Don Williams

7/29/2019 Don Williams

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My Heart To You (2003)

I've Got A Winner In You

I ought to know, what it's like to lose at love.I've done it enough and I ought to know.But then you came my way and towed away the fear of pain.I won't lose again, this time I know.

I've got a winner in you.No way I can lose,A love I can hold on to.I've got a winner in you.

I know how it feels, when you try and try again.And then you never win; I know how it feels,Oh, but thes time around, I fin'lly found what it's all about.They write songs about the way that I feel.

I've got a winner in you.No way I can lose,A love I can hold on to.

I've got a winner in you.I've got a winner in you.No way I can lose,A love I can hold on to.I've got a winner in you.

It's Good To See You

Its good to see you, so good to see youOh how Ive missed you, since Ive been goneIve crossed the ocean travelled through many landsAnd its good to see you to be in your home

Theres something in me, that makes me wanderTheres many a land, I have to seeAnd when Im far away, in a land of strangersI know my good friends, think on me

Its good to see you, so good to see youOh how Ive missed you, since Ive been goneCause Ive crossed the ocean, travelled through many landsAnd its good to see you, to be in your home

Oh its a wonder, when it comes to friendshipNo matter how far away, no matter how long

Theres a constant thread, thats never brokenAnd it ties me to, my friends at home

Its good to see you, so good to see youOh how Ive missed you since Ive been goneCause Ive crossed the ocean, travelled through many landsAnd its good to see you, to be in your home

Back In My Younger Days

Back in my younger days, I used to go all nightNow I just stay at home, and everything is all rightBack when I first met you, I used to live in a haze

That was so long ago, back in my younger days

I would do anything, just a stumbling foolIts a wonder Im standing here, Ive broken so many rulesNow I dance with you every night, and still Im so amazedYour love made a man of me, back in my younger days

Oh, it doesnt seem that long agoYou, you make it feel like the first time we made loveAnd I aint ever getting enoughWell, well, well....

As I go through the photographs, I laugh and turn the pageIts the ballad of me and you, from such an innocent ageTalk about a dream come true, we reinvented a phraseIts better than it used to be, back in my younger days

Back in my younger days, Back in my younger daysIts better than it used to be, back in my younger days

We're All The Way

Theres no cause to think that I wont stay, havent I been withyou all the way. Theres no time like now to make amends,cause after all were more than friends.

This could be the time for you & me. We could go whereverwe should be. So dont put words between us we shouldntsay, dont be acting half way, when you know were all the

way.

There are times that I dont see the light and I dont know ifwhat I do is right, when Im wrong its never meant for you,so dont confuse my love with what I do.

This could be the time for you & me. We could go whereverwe should be. So dont put words between us we shouldntsay, dont be acting half way, when you know were all theway

Stay Young

Oh, dont ya lose that light in your eyesYoure never too old to love, never too late to tryWhen somebody needs youGive em all you can giveOh, when youre livin to love and a lovin to live

CHORUS:Stay young keep your wheels in motionYouve got everything that you needStay young with your rock n rollinAll the best things in life are free

Oh, dont ya feel like playin the foolJust step outa line and break all the rulesWell, dont you let them tell you, Its not for youOh, dont go growin old, before youre due

Till The Rivers All Run Dry

Till the rivers all run dryTill the sun falls from the skyTill life on earth is throughIll be needing you

I know sometimes you may wonderFrom little things I say and doBut theres no need for you to wonderIf I need you, cause Ill need you

Too many times I dont tell youToo many things get in the way


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And even though sometimes I hurt youStill you show me, in every way

In The Family

Well I was raised up by the golden ruleIn an old house with a patched up roofWe had a hard home but it pulled us closeWe were family

Oh that summer when the crops all diedWas the first time I saw Daddy cryAn I heard Momma say what goes on here staysIn the family

CHORUS:Well our clothes werent new, that old car was usedWe held our ownWhoa you just cant buy, that sense of prideWe grew up on, In the family

I remember every Sunday nightAfter supper round the firelight

How peaceful Daddy lookedAs he read the good bookIn the family

Well, some folks said we were barely makin doWe were better off than they ever knewWe never had much but we sure had loveIn the family

Lay Down Beside Me

Ive spent my life looking for youFinding my way wasnt easy to do

I knew there was you all the whileAnd its been worth every mile

CHORUS:So lay down beside meLove me and hide meKiss all the hurtin of this world awayHold me so close that I feel your heartbeatAnd dont ever wander away

Mornings and evenings all were the sameAnd there was no music till I heard your nameBut I knew when I saw you smile

Now I can rest for awhile

True Love

Adam and Eve on a Saturday nightThats when the trouble startedShe said Adam lets go for a biteShe led him through the gardenAnd ever since then we tried to make sense of thismystery emotionBut we might as well try to count the stars in the skyor those raindrops in the ocean

CHORUS:Well you know its true loveDeeper than deepHotter than a fireWell itsa harder to find and its harder to keep

Its the thing we most desire

I was alone for so many nightsI really started to wonderIf I had run outa chances to findA spell I could fall underThen you walked in like an Elvis filmyou were singing Love Me TenderI was a hypnotized by your blue eyesand the next thing I remember

And there is true love in a waking eyeand the sweet perfume that lingersAnd itsa I love you on a new tattooand that diamond on her finger

Its the true love we most desire

We Should Be Together

I think about youWhen I dont want toDream about your smiling face

I keep trying not to love youBut I love you anyway

We should be together, togetherWe should be walking side by sideWe should be together, togetherKeeping each other satisfied

I have thought to come to know youIve come to need your companyWhat will I do if I cant have youIf I cant have youWhat will I do



I Recall A Gypsy Woman

Silver coins that jingle jangleFancy shoes that dance in timeOh the secrets of her dark eyes,They did sing a gypsy rhyme

Yellow clover in tangled blossomsIn a meadow silky greenWhere she held me to her bosom,Just a boy of seventeen

CHORUS:I recall a gypsy womanSilver spangles in her eyesIvory skin against the moonlightAnd the taste of lifes sweet wine

Soft breezes blow from fragrant meadowsAnd stir the darkness in my mind


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Oh gentle woman you sleep beside meLittle know who haunts my mind

Gypsy lady I hear your laughterAnd it dances in my headWhile my tender wife and babiesSlumber softly in their beds

I Turn The Page (1998)

Take It Easy On Yourself

Theres two hundred people pushin up dasiesIn the graveyard out back of the old Baptist churchThere were some schemers, sme sinners and dramersand not one died wishin they spent more time at work

Chorus:Take it easy on yourselfThe world will keep turninWithout ant helpI love you better than anyone elseTake it easy on yourself

Leave all the old tears, the good times and lost yearsThe guilt and the heartache right where they areI got no hard lesson just love without questionSo right now just lay down in these open arms

Bridge:Unhook your burden let it all freeSometimes Lifes harder than it ought to be

I got no hard lesson just love without questionSo right now just lay down in these open arms

Her Perfect Memory

I remember how we struggled when we first started outShe recalls we had it all not what we did withoutI think back on those hard times she remembers only loveWho am I to say thats not exactly how it was

Chorus:Thats how she remembers itShe was the lucky oneJust take a look at both of usand you tell me who won

If she thinks I hung the starsIf thats what she believesThen who am I to tamper withHer perfect memory

You ought to hear her tell the kids how mom and daddy metIt always amazes me the things that she forgetsSomehow she gets it turned around but its still my favoritepartHow Mommy looked in Daddys eyes and I stole away herheart

Tag:

If I made all her dreams come true as far as she can seeWho am I to tamper with her perfect memory

Elise

Sitting in the barroom ordering another beerShe stepped up on the stage, but nobody wanted to hearAnd every word she sang was sweet music to my ears

CHORUS:Elise, Elise, I believe every word you sayElise, Elise, I believe every word you say

It dont matter if the world dont listenDont you pay no heed

Elise, Elise, come and sing your song with me

I sat there at the bar she sang the blues all nightSinging straight from the heart, living every lineI wanna tell you girl, you touched this heart of mine

End of the night, they turned the lights down lowWhile the band packed up she was standing there ready to goI walked up and said, hey I just want to let you know

It dont matter if the world dont listenDont you pay no heedElise, Elise, come and sing your song with me

Elise, Elise, come and sing your song with me

Ride On

Peggy Sue rode away last night, on a rocking horseStraight into the pale moonlight, make believe of courseBut whats a little girl of eightSupposed to do when shes up so lateShe cant sleep cause it sounds like hateComing from her momma and daddys room

CHORUS:Ride on, ride on

Out to where it dont hurt no moreRide on, come onBack to how it was before

Your momma left and your daddy cussedAll they ever seem to do is fuss, ride on

Tommy Lees got a space machine, he keeps it ready on thelaunching padCause thereve been times that he has seen, an alien invadehis dadSo he heads out for the starsPast the moon and straight to Mars

But what about the invisible scarsThat come in a bottle that his daddy brings home

Your momma left and your daddy changedYou dont even know whos to blame, so ride on

BRIDGESome people just lose control, some people hit overloadSome people act like some people, they never thought theydbeSo why cant we all seeThe only antidote, The only way to copeThe only true hope is love

So everybody wont you,

Go ahead and test your faithTheres still a lot of hope, its never too late


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To ride on the wings of love, ride on

Something About You

I dont want nobodyIm better off aloneIm sworn to independenceMy heart is made of stoneBut youre breaking on through

Oh theres something bout you

Ive been tapping my toesTo the way you talkAnd Ive been singing alongTo the way you walkIve got to doSomething bout you

ChorusWell Ive got this place/life of mineIts nice and quiet and I like it fineI work real hard got no time for you

But Ive whiskied up my coffee cupSitting here trying not to call you upIts getting to where I dont know what to doOh theres something bout you.

