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• Angola - Turnpike Troubadours
• Leaving And Lonely - Turnpike Troubadours
• Down On Washington - Turnpike Troubadours
• Turnpike Troubadours - Turnpike Troubadours
• Call A Spade A Spade - Turnpike Troubadours
• Gone Gone Gone - Turnpike Troubadours
• Easton & Main - Turnpike Troubadours
• Southeastern Son - Turnpike Troubadours
• Kansas City Southern - Turnpike Troubadours
• Morgan Street - Turnpike Troubadours
• Empty As A Drum - Turnpike Troubadours
• Blue Star - Turnpike Troubadours
• Every Girl - Turnpike Troubadours
• 1968 - Turnpike Troubadours
• Austin To Ashes - Turnpike Troubadours
• The Funeral - Turnpike Troubadours
• The Shape - Turnpike Troubadours
• Shreveport - Turnpike Troubadours
• Long Hot Summer Day - Turnpike Troubadours
• Diamonds & Gasoline - Turnpike Troubadours
• Gin, Smoke, Lies - Turnpike Troubadours
• 7 And 7 - Turnpike Troubadours
• Whole Damn Town - Turnpike Troubadours
• Before The Devil Knows We're Dead - Turnpike Troubadours
• Good Lord Lorrie - Turnpike Troubadours

Well you have been a fighting man
Youve seen your share of war
Living for your Uncle Sam
Sam dont need you anymore
Youll be gone, youll be leaving
Youll be back home again
On Christmas or July fourth
I really dont remember when
And Im glad to see your doing well,
We all know just who you are,
Put your saber on the shelf
and well take down the ole blue star.
Well I remember when youd send me letters
and make my day when I was young
Photographs with M-16s
and money from Somalia
Youll be gone, youll be leaving
Youll be back home again
On Christmas or July fourth
I really dont remember when
And Im glad to see your doing well,
We all know just who you are,
Put your saber on the shelf
and well take down the ole blue star.
Your back home with your little girl
wild and pretty, blonde and blue
you cant help but be their world
and they cant help but look like you
Youll be gone, youll be leaving
Youll be back home again
On Christmas or July fourth
I really dont remember when
And Im glad to see your doing well,
We all know just who you are,
Put your saber on the shelf

Turn down the lights
And turn up the ac
Hold me close
When it gets gold
Stuck in between
Lovin and lonely
Stuck in between
The lines on the road
It might have been the whiskey, might have been the wine
Might have been the moonshine in her eyes
It might have been bad luck.
It might have been love
Maybe just a good time
It probably was
Wake up scared, its 6 in the mornin
Reach out to see if you're still there
In these motel rooms
Theyre always the same scene
I remember a time when i still cared
It might have been the whiskey, might have been the wine
Might have been the moonshine in her eyes
It might have been bad luck,
It might have been love
Maybe just a good time
It probably was
Catch me when i'm fallin down
Catch me when im fallin apart
Try to pick myself back up
But don't know where to start
Turn on the lights
Turn off the ac
Pack my bags
It's time to go
Stuck in between
Leavin and lonely
Stuck in between

Well you're standing there
You Say life ain't fair
Why don't ya tell me something that I don't know
Oh and man I'm sunk
Red faced and drunk
But there's a reason I stayed up all night and begged you not to go
(Chorus)
Here I fear we've found ourselves a sticky situation.
It's an awkward occupation disregarding right from wrong.
And you were down on Washington, dancing like the devil.
Oh and I am just a fool, but I have loved you all along
Well the everyday, it gets in the way
Of all the things, that we could be
Don't ya understand, well I'm an honest man
But I would steal you in a heartbeat if the choice were up to me
(Chorus)
Well what happens little baby when I blow this town and ain't nobody like you
Got a brand new high and lonesome, It's a bad dream comin' true.
Oh what's a poor boy to do
(Chorus)

