When I left Tulsa Jamie was an innocent young lady God only knows why she gave herself to a guy like you She called me cryin' said she was gonna have your baby ...

I've been down the Mississippi, Down through New Orleans, Yes, I have I've played in California, There ain't too much I haven't seen No, there ain't Well, I'm a...

Today there's no salvation band's packed up and gone I'm left standing with my penny in my hand Down at railroad station a blind man sings his song I think he s...

Now I've got a couple more years on you babe and that's all I've had more chances to fly and more places to fall It's not that I'm wiser it's just that I've spe...

A LONG TIME FORGOTTEN THE DREAMS THAT JUST FELL BY THE WAY THE GOOD LIFE HE PROMISED AIN'T WHAT SHE'S BEEN LIVING TODAY BUT SHE NEVER COMPLAINS OF BAD TIMES AND...

(Don Gibson) If heartaches brought fame in love's crazy game I'd be a legend a living legend in my time If they gave gold statues for tears and regrets I'd be ...

As i watched the tail lights disappear Suddenly it got real lonely here I know the words i could have said To make her turn around But a lot of good it's gonna ...

Abilene, Abilene Prettiest town I've ever seen Women there don't treat you mean In Abilene, my Abilene I sit alone most every night Watch those trains pull out...

Down the road a ways i've heard said a new day's coming on Where the women folks are friendly and the law leaves you alone I'll believe it when i see it and i h...

Just a broken down cowboy all down on his luck been through the best of his friends On a long lonesome highway in an old pickup truck Crossed Texas like a hot d...

(Jack Wesley Routh - Len Pollard) Just a broken down cowboy all down on his luck Been through the best of his friends On a long lonesome highway in an old pick...

(Merle Haggard) Waylon Jennings & Anita Carter All of me belongs to you all the time You're the only one that's ever on my mind There's no way that I would ev...

Isn't that anyone who'll take me like I am Someone who's willing to take a blue in man Someone that please enough with himself to let me be Someone who'd love m...

I've held it all inward, God knows, I've tried But it's an awful awakening in a country boy's life, To look in the mirror in total surprise At the hair on my sh...

Some have said,done through history If you last it's a mistery But i guess they don't know,what they're talking about From the mountains down to the sea You've ...

Anita come closer, stop crying and listen to me I guess its too late now but somehow I must make you see What we thought wes our world was only a dream world an...

I've had to burn most every bridge I've crossed It seems like everything I've loved I'd lost When I met you I've thought my luck had turned But our love's just ...

(Harlan Howard) I've had to burn most every bridge I've crossed It seems like everything I've loved I'd lost When I met you I've thought my luck had turned But ...

Don't sing them songs about the open road I've lost too many rainbows chasin' pots of gold I still remember what my baby said It's still a knockin' 'round in ba...

Slippin' and a slidin' playin' Dominos leftin' and a rightin' ain't a crime you know Well I gotta tell the story before it's time to go Are you ready for the co...

It's the same old tune, fiddle and guitar Where do we take it from here Rhinestone suits and new shiny cars We've been the same way for years We need to change ...

You get a pen and I'll get a paper we're gonna write ourselves a song We'll drive the poetics crazy I don't think the damn thing's gonna rhyme [ steel ] I got a...

Away in a manger No crib for His bed The little Lord Jesus Laid down His sweet head The stars in the bright sky Looked down where He lay The little Lord Jesus ...

Baby don't be looking in my mind you might not like what you find For honey I know you better than you think I do so baby don't be looking in my mind Don't expe...

(Harlan Howard) Baby don't be looking in my mind You might not like what you find For honey, I know you better than you think I do so baby, don't be looking in ...

Winding your way down on Baker Street Lite in your head and dead on your feet Well, another crazy day you drink the night away And forget about everything Thos...

I was a child and she was a child yet our love was something to see My parents were poor I was turned from the door of my beautiful Anabel Lee Now the moon neve...

A vagabond dreamer, a rhymer and singer of songs Singing to no one and nowhere to really belong I met a beautiful lady, a pure Southern belle of the ball Like S...

Stranded here in Dallas cold and hungry I ain't got a dime Sleepin' in the filty trainyard at the warmest driest place that I can find What have I done that wou...

Billy we've come along way together and through it all You've been just like a brother to me And Billy we've had our share of ups and downs froze our tails slee...

I'm gonna write a letter, gonna mail it today Just as soon as I can think of the words to say I've been needing to send it for nearly a year 'Cause there's a wo...

Well, I left my home down on a rural route Told my Pappa I'm goin', steppin' out To get them honky tonk blues, jumpin' honky tonk blues Well, lord I got 'em, I ...

