She's got dinner on the table at seven The kids are tucked in bed by nine-fifteen And she's headed for a hotel at eleven To meet a man her family's never seen ...

Call me a fool, send me away I`ve got to say it`s you I adore I`m longing in love, falling apart I follow my heart straight to your door Face to face with all ...

Girl, don't wait up tonight Don't live on the lie ??cos you'll be sleeping alone again I know my intentions were the best I had it all worked out you see But yo...

You ask me if someday You'll hear me say goodbye I couldnt walk away If I tried Oh I know My feelings go Unspoken sometimes Chorus You can put all your tears ...

Old Hank was a drifter passing through, he stayed long enough to cry the blues, acquainted with the bottle, he knew the good Lord too, Hank was drifter passing ...

People in love They've got it all They've got the world in their hands Chosen their eyes There's no way to hide Of the love that we had People in love Live ev...

They rode like they was Rangers as they came out of the skies They had High-Tech horses with beacons in their eyes My gun was cocked and ready when I looked int...

She's young and soft and kind And she deserves a whole lot better than a guitar picking drifter who never gave a damn And if loving me is all she ever wants so...

We only knew each other by letter, when I met her over the train, when the smoke cleared and the dust was still, she was standing there speaking my name I guar...

Pretty little baby, lying in a manger Staring at the strangers, who've come so many miles They were told to follow the star up in the heavens And it brought the...

If they call me for me and wonder where I am Just tell them I'm not feeling good today If they don't believe you, I don't give a damn Because i just might pick ...

REAL LOVE DUET WITH DOLLY PARTON WRITERS RICHARD ???PADYBRANNON DAVID MALLOY They say that it's a matter of trusting before love has a chance to begin And it'...

Reuben James In my song you live again And the phrase that I rhyme Are just a footstep out of time From the time when I knew you Reuben James Reuben James, all ...

You've painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair, Ruby are you contemplating going out somewhere? The shadows on the wall tell me the sun is g...

(Mel Tillis) You've painted up your lips an rolled and curled your tinted hair Ruby are you contemplating going out somewhere? The Shadow on the wall tells me ...

You've painted up your lips And rolled and curled your tinted hair Ruby, are you contemplating Going out somewhere? The shadow on the wall Tells me the sun is ...

You've painted up your lips And rolled and curled your tinted hair Ruby are you contemplating Going out somewhere The shadow on the wall Tells me the sun is goi...

You've painted up your lips And rolled and curled your tinted hair Ruby are you contemplating Going out somewhere Teh shadow on the wall Tells me the sun is goi...

Rueben James in my song you live again And the phrase that I rhyme are just the footstep out of time From the time when I knew you Rueben James Rueben James al...

You always were a dreamer with your eyes on the horizon Wondering what laid beyond as far as you could see You left to find a castle, a knight in shining armor ...

His daddy was an honest man, red dirt Georgia farmer His mamma lived her short life having kids and baling hay He had fifteen years, an ache inside to wander He...

I watched every sun up Comin' over my tin cup Seen every moon changin' While I slept with the sky Felt the chill in the north wind Find holes that I can't mend ...

I watched every sun up Comin' over my tin cup Seen every moon changin' While I slept with the sky Felt the chill in the north wind Find holes that I can't mend ...

Take my hand, pull me up Find my own way soon enough You'll see me through, see me through What you give will see me through When my mind cannot reach You can ...

While she lay sleeping I stayed out late at night and play my songs And sometimes all the night can be so long That's good and I finally make it home all alone ...

Well the morning's come and Lord my mind is aching The sunshine's quietly standing at my door Just like the dawn my heart is silently breaking With my tears it ...

It's just her and the band and the clean up man She's counting up her tips, she did alright She says good-night She drives home to a three-room flat Checks her ...

SHE'S READY FOR SOMEONE TO LOVE HER WRITERS CHARLIE BLACK, JERRY GILLESPIE, TOMMY ROCCO Her heart has had more knocks than a gypsy's tambourine Yet it's worth ...

I like blue eyes, hers are green Not like the woman of my dreams And her hair's not quite as long as I had planned Five foot three, isn't tall, she's not the gi...

Silent Night Holy Night All is calm All is bright Round yon Virgin Mother and Child Holy Infant So tender and mild Sleep in heavenly peace Sleep in heavenly pea...

City sidewalks, busy sidewalks, dressed in holiday style In the air there's a feeling of Christmas Children laughing, people passing, meeting smile after smile ...

Grady Johnson was a common man Four children and some bottom land Early to bed he said well that ain't me I gotta spend some time with my family Left to it's o...

Girl, I've seen you lonesome every morning, by my side you'd never be alone, just tell me what it is your heart desire, "?cos all I wanna do is take you home "...

