The movie Wall Street didn't want made
The (mostly) true story of the greatest thief in American history
The movie Hollywood didn't want to make
Banksters Destroy the American Dream!
Plot
November, 2004, New Mexico. Bud is a slacker with one good thing in his life, his engaging fifth-grade daughter Molly. On election day, Bud is supposed to meet her at the polling place. When he doesn't show, she sneaks a ballot and is about to vote when the power goes off. It turns out that New Mexico's electoral votes will decide the contest, and there it's tied with one vote needing recasting - Bud's. The world's media and both presidential candidates, including the current President, descend on Bud in anticipation of his re-vote in two weeks. Can the clueless Bud, even with the help of Molly and a local TV reporter, handle this responsibility?
Keywords: abortion, absent-mother, aclu, advertisement, african-american, airforce-one, airplane, albuquerque-new-mexico, american-flag, american-football
One ordinary guy is giving the candidates a reason to run.
Bud Johnson: America needs someone who's bigger than their speeches.
Bud Johnson: You guys protect the President!::Lewis: She's... she's smarter.
Bud Johnson: I know exactly what you mean Andy.::President Andrew Boone: Do you?::Bud Johnson: Maybe not...
Bud Johnson: I'll call them back.::Molly Johnson: If we had a phone you could call them back.
Bud Johnson: Did you save me any hot water?::Molly Johnson: I don't know, did the water heater fix itself?
Bud Johnson: What's that?::Molly Johnson: Egg salad.::Bud Johnson: Egg salad?::Molly Johnson: You like egg salad.::Bud Johnson: Yeah but not every damn day.::Molly Johnson: We're on a budget.::Bud Johnson: Well you've got to stir it up a bit.::Molly Johnson: You want to eat better? Drink less beer.
Kate Madison: [bowling] Remember when we were kids? This was the only thing to do on weekends.::Bud Johnson: [laughs] It still is.
President Andrew Boone: Do you like football?::Bud Johnson: I'm an American aren't I?
Molly Johnson: I want to live with Mom.::Bud Johnson: So do I.
Bud Johnson: Jesus, Molly, you've got to quit being such a smartass.::Molly Johnson: And *you* have to stop using 'Jesus' as a cussword all the time. He's a billion people's Saviour.
If you do wrong, you'll answer to the thong.
Plot
Dr. Evil uses a device he calls a "Time Machine" to travel back to 1969 and remove Austin Powers' mojo. The sexually wounded swinger must travel back in time and, with the help of agent Felicity Shagwell, recover his vitality. Meanwhile, Dr. Evil's personal life runs amok as he discovers love, continues to shun his son and develops a close relationship with himself. Well, actually, a clone 1/8 his size whom he dubs "Mini-Me". The always time-baffled Dr. Evil begins his plan to put a gigantic cannon on the moon, thus turning it into a device called either "The Death Star" or "Alan Parson's Project," depending on which name is available.
Keywords: 1960s, 1990s, actor-playing-himself, actor-playing-multiple-roles, android, aphrodisiac, baby-carriage, bachelor-pad, bagpipes, bedroom
First, he fought for the Crown. Now he's fighting for the Family Jewels.
I'm Back, Baby!
You Were Expecting Someone Else?
Double-O Behave!
"I'm Coming Again, Baby!" [Australia]
The return of Dr. Evil.
If you see only one movie this summer, see Star Wars. But if you see two movies this summer, see Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
The BRITISH Empire Strikes Back!
He's back, he's even bigger and he's up for it!
Fat Bastard: [to Mini Me] I'm bigger than you and higher up the food chain. Get in my belly.
[Noticing Dr. Evil's spaceship on radar]::Radar Operator: Colonel, you better have a look at this radar.::Colonel: What is it, son?::Radar Operator: I don't know, sir, but it looks like a giant...::Jet Pilot: Dick. Dick, take a look out of starboard.::Co-Pilot: Oh my God, it looks like a huge...::Bird-Watching Woman: Pecker.::Bird-Watching Man: [raising binoculars] Ooh, Where?::Bird-Watching Woman: Over there. What sort of bird is that? Wait, it's not a woodpecker, it looks like someone's...::Army Sergeant: Privates. We have reports of an unidentified flying object. It has a long, smooth shaft, complete with...::Baseball Umpire: Two balls.::[looking up from game]::Baseball Umpire: What is that. It looks just like an enormous...::Chinese Teacher: Wang. pay attention.::Wang: I was distracted by that giant flying...::Musician: Willie.::Willie: Yeah?::Musician: What's that?::Willie: [squints] Well, that looks like a huge...::Colonel: Johnson.::Radar Operator: Yes, sir?::Colonel: Get on the horn to British Intelligence and let them know about this.
Scott: If you've got a time machine, why don't you just go back and kill Austin Powers when he's sitting on the crapper or something?::Dr. Evil: How about, no, Scott? Okay?
Austin: Let's hop on the good foot and do the bad thing.
Austin: Yes, Yes, Yes! NO NO!
Dr. Evil: As you know, every diabolical scheme I've hatched has been thwarted by Austin Powers. And why is that, ladies and gentlemen?::Scott: Because you never kill him when you get the chance, and you're a big dope?
Dr. Evil: The moon unit will be divided into two divisions: Moon Unit Alpha and Moon Unit Zappa.
Austin: [referring to Felicity sleeping with Fat Bastard] Well how could you do it?::Felicity Shagwell: I was just doing my job.::Austin: No, I mean, literally, HOW could you do it? The man's so fat, the sheer mechanics of it are mind-boggling.
Scott: [both are the Jerry Springer show] How could you do this to me? On national television!::Dr. Evil: Well throw me a freakin' bone here, Scott.::Scott: Why did you run out on me?::Dr. Evil: Because you're not quite evil enough. [audience boos]::Dr. Evil: Well it's true! It's true! You're semi-evil. You're quasi-evil. You're the margarine of evil. You're the Diet Coke of evil. Just one calorie, not evil enough.
Austin: Those are skin tight. How do you get into those pants baby?::Felicity Shagwell: You can start by buying me a drink.
Willie Hugh Nelson (pronounced /wɪli nɛlsən /; born April 30, 1933) is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie (1973), combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger (1975) and Stardust (1978), made Nelson one of the most recognized artists in country music. He was one of the main figures of outlaw country, a subgenre of country music that developed at the end of the 1960s as a reaction to the conservative restrictions of the Nashville sound. Nelson has acted in over 30 films, co-authored several books, and has been involved in activism for the use of biofuels and the legalization of marijuana.
