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• Gold And Roses - Black Lillies
• Smokestack Lady - Black Lillies
• By The Wayside - Black Lillies
• Goodbye Charlie - Black Lillies
• Catherine - Black Lillies
• All This Living - Black Lillies
• The Fall - Black Lillies
• Ruby - Black Lillies
• Baby Doe - Black Lillies
• Glow - Black Lillies
• Ramblin' Boy - Black Lillies

Ten thousand feet above them deep dark waters
There's a land like I ain't never seen
There's silver and gold ‘midst a wild rose garden
Shining on the hillside for me
I set out from Eastern Kentucky
Said farewell to family and home
Then I headed west to seek my fortune,
Figured I could make it alone
But there ain't no gold and there ain't no roses
There ain't no sunshine and there ain't no rain
Only darkness, toils and troubles
Steal my life's blood down in this vein
Steal my life's blood vein by vein
I fell in with a stranger in Kansas City
He said "Son, now I'm a Union man.
I've a fine team of mules and rations for the winter;
Traveler, I sure could use a hand."
When springtime broke on that western prairie
To them red rock hills I was bound
Now I'm digging for gold in an old rock garden
And nothing of worth I've found
But there ain't no gold and there ain't no roses
There ain't no sunshine and there ain't no rain
Only darkness, toils and troubles
Steal my life's blood down in this vein
Steal my life's blood vein by vein
Bridge:
Come on now baby can you save my soul
Traveled all across the country got to find that gold
One more shot of whiskey 'fore I ask your man
For sixty-four dollars, got a brand new plan
Me and ol’ Frisco gonna climb up over town
Dig a hole in the mountain, we ain't coming down
Take a look around and see what we can find,
I hope you like silver - we've got a brand new mine....
Well there ain't no gold and there ain't no roses
There ain't no sunshine and I don't care
Goodbye darkness, so long troubles,
One hundred thousand will buy my share,

Smokestack Lady, why you gotta treat me so mean?
I've been running these roads up and down, L.A. to New
Orleans
I gotta keep them wheels a rolling,
Rolling on down the line straight for you
I got them eighteen wheels long gone
Ain't seen my baby in too long
I got them smokestack, hauling jack, switchback,
kickin’ back
Runaway freeway blues
Come on sweet daddy, you know I'd never treat you that
I got a brand new dress and a pair a shoes and I'm
waiting for the day
You come rolling on up over that hill with your
smokestack flaming
And your big chrome grill smiling just for me
I got them eighteen wheels long gone
Ain't seen my baby in too long
I got them smokestack, hauling jack, switchback,
kickin’ back
Runaway freeway blues
Well I met me a voodoo woman, she said "look me in the
eye!
You got a good woman you truck driving fool slow down
or you're gonna die."
One more cup of coffee
One more puff on the old smokestack
I got them eighteen wheels long gone
Ain't seen my baby in too long
I got them smokestack, hauling jack, switchback,
kickin’ back
Runaway freeway blues
Roll on home daddy, lay that hammer down
The hounds are barking at my door and I really need
your loving now
I got a shotgun kiss waiting for you
Two loving arms and whatever you want to
I got them eighteen wheels long gone
Ain't seen my baby in too long
I got them smokestack, hauling jack, switchback,
kickin’ back
Runaway freeway blues
Well I was born down in Texas, raised up in Tennessee
Been looking for a woman since the day I was born and
baby you’re the one for me
I gotta keep them wheels rolling
Rolling on down the line straight for you
I got them eighteen wheels long gone
Ain't seen my baby in too long
I got them smokestack, hauling jack, switchback,
kickin’ back
Runaway freeway blues
Come on smokestack daddy let that engine run
It's time to kick her in high gear and we’re really
gonna have some fun
Tick tack tick tack tickety tack
Get on back I got a brand new pair of shoes
I got them eighteen wheels long gone
Ain't seen my baby in too long
I got them smokestack, hauling jack, switchback,
kickin’ back
Runaway freeway blues
I got them smokestack, hauling jack, switchback, kickin
back

To a little country church house
A place where once I'd kneel and dwell
Made my way through the doorway
In need of God, my sins to tell
I heard them golden bells ringing
Sang them old-time gospel songs
In the Sweet By and By, Beulah Land
For you I long
I felt the spirit come a’calling
Spoke to my soul deep down inside
Pride did fall like a rainstorm
Tears did flow, I could not hide
So if temptation has your number
And worldly fame and fortune call
Say goodbye to your loved ones
By the wayside they will fall
I knew the cost of my sinning
Worldly ways had done me in
Beer and wine and wild living
Take my hand Lord, I am thine
So if temptation has your number
And worldly fame and fortune call
Say goodbye to your loved ones
By the wayside they will fall
My soul was saved, sins forgiven
A spirit light and made anew
Saved my soul but lost my true love
There was no more that I could do
So if temptation has your number
Worldly fame and fortune call
Say goodbye to your loved ones
By the wayside they will fall
By the wayside they will fall

