You're running wild
How long can this go on?
You're leaving me alone
Stop running wild
You're always gone
My love you'll never change
It's more than I can bear
Stop running wild
You'll settle down someday
And find I've gone away
You'll think of what you've done
While running wild
You can't go home
You'll have to change your ways
You'll have to go or stay
The worst that I've ever been hurt in my life
The first time I ever wanted to die
Was the night when you told me you loved someone new
And asked me if I could forget
When I stop dreaming
That's when I'll stop loving you
I'd be like a flower unwanted in spring
Alone and neglected transplanted in vain
To a garden of sadness where it's pedals will fall
In the shadow of undying pain
You can teach the flowers to bloom in the snow
You may take a pebble and teach it to grow
You can teach all the raindrops to return to the clouds
CHORUS:
Hold back the rushing minutes
Make the wind lie still
Don't let the moonlight shine
Across the lonely hill
Dry all the raindrops
And hold back the sun
My world has ended
My baby's gone
The Milkman whistles softly
As he comes up to my door
Lyrics courtesy Top40db.
The Mailman brings the letters by
Just like he did before
They seem so busy all day long
As though there's nothing wrong,
Don't they know the world has ended
My Baby's Gone
chorus
I wake up sometimes in the night
And realize you're gone
And then I toss upon my bed
And wait for day to come
I try to tell my lonely heart
It must go on alone
But it cries the world has ended
If I cry when I kiss you or when we say goodbye
Don't laugh don't laugh
If I say I'll always love you and I will 'til I die
Don't laugh don't laugh.
I could never find another there's no need for me to try
So I beg of you my darlin' please don't laugh if I cry
If I say I'll always love you and I will until I die
Don't laugh don't laugh.
Honest darlin' I'm not teasing when I say you are the best
Don't laugh don't laugh
And if you will take the chance I'm sure my love will stand the test
Kentucky you are the dearest land outside of Heaven to me
Kentucky your laurels and your red bud trees
When I die I want to rest upon your graceful mountain so high
Kentucky that is where God will look for me
Kentucky I miss the voices singing in the silvery moonlight
Kentucky I miss the hound dog chasing coon
I know that my mother dad & sweetheart all are waiting for me
Kentucky I will be coming soon
Kentucky you are the dearest land outside of Heaven to me
B-lues stay away from me.
B-lues why don't you let me be.
Don't know why, you keep on haunting me.
L-ove was never meant for me.
True love, was never meant for me.
Seems somehow we never can agree.
(bridge)
L-ife is full of misery.
Dreams are like a memory.
Bringing back, your love that used to be.
T-ears so many I can't see.
Years don't mean a thing to me.
Time goes by, and still I can't be free.
Stay away blues
I've had nothing but sorrow
Since you said we were through
There's no hope for tomorrow
How's the world treating you
Every sweet thing that matters
Has been broken in two
All my dreams have been shattered
How's the world treating you
Got no plans for next Sunday
Got no plans for today
Every day is blue Monday
Every day you're away
Tho' our pathways have parted
To your memory I'm true
Guess I'll stay broken hearted
How's the world treating you
Do you wonder about me
Like I'm hoping you do
Are you lonesome without me
Have you found someone new
Are you burning and yearning
Do you ever get blue
Do you think of returning
He was just a little farm lad so busy at play
In his little play house down by the gate
He stopped to watch a truck that was parking next door
At the home of his tiny playmate Then he saw his Daddy watching too
As the man swiftly walked to the cottage door
He knew they were strangers that come from the town
Men he had never seen before
They soon were at their work and he heard his Daddy say
Our neighbors are moving today
Oh no he cried dear God don't let it be
They can't take my sweetheart away
I know Dad that you don't understand
How a heart so young can conceive a plan
I'm only seven now but it's just like you said
Dad someday I'll be a man
The man who runs the farm where your playmate now lives
He told me it'd have to be this way
For winter time has come and their work is all done
So now they are moving away
Let us buy the farm so they can stay
Give them all my toys that dear Santa gave
And give him the pennies in my little bank
Got in a little trouble at the county seat
Lawd, they put me in the jail house for loafing on the street
When the judge heard the verdict I was a guilty man
He said forty-five dollars or thirty days in the can
Said, that'll be cash on the barrelhead, son
You can take your choice you're twenty-one
No money down, no credit plan
No time to chase you cause I'm a busy man
Found a telephone number on a laundry slip
I had a good hearted jailer with a six gun hip
He let me call long distance, she said number please
And no sooner than I told her, she shouted out at me
That'll be cash on the barrelhead son
Not part not half but the entire sum
No money down, no credit plan
Cause a little bird told me, you're a travellin' man
Thirty days in the jailhouse, four days on the road
I was feeling mighty hungry my feet a heavy load
Saw a greyhound coming stuck up my thumb
Just as I was being seated, the driving caught my arm
Said that'll be cash on the barrelhead son
This old gray dog gets paid to run
When the engine starts, lawd, the wheels won't roll
Alabama
your beautiful sunlight
Your fields of cerecea potatoes and corn
Alabama
your crimson red clover
All mingled around the old place I was born.