Waylon Arnold Jennings (pronounced /welən dʒɛnɪŋz/; June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002) was an American country music singer, songwriter, and musician. Jennings began playing guitar at eight and began performing at twelve on KVOW radio. He formed a band, The Texas Longhorns. Jennings worked as a D.J on KVOW, KDAV, KYTI and KLLL. In 1958, Buddy Holly arranged Jennings' first recording session, of "Jolie Blon" and "When Sin Stops (Love Begins)". Holly hired him to play bass. During the Winter Dance Party Tour, in Clear Lake, Iowa, Holly chartered a plane to arrive to the next venue. Jennings gave up his seat in the plane to J. P. Richardson, who was suffering from a cold. The flight that carried Holly, Richardson and Ritchie Valens crashed, on the day later known as The Day the Music Died. Following the accident, Jennings worked as a D.J in Coolidge, Arizona and Phoenix. He formed a rockabilly club band, The Waylors. He recorded for independent label Trend Records, A&M Records before succeeding with RCA Victor after achieving creative control of his records.
John R. "Johnny" Cash (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003), was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Although he is primarily remembered as a country music icon, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll—especially early in his career—as well as blues, folk, and gospel. This crossover appeal led to Cash being inducted in the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
Cash was known for his deep, distinctive bass-baritone voice; for the "boom-chicka-boom" sound of his Tennessee Three backing band; for his rebelliousness, coupled with an increasingly somber and humble demeanor; for providing free concerts inside prison walls; and for his dark performance clothing, which earned him the nickname "The Man in Black". He traditionally started his concerts by saying, "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash." and usually following it up with his standard "Folsom Prison Blues".
Kristoffer Kristian "Kris" Kristofferson (born June 22, 1936) is an American musician, actor, and writer. He is known for such hits as "Me and Bobby McGee", "For the Good Times", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night". Kristofferson is the sole writer of most of his songs, and he has collaborated with various other figures of the Nashville scene such as Shel Silverstein.
Kristoffer Kristofferson was born in Brownsville, Texas, to Mary Ann (née Ashbrook) and Lars Henry Kristofferson, a U.S. Army Air Corps officer (later a U.S. Air Force Major General). His paternal grandparents immigrated from Sweden, and Kristofferson's paternal grandfather was an officer in the Swedish Army. When Kristofferson was a child, his father pushed him toward a military career. Like most "military brats", Kristofferson moved around frequently as a youth, finally settling down in San Mateo, California, where he graduated from San Mateo High School. An aspiring writer, Kristofferson enrolled in Pomona College in 1954. He experienced his first dose of fame when he appeared in Sports Illustrated's "Faces in the Crowd" for his achievements in collegiate rugby union, football, and track and field. He and fellow classmates revived the Claremont Colleges Rugby Club in 1958, which has remained a Southern California rugby dynasty.[clarification needed] Kristofferson became a member of Kappa Delta at Pomona College, graduating in 1958 with a BA, summa cum laude in Literature. In a 2004 interview with Pomona College Magazine Kristofferson mentioned philosophy professor Frederick Sontag as an important influence in his life.
Sheryl Suzanne Crow (born February 11, 1962) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, musician, and actress. Her music incorporates elements of rock, folk, hip hop, country and pop. She has won nine Grammy Awards from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
She has performed with The Rolling Stones and has sung duets with Mick Jagger,Michael Jackson, Eric Clapton, Luciano Pavarotti, John Mellencamp, Kid Rock, Michelle Branch, and Sting among others. She has performed backing vocals for Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, Don Henley and Belinda Carlisle. She also sang as part of the back up vocals for the Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary celebrating Dylan's 30 years as a recording artist. Crow has released seven studio albums, two compilations, and a live album, and has contributed to film soundtracks. She has sold 16 million albums in the United States and 35 million albums worldwide and her newest album, 100 Miles from Memphis, was released on July 20, 2010. Recently she appeared on NBC's 30 Rock, ABC's GCB and Cougar Town, Disney Channel's Hannah Montana Forever, and Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear.
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
If she seems cold and bitter I beg of you
Just stop and consider all she's gone through
Don't be quick to condemn her for things she might say
Just remember her life turned her that way
She's been walked on and stepped on so many times
And I hate to admit it but that last footprint's mine
She was crying when I met her she cries harder today
But don't blame her life turned her that way
[ piano ]
She's been walked on...
With someone like you a pal good and true
I'd like to leave it all behind and go and find
A place that's known to God alone just a spot we could call our own
We'll find perfect peace where joys never cease
Somewhere beneath the stary skies
We'll build a sweet little nest somewhere out in the west
And let the rest of the world go by
[ guitar - piano ]
With someone like you...
I bless the day I found you I want to stay around you
And so I beg you let it be me
Don't take this heaven from one if you must cling to someone
Now and forever let it be me
Each time we meet love I find complete love
Without your sweet love what would life be
So never leave me lonely tell me you love me only
And that you'll always let it be me
[ sax ]
Two broken hearts lonely looking like houses where nobody lives
Two people each having so much pride inside neither side forgives
The angry words spoken in haste such a waste of two lives
It's my belief pride is the chief cause and a decline
In the number of husbands and wives
A woman and a man a man and a woman
Some can and some can't and some can't
[ guitar ]
Two broken hearts...
Why do you treat me as if I were only a friend
What have I done that has made you so distant and cold
Sometimes I wonder if you'll be contented again
Will you be happy when you are withered and old
I cannot offer you diamonds and mansions so fine
I cannot offer you all the clothes that your young body crave
But if you'll say that you long to forever be mine
Just think of the teardrops the heartaches and sorrow you'll save
While I am writing this letter I think of the past
And of the promises that you have broken so free
And to this old world I'll soon say my farewell at last
I was just walkin' out the door
It's too bad you didn't come before
I've waited so long, so long, so long
Now there's no time to wait anymore
How I cried for you day and night
For the letters that you wouldn't write
But now it's alright, alright, alright
You won't have to write anymore
Not so long ago you will never know
What this day to me would have been
But it's all changed now
Darling, anyhow
It was nice to see you again
Well, it's almost a quarter to four
Sorry, I can't stay anymore
I must be on my way
It's my wedding day
And I was just walkin' out the door
Well, it's almost a quarter to four
Sorry, I can't stay anymore
I must be on my way
It's my wedding day
Love that runs away from me dreams that just won't let me be
Blues that keep on bothering me chains that just won't set me free
Too far away from you and all your charms just out of reach of my two empty arms
Each night in dreams I see your face mem'ries time cannot erase
Then I awake and find you're gone and I'm so blue and all alone
So far away from you and all your charms just out of reach of my two empty arms
[ keyboards - piano - strings ]
That lonesome feeling all the time knowing you could not be mine
Dreams that hurt me in my sleep vows that we could never keep
Just one love that shines for me shines a light that I can see
Just one love shines for me tonight just one love shines for me tonight
Just look at all those stars up in the sky
The wind is blowing through the trees weather that's inside of me
Makes a sound that follows me around
It makes a sound haunting me to hear
It blows me round and round when you are near
Just one love...