Looking back well I see you
With eyes that shouldn't be so blue
Clearer than the calm before the rain
I saw a light that wasn't there
I lived without a single care
I loved you & you felt to make the same
So beautiful that words cannot define
Sweeter than the lords communion wine...
Evangeline can't you see I'm sorry
Can't you hear my tears ringing through the night
Waiting in hell between these bed sheets
Pray to god for morning light
Then winter came and blood ran cold
The ever present sleet and snow
Outside a December window pane
This house will never, be our home
Hand in hand, we walked alone
I thought the sun would never shine again
Then the oldest violin can never wind
A mellow day as sorrowful as mine...
Evangeline can't you see I'm sorry
Can't you hear my tears ringing through the night
Waiting in hell between these bed sheets
Pray to god for morning light
Now I've seen your face a thousand times,
Have nightmares running through my mind
& it hurts,
Just to pretend
But the devil failed and so have I
From perfect grace you faced the sky
I never thought a love like this would end
Now your words cut right thru me like a knife
I gave my love and now I take my life...
Evangeline can't you see I'm sorry
Can't you hear my tears ringing through the night
Waiting in hell between these bed sheets
Pray to god for morning light
Waiting in hell between these bed sheets

You've got a ring
You've got a new last name
You got the same old eyes
They're the same all the same
And you've got a heart
Big enough to kill us all
But when you fall
Well damn you fall
Well you've got a way
And you've got away with it before
And you've got a look
That could drop me dead here on the floor
And you've got a touch
It's the sweetest one I know
I gotta go, yeah I gotta go
CHORUS
Oh and everything's so easy up until its complicated
Until we wake with our heads shakin at the choices we have made
Well to call the whole thing stupid seems so sorely understated
Oh but can we dance a little longer, can we call a spade a spade
Well you gotta try
Awful hard to keep ahead
You got a man (I've got a man)
Oh and I've been actin like a kid
And you've got more
Than a tattoo up your sleeve
It's time to leave (It's time to leave)
It's time to leave
CHORUS
Oh and everything's so easy up until its complicated
Until we wake with our heads shakin at the choices we have made
Well to call the whole thing stupid seems so sorely understated
Oh but can we dance a little longer, can we call a spade a spade
Well I've gotta quit
Yeah darlin I guess do too
Well I'll take a hint (Oh take a hint)
It's our time we get a clue
And darlin please (Oh please)
Wells could you stop sayin love
Oh this ain't love (No this ain't love)
Good God above
CHORUS
Oh and everything's so easy up until its complicated
Until we wake with our heads shakin at the choices we have made
Well to call the whole thing stupid seems so sorely understated
Oh but can we dance a little longer, can we call a spade a spade

You had your hands on the wheel
Stood on the street 'neath the telephone lines
Well you took everything you could steal
You came and you went like a thief in the night
And I ran for the hills so you couldn't kill me
But damn you cut close to the bone
You can call me a fool you can call me alone
Call me gone, gone, gone
And this heavy old heart is as steady as stone
Call me gone, gone, gone
Well the sun's gonna rise in the east
And I'm bound to stumble on a Saturday night
Well passion is painful but it's free
Love is a mean hateful business sometimes
And I ran for the hills so you couldn't kill me
But damn you cut close to the bone
You can call me a fool you can call me alone
Call me gone, gone, gone
I'd throw the horses some feed
Warm my hands up to a hickory fire
Well I'm hangin' on to the heat
Love is a cold institution sometimes
And I'm all full of guilt and I'm not full of pride
For sellin' my soul for a pat on the back
You can call me a fool you can call me alone
Call me gone, gone, gone
And this heavy old heart is as steady as stone
Call me gone, gone, gone
Call me gone, gone, gone