Alabama
your hills and your valleys
Your creeks with laughter as onward they flow
Alabama
so sweet in the springtime
Sweet ferns and wild flowers and winter with snow.
Alabama
so sweet to my mem'ry
You shine like a light on a beautiful hill
Alabama
in days of my childhood
I labored and toiled at the old sorghum mill
Alabama
when red leaves are failing
I roam through your pastures with fences of rail
Alabama
when 'possums are crawling
And hound dogs are howling and wagging their tails.
Alabama
your beautiful highways
All curved through the mountains where love ones do wait
Alabama
your golden rod flower;
And the "Welcome home' sign hanging over the gate
Alabama
to me you are callin'
My footsteps are haltered no longer to stray
Alabama
you hold all I long for
Chorus
The Family who prays
Will never be parted
Their circle in heaven unbroken shall stand
God will say "enter, my good faithful servants"
The family who prays
Never shall part
VERSE
Satan has parted fathers and mothers
Filling their hearts with his envy and hate
Heading their pathways down to destruction
Leaving their children like orphans to stray
chorus
Wars and Tornadoes are taking our loved ones
Leaving us tearful with sad aching hearts
But we shall join them over the river
For the family who prays
Who did you say it was, brother?
Who was it fell by the way?
When whiskey and blood run together,
Did you hear anyone pray?
(I didn't hear nobody pray, dear brother,)
(I didn't hear nobody pray.)
(I heard the crash on the highway,)
(But, I didn't hear nobody pray.)
Instrumental
When I heard the crash on the highway,
I knew what it was from the start.
I went to the scene of destruction,
And a picture was stamped on my heart.
There was whiskey and blood all together,
Mixed with glass where they lay.
Death played her hand in destruction,
But I didn't hear nobody pray.
(I didn't hear nobody pray, dear brother,)
(I didn't hear nobody pray.)
(I heard the crash on the highway,)
(But, I didn't hear nobody pray.)
Instrumental
I wish I could change this sad story,
That I am now tellin' you.
But there is no way I can change it,
For somebody's life is now through.
Their soul has been called by the Master,
They died in a crash on the way.
And I heard the groans of the dying,
But, I didn't hear nobody pray.
(I didn't hear nobody pray, dear brother,)
(I didn't hear nobody pray.)
(I heard the crash on the highway,)
We were alone last night, pretending wrong was right
Time stood by it seemed, i wish it had been a dream
You said those words again, we were so close again
But its easier to awake from a dream and cry
Than to walk away and say goodbye
To count the years since we've met
So long our lips have been sealed
But nothing can make us forget
When we kiss and how it made us feel
I was afraid last night, until you held me tight
But its easier to awake from a dream and cry
Than to walk away and say goodbye
I was afraid last night, until you held me tight
But its easier to awake from a dream and cry
Than to walk away and say goodbye
It was on one cold winter night
When the wind blew across the wild moor
When Mary came wandering home with her child
Till she came to her own father's door
Father, dear father, she cried
Come down and open the door
Or the child in my arms, will perish and die
From the winds that blow across the wild moor
But her father was deaf to her cry
Not a sound of her voice, did he hear
So the watch dog did howl and the village bells tolled
And the wind blew across the wild moor
Oh, how the old man must have felt
When he came to the door, the next mornin'
And he found Mary dead, but the child still alive
Closely grasping his dead mother's arms
In grief the old man passed away
And the child to it's mother went soon
And no one they say, lives there to this day
And the cottage to ruin has gone
But the villagers point out the spot
Where the willows grew over the door
Saying there Mary died, once the gay village bride
Well, I wake up in the morning, hear the ding dong ring,
You go a marching to the table, you see the same old thing.