[ guitar ]
Well babe as far as I can see stars are what they want to be
They want to be the one to make you smile
Just a little love of your heart is all they need
Just a little of your love could be for me
Just one love...
Well I might have gone fishin' I got to thinkin' it over
The road to the river is a mighty long way
Well it must be the reason ano rhyme or no reason
I'm takin' it easy it's my lazy day
I never mind callin' cause I ain't comin'
Just get you on by me and stay out of my way stay out of my way
A little bit thinkin' drives me to drinkin'
Hey I'm a takin' it easy it's my lazy day
[ piano - guitar ]
It's a sin my darling how I love you although I know our love can never be
It's a sin to keep this mem'ry of you when silence proves that you've forgotten me
The dreams I built for us have tumbled each promise broken like my heart
Why pretend that I can't live without you when deep inside I know that it's a sin
[ guitar - piano ]
I hope you're happy with another who shares the dream I could not win
In a way I'm glad it's over even though it's gonna hurt me once you're gone
But I can learn to live without you give me time and I can make it on my own
Loving you to me came easy and losing you will change my life no doubt
In a way I'm glad it's over but another way it turns me inside out
In a way I guess it's better altough there's nothing good at goodbye
But I know I couldn't hold you
Now you found your wings and you need room to fly
It's for sure I'm gonna miss you but I guess that's what goodbye is all about
In a way I'm glad it's over but another way it turns me inside out
On the one hand I know I'll be better off once you're gone
But I find a lot of heartaches on the other
And I can't say that I look forward to those nights I'll be alone
And I wonder if there'll ever be another
Loving you to me came easy and losing you will change my life no doubt
In a way I'm glad it's over but another way it turns me inside out
If it's wrong to love you
Wrong I'll always be
And though the world may scorn me
Darling, can't you see
If it's wrong to want you
When my day is through
Gladly I will pay for
All my dreams of you
And though we met too late, dear
And you'll never know
That without a right to
I have loved you so
I can't change my heart now
You're a part of me
So if it's wrong to love you
Wrong I'll always be
[guitar]
And though we met too late, dear
And you'll never know
That without a right to
I have loved you so
I can't change my heart now
You're a part of me
So if it's wrong to love you
Take the ribbons from your hair shake 'em loose and let 'em fall
Let 'em fall against your chin like the shadows on the wall
Come and lay down by my side till the early morning light
All I'm taking is your time help me make it through the night
Well I don't care who's right or wrong and I won't try to understand
Let the devil take tomorrow cause tonight I need a friend
Yesterday is dead and gone and tomorrow's out of sight
And it's sad to be alone help me make it through the night
[ac.guitar]
Well I don't care who's right or wrong...
Once again you've got me crying I'm a fool if I let this go on
You can hurt me without even trying think I'll pick up my heart and go home
I can see the first signs of autumn all at once all the flowers are gone
Certainly I feel so forgotten think I'll pick up my heart and go home
Somewhere where you'll never find me
Somewhere I can leave all my troubles behind me
Once again you've got me crying I'm a fool if I let this go on
You can hurt me without even trying think I'll pick up my heart and go home
[ guitar ]
Somewhere where you'll never find me...
I'll walk alone where once we wandered it seems so strange since you are gone
Till you return I'll stay the same dear I'll still be true and walk alone
By stars above I swear to love you with all the love I've ever known
While we're apart I'll stay the same dear and when teardrops start I'll walk alone
[ piano ]
The flame of love is brightly burning and you know that I'm your very own
I'll stay around 'til it's over.
And hope that it never ends.
Maybe in time, you'll change your mind
And decide to love me again.
I'll just simply refuse to leave you.
Call me stubborn, but I'll never give in.
And I'll just hang around 'til it's over,
And hope that it never ends.
I'll stay around 'til it's over.
And hope that it never ends.
Maybe in time, you'll change your mind
And decide to love me again.
I'll just simply refuse to leave you.
Call me stubborn, but I'll never give in.
And I'll just hang around 'til it's over,
This is the very first day since you left me
And I've tried to put my thoughts in a song
All I can hear myself singing baby is I still can't believe you're gone
I still can't believe that you'd leave me what did I do that was so wrong
And there's just too many unanswered questions
And I still can't believe that you're gone
But you're gone I'm alone and I'm still living
I don't like it but I'll take it till I'm strong
And all that I can hear myself saying baby is I still can't believe you're gone
I lose my blues honey when I'm with you
No one else can do you're in my heart to stay
But when I'm gone and I'm all alone
I'll be singing a song I want to be with you always
[ piano ]
I'd be happy dear if you could only be here and always be near forever and a day
We could travel far to some big shining star
Just me and my guitar and stay that sweethears for always
I told my heart I didn't love you that I'd be happy if we'd part
But now I know I was mistaken I told a lie to my heart
I told my heart I didn't love you now we'll forever be apart
Lonely years of tears and sorrow I told a lie to my heart
[ guitar ]
If we sin somehow we pay and now the bitter teardrops start
I must learn to live without you I told a lie to my heart
I told my heart I didn't love you that I'll be happy if we'll part
I saw the light I saw the light no more darkness no more night
Now I'm so happy no sorrow in sight praise the Lord I saw the light
I wandered so aimless life filled with sin I wouldn't let my dear Saviour in
Then Jesus came like a stranger in the night praise the Lord I saw the light
I saw the light...
Just like a blind man I wandered along worries and fears I claimed for my own
Then like a blind man God gave back his sight praise the Lord I saw the light
I saw the light...
[ guitar ]
I was a fool to wander and stray straight is the gate and narrow the way
Now I have traded the wrong for all the right praise the Lord I saw the light
I saw the light...
Well I saw the light...