Way down in Virginia Amongst the tall grown sugar canes Lived a simple man and a domineering hen And a rose of a different name The first time i fell lightly I...

(Red Lane) I was sittin' beside the road in Blackjack County Not knowing that the sheriff paid a bounty For men like me who didn't have a penny to their names ...

Verse 1: Well the honky-tonks in Texas were my natural second home Where you tip your hats to the ladies and the rose of San Antone I grew up on music that we c...

Well the honky-tonks in Texas were my natural second home Where you tip your hats to the ladies and the rose of San Antone I grew up on music that we called Wes...

Born to love only you destined to die alone without you Knowing my dreams can never come true yet knowing that I was born to love you Night after night wanting ...

Each night I leave the barroom when it's over not feeling any pain at closin' time But tonight your mem'ry found me much too sober I couldn't drink enough to ge...

I am just a poor boy though my story's seldom told I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles such are promises All lies and jests still a man h...

I've been a fool, fool, such a fool I've been a fool, fool, such a fool Thinking you'll return my love to me Thinking life would be what I want it to be I lay ...

[ with Jessi Colter ] When you're weary feeling small when tears are in your eyes I'll dry them all I'm on your side oh when times get rough and friends just ca...

[ with Jessi Colter ] When you're weary feeling small when tears are in your eyes I'll dry them all I'm on your side oh when times get rough and friends just ca...

Flying across the desert in a TWA I saw a woman walking across the sand She been a-walkin' thirty miles en route to LA To get a brown eyed handsome man Her dest...

Tonight I'm burning old love letters Photographs and memories of you Hoping somehow I'll feel better And that when the smoke is gone I won't want you Burning m...

My bills are all due and the baby needs shoes but I'm busted Cotton is down to a quarter a pound and I'm busted I got a cow that's gone dry and a hen that won't...

I gave my heart I gave my all you built me up then you let me fall You wore my ring upon your hand but then you changed your mind But that's all right I looked ...

When the morning sun streaks across my room And I'm wakened up from another dream of you Yes I'm on the road once again it seems All I've left behind is a chain...

Go West Young Man the signs all seem to say there's San Diego Frisco or LA Leave that cold cold woman far behind warm yourself in that California sunshine Go we...

Verse 1: Gonna catch a freight train, far as I can Lord I don't care which way it goes Gonna climb a mountain, the highest mountain Lord Gonna jump off and ain'...

(Kris Kristofferson) Casey joins the hollow sound Of silent people walkin' down The stairway to the subway In the shadows down below Following their footsteps T...

I got a gal in Cedartown Georgia I used to have to walk nearly three miles to court her She never had much just a sharecropper's daughter But I married her and ...

If I should get a look of leavin' in my eyes Put your arms round me woman and change my mind If I ever seem too restless or dissatisfied Put your arms round me ...

I gave a girl a ride in my wagon She crawled in and took control She was tired 'cause her mind was a draggin' I said, ''Get some sleep and dream of rock and rol...

Their eyes were upon me as they sat they're drinking Their hands reach up for you with lust in their hearts As you dance away I know just what they're thinking ...

Down by the river where the big boats go by Each day you could see them as evening was nigh They planned to be married at the first sign of spring And Jim would...

(Waylon Jennings) Down by the river where the big boats go by Each day you could see them as evening was nigh They planned to be married at the first sign of sp...

I joined the navy to see the world but nowhere could I find A girl as sweet as Cindy the girl I left behind I've sailed the wide world over can't get her off my...

Dark cloud hangin' over me when will it go away Rain is in my eyes and I can't see life's become just cloudy days Why she's done me like she's done I guess I'll...

Clyde plays electric bass plays it with finesse and grace Set on the porch ain't got no shoes pickin' the bass and singin' the blues Misery loves company this ...

[ with Bobby Bare ] Come on home and sing the blues to daddy tell it all to one who understands I hear that your new romance has faded just the way ours did so...

I'll send away all my false pride and I'll forsake all my life I'll do what I can so you'll feel free if you'll come and stay with me Lovers of the past I'll le...

If you're in a bind,with a troubled mind I'm a mountain,come on and clim Because you look so good,to be so down It won't take much girl,to turn it all around C...

I've got a couple more years on you baby that's all I've had more chances to fly and more places to fall That's not that I'm wiser it's just that I've spent Mor...

Now blue ain't the world for the way that I feel And the storm's brewing in this heart of mine This ain't no crazy dream I know that it's real You're someone el...

I go out with the crowd I play the game Pretending out loud but it don't seem the same For the heart of the crowd is gone from sight And my part of the crowd is...

His father was a Princeton lawyer A man of means His mother summa-cum-laude Former beauty queen With a house as big as a hotel On Spencer Boulevard That's where...

