Oh, the love you promised would be mine forever I would have bet my bottom dollar on Well, it sure turned out to be a short forever Just once I turned my back a...

I got those 5:01 blues another work day is over Time to go home but no one to go home to That whistle just blew bad news I'll punch out and put in Another long ...

(spoken) Got a call tonight Sayin' we could still be friends What a way to say goodbye What a way to end They say the darkest hour Is just before dawn So I'll j...

(by George Jones) I can hardly stand the sight of lipstick on the cigarettes there in the ashtray Lying cold the way you left them, but at least your lips care...

For years we both have lived on pride, dear And we agree that love is gone Why, oh, why do we keep trying? A house without love is not a home The love light in...

In the woods we met you, stranger And though we don't know your face Taken your fiddle, come on over Sit down 'round the fireplace Watch the flames are dancing...

I'll Prob'ly Never See You Eye To Eye A-gain This Letter's Meant To Be My Last Fare-well But You Need To Under-stand I'm Nearly Crazy You Need To Know My Life H...

When the show is over and everyone is gone That's when this lonely feelin' comes along Everybody loves me while the show is goin' on But I need someone to love ...

I woke up with her in my arms this morning And God knows I love her over all As she whispered she loved me your memory appeared Ain't your memory got no pride a...

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 ever be untrue There's not one single part of me Th...

Always wanting you, but never having you, Makes it hard to face tomorrow 'cause I Know I'll be wanting you again Always loving you, but never touching you, Some...

If he ever gets to you I know he'll ignite the flame And it hurts to know how close he really came Last night you both kept dancing when the music ceased to pla...

Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me I once was lost, but now am found Was blind but now I see Twas Grace that taught my heart to fea...

And Michael Nostradamus began to wander through Europe for the next sixyears, where he first became aware the awakening of his prophetic powers So god has foun...

Wish a buck was still silver It was, back when the country was strong Back before Elvis; before the Vietnam war came along Before The Beatles and "Yesterday", W...

In the books of what will be Written by the demon lord? Never lift your head up to the east 'cause darkness wakes the best! Der Kerzen Schein Er leuchtet fahl ...

Now it's back to the barrooms right back to drinking again Maybe someday you'll love me enough to stay with me And whisky won't be my best friend Now it's back ...

I've never been much at making believe, Don't have any tricks hidden up my sleeve If life is a comedy, where's all the laughter? 'Cause here on the stage I'm a ...

Hey, I want to sing till the feeling gets right Well, let's harmonize, we'll be dynamite I'll yodel the high notes, I've done it for years Good deal old buddy a...

What makes something you can't have always look so good Why'd do something out of reach seem so fine What makes you thrill me more than any girl I know I guess ...

Well, I learned how to walk and I learned how to run in Bakersfield Should've done time over things I'd done in Bakersfield I tasted my first taste of romance i...

(spoken) Got a call tonight Sayin' we could still be friends What a way to say goodbye What a way to end They say the darkest hour Is just before dawn So I'll ...

I read they're havin' rain in California and Lord I hope that you're not gettin' wet That's the only way on earth I have for knowin' how you're doin' When you l...

In the town of Louisville they got a man called Big Bad Bill I want to tell you he sure was tough Yeah all folks scared to death when he walked by they held the...

I'm tired of this dirty old city Entirely too much work and never enough play And I'm tired of these dirty old sidewalks Think I'll walk off my steady job today...

I came back to find my Annie'd moved away To some town in California close in something somewhere close to east LA Don't think finding her was easy cause someth...

BILLY NEVER MADE THE FOOTBALL TEAM CAUSE BILLY'S SIZE WAS SMALL BUT BILLY'S BROTHER WAS A MIGHTY LAD AND PLAYED A LOT OF HIGHSCHOOL BALL AND BILLY'S DADDY NEVER...

I'll have a blue Christmas without you I'll be so blue just thinking about you Decorations of red, on a green Christmas tree Won't mean a thing if, if you're no...

If you've ever seen that ole Mississippi The queen of the delta land Then you'll understand Why I've got the blues for Dixie If you've ever been to Tennessee W...

Blues, stay away from me Blues, why don't you let me be? Don't know why you keep on haunting me Love was never meant for me True love was never meant for me Se...

Bobby wants a puppy dog for Christmas I know you plan to bring electric trains Bobby wants a puppy dog for Christmas That's the only song we hear him sing Sant...

My brain is cloudy my soul is upside down Lord my brain is cloudy my soul is upside down When I get the slow down feelin' I know the blues must be someplace aro...

I'd like to hold my head up and be proud of who I am but they won't let my secret go untold I paid the debt I owed them but they're still not satisfied now I'm ...