Chorus:
Well I left my heart in Tulsa
On the corner of Easton and Main
On the Cain's Ballroom floor
Soaking up a bourbon stain
And I'm going back to see her
Just as soon as I can
Cause I left my heart in Tulsa
On the corner of Easton and Main
Verse 1:
Well we drove up to the city
On a autumn Saturday night
Ah and damn that girl looked pretty
In the artificial moon light
And I swore she looked right at me
Like we were meant to be
But what's a girl like that gonna wanna have to do
with a country boy like me
Chorus:
Cause I left my heart in Tulsa
On the corner of Easton and Main
On the Cain's Ballroom floor
Soaking up cheap champagne
And I'm going back to see her
Just as soon as I can
Cause I left my heart in Tulsa
On the corner of Easton and Main
Verse 2:
Well I'm back down on a farm
Dreaming 'bout those big city lights
Waken up at dawn
Workin' 'till its night
But I'm savin' up my money
And this time I'll make her see
What a girl like that just might want
With a country boy like me
Chorus:
Well I left my heart in Tulsa
On the corner of Easton and Main
On the Cain's Ballroom floor
Soaking up a bourbon stain
And I'm going back to see her
Just as soon as I can
Cause I left my heart in Tulsa

Well I guess I was born with a gun in my hand
We'd walk the big clearcuts in the pine timberland
Well the army man told me that I could defend the free
Aw and draw me a paycheck, get a tech school degree
I said hey now sergeant, that sure does sound fine
Well the sawmill ain't hiring, tell me where do I sign
Chorus:
Won't you light a lantern for me
I'll be gone but not for long
Won't you keep a candle burnin'
Won't you leave a porch light on
Well my hands are still steady and they still hold a gun
And this suit of a soldier for your southestern son
Well tell mom not to worry if she's taking it hard
Never thought I'd see action back when I joined the guard
Well all this will be over more later than soon
As I wote in a letter beneath the big afghan moon

Well I was working on the KCS Rail Line
Katie was the girl down the street
Well I took her to a dance on the Fourth of July
Hopin she might fall in love with me
Well the band started playing right at nine
Firecrackers popped in the sky
We danced and we danced
Lord I never had a chance
I got canned on the 5th of July
[Chorus]
And we laughed at the moonlight
Said goodbye in the grey light of dawn
Yes the girl in my dreams each and every night it seems
Is the one that I hold in my arms
I was playin in the Tommy Knocker Tavern
Jenny was the girl at the bar
Well I sang every song for her and her alone
And kissed her neath the Colorado stars
[Chorus]
And we laughed at the moonlight
Said goodbye in the grey light of dawn
Yes the girl in my dreams each and every night it seems
Is the one that I hold in my arms
Seasons come and change just like the leaves
Red oaks in the kai nation wind
Well they scatter and they fall
Where they land I can't recall
Will I ever find my darlin again
[Chorus]
And we laughed at the moonlight
Said goodbye in the grey light of dawn
Yes the girl in my dreams each and every night it seems
Is the one that I hold in my arms
Yes the girl in my dreams each and every night it seems

Chorus:
well the movers and shakers down on Morgan Street
Passin out booze tattoos and scars
Dance to anything to with a good backbeat
Drink up the night, close down the bars
Drink up the night, close down the bars.
Verse 1:
Long haired Josh got an old New Yorker
a bad drinkin habit has a real good time
laughin like a kid comin round the corner
liquor on his breath trouble on your mind.
Chorus:
oh the movers and shakers down on Morgan Street
Passin out booze tattoos and scars
Dance to anything to with a good backbeat
Drink up the night, close down the bars
Drink up the night, close down the bars.
Verse 2:
Now Angie shes a mess, tryin to be an actress
playin out a scene from behind the bar
Said shes had enough of it, gotta to get away from this
headed to Chicago in a borrowed car.
Chorus:
well the movers and shakers down on Morgan Street
Passin out booze tattoos and scars
Dance to anything to with a good backbeat
Drink up the night, close down the bars
Drink up the night, close down the bars.
Verse 3:
Jordan played accordian, dropped out of college
cookie was a drummer in a punk rock band
Me, Im just a wall flower, soakin up knowledge
my heart on my sleeve, and a beer in my hand
my heart on my sleeve, and a beer in my hand
Chorus:
well the movers and shakers down on Morgan Street
Passin out booze tattoos and scars
Dance to anything to with a good backbeat
Drink up the night, close down the bars

