Well I'm all packed up and I'm almost ready to go This big G-model runs every way but slow When I get tired while I'm on the way instead of stoppin' I always sa...

Why must I love the heartless one who'll never know the harm she's done Though love is blind I should have known just call me lonesome from now on I climb the s...

Oh Katy bar the door keep the girls in the house Cause I'm gonna live it up there ain't no doubt Katy bar the door I'm a man not a mouse so look out pretty girl...

In life there's many hills to climb and sometimes you'll get in a blind But the day will come you gonna bring you luck Don't live too fast just set your place w...

For as long as I can remember I've worked down in this pit But today it's all over for this is the day I quit I'm gonna take my sweet little Ginny and make her ...

I thought I was over losing you even got where I could smile now and then Everywhere I go I see someone who reminds me of you Then last year's heartaches come r...

They made only one of me packed me one to the box And they'll know I've been here before I'm through If I walk or if I crawl if I stand or if I fall let no man ...

Would you like to hear the story of a girl that many soldiers know It's a tale of love and all its glory they tell it when the lights're soft and low Underneath...

A friend and I made one shot run to Knoxville one day We got the apple pie and coffee hungries on the way We pulled into a little truckstop just outside of town...

From the dark and lonely part of town comes a man nobody wants around Dressed in black I cry across the land it's a hurt it's a pain it's lonely man I am lonely...

I'm looking for that Lonely Street I've got a sad sad tale to tell I need a place to go and weep where's this place called Lonely Street A place where there's j...

If you wonder why I always look so bad and even when I smile I still look sad Well it's just because I've lost the only love I've ever had Now I'm livin' in tum...

I guess you think you broke my heart but I don't mind that we're apart As sure as there's another dawn you can bet that I will be a long time gone For every tim...

If it's one of those nights a night that's happy and wild If you pole the pirogue come for a many a mile If you're a singing a song feast on gravy and rice I kn...

City girls just seem to find out early how to open doors with just a smile A rich old man and she won't have to worry she'll dress up all in lace and go in styl...

I got about half high so I spent the whole weekend out I got home Monday morning tore up like a can of Kraut My only suit was layin' on the steps I just picked ...

You say tomorrow you're leaving it's so hard for me to believe I'm making plans for the heartaches cause you're making plans to leave The tears for me will be f...

(You have the good times) I got the miles While in the ways of love I stood still And each mile that I've traveled they've all been up hill And when I think abo...

Hey did you happen to see the most beautiful girl in the world And if you did was she crying crying And hey if you happen to see the most beautiful girl that wa...

I'm sittin' back easy in my easy chair watchin' the morning dawnin' fair My wife's cookin' breakfast and my little girl Is looking at her daddy like he owns the...

To your way of thinking a promise is easy to make Cause to your kind of promise is nothing but something to break And the laugh fits your lips honey like a hand...

Since I met you you my wheels're burnin' you really stepped up my face My only thoughts of you and me one more time in place Don't take this size a warnin' caus...

Get me back to Tennessee I'm homesick for my sunny overgrown country town I thought I'd like to be a westcoast cowboy but I got lonely as the sun went down The ...

Each night when I sleep I dream of a love in my town I don't count sheep just the faces of her in my town I miss her all the time and she's always on my mind an...

Standing on the road walking down the highway Ain't going nowhere but that's my way of life I never had a lot of ambition but I always made my own way By turni...

Well everybody's going out and having fun I'm just a fool for staying home and having none I can't get over how she set set me free oh lonesome me A bad mistake...

There are some pills and modern thrills that I don't understand I guess that I'm not what you call a modern carefree man I cut my hair and wear my clothes the w...

(They're selling the homeplace today) Yeah they're sellin' me out today just lost too much money too many years in a row And since pa died I ain't got no help M...

When I was a lad and old Shep was a pup over hills and the meadows we'd stray Just a boy and his dog we were both full of fun and we grew up together that way I...

One more mile one more detour that's the way goes tears and smiles I may miss you and I may wish that I have stayed but I'll be movin' it one more mile And then...

Standing here at Gate 15 looking at a plane I won't be on Like No 5-0-3 Lord I wish that I was goin' home I'd find the seat and settle down put my head against ...

(Well as long as there's a truck I won't forget Korea and Operation X) I won't forget the year of '54 I drove a truck in that Korean war Haulin' GI's to the fro...

I knew the state of ol' Wisconsin back when I was eight I sang all over Minneapolis lookin' for a break I rode the rapid rivers with the Chiquoia Indian tribe I...

