along and we both act right and we both act wrong
Where does it say that we should cry
It's just the words don't fit the picture anymore anymore
The words don't fit the picture anymore no need to force the love scenes anymore
And a one act play comes to an end and we turn to leave we can both part friends
But this is the time to say goodbye goodbye
Wondering wondering who's kissing you
Wondering wondering if you're wondering too
Every hour through the day since you've been away
I keep wondering yes wondering if you're wondering too
I pray every night to the good Lord above
To send back to me the one I really love
Wondering wondering...
[ fiddle - steel ]
Sleigh bells ring are you listening in the lane snow is glistening
A beautiful sight we're happy tonight walking in the winter wonderland
Gone away is the bluebird here to stay is a newbird
He sings a love song as we go alone walking in the winter wonderland
In the meadow we can build the snowman then pretend that he is Parson Brown
He'll say are you merry we'll say no man but you can do the job when you're in town
Later on we'll conspire as we dream by the fire
The face on the frame the plans that we made walking in the winter wonderland
[ guitar ]
In the meadow we can build the snowman...
The face on the frame the plans that we made walking in the winter wonderland
Who do I know in Dallas who can I call on the phone
Who do I know in Dallas that will help me forget she's gone
Shirley consoled me in Phoenix and Jeannie in old San Antone
But who do I know in Dallas that will help me forget that I'm alone
[steel]
I can't spend the night without someone the lonelies will drive me insane
So who do I know in Dallas that will make me be happy I came
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas just like the ones I used to know
Where the treetops glisten and children listen to hear sleigh bells in the snow
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas with every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright and may all your Christmases be white
[ guitar ]
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas...
I walk up to my door and hate to turn the key
Emptiness is all that waits inside for me
That's how it is when the one you love is gone
That's how it is when your house is not a home
I look around and see things marked with his and hers
Little things like this just make things that much worse
That's how it is ask anyone who lives alone
That's how it is when your house is not a home
[ guitar - keyboards ]
Is there a way out on a heart as torn as mine
Each day I live I'm like a prisoner passing time
That's how it is when the one you love is gone
That's how it is when your house is not a home
We skipped the light fandango
And turned cartwheels cross the floor.
I was feeling kind of seasick
The crowd called out for more.
The room was humming harder
And the ceiling flew away
When we called out for another drink
The waitress brought a tray
And so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
That her face at first so ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
She said "There is no reason,
And the truth is plain to see",
But I wandered through my playing cards
And would not let her be
One of sixteen vestal virgins
Who were leaving for the coast
Although both my eyes were open
They might just just have well been closed.
And so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
Her face at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale.
[The following are additional lyrics
as sung in concert]
She said she wanted shore leave
Tho in truth we were at sea
So I took her by a looking glass
And forced her to agree
Saying you must be the mermaid
Who took Neptune for a ride
Well she smiled at me so sadly
That my anger straightway died
And so it was, etc?
Stop here across the street to your right
That's where my house lives
Sometimes I stayed there at night
But mostly I was on the move
Business first you know
And she'd wait there in her lonely room
But oh that's been so long ago
She's gone now
She couldn't stand to be alone
And now it waits there
This house that used to be my home
I never go there cause it holds
Too many memories since she's gone
But right there is where
My house lives all alone
[guitar]
I can hear the wind a blowing in my mind
Just the way it used to sound through the Georgia pines
And you were there to answer when I called you and me we had it all
Remember how I used to touch your hair
While reaching for the feeling that was always there
You were the best thing in my life I can recall you and me we had it all
I know that we can never live those times again
So I let my dreams take me back to where we have been
Then I'll stay with you girl as long as I can
Oh it was so good oh it was so good oh it was so good when I was your man
[ guitar ]
I'll never stop believing in your smile
Even though you didn't stay it was all worth while
You were the best thing in my life I can recall you and me we had it all
Birds flying south to the one I love
Birds flying light and free
Don't tell my darling that you saw me
Looking the way you see me
Winds blowing warm to the one I love
Winds please kiss her for me
Don't tell my darling that you saw me
Looking the way you see me
The way you see me is how I've been
And how ever since she's been gone
But tell her you saw me like I'd like to be
Tell her I'm happy alone
River of tears that I have cried
River flow on to the sea
But if you tell my darling
You flowed from my eyes
She'd see me the way you see me
Washing the dishes scrubbing the floors
Caring for someone who don't care anymore
Learning to hate all the things that she once loved to do
Like washing his shirts and never complaining except of red stains on the collars
Ironin' and cryin' cryin' and ironin' caring for someone who don't care anymore
I see trees of green? red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world
I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed days? the dark sacred nights
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world
The colors of the rainbow? so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people going by
I see friends shaking hands? saying? "How do you do?"