Baby all I wanna tell ya, I'm like a pork in the pan
And if you say a thing about it, you're in trouble with the man.
Let the midnight special shine a light on me.
Let the midnight special shine it's ever lovin' light on me.
Yes, let the midnight special shine a light on me.
Let the midnight special shine it's ever lovin' light on me.
If you ever go to Houston then you better walk alright,
You better not stagger and you better not fight.
'Cause sheriff Benson will arrest you, he'll carry you on down,
And if the jury finds you guilty you're penitentiary bound.
So the midnight special shine a light on me.
Let the midnight special shine it's ever lovin' light on me.
--- Instrumental ---
A yonder comes Miss Rosey, how I wonder did you know,
Well, I know about her apron, and the dress she wore,
Umbrella on her shoulder piece of paper in her hand,
She goes a walkin' to the captain says I'm losin' my man.
So let the midnight special shine it's light on me.
Let the midnight special shine it's ever lovin' light on me.
Let the midnight special shine it's light on me.
Let the midnight special shine it's ever lovin' light on me...
I IV
Let her go, let her go, God bless her
She's mine everywhere she may be
I IV
She may ramble this wide world all over
I V I
But she'll never find a friend like me
I went to church last Sunday
I saw my old love there
And I knew her mind was a'changin'
From the way that she done up her hair
chorus
I'm going to the races
To see my pony run
And if I win any green back
We're surely gonna have some fun
chorus
Sometimes I live in the country
Sometimes I live up town
But sometimes I take a great notion
To jump in the river and drown
A house not a home was the picture Satan painted
For sweet little sister and me
Our daddy would frown while mother was prayin'
His heart was so hardened that he would not believe.
In anger he'd swear his voice low and loud
His Sundays were spent out with the gamblin' crowd
I've never seen my daddy inside the house of God
For Satan held his hand, down the path of sin he trod.
Not long ago our circle was broken
When God called on Mother one night
In a voice sweet and low her last words were spoken
Asking our daddy to raise her children right.
The angels rejoiced in Heaven last night
I heard my daddy pray "Dear God, make it right."
He was smiling and singing with tears in his eyes
While Mother with the angels rejoiced last night
Oh Katy dear, go ask your mother
If you can be a bride of mine
If she says yes, come back and tell me
If she says no, we'll run away
Oh Willie dear, there's no use in asking
She's in her room, up taking rest
And by her side lies a silver dagger
To slay the one that I love best
Oh Katy dear, go and ask your father
If you can be a bride of mine
If he says yes, come on back and tell me
If he says no, we'll run away
Oh Willie dear, there's no use in asking
For he's there too, up taking rest
And by his side lies that golden dagger
To slay the one that I love best
Then he picked up that silver dagger
And plunged it through his troubled heart
Saying goodbye Katy, goodbye darling
The time has come for us to part
Then she picked up that bloody dagger
And stove it through her lily white breast
Saying goodbye momma, goodbye papa
My buddies tell me that I should have waited
They say I'm missing a whole world of fun
But I am happy and I sing with pride
I like the christian life
I won't lose a friends by heeding God's call
For what is a friend who'd want me to fall
Otheres find pleasure in things I despise
I like the christian life
My buddies shun me since I turned to Jesus
But I am happy though it burdens my soul
And I'll try to lead them to walk in the night
While the shot and shells were scattering
All o'er the battlefield
While the boys in France were fighting
To save their noble flag
Save their flag or give their lives
All for their country and home
They brought him back and heard him say
I can no longer stay
Go take the news to Mother
For she knows how well I love her
Kiss her dear sweet lips for me
Tell her I'm not coming home
Oh tell my darling sweetheart
That her lips I'll kiss no more
For this battlefield is awful
I'm sure I'll see her no more
Now, I'd love to see my mother
Kneeling by the old hearth stone
But I'm in this hell right here on earth
And her prayer I'll hear no more
Go take the news to Mother
For she knows how well I love her
Kiss her dear sweet lips for me
Mmmm, Mmmm, Mmmmmm
Sad and alone in a mansion
No loving wife to caress
Sat a man sad and lonely
No loving wife's lips to kiss
She married him for (possessions?)
No love in her heart had she
Sad and alone, in his fine home
He looked all around him and said
Chorus
What is a home without a baby?
To love and to tease and adore?
What is home without a sweet wife?
To kiss you each night at the door?
What is a home without sunshine?
To spread its bright rays from above?
You can have wealth and its pleasures
But what is a home without love?