One rainy afternoon at Union Station As I sat alone and waited on my train I overheard a lover's conversation Laced with desperation and pain I heard a girl sa...

I am only one of those who care Who care about the faith of love I know there's many others just like me I know they two ain't had enough "?cos this heart's doi...

As I walk down this busy street I think about your leaving How my life may never be the same I know I should be planning ways To enjoy this endless freedom Losi...

I never thought that it would end this way Somehow it`d always go home And yet this morning when I reached for her She was gone I never asked for any promises I...

There's aluminium cans an' cigarette butts Lyin' in the sides of street Baseball field in the county park Buried in a blanket of weeds There's a swastika spray...

Someone must feel like a fool tonight Knowing they let you go Someone is wishing they`ve done you right Regreting they hurt you so Now that you`re here in my l...

Someone somewhere tonight Is taking their first steps Letting go of the hands that held them And trusting themselves An' somewhere somewhere tonight Is hearing ...

Someone who cares Someone who dares to love you Someone who thinks enough of you To always be willing to share Someone who gives Someone who lives inside you S...

The higher you build your barrier The taller I become The farther you take my rights away The faster I will run You can deny me You can decide to turn your face...

You lie in chair sleep beside me I hear your warm breathing I take your hands and hold it tightly Listen, can you hear our young hearts beating I kiss teh slip ...

You lie in gentle sleep beside me I hear your warm and rhythmic breathing I take your hand and hold it tightly Listen, can you not hear our young hearts beating...

Somewhere between lovers and friends Well, baby, tonight if we take it any closer We might sleep right off the edge We gotta stay here Somewhere between lovers...

And now the purple dusk of twilight time Streaks across the meadows of my heart High up in the sky, the little stars clim Always reminding me that we're apart ...

Pretending again I think we both know this is the end We can try it again But we better face it Losing again I know we both thought this time we'd win But you c...

You're the first one I thought of But the last one I turn to I wouldn't bother you but I need help We were so good back then There must be something loved You ...

If I told you tonight that I loved you Would you walk my way Would you say Lies I wanted to hear If I told you tonight that I need you Would you break my heart...

Sunshine, you may find my window But you won't find me And sunshine, I've got my friend of darkness here Tonight to hide me So sunshine, as far as I'm concerne...

(Swee-ee-ee-eet) Sweet little Jesus boy-oy-oy They made You be born in a manger-er Swee-ee-ee-eet little Ho-oly chi-i-ld They didn't know who You were Didn't ...

I wouldn't listen and I couldn't see And all I have left now are words you said to me, sing your song sweet music man, "?cos I won't be there to hold your hand ...

Take this heart of mine put it in a saved place Take this tears I've cried put "?em on another face They don't have the meanin' that they did before I don't thi...

One man can't sleep in his penthouse bed, Wall Street worries fill his head, While another man dreams, In his cardboard she'd on Broadway Early morning traffic...

Tell it all brother, before we fall Tell it all brothers and sisters Tell it all How much you're holding back on me When you say you're giving all? And in the ...

It's not just the way you say hello whenever we should meet That keeps my heart pounding like the ocean of the deep But it's got my heart a reeling, oh yes, I'v...

I was so excited when you asked if I could go But mom said I'd have to ask my daddy I met him at the front door, so afraid that he'd say no But he smiled and sa...

So many years' gone Still I remember How die I ever let my heart Believe in one who's never giving love to me So many years' gone Love that was so wrong I can'...

We've been ridin' all night just to get here Don't you be throwin' us out so soon Across the whole damn south, we come out Now we got some drinkin' to do We've...

(recorded by: Kenny Rogers) Everyone considered him the coward of the county He'd never stood one single time to prove the county wrong His mama named him Tomm...

The fool in me Well, I wonder, wonder, wonder just why it is That I sit around here and I cry Is it just because I'm too weak to take the loss? I walk away kno...

* transcribed by Frantic Freddy, on request * KENNY ROGERS - THE GAMBLER On a warm summers evening, on a train bound for nowhere I met up with a gambler...

THE GHOST OF ANOTHER MAN WRITERS ROGER BOWLING, FRANK DYCUS, GEORGE RICHEY He's living in that big old house that he knows was built by me He's playing with th...

Baby, I've made up my mind And take all the good life that I've found I promise myself, if I was to make it I had to do the best that I can Oh, "?cos the good l...

Little boy, in a baseball hat stands in the field with his ball and bat Says, "I am the greatest player of them all" puts his bat on his shoulder and he tosses ...

Real love is the only thing I know Teh changes of everything at touches It gets you and it's gentle clutches But that's not really the heart of the matter Ever...

