You were smoking on a cigarette Talking about the deficit Putting all them wild boys down A-like a drunken Mona Lisa or the Leanin' Tower of Pisa You were hangi...

Well I hide behind my guitar like a sparrow in the night Hopin' I might fly away anew Cause they'll love you when you're wrong And then leave you when you're ri...

Arkansas, my head hurts I love to stick around and maybe make it worse I got a girl out in Henrietta Her love's like tornado weather It's Girls like this that ...

I'm tired of drinkin' whiskey by myself I'm tired of drinkin' whiskey by myself I wish you'd take that bottle And put it right back on the shelf Cause I'm tired...

I saw you leanin' on a memory With your back turned to the crowd In that little bar on Murphy Where they play guitar too loud There were people drinkin' whiskey...

Well, I followed my feet all across this land A tune in my heart and a bottle in my hand From the cold, cold East to the woods out West Ain't no home, just luck...

You laughed and called me lucky for having you around And you stepped up to the bar and started swaying The crowd all sang Ophelia as we drank another round Oh ...

Chances are I took the wrong turn Every time I had a turn to take And I guess I broke my own heart Every chance I had a heart to break And it seems I spent my ...

I walked the highway since I can't remember I cut my poor family right down to the bone From the shadows of hell to the winds of December They dined with the st...

Verse 1: Thrift store cowboys, five and dime junkies Red dirt plowboys, asphalt monkeys Holy rollers, signal callers Truck stop angels, backstreet brawlers Van...

I got a woman she's wild as Rome She likes to lay naked and be gazed upon She crosses a bridge and then sets it on fire Lands like a bird on a telephone wire W...

Jamie was a barmaid at the Underground Longrail Seems like every Friday evenin' She'd find herself in Jail Not a friend this side of Houston With the time to th...

The record player's scratchin' out an old and dusty tune On the front porch, on a Sunday, on an Arky afternoon We were lyin' 'round like gypsies, thinkin' 'bout...

Well you like flowers and I like liquor Your way's nice, but my way's quicker I been watchin' you all night long And I gotta say something, don't care if it's w...

There's a girl downtown with freckles on Her nose Pencils in her pocket and ketchup on her Clothes She's a real nice girl, pretty as a plate The boys call her K...

We used to run around skippin' school and drinkin' beer One drink and the good lord would get us out of here But now those days are gone, and everything has cha...

Another Sunday on the corner Of the neighborhood Leavin worries right where they lie I'm just peelin off the labels And a feeling good Watchin' all this life go...

Six-pack of something, bottle of pills Got to be a better way to get my thrills Lord you know sometime livin' ain't hardly enough Not when you're waitin' on a s...

Well they took all my clothes and they took all my money Told me dirty jokes, not a damn one funny Been alright if they'd of seen my honey Hey baby where you be...

Highway 87 is a dangerous place to be When you pissed off all the local boys And your back's against the sea The cops all know your number Bars all know your na...

When I'm lyin' in my bed at night, I don't wanna grow up Nothin' ever seems to turn out right, I don't wanna grow up How do you move in a world of fog that's al...

Eight line machine and a sailor's daughter Somethin' makes 'em crazy growin' up on the water Playin' for my supper six Nights a week Hurricanes, Easter and New ...

The time has come, there is no second chance We've been drifting on an empty aching sea You were the girl I never knew I wanted I was the boy you hoped you'd ne...

Well, daddy joined the Air Force Said it was a good source Danger, love, and money, but it only led to divorce Ended up in Abilene Working at a Dairy Queen Put ...

I keep knockin over whiskeys No ones laughin at my jokes They got me spinnin round in circles Like a tin can in the spokes When I left town this mornin With a ...

Don't take me down that road again I been there once before my friend It seems I've lost near everything And I can't lose no more Well dreams are made for rest...

Verse 1: Wake up in the morning long and lean Stoppin' at the corner cigarettes and gasoline Pullin' down Main Street shiftin' through gears Rollin' up that hig...

Well, I'm doin' ten to twenty In the frozen granite state And every day I go to work To stamp out license plates Everyday I got to work And every night I cry Ca...

Ramblin' boy you been around From Dallas to the underground High above and down below Places I was scared to go You sang it loud in case they heard Hangin' on ...

Well it's hard to write a song When your three-fourths gone And Crazy Legs keeps pickin' on my guitar I try to clear my head And reflect on what she said But th...

You told your mama, you told your pa Mama called the preacher Daddy called the law But it's alright, it's alright We did not need them anyway We just won't come...

I could be the perfect lover if you let me I could be the only thing you've ever known I could scream out all your lonely heart's desires I could hold all your ...

Richey Lee was his Father's boy Big, loud, Hard-drinkin' bundle of Joy A walkin' laugh wrapped up in corduroy Richey couldn't do no wrong Grew up with a fast r...

Take me to a rivertown where you can't tell night from day Everythings forgiven that did not wash away Where dreaming comes too easy, livings twice as hard And ...

We've been datin since high school we never once left this town We use to go out on the weekends and we''d drink til we drowned But now she's acting funny and I...

I been drinking all day for a livin' Been dreaming bout movin' on Seems like every little thing I Do they been putting in a country song And I saw you on the TV...

Rain beatin' down, on a midnight moon Oh babe, I'll be leavin' soon Take me away The winds are howlin' like an old freight train Oh babe these are the winds of...

Well I'm wild as a turkey, higher than a Christmas moon Empty as my wallet on a Sunday afternoon I come around too fast, and I always leave too soon Ain't that ...

I drink too much and I smoke too much I laugh at all my own jokes too much I'm hard to tell and soft to touch And easy at sayin goodbye I broke your heart, a t...

Shootin' stars and whiskey bottles All scattered across the yard I'd-a stayed back home in houston If I'd known it be this hard Oh but as it is I'm busted I bro...