BridgeSomething about you like distant thunderAnd I cant say I aint been warnedBut theres no shelter to crawl underEver gonna save me from this storm

Oh theres something bout youI cant shake

Theres something bout youThats been keeping me awakeThe whole night throughOh theres something bout you

Cracker Jack Diamond

Well he spent that summer going door to doorWith a can of gas and an old lawn mowerThats a sure fire way to make a buck when youre fourteen

Well he made a block with no luck at allThen he spotted a place where the weeds were tall

With a young girl sitting on the porch eating ice cream

Deep in the pocket of his grass stained jeansWas some caramel corn and a plastic ringLeftover from the week beforeMomma didnt wash them thank the lord

CHORUS:Just like a Cracker Jack Diamond,You never know when your gonna find oneThey found love from that day onThe hand of fate put them together,Their hearts will stay forever younglike a Cracker Jack Diamond

Well its been five years since he gave her his prizeNow the sparkles gone, but not in their eyesAnd hes wanting to tell her whats been on his mind lately

He said, girl I aint rich but Ive been saving upA little ever day til I had enoughBefore he finished he said, you know I will baby

Deep in the pocket of his holy jeansWas money for the preacher and a diamond ringHe took her back to that old front porchSlipped it on her finger and he thanked the Lord

Now once a year she takes it out but it wont fit her handBut she wears it in her heart because thats where it all began

From Now On

Everybody comes with baggagePlaces and poeple beforeYou dont know what all your gettingWhen love walks through your door, through your door

Ive had some hills and some valleysYouve done some traveling tooYou can tell by the dents and the scratches

Our hearts arent exactly brand new

CHORUS:From now on is all that countsFrom now on is all that mattersThats what livings all aboutFrom different roads we find each otherYoure the only love I want, from now on

Im thankful for the ones before meIm grateful that they didnt stayWe cant do a thing about itAnd its made us who we are today

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Pancho

ChorusPancho dont you like me no morePancho to me our friendship means morePancho please forget what I saidCause Pancho were headin towards our end.

I remember the first time when you came to townSpeaking in Spanish making the rounds

When you first saw me ypour face was agrinAnd you called me the Cisco kid

BridgeI said someday youll be happy with me Pancho

I remember the good times when you loved me soI gave you my hat and wore your sombreroAnd all of the times you saved me from deathOh Pancho you were the best

I had a black horse you had a greyMy horse was fastest but yours di okayWhen it came to chasin rustlers wed always winCause we were Pancho and the Cisco kis

Oh Pancho were headin towards our end


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A Handful Of Dust

Handful of Dust, Handfuls of Dust,True love makes perfect these handfuls of dust.

Well break us down by our elements,And you might think He failed.Were not copper for one penny or even iron for one nail.And a dollar would be plenty to buy twenty of usTil true love is added to these handfuls of dust

A handful of dust, a handful of dustSums up the richest and poorest of usAnd true love makes priceless the worthlessWhenever it is added to these handfuls of dust

However small though our worth may be,When shared between two hearts.Is evermore than it would ever be measured on its own apart.And our half what it could be is now twice what it wasWhen true love is added to these handfuls of dust

Harry And Joe

Harry and Joe move south with their wivesEnjoying the golden years of their livesBut life doesnt always give back what it owesSuddenly there was just Harry and Joe

Now Joed been a teacher gentile and calmHarry, a teamster with a fuse like a bombThrown in together by lifes crazy whimsThat pepper and salt like their unshaven chins

CHORUS:Harry and Joe lean to and fro

They lean on each other wherever they goTwo lonely fighters doing all that they knowTo get through each day Harry and Joe

Harry and Joe, cheating at cardsIn a Florida apartment that smells like cigarsThey brag about grand kids and the wives they love soIn the late afternoons of Harry and Joe

An ambulance siren from across the backyardJoe looks at Harry and deals out the cards

Harry and Joe lean to and fro

Like they lean on each other wherever they goWhat tomorrow may deal them theres no way to knowSo they get through today Harry and JoeThey get through each day Harry and Joe

How Did You Do It?

You dont seem to be doing all that badIn fact you look goodYou dont seem to be feeling all that sadLike I thought maybe you would

CHORUS:How, how did you do itHow did you let it goHow, how did you do itI need to know

Now youve got friends to help you when youre sadTheres even someone youve been seeingNow I know theres nothing wrong with thatIn fact its a good thing

One last question before you goIf youre really over you and meHow did you get there, I need to knowCause thats where Id like to be

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I Sing For Joy

When I was younger, the hunger came callingAnd humbly I answered each rising and fallingI will not surrender at this wiser and tender ageI turn the page

CHORUS:And I sing for JoyFor the smile that it brings, from the heartThrough these guitar strings

It was only noise, till her love put a songIn the soul of this good ole boyI sing for Joy

When I was lonely, my angel found meShe sweetly and gently wrapped her arms around meAnd the demons that chased me, gave up and faded awayNow I can sing

Who could come nearer, to making life clearerThe time were together grows dearer and dearerWhen I must travel and I have to leave her aloneShes in my song

Flatlands (1996)

Shadow Land

Everytime the tide comes in the tide goes outSome folks fail some do alrightYou could take a johnboat all the way to townHad an angry broken father, in a house beside the water

CHORUS:Shadowland, what secret are you keeping

Are you only sleepin to wake another dayShadowland, Oh how could I have loved youI never really knew you, anyway

Funny how the stars down there shine so brightBreeze comes in just like a prayerMama asked Jesus to keep Daddy home at nightI guess it was a pity, but Jesus never did it

BRIDGE:Storms blew up from Mexico, the boats would all come inNights like that you could smell salt water on the windI was so young back then

Brother was a gifted child so they saidWe could build a starship in the yardAngry voices came from the house at nightSo wed play a game he made up


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And stay out a little later

What Does It Matter To Me

I see her walkin down the streetWhat does it matter to meAnd I can wonder who she might beWhat does it matter to me

Ia there someone who

She could be runnin toShes gonna do what shes gonna doWhat does it matter to me

Seems shes everywhere I lookWhat does it matter to meAnd her looks could fill a bookWhat does it matter to me

Theres no need for me to tryOr even wonder whyJust let her walk on by

On winters eve, my soul has soaredWith deserts evening skyBut never seen the beauty, I see in her eyes

Glass House

You know Im working overtimeJust trying to cover my behindYou know you took all my moneyAnd I guess you thought you took my mindYou can run, you cant hideAnd just as sure as your breathingI aint gonna let it slide

When youre living in a glass houseDont go to bed with the lights on

Well I was raised by the ruleThat forgiving is the way divineTook everything I had for givingThen you left what was left behindGo on and run, you cant hideAnd sure as yourre breathingI aint gonna let it slide

I got aquainted with your cleaners

And they really did all right by youIve got my own window cleaners cominNow lets see just what you doDay or night, Its alright, What you doWhen you wake up by the dawns ealy lightCome on

We Should Only Have Time For Love

Today we laid old man pate to resthis big hands folded across his chestgod rest his soul, just two days agohe was in his yard wavin' to me

as I stood by his grave the impression was strongone minute we're here and the next we're goneand with each breath of life that is given to uswe should only have time for love

so tell me what can be gained by fussing and fightingthe answer is left up to usI think it's time we learned, enough is enoughoh, we should only have time for love

sometimes I'm unwilling to open my eyesjust too stubborn to compromisewhen you stand your groundoh, there's no backin' down

that makes for a long, b17ter fight

and you know it's such a waste to engage in thattearing each other down in a tit for tatwhen we could be hard at work, building a trustoh, we should only have time for love

well, isn't it time we learned, enough is enoughoh, we should only have time for love

I Need You To Want Me

I don't need a fortune teller

I don't need me no M.D.I don't need some slick suit thats passed the bar

I don't need a politicianOr some preacher on tvFolks to tell me how I've done so far

I need you to want meI want you to tove meThe way I love you:Oh, for a friendA friend you can count onBe there for me and I'm yours till the end

Sagan's slingin big bangNader's workin on controlEinstein's Mr. Relativity

I don't need no revelationMystics cloud up things for meAnd I don't need another mystery

This Side Of The Sun

I thought I'd be an angel and fly on astral skiesI thought I'd wear a fanciful disguise

and it's taken me a lotta timeto find out I'm not onean outlaw on the run, on this side of the sun

I hoped I'd be a champion and live without a careI thought I'd change the world, make it just and fairbut my youth slipped by before my eyesmuch to my surprisebefore I had begun, on this side of the sun

out on this end of the windwinter's coming 'round the bendyou pray for rain, before you know,you're standin' in a foot of snowso you pull your coat up to your chinpick your shovel up again'cause your work is never done, on this side of the sun