Well two old red-nosed whiskey drunks were talkin politics
It was time to hit the bricks, it was time for me to go
And I was right there on the verge of pullin' out my hair
Actin as though I could not care less and hopin' she would show
Well my bags are packed and ready, I was feelin' like a wreck
Some clothes and personal effects, I left everything I own
And the last I laid eyes on her, we were in a hotel hall
Holdin hands like paper dolls, aw but here I sit alone
Chorus:
Well I'm gonna give it one more minute, give me one more round of rum
Well I'm as empty as a drum, I'm as empty as a drum
Could you spare a cigarette, I hate to be a bum
But here's to hopin' she'll still come, I'm too old to be this dumb, well I'm too old to be this dumb
Well I tell you that bartender, she's a site to see
Aw you'd be envious of me, least you would if she was here
And the kid there in the corner has been spoilin' for a fight
And it feels like that of night, aw buddy instead pour me a beer
Chorus
When you darkened up the doorway, I stood up from the bar
Well I said hey now here you are, damn it darlin how are you and you kissed me
Said I can't say that I'm great oh lord I hate it that I am late

Well you have been a fighting man
Youve seen your share of war
Living for your Uncle Sam
Sam dont need you anymore
Youll be gone, youll be leaving
Youll be back home again
On Christmas or July fourth
I really dont remember when
And Im glad to see your doing well,
We all know just who you are,
Put your saber on the shelf
and well take down the ole blue star.
Well I remember when youd send me letters
and make my day when I was young
Photographs with M-16s
and money from Somalia
Youll be gone, youll be leaving
Youll be back home again
On Christmas or July fourth
I really dont remember when
And Im glad to see your doing well,
We all know just who you are,
Put your saber on the shelf
and well take down the ole blue star.
Your back home with your little girl
wild and pretty, blonde and blue
you cant help but be their world
and they cant help but look like you
Youll be gone, youll be leaving
Youll be back home again
On Christmas or July fourth
I really dont remember when
And Im glad to see your doing well,
We all know just who you are,
Put your saber on the shelf

Well she was born in the morning late October San Antone
Aw she’s every girl I’ve ever known
Well she was born in the morning late October San Antone
Aw she’s every girl I’ve ever known
She don’t talk about religion she talks about the stones
Oh she’s every girl I’ve ever known
And her tongue is like the Devil when she tries to concentrate
She says she don’t want marriage but she still believes in fate
And she stands her ground to defiantly but cries when she’s alone
Oh she’s every girl I’ve ever known
Now her voice it is a melody that sings just like a bird
Oh she’s every song I’ve ever heard
And her heartbeat is a rhythm that commands her every word
Aw she’s every song I’ve ever heard
She reflects the world in happiness and echos all the pain
Her smiles the world of sunrise her cries to make it rain
And she hides the truth discretely you’d have to take her word
Aw she’s every song I’ve ever heard
She’s a sober Sunday kitchen conversation with my dad
Aw she’s every friend I’ve ever had
Well we never failed to cut a trail whenever times were bad
Oh she’s every friend I’ve ever had
She’s a flighty good time buddy in the corner of the bar
But she’d fight the Devil for ya just for being who you are
And she’s the last to cast a stone though she’d love to leave you mad
Aw she’s every friend I’ve ever had