They're really saying? 'I love you'
I hear babies crying, watch them grow
They'll learn much more? than I'll never know
And I think to myself? what a wonderful world
After carefully considerin' the whole situation I stand with my back to the wall
Walkin' is better than runnin' away and crawlin' ain't no good at all
And if guilty's the question truth is the answer I've been lyin' to me all alone
There ain't nothin' worth savin' except one another
And before you'll wake up I'll be gone
Cause after carefully considerin'...
[ guitar ]
After carefully considerin'...
Oh, my love, my darling
I've hungered for your touch,
A long lonely time
Time goes by so slowly,
And time can do so much
Are you still mine?
I need your love,
I need your love
God speed your love, to me.
Lonely rivers flow to the sea, to the sea,
To the open arms of the sea
Lonely rivers syies,
Wait for me,
Wait for me
I'll be coming home,
Wait for me
--- Instrumental ---
Time goes by so slowly,
And time can do so much
Are you still mine?
I need your love,
I need your love
God speed your love, to me.
Touch me, touch the hand of a man
Who once owned all the world
And touch, me touch the arms
That once held all the charms
Of the world's sweetest girl
Touch me, maybe someday you may
Need to know how it feels when you lose
And so touch me, you'll know
How you feel with the blues
Watch me, watch the eyes
That have seen all the heartache
And pain in the land
And be thankful you're happy though
Standing so close to the world's bluest man
Don't forget me, take a good look
At someone who's lost everything he can lose
And then touch me and you'll know
How you'd feel with the blues
I'm gonna lay my head on some lonesome railroad line
And let that old 2-20 pacify mind
Yeah I'm goin' down to the river I'm gonna take me a rockin' chair
Yeah honey if these blues don't get me I'm gonna rock away from here
Well trouble in mind I'm blue but I won't be blue always
Before the sun's gonna shine in my backyard one of these days
[ guitar - harmonica ]
Trouble in mind that's true I've almost almost lost my mind
Sometimes I feel like livin' sometimes I feel like dyin'
Just like the sun over the mountain top you know I'll always come again
You know I love to spend my morning time like sunlight dancing on your skin
And I have never gone so long just for telling lies to you
What you've seen is what I've been
There is nothing that I can hide a few you see me better than I can
Out on the road that lies before me now there are some turns where I will spin
I only hope that you will hold me now till I gain control again
[ guitar ]
Just like a lighthouse you must stand alone and mark the sailors journey's end
And no matter what sea that I've been sailing on I'll always roll this way again
The sun goes down it leaves me sad and blue
The iron curtain falls on this cold war with you
Through you won't speak and I won't speak that's true
Two stubborn people with a cold war to go through
Why oh why should love ever come to couples like you and me
Whose cold cold wars are never won and whose hearts just can't be free
Oh let's do right or let's just say we're through
I just can't stand another cold cold war with you
[ guitar - steel ]
Why oh why should love ever come...
Still is still moving to me and I swim like a fish in the sea all the time
But if that's what it takes to be free I don't mind
Still is still moving to me still is still moving to me
And it's hard to explain how I feel
It won't go in words but I know that it's real
I can be moving or I can be still but still is still moving me
Still is still moving to me
And it's hard to explain how I feel it won't go in words but I know that it's real
I can be moving or I can be still
But still is still moving me still is still moving to me
[ guitar ]
And it's hard to explain how I feel...