Walking down the streets one evening
He passed by a cottage so neat
Stopped and looked in the window
He saw there a picture so sweet
A husband, a wife, and a baby
They were hugging and kissing too
He turned aside, his tears to cry
And from his lips came these words
chorus
What is a home without a baby?
To love and to tease and adore?
What is home without a sweet wife?
To kiss you each night at the door?
What is a home without sunshine?
To spread its bright rays from above?
You can have wealth and its pleasures
Do you fear this man's invention that they call atomic power?
Are we all in great confusion, do we know the time or hour
When a terrible explosion may ring down upon our land
Leaving horrible destruction blotting out the works of man
Are you ready for that great atomic power?
Will you rise and meet your Savior in the end?
Will you shout or will you cry when the fire rains from on high?
Are you ready for that great atomic power?
There is one way to escape and be prepared to meet the Lord
Give your heart and soul to Jesus, He will be your shield and sword
He will surely stand beside and you'll never taste of death
For your soul will fly to safety and eternal peace and rest
Are you ready for that great atomic power?
Will you rise and meet your Savior in the end?
Will you shout or will you cry when the fire rains from on high?
Are you ready for that great atomic power?
There's an army who can conquer all the enemy's great bands
It's a regiment of Christians guided by the Savior's hand
When the mushroom of destruction falls and all it's fury great
God will surely save His children from this awful, awful fate
Are you ready for that great atomic power?
Will you rise and meet your Savior in the end?
Will you shout or will you cry when the fire rains from on high?
Last night my dear the rain was falling
I went to bed so sad and blue
Then I had a dream of you
I dreamed I was strolling in the evening
Underneath -the harvest moon
I was thinking about you
And then you met me in the moonlight
The stars were shining in your eyes
But another was there too
-SHORT BRIDGE-
I don't believe you've met my baby
You looked at him, you looked at me
I wondered >who you
I shook the hand of your stranger
But I was more inside
I was still wondering who
Your arm was resting on his shoulder
You smiled at him, he smiled at you
His eyes were filled with victory
She said "My sister wants to marry"
And then my heart was filled with ease
I'll deck my brow with roses
My true love may be there
And gems that others gave me
Shall shine within my hair
And even them that know me
Will think my heart is light
Though my heart will break tomorrow
I'll be all smiles tonight
chorus: D I'll be all smiles tonight, love,
I'll be all smiles tonight
Though my heart may break tomorrow
I'll be all smiles tonight.
And when the room he entered
The bride upon his arm
I stood and gazed upon him
As though he was a charm
And then he smiled upon her
As once he smiled on me
They know not what
I suffered
They found no change in me
chorus
And when the dance is over
And all have gone to rest
I'll think of him, dear mother
The one that I love best
He once did love, believe me
But now he's cold and strange
He sought not to deceive me
I met a liitle girl in Knoxville, a town we all know well,
And every Sunday evening, out in her home I'd dwell,
We went to take an evening walk about a mile from town,
I picked a stick up off the ground and knocked that fair girl down.
She fell down on her bended knees for mercy she did cry,
Oh Willy dear don't kill me here, I'm unprepared to die,
She never spoke another word, I only beat her more,
Until the ground around me within her blood did flow.
I took her by her golden curls and I drug her round and around,
Throwing her into the river that flows through Knoxville town,
Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl with the dark and rolling eyes,
Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl, you can never be my bride.
I started back to Knoxville, got there about midnight,
My Mother she was worried and woke up in a fright,
Saying "Dear son, what have you done to bloody your clothes so?"
I told my anxious Mother, I was bleeding at my nose.
I called for me a candle to light myself to bed,
I called for me a handkerchief to bind my aching head,
Rolled and tumbled the whole night through, as troubles was for me,
Like flames of hell around my bed and in my eyes could see.
They carried me down to Knoxville and put me in a cell,
My friends all tried to get me out but none could go my bail,
I'm here to waste my life away down in this dirty old jail,
When I come to the river
At ending of day
When the last winds of sorrow have blown
There'll be somebody waiting
To show me the way
I won't have to cross Jordan alone
I won't have to cross Jordan alone
Jesus died all my sins to atone
In the darkness I see
He'll be waiting for me
I won't have to cross Jordan alone
[ piano ]
Often times I'm weary and troubled and sad
When it seems that my friends have all flown
There is one thought that cheers me and makes my heart
glad
I won't have to cross Jordan alone
I won't have to cross Jordan...