One, Two, Three,
There ain’t a thing in the world to take me back
Like a dark-haired girl in a Cadillac
On main street of an old forgotten town
The sun light shines in fine white lines
On weathered stores with open signs
They may as well just close ‘em down.
Chorus:
And you look like 1968 or was it ‘69
When I heard you caught a bullet
Well I guess you’re doing fine
And you speak of revolution
Like it’s some place that you’ve been
Well you’ve been a long time gone
Good too see you my old friend.
Oh now that sign is gone away
Replaced instead by silver age
And moonlight falling on the avenue
Oh and I could sleep if you would drive
I just can’t keep my mind alive
And you’ve got nothing better else to do
And we've all been looking for you
Like a hobo you walk in
Well how the mighty all have fallen
How the holy all have sinned
Is that the clattering of sabers
Or the cool September winds
Well you’ve been a long time gone
Good to see you my old friend.
And there’s just two times a day like this
You find this kind of blissfulness
The sun it sets and rises in the morn.
And we’re shakin hands; I rub my eyes
Free up all my alibis
Just a blinking like the day I was born
Repeat Chorus
And when the rounds were fired that April you were on the balcony
When ten thousand tear drops hit the ground in Memphis, Tennessee
You were a prideful rebel yell among a million marching men.
And you’ve been a long time gone
Good to see you my old friend
Well you’ve been a long time gone

Sweet little girl, ever changin
Change your ways
waste me away, again
You're bettin on freedom
To find what you like
You're headin for Austin
Ya aint comin back
Chorus:
When I close my eyes
The same reckoning found
I wanna see Austin
Burnt to the ground
Drivin around, drive myself crazy
I feel I'm just wastin time
I pull hard for Austin broke down inside
It took two hundred miles
To change my mind
I turned it around
I turned on a dime
Austin to ashes
Fire in the sky
Faith in believin
I've done everything but die

Well stage right enter Jimmy,
Just a counterfeit James Dean,
With a pocket full of delta blues and cheap amphetamine.
Her feet up on the dashboard,
Like a burned out Betty Paige,
And she might have been pretty if she was half her age.
But together they were something,
Just closing down the bars,
Headed down to Oakie City in a slightly stolen car.
The folks were decent people,
They didn't like they're kind,
When the car pulled in the driveway the were staring through the blinds.
The preacher in the kithchen,
He's eatin apple pie,
And momma's in the bedroom she couldn't help but cry.
And daddy looked so natural,
Like he'd just gone to sleep,
And the preacher looked through Jimmy and prayed his soul to keep.
Chorus:
Coming home,
Coming home,
There's nothing like a family to make you feel so damned alone.
You should've brought flowers,
Should've got daddy's gun,
Aint nobody waiting on the prodigal son.
Well they pulled out into traffic,
Fell in behind the hearse,
And that awful empty feeling well it went from bad to worse.
The preacher read some scripture,
And they put him in the ground,
Then everybody loaded up and headed back to town.
But Jimmy got his whiskey out,
When everyone was gone,
Felt he should've said something staring down at the stone.
(Chorus)
The men all folded tables,
While the ladies cleaned the plates,
And the cousins asked about the car locked behind the gate.
Jimmy knew his dad's .38,
Was in that trunk burried deep,
And it would find its rightful owner once his momma wen to sleep.
And Jimmy looked at momma,
Momma just looked down,

Well I'm in, pretty good shape for the shape I'm in,
living in the shadows of all my
sins, but hey, we've all got our problems.
And it's been 21 hours since I've heard your voice and
me, well I got no damn choice
in the matter, yeah you know that's true
Yeah leave it all up to you this time, the decision is
yours baby its not mine, even
though that's hard.
But the ink stain is still on my hand, and your
number's too worn off to understand,
but I wear it, like a battle scar.
CHORUS
And I can't tell, about you and me, it's a little bit
too far down that old road of life to see.
But I keep an eye out, toward the sky, thinking that
maybe you just might be passin' by,
And how I wish, that you can hear, me sing maybe this
time my songs just might mean something.
So fall on back down to me, fall on back down to me,
ah you're still an angel, even with that broken wing.
And I said I got enough gas to make it there,
tonight if you want baby I don't care, and you said no
no no no that's ok.
So instead I just sat here on this couch and I drank it
off, that's what I'm all about,
at least lord, that's what the poeople say.
Cuz we both know im just a lost cause, a wannabe poet
with a cheap guitar, begging for applause,
but I thought id be your knight in shining armor, and
id save ya, hell or high water,
but I wont reach out my hand if you don't want it.
Repeat CHORUS
So fall on back down to me, fall on back down to me,
ah you're still an angel, ah you're still an angel, ah
you're still an angel,