Well I've heard your stories about your fast trains But now I'll tell you bout one all the travelin' folks have seen She's the beauty of the Southland listen to...

The first sound I heard was a woman's cry The first word I learned to utter was goodbye Forgive me if I'm wrong in what I do to you while passin' through passin...

Please help me I'm falling in love with you Close the door to temptation don't let me walk through Turn away from me darling I'm begging you to Please help me I...

Oh please let me prove my love for you don't make me suffer I beg of you I wanna show only real love can do oh please let me prove my love for you Our love in t...

He said pardon me for bein' so bold but you got a cigarette that's already rolled I gave him one he lit it in his own good time The smoke in that poolroom hung ...

We got hogs in the pen and cotton in the gin and my buckboard is doin' alright We're doin' real good like country folks should so we're gonna have a dance tonig...

I got sleep in my eyes and my bones ain't tellin' lies Wish this rig could drive itself I'd rest a while Can't go too fast or slow why I keep drivin' I don't kn...

Put your hand in the hand of the man who stilled the waters Put your hand in the hand of the man who calmed the sea Take a look at yourself then you can look at...

Quittin' time quittin' time like a big dollar bill a waitin' on a little thin dime Quittin' time quittin' time wanna find my baby by the docks at quittin' time ...

I was born on the banks of the river grew up in a floatin' shack Old Man River was my front yard we had snakes and frogs out back I learned to cry to a steamboa...

Wish that I was on old Rocky Top down in the Tennessee hills Ain't no smoggy smoke on Rocky Top ain't no telephone bills Once I had a girl on Rocky Top half bea...

There's a baby in Minneapolis that I ain't never seen And I guess he'd never guess that I'm his dad And there's a woman up in east St Louis she'll make one hell...

Rooster Hill By Ronnie Rogers Last saturday night on rooster hill I lost 4 one hundred dollar bills Came home with my champion cock cut all to pieces Some home...

I never stop in one place long till life starts closin' in Then a night wind beckons and I'll go running with the wind Well I grew up an orphan boy no one to ca...

Well seven lonely days make one lonely week And seven lonely nights make one lonely me Ever since the time you told me we were through Well seven lonely days I ...

Well I met a man in Montgomery Alabama I was waitin' on a bus he was shinin' shoes and I heard him say I'm a shoeshine man number one in the land I'm a shoeshin...

No need to tell me where you've been for I know who's in town again And tonight you saw him secretly oh you've got a short memory Yes you've got a short memory ...

Silver rails shining ahead through the night one on the left and one on the right Ribbons of steel leading me on silver rails silver rails carry me home I hear...

The poundin' of the big bustyres in a hot tarline I gotta play another matinee This old guitar's gettin' worn but not as worn as me but I just keep on singing a...

Well I pulled out of Pittsburgh rollin' down that Eastern seaboard I got my diesel wound up and she's arunning like never before There's a there'sa speed zone ...

Yeah everybody comes here to have a ball If anybody's missin' well we give 'em a call For we're always happy son of a gun oh lots of fun at the 6-0-1 Rumphouse ...

Some people say a man's made outta mud a poor man's made outta muscle and blood Muscle and blood and skin and bones a mind that's weak and a back that's strong ...

Well away down yonder on the Candy Creek I wait a lot of fiddles on my wagon seat I tune up the fiddle and I rosin' that bow and I play a little tune wherever I...

Seems I always have to slip around to be with you my dear Slippin' around afraid we'd might be found I know I can't forget you and I've got to have you near But...

Well there once was a time that this farm of mine was plowed by a mule and a man They worked from dawn till darkness just tryin' to civilize the sand Spikin' ho...

Recorded by Ernest Tu Written by Sgt Henry Stewart and Ernest Tu When the postman delivered a letter It filled her dear heart full of joy But she didn't know t...

Somewhere somewhere somewhere I heard that they're all curvy and that the girls in Jersey are just fine And that the girls in Philly well now they're really kin...

Speed traps and weight stations and detour signs Are standin' between me and that baby o'mine Well I'm two ton over fifty miles from that stateline Speed traps...

Now I got a story it's true as can be it's about a guy the guy is me Wake up in the morning it's always I must I gotta catch the six o'clock bus I grab my hat a...

There's nothing left but burning memories And that flame just won't flare up inside of me Although you're gone I see you everywhere So I keep stirring up the em...

You're caught in a trouble you mangy pup Now how you gonna brag about a bad bringin' up Your pappy was a hound dog son of a gun You know what they say about a f...

