The beachcomber works by the ocean all day He gets what the tourists and the sea throw away He's hot and he's thristy and the words hurt his ears When they tell...

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

Back when we were young everybody came to see us Everybody wanted to be us back when we were young We loved each other so all our friends told one another And w...

The man who preached the funeral Said it really was a simple way to die He laid down to rest one afternoon And never opened up his eyes They hired me and Fred a...

I have been to New York City I have traveled there in style It's a big conventient city but there ain't no country miles I have put my hand inside the hands of ...

Country is sittin' on the back porch Listen to the whippoorwills late in the day Country is mindin' your business Helpin' a stranger if he comes your way Count...

Well life is a gamble and the days, they're just so many decks Oh the hours are cards they deal and you play what you get Oh you think of the the time that you ...

I want to tell you all a story 'Bout a Harper Valley widowed wife Who had a teenage daughter Who attended Harper Valley Junior High Well her daughter came home...

I guess I should've written, Dad To let you know that I was comin' home I've been gone so many years I didn't realize you had a phone I saw your cattle comin' i...

When the TV won't work and your toys fall apart And you have a sad feeling deep in your heart You wanna go out but it's rainin' out there I want you to know I c...

I know who I'll be seeing in New Zealand If I ever return and I want to I know who I'll be seeing in New Zealand If I ever get back and I hope I'll do I'll see ...

In some of my songs I have casually mentioned The fact that I like to drink beer This little song is more to the point Roll out the barrel and lend me your ears...

I Love little baby ducks, Old pickup trucks, Slow movin' trains - and rain I Love little country streams, Sleep without dreams, Sunday school in May - and hay A...

When the train pulls in the station you'll be waiting by the track Your havin' trouble sleepin' nights you want me to come back But that old train will roll on...

The first strange town I was ever in The county was hangin' a man Nobody cared if he lived or died And I just didn't understand So I washed my face in the morn...

Mama likes to listen to the grand old gospel time Daddy is a cowboy drinkin' beer and wine Mama's in the kitchen standin' there all alone She got Jesus on the r...

Joe don't let your music kill ya It's a thing that supposed to fill ya It's a thing that supposed to make you happy Taking pills and drinking whiskey picking ca...

Woke up on a bus and heard the driver say Friends fill it up with No 2 Wondered where I was and wondered what today Would be demanding me to do It's not for me ...

I have been a rover I have walked alone Hiked a hundred highways never found a home Still in all I'm happy the reason is you see Once in a while along the way l...

Me and Jesus, got our own thing goin' Me and Jesus, got it all worked out Me and Jesus, got our own thing goin' We don't need anybody to tell us what it's all a...

Her name is Myra and her golden skin Is tanned by the sunshine and the wind She does'nt wear make-up and she firmly believes In everything that Jesus came to te...

I guess I'll go through life never having you I guess I'll go out of this world never having you There's no way for me to love you At this late day it wouldn't...

"How old do you think I am," he said? I said, well, I didn't know He said, "I turned 65 about 11 months ago" I was sittin' in Miami, pouring blended whiskey do...

"How old do you think I am?" he said I said, "Well, I didn't know" He said, "I turned 65 about 11 months ago" I was sittin' in Miami pourin' blended whiskey dow...

(I went to see an old army buddy of mine to do some drinking And his wife had become an alcoholic and I wrote a song about it) Pay no attention to Alice she's...

Ravishing Ruby, she'd been around for awhile Ravishing Ruby, she was a truckstop child Born in the back of a rig, somewhere near LA Ravishing Ruby, you poured a...

Me and Yates, an army buddy o'mine Were doin' three years in Germany at the time We came upon these Frauleins in the bar Yates said, "Darf isch zee be-gleit-en"...

I was working in Miami for a day or two I decided I'd look up a girl that I once knew I bought some flowers and went to see a girl I used to know The lady at he...

Well, I met the man In Montgomery, Alabama I was waiting on a bus And he was shining shoes And I heard him say I'm a shoeshine man Number one in the land Shoes...

That song is driving me crazy, I gotta hear it again First time I heard it I was with some friends It's a simple little song you can sing along with an old time...

I remember THE YEAR THAT CLAYTON DELANEY DIED They said for the last two weeks That he suffered and cried It made a big impression on me Although I was a barefo...

You show me your heart and I'll show you mine I'm not gettin' hurt anymore That's a promise I made me for sometime ago I've never ran into things hard and unbe...

Had my golf clubs on my shoulder When you saw me first today Wearin' my old army sweater That you thought you threw away And when you saw me standin' there You...