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I took it to a fortune tellerI thought that she might help meshe looked into my eyes and smiled mysteriouslybut she didn't know as much as meI stared back, dejectedly'cause I know where she's from, this side of the sun

out behind these prison walls,dark clouds come and hard rains fallyou pause a moment for a dream,

they row you gently down the streamyou wake up angry in the night, jump up, ready for a fightbut the war is never won on this side of the sunnow they tell me music can free a person's soul

so I sing a song everywhere I gobut it's not much oifferent than beforeI'm still looking for the doorI wonder if there is one, on this side of the sun

Gulf Shore Line

Waves are rollin' in, lazy summer wind

Sittin' in the sand, holdin' to your handI was ten and you were nineWay out on the gulf shore line

You became my girl, I became your manUnderneath the stars, we were makin plansYou said I do and you've done just fineWay out on the gulf shore line

The sea will moan, waves will rollThe sea gulls fly, on the winds that blowAnd Ill love you till the sun dont shineWay out on the gulf shore line

Graduation day, Johnny walked awayHard to say goodbye, harder not to cryHe had to leave his folks behindWay out on the gulf shore line

Fifty years of life, thirty years of loveTime has gone so fast, one life's not enoughIn heaven I know Ill findYou and the gulf shore line

Wash It All Away

Day by dayseems like you drift awaymaybe it's just a phasebut it won't take a lotto put out this fire we've gotwhat's left just don't seem so hotit flickers and strainswaits for the rain

as it fades from a fireto a dying flame, and it lookslike rain5ee the clouds in the skythey don't even seem to mindit will die don't they knowfeel the wind begin to blowsoon it will bring the rainwash it all away

if I cover this flamesafe from the pouring rainI don't think it would changea thing'cause I just believeit's got to have room to breatheso it occurs to meI could lose either wayhere comes the rain

if you don't come back the rainwill wash it all away

Which Way To Santa Fe

Which way is Santa Fe, New MexicoIve got some things to say, she needs to knowSmall brown adobe there, where lives my heartI just cant make it here, with us apartWhich way is Santa Fe, New Mexico

There was a dream I had, I had to seeSalt of the ocean breeze, calling to me

So much for me to do, so much to beWhere is the dream I had, what do I see

How can so much so right, be wrongWhy should you have to leaveTo know where you belong

No Problem

Nobody's life is perfect nobody wins' em allIn everybody's backyard a little rain must fall

And when I think about you you're just the way you are

If you were any different oh, it would break my heart

You talk too much you laugh too loudWhen you hold my hand you act too proudYou give me more lovin' than a man's allowedIf that's the biggest problem I've got, no problem

My house is not a mansion, my car is not brand newMy clothes are out of fashion, my road's got a bump or two

But when I think about you, the way you smile so sweetI know that you're not perfect but you're close enough for me

You talk too much you laugh too loudWhen you hold my hand you act too proudYou give me more lovin' than a man's allowedIf that's the biggest problem I've got, no problem

If that's the biggest problem I've gotIf that's the biggest problem I've gotIf that's the biggest problem I've gotNo problem

Leaving For The Flatlands

Sweetly flows the water from the mountainSoftly falls the rain upon the leavesGently blows the breeze among the cedarsQuietly my heart is on its kneesHow could anything in all creationBe more beautiful than all I see


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With it all my heart is not rejoicingBecause the one I love is not with me

Somewhere in between us was a differenceNot we or all this beauty could secureAnd I know now my heart will ache foreverAnd I wonder if this mountain can endure

So l'm leavin'for the flatlandsGoin' back where I was conceived

Goin' back where nobody knows the differenceThis mountain knows too much about me

I though it was written up in heavenThat you would be with me and I with youSun and moon and stars must feel the differenceAnd they're wishin' there was somethin' they could do

Silver Turns To Gold

When I get up in the mornin'and I face a brand new dayI know that you're beside me

every step of the way

for so long now we've been loversalways been the best of friendsand I raise my glass up to ya'as we start all over again

I'll love you till the day that I diewith a feeling that will never grow oldI'll keep my arm around youwhen you start to move a little slowand love will never fade awayour story will forever: be told

you know where you can find mewhen the silver turns to gold

I gave my heart away to youthe first time I felt the touch of your handand twenty-five years laterI still wanna be your man

Restless

Give me too many bad signs, Ill be gone and I can tell youwhyRight or wrong that's just the way I am

Im not looking for sympathy, we either do or we don't agreeAll I need to know is where I stand

So it's comin' right down to you, I wanna stay.if you want metoBut I don't wanna waste your time, so I don't want you wastin'mine

When the sun's sinkin' low, I get so restlessShould I stay or go, that is the questionI really need to feel that you'll neverLeave me alone, maybe that's all I really need to know

Maybe I get too impatient, when I sense your reservationsI guess Im, just scared you'll say goodbye'cause I would hope Ive let you know what it's like insideyour loveI pray it lasts for more than just awhile

So it's time to make up your mind either way I will surviveNot knowing is enough for me to ride away with a brokendream

When the sun's sinkin' low, I get so restlessShould I stay or go, that is the questionI really need to feel that you'll neverLeave me alone, maybe that's all I really need to know

Borrowed Tales (1995)

Fever

Never know how much I love you, Never know how much IcareWhen you put your arms around me, I get a fever thats sohard to bearYou give me fever, when you kiss me, Fever when you holdme tightFever in the morning, fever all through the night

Sun lights up the daytime, Moon lights up the nightI light up when you call my name, Because I know your gonnatreat me rightYou give me fever, when you kiss me, Fever when you holdme tightFever in the morning, fever all through the night

Everybodys got the fever, that is something you all knowFever isnt such a new thing, Fever started long ago

Romeo loved Juliet, Juliet she felt the same,When he put his arms around her, he said, Julie baby youremy thing

You give us fever, when we kisseth, Fever with the flamingyouthFever, Im on fire, Fever yea I burn forsooth

Captain Smith and Pocahontas, had a very mad affairWhen her Daddy tried to kill him, she said, Daddy-o dont dothatHe gives me fever, with his kisses, Fever when he holds metightFever, Im his misses, Daddy wont you treat him right

Now youve listened to my story, And heres a point that Ihave made

Chicks were born to give you fever, Be it farenheight orcentigradeThey give you fever, When you kiss themFever if you live your lifeFever til you sizzleWhat a lovely way to burnWhat a lovely way to burn

Crying In The Rain

Ill never let you seeThe way my broken heart is hurting meIve got my pride and I know how to hide

All my sorrow and painIll do my crying in the rain

If I wait for cloudy skiesYou wont know the rain from the tears in my eyesYoull never know that I still love you so


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Though the heartaches remainIll do my crying in the rain

Raindrops falling from heavenCould never wash away my miseryBut since were not togetherIll look for stormy weatherTo hide these tears I hope youll never see

Someday when my cryings done

Im gonna wear a smile and walk in the sunI may be a fool but til then darling youllNever see me complainIll do my crying in the rain

Raindrops falling from heavenCould never wash away my miseryBut since were not togetherIll look for stormy weatherTo hide these tears I hope youll never see

Someday when my cryings doneIm gonna wear a smile and walk in the sun

I may be a fool but til then darling youllNever see me complainIll do my crying in the rainIll do my crying in the rainIll do my crying in the rain

Lay Down Rally

There is nothing that is wrongWanting you to stay here with meI know you got somewhere to goWont you make yourself at home and never leaveAnd dont you ever leave

Lay Down Sally rest here in my armsDont you think you want someone to talk toLay Down Sally no need to leave so soonI been tryin all night long jus to talk to you

Sun aint nearly on the riseWe still got the moon and stars aboveUnderneath the velvet skiesLove is all that matters wont you stay with meAnd dont you ever leave

Lay Down Sally rest here in my arms

Dont you think you want someone to talk toLay Down Sally no need to leave so soonI been tryin all night long jus to talk to you

I long to see the mornin lightColor in your face so dreamilySo dont you go and say goodbyeYou can lay your worries down and stay with meAnd dont you ever leave

Lay Down Sally rest here in my armsDont you think you want someone to talk toLay Down Sally no need to leave so soonI been tryin all night long jus to talk to you

My Rifle, My Pony, And Me

The sun is sinking in the westThe cattle go down to the streamThe redwing settle in their nestIts time for a cowboy to sing

Purple light in the canyonThats where I long to beWith my three good companionsJus my rifle, my pony and me

Whiporwill in the willowSings a sweet melodyRidin to AmarilloJus my rifle, my pony and me

No more cows to be ropinNor more strays will I seeRound the bend shell be waitinFor my rifle, my pony and meFor my rifle, my pony and me

I'll Be There If You Ever Want Me

There aint no chain strong enough to hold meAint no breeze big enough to slow meNever have seen a river thats too wide

There aint no jail tight enough to lock meAint no man big enough to stop meIll be there if you ever want me by your side

So love me if you ever gonna love meI never have seen a road too rough to ride

There aint no chain strong enough to hold meAint no breeze big enough to slow me

Ill be there if you ever want me by your side

There aint no rope stout enough to bind meLook for me honey you will find meAny ol time youre ready with your charm