Bring it On Down to My House Asleep at the Wheel (Ahhh, yeah) (Come on now, bring it on down to my house, boysright) (Ho) Bring it on down to my house hone...

About the time the late and great Jimmie Rodgers Career came to an end Another young fella by the name of Bob Wills Was makin' preparations to become a legend i...

Well I'm goin' to California Where they sleep out every night I'm goin' to California Where they sleep out every night I'm leaving you, mama 'Cause you know you...

My driftin' memory goes back to the spring of '43, When I was just a child in momma's arms My daddy plowed the ground and promised someday we would leave This r...

Carolyn let me tell you what I've heard about a man today He didn't come home from work and he went away Till he came to a city bright in the night time like da...

I remember you loved me with all of your heart And I know your's as well as my own I know you still need me and you're out there somewhere And maybe you're cold...

CC waterback, one tequila sunrise One for my aching head, the other for my blood shot eyes Well last night I let it all hang out, least that's how my head got s...

One of man's darkest chapter, it has just begun In the sign of the cross they rise It's the epoch of the inquisition Too many brothers and sisters have died le...

The murmur grows - until they rage It is not a scenery At this market-place in middle-ages Somebody - in the crowd - Speaks a prayer Hundred burning torches ris...

Instrumental Intro One night when the moon was bright on the moonlit bay That is where I found my little Cherokee maid The memory of the that night of love, is ...

Seems like every November When the weather gets bad I start to remember all the good times we had the long nights get longer I Wish an friend would come by The ...

When I was young man I worked on my own You had the big chore Of makin' a home Now that I'm the keeper Of all that was yours I'm head of the family And I'm bos...

So your mama taught you right from wrong and you wouldn't want to disappoint her But you been lonesome a way too long and what you don't know really won't hurt ...

I love Corrina tell the world I do I love Corrina tell the world I do Just a little more lovin' makes your heart beat true [ fiddle ] Corrine Corrina where you'...

I love Corrina tell the world I do I love Corrina tell the world I do Just a little more lovin' makes your heart beat true [ fiddle ] Corrine Corrina where you'...

Now you say you're lonely You cried the long night through Well, you can cry me a river Cry me a river I cried a river over you Now you say you're sorry For be...

Chorus: Daddy Frank played the guitar and the french harp Sister played the ringin' tambourine Mama couldn't hear our pretty music but she read our lips and hel...

A sweet girl of eleven years Within her brain: The darkest fear caught by absolute disaster Her virginity - lost to the own father There he comes with alcoholic...

Born through astral constellation Those pictures are now getting clearer Inside his head And sent by the highest god They start to rise from the deepest depth ...

I used to live with the whiskey And the good time and the ladies of the night Then the whiskey took control Left me waltzing with the witches in my mind But im...

Julie, they've taken me to prison I pulled the gun and robbed the jewelry store The only thing I took was that big diamond You know the one you said you wish wa...

Since we first said I love you, it's been twenty years tonight I moved by and love refused to go It seems like only yesterday or maybe just last summer Most of ...

You make my eyes run over all the time You're happy when I'm out, out of my mind You won't love me but you won't let me be Don't you ever get tired of hurtin' m...

Last last I dreamed that you and I were in awful storm With no place to go or shelter anywhere And it took a while to realize the reason for the dream Now the m...

I'm just driftwood Drifting with the winds that blow across the sky I can't always be here with you, babe I'm just driftwood drifting by Our lives came togethe...

Well I gotta keep my reputation I gotta keep my pride Can't let you know you've hurt me I can't let you know I've cried I gotta make you think I'm happy everywh...

Easy come, easy go Here, there, everywhere, crazy love is in the air Nightfall, Mmm, day and nightfall So many girls in every port You gotta be a juggernaut Ful...

She can sparkle like the moonlight on the river At times her words can cut you like a knife She's got a way of bein' tough and tender But she'll always be the h...

Every fool has rainbow But he never seems to find The reward that should be waiting At the end of the line But he'll give up a bed of roses for A life filled wi...

Everybody's had the blues sometimes and Everybody knows the tune And everybody knows the way I'm feelin' cause Everybody's had the blues A lonely, song someone...

You bring me happiness and leave me loneliness My world is in distress cause I'm falling for you You look into my eyes and tell the sweetest lies You're a heart...

Fightin' Side Of Me: Merle Haggard Written by Merle Haggard ( Tree Publishing Company) From "Songs I'll Always Sing", 1976, Capitol Records I hear people talki...

I hear that train a comin', it's comin' 'round the bend I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when I'm locked in Folsom Prison and time keeps draggin' on...