A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won't come true
To each his own to each his own and my own is you
What good is a song if the words just don't belong
And a dream must be a dream for two
No good alone to each his own and my own is you
If a flame is to grow there must be a glow to open each door there's a key
I need you I know I can't let you go your touch means too much to me
Two lips must insit on two more to be kissed
Or they'll never know what love can do
To each his own I've found my own one and only you
[ guitar ]
If a flame is to grow...
Up in the morning out on the job work like a devil for my pay
And that lucky old sun ain't got nothing to do but roll around heaven all day
Fuss with my woman toil for my kids sweat till I'm wrinkled and gray
But that lucky old sun ain't got nothing to do but roll around heaven all day
Dear Lord above can't you see I'm cryin' tears are in my eyes
Send down the cloud with that silvery take me to paradise
Show me that river and lead me across take all my troubles away
Like that lucky old sun give me nothing to do but roll around heaven all day
There goes a man who gave his heart to someone and I feel sorry for him
For that someone just gave her heart to me
Now he's the loser and it hurts so much to lose and I feel sorry for him
Cause the loser I know could have been me
Oh how he loved her I'm sure he must have loved her almost as much as me
But fate has frowned on him then turned around and smiled on me
There goes a man who gave his heart to someone and I feel sorry for him
For that someone just gave her heart to me
If things were different and if he had won her love instead of me
I wonder if he'd find the time to offer sympathy
There goes a man who gave his heart to someone and I feel sorry
Chorus
Turn out the lights, the party's over
They say that all good things must end
Let's call it a night,the party's over
And tomorrow starts the same old thing again
What a crazy, crazy party, never seen
So many people laughin', dancin'
Look at you, you're havin' fun
But look at me, I'm almost cryin'
But that don't keep her love from dyin'
Misery, 'cause for me the party's over
Chorus
Once I had a love undyin'
I didn't keep it, wasn't tryin'
Life for me was just one party,
And then another
I had to have my party wine
Broke her heart so many times,
And then one night she said
Sweetheart, the party's over
My world is like a river as dark as it is deep
Night after night the past slips in and gathers all my sleep
My days are just an endless stream of emptiness to me
Filled only by the fleeting moments of her memories
Sweet memories sweet memories hmm
She slipped into the silence of my dreams last night
Wondering from room to room turning on each light
Her laughter spills like water from the river to the sea
And I'm swept away from sadness clinging to her memories
Take my word for what I tell you I have never lied to you
Pay no mind to what they're sayin' I have never been untrue
Evil tongues in town continue to prat aloud their evil news
You'll have to take my word when I tell you I love you I love you (I love you)
The power of gossip is always strengthen when it finds a respected ear
If you listen the chances are greater that a thread of doubt may appear
Evil tongues in town continue...
Evil tongues in town continue to prat aloud their evil news
You'll have to take my word when I tell you I love you I love you I love you
Take my word I love you take my word I love you
The evening breeze caressed the trees tenderly
The trembling trees embraced the breeze tenderly
Then you and I came wanderin' by and lost in a sigh were we
The shore was kissed by sea and mist tenderly
I can't forgert how two hearts met breathlessly
Your arms opened wide and closed me inside
You took my lips you took my love so tenderly
[ strings - piano ]
Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky stormy weather
Since my gal and I ain't together keeps rainin' all the time
Life is bare gloom and mis'ry everywhere stormy weather
Just can't get my poor self together I'm weary all the time all the time
When she went away the blues walked in and met me
If she stays away old rocking chair will get me
All I do is pray the Lord above will let me walk in the sun once more
Can't go on everything I had is gone stormy weather
Still water runs the depest like a love complete and through
So peaceful and dependable I can't say the same about you
Your love is cold and selfish and it never could be true
One time I loved you truly I can't say the same about you
I'm leaving and I won't be back I'm goin' to where I belong
Too long we've been together and too long you've done me wrong
Still water runs the depest...
[ guitar - mandolin ]
Well I'm leaving and I won't be back...
