Some people steal, they cheat and lie for wealth and what it will buy Don't they know on the judgement day that their gold and silver will melt away I'd rather...

My latest sun is sinkin fast My race is nearly run My strongest trials now are past My triumph has begun Chorus: Oh come angel band Come and around me stand Oh...

This world is made with sweat and toil, pushing muscle and elbow oil We can't lie too long in the shade, cause every day must be remade Some days you fall some ...

Chorus: Bending blades, tall grass blowing in the breeze Shining in the sun Lonely days I keep going to the place We went when we were young All I saw was flow...

As time draws near my dearest dear when you and I must part How little you know of the grief and woe in my poor and my poor aching heart Tis' but I suffer for y...

Made up my mind to go Some place so far away, I headed west Without a sad goodbye No hugs or tears that way, it's probably for the best Sent cards along the way...

There in the paper as plain as day I saw Your face was smilin' and lookin' my way it said You beat the odds in some game Five thousand dollars and fame I though...

I been climbin up a mountain since the day that I was born It's been so long of a journey and I'm feelin kinda tired and worn Tired and worn, tired and worn So ...

I been climbin up a mountain since the day that I was born It's been so long of a journey and I'm feelin kinda tired and worn Tired and worn, tired and worn So ...

The blues the come and the blues they go Don't hold your breath, they'll be coming back Make you step outside that life you lead Feel the blues fade to black Yo...

You and me out in the dark lookin' for shadows Saturday night, a little too young to take good care A little too wild, a little too old to get lost in the woods...

Well met, well met, my own true love Well met, well met, cried he I've just returned from the salt, salt sea And it's all for the sake of thee I've come for th...

She was heavy with child, he had a hungry look They were out on the road just waitin' to be took And I wasn't much better, all I owned in a sack But I had enoug...

Down in the willow garden Where me and my true love did meet It was there we went a courting My love fell off to sleep I had a bottle of burgundy wine My true l...

I've played cards in England I've gambled in Spain Goin back to Carolina Gonna play my last game Jack of diamonds, jack of diamonds I've known you from old You'...

In the early morning rain with a dollar in my hand And an aching in my heart and my pockets full of sand I'm a long long way from home and I miss my loved one s...

She had five hundred dollars that her grandma left She said for a rainy day A hundred more from the general store Where she stocked the shelves for pay She'd ha...

Chorus Every day is a long time waiting Every night is alone and cryin' Your memory is a long time fadin' Every tear has a reason why, every tear has a reason w...

Family history, I don't know too much, family history, I don't keep in touch With my mother and father quite like I want to do There's some family history, I'd ...

We have our moods sometimes we might get out of synch We might even have a fight if we have to much to drink I guess she has her own shape and I know I must hav...

Few are chosen, few ever see the light of day Through the eye of the needle one or two will make their way We're all searching for the same thing a little hope ...

At the end of the summer there's a couple of days Before the weather starts shiftin' and changin' it's ways The winds blow so gently on the things lovers do Tha...

I live in five rooms, but they don't feel like home Since our dreams are shattered by two hearts made of stone Sittin' in the livin' room don't feel like livin'...

When I first came to Louisville, my fortune there to find There was a maiden there from Lexington, was pleasing to my mind Her rosy cheeks, her ruby lips like a...

The seeds of this war were sewn in our father's time And every bomb will plant some more fear and hate Let's break this chain of history before it gets too late...

Left the cold and rain behind, I drove out west to Memphis South across the Mississippi line, I rolled my window down Big river runnin' on my right, turtles on ...

Well I wish I was in London Or some other seaport town I'd set my foot on a steamboat And sail the ocean round Chorus While sailin' around the ocean, sailin' a...

Chorus: Hard pressed we can find a way Night is almost gone It'll be another day If we're hard pressed we can find a way Fears, trials, and troubles have we al...

I tried to tell you that we'd make it through somehow You wouldn't listen and I wouldn't blame you now I ain't got money but I sure got bills to pay I roll my c...

I'm happy to raom, I can find my way through the mountains To the ocean foam But if I had a map to show me the way to your heart dear I'd follow it home I'm ma...

I begged her not to go, said I could not live without her She said don't be dramatic, you'll survive She drove away, the sky turned gray I cried all night about...

So long she's been alone now her tears have dried No more she's thinkin' of him Her love has died Calling and reaching, lookin' through hungry eyes Scenes chan...

