I slipped out of the house about sundown while mama was a washing her hair And you can bet your bottom dollar she'll come looking for me When she finds that I'm...

You're the sweetest mistake I ever made I've heard it said your life is strewn with broken hearts Of fools like me who make mistakes and aren't very smart But I...

Take my hand and walk with me along life's road in harmony My body's warm my heart is free take my hand and walk with me Take the love I offer you all I want is...

TEN THOUSAND DRUMS (Mel Tillis - Carl Smith) « © '52 Cedarwood Publishing » Waitin' waitin' for the redcoats to come But all I hear in my frozen ears is ten th...

Maybe tomorrow I won't come home maybe you won't even care At seven you'll throw a kiss toward the door and smile at my empty chair For there's nothing here for...

Oh boy that's where my money goes I've got a gal in Monroeville she won't dance but her sister will Oh boy that's where my money goes And I've got a gal out in ...

So many times you've told me that you love me And just as many times I found that it's not true So if you've had your fun and you still need someone Come on hom...

(If you're leaving in the morning don't wake me up to say goodbye I'll be dreaming back of you or so back to our first hello And don't want to wake up just to ...

Any girl who hangs out in a honky tonk who smokes my cigarettes and drinks my wine Some call her a bad girl but to me she means the world Cause she's holding th...

There's a thoudand miles in back of me and many more to go Ridin' on a freight train feeling mighty low I keep a wonderin' why she quit me but I guess I'll neve...

Hang down your head Tom Dooley hang down your head and cry Hang down your head Tom Dooley poor boy you're bound to die I met her on the mountain there I took h...

Go on look down your righteous nose at me But you've made me everything that I've turned out to be In very few words I can tell you where everything went wrong ...

Come on and write write write me a letter send that letter by mail Send that letter in care of the Tupelo County jail Come on and wish me the best of love dear...

As I walked through my garden today picking flowers for a pretty bouquet Never many shades of blue white lilies and violets too But I've picked these long stem ...

Well how can you have the unmitigated gal to come back now expecting me to fall Right down on my knees and kiss your feet yeah feet Feet that one day went a wal...

A violet fell in love with a rose and started it flashing from its head to its toe Then one day the rose was kissed by the dew A new love was born and the viole...

I'm like a cloud driftin' from town to town and each new love just helps me on my way No one woman's ever gonna tie me down When one gets too close I just back ...

Mama's workin' now I'm playing games it's sunny outside but I don't care if it rains Cause soon she'll be back home where I want her to be And it's hard to add ...

There she lies still sleeping d Dreaming the whole world is in her hands What she thought was love last night Was just the wine and the weakness in a man But n...

I tried so hard to make you love me and all alone your love's been dying I'll let you go because there's nothing I can do what's the use in just me trying I'd g...

If my years were less if my shoes were new I'd pack my things and I'd leave you Hitch myself to some westbound train you'd never see me again If I could dream a...

Cross the table over coffee just this morning My woman caught me by surprice without a warning She said honey you talked in your sleep and then she began to wee...

Wine pretty red wine pretty red wine pretty red wine pretty red wine It cost me my family cost me my home and gave me a dark dirty street to roam Made me a drif...

I'm the center of attention in this barroom Cause I've got a biggest heartache of the year And each night those swinging doors reach out for me and draw me in C...

I see my wife working, ironin' my shirts And my mind goes to another day And to another woman who might have been my wife If things hadn't turned out this way ...

World what have I done to make you frown on me to cast me endlessly Into your variety what have I done what have I done World what have I done to numb my brain ...

It takes a worried man to sing a worried song I'm worried now but I won't be worried long Well this train I ride is twenty one coaches long This train I ride is...

I've been a saint I've been a sinner I've been a loser I've been a winner You name it and I claim it that's me I've been up I've been down I've been stranded ma...

Your kind of living has got me to wishing that I had never even heard your name While my name you're wearing with barroom trash a sharing Dragging it down down ...

My children come sit here and hold to daddy's hands For I must tell you something that I don't understand Lately we've been living in the shadows of surprise Si...

May the fruit of my toil be yours love may the food from my soil be yours love And from this moment on may a love that is strong and lives on and on be yours lo...