A short time I have to be with you my love
But a short time is better than no time you see
So I bring to you all my posessions and would that you'd share them with me
I bring you one springtime of robins one springtime of robins to sing
And I bring you one summer of roses one summer of roses I bring
I bring you one autumn dry leaves dry leaves will be helpful you know
Well I've been feeling a little bad cause I've been feeling a little better without you
It's a little like rain but it's a lot like a sunny day
And it's hard to explain but the sound of your name don't make music anymore
It's more than a sound of a love that I lost one day
It's a little too late to start thinking about startin' all over
I'd rather stay where I am I can't take another slam in the mind
I've been feeling a little bad cause I've been feeling a little better without you
But remember my love is the sound that you hear in your mind
[ guitar ]
I've been running around even laughing at half of the mem'ries
And you're not hard to remember I just have to think of your name
I've been feeling a little bad...
Sometimes I wonder why I spend
Such lonely nights
Oh baby lonely nights
Dreaming of a song
The melody haunts my reverie
And I am once again with you
When our love was new, oh baby
And each kiss an inspiration
Now that baby you know was long ago
Oh beside a garden wall
When stars are bright
You are in my arms
The nightingale tells his fairy tale
A paradise where roses bloom
Though I dream in vain
In my heart it will remain baby
My stardust melody
Blue Spanish eyes teardrops are falling from your Spanish eyes
Please please don't cry this is just adios and not goodbye
Soon I'll return bringing you all the love your heart can hold
Please say si si say you and your Spanish eyes will wait for me
[ guitar ]
[ Spanish part ]
Soon I'll return...
See her dancing see there Willie see how reckless she is
She's a wild one as everyone knows
Why what's wrong Willie why you're cryin' what have I done
Sorry Willie I didn't know you didn't know
And I wouldn't have said all those things that I'd known
That she was your darling your sweetheart your own
Don't ask how well I know her I might lie I don't know
Sorry Willie I didn't know you didn't know
[ guitar - harmonica ]
And I wouldn't have said...
Whenever we kiss I worry and wonder
Your lips may be here but where is your heart
It's always like this I worry and wonder
You're close to me here but where is your heart
It's a sad thing to realize that you've a heart that never melts
When we kiss do you close your eyes pretending that I'm someone else
You must break the spell this cloud that I'm under
So please won't you tell darling where is your heart
[ guitar ]
Some other world has all the sunshine
Cause there's no sunshine in mine
Out of the darkness came thunder and rain
Leavin' my dreams all in vain
Some other world there sleeps my darlin'
There where the skies are always blue
Why don't they take me out of this world
So you think you're a cowboy but you're only a kid
With a mind to do everything wrong
And it starts to get smoother when the circle begins
But by the time that you get there it's gone
So you think you're a winner but you're losing again
The cards are all lucky but then
And the hand that you're holding means nothing at all
Just knowing is all that is there
So you think you're a cowboy...
[ guitar ]
So your life is a fun the best that you can tomorrow is not right or wrong
And don't wait for tomorrow to bring you your dreams
Cause by the time that they get there they're gone
So you think you're a cowboy...
There is somebody I'm longing to see I hope that he turns out to be
Someone who'll watch over me
I'm a little lamb who's lost in the wood I know I could always be good
To one who'll watch over me
Although she may not be the girl some men think of
As pretty to my heart she carries the key
Won't you tell her please to put on some speed follow my lead
Oh how I need someone to watch over me
[ guitar ]
Although she may not be...
I know that someday you'll want me to want you
When I'm in love with somebody new
You expect me to be true and keep on loving you
Though I am feeling blue you think I can't forget you
Until someday you'll want me to want you when I am strong for somebody new
And though you don't want me now I'll get along somehow
And then I won't want you
[ fiddle - guitar ]
Some enchanted evening you may see a stranger
You may see a stranger across a crowded room
And somehow you know you know even then
That somewhere you'll see her again and again
Some enchanted evening someone may be laughing
You may hear her laughing across a crowded room
And night after night as strange as it seems
The sound of her laughter will sing in your dreams
Who can explain it who can tell you why
Fools give you reasons wise men never try
Some enchanted evening when you find your true love
When you feel her call you across a crowded room
Fly to her side and make her your own
All through your life you may dream alone
Once you have found her never let her go
Going home in this pickup not knowing this stickup
Was in progress on the same side of town
By a man in a truck the same kind he was driving
Bad karma was soon coming down
Before the store owner died she had tried to describe
The man who had shot him that day
And he described to a letter the innocent cowboy
So he tried him and sent him away
Slow down slow down old world
There's no hurry cause
My life ain't mine anymore
I lived too fast
Now it's too late to worry
And I'm too blue to cry anymore
I once was a fool for the women
Now I'm just a fool nothing more
So slow down slow down old world
There's no hurry cause
My life ain't mine anymore
[steel - strings]
I once had a way with the women
Till one got away with my heart
So slow down slow down old world
There's no hurry cause
My life ain't mine anymore
My love is cruel as the night
She steals the sun and shuts out the light.
All of my colors turn to blue
Win or lose.
Slow dancing.
Slow dancing.
Slow...dancing.
Scarlet eyes and a see through heart
I saw it coming right from the start.
She picked me up but had me down on my knees
Just a begging her please.
Take me slow dancing
Slow dancing
Slow...dancing
I don't why a man
will search for himself in his woman's eye.
No I don't know why a man
sees the truth but needs the lie.
My love is restless as the wind.
She moves like a shadow across my skin.
She left with my conscience
and I don't want it back.
It just gets in the way.
Slow dancing.
Slow dancing.
Pay no mind to her she only wants to play
But she's not for you she's not for you
And I'm the only one who would let her act this way
But she's not for you she's not for you
She just looks for greener pastures now and then
And when she grows tired she knows Old Faithful will just take her back again
So just leave her here I'm used to feeling blue
But she's not for you she's not for you
[guitar]
So she told you she found heaven in your eyes
Well I think it only fair to warn you that sometimes she lies
But it's your heart I can't tell you what to do
But she's not for you she's not for you
Oh it's a long long while from May to December
But the days grow short when you reach September
When the autumn weather turns leaves to flame
One hasn't got time for the waiting game
Oh the days dwindle down to a precious few
September November and these few precious days I'll spend with you
These precious days I'll spend with you
[ guitar ]
Oh the days dwindle down...
I wake up in the morning with my arms around my pillow
Then suddenly I realize I only hold a pillow you're not there you're not there
I call your name and hear my voice run searching through the hallway
To return alone confirming all I've known for so long I'm alone you're still gone
Still half asleep I stumble to the kitchen for my coffee
My footsteps match my heartbeats funny heartbeats on linoleum
The sounds all wrong you're still gone
The sounds outside reminding me the world won't wait forever
And understanding saves don't stand by empty graves
She's out of my life she's out of my life
And I don't know whether to laugh or cry
I don't know whether to live or die
And it cuts like a knife she's out of my life
It's out of my hands it's out of my hands
To think for two years she was here
And I took her for granted I was so cavalier
Now the way that it stands she's out of my hands
I have learned love is not possession and I have learned that love won't wait
I have learned love needs expression but I learned it too late
She's out of my life she's out of my life
Damned indecision and cursed pride
Kept my love for her locked deep inside
She is gone but she was here and her presence is still heavy in the air
What a taste of human love now she's gone and it don't matter anymore
Crossing dreams with our lives it was more than just a woman and a man
It was love without the sky now my life will never be the same again
[ harmonica - piano ]
Roly Poly eatin' corn and taters
Hungry every minute of the day
Roly Poly knowin' all the biscuits
Long as he can chew it it's okay
He can eat an apple pie
And never even bat an eye
He likes everything from a soup to hay
Roly Poly daddy's Little Fatty
I bet he's gonna be a man someday
[fiddle - steel - piano]
Roly Poly scrambled eggs for breakfast
Bread and jelly twenty times a day
Roly Poly eats a hard day dinner
It takes lots of strenght to run and play
Well now he pulls up weeds
And does the chores
Runs both ways through all the doors
He wears up that apetite that way
Roly Poly daddy's Little Fatty
When evening chores are over at our rach house on the plains
And all I've got to do is lay around
I saddle up my pony and ride off down the trail
To watch the desert sun go down
Ridin' down the canyon just to watch the sun go down
A picture that no artis ever could paint
White faced cattlow lowin' on the mountain trail
I hear a coyote whinin' for its mate
Cactus plants are bloomin' sagebrush everywhere
Granite spoires are standing all around
I tell you folks it's heaven to be ridin' down the trail
To watch the desert sun go down
[ guitar ]
Cactus plants are bloomin'...