Anyone can read the signs Or the writing on the wall It's all right there to see Except someone like me Who can't see the truth at all It takes a special kind ...

Like a leaf caught in the wind he drifted a while With no purpose or direction to his life He tried to get himself together and pacify his mind And forget about...

Oh, the last ten years, it's been quite trip Over thirty-six-hundred spins around without a cosmic slip But within the realm of our atmosphere We're 'bout as ou...

THE LOVING GIFT DUET WITH DOTTIE WEST Writer Kris Kristofferson ?« ?© '72 Combine Music ?» You gave me a blanket to keep me from the cold you gave me a song I ...

It's not the pale moon that excites me that thrills me and delights me, oh no it's just the nearness of you It's not just your sweet conversation that brings t...

You and me walking on the land But we can lose a stare from time in time 'cos we both get lonely And it makes me more afraid As the night goes on How long will...

The corn was dry, the weeds were high when Daddy took to drinkin' Then him and Lucy Walker, they took up and run away Mama cried a tear and then she promised fo...

Stranger I know where you'll find her Down the road from here about a mile and a quarter You'll know the place by a shackey barn That stands in the field by a r...

From the moment I met you, you made my life complete This wave of pure devotion, has swept me off my feet And tonight when we kissed, you still took my breath ...

I don't have to go out tonight I don't have to guess who I'll see I haven't been lonely Since the first time we met Now I know I'll never be "?cos I really car...

There you go again You take my breath away The way you looked just then Moves me more than words can say Just about the time I think I couldn't love you any mor...

There you go again You take my breath away The way you look just then Moves me more than words can say Just about the time I think I couldn't love you any more...

THERE'S AN OLD MAN IN OUR TOWN There's an old man in our town And I guess he's been around For years and years At least it seems that way Wrinkled hands and r...

THERE'S AN OLD MAN IN OUR TOWN There's an old man in our town And I guess he's been around For years and years At least it seems that way Wrinkled hands and r...

These chains won't keep me from being a free man Doing what I can to get out of here, and these chains won't keep me from seeing my freedom, changing my name an...

I've looked every where there is a love affair I must replace racing through the people chase But still surrounded by memories of your face They just don't mak...

They don't make 'em like they used to, those guys And I can't get used to the way that it is today No one to look up to, hard times, and though I try I just can...

I've looked everywhere there is a love affair I must replace, racing through the people chase But still surrounded by memories of your face They just don't mak...

Well she walks like you in so many ways It's a different look It's a different time of day One look in her eyes How can I make you understand She's the one good...

Thanks for the times That you've given me The memories are all in my mind And now that we've come To the end of our rainbow There's something I must say out lou...

I can't remember when you weren't there When I didn't care for anyone but you I swear we've been through everything there is Can't imagine anything we've missed...

I can't remember when you weren't there When I didn't care for anyone but you I swear we've been through everything there is Can't imagine anything we've missed...

I'll need time to get you off my mind and I may sometimes bother you try to be in touch with you even ask too much of you from time to time Now and then Lord, ...

TO ME YOU ARE THE HAND THAT I REACH FOR WHEN I'VE LOST MY WAY TO ME YOU ARE THE FIRST STAR OF EVENING THE SUN THAT WARMS MY DAY CHORUS JUST AS SURE AS I'M SURE...

Well today I started lovin' you again Now I'm right back where I've really always been I got over you just long enough to let my heartaches mend Then today I st...

Well, today I started loving you again And I'm right back where I've really always been I got over you just long enough to let my heartaches mend Then today I s...

One time I drove to see a girl across the country One night as I was driving through New Mexico I had the windows wide open It was cold and I was crying And I l...

Ohh, Lord, I wish I had never been stoned 'Cause when I get high, I can't leave the women alone Omaha Sherriff and his boys gettin' ready for slaughter Their lo...

Oh Lord I wish I had never been sto-oned 'Cause when I get high I can't leave the women alone Omaha Sherriff and his broad gettin' ready for slaughter Their loo...

It`s been a long time since I walked Through this old town But oh how the memories start to flow And there`s the old movie house They finally closed it down You...

You might think I`m crazy carry on this way Calling you up in the middle of the night But I`ve got something that I just can`t wait to stay I`ve got two good r...

Two hearts, one love I wish you were with me tonight Right here in my arms It's hard to put my mind to rest Not knowing where you are The city lights have a t...

(Alex North/Hy Zaret) Oh my love My darling I hunger for your touch Alone, lonely time And time goes by, so slowly And time can do so much Are you still mine? ...

Undercover Oh sweet darling, kick your shoes off, Let your hair down, get in bed; Come and lie down here beside me, Chase the demons from my head Oh this day ha...