[ guitar ]
When the billows of sorrow and trouble may sweep
Christ the Saviour will care for his own
Till the end of my journey
my soul he will keep
I won't have to cross Jordan alone
In the darkness I see
He'll be waiting for me
I won't have to cross Jordan alone
I won't have to cross Jordan alone
Jesus died
Kneel at the cross, Christ will meet you there
Come while He waits for you
Listen to His voice, leave with Him your cares
And begin life anew
Kneel at the cross, kneel at the cross
Leave every care, leave every care
Kneel at the cross, kneel at the cross
Jesus will meet you there
Kneel at the cross, there is room for all
Who would His glory share
Bliss there awaits, harm can nary fall
Those who are anchored there
Kneel at the cross, kneel at the cross
Leave every care, leave every care
Kneel at the cross, kneel at the cross
Jesus will meet you there
Kneel at the cross, give your idols up
Look unto realms above
Turn not away to life's sparkling cup
Trust only in His love
Kneel at the cross, kneel at the cross
Leave every care, leave every care
Kneel at the cross, kneel at the cross
1. Nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
E'en though it be a cross that raiseth me,
still all my song shall be,
nearer, my God, to thee;
nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
2. Though like the wanderer, the sun gone down,
darkness be over me, my rest a stone;
yet in my dreams I'd be
nearer, my God, to thee;
nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
3. There let the way appear, steps unto heaven;
all that thou sendest me, in mercy given;
angels to beckon me
nearer, my God, to thee;
nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
4. Then, with my waking thoughts bright with thy
praise,
out of my stony griefs Bethel I'll raise;
so by my woes to be
nearer, my God, to thee;
nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
5. Or if, on joyful wing cleaving the sky,
sun, moon, and stars forgot, upward I fly,
still all my song shall be,
nearer, my God, to thee;
My brother and I were out hunting
A stray bullet made him its mark
I carried him back to the cabin
His life nothing more than a spark
He whispered to me very softly
Dear brother, I'm going away
So listen and come to me closely
There's so much that I have to say
My sweetheart, her dear name is Sally
Her mother and father have died
She's waiting alone in the valley
When I left her, oh how she cried
I promised to bring her my fortune
Return to the valley and wed
But I've had a call from my maker
So I'll have to go there instead
He gave me the ring he had bought her
And told of the plans they had made
He spoke of how long she had waited
And for his return, how she prayed
He gave me a small piece of paper
The will he had made for this day
I promised to do as he wanted
The Good Lord would show me the way
He gave me his home in the valley
And all of the money he had
He asked me to marry his Sally
And promise she'd never be sad
But once long ago we were rivals
For I loved her too from the start
I'd made up my mind to stay single
For Sally had broken my heart
My dear brother went up to heaven
And I went to our valley home
But Sally had married another
So what's left for me but to roam?
I pray the good Lord up above me
To keep Brother's faith in me still
His Sally was fickle, unfaithful
In the pines, in the pines, where the sun never shines
And you shiver when the cold wind blows
little girl, little girl, what have i done
thats made you treat me so
You've caused me to weep, you've caused me to mourn
You've caused me to leave my home
In the pines, in the pines, where the sun never shines
And you shiver when the cold wind blows
The longest train I ever saw
Went down that Georgia Line
The engine passed at six o'clock
and The cab went by at nine
In the pines, in the pines, where the sun never shines
And you shiver when the cold wind blows
The longest train I ever saw
was 19 holters long
the only girl i ever loved
is on that train and gone
In the pines, in the pines, where the sun never shines
*Every minute of the day, I'm thinking 'bout you
And without you life is just a crazy dream
Every breath I take I'm hoping that you're hoping that
I'm hoping
You'll return to me^
Can you remember, dear, when you said
If I ever stopped loving you, you'd rather be dead?
Well, dear, I don't know what on earth changed your mind
No matter who's holding you, your heart is still mine**
Every time I think about the way you cuddled up and
snuggled up
And filled me with your charm
I get dizzy in the head
And then it's seeming that I'm dreaming
Once like a bird in prison I dwelt
No freedom from my sorrow I felt
But Jesus came and listened to me
And glory to God He set me free
(Chorus)
He set me free yes He set me free
And He broke the bonds of prison for me
I'm glory bound my Jesus to see
For glory to God He set me free
Now I am climbing higher each day
Darkness of mine has drifted away
My feet are planted on higher ground
And glory to God I'm homeward bound