I never go around mirrors it just tears me up to see a grown man cry
And I never go around mirrors cause I've got a heartache to hide
[ guitar ]
I never go around mirrors I can't stand to see a grown man cry
And I never go around mirrors cause I've got a heartache to hide
Cause I've got a heartache to hide
I Never Go Around Mirrors
------Lefty Frizzel
I can't stand to see a good man go to waste
One who never combs his hair or shaves his face
A man who leans on wine over love that's told a lie
It tears me up to see a grown man cry
I never go around mirrors I can't stand to see me without you by my side
I never go around mirrors cause I've got a heartache to hide
I never go around mirrors...
I had not planned on seeing you I was afraid of what I'd do
But pride is strong here am I and I just can't let you say goodbye
Please have no fear you're in no harm as long as you're here in my arms
But you can't leave so please don't try but I just can't let you say goodbye
What force behind your evil mind can let your lips speak so unkind
To one who loves as much as I I just can't let you say goodbye
The flesh around your throat is pale intended by my fingernails
Please don't scream and please don't cry cause I just can't let you say goodbye
Your voice is still it speaks no more you'll never hurt me anymore
I guess I've come to live here in your eyes.
This must be the place called paradise.
You are so precious to me,
what a special time within our lives.
And I guess I've come to live here in your eyes.
A thousand times I see you
and a thousand times you take my breath away.
Fears and doubts consume me and I'm afraid someone will take it all away.
I hope we're here forever, but I guess it's time that we both realized.
That I guess I've come to live here in your eyes.
I guess I've come to live here in your eyes.
This must be the place called paradise.
You are so precious to me,
what a special time within our lives.
And I guess I've come to live here in your eyes.
A thousand times I see you
and a thousand times you take my breath away.
Fears and doubts consume me and I'm afraid someone will take it all away.
I hope we're here forever, but I guess it's time that we both realized.
That I guess I've come to live here in your eyes.
I let my mind wonder and what did it do
I just kept right on goin' until it got right to you
Can't trust in one minute it's worst than a child
This old face without conscience and it's driving me wild
When I let my mind wonder I try to keep my mind busy
With thoughts of today but in terrible mem'ries seem to lure it away
My lonely heart wonders if there'll ever come a day
When I can be happy but I can't see no way
Cause I let my mind wonder...
I'll always be with you for as long as you please
For I am the forest but you are the trees
I'm empty without you so come grow within me
For I am the forest and you are the trees
And the heavens need romance so love never dies
You'll be the stars dear and I'll be the sky
And should any of this find us let them all be forewarned
That you are the thunder and I am the storm
And I'll always be with you for as long as you please
For I am the forest and you are the trees
I'll always be with you for as long as you please
For I am the forest but you are the trees
[ guitar ]
I'll always be with you for as long as you please
For I am the forest but you are the trees
It's good to see that I can cry again
Now I return to life and live again
As the teardrops wash the heartaches from a man
I'm glad to say that I can cry again
So long my pride would not let my tears to fall
I walk walk to burning hell and never cry at all
As the teardrops wash the heartaches from a man
I'm glad to say that I can cry again
[guitar]
So long my pride would not let my tears to fall
I walk walk to burning hell and never cry at all
As the teardrops wash the heartaches from a man
It's good to know that I can cry again
I'm crazy
crazy for feeling so lonely
I'm crazy
crazy for feeling so blue
I know
you'd love me as long as you wanted
then someday
leave me for somebody new
[bridge]
worry
why do I let myself worry
wondring
what in the world did I do
crazy
for thinking that my love could hold you
I'm crazy for crying
I'm crazy for trying
What used to be my home has changed to just a place to stay
A crumbling last resort when day is through
Sometimes between sundown and dawn somehow I find my way
To this home motel on Lost Love Avenue
No one seems to really care if I come here at all
And the one who seems to care the least is you
I'm gonna hang a neon sign with letters big and blue
Oh since my baby left me I've found new place to dwell
Down at the end on Lonely Street at Heartbreak Hotel
I get so lonely baby I get so lonely baby I get so lonely I could die
And though it's always crowded you can still find some room
For broken hearted lovers to cry away the gloom
I get so lonely baby I get so lonely baby I get so lonely I could die
[ guitar - sax ]
Well the bellhop's tears keep flowing the deskclerk's dressed in black
They've been so long on Lonely Street they'll never never never get back
I get so lonely baby I get so lonely baby I get so lonely I could die
So if your baby leaves and you got a tale to tell
Just take a walk down Lonely Street to Heartbreak Hotel
I get so lonely baby I get so lonely baby I get so lonely I could die
[ guitar ]
If I had the heart of a clown I'd laugh every time you made me blue
If I had the heart of a clown you wouldn't see me cry the way you do
And I'd paint a smile upon my face each time you hurt me so
My arms could long for your embrace but you would never know
And I'd sing as my dream world tumbled down if I had the heart of a clown
[ guitar - fiddle ]
And I'd paint a smile...