And Ill be there ready and a waitinThere wont be any hesitatinIll be there if you ever want me in your arms

So love me if you ever gonna love meI never have seen a road too rough to ride

There aint no chain strong enough to hold meAint no breeze big enough to slow meIll be there if you ever want me by your side

Reason To Believe

If I listen long enough to youId find a way to believe its all trueKnowing that you lied straight faced while I criedStill Id look to find a reason to believe

Someone like youMakes it hard to live without somebody elseSomeone like youMakes it easy to give and never think of myself

If I gave you time to change my mindId find a way and Id leave the past behind


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Knowing that you lied straight faced while I cryStill Id look to find a reason to believe

Someone like youMakes it hard to live without somebody elseSomeone like youMakes it easy to give and never think of myself

If I gave you time to change my mindId find a way and Id leave the past behind

Knowing that you lied straight faced while I cryStill Id look to find a reason to believe

Games People Play

Oh the games people play now, every night and every daynowNever meaning what they say now, never saying what theymean

They just wile away the hours, In their ivory towersTil theyre covered up with flowers, In the back of a blacklimousine

La da da, da da da, da daLa da da, da da da, da deeIm talking bout you and meAnd the games people play

Oh we make one another cry,Break our heart when we say good-byeCross our hearts and we hope to dieBet the other was to blame

Neither one ever give an inchSo we gaze at our eight by ten

Thinking bout the things that might of beenAnd its a dirty rotten shame

People walking up to you, Singing glory Hallelujah!And their trying to sock it to you, In the name of the Lord

There gonna teach you how to meditateRead your horoscope and cheat your fateAnd furthermore to hell with hateCome on get on board

La da da, da da da, da daLa da da, da da da, da dee

Im talking bout you and meAnd the games people play

Well look around and tell me what you seeWhats a happening to you and me

If You Could Read My Mind

If you could read my mind love, what a tale my thoughtscould tellJust like an old time movie, bout a ghost from a wishin wellIn a castle dark or a fortress strongWith chains upon my feet,You know that ghost is me

And I will never be set free, as long as Im a ghost you cantsee

If I could read your mind love,What a tale your thoughts could

tellJust like a paperback novel, The kind the drugstore sellWhen you reach the part where the heartaches comeThe hero would be me, heroes often fail

And you wont need that book again, Because the endingsjust too hard to take

Id walk away like a movie starWho gets burned in a freeway script, enter number two

A movie queen to play the scene, of bringing all the goodthings out in meBut for now love lets be real, I never thought I could act thiswayAnd Ive got to say that I just dont get itI dont know where we went wrongBut the feelins gone and I just cant get it back

If you could read my mind love, what a tale my thoughtscould tellJust like an old time movie, bout a ghost from a wishin wellIn a castle dark or a fortress strongWith chains upon my feet, the story always ends

And if you read between the linesYoull know that Im just tryin to understandThe feelings that you lackI never thought I could feel this wayAnd Ive got to say that I just dont get itI dont know where we went wrongBut the feelins gone and I just cant get it back

Peace Train

Ive been happy lately thinkin about the good things to comeAnd I believe it could be something good has begun

Oh Ive been smilin lately dreamin about the world as oneAnd I believe it could be someday its goin to come

Cause out on the edge of darkness there rides the peace trainOh peace train take this country come take me home again

Oh peace train soundin louder ride on the peace trainOoo, come on the peace train

Yes peace train holy roller everyone jump upon the peacetrainOoo, come on the peace train

Now get your bags together go bring your good friends tooBecause its getting nearer it soon will be with you

Now come and join the living accept the point of viewAnd its getting nearer soon it will all be true

Now Ive been cryin lately thinkin about the world as it isWhy must we go on hating why cant we love and live

Oh peace train soundin louder ride on the peace trainOoo, come on the peace train

Yes peace train holy roller everyone jump upon the peacetrainOoo, come on, come on, come onYes peace train yes its the peace train


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The Long Black Veil

Ten years ago on a cold dark nightA man was killed neath the town hall lightThere were few at the scene but they all agreedThat the slayer who ran looked a lot like me

The judge said, Son what is your alibi?If you were somewhere else then you wont have to dieWell I spoke not a word though it meant my life

For I had been in the arms of my best friends wife

She walks these hills in a Long Black VeilShe visits my grave when the night winds wailNobody knows nobody seems nobody knows but me

The scaffold is high an eternity nearsShe stood in the crowd shed not a tearBut sometimes at night when the cold winds moanShe comes to my grave and she cries on my bones

She walks these hills in a Long Black Veil

She visits my grave when the night winds wailNobody knows nobody seems nobody knows but me

The Letter

Gimme a ticket for an aeroplaneI aint got time to take a fast trainLonely days are gone Im a goin homeMy baby jus wrote me a letter

I dont care how much money I gotta spendI got to get back to my baby againLonely days are gone Im a goin home

My baby jus wrote me a letter

Well she wrote me a letterSaid she couldnt live without me no moreListen mister cant you seeI gotta get back to my baby once moreAny way yeah

Gimme a ticket for an aeroplaneI aint got time to take a fast trainLonely days are gone Im a goin homeMy baby jus wrote me a letter

Well she wrote me a letterSaid she couldnt live without me no moreListen mister cant you seeI gotta get back to my baby once moreAny way yeah

Gimme a ticket for an aeroplaneI aint got time to take a fast trainLonely days are gone Im a goin homeMy baby jus wrote me a letterMy baby jus wrote me a letter

You've Got A Friend

When youre down and troubled and you need a helping handAnd nothin, nothin is goin rightClose your eyes and think of me and soon I will be thereTo brighten up even your darkest night

You just call out my name and you know wherever I amIll come runnin to see you againWinter, spring, summer or fall all youve got to do is callAnd Ill be there, yes I will, youve got a friend

If the sky above you should turn dark and full of cloudsAnd that old north wind should begin to blowKeep your head together and call my name out loudSoon Ill be knockin upon your door

You just call out my name and you know wherever I amIll come runnin to see you againWinter, spring, summer or fall all youve got to do is callAnd Ill be there

Hey aint it good to know youve got a friendWhen people can be so coldTheyll hurt you, desert youTheyll take your soul if you let themSo dont you let them

You just call out my name and you know wherever I am

Ill come runnin to see you againWinter, spring, summer or fall all youve got to do is callAnd Ill be there, yes I willYouve got a friend

Pretend

Pretend your happy when youre blueIt isnt very hard to doAnd youll find happiness without and inWhenever you pretend

Remember anyone can dream

And nothings bad as it may seemThe little things you havent got could be a lotIf you pretend

Youll find a love you can shareOne you can call all your ownJust close your eyes shell be thereYoull never be alone

And if you sing this melodyYoull be pretending just like meThe world is mine it can be yours my friendSo why dont you pretend

Youll find a love you can shareOne you can call all your ownJust close your eyes shell be thereYoull never be alone

And if you sing this melodyYoull be pretending just like meThe world is mine it can be yours my friendSo why dont you pretend

Currents (1992)

Only Water Shining In The Air

Not that long ago I was on the runPeople telling me I should be someoneAnd the things Id learnt were forgotten in my haste


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Till I reached the end of the rainbow I had chased

It was only water shining in thin airI put out my hand and there was nothing thereAfter all the promise, after all the prayerIt was only water shining in the air

Now Ive got a wife and she sees my throughAnd Ive got a friend I can talk straight toAnd Ive got some dreams just a bit more down to earth

And I dont forget what a rainbows really worth

Cause its only water shining in the airI put out my hand and there was nothing thereAfter all the promise, after all the prayerIt was only water shining in the air

If you want fame and fortune, then you just be my guestIf you want to pay those dues, I wish you all the best

But its only water shining in the airI put out my hand and there was nothing thereAfter all the promise, after all the care

It was only water shining in the airIt was only water shining in the air

Too Much Love

Too much coffee, too much tea, too much sugar isnt good forme. Too much money and too much fame, too much liqueurdrives a man insane.

But too much love, too much love, theres no such thing as toomuch love.

Too much fighting and misery, theres too much trouble in

this world for me. Theres too much of this and too much ofthat and too much of anything will make you fat.

But too much love, too much love, theres no such thing as toomuch love.

Too many people saying dont do that, its a no, no, no, no,no. I dont need telling where its at I said I know, know,know, know, know, know.

Too much pleasure and too much pain, somewhere someonesgetting too much rain and too much junks being advertisedand too much television hurts your eyes.

But too much love, too much love, theres no such thing as toomuch love.La la la la la la la la la la la la la la

That Song About The River

I have seen the paddle wheelers rolling south on a summersday. Ive seen the lovers at the guardrails with stars in theirlemonade and Ive heard the hobos gather, heard their banjosbrace the blade. Heard them sing about the river, called it thelazy mans parade.

Sing me that song about the river, green going away. Youknow I always did feel like a drifter at this time of day.

Last night I stood by the highway, pretended I was on myway. You know a hundred thousand headlights couldnt match

the milky way and when the moonlight touches the water,surely something touches me and I go reaching for the riverlike its reaching for the sea.

Sing me that song about the river, green going away. Youknow I always did feel like a drifter at this time of day.

