Streak of lightning coming down the highway turn around and watch it go switch on the lights put on the highbeams better find a preacher on the radio I like to...

Hank Williams, he came up from Montgomery With his heart full of broken country songs Nashville, Tennessee, didn't really understand him 'Cause he did things di...

I'm standing at the corner of a bare country road I've been carving out my daddy's name on a little stone Oh, I couldn't always talk to him If he was here today...

Well that's an old toaster It just needs a cord That's a full set of coasters If there was only one more But that's a brand new barbecue It's my brother Pete's ...

Well, there's something about my baby I'm not really sure But it makes other people Stop and look at her It's not the way she walks It's not the clothes she wea...

Trains don't cry And bullets don't sing A broken heart ain't worth anything Even a bird of prey lets out some kind of scream I would have never done to you what...

Well, the codeine sure makes it hard to round up the cattle And the light sure does hurt your tortured eyes You keep falling in and out of your broken saddle Th...

During the Cold War My daddy sat at the kitchen table Smokin' cigarettes Starin' out the window During the Cold war He had grease on his coveralls And lines ben...

Well ii's always gotta work out for you, doesn't it Everything's just got to be fine When you see your old boyfriends on the street They all say hello and you'r...

Well all this talkin' It's getting to me The wallpaper's closing in And I can't breathe And I keep thinkin' I hear the telephone ring I keep wanting to say her ...

You didn't disappear You surely say goodbye With your eyes full of tears A heartache in your smile I should have kept in touch I don't know what I was thinking ...

Yesterday I saw you You were out on the town again You had your back to me You were talking to some of your friends They must have said something 'cause you tur...

I drive a snowplow Cumberland County Covered up with flashing lights and chains I got a contract with a Cumberland township Keep all their county roads clean I ...

Well, it's hard to watch a party When you're the only one who's feeling bad People watch you out of the corner of their eyes when they laugh Still, I wish all t...

Now that I have packed my things And we have gone our separate ways Darlin', are you thinking how it might have been Are you sorry I didn't stay Do you love me ...

Outside the rain is softly falling Raindrops falling one by one Can't you hear the highway calling In the morning, I'll be gone Darling, can't you hear that whi...

Darlin', lately, something's been different When we go out at night There's a fire in your eyes But something is missing They just don't burn as bright You take...

Well the phone broke the silence Like the screaming of a siren And I just sat beside it Took another drag on my cigarette I swore I'd never smoke again And I wa...

Well, I just came down the Chippewa Had a station wagon and a hundred dollars I was thinking 'bout the girl I'd lost a year before I hadn't seen her for some ti...

There's a little envelope on the table unopened He already knows what it says He's known it for years Still his hands shook with fear When he picked it up in to...

Harold Wilson is my name, son Why don't you sit a spell I live right here on the Fergusson Road At the Paradise Motel And though you do not know me There's a st...

Well he's a good dog I've had him for years He used to get up when I'd walk by Now he just lifts up his ears And he thumps his tail on the floor When I talk to ...

Well it sure is good to see you gal And you sure are looking fine I hardly recognized you It's been such a long time The last time that I saw you You were cruis...

Well, I don't miss her anymore the way that I used to Was a time when my heart was broke Somehow I got through Still, her father became my best friend That's on...

Sixteen miles from Arkadelphia, right near the Texas border Traffic was stopped at a railway crossing, took it to the shoulder I stoked the kettle, I put it to ...

Hello, neighbour I've been meaning to talk to you I've been putting it off Somethin' I got to do I've been living with a secret That keep me awake There's just ...

So many mornings of so many days I'm just dreamin' out my window of going away I dream of white lines, cigarette stops Broken down shoulders, rusty old trucks I...

Indian motorcycles Saturday night citations Northern boys in southern cars And one pump stations Starter pistols 'neath the quarter moon The sound of engines re...

The gravel flies up off the tires Last night I caught my baby lying She said that she loved me Said she'd be true I turned around and she had found somebody new...

Up on the Newport Ridge It's there that I lived With my husband Joe and a couple of kids He worked the factory by day And the fields by night 'Till they closed ...

Maybe I should call her up And even if she laughs at me, at least I would get to hear her voice Maybe I could calm her down And she'd ask me to come around And ...

It's always Kansas That's where I always break down That's where my world Tumbles to the ground It's always Kansas That's where I fall apart That's where my bro...

Well the lights go off And the curtains go down Like an old romance Without any sound You don't get the story but the heartache still comes through And right or...

I saw Big Bear Henry Two Turtle Jim Rolling into town, they was ridin' on the rims Sold their tires to buy themselves A couple of cases of beer They got there a...