I like the way you cook, the whole production How you serve it up, the whole seduction of the Color and the smell, the presentation of the Texture on the tongue...

Born in the mountains, many years ago Climbed these hills and valleys through the rain and snow I've seen the lightning flashin', heard the thunder roll I've e...

One evening for pleasure I rambled On the banks of some cold purling stream I set down on a bed of primroses And I gently fell into a dream I dreamt that I saw ...

John Riley came form Galway town in the years of the Irish hunger And he sailed away to America when the country was much younger The place was strange and work...

Troubles and trials are almost over X 3 See what my lord has done Keep your lamp trimmed and burnin X 3 See what my lord has done Heaven's journey is almost ov...

I had to leave her when I done her wrong Figured I would come back before too long As soon as I moved out, you started comin' around Ain't it like an old friend...

I try to travel around with less and less I tried them all and the simple way is the way that's best I save a lot of time not havin' to choose What color shirt ...

I try to travel around with less and less Tried them all and the simple way is the way that's best I save a lot of time not havin' to choose What color shirt I ...

I can only tell you what I see, two lonely people you and me Both want out and both want in, neither knows where to begin You can draw a line there in the dirt,...

There was a time when we'd be the last to leave Watching the sun come up while everyone fell asleep The music was always loud and I'd smoke and drink too much U...

Went out one night to make a little round, I met little Sadie and I shot her down Went back home and I got into bed Forty four smokeless under my head Woke up ...

Now the stars are fading in the morning light And you're warm beside me in the early bright You're the one I wanted, you're the one I need And I feel so safe he...

Where are my mama and daddy They came a long time before me Now we've come on the steamship Atlantic From our home far across the stormy sea I have their lette...

Baby you put my love on hold You gave me a peek at the pot of gold Now you're givin' me the run around You gave a taste to a hungry heart One day together and ...

Me and Dirk took a little trip Across the sea on a big air ship Riley Baugus came along Helped us play our banjo songs Prettiest place that I've ever seen Entir...

Well my name is Mick Ryan, I'm lyin still In a lonely spot near where I was killed By a red man defending his native land In the place that they call Little Big...

Wish I was a mole in the ground Wish I was a mole in the ground Mole in the ground, I'd root that mountain down Wish I was a mole in the ground Wish I was a liz...

I'm so close to you baby, but I'm so far away There's a silence between us and there's so much to say You're my strength you're my weakness You're my faith you'...

Motherless children have a hard time when your mother is gone When she's gone on home, when your mother is gone Motherless children have a hard time when the mo...

I'm one of the few, proud to be standing I walked up the pier from the coffin ships landing My clothes were just rags, no use in this weather But my back was st...

So so lah do, so lah so ree Angels are singin in heaven for me So so lah do, so lah so ree Hear em from the top of the music tree Climbin up, climbin up To the ...

As a young man I went riding out on the western plain In the state of North Dokota I met my Nelie Kane, I met my Nellie Kane She was living in a lonely cabin wi...

You close the door in front of me, I wait patiently outside But as the minutes tick away I feel the anger rise Who's the object of this rage, who's not being fa...

One rain drop fallin' down on Some hilltop, all alone it finds another And together they roll on down One mornin' then another, discovering one another Explorin...

In a room just like so many Knives and forks and glasses clatter He sat behind a microphone In a corner where it didn't matter For honest pay an honest player S...

You're leadin' me down a one way, a one way You're leadin' me down a one way street Is it a game that you play, that you play Here I've been thinkin' that you'r...

Out in the darkness, out in the night I see you standing there I want to guide you into the light Show you I really care It's hard to show the way I feel On th...

Out on the rollin' sea Jesus speaks to me Out on the rollin' sea when she rolls Out on the rollin' sea Jesus speaks to me Out on the rollin' sea when she rolls ...

I am a poor pilgrim of sorrow Cast out in this wide world to roam My brothers and sisters won't own me They say that I'm weak and I'm poor But Jesus father the ...

Once I lived like a traveler standing at the crossraads of his life Who knows not where to turn, wonders if he'll ever reach his home I was lost, tired, and wai...

CHORUS: Raleigh and Spencer was burning down There ain't no liquor in this town There ain't no liquor in this town I'll pawn you my shoes for a little bottle o...

Restless spirit, wandering, come on home again Tell me about your days of old, wander back again You won't admit your life is taken, to your death not yet awake...