Somethings go on for ever but truth dont ever stray. The windmay brush the water but the river wont persuade.

Sing me that song about the river, green going away. Youknow I always did feel like a drifter at this time of day

Catfish Bates

They call me Catfish Bates'Cause I can catch a catfish anytime I want toEven when the moon man tells me they wont biteThey call me Catfish Bates'Cause I know where that big ole flatheads a hiddin.Im a gonna take him home with me tonight

I am the king of Looseyhatchie

My home is on the riverAnd them catfish they all know me by my sighI keep my nose on the westwindMy eye on the waterAnd my mind on my business all the time

Well I get me a plug a days worth of tobaccoAnd a can a big ole redwormsI go down to where the rivers runnin strongI throw my hook out on the waterI let it float on down the channelAnd Ill have me a big ole flathead for too long

Oh when they bury me I want to be somewhere on the riverWith a big ole flathead layin on my stoneAnd them catfish will all be prayinTheyll be flatheads up in heavenSo my ghost will leave them hatchie cats alone

So Far, So Good

I think Im is a world of trouble, talk about a worried man. I'veseen enough women falling out of love to know Ive got oneon my hands. There must be something going on that I dontknow about. I got a feeling fore the weekends over shell bemoving out.

Oh but so far, so she hasnt packed a thing at all, she hasntmade a call, she must be thinking it over. So far so good. Shehasnt done what I thought she would. So far so good.

Oh the nights are the hardest to handle. So many things in myhead. How much longer can I go on just taking a memory tobed. Im so afraid theres somebody else, Lord I hope Imwrong, but I cant help feeling that one of these mornings Illbe waking up alone.

Oh but so far, so she hasnt packed a thing at all, she hasntmade a call, she must be thinking it over. So far so good. Shehasnt done what I thought she would. So far so good.

So far, so far so good

In The Family


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Well I was raised up by the golden ruleIn an old house with a patched up roofWe had a hard home but it pulled us closeWe were family

Oh that summer when the crops all diedWas the first time I saw Daddy cryAn I heard Momma say what goes on here staysIn the family

CHORUS:Well our clothes werent new, that old car was usedWe held our ownWhoa you just cant buy, that sense of prideWe grew up on, In the family

I remember every Sunday nightAfter supper round the firelightHow peaceful Daddy lookedAs he read the good bookIn the family

Well, some folks said we were barely makin doWe were better off than they ever knewWe never had much but we sure had loveIn the family

Standing Knee Deep In A River

Friends I could count on I could count on 1 hand with a leftover finger or two. I took them for granted, let them all slipaway, now where they are I wish I knew.

They roll by just like water & I guess we never learn, gothrough life parched and empty standing knee deep in a river,

dying of thirst.

Sometimes I remember the good people Ive known, someIve forgotten I suppose. One or two still linger, oh I wondernow why I ever let them go.

They roll by just like water & I guess we never learn, gothrough life parched and empty standing knee deep in a river,dying of thirst.

So the side walk is crowded the city goes by, I just rushedthrough another day & a world full of strangers turn their eyesto me, but I just look the other way.

They roll by just like water & I guess we never learn, gothrough life parched and empty standing knee deep in a river,dying of thirst.

Go through life parched and empty, standing knee deep in ariver dying of thirst

Lone Star State Of Mind

Your phone call took me by surpriseGee its been a long, long timeSince those hot and humid Texas nightsWe went swimmin in the tideCorpus Cristi seems so far awayAnd Im not talkin bout the milesThere aint much I wouldnt give todayJust to see one of your smiles

CHORUS:But Im stuck here in DenverSippin California wineAnd Ive got all night to remember youIm in a lone star state of mind

I just saw John Wayne on the late, late showHe saved the girl and rode awayBut I was hopin as the credits rolled

Hed make it back to her some day

An its a thousand miles or moreFrom here to your front doorOh, Id be there tomorrow if I had my wayWell, Id jus pack up my guitarYou know its really not that farAnd when you called you said Id have a place to stay

The Old Trail

Theres a new ridge road that cuts the mountain to the bone.Slices through the woods like there aint nobody home. You

wheel on up the valley view. Youll never feel the climb. Ohbut Ill take the old trail every time.

The old trail, just moses right along, moves at the speed of asweet love song and the wind through the trees carries herown wind chimes. Yeah Ill take the old trail every time.

Lately it seems things vanish by degrees. How soon we forgetwe made our tree houses out of trees. When we going torealise some reasons just dont rhyme. Yeah I take the old trailevery time.

The old trail. Now may she never fade. The one where the

deer always have the right of way. How I love to watch thewintergreen along the timber lines. Yes Ill take the old trailevery time.People all in cars let the radios do the talking but I always findthat Im singing when Im walking.The old trail just moses right along. Moves at the speed of asweet love song and the wind through the trees carries herown wind chimes. Yeah Ill take the old trail every time. Itake the old trail every time

Its Who You Love

Lying here beside her Ive come to understand

If you want to be happy you canIt dont take living like a king, it doesnt cost you anythingAll it takes is a woman & a man

Because its who you love & who loves youIts not where you are if shes there tooIts not who you know or what you doIts who you love & who loves you

This modern world we live in is a sad state of affairs,Everybody wants what isnt theirsWhile the race for money & success in search of happiness,We turn out the light & go upstairs.



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So we hold each other tightAnd own the world tonightCause love is all that matters anyway


Its who you love & who loves youIts not where you are if shes there tooIts not who you know or what you doIts who you love & who loves you

True Love (1990)

True Love

Adam and Eve on a Saturday nightThats when the trouble startedShe said Adam lets go for a biteShe led him through the gardenAnd ever since then we tried to make sense of thismystery emotionBut we might as well try to count the stars in the skyor those raindrops in the ocean

CHORUS:Well you know its true loveDeeper than deepHotter than a fireWell itsa harder to find and its harder to keepIts the thing we most desire

I was alone for so many nightsI really started to wonderIf I had run outa chances to findA spell I could fall underThen you walked in like an Elvis filmyou were singing Love Me TenderI was a hypnotized by your blue eyesand the next thing I remember

And there is true love in a waking eyeand the sweet perfume that lingersAnd itsa I love you on a new tattooand that diamond on her finger

Its the true love we most desire

Lord Have Mercy On Country Boy

Well I grew up wild and freeWalkin these fields in my bare feetThere wasnt no place I couldnt goWith a twenty-two rifle and a fishing pole

CHORUS:Well I live in the city but dont fit inYou know its a pity the shape Im in

Well I got no home and I got no choiceOh Lord, have mercy on a country boy

When I was young I remember wellId hunt the wild turkey and the bob-white quailThe river was clear and deep back then

And fishin lines tied to the willow limb

Well they dammed the river, they dammed the streamThey cut down the cypress and the sweet gum treesTheres a laundra mat and a barber shopAnd now the whole meadow is a parkin lot

Darlin' That's What Your Love Does

Early this morning before you awoke

There was mist on the creek while the cigarette's smokedAnd when the sun rose up and burned off the coldThe smoke turned to silver and then turned to gold.

Darlin' that's just what your love doesThat's what it does with a kissI'm not the man that I just wasLove don't get deeper than this.

When I was young and my daddy was goneI'd go to sleep with the radio onSometimes they'd played such a beautiful songMe and the Sand Man would sing all night long.

Darlin' that's just what your love doesWhen you just whispered my nameI'm not the man that I just wasNothing about me's the same.

Darlin' by this time tomorrowThere's no telling who I might beYour love just keep changin' me.

And I've come to think that the heart's like a kiteAnd in the best breeze it still cannot take flightUntil someone ties it and takes it in tow

And it floats around heaven until it lets go.

Darlin' that's just what your love doesThat's what it does with a touchI'm not the man that I just wasDarlin' I need you that much.

Darlin' that's just what your love doesThat's what it does with a kissI'm not the man that I just wasLove don't get deeper than this...

Come A Little Closer

Now stop that small talk, turn that light offIt ain't my fault you look so fineMy hearts achin? and I ain't fakin?I don't ask for much of nuthin', I just need a little lovin?

Come on, babe, come a little closerHoney, move it over, feels so rightPull that shade just a little lowerCome a little closer, baby, tonight

Now put that phone down, shut that door nowLet's just think about me and youMy hearts racin', time is a wastin?I don't want much of nothin?, a little kiss a little hugin?

Come on, babe, come a little closerHoney, move it over, feels so right


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Pull that shade just a little lowerCome a little closer, baby, tonight

Cut off that late show, turn that lamp lowHoney, you know how I feelMy heart's beatin?, the night is pleasin'I ain't askin' that much of ya, all I want to do is love ya

Come on, babe, come a little closerHoney, move it over, feels so right

Pull that shade just a little lowerCome a little closer, baby, tonight

Come on, babe, come a little closerHoney, move it over, feels so rightPull that shade just a little lowerCome a little closer, baby, tonight

Just 'Cause I'm In Love With You

It's true, youve got me going, 'round in circlesYou keep me so darned dizzy, I could cryBut every time you hurt me, I grow a little stronger

I'll soon be strong enough to say goodbye.

It will be so good to smileGee, it's been a long, long whileAfter all that I've been throughJust 'cause I'm in love with you.But there will come a day, you'll seeYou won't have control of meYou can't hurt me like you doJust 'cause I'm in love with you.