Just a little lost Just beside the tracks I stepped off Now I can't find my way back Just a little lost A little out of place A little out of touch Just out of ...

Every time I get somewhere, I'm leaving I get so tired of the smell of diesel Every time I get somewhere it seems I got to go Livin', livin' out on the road The...

Well, Lucille was a woman and I was a boy And it was obvious that she wanted more Than a man her age could give her And that was me I was wild as a summer squal...

I'm a-makin' whiskey On the Rattlesnake Shelf I'm a-gonna drink some And the rest I'll sell Me and my baby Are comin' into town I'm makin' whiskey Going to brin...

They put up a sign for the very last time At Milly's Cafe They loaded their stuff into the car And they drove away Milly looked back for one last time And when ...

Another city, another town They're all starting to look like The last one somehow I don't know what to do I've never felt so blue Oh, how I wish you Were with m...

This letter that I write to you, Dad Well, I will not sign my name Though I did not want to tell you I felt I had to anyway It's rained for weeks And it flooded...

Grandpa sits by the back door And he can't see anymore He lost his sight in '64 You can lead him like a horse to water But in the evening when the shadows get l...

There's a couple old people That live across the road So I keep the volume down On my radio And all the neighbours say When I go by He's a pretty good guy Hey, ...

What are you supposed to do When your rainbow breaks in two And all those stars come crashing to the ground What are you supposed to do When your pot of gold is...

Rocky, I'm writing you this letter I'm in the Sunset Home My grandkids went and put me here They got everything I own I know you're out in Albuquerque I saw Fre...

Well, up and down these empty streets Out there in the noon day heat Dusty hair and tired feet Wonderin' about her Kicking in them old tin cans Clicking sticks ...

They say that a man just doesn't grow up 'Till he's forty odd years old Such was the case of young Kelly James And everybody knows He had a place on the back st...

Seems like I've been out here in stormy seas About as long as I can stand And it's like you send me another wave Every time I catch my breath And I've trimmed m...

Well the cans on the sidewalk They ain't worth kickin' The street lights are broke up And they keep on flickerin' You step on a crack She ain't coming back Even...

I pull this blanket up over my shoulder I stoke the fire I check my gun again There's the hounds a'baying Up over the mountain By the way they sound I can tell ...

You're spookin' the horses They're wild and they're scared That bright coloured makeup Those clothes that you wear And I've seen you dancin' last night 'neath t...

Well, summer is over The turnstiles are seized The Ferris wheel turns by itself in the breeze And the big diesel engines Idle out on the lawn Summer is over And...

Nighttime's falling on the Summerlea And supper's getting cold It's the second time in as many weeks That he hasn't shown He's probably chasing some old steer A...

Well there's cars in the driveway as you turn into the yard The casket's in the living room You look away and swallow hard Someone hands you a bottle And you do...

Well, things always cost a little more When you buy them at the Sweaburg Store But the drive into town made it the same So it didn't matter, anyway You could wa...

Oh, take your things Darlin', go There's no reason To stay on Down the line Is a distant moan Number nine They come in slow Take your things Darlin', go I'll ge...

The kettle's on the boil Lord, the night is almost gone The fire is a-dying down And I'm trying to write this song But time and time again, you know My mind is ...

Well, it hadn't rained in as many Sundays as the preacher he had prayed But it didn't matter 'cause nobody prayed it anyway Some danced and some sang Some threw...

Let me take you down down down to rocket town Yeah we're going down down down to rocket town Let me take you down down down to rocket town Yeah we're going down...

There's a little white note on a gate by the road That a man put up yesterday And when we saw it we all ran out Just to see what it had to say And when we read ...

My neighbour's car got stole last night Right out of his driveway We heard the dogs a'barking We never payed 'em any mind Mary says she's gonna lock the door Fr...

Better take some extra blankets Going out past sixty They say the wind is cold Comin' in off the shell Better take some extra flour Take some extra biscuits Tak...

Darlin', I'm a'comin' down Route number sixty-seven I just got off the turnpike Avoiding the Ohio State inspection Johnny Law followed me up the road Then he tu...

Well the whole town came out to watch The day they paved the parking lot Somebody hung a ribbon up And then they cut it down And that big White Rose up on that ...

When I met her she was a beauty queen Who wanted something more Now she's hanging out with me in front of the liquor store And it won't start when I shut it off...

Well I'm wilder than her What else can I say But I guess that's why She fell in love with me She's a house on fire She's got all those charms I'm a house on fir...

He's got a heart made of yellow barley straw All wrapped up in calico patches And plum chuck full of love He looks out over the fields Every year's losses Every...