I can feel it when the wind blows Stealing leaves out of their trees It's a moment full of mystery Summer's last breath before the freeze But the change will ma...

Look at the hand that made the steel That raised the kids, that shouldered the wheel And taught a man how not to feel | At six o'clock in the morning Rising fr...

We walked all night in the pouring rain Made the coast by morning Found an old abandoned carnival by the sea There were no seats on the ferris wheel And only on...

Old Joe Clark he made his mark when cotton was king And late at night 'neath the shanty light you could hear that banjo ring It would ring out for the master wh...

Dad never started drinking ‘til he was thirty-five And once he found the power He made up for his lost time Go outside and catch a cricket, then unplug the phon...

We had a fight And I walked the street for hours When I returned she was sleeping on the floor So I entered her dream As a double-headed eagle One head said to...

I grew up on the Indiana side of Chicago With the rusty steel mills belching in the westward wind I watched Mom and Dad trying to clean their sorrow With my bro...

Dancin in the living room, cuttin' up a rug Dancin' with a baby looks more like a hug Livin' in a house made of saw mill wood Roll Over Beethoven never sounded ...

Take the skeleton from the closet Shake the dust off of his bones Tonight we'll have confession Of all that we've done wrong Let's hear every crime you've thoug...

Head south in the morning, just take off with no warning Tell your boss you need a change of scene Head south if you're feeling your homesick heart is reeling A...

I never had a sister Me and four brothers made up the family It was high school that I missed her To tell me what the other girls never saw in me I got married...

Sally took a ride with my kid brother Made her sister swear that she wouldn't tell her mother Drove to the desert, got a room with a pool outside And a truck st...

I wish I was a chauffer California, New Year's Eve Driving around a pretty lady with a hanky up her sleeve I would light her tiparillos just as civil as you ple...

I got rice cooking in the microwave I got a three day beard, I don't plan to shave And it's a goofy thing but I just gotta say, I'm doing all right I think I'll...

It ain't love, it ain't money that makes this world turn around When you hit rock bottom you still may not be on the ground I can tell you something in case you...

Rise up Lazarus, get out of that grave Rise and shine Lazarus, clean up and get a shave Martha is weeping, she's been gnashing her teeth Can't you hear her wail...

She's the sweetest when she's sleeping I've watched her many times She'll wake up and she'll catch me Looking straight into her eyes But she never seems too wor...

He left Boston in December for New Mexico Determined to forget all of the faces he'd known A little lonesome and a world of troubled mind With a bed roll on hi...

I was born and raised in my father's house Can catching rain in the kitchen He said a good song never comes to those who chase It comes to those who listen And ...

Now I'm making payments on my father's house I've patched up the holes in the ceiling And he's moved out west to live with the best With a restless heart still ...

She was found in her bedroom with a note on the wall Saying take me or leave me, it don't matter now at all Her passing made the papers though there weren't muc...

It's been rainy and windy for seven days straight I've been going to bed early and getting up late I look out my window and it's one shade of gray My wife and m...

My love she takes a needle and a thread With abox of cloth she keeps under the bed And she makes a form where there was none A house, a square, a star, a moon, ...

Well, I just talked to Rudy on the p-h-o-n-e, said "it's Saturday night, let's get in t-r-o-u-b-l-e" I said "OK I'll meet you at the country b-a-r", I said "b-y...

I'm southern born and corn bred My folks are just the same I got my southern heritage I got my papaw's name I fell in love with a little girl when I was six yea...

A farmboy from Kentucky Hills Learned to play guitar for his backpoarch thrills Lean a ladderback chair on a windowsill And look out at the stars He must have g...

I walked into the lounge of the Windsor Arms Hotel Where a band was playing Fifties songs The ones we know so well And they played just like the record Not a no...

He was not my father's brother But he wished that he could be Told us kids to call him uncle And we would be his family He had a wife and kids in Fresno The you...

When There's No One Around This is the song that nobody knows I couldn't begin to describe how it goes But it makes me cry and laugh right out loud It's the so...

In the deep, dark hills of eastern Kentucky That's the place where I trace my bloodline And it's there I read on a hillside gravestone "You will never leave Har...