(Instrumental)

I'll ask, whatever saint looks after loversI'll ask, would you please look after meAnd would you kindly hear my prayer,And have a little mercy?Please, if she doesn't love me, set me free.

It will be so good to smileGee, it's been a long, long whileAfter all that I've been throughJust 'cause I'm in love with youBut there will come a day, you'll seeYou won't have control of meYou cant hurt me like you do

Just 'cause I'm in love with you...

Back In My Younger Days

Back in my younger days, I used to go all nightNow I just stay at home, and everything is all rightBack when I first met you, I used to live in a hazeThat was so long ago, back in my younger days

I would do anything, just a stumbling foolIts a wonder Im standing here, Ive broken so many rulesNow I dance with you every night, and still Im so amazedYour love made a man of me, back in my younger days

Oh, it doesnt seem that long agoYou, you make it feel like the first time we made loveAnd I aint ever getting enoughWell, well, well....

As I go through the photographs, I laugh and turn the pageIts the ballad of me and you, from such an innocent ageTalk about a dream come true, we reinvented a phraseIts better than it used to be, back in my younger days

Back in my younger days, Back in my younger daysIts better than it used to be, back in my younger days

Donald And June

Donald and June enjoyed their brief honeymoonThen they came home to lead the big baby boomJune wanted boys, so Margie wore, short hair and corduroysSoon they had Claire then Linda and Louise, a matching pairJune liked boys

Donald and June they put some money asideBut all in four years they gave away three bridesJune spent it all. Donald tried to keep each wedding smallWhen they were broke he offered Claire a thousand to elopeClaire said, Nope'

If things were different for Donald and JuneThen things wouldn't be as they areWhere did they go rightAnd how did they ever come, so far

Donald and June had finally emptied their nestThey planned a long trip and then a couple year's restBut Claire had a spat and turned up with her suitcase and hercapMarg moved next door, now she won't need day care anymoreAnd the twins had twins

If things were different for Donald and June

Then things wouldn't be as they areWhere did they go rightAnd how did they ever come, so far.

Donald and June enjoyed their brief honeymoon

Jamaica Farewell

Down the way, where the nights are gayAnd the sun shines daily on the mountain topI took a trip on a sailing shipAnd when I reached JamaicaI made a stop.

But I'm, sad to say I'm on my wayWon't be back for many a dayMy heart is down, my head is spinning aroundI had to leave a little girl in Kingston town.

Sounds of laughter, everywhereAnd the dancing girls swing to and froI must declare my heart is thereThough I've been from Maine to Mexico.

But I'm, sad to say I'm on my wayWon't be back for many a dayMy heart is down, my head is spinning aroundI had to leave a little girl in Kingston town.

(Instrumental)


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Down at the market, you can hearLadies cry out while on their heads they bear`Akey' rice, salt fish are niceAnd the rum is good any time of year

But I'm sad to say I'm on my wayWon't be back for many a dayMy heart is down, my head is spinning aroundI had to leave a little girl in Kingston town

But I'm sad to say I'm on my wayWon't be back for many a dayMy heart is down, my head is spinning aroundI had to leave a little girl in Kingston town...

Loving You's Like Coming Home

Ive been rained on, Ive been wind blowntook a wrong road every now & thenIve been passed up, once or twice stuck& I thought love was just around the bendBut lately my hope was wearing thin

CHORUS:Its a lonesome and endless highwayIve been searching for so longAnd after all the miles Ive travelledLoving yous like coming home

Ive been left flat, Ive been laughed at,wound up right back where I started from.Been the wrong way down a one way& I thought some day my day would come.But lately Id almost given up.

Well Ive been flagged down, Ive been turned round

& all that I found was a dead end street.Ive been stranded, marked & branded,treated underhanded by everyone I meet.But lately my dream is getting weak.

One Good Well (1989)

Learn To Let It Go

Theres a young man sits by the riverGot his head held down in his handsTheres a lost love in every teardrop

And reasons that he just dont understandTheres a dirt road runs by the riverComes an old man stepping highwith a soft voice & kind intentionshe said son you know youre too young to crySome things were meant to just roll by

CHORUS:Youve got to learn to let it go, when love lets you downLearn to let it go, so you dont miss the one waiting to befoundWith a love thats going to bring you round

Only love is going to bring you around

He said now I know its hard to imaginethat one day you wont feel so bad.I know youre going to take comfortfrom this experience that Ive had.

One Good Well

Theres a million oil rigs pumping that black gold all over theworldSheiks and cowboy billionaires in limousines loaded withsparkling girlsBut money cant buy happiness just listen to the stories theytellAll you need to really suceed in life Is one good well

It takes one good well, deep and ever-flowingIt takes one good well, to draw from night and dayPure and fine, its yours and mine and its, always enoughWeve got one good well, overflowing with everlasting love

Dont it seem kinda funny how people with a lot of moneyonly hunger for moreYou think theyd learn that money can burn,its love that keeps the wolf from the doorPrecious love lies deep inside, hearts you cant buy and sellWhen the moneys low, still we know we got, one good well

It takes one good well, deep and ever-flowingIt takes one good well, to draw from night and dayPure and fine, its yours and mine and its, always enoughWeve got one good well, overflowing with everlasting love

Cryin' Eyes

Could you just tell me how youre feelinLately thats all I want to knowWeve been actin so deceivingYoure holdin on & lettin go

Cryineyes dont give a reason

Lips dont always say whats soWhen you touch me Im believinYou really dont want me to go

They say in life there comes a seasonWe dont know the answer whyWithout any rhyme or reasonFolks drift apart and say goodbye

Cryineyes dont give a reasonLips dont always say whats soWhen you touch me Im believinYou really dont want me to go

Cryineyes dont give a reasonLips dont always say whats soWhen you touch me Im believinYou really dont want me to go

I've Been Loved By The Best

Darling if you ever leave meWell Ill just put my heart awayI couldnt love again believe meNo one could please me anyway

And if another ever came alongId just turn them down cause after all

Ive been loved by the bestI cant settle now for less, why bother with the rest


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Baby, Ive been to the top I guess, with you I have beenblessedI wont take nothin less, Ive been loved by the best

Broken Heartland

He climbs up on his John DeereShoves a plug of Redman in his jawHis eyes stretch cross the valleyWay down to where theyre putting up a mall

His baseball cap says KansasThe Washington says how much he can growTheres a bank note in his pocketThat says in 30 days theyll have his home

Its hard living in a broken heartlandIts enough to break a man and his beliefsLord give him strength to mend this broken heartlandCause hes living proof of a dying breed

His sons gone off to collegeLearning skills thatll get him off the farm

And his wife just keeps it all insideStill he finds his only comfort in her arms

And this tractors been his treasureOh how could an auction measure its true worthAnd every night he asks the FatherThat he may never lose this mother earth

Its hard living in a broken heartlandIts enough to break a man and his beliefsLord give him strength to mend this broken heartlandCause hes living proof of a dying breed

Lord give him strength to mend this broken heartlandCause hes living proof of a dying breed

Just As Long As I Have You

Well, I love to wander ... On a sandy shoreAnd I love to wander ...Down the streets of towns Ive never been beforeTake me somewhere out of reachLie in unfamiliar sheets and hear the ocean roarAsk for more I could not do, just as long as youre there too

Just as long as I have you, Ill go anywhere

Just as long as youre there too, I dont really careIll go anywhere you are, cause with you is where I belong

Ive just got to have you, to make my life completeIve just got to have you, there to be a part of everything I seeIn the windows I walk past, in the mirror in the morningin the photographsIn the candlelite cafes, let me always see your face

Oh, it really doesnt matter just where the road leadsTo the top of a mountain or down to the sea

Just as long as I have you, Ill go anywhereJust as long as youre there too, I dont really careIll go anywhere you are, cause with you is where I belong

Just as long as I have you....

Why Get Up

(No Lyrics)

Maybe That's All It Takes

Ill love you forever and a dayThats what the love songs like to sayIn love it seems, life is but a dreamWhen we started out it felt that way

But it didnt take us very longTo find out the world is not a songLife gets blue and love does tooYou learn to forgive and just go on

Maybe thats all it takesJust letting go of the old mistakesAnd holding on tight to the love we madeMaybe thats all it takes

Weve done our share of slamming doorsWondering what were together for

Yes weve been through a tear or twoAnd for every tear I love you more

And maybe thats all it takesJust letting go of the old mistakesAnd holding on tight to the love we madeMaybe thats all it takes

We're All The Way

Theres no cause to think that I wont stay, havent I been withyou all the way. Theres no time like now to make amends,cause after all were more than friends.

This could be the time for you & me. We could go whereverwe should be. So dont put words between us we shouldntsay, dont be acting half way, when you know were all theway.

There are times that I dont see the light and I dont know ifwhat I do is right, when Im wrong its never meant for you,so dont confuse my love with what I do.

This could be the time for you & me. We could go whereverwe should be. So dont put words between us we shouldntsay, dont be acting half way, when you know were all the

way

Prime Cuts (1989)

Old Coyote Town

Hes got a US flag on his front porchTo remind everyone where he livesAnd up in the attic there are papers that proveThe old house is finally his

After thirty-five years the grass still dont grow

In that rock hard west Texas groundWhere my old dad still clings to that old coyote town.