Well on a greyhound bound for Shreveport I spent too
long in my seat
We stopped off in a no name town to grab a bite to eat
And the ceiling fans they hung above a screened in
patio
Crawfish hotter than a chimney fire, the beer was cheap
and cold
And the bar maid smiled that kind of smile that knocked
me off my stool
Said hang around I'll show you things they don't teach
in school
Across the way an old blues man was playing on the
street
Well he moaned just like a black and tan I found myself
a seat
He sang lord he lives above us and the devilish sleeps
beneath
He growled it mean and low between his three or four
gold teeth
Well I dreamed that night of a pretty girl I dreamed of
a riverboat
til a man in blue kicked at my shoe said come on boy
let's go
I said oh officer oh officer please don't take me to
jail
he said you can't sleep outside now my hands are tied I
knew that feeling all too well
he said if you play in must town son you'll play it by
the rules
that downtown time shed light on sights you won't see
in school
Out of jail I found myself a walking down the road
so glad to hear that old Jake brake come purring nice
and slow
He said I'm gone as far as fayetville I've got some
room to spare
could you drop me off in fort Smith sir I've got family
there
and he barred the Jack on that big black Mack kicking
back I played it cool
from a shotgun seat I learned some things they don't
teach in school
And I wish I was in shreveport just a gambling like a
fool
Yea you can learn some things down there they don't

Well I’m Gonna pick up some of these empties Lord.
As soon as I find where they lay.
Tied off of them jolly and leaving lines.
On a long hot summer day yea.
Chorus:
For every day I workin’ on the Illinois River.
Get a half a day off with pay.
Oh Tow boat pickin’ up barges.
On a long hot summer day.
Well I got me a gal in Pecan.
She's a good ole' gal okay.
Oh she's sitting there waitin’ by a window fan.
On a long hot summer day.
Chorus:
For every day I workin’ on the Illinois River.
Get a half a day off with pay.
Oh Tow boat pickin’ up barges.
On a long hot summer day.
Well Last night we had pork for supper.
And Tomorrow it'll be chicken consommÈ.
And a fruit jar full a iced tea.
On a long hot summer day. yea
Chorus:
For every day I workin’ on the Illinois River.
Get a half a day off with pay.
Oh Tow boat pickin’ up barges.
On a long hot summer day.
Well we dropped a man off in Beardstown.
When we got off yesterday.
Gonna get off down in Alton.
On a long hot summer day.
Chorus:
For every day I workin’ on the Illinois River.
Get a half a day off with pay.
Oh Tow boat pickin’ up barges.
On a long hot summer day.
Lead:
Chorus:
For every day I workin’ on the Illinois River.
Get a half a day off with pay.
Oh Tow boat pickin’ up barges.
On a long hot summer day.
Chorus:
For every day I workin’ on the Illinois River.
Get a half a day off with pay.
Oh Tow boat pickin’ up barges.

Back when you, when you were my darlin
I didn’t mind to lose a little sleep
I didn’t mind to do a little walkin
Reputation never meant that much to me
How do I find that old familiar feeling?
The one that carried me so many years ago
Fun was dominos and 7Up and Seagram’s
Thing were simple then just movin nice and slow
Ain’t it strange?
Well, ain’t it strange?
Well I had no clue, I’d be the boy who
Your momma warned you about
Well I had no clue, I’d…be the boy who
Your momma warned you about
Well, that old scene is always comin to me
I see you standin with your husband and your child
And you’re a picture of strength, and grace and beauty
And me I’m just a fool in a super market aisle
Well I, well know hello would surly end up awkward
I never had the knack for talkin any way
You’re not the kind for bending over backwards
Smile and turn my shopping cart around and walk away
Ain’t it strange
Well, ain’t it strange
Well I had no clue, I’d be the boy who
Your momma warned you about
Well I had no clue, I’d be the boy who
Your momma warned you about
Ain’t it stange how well I knew you back when I was 17
Lovin you was easy babe but I was just a child
And these days you aint nothin just an interstate
daydream
Folks were sleepin and we were runnin wild
And I still do my share of sleepin on the floor
Not sure if anybody knows me anymore
Well I had no clue, I’d be the boy who
Your momma warned you about
Well I had no clue, I’d be the boy who

