I'm burnin' the letters that I've kept from time to time And I waited to see if she would call I know that what she's doing's gonna make me lose my mind But she...

You ought to see Mr Jones when he rattles the bones Old Possum Brown dancin' round like a clown Old aged Mama she's past eighty three shoutin' I'm full o'pep Wa...

Alice it's a wonder that you haven't been called under By the swift and angry current of the times Alice it's surprising you're so warm and sympathizing When so...

You think you took her from me but I just gave her to you I never wanted her much anyway all I ever wanted to do Kiss her lips in the early morn hold her hands ...

Now it's all in the family I wish we can only hurt just you and me Our little darlings will never understand what's happened to a woman and the man What we've b...

On the Greyhound bus trip home I was feelin' all alone When a long haired gal sat down next to me She said she was Atlanta bound kill some time maybe kick aroun...

Who's that sneaking down the fire escape who's that peeking through the golden gate Who's on the loose but can't be found Big Daddy's Alabama bound Big Daddy's ...

I've been thru a lotta states and a lotta towns most of them have different names But you'll find the streets all run the same Girls are a lot like this if you ...

I just pulled out of Minneapolis and I aimed my headlights south Got the taste of cherry lipstick still a clinging to my mouth She begged me not to leave her an...

Blues in my heart oh how it aches nobody knows the sorrow it takes I should have known right from the start That you'd leave me with these blues in my heart Gon...

Flyin' cross the desert in a TWA I saw a woman walkin' cross the sand She'd been a walkin' thirty miles on route to LA To get a brown eyed handsome man Her dest...

Have you ever passed the corner of 4th and Grand Where a little ball of rhythm's got a shoeshine stand The people gather round and they clap their hands he's a ...

Now I'd looked at you old clock for a long time And each glance makes a change for the worse Cause you just keep movin' me towards tomorrow but I wish you would...

I'm headed for the bluegrass state goin' back where the livin's great Though my body left one day my mind's never been away from Kentucky Kentucky Back to the p...

A rope close line holds these ragged Levi's to my hips A boxcar keeps the cold away from cracked and bleeding lips The different blast of a diesel horn drowns u...

Did you ever lie and listen to the rain fall did you ever own a homemade apple pie Did you ever watch a child while he was praying Just don't let the good life ...

Don't tell me your troubles I got troubles of my own Don't tell me your troubles just leave me alone Leave me alone and go on home tell go it to a friend I got ...

There's a lotta pretty girls in California and some of them still linger on my mind You'll find it's just about the same all over But none of them were just qui...

Easy lovin' so sexy lookin' I know from the feelin' that it comes from the heart Easy lovin' everyday's things givin' To count on my blessin's I wouldn't know w...

Far far away is my love of yesterday and she's gone gone gone gone from me Far far away is my life my love my way And wonder where where where oh where can she ...

I look down at the ground just below me and slowly lift my head up to the sky From here to there must be quite a distance but it's not as far apart as you and I...

Some people don't know exactly where to go in And they'll take the path that's easiest for the load The quickest way to get there with the most is They'll take ...

I've got a lot of memories to last the rest of my life So if you don't want to love me baby that'll be all right I'm gonna take all the loving that I have for y...

I was down and out as any man could be Sleeping in a mission they have for guys like me My shoes for a pillow beneath my head a cold hard mattress for my bed I ...

The wind and I have a lot in common it seems we're always in a race with time We never know just where we're goin' or think about what we leave behind Grass won...

The old hometown looks the same as I step down from the train And there to meet me is my mama and my papa And down the road I look and there runs Mary hair of g...

Watch for the postman to bring you a letter and don't you let that make you sad You may not understand now but you will later I never meant to treat you bad I j...

I know that you've heard people say many many times You don't pass through this world but once you'll get yours and I'll get mine But I've got a philosophy I be...

So I stepped up for the weighin' I knew the scales were wrong Cause you know how them drugstore scales get stepped on all day long A little fortune card came ou...

My pappy said you're gonna drive me to drinkin' If you don't stop drivin' that hot rod Lincoln Now you've heard the story of the hot-rod race When the Ford and...

Hunky Dory Hunky Dory Hunky Dory it's all right with me Time is a runnin' out with our love affair I can see it in your face it's everywhere You haven't left a ...

Off to my right a freight train engine's screamin' to my left I hear a baby cry To my devided soul they just add more confusion as I walk out into the night I h...

If heartaches brought fame in love's crazy game I'd be a legend in my time If they gave gold statues for tears and regrets I'd be a legend in my time But they d...

I'm a long way from home and so all alone and I'm scared like I thought I'd never be I'm a long way from home and everything is wrong Lord please watch over me ...

I've been down to Mississippi down through New Orleans yes I have I've played in California there's not much that I haven't seen no there's not I'm a ramblin' m...

Outside my window I see there's the world full of men They're tall and strong and living like I might have been But I met a woman and she took the life out of m...

Just because I tell you there's nobody like you that don't mean that it's true And if I should whisper the words I love you that don't mean that I do I may even...

It's such a pretty world today look at the sunshine And every day's the same since I met you It's such a pretty world today knowing that you're mine And happins...

She just caught the Jamestown Ferry it's not a hot day in January Like she said it'd be if she ever left me A case of gone was all she carried as she got on the...

She would meet me in the morning on her way down to the river Waiting patient by the chinaberry tree With her feet already dusty from the pathway to the levee A...

If I could see you just one time oh how it'd ease my troubled mind If I could hold you just one time and then pretend that you're still mine Oh oh oh how I miss...

He was born out in Alento on the west bank of the river All he ever drank was a muddy water and all he ever ate was chicken liver I say hey