They're working while I'm missing you those healing hands of time
And soon they'll be dismissing you from this heart of mine
They'll lead me safely through the night and I'll follow as though blind
My future tightly clutched within those healing hands of time
They let me close my eyes just then those healing hands of time
And soon they'll let me sleep again those healing hands of time
So already I've reached mountain peaks and I've just begun to climb
I'll get over you by clinging to those healing hands of time
If I'd only had one arm to hold you better yet if I had none at all
Then I wouldn't have two arms that ache for you there'd be one less mem'ry to recall
If I'd only had one ear to listen to the lies that you told to me
Then I more closely resemble the half a man that you've made of me
[strings + piano]
If I'd only had one leg to stand on then how much how much truer picture you'd see
A long time forgotten the dreams that just fell by the way
the good life he promised ain't what she's been living today
but she never complains of bad times and the bad things he's done
she just talks about the good they've had
and all the good times to come
Chorus:
she's a good hearted woman in love with her good timin' man
she loves him in spite of his wicked ways she don't understand
through teardrops and laughter
they'll pass through this world hand in hand
this good hearted woman lovin' her good timin' man
He likes the bright lights the night life
and the good timin' friends
and when the party's all over she'll welcome him back home again
lord she don't understand but she does the very best that she can
I don't love you like I used to but I'm afraid to tell you so
I've got half a head to leavin' you but only half a heart to go
The words to tell you just won't come to me I guess my courage is too slow
I've got half a mind to leavin' you but only half a heart to go
[ guitar ]
Time will tell me that would not be too late there's one thing I need to know
I've got half a mind to leavin' you but only half a heart to go
Don't look so sad I know it's over
But life goes on and this old world will keep on turning
Let's just be glad we had some time to spend together
There's no need to watch the bridges that were burning
Lay your head upon my pillow hold your warm and tender body close to mine
Hear the whisper of the raindrops blowing soft against the window
And make believe you love me one more time for the good times
[ guitar ]
I'll get along you'll find another
I'll be here if you should find you ever need me
Don't say a word about tomorrow or forever
There'll be time enough for sadness when you leave me
Out where the bright lights are glowing you're drawn like a moth to a flame
You laugh while the wine's overflowing while I sit and whisper your name
Four walls to hear me four walls to see four walls too near me closing in on me
Sometimes I ask why I'm waiting but my walls have nothing to say
I'm made for love not for hating so here where you left I stay
Four walls to hear me four walls to see four walls too near me closing in on me
[ guitar ]
One night with you is like heaven and so while I'm walking the floor
I listen for steps in the hallway and wait for your knock on my door
Songwriters: Nelson, Willie;
She always follows me from town to town
At least her memories follow me around
Whenever I clear my mind so she can see
I feel her love come rushing into me
And I know that I will never be alone
It looks as though her memory's bound to haunt
And I know my love will always stay in bounds
With her memory always following me around
Following me around, following me around
Following me around, following me around
And I know my love will always stay in bounds
With her memory always following me around
Following me around, following me around
Following me around, following me around
And I know my love will always stay in bounds
With her memory always following me around
With her memory always following me around
I'll have a blue Christmas without you I'll be so blue thinking about you
Decorations of red on a green Christmas tree
Won't mean a thing dear if you're not here with me
I'll have a blue Christmas for certain
And when that blue blue heartache starts hurtin'
You'll be doing alright with your Christmas of white
But I'll have a blue blue Christmas
[ guitar ]
And when those blue heartaches start hurtin'
I'll have a blue mem'ry for certain
You'll be doing alright...
You'll be doing alright...
Far across deep blue water lives an old German's daughter
By the banks of the old River Rhine
Where I loved her and left her now I can't forget her I miss my pretty Fraulein
Fraulein Fraulein walk down by the river pretend that your hand's holding mine
By the same stars above you I swear that I love you you are my pretty Fraulein
[steel - fiddle]
When my memories wander away over yonder to the sweetheart that I left behind
In a moment of glory a face comes before me the face of my pretty Fraulein
Fraulein Fraulein look up toward the heavens
Each night when the stars start to shine
Those far away places with strange sound and names far away over sea
Far away places with the strange sound and names are calling calling me
I go into China or maybe Siam I wanna see for myself
Those far away places I've been readin' bout in a book that I took from a shelf
I keep wishin' I was somewhere else way on a train
I pray for the day I can get under way and search for those castles in Spain
They call me a dreamer well maybe I am but I'm never longin' to see
The strange far away places with the strange sound and names calling calling me
When I look at the letter that you wrote to me
It's you that I'm thinking of
As I read the lines that to me were so sweet
I remember our faded love
Chorus
I miss you darlin' more and more every day
As heaven would miss the stars above
With every heartbeat I still think of you
And remember our faded love
As I think of the past and all the pleasure we had,
As I watch the mating of a dove,
And it was in the springtime that we said goodbye.
I remeber our faded love.
Everywhere you go sunshine follows you
And everywhere you go skies are always blue
Children love you they seem to know
That you bring the roses out of the snow
And the whole world says hello everywhere you go
Everywhere you go...
[ guitar - piano ]
They said that my heart wouldn't have long to live
To lose you was more than it could stand
And that your love was all that could make it survive
But I'm doing all that I can
I just feed it a mem'ry to keep it alive a taste of the love that we once knew
And when my heartbeat gets weak and it's starting to die
I just feed it a mem'ry of you
I must keep my heart living someway and somehow
In case that you might change your mind
So if you can give it the love that it needs
Just come by and see it sometime
In the twilight glow I seen her
Blue eyes crying in the rain
When we kissed goodbye and parted
I knew we'd never meet again
Love is like a dying ember
And only memories remain
And through the ages I'll remember
Blue eyes crying in the rain
Someday when we meet up yonder
We'll stroll hand in hand again
In the land that knows no parting
[ instrumental ]
This was my last mistake
That's all her heart could take
Now we're down to our last goodbye
Her lips won't kiss me now
The lips that I taught how
Now we're down to our last goodbye
What can I tell her
That I haven't told her
That would change her mind
Cause she heard that line before
Now all that's left for me
Is just the memory of all
Those happy days gone by
Now we're down to our last goodbye
What can I tell her
That I haven't told her
That would change her mind
Cause she heard that line before
Now all that's left for me
Is just the memory of all
Those happy days gone by
Oh give me land lots of land under starry skies above don't fence me in
Let me ride through the wide open country that I love don't fence me in
Let me be by myself in the evening breeze
Listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees
Send me out forever but I ask you please don't fence me in
Just turn me loose let me straddle my old saddle underneath the western skies
On my cayuse let me wander over yonder till I see the mountains rise
I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences
Gaze at the moon until I lose my senses
Can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences don't fence me in
[ guitar - keyboards ]
Just turn me loose...
[ instrumental ]
Oh Danny Boy the pipes the pipes are calling
From glen to glen and down the mountain side
The summer's gone and all the leaves are dying
It's you it's you must go and I must bide
But come ye back when summer's in the meadow
Or when the valleys hushed and white with snow
I'll be here in sunshine or in shadows
Oh Danny Boy oh Danny Boy I love you so
[ organ ]
Did I ever ever love you?
Did I ever really care?
All the times that I cried for you
Did I really want you there?
Wiser man then I have wondered
About love and never knew
Did I ever love you?
I guess I still do
All the nights that I spent cryin'
All those lonely loss of times
Was it my imagination?
Was it only in my mind?
Wiser man then I have wondered
About love and never knew
Did I ever love you?
Headed down life's crooked road lot of things I never knowed
And because of me not knowin' I now pine
Trouble got in the trail spent the next five years in jail
Should have read that detour sign
Detour there's a muddy road ahead detour paid no mind to what it said
Detour oh the bitter things I find should have read that detour sign
[ harmonica - guitar ]
I got stuck in the mud all my hopes dropped with a thud
And I thought that my heart strings were made of twine
But the father I go the more sorrow I know should have read that detour sign
Detour there's a muddy road ahead...