I live the kinda life most men only dream of I make my livin' writin' songs and singin' them But I'm forty-one years old and I ain't got no place to go When it'...

[ Both ] Forever and ever I'll love you I swear by the stars up above you There never will be any other I'll love you forever and ever [ Merle ] The sun in the ...

From the sun years of the Fifties and the birth of rock and roll Millions screamed to see him do his thing Elvis touched the life of ev'ry ear that heard him An...

Thought I was a gambler I broke every shark in town Until I met a rounder who called all I put down I put the cards on the table and he drew an ace high hand He...

I've seen how you tremble whenever he walks through your mind Stirring up mem'ries that cloud up your eyes Where the light of our love ought to shine I know tha...

The girl who made me laugh made me cry today After all the good times we had she just walked away But the sweet mem'ries I have will live till I die Of the girl...

In old Padres Nadres Old Mexico Once in my travel I happened to go I met Maria and we fell in love It seemed like heaven came down from above Dark skin and dar...

I'm throwin' a goin' away party A party for a dream of mine So put me somewhere off in a corner With a glass and bottle of your party wine Don't worry it won't...

My family called me on the phone and said "Grandpa would you come home?" We'd love to have you here on Christmas day We know you won't get on a plane But grandp...

Rollin with the flow Going where the lonely go Anywhere the lights are low Going where the lonely go Making up things to do Not running in all directions Tryin...

Well you took my love for granted and I gave it all willingly But seeing you with someone else was the breaking point for me I know I'm goin' crazy I can feel i...

Well I'm longing to ride on a freight train Put a slouch hat down low on the ears I'm yearning to leave this old town on the flight And loose all my troubles an...

Now, I won't think about tomorrow When the happy times are gone away And good times can't last forever But the good times are here today And I won't talk about...

Got lonely too early this mornin' Long about 3:30 am Woke up in a big empty bed room The TV had gone off again Got lonely too early this morning Hey, lonely wa...

Grandma's maiden name was Zombelines There's ninety years to tell about in a few short lines Born in Newton County down in Arkansas Then in nineteen-one she mar...

The old hometown looks the same as I step down from the train And there to meet me is my mama and papa Down the lane I look and there runs Mary hair of gold and...

If I only had one arm to hold you well better yet if I had none at all Then I wouldn't have two arms that ache for you And I'd have one less mem'ry to recall If...

I come to the garden alone While the dew is still on the roses And the voice I hear falling on my ear the son of God discloses And he walks with me and he talks...

That psycho, that psychologist Asked me about my drinking ways Every question that he asked me All related back on to my childhood days But if the truth was kn...

Suffering dementia Unchains the secret's bearer Unholy visions "God forgive me!" Are coming nearer - coming nearer, Amen! Lux perpetua, domine Dementia slowly...

Hello Mr DJ wont you play a song for me` The girl I love just said good-by and I'm blue as I can be Oh please Mr DJ play that song I heard you play And send it ...

All aboard America here comes the freedon train All aboard America here comes the freedon train The freedom train is rolling down two hundred years of track Tw...

It's four am in New York City three am in Dallas The night is still early here in Frisco Market street's still going the same old shows are showing And I'm stil...

High on a hilltop overlooking a city I can see the bright lights as they gleam And somewhere you're dancing in some dingy bar room And the lure of the gay life ...

Holding things together Ain't no easy thing to do When it comes to raisin' children It's a job - meant for two Alice please believe me I can't go on and on Hold...

It may be down the south in Alabama Or maybe just a little old one horse town It could be on the back streets of Chicago But if it's home it's still the greates...

I'm a honky tonk night time man I can't stand no light I'm a honky tonk night time man I can't stand no light I get my rest in the daytime I make my running rou...

My house of memories, is all I own, I live in misery, now that you're gone A constant reminder, of what used to be, Is torturing me, in my house of memories My...

A canvas covered cabin in a crowded labour camp Stand out in this memory I revived; Cause my daddy raised a family there, with two hard working hands And tried ...

That old white haired judge in Dallas Didn't pay my story no mind They're takin' me down to Huntsville I'm bringin' in a load of time They caught me on a caper...

Well there's been sayin' goin' round I began to think it's true It's awful hard to love someone when they don't care about you Once I had a lovin' gal the sweet...

I've had good luck, and bad luck And no luck, it's true But I always get lucky with you I've been turned on, and turned down When the bars close at two But I a...

I came close so close to failure I came close to living alone I know the kids still love me And their mama But I came so close To losing my home I felt small e...

It's a way of mine to say just what I'm thinking And to do the things, I really want to do And you want to change the part of me I'm proud of So I can't be myse...