Eighteen years in the Tennessee sun
Grew up fishing on the Cumberland
Little Joe, the youngest son
Slung a slingshot and a squirrel gun
Daddy ran ‘shine ‘neath the moonlight
Bowling Green to them Nashville nights
Little Joe learned riding shotgun
To keep your mouth shut till the job is done
Sixty-seven rolled around
Joe got the call and he headed on out
Across the ocean for the Vietnam
Gonna hit the coast running … gonna be a man
Jackie D meet Mary J
You're gonna do just what I say
Grab your gun and roll on out
Your first ramble gonna scream and shout
So tie a ribbon round the old oak tree
Tell my momma don't worry ‘bout me
The weather's warm around Christmas time
I've got an M-16 and my boots are dry
I'm sitting up here like a cat in a tree
Waiting for Charlie, gonna set him free
Uncle Sam said I'm the man
Goodbye Charlie
Bengals on the ground, snakes in the trees
Tet comes a’gunning he don't know about me
Johnny's in the front Charlie's in the back
Tree comes a’crashing six days in the black
Open your eyes now Joe's done his time
Come back alive but he done left his mind
Uncle Sam said, "Son thank you,
Lay down your guns ‘cause we’re through with you."
Now I see the ribbon round the old oak tree
I told my momma don't worry ‘bout me
The weather's warm around Christmas time
I've got an M-16 and my boots are dry
I'm sitting up here like a cat in a tree
Waiting for Charlie, gonna set him free
Uncle Sam said I'm the man

Sergeant Foster, tell me now straight
Four thousand pounds of fire and we're in overweight
You say you don't believe we'll ever get her off the
ground
Don't worry, sergeant she ain't never let me down
No she ain't never let me down
Up here with the birds and the angels and the bombs
Eighty-nine missions and I ain't twenty-one
Thinking of my mother and the girl I left behind
Come on silver darling, we were born to fly
Yeah we were born to fly
And my Catherine, carry me on your wings
To Lake Michigan and childhood dreams
Where the Red Arrow Highway cuts right through our town
Nothing but blue skies and fire on the ground
Nothing but blue skies and fire on the ground
Remember them German boys from Chicago town
Marching down main street and nobody made a sound
I wasn't but a child then, and I ain't much older now
Looking back through the smoke and flames, they never
saw it coming down
No they never saw it coming down
And my Catherine, carry me on your wings
To Lake Michigan and childhood dreams
Where the Red Arrow Highway cuts right through our town
Nothing but blue skies and fire on the ground
Nothing but blue skies and fire on the ground
Traveled across the ocean, been all around this land
Pontedera, Italy … got drunk in Paris, France
Crossed that old Rhine River, can't be much longer now
Have you heard the news today? We're all heroes now!
Yeah we're all heroes now
And my Catherine, carry me on your wings
To Lake Michigan and childhood dreams
Where the Red Arrow Highway cuts right through our town
Nothing but blue skies and fire on the ground

She called from Houston
Hotel, new tattoo and boots
Staring at the ceiling
Wondering why we choose the things we choose
And I said, "Hey there darling,
You know I've thought the same thing too.
Sometimes it's hard to tell
If you win or lose.”
She said, "Where did we go wrong?
Where did we make the fatal step?"
"Somewhere between I do
And promises unkept."
There was a moment of silence
And then a laugh
"Ain't no looking back,
Ain't no second chance."
So I'll shoot ‘em while I've got ‘em
Give it all ‘til I'm dead
Though there's storm clouds arising
And lightning flashing ahead
And I'll keep on driving
Over every mile of this land
All of this living
Sure can be hard on a man
Well it's snowing here in Denver
But I've got whiskey in my hand
And I'm staring out the window
Wondering where the hell I've been
And every time I think of her
It's almost more than I can stand
All of this living
Sure can be hard on a man
So I'll shoot ‘em while I've got ‘em
Give it all ‘til I'm dead
Though there's storm clouds arising
And lightning flashing ahead
And I'll keep on driving
Over every mile of this land
All of this living