CHORUSLike horses the pick-ups are parked out in frontOf a cafe that dont need a name


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Where the old men rock and the tumbleweeds rollPast the boarded up windows down Main

Waist high weeds hide a for sale signAt the drive-in where my innocence diedWith a rusty advertisement, dangling by a nailSays Popcorn and Pepsi for a dime

And down at the depot where I left for goodTheres a hobo with his three-legged hound

Waitin for a train, that no longer comes to that old coyotetown

And the interstate rumbles like a river that runsTo a rythm that dont ever slow downAs cars and trucks, and time pass by that old coyote town

Daddy falls asleep in the living roomOn the sofa with the TV onSometimes he waits for a phone call from meSometimes he waits too longBut I still think of the people and the place that he lovesHow much longer will they be around

Till its ashes to ashes, dust to dustFor that old coyote town

Heartbeat In The Darkness

Cadillac smiles and the latest stylesIn this world they aint no part of meA hundred dollar bill can cure your illsIn this world but it aint no good to meYou see money and clothes are easily burnedPeople in cars are easily turned around

Im looking for something thatll last me all of my life

Im listening for the sound

I wanna hear a heartbeat in the darknessEvery night of my lifeI wanna hear a heartbeat in the darknessNext to mine

A woman tryin to find a diamond mineAint my kind she aint no use to meA big estate a with a wrought iron gateA mansion on the hill, aint where I wanna beYou see without love a house aint a homeA diamond aint no more than a stone in the ground

Id give every material thing I ownin this lifeIf I could jus hear the sound

Of a heartbeat in the darknessEvry night of my lifeI wanna hear a heartbeat in the darknessNext to mine

I wanna hear a heartbeat in the darknessEvry night of my lifeI wanna hear a heartbeat in the darknessNext to mine

I wanna hear a heartbeatI wanna hear a heartbeat

I'll Never Be In Love Again

You can write your own ticket nowIll get by without you somehowDont you worry bout what Ill doIll be fine without you

You say you think the change will do you goodIf you feel that way well I guess it wouldI can live my life without youIve got places to go and things to do

CHORUS:But Ill never be in love againMy poor old heart will never mendOh Ill find someone to hold now and thenBut Ill never be in love again

Something went wrong along the wayAnd theres nothing I can do to make you stayWell I never tried to put holds on youThats the last thing Id ever want to do

So you go your way, Ill go mine

And if our paths should cross somewhere down the lineIll just say hello and shake your handBut if tears come to my eyes please understand

I Wouldn't Be A Man

Theres a slow moon rising, its shining on your skinThe way your body moves me, I know theresNo holding back, no holding back

CHORUS:I wouldnt be a man if I didnt feel like thisI wouldnt be a man if a woman like you

Was anything I could resistId have to be from another planetWhere love doesnt existI wouldnt be a man if I didnt feel like this

I can feel passion flowing as you fall into my armsThe secret way you touch me tells me theresNo holding back, no holding back

Like a, roll with me baby all night longSold her soul with me baby all night long

Id have to be from another planetWhere love doesnt existI wouldnt be a man if I didnt feel like this

What's The Store

Whats the score I cant tell anymoreAre we winning, are we losing, are we tied?Whats the score it aint what it was beforeCan anybody tell me whats the score.

I hurt you and you hurt meSeems we both just try to seeHow far we can push each others heartsAnd its a never ending gameWhere the rules dont stay the sameAnd the more we play


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The more were forced apart.

Whats the score I cant tell anymoreAre we winning, are we losing, are we tied?Whats the score it aint what it was beforeCan anybody tell me whats the score.

I forgive and you do tooSeems thats all we ever doAnd Im not sure whos turn it is today

I break your heart you break mineWere about to cross the lineWhere the game of loves no longer fun to play

Whats the score I cant tell anymoreAre we winning, are we losing, are we tied?Whats the score it aint what it was beforeCan anybody tell me whats the score

We've Got A Good Fire Going

Theres a storm rollin over the hillAnd the willow trees are blowin

Im standin here starin out the windowSafe and warmI feel her put her arms around meAnd its a good feelin Im knowinOh, Ive got a good woman and weve got a good fire goin

Weve got a feast on the supper tableBread for breakinA blessing from the Lord for makin me such a fortunate manThe light of my life in the candleHer face a glowinOh, Ive got a good woman and weve got a good fire goin

CHORUS:So let it rain(let the rain fall down)Let it rainIt wont do nothin but kindle a never ending flameLet it rain(let the rain fall down)Let it rain til morninOh, Ive got a good woman and weve got a good fire goin

Now theres a hard rain fallin on the roofCoffee comin from the kitchenIm lyin here listenin to the ceiling on the living room floor

I feel her lay down beside meMy love is overflowinOh, Ive got a good woman and weve got a good fire goin

Oh, Ive got a good woman and weve got a good fire goin

Desperately

My heart is out of controlThis ole love struck soulJust lives for the moment youre aroundWhen I hold on to youIt is all I can do just to keep my feet on the ground

CHORUS:Desperately, Loving you desperatelyWhen youre not here with meI get a little bit crazy

Constantly, I think about you constantlyLook at what youve done to meIm just like a little babyOh, I love you desperately

Will I laugh, will I cry?Will I live, will I die?It all depends upon youAnd it is dangerous I knowTo be lost in you so

But I am and theres nothing I can do

She's A Heart Full

One minute she's up, one minute she's downLovin' her's like bein' on a merry-go-roundSometimes she's sad, and sometimes she's funnySometimes I wonder if I'm going or coming.

I know she's not easyTo understandBut lovin' her makes meDo the best that I can.

Chorus:She's a heart full, unpredictableCan't explain the things she doesShe's a heart full, but she's worth the trouble'Cause she's got a heart full of love.

(Instrumental)

First the sun shines then the rain fallsSometimes she cries for no reason at allThen she's a child, restless and moodySometimes she looks at me, sometimes she looks through me.

There's things about herI've never understoodBut I wouldn't change herEven if I could.

Chorus:She's a heart full, unpredictableCan't explain the things she doesShe's a heart full, but she's worth the trouble'Cause she's got a heart full of love.

(Instrumental)

She's got a heart full of love...

Another Place Another Time

Oh its late, I know I should be leavingWeve both got someone waiting well have to goAnd its so strange to think that I just met youI almost wish Id met you long ago

In your eyes I see a certain lookAnd that same look must be in mineAnd who knows what we might have beenAnother place, another time

Ill admit in time that Ill forget youCause the truth is I still love her after allBut even though we knew it couldnt happen


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For a moment we felt something oh so strong

And in your eyes.....

Then It's Love

Some people say that love is a roseMaybe theyve hit it right on the noseBut other folks say that its like the sunWell a long time ago daddy said to me

Ill help you clear up the mysteryIll give you a simple rule of thumb

If it knocks you off your feetThen its love, then its loveIf it makes your life completeThen its love, then its loveIf it turns you upside downThen its love, then its love

The dictionary wont tell you muchIf love is the word youre looking upI dont believe that the definitions right

And the encyclopaedia wont revealThe crazy way you start to feelKissing on a moonlit summers night

So gonna say that love is a gameMaybe compare it to a flameOr say its a medicine that healsBut a band of experts could fight all nightAnd never figure out which one is rightBut theyd agree on how it makes you feel

Well if it makes your world go roundThen its love ooh ooh ooh

Traces (1987)

Desperately

My heart is out of controlThis ole love struck soulJust lives for the moment youre aroundWhen I hold on to youIt is all I can do just to keep my feet on the ground

CHORUS:

Desperately, Loving you desperatelyWhen youre not here with meI get a little bit crazyConstantly, I think about you constantlyLook at what youve done to meIm just like a little babyOh, I love you desperately

Will I laugh, will I cry?Will I live, will I die?It all depends upon youAnd it is dangerous I knowTo be lost in you so

But I am and theres nothing I can do

Desperately, Loving you desperatelyWhen youre not here with meI get a little bit crazy

Easy Touch

I'm an easy touch, she knows it, everybody doesI just can't say no, she calls, I goAnd I would bring her the world on a silver platterOh, but things like that don't matter.All she wants is all my loveAnd for that I'm an easy touch.

I'm an easy touch

I love her she don't know how muchI just can't resist, she wants, she getsAnd I would gladly pay any price to be with herOh, there's nothing I wouldn't give herAll she wants is all my loveAnd for that, I'm an easy touch.

I just love to hear her sayHoney, there's something I need todayIt's so sure a signThat love is on the way.

(Instrumental)

And I would gladly pay any price to be with herOh, there's nothing I wouldn't give herAll she wants is all my loveAnd for that, I'm an easy touch.

(Instrumental to fade)

Come From The Heart

My daddy told me when I was a young manA lesson he learned, a long time agoIf you want to have someone to hold onto

You're gonna have to learn to let go.

ChorusYou got to sing like you don't need the moneyLove like you'll never get hurtYou got to dance like nobody's watchin'It's gotta come from the heart if you want it to work.

(Instrumental)

Now here is the one thing that I keep forgettin'When everything is fallin' apartIn life as in love, I need to remember

There's such a thing as tryin' too hard.