Strollin' on the strand one day Back in the fall of '49 The sun was sinkin' in the west When somethin' caught my eye And through the dim and misty light I saw t...

The land I live in, it has no borders, it's under my feet wherever I go Around the world in every corner There's always a family or a friend I know I see myself...

Like a rock in my shoe, under my toe I think about you, I can't let go It's dug in deep, it still peeks through Tried shakin' it out, it won't come loose Like a...

I make a living from a circuit I made Out of trial and error and gigs that I've played It might be the money or the town that it's in But mostly it's people mak...

Romance is a slow dance To a sound as sweet as rain It's a new song you never heard before Unfolding to you both the same It takes time but you can get that st...

run mountain Traditional Went up on the mountain to fetch me a load of pine, put it in the wagon, I broke down behind (Chorus:) Run mountain, chug a little h...

My world turns from shadows to light From blindness to sight Sober to tight You're makin' me feel like a king and a pawn When you're here and you're gone Turni...

When you look out your window and see her runnin away You start addin things up, how you let her down Now she's makin you pay, by runnin away It's just like som...

Cornbread and beans And those good old collard greens Keep your skillet good and greasy all the time, time, time Skillet good and greasy all the time If you sa...

It was over a hundred years ago in eighteen sixty-one It was in the town of St Louis that old Stagger Lee was born Stagger Lee was a gambler and everybody knew ...

(Hadley/Welch/Wilson) I like a man who's crazy about me I like a man who can live without me too That's what I like about you I like a man who will lay down b...

Chorus: High on a hillside the old church steeple calls The bells are a ringin', a singin' to one and all Of the joys and the sorrows the laughter and the pain ...

Well there was an old man who lived by the mill If he ain't moved away he's a livin' there still Singing Fie diddle-eye diddle-eye dye, diddle-eye diddle-eye da...

Up on the high road lookin' down Thinking how you let me down And deep in my heart I hear the sound Of the song that carried me away We would come here years a...

Chorus: Let's go down to the holy well Down among the heather Hear the water make a gentle sound We'll heal our souls together Where the water flows from a dee...

I won't say it'll work for you but I know it did for me When I found myself a special place where I'm happy with all I see Now I make each day to go my way with...

It's the early bird that catches the worm But it's the second mouse that gets the cheese And you know what that means

Think about last night, think about the choices you made Everything you have, you tried to throw it all away You reckless life, left you on the street alone las...

The hand is cold that once held mine I can't believe you've really left this world behind I can wait and I can hope I'll get over this in time It takes time to...

We are but travelers on a road without end Searching for signs that the spirit may send There are few answers in this life I'm afraid Only more questions from t...

December nights come early, wait a while to see the light again A question left unanswered, sent out on the evening wind If winter is a stranger, maybe spring w...

From where you sit you cannot see it No one watches anyway No one stops to listen for it Covered by the sounds of day But we each play our own part in it Nothin...

Ils sont partis du pays pour faire un grande voyage Ils ont traverse la mer avec juste leur courage Mas pfres ont laisse tout pour la liberte Il y avait pas un ...

The heart is the fortune of all women kind They're always controlled, they're always confined Controlled by their parents until they are wives Then slaves to th...

Put one foot in front of the other Steppin into the here and now I'm not sure just where I'm goin but I will get there anyhow I got this far with no direction ...

Up along the hallway, down along the stairs I can see the pictures that we made down through the years And it makes me blue darling, thinking of the past I'm tr...

My pathway leads into the west They say it never really ends These legs of mine weren't made to rest I let them take me where they send me wandering As long as...

I am a poor wayfarin stranger While travelin through this world below There's no sickness toil or danger In the fair land to which I go I'm goin there to see my...

Where is my sailor boy, where is my sailor boy He sleeps at the bottom of the deep blue sea And he can't come back to me I stand on the beach alone and gaze at ...

Because I believe and have found salvation (bass-when I die) (lead and tenor- when I die) I'll live again That I may take part in the jubilation (tenor-when I d...

This is the song that nobody knows I couldn't begin to describe how it goes But it makes me cry or laugh right out loud The song that I sing when there's no one...

You got to leave me now, you got to go alone You got to chase a dream, one that's all your own Before it slips away When you're flyin' high, take my heart along...

Verse 1 Well if I was a sinner I tell you what I would do I'd quit my sinning and work on a building too CHORUS I'm working on a building I'm working on a buil...