I am not a rich man, have no fortune but bare
I was born in desert, my flower is so rare
I am not a rich girl, I have no diamonds to share
I was born on the ocean, a thousand stars I wear
I am not a sailor, I am no captain at sea
I was born in the desert, my captain I'll not be
My captain I'll not be
I was born on the water, father sent me ocean wide
Burden, my mother, sail along with the tide
Sail with the tide
I am but a dreamer, I've seen you in between
Shadows and the sunshine, falling down on me
Falling down on me
Would you be my lover? Forgave you all my hand
Flowers from the desert, girl from the ocean sand
From the ocean sand
And I'll love you in the springtime
I'll love you through the fall
Hold your hand in the cold and rain
The first snowflakes fall
The snowflakes fall
I am but a dreamer, I've seen you in between
The shadows and sunshine, falling down on me

Ruby, she won't do right
Ruby, she won't do right
Shines like a diamond, dark as the night
My Ruby, she won't do right
And my Ruby, she holds that devil's hand
Ruby, she holds that devil's hand
See him come around; you know I'll cut him down
Ruby, holds that devil's hand
But I'm going to get my Ruby out of jail
One hundred dollars surely go her bail
I been drinking that corn liquor, but you know I love
her still
I'm going to get my Ruby out of jail
Ruby loves that sweet cocaine
Ruby loves that sweet cocaine
Trouble through her mind, poison in her veins
My Ruby loves that sweet cocaine
And my Ruby, she loves another man
Ruby, she loves another man
See that golden ring? It don't mean a thing
Ruby loves another man
But I'm going to get my Ruby out of jail
One hundred dollars surely go her bail
I been drinking that corn liquor, but you know I love
her still
I'm going to get my Ruby out of jail
Ruby, oh please come home
Ruby, oh please come home
Got a baby on my knee and hungry mouths to feed
Ruby, oh please come home
I'm going to get my Ruby out of jail
One hundred dollars surely go her bail
I've been drinking that corn liquor, but you know I
love her still

Come on baby, sweet little Baby Doe
You're the queen of the silver town, you're the diamond
in my soul
You traveled all across the country, you know you've
got to find that gold
Come on baby, sweet little Baby Doe
Well you went out to the west land, searching for the
Promised Land
You fell in with a dealer, he stacked the deck and then
away he ran
But of you'd only be my baby, I'd be your sweet loving
I got sixty-four dollars and a brand new plan
Me and ol’ Frisco gonna climb up way over town
Just a pick and a shovel, and we ain't coming down
‘Til there's a hole in the mountain, see what we find
I hope ya like silver - we've got a brand new mine
Come on baby, sweet little Baby Doe
You're the queen of the silver town, you're the diamond
in my soul
You traveled all across the country, you know you've
got to find that gold
Come on baby, sweet little Baby Doe
Now she's struttin' down the main way, no more dodgin'
down the alleyways
Mr. Tabor he's a rich man, he's got his baby and a hot
hand
But the state of Colorado, don't believe what they can
Just cause you got some money, don't mean that you've
received
An invitation to the party or a hand at the governor's
ball
Better get back to the mountain, get back before the
fall
Come on baby, sweet little Baby Doe
You're the queen of the silver town, you're the diamond
in my soul
You travelled all across the country, you know you've
got to find that gold

I realize tonight, here by your side
All the world is new
So lay down your worries and let's talk for a while
Something we so seldom do
You're making your way through this mean old world
Riding on an ocean of blue
But the sun and the sky shine in your eyes
Lighting the way for you
I'm going away three weeks and a day
Please be good while I'm gone
And I'll do my best and I'll try to get some rest
And I'll hold you in my heart with a song
Goodnight my precious darling
Sleep tight and hold fast to your dreams
When the moon and the stars shine from afar
Know that I'm shining for you
We have a life not perfectly bright
Darkness and trials abound
But hold to my hand and we'll make our stand
There's nothing like a moment with you
Goodnight my precious darling
Sleep tight and hold fast to your dreams
When the moon and the stars glow from afar
Know that I'm glowing with you
Don't be afraid, nothing remains
Only the love in your heart
Like the oak on the hill that's whispering still
A song that lingers when we're apart
Goodnight my precious darling
Sleep tight and hold fast to your dreams
When the moon and the stars smile from afar
Know that I'm smiling for you
When the moon and the stars smile where they are

I was rich but a rambling boy
Through many cities I did enjoy
And there I married a pretty little wife
And I loved her dearer than I loved my life
She was pretty, both neat and gay
She caused me to rob the road highway
I robbed it, yes, I do declare
And I made myself ten thousand there
Plenty dry goods for to carry me through
My pistol, sword, my money too
My forty-four she never fails
My true love comes for to go my bail
My mother says she has no home
My sister says she's all alone
And now she's left in sad despair
With a broken heart and a baby fair
Now when I die, don't bury me at all
Just place me away in alcohol
My forty-four laid by my feet