I was all right for a while I could smile for a while But when I saw you last night You held my hand so tight When you stopped to say hello And though you wishe...

Just a kid with a song when he wandered from home in search of the phantom of fame She promised she'd wait but he got back too late Just a scene from the dark s...

I live on a big blue ball I never did dream I would fall But even the day that I do I'll jump off and smile back at you We don't even know where we are They sa...

In her younger days they called her Delta Dawn Prettiest woman you ever had laid eyes on But a man of low degree stood by her side Promised her he'd take her fo...

(Alex Harvey - Larry Collins) In her younger days they called her Delta Dawn Prettiest woman you ever had laid eyes on But a man of low degree stood by her side...

(Sonny Curtis) Surely you know by now my heart is wild I don't wanna be tied down it ain't my style Don't you think I know very well this kind of attitude is se...

Verse 1: Hello, it's good to see you Just how long has it been I've often wondered what I'd say If we ever met again If I'd try just being clever Or pretend not...

Hello,it's good to see you Just how long has it been I've often wondered what i'd say If we ever met again If i'd try just being clever Or pretend not to rememb...

WRITER PAUL KENNERLEY G F oh Dixie, hang your head and cry C you have seen so many children die G F you had courage and you had pride C but the Union could neve...

In the morning you go gunning For the man who stole your water And you fire till he's done in But they catch you on the border And the mourners are all singing ...

I'm sittin' in the morning sun sittin' when the evening comes Watchin' the ships roll in then I watch 'em roll away again I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay wat...

I've been away for so long fought a war that's come and gone Doesn't anybody know my name My sister upped and wed mom was sick and took to bed And my old dog Re...

(Rod McKuen) I've been away for so long Fought a war that's come and gone Doesn't anybody know my name? My sister upped and wed Mom was sick and took to bed And...

[ Waylon & Willie ] I scandalized my brother while admitting that he sang some pretty songs I'd heard that he'd been scandalizing me and Lord I knew that that w...

(G Pollock) The hardest thing you ever do Is love yourself, that gal don't love you She'll cause you sleepless nights and endless pain But if you don't like the...

(Don't look for me I must go don't waste your time I must go) Don't look for me don't waste your time I'll find another that's more my kind I'll find my happine...

(Waylon Jennings) I'm for the law and order the way it should be This song's about the night they spent protecting you from me Someone called us outlaws in som...

I'm for law and order, the way that it should be This song's about the night they spent protecting you from me Someone called this outlaw, in some ol' magazine ...

I'm for law and order, the way that it should be This song's about the night they spent protecting you from me Someone called this outlaw, in some ol' magazine ...

Donna on my mind when I get up in the morning,Donna on my mind the whole day through,love can't come so quick and real without any warning wonder if she's think...

(W Nelson): I scandalized my brother while admitting that he sang some pretty songs I heard that he'd been scandilizing me and Lord i knew that that was wrong ...

I'm for law and order,the way that it should be This song's about the night they spent protecting you from me Someone called this outlaw,in some ol' magazine Ne...

I'm for law and order, the way that it should be This song's about the night they spent protecting you from me Someone called this outlaw, in some ol' magazine ...

Saw your picture in the paper and I see you've married good And I know that he can give you all the things I never could But I know that he can't give you what ...

Down down down came the world I went round round round in a whirl I built every dream around one girl then down down down came the world She must have loved a ...

(Cindy Walker) Sweet dream baby, Sweet dream baby Sweet dream baby, How long must I dream Dream baby, got me dreamin' Aweet dreams the whole day through Dream b...

Sweet dream babby sweet dream baby sweet dream baby how long must I dream Dream baby got me dreamin' sweet dreams the whole day through Dream baby got me dreami...

I hope that I won't be that wrong anymore, And maybe I've learned this time I hope that I find what I'm reaching for, the way that it is in my mind Someday I'l...

I hope that I won't be that wrong anymore And maybe I've learned this time I hope that I find what I'm reaching for The way that it is in my mind Someday I'll ...

I hope that I won't be that wrong anymore maybe I've learned this time I hope that I find what I'm reaching for the way it is in my mind Some day I'll get over ...

Everybody?s lookin? for some way, I?m lookin? for some way out I?ve been wastin? my time standin? alone If this is what it?s all about All I got is a job that ...

(Harold Gay) Here I sit drivin' nails in the wall Thinking I hear someone in my hall She said that she'd be back in no time at all Here I sit drivin' nails in t...

Just the good ol' boys Never meanin' no harm Beats all you never saw Been in trouble with the law Since the day the was born Staightnin' the curves Flatnin the...

Lord knows I am peaceful, When I'm left alone I've always been an eagle, Been a while since I have flown My claws are sharp as ever, So is my eagle eye Somethin...