Well in the early autumn wind
a lonely dove is flyin'
Mournin' for his one true love,
He can't be blamed for cryin'
He can't be blamed for cryin'
Well the rooster, he got 20 gals
bet he's happy as a lark...
Well he wake em in the mornin' time,
Put em all to bed at dark
Put em all to bed at dark
-Chorus-
Well if you been true
Well if you been true
you better look me in the eyes
Cus all I smell is cheap perfume
and Gin... and smoke... and lies
Well where were you last Saturday
all dressed up so pretty?
With your blue-eyed ballroom boy
in Oklahoma City
in Okalhoma City
Well a spade is made for diggin' dirt
and an axe is made for choppin'
And darlin' my heart's hard as nails
they hammer in a hardwood coffin
In a hardwood coffin
-Chorus-
Well if you been true
Well if you been true
You better look me in the eyes
All I smell is cheap perfume
and gin... and smoke... and lies
Well way down in the bottom land
a big black crow is laughin'
Noone dares to go down there
Wonder what has happened
Wonder what has happened
Well in the early Autumn wind
a lonely dove is cryin'
Mournin' for his one true love
He can't be blamed for cryin'
He can't be blamed for cryin'
-Chorus 2X-
Well if you been true
Well if you been true
you better look me in the eyes
Cus all I smell is cheap perfume
and gin... and smoke... and lies
Well if you been true
Well if you been true
you better look me in the eyes
Cus all I smell is cheap perfume

Back when you, when you were my darling
I didn’t mind to lose a little sleep
I didn’t mind to do a little walkin
Reputation never meant that much to me
How do I find that old failure feeling?
One that carried me so many years ago
Fun was dominos and seven up and Seagram’s
Thing were simple then just movin nice and slow
Ain’t it strange?
Well, ain’t it strange?
Well I had no clue, I’d be the boy how
Your momma warned you about
Well I had no clue, I’d…be the boy how
Your momma warned you about
Well, that old seen is always coming to me
I see you standin with your husband and your child
And you’re a picture of strength, grace and beauty
And me I’m just a fools in a super market aisle
Well I know, know hello would surly end up awkward
I never had the knack for talkin any way
You’re not the kind for bending over backwards
Smile and turn my shopping cart around and walk away
Ain’t it strange
Well, ain’t it strange
Well I had no clue, I’d be the boy how
Your momma warned you about
Well I had no clue, I’d be the boy how
Your momma warned you about
Ain’t it stange how well I knew you back when I was 17
Lovin you was easy baby but I was just a child
And these days you aint nothing just an interstate daydream
Folks were sleeping and we were runnin wild
And I still do my share of sleeping on the floor
Not sure if anybody knows me anymore
Well I had no clue, I’d be the boy how
Your momma warned you about
Well I had no clue, I’d be the boy how

Well I could go downtown and drink till dawn,
I could sing those sad old country songs,
Oh but daylight finds me bored and blue,
The whole damn town's in love with you
Well the neon signs light up the block,
Its a livin' breathin' honkytonk,
And your hair's wet with the morning dew,
The whole damn town's in love with you
The whole damn town's in love with you
Well all the cowboys in this bar,
Oh and all those fools who play guitar,
Well their well aware that we are through,
The whole damn town's in love with you
Well the music pours out in the street,
Just clean and cool as a cotton sheet,
Well them long and lonley fiddle blues,
The whole damn town's in love with you
The whole damn town's in love with you
Well your worn out favorite pair of jeans,
Oh I remember everything,
They were things i'd grown acustom to,
The whole damn town's in love with you
Yeah the whole damn town's in love with you