Kinda tricky when she's caught in a trap by me Kinda dumb in a smart little way like she can be Those cry a little laugh a little moods that fit her to a T That...

Life is looking up again she's back where she belongs And my old heart is on the man she was gone so long From loneliness to happiness my life I rearrange She w...

Headin' back to sugerland USA I been so lonesome ever since I went away This time I'm a going back to stay with my sugar in sugerland USA I gotta keep these big...

The talk of the town was a secret to me I was the last one to see It's funny how blind a heart in love can be Yes the talk of the town was a secret to me Every...

Good evening friend hey you're lookin' good I'm happy about your prosperity But before you ask how I'm a gettin' along well I'm down on my luck temporarily Temp...

Up in the morning out to the fields I work like a devil for my pay But that lucky old sun ain't got nothing to do but roll around heaven all day Well I fuss wit...

The streets are dark and empty and you walk them all alone You think about your love affair and wonder what went wrong You go to bed each night and pray you'll ...

When I see the water come and clear beside a shore When all the guns are silent and the sky is clear once more When the bugles fill the air with victory's swet ...

I was sittin' in the terminal waitin' for my load When a greenhorn driver came in off of the road I heard him tell that foreman get my little pink slip This run...

About the time I put myself in fairly decent shape there you are again About the time I go to bed and finally fall asleep there you are again About the tim that...

There's a star spangled banner waving somewhere In a distant land so many miles away Only Uncle Sam's great heroes get to go there That is also where I want to ...

Six foot six he stood on the ground He weighed two hundred and thirty five pounds But I saw that giant of a man brought down to his knees by love He was the kin...

She's hurt so many men say they've loved her She gave herself not knowing they're all alive Tonight she sits alone no longer wanted wishing she could relive her...

Hey lady I'm looking for a jukebox and a barstool that fits my bottom side Their streets're just too dark for walking and I'm in no condition to ride This midni...

Down in Macon Georgia there's a woman waitin' for my six foot frame I got her picture in my mind as I head down the turnpike out of main I'd better think of som...

You took her love away from me but that was your mistake She's gonna break your heart in two and she'll pick the time and place You know the end has come an end...

Well I'm a travelin' man made a lotta stops all over the world And in every port out Omaha I at least got lovely girl Got a pretty senorita a waitin' for me out...

Well I have a few hours to wait while they've loaded my trailer with freight So I borrowed my buddy's old car and drove down to the dancehall and bar Although I...

I wheeled into a truckstop in Texas a little place called Hamburger Dan's I heard that jukebox a playin' song about a truck drivin' man That waitress done broug...

I got a cute little gal in every eastern town from Boston to St Louis There's some that I don't even know but I'm looking forward to Cause I like my women every...

Thank you Lord for all the miles without an accident But I wanna ask one more favor before my life is spent Please Lord this once before I turn to dust Let me r...

Have you read any good telephone books lately If you ain't then let me recommend one I've already read that Tulsa telephone book through thirteen times If you d...

I got on my wheels and I went out on the town draggin' I hit a big oak tree it looked like a wreck to the wagon I got a hospital bill and the judge a waitin' fo...

We stand alone on a quiet empty street just you and I and a love that's bitter sweet On a corner where the streetlamp's not so bright That's where we meet under...

I was out on the leave at the time just duckin' the fog nosin' around like a hungry dog In that crazy place called Washington DC I saw a crowd of people on the ...

All around the water tank waitin' for a train A thousand miles away from home sleepin' in the rain I walked up to a brakeman to give him a line of talk He said ...

One time I spent a week inside a little country jail I don't guess I'll ever live it down I was sittin' at red light when these two men come and got me And said...

My dearest Mama they just gave us time to write I miss you and there's something on my mind tonight At mailcall I recieved your letter here today But I don't un...

Where does a little boy go after he leaves his carefree life Where does a little boy go he's a young man a looking for a wife Where does a young man go with a w...

Well here we are again what do you want from me this time Remember what you did about you made me feel last time You're on the move again in bad need of a frien...

Well they gave him his orders in Richmond Virginia Sayin' Joe you're away behind time Now this ain't no big roadranger but an old slow binder You gotta put her ...

Well that's railroad steamboat river and cannal Yonder comes a sucker and he's got my girl And she's gone gone gone gone gone gone gone I'll bid her my last far...

What makes you think that you can turn your back and walk away After I have tasted the sweetness of your world If you think I'll take it all you've left layin' ...

Oh you've got to cry girl then you'll know how I miss you Well I've grown up girl I've learned how to be a man I've cried tears felt the pain have memories when...