ChorusYou got to sing like you don't need the moneyLove like you'll never get hurtYou got to dance like nobody's watchin'It's gotta come from the heart if you want it to work.

ChorusYou got to sing like you don't need the moneyLove like you'll never get hurtYou got to dance like nobody's watchin'It's gotta come from the heart if you want it to work...

Running Out Of Reasons To Run

There's a long stretch of black top,underneath a cloudless sky,


21/46

There's my truck washed and gassed up,just itchin' for a ride.If this had been 6 months ago,I know what I'd have done.but Girl, I'm running out of reasons to run.

Chorus:I'm running out of reasons,I've lost that restless feeling,Slowly I'm believing

I'm where I'm supposed to be.When you hold me I feel no needto chase that setting sun.I'm runnin' out of reasons to run.

There you stand smiling at me,sun light shinin' through your hair.There's that door standing openwith no rush to go no where

I'm finding all I've searched forin this love that we've begunand Girl I'm running out of reasons to run.

Chorus:

I'm running out of reasons,I've lost that restless feeling,Slowly I'm believingI'm where I'm supposed to be.When you hold me I feel no needto chase that setting sun.I'm runnin' out of reasons to run

Chorus:

I'm running out of reasons,I've lost that restless feeling,Slowly I'm believingI'm where I'm supposed to be.When you hold me I feel no needto chase that setting sun.I'm running out of reasons to run

I Wouldn't Be A Man

Theres a slow moon rising, its shining on your skinThe way your body moves me, I know theresNo holding back, no holding back

CHORUS:I wouldnt be a man if I didnt feel like thisI wouldnt be a man if a woman like youWas anything I could resistId have to be from another planetWhere love doesnt existI wouldnt be a man if I didnt feel like this

I can feel passion flowing as you fall into my armsThe secret way you touch me tells me theresNo holding back, no holding back

Like a, roll with me baby all night longSold her soul with me baby all night long

Id have to be from another planet

Where love doesnt existI wouldnt be a man if I didnt feel like this

Looking Back

Looking back, over my lifeI can see where I caused you strifeBut I know, yes, I knowI'd never make that same mistake again

Looking back, over my deedsI can see signs of wise man heedsAnd if I just have a chanceI'd never make that same mistake again.

Once my cup was overflowingI gave nothing in returnNow, I can't begin to tell youWhat a lesson I have learned.

Looking bac,k over the slateI can see love turn to hateBut I know, yes, I know

I'd never make that same mistake again.

(Instrumental)

But I know, yes, I knowI'd never make that same mistake again...

Till I Can't Take It Anymore

Let's not fight it anymore,Unpack the bags and close the doorI'll never leave youThough you lied right from the start

I can't convince my stupid heartNot to believe you.

You've got two good men strung outand there's not the slightest doubtThat other men have loved you beforeOh, but you work your thing so wellI'll dream of heaven and live in hellTill I can't take it anymore.

If I had one ounce of prideI'd stand up or step asideBut girl I love you

So I'll accept the crumbs you drop'Cause I'm a fool and I can't stopOr rise above you.

Let others speak up for themselvesI speak for me and no one else'Cause I'm a beggar knocking on your doorOh, you work your things so wellI'll dream of heaven and live in hellTill I can't take it anymore.

(Instrumental)

I'm too far gone to turn aroundTo lift myself up off the groundAnd start all overNow, him or I must win or loseno matter which one you may choose


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You'll be in clover.

Darling, while you're making up your mindI'll be praying all the timeThat you will never, never be letting me goOh, you work your thing so wellI'll dream of heaven and live in hellTill I can't take it anymore.

Oh, you work your thing so well

I'll dream of heaven and live in hellTill I can't take it anymore.

(Instrumental to fade)

Another Place Another Time

Oh its late, I know I should be leavingWeve both got someone waiting well have to goAnd its so strange to think that I just met youI almost wish Id met you long ago

In your eyes I see a certain look

And that same look must be in mineAnd who knows what we might have beenAnother place, another time

Ill admit in time that Ill forget youCause the truth is I still love her after allBut even though we knew it couldnt happenFor a moment we felt something oh so strong

And in your eyes.....

Old Coyote Town

Hes got a US flag on his front porchTo remind everyone where he livesAnd up in the attic there are papers that proveThe old house is finally his

After thirty-five years the grass still dont growIn that rock hard west Texas groundWhere my old dad still clings to that old coyote town.

CHORUSLike horses the pick-ups are parked out in frontOf a cafe that dont need a nameWhere the old men rock and the tumbleweeds roll

Past the boarded up windows down Main

Waist high weeds hide a for sale signAt the drive-in where my innocence diedWith a rusty advertisement, dangling by a nailSays Popcorn and Pepsi for a dime

And down at the depot where I left for goodTheres a hobo with his three-legged houndWaitin for a train, that no longer comes to that old coyotetown

And the interstate rumbles like a river that runsTo a rythm that dont ever slow downAs cars and trucks, and time pass by that old coyote town

Daddy falls asleep in the living roomOn the sofa with the TV on

Sometimes he waits for a phone call from meSometimes he waits too longBut I still think of the people and the place that he lovesHow much longer will they be aroundTill its ashes to ashes, dust to dustFor that old coyote town

You Love Me Through It All

First I was love, then I came to be

I had a heart inside of meAnd though my heart was working I foundStill there was something it had not found.

So I went away hoping to seeMaybe Id find whats missing in meKnowing so well but not knowing whyIf I didnt find this something Id die.

(Instrumental)

And then I came to where I had beenI knew the first was still not the end

What I had left was not what I foundBecause there was you, because there I found.

First I was love, then I came to beI had a heart inside of meAnd though my heart is still part of meYou give my heart it's reason to be...

New Moves (1986)

Heartbeat In The Darkness

Cadillac smiles and the latest stylesIn this world they aint no part of meA hundred dollar bill can cure your illsIn this world but it aint no good to meYou see money and clothes are easily burnedPeople in cars are easily turned around

Im looking for something thatll last me all of my lifeIm listening for the sound

I wanna hear a heartbeat in the darknessEvery night of my lifeI wanna hear a heartbeat in the darkness

Next to mineA woman tryin to find a diamond mineAint my kind she aint no use to meA big estate a with a wrought iron gateA mansion on the hill, aint where I wanna beYou see without love a house aint a homeA diamond aint no more than a stone in the ground

Id give every material thing I ownin this lifeIf I could jus hear the sound

Of a heartbeat in the darkness

Evry night of my lifeI wanna hear a heartbeat in the darknessNext to mine

I wanna hear a heartbeat in the darknessEvry night of my life


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I wanna hear a heartbeat in the darknessNext to mine

I wanna hear a heartbeatI wanna hear a heartbeat

I'll Never Be In Love Again

You can write your own ticket nowIll get by without you somehow

Dont you worry bout what Ill doIll be fine without you

You say you think the change will do you goodIf you feel that way well I guess it wouldI can live my life without youIve got places to go and things to do

CHORUS:But Ill never be in love againMy poor old heart will never mendOh Ill find someone to hold now and thenBut Ill never be in love again

Something went wrong along the wayAnd theres nothing I can do to make you stayWell I never tried to put holds on youThats the last thing Id ever want to do

So you go your way, Ill go mineAnd if our paths should cross somewhere down the lineIll just say hello and shake your handBut if tears come to my eyes please understand

Shot Full Of Love

Once I had a heart cold as ice, love for me was only for fun.Id make a mark for each broken heart like notcheson the butt of a gun. Once I had a trick up my sleeve & areputation all over town. I was heartless & coldwherever Id go, I shot down every young girl I found.

Well whod have thought that someone like you, could take adesperado like me, but oh here I am Im as meekas a lamb, my bleeding heart there at your feet.

Yes I used to be a moonlight bandit. I used to be a heartbreakkid. Then I met you & the next thing I knew,there I was shot full of love.

Yes I used to be a moonlight bandit. I used to be a heartbreakkid. Then I met you & the next thing I knew,there I was shot full of love

We Got Love

You, You got meWe got somethin' everybody else can seeMe, I got youWe got a good thing honey you know we do

Friends, they all know'cause we can't help but let it showSmiles, we can't hideWe got somethin' just too good to hold inside

CHORUS

We don't need no money, honey you and IWhat we've got together, money just can't buyWhat we've got, there's plenty ofI've got you, you've got me, we got love.

INSTRUMENTAL

Time, Moves along

And honey we just keep on a keepin' on'cause love, makes us strongAs long as we've got love, We can't go wrong

CHORUS

Send Her Roses

They got a road out in Alaska now,I hear that you can go there.Tell me about Montana,with the cool blue mountain air.I know your honeys got the money,

I can understand your wanderlust.Brother, and boy, for me these days,its refrigerator or bust.I ain't got no words for going,I got no longing for your open road.Don't get found rollin' into town tugging on a heavy load.You've gotta give me the nights with the city lights, and thepeople buzzin' everywhere.One hand upon the parking meter, the other on her easy chair.I'll send her roses, send her roses everyday.If I don't go down another dirt road, I don't think it's gonnahurt my day.I'll send her roses, send her roses once in awhile.

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