Now blue ain't the world for the way that I feel
And the storm's brewing in this heart of mine
This ain't no crazy dream I know that it's real
And you're someone else's love now you're not mine
Crazy arms that reach to hold somebody new
And my yearning heart keeps saying you're not mine
My troubled mind knows soon to another you'll be wed
And that's why I'm lonely all the time
[steel]
So please take these treasured dreams I have for you and me
And take all the love I thought was mine
Someday these crazy arms will hold somebody new but now I'm so lonely all the time
Crazy arms that reach to...
We were headed home in Austin caught pneumonia on the road
Taking it home to Connie and the kids
A wheel ran off and jumped a railroad then ran through a grocery store
If you want to buy a bus I'm taking bids
And the devil shivered in his sleeping bag
He said traveling on the road is such a drag
If we can make it home by Friday we can brag
And the devil shivered in his sleeping bag
[ guitar ]
Well I just got back from New York City Kris and Rita done it all
Raw perfection there for all the world to see
Lord I heard an angel singing in the Philharmonic Hall
Rita Coolidge Rita Coolidge cleft for me
And the devil shivered...
And the devil shivered in his sleeping bag
[ Kenneth Threadgill ]
Laugh with me, buddy
Jest with me, buddy
Don't let her get the best of me, buddy
Don't ever let me start feelin' lonely
If I ever needed you, buddy
You know how I really do, buddy
Don't ever let me start feelin' lonely
I cry at the least little thing, buddy
And I'll die if you mention her name, buddy
Talk to me, buddy
Stay with me, buddy
Let's don't let her get the best of me, buddy
Let's talk about things as they were, buddy
Before I got mixed up with her, buddy
Laugh with me buddy
Jest with me, buddy
[ instrumental ]
[ instrumental ]
Tonight in a bar alone
I'm sitting apart from
The laughter and the cheer
Scenes from the past
Rise before me while
Watching the bubbles in my beer
Visions of someone
Who loved me brings
Along salty tears to my eyes
And I know that my life's
Been a failure
Watching the bubbles in my beer
I'm seeing the road
That I've travelled
A road paved
With heartaches and tears
And I'm seeing the past
That I've wasted
Watching the bubbles in my beer
[ instrumental ]
Little bird have you heard freedom lies freedom lies
But love like ours never dies changing skies just changing skies
Can I sleep in your arms tonight lady it's so cold lying here all alone
And I have no hold to hold on you and I assure you I'll do you no wrong
Don't know why but the one I love left me left me lonely and cold and so weak
And I need someone's arms to hold me till I'm strong enough to get back on my feet
Can I sleep in your arms...
[ piano ]
Can I sleep in your arms...
[ guitar - harmonica ]
I'd like to rush into somebody's arms
And lose myself inside
But just any arms won't do
They must belong to you
I'd like to know the soothing comfort
Of a love that never dies
But just any old love won't do
That love must come from you
I've tried so hard to find someone to love
Since I lost you,
But they only make me realize
How much that I need you
I'd like to know when I grow older
Someone's heart will still be true
But just any old heart won't do
If you had not have fallen
Then I would not have found you
Angel flying too close to the ground
And I patched up your broken wing
And hung around a while
Tried to keep your spirits up
While you were feelin' down
I knew someday that you would fly away
For love's the greatest healer to be found
So leave me if you need to
I will still remember
Angel flying too close to the ground
Fly on, fly on past the speed of sound
I'd rather see you up
Than see you down
Leave me if you need to
I will still remember
Angel flying too close to the ground
Always late with your kisses won't you come to my arms sweet darling and stay
Always late with your kisses why oh why do you want to do me this way
How long do you think that I can wait when you know you're always late
Always late with your kisses why why why do you want to do me this way
[ piano ]
Well he rode into Blue Rock dusty and tired and he got him a room for the night
he lay there in silence with too much on his mind still hoping that he was not right
He found them that evening in a tavern in town in a quiet little out of the way place
And they smile at each other when he walked through the door
And they died with their smiles on their faces
They died with their smiles on their face
Don't boss him don't cross him he's wild in his sorrow he's ridin' and hidin' his pain
Don't fight him don't spite him let's wait till tomorrow maybe he'll ride on again
Oh, look around you
Look down the bar from you
The lonely faces that you see
Are you sure that this is where you want to be
These are your friends
But are they real friends
Do they love you the same as me
Are you sure that this is where you want to be
You seem in such a hurry to live this kind of life
You've caused so many tears and misery
Look around you, take a good look
And tell me what you see
Are you sure that this is where you want to be
Don't let my tears persuade you, I had hoped I wouldn't cry
But lately, teardrops seem a part of me
Oh, look around you, take a good look
At all the lonely used-to-be's
N: Are there any more real cowboys
N: Left out in these hills
N: Will the fire hit the iron one more time
N: And will one more dusty pick-up
N: Come rolling down the road
N: With a load of feed before the sun gets high
N: Well, I hope that working cowboy never dies
W: Not the one that's snortin' cocaine
W: When the honky-tonk's all closed
W: But the one that prays for more rain, heaven knows
W: That the good feed brings the money
W: And the money buys the clothes
W: Not the diamond sequins shining on TV
W: But the kind the working cowboy really needs
Both: Are there any more country families
Both: Still working hand in hand
Both: Trying hard to stay together and make a stand
Both: While the rows and rows of houses
Both: Come creepin' up on the land
Both: Where the cattle graze and an old gray barn still stands
Both: Are there any more real cowboys in this land
I'm so ashamed of my eyes cause they still cry for you
After they both watched my hand wave goodbye to you
I've told them time and time again that this will never do
And I've told them how you always laughed at teardrops
I'm so ashamed of my arms for missing you
Last night I woke up just in time to see them reach for you
And now my heart confesses it's still wants you too
I went to a Turkey roast down the street
The people down there are eatin' like wild geese
So I'm on my way I'm goin' back in Alabam
Well you talk about your people havin' a lot of time
Eating up their chickens and drinkin' their wine
I'm on my way I'm goin' back to Alabam
Now some folks say that a tramp won't steal
But I cought three in my corn field
And I'm on my way I'm goin' back to Alabam
Well one had a bushel and one had a peck
And one had a roaster near tied around his neck
I'm on my way I'm goin' back to Alabam
[ guitar ]
Well there comes Sal walkin' down the street
With the run down shoes tied on her feet
I'm on my way I'm goin' back to Alabam
When I get ready to leave this earth
I'm going back to my money's worth
I'm on my way I'm goin' back to Alabam
All of me, why not take all of me?