He was pushing eighty
but he acted twenty two
he could laugh and drink
just like his grandchildren could do
There was square hay on the meadow
second cutting of the year
well his summer work was over
when they got the pasture clear
they were drinking on the big bluff
cross the river from the field
well he walked up the edge
threw a stone and he kneeled
And he looked down at the water
said boys im going in
they were cheering when he jumped
but he did not come up again
chorus:
Well raise another round boys
and have another glass
be thankful for today
knowing it will never last
and lets leave the world laughing
when our eulogies are read
may we all get to heaven
before the devil knows were dead
may we all get to heaven
before the devil knows were dead.
verse 2:
Well it was twenty after midnight.
And they were going eighty five
she was barely out of highschool
wantin bad to feel alive.
just a two lane piece of blacktop
a snakey stretch of road.
well the wind blew through the wing vents
it was clear and fresh and cold.
well the driver killed the headlights
and he put the throttle down.
when they hit the railroad crossin
they were five feet off the ground
just a screamin through the midnight
till they came down again
when the front tire hit the bar-ditch
they went end over end
chorus:
Well raise another round boys
and have another glass
be thankful for today
knowing it will never last
and lets leave the world laughing
when our eulogies are read
may we all get to heaven
before the devil knows were dead
may we all get to heaven
before the devil knows were dead.
(Guitar Solo)
verse 3:
(BOOM) (BOOM) (BOOM) ...
Well Im twenty eight years old now
I was born in eighty four
and Ive been as free as I can be
and I wont ask for anymore
So let the fiddle play hoooooe down
after I draw my last breath
well tell everyone I know
that I loved them all to death
Well raise another round boys
and have another glass
be thankful for today
knowing it will never last
and lets leave the world laughing
when our eulogies are read
may we all get to heaven
before the devil knows were dead
may we all get to heaven
before the devil knows were dead.
may we all get to heaven
before the devil knows were dead.
may we all get to heaven

Lorrie lit a cigarette and smiled and waved the smoke out of her face
With her black hair brown from the summer sun
Green eyes looked around the place
And she told me that she loved me
And I grinned and grabbed her hand and said, "I know"
Let's get from here, now darling if we're going, let's go on and go
Well, Lorrie said her family used to have a little money
And they still act like they do
Well, your daddy don't think I'm fit to sit in the same room with you
And if I ever set foot in Sevier county, well your brother said he'd break my jaw
And here I sit with the dark haired daughter of Southwest Arkansas
And I've been learning that believing and that barely breaking even
It's just a part of life for you and me
And I've been living with the loneliness, it's got down in my bones I guess
It's just another phase of being free
And I've been learning how to lose a thing I never laid a hand on all along
Well good lord Lorrie, I love you, could it go more wrong
Well good lord Lorrie, I love you, could it go more wrong
Well D-Queens dry so I bought us both a bottle in downtown Broken Bow
Lorries got a buddy with a double wide trailer they were shaking dominoes
And I had good intentions 'til I had too many, I was stupid I suppose
You better put a little money where your mouth is boy and try to keep it closed
And I've been learning that believing and that barely breaking even
It's just a part of life for you and me
And I've been living with the loneliness, it's got down in my bones I guess
It's just another phase of being free
And I've been learning how to lose a thing I never laid a hand on all along
Well good lord Lorrie, I love you, could it go more wrong
Well good lord Lorrie, I love you, could it go more wrong
Well Lorrie said I wonder what we ever went through all this trouble for
You ain't half of who I thought you was and this ain't fun no more
And her words cut clean through drunk and dark and dimmin' doorway light
Well I've had all I can handle, hope you're happy now, goodnight
Guess her folks were right, guess her folks were right
Mhmmm
And I've been learning that believing and that barely breaking even
It's just a part of life for you and me
And I've been living with the loneliness, it's got down in my bones I guess
It's just another phase of being free
And I've been learning how to lose a thing I never laid a hand on all along
Well good lord Lorrie, I love you, could it go more wrong