Remember the good times they're smaller in number and easier to recall
Don't spend too much time on the bad times
They're staggering in number and will be heavy as lead on your mind
Don't waste a moment unhappy invaluable moments gone with the leakage of time
As we leave on our own separate journeys
Moving west with the sun to a place buried deep within our minds
You told me once that you were mine alone forever
And I was yours till the end of eternity
But all those vows are broken now and we will never be the same except in memory
Remember me when the candle lights're gleaming
Remember me at the close of a long long day
It would be so sweet when all alone I'm dreaming
Just to know you still remember me
[ guitar - piano ]
A brighter face may take my place when we're apart dear
Another love with a heart more bold than free
But in the end fearweather friends may break your heart dear
If they do sweetheart remember me
Remember me when the candle...
Rudolph the red nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose
And if you ever saw him you would even say it glows
All of the other reindeer used to laugh and call him names
They'd never let poor Rudolph join in any reindeer games
Then one foggy Christmas Eve Santa came to say
Rudolph with your nose so bright won't you guide my sleigh tonight
Then all the reindeer loved him as they shouted out with glee
Rudolph the red nosed reindeer you'll go down in history
[ guitar ]
Then one foggy Christmas Eve...
Right or wrong I'll always love you though you're gone I can't forget
Right or wrong I'll keep on dreaming though I wake with that same old regret
All along I knew I'd lose you still I prayed that you'd be true
In your heart you love another but right or wrong I'm still in love with you
[ fiddle - piano - guitar - steel ]
Right or wrong I'll always love you...
I take a trip every evening scrolling down memory lane
I'm walkin' again those familiar paths dreaming those dreams again
And I can always see my sweetheart just as she used to be
Waiting for someone at the garden gate and I know that someone is me
Big brown eyes and pearly hair and you'd tell that's Mary
Rosy cheeks and ruby lips can't you tell that's Mary
Ofttimes in the evenings we'd go scrolling
Hand in hand together beneath the pepper tree
And I can feel her hand in mine as I sit alone tonight
Dreaming of the times I spent with Mary
[ fiddle - guitar ]
Ofttimes in the evenings...
Oh gee wouldn't it be wonderful to open up the doors of the past
And live again as yesterday
But you know no matter where I wander no matter where I roam
There'll always be a place in my heart boys
lease don't talk about me when I'm gone
Tho' our friendship ceases from now on
And if you can't say anything that's nice
It's better not to talk at all is my advice
We're parting you go your way I'll go mine it's best that we do
Here's a kiss I hope that this brings lots of luck to you
And it makes no difference how I carry on
Please don't talk about me when I'm gone
[ fiddle ]
We're parting you go your way...
Please don't talk about me...
We're parting you go your way...
Don't be concerned it's time I learned
That those who play with fire get burned
But I'll be alright in a little while
But you'll be permanently lonely
Don't be too quick to pity me
Don't salve my heart with sympathy
Cause I'll be alright in a little while
But you'll be permanently lonely
The world looks on with wonder
And pity at your kind
Cause it knows that the future
Is not very pretty for your kind for your kind
Will always be runnin' and wonderin'
What's happened to hearts that you've broken
And left all alone
But we'll be alright in a little while
But you'll be permanently lonely
I know not where on earth to find you I know not how or where to start
I only know I'm here without you and there's pins and needles in my heart
The days and nights are growing longer since first you said that we must part
And now you're smiling at another and there's pins and needles in my heart
I know not where on earth...
[ ac.guitar ]
I know not where on earth...
Memories are haunting you and they're making you feel blue
Darling a penny for your thoughts
Are you thinking of the past and a love that didn't last
Darling a penny for your thoughts
And it hurts me so to see the sorrow written on your face
And I hope and pray that some tomorrow I can take his place
But if someday we should part you can say a broken heart
Offered a penny for your thoughts
[ guitar ]
And it hurts me so...
Turn out the lights the party's over they say that all good things must end
Let's call it tonight the party's over and tomoroow start the same old thing again
But the crazy crazy party never seen so many people
Laughin' dancin' look at you you're havin' fun
But look at me I'm almost cryin' but that don't keep her love from dyin'
Misery cause for me the party's over
Turn out the lights...
Once I had a love undyin' I didn't keep it but I tried
Life for me was just one party and then another
I had to have my party why broke her heart so many times
But one night she said sweetheart the party's over
Turn out the lights...
And tomoroow start the same old thing again
[ guitar ]
Life is a picture and I play the lead but my biggest line was goodbye
Now my leading lady has walked out on me and this is the part where I cried
I was great in the scene where she found someone new
You should have seen my look of surprise
And if you'll have just walk into the picture this is the part where I cry
And after the picture is over and it's judged for the part where you lied
The award of the chiefment that's given will be mine for the part where I cried
I was great in the scene...
If you can truthfully say that
You've been true just one day
Well that makes one in a row
One in a row, one in a row
And if you can look into my eyes
One time without telling lies
Well that makes one in a row
One in a row, one in a row
Why do I keep loving you after all
The things you do
And just one time come into my arms
And be glad that you're in my arms
That will make one in a row
One in a row, one in a row
Why do I keep lovin' you...
Was it something I did Lord a lifetime ago
Am I just now repaying a debt that I owe
Justice sweet justice you travel so slow
One has my name and the other has my heart
With one I'll remain
That's when my heartaches start
One has brown eyes and the other's eyes're blue
To one I am tied
To the other I am true
One has my love and the other only me
But what good is love
To a heart that can't be free
So I'll go on living
My life's just the same
While one has my heart and the other has my name
[steel - guitar]
One has my love and the other only me
But what good is love
To a heart that can't be free
So I'll go on living
My life's just the same
O little town of Bethlehem how still we see Thee lie
Above Thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by
Yet in Thy dark street shineth the everlasting light
The hopes and fears of all the years are met in Thee tonight
Yet in Thy dark street shineth...
I still love you as I did in yesterday
Many years have gone by though it seems just like a day
It's no wonder that I love you you have been so kind and true
There will never be another it will always be just you
We've come along the way together when you've proved your love is true
My life's been a pleasure and it's all because of you
And to me you'll always be just as sweet as flowers in May
And I'll still love you as I did in yesterday
[ guitar - violin ]
I still love you as I did in yesterday...
My heart takes walks with her on cold and rainy days
She leads my heart along where only love can lead the way
And I know she'll follow me to the end of the world
She makes me proud to say that she's my kind of girl
She makes to proud to walk the streets of anywhere
And if our bed be grass or cotton she won't care
And I know she'll follow me to the end of the world
She makes me proud to say that she's my kind of girl
[steel]
And I know she'll follow me to the end of the world
She makes me proud to say that she's my kind of girl
And I know she'll follow me to the end of the world
I love you I'll prove it in days to come I swear it's true darling you're the only one
I've been so blue and lonesome since you've gone
I love you I'll prove it a thousand ways
I'll be nice and sweet to you and no more will you be blue
I'll prove I love you every day all kinds of ways
So darling please wait please wait until I'm free
There'll be a change a great change made in me
I love you and there'll never be blue days I love you and I'll prove it a thousand ways
[ piano ]
[ instrumental ]
Nobody slides my friend it's a truth on which you can depend
If you're living a lie it will eat you alive and nobody slides my friend
Nobody slides my friend you can try it but you'll never win
You can scream you can shout but it all evens out
And nobody slides my friend
[ guitar ]
Nobody slides my friend listen I'll say it again
You can run you can hide but it's still waitin' inside
The children are sleepin',
Our talk can begin.
We've waited until they've gone to bed.
We knew they would cry,
When we said goodbye,
And I'd rather leave quietly instead.
We can never be happy,
We both know it's true.
We've quarrelled from the day that we met.
Our love was too weak,
To pull our dreams through,
But too strong to let us forget.
I hope we can salvage a few memories,
To carry us through the long night.
The clock's strikin' midnight, yesterday's gone.
And there's no tomorrow in sight.
In our efforts to break through,
The thick walls of pride,
With harsh words that burned to the core.
The wall's still remainin',
But the words broke inside,
And strengthened the walls even more.
I hope we can salvage a few memories,
To carry us through the long night.
The clock's strikin' midnight, yesterday's gone.
There's a circle of people where I'm no longer welcome
I'm ashamed to say that I'm no longer fit
I could sober up tomorrow and face my friends again
But I've got no reason to quit
No I've got no reason for living right and there's no other way to forget
I could sober up tomorrow and face my friends again
But I've got no reason to quit
[ guitar - mandolin ]
I've got no reason for living right and there's no other way to forget
I know down deep inside me I'm man enough to change
More and more I'm forgetting the past more and more I'm living at last
Day by day I'm losing my blues more and more I'm forgettin' bout you
But oh how I tried to keep you by my side
And oh how I cried the day we said goodbye
Day by day I'm losing my blues more and more I'm forgettin' bout you
[ steel + fiddle ]
Moon River wider than a mile I'm crossing you in style some day
Oh dream maker you're heart breaker wherever you're going I'm going your way
Two drifters off to see the world there's such a lot of world to see
We're after the same rainbow's ends waiting round the bend
My Huckleberry friend Moon River and me
[ guitar ]
Moonlight becomes you it goes with your hair
You certainly know the right thing to wear
Moonlight becomes you and I'm thrilled at the sight
And we could get so romantic tonight
You're all dressed up to go dreaming now don't tell me I'm wrong
And what a night to go dreaming mind if I tag along
Moonlight becomes you and I want you to know
It's not just because there's moonlight although moonlight becomes you so
[ piano - guitar ]
Yesterday as I talked with a friend in town I forgot to remember that you're gone
For a moment I found myself smiling but a moment isn't very long
And last night as I danced with a stranger and she held her cheek close to my own
For a moment I almost forgot you but a moment isn't very long
Every now and then I get a chance to smile
But those every now and thens just last a little while
And tonight I've got a date with a new love but I know I'd do just as well at home
For a moment maybe I could forget you but a moment isn't very long
[ steel ]
Every now and then...
But a moment isn't very long
These are difficult times these are difficult times
Lord please give me a sign for these are difficult times
REMEMBER THE GOOD TIMES
(Willie Nelson)
© '71 Full Nelson Music
Remember the good times they're smaller in number and easier to recall
Don't spend too much time on the bad times
Their staggering number will be heavy as lead on your mind
Don't waste a moment unhappy invaluable moments gone with the leakage of time
As we leave on our own separate journeys
Moving west with the sun to a place buried deep within our minds
And remember the good times...
[ dobro ]
Remember the good times...
Once I thought I loved just you and I thought you loved me too
But today you say we're through now just look what thoughts will do
Now another wears the crown and you think that you have found
Just what makes your world go round watch those thoughts they'll get you down
And if within your future years your new love should bring you tears
Then you'll think of me I'm sure but those thoughts won't help you dear
Once I thought I loved just you...
[ piano - guitar ]
(I'm a lonely little mansion for sale)
Furnished with everything but love
I'm looking for someone to come live with me
I've got a large picture window
And a yard filled with trees
The sign reads two stories
And that's all that's for sale
But there's so many stories I could tell
My windows are closed and I'm gasping for air
My carpets are spotted
With tear stains here and there
A torn photograph still lies on my floor
And two sweethearts don't live here anymore
I'm a lonely little mansion for sale
And for someone I'd fit just like a glove
I'm a lonely little mansion for sale
Whiskey river, take my mind
Don't let her memory torture me
Whiskey river, don't run dry
You're all I've got, take care of me
Whiskey river, take my mind
Don't let her memory torture me
Whiskey river, don't run dry
You're all I've got, take care of me
Whiskey river, take my mind
Don't let her memory torture me
Whiskey river, don't run dry
You're all I've got, take care, one more time
Whiskey river, take my mind
And don't let her memory torture me
Whiskey river, don't run dry
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