Can't you see that I'm no good without you
Take my arms I want to lose them
Take my lips I'll never use them
Your goodbye left me with eyes that cry
And I know that I am no good without you
You took apart that once was my heart
So why not take all of me?
All of me, why not take all of me?
Can't you see that I'm no good without you
Take my arms I want to lose them
Take my lips I'll never use them
Your goodbye left me with eyes that cry
And I know that I am no good without you
You took apart that once was my heart
So why not take all of me?
Afraid to tell you how much I care afraid I'll need you and you won't be there
I'd love to take you into my heart but something tells me we would only part
I loved and lost just one love ago I paid the cost and it hurt me so
A heart gets careless when vows are made I want to love you but I'm so afraid
[ piano - guitar ]
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...
And remember my love it's the sound that you hear in your mind
Miracles appear
In the strangest of places
Fancy meeting you here
The last time I saw you
Was just out of Houston
Sit down let me buy you a beer
Your presence is welcome
With me and my friend here
This is a hangout of mine
We come here quite often
And listen to music
Partaking of yesterday's wine
Yesterday's wine
I'm yesterday's wine
Aging with time
Like yesterday's wine
Yesterday's wine
We're yesterday's wine
Aging with time
Like yesterday's wine
You give the appearence
Of one widely travelled
I'll bet you've seen
Things in your time
So sit down beside me
And tell me your story
If you think
You'll like yesterday's wine
Yesterday's wine
We're yesterday's wine
Aging with time
Like yesterday's wine
[guitar]
Yesterday's wine
We're yesterday's wine
Aging with time
You're not mine anymore but I'm still paying for
Just a note from you to say you've changed your mind
Now I know you say we're through but I'm still in love with you
And it's my fault that you're not mine anymore
If you don't ever change your mind to take me back again
I hope you meet someone that's true and fall in love with him
Since the day you said we're through I'm even more in love with you
And it's my fault that you're not mine anymore
[ steel - guitar ]
Well you tell me that you care
But now you're gone, you've got me cryin'
No use denyin' you done me wrong
If I could look inside your heart
Maybe I would know the reason
Why you are leavin' me all alone.
Well you know it's not so
When you said you tried
Well, you know you lied
I didn't do one wrong thing to you
Won't you tell me baby why
You went and left me here so lonely
I miss you only for I love you.
Did I ever make you sad
So you'd be mad enough to hurt me
And desert me for so long?
Well you're tellin' everyone what you done
You think it's funny
You decide
What you need
Then you let me know
I'll be waiting here until you call
Take your time
Till you find
Which way your heart must go
And when you decide
Let me know
Don't you worry if you see me cry
I would rather hear you say goodbye
Than to be the one you're seeing, love
If I'm not the one that you're dreaming of
You decide
What you want
I'll be waiting here
You already know how much i care
You decide
You always hurt the one you love the one you shouldn't hurt at all
You always take the sweetest rose and crash it till the petals fall
You always break the kindest heart with a hasty word you can't recall
So if I broke your heart last night it's because I love you most of all
[ guitar - piano ]
(I'd like to do a song now that was recoded by a pretty pearly country group known as The Beatles I know you heard them many times from the Grand Ole Opry ha-ha...
But seriously this is the song that as a songwriter myself I appreciate very much and I'd like to do it for you and I hope you'll enjoy)
Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they're here to stay oh I believe in yesterday
Suddenly I'm not half the man I used to be
There's a shadow hanging over me yesterday came suddenly
Why she had to go I don't know she wouldn't say
I said something wrong now I long for yesterday
Yesterday love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away oh I believe in yesterday
Why she had to go...
It's a big job just gettin' by with nine kids and a wife
But I've been a workin' man dang near all of my life
And I'll keep on workin' long as my two hands are fit to use
I'll drink a little beer in a tavern and sing a little bit of these workin' man blues
Sometimes I think about leavin' do a little bummin' around
I wanna throw my bills out the window catch a train to another town
I go back workin' I gotta buy my kids a brand new pair of shoes
I'll get a little bit stoned this weekend and cry a little bit of these workin' man blues
[ harmonica - piano - guitar ]
I said hey hey workin' man workin' man like me
I ain't never been on welfare and that's one place I won't be
I'll be back workin' as long as my two hands are fit to use
Won't you ride in my little red wagon
I'd love to pull you down the street
And I know all the kids will be jealous
When they see my playmate so sweet
Hold tight till we come to the hilltop
Gonna coast down the hill, you and me
Won't you ride in my little red wagon
For you are my sweetheart to be
Hold tight till we come to the hilltop
Gonna coast down the hill, you and me
Won't you ride in my little red wagon
For you are my sweetheart to be
Tonight you're mine completely You give your love so sweetly Tonight the light of love is in your eyes But will you Still love me tomorrow? Is this a lasting treasure Or just a moment's pleasure? Can I believe the magic of your sighs? Will you still love me tomorrow? Tonight with words unspoken You say that I'm the only one But will my heart be broken When the night meets the morning sun? I'd like to know that your love Is love I can be sure of So tell me now, and I won't ask again Will you still love me tomorrow? Will you still love me tomorrow?
You wouldn't read my letter if I wrote you
And you asked me not to call you on the phone
There's something that I've been wanting to tell you
So I wrote it in the words of this song
I didn't know God made honky tonk angels
I might have known you'd never make a wife
You gave up the only one who ever loved you
And went back to the wild side of life
[ guitar ]
The glamour of the gay night life has lured you
To the places where the wine and liquor flow
Where you wait to be anybody's darling
And forget the truest love you'll ever know
I didn't know God made...
Why me Lord what I have ever done to deserve even one
Of the pleasures I've known
Tell me Lord what did I ever do that was worth loving you
Or the kindness you've shown
Lord help me Jesus I've wasted it so help me Jesus I know what I am
Now that I know that I've needed you so help me Jesus my soul's in your hand
[ guitar ]
Try me Lord if you think there's a way I can try to repay
All I've taken from you
Maybe Lord I can show someone else what I've been through myself
On my way back to you
Lord help me Jesus...
Why do I have to choose to see everybody lose
To walk around and sing the blues well darling I refuse
Love is hard to find love of any kind
And a love like yours and mine creates it's own design
So why do I have to choose see everybody lose
To walk around and sing the blues well darling I refuse
[ guitar - sax ]
And when I think of her and then I think of you
The love is not the same but either love is true
Why do I have to choose to see everybody lose
To walk around and sing the blues well darling I refuse
I'm somewhere behind you
You've come with your suitcase in hand
Hey, what you plan, where do you stand?
The world's still divided
And you're still undecided, the side if you can
Hey, what you plan, where do you stand?
Where do you stand, where do you stand?
Hey, what you plan, where do you stand?
It's time for commitments
It's time for a showing up hands
Hey, what you plan, where do you stand?
Surely there's someone with courage
To say where he stands
Hey, what you plan, where do you stand?
Where do you stand, where do you stand?
WHEN WE LIVE AGAIN
WRITER WILLIE NELSON
When we live again
When we live again
Let's relive again
The time we know now
I'll find your face again
We'll find our place again
Let's plan to meet again, dear
When we live again
I'll know you by love and wisdom
In your eyes
And I'll wait for you
Outside the chambers of the wise
And let's not lose the day
The progress love has me
Let's plan to love again, dear
When we live again
I'll know you by love and wisdom
In your eyes
And I'll wait for you
Well I can't read your mind
When you changed all the time
And I don't what's matter with you
I think I do my share to show that I care
So just tell me what do you want me to do
I've tried to be kind but it don't work sometimes
And you're not the same person that I knew
And tell me where should I start to return to your heart
And tell me what do you want me to do
What do you want me to do with the dreams that I own
Should I changed them to mem'ries and leave you alone
Maybe I'm not too smart I guess you know me by heart
And if my chances of winning are few
Let my heart step aside with what's left of my pride
And tell me what do you want me to do
Gettin' tired now gotta get some sleep now
Guess I've been worried much too long
And don't wake me till it's over
When the need for you is gone
I was so happy before I loved you
I'm gonna be like I was before
And don't wake me till it's over
When I don't want you anymore
My mind is gettin' weak now gotta get some sleep now
I gotta rest my achin' head
I just wanna lay here just let me stay here
Till the blues get up and leave my bed
Good night, darling
Good night, darling
Good night forevermore
And don't wake me till it's over
When I won't want you anymore
There must be two sides to every story
And whose to say whose right and who is wrong
And I'm tryin' to understand why you're not with me
How can we both be right when you're still gone
It's hard to believe that it's all over a love like ours is not supposed to die
And there must be two sides to every story
I just wish I had a chance to tell you mine
I miss you more than I could ever tell you
And we've hurt each other more than we could know
And there must be two sides to every story
Come on home and tell me yours I love you so
[ guitar ]
I miss you more...
Today I started loving you again
And I'm right back where I've really always been
I got over you just long enough to let my heartaches mend
And then today I started loving you again
What a fool I was to think I could get by
With only these few teardrops that I've cried
I should have known the worst was yet to come
And that crying time for me had just begun
And today I started loving you again...
I'll pretend I'm free from sorrow and I make believe that wrong is right
Your wedding day will be tomorrow but there ain't gonna be no teardrops tonight
And I'll believe that you still love me when you wear your veil of white
But if you think that you're above me there ain't gonna be no teardrops tonight
Why oh why should you desert me are you doing this for spite
And if you only wanna hurt me there ain't gonna be no teardrops tonight
[ guitar ]
Shame oh shame for what you're doing are you doing this for spite
You don't care whose life you ruin but there ain't gonna be no teardrops tonight
Put a nickel in the jukebox
And let it play
For my heart is troubled with pain
Take the cork from the bottle
Of the warm red wine
And fill my glass up, again.
Fill my glass to the brim
Till it flows o'er the rim
Like the tears flow in this heart of mine
Then I'll say so long
To the dreams that are gone
On account of the warm red wine.
[Instrumental]
Oh, a prison of stone
With it's cold iron bars
Is no more than a prison than mine
I'm a prisoner of drink
Who will never escape
From the chains of the warm red wine.
Oh, the wine is red
So warm and red
Like the ribbon
It sparkles and shines
But I paid for the wine
Yeah, That one red wine
With all of my hopes
It's not the pale moon that excites me
That thrills and delights me, oh no
It's just the nearness of you
It isn't your sweet conversation
That brings this sensation, oh no
It's just the nearness of you
When you're in my arms and I feel you so close to me
All my wildest dreams come true
I need no soft lights to enchant me
If you'll only grant me the right
To hold you ever so tight
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
Well I once knew a Pirate named BOB
B-O-B Bob was a drunken old Slob
B-O-B Bob, 'bout as dumb as a rock
But Bob
He made it to the top
He said: You swing from your tree
And I'll swing from mine
You have your lemons and I'll have my lime
Funny we all act like monkeys sometimes
So you swing from your tree and I'll swing from mine
I'll Swing from mine
He said I'd rather make love than war
And I'd rather have millions than to ever be poor
But I'd rather be happy than to have anymore,
Guess I'm.... a lil tangled in the vine
Oh, You swing from your tree
And I'll swing from mine
You have your lemons and I'll have my lime
Funny we all act like monkeys sometimes
So you swing from your tree and I'll swing from mine
The quiet way she sits there with her hand in mine
That's why I love her so that's why I love her so
And the way she's always tender with my mind
That's why I love her so that's why I love her so
In a crowded room you'll never know she's there
Unless I need her and if I really need her
She'll gladly tell the world how much she cares
That's why I love her so that's why I love her so
[guitar]
In a crowded room...
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 me in your arms and hold me
Like I've been holding you in my heart
Take me in your arms and tell me
That you've missed me since we've been apart.
You just don't know how heartsick
And lonesome I've been
Or how much I've prayed
That you'll come back again.
And take me in your arms and hold me
Like I've been holding you in my heart.
(You just don't know how heartsick)
(And lonesome I've been)
Or how much I've prayed
That you'll come back again.
And take me in your arms and hold me
Sweet Jenny Lee from sunny Tennessee,
You'll love her when you see
Sweet Jenny Lee!
Each little bird is singing merrily
Just getting set to see
Sweet Jenny Lee!
She's got that certain little something in her style,
She's got a great big bit of heaven right in her smile.
She promised me that she'd say yessiree,
That's good enough for me,
Stay away from lonely places follow the crowd
Stay around familiar faces play the music loud
Be seen at all the parties dress yourself in style
Stay away from lonely places for awhile
Stay away from lonely places
till you learn to live alone
Someone's outstretched arms are waiting
to stay with you at least till dawn
Remember that sorrow prospers in a heart that never smiles
So stay away from lonely places for awhile
Stay away from lonely places
it takes time to learn to live alone
And someone's outstretched arms are waiting
to stay with you at least till dawn
Remember that sorrow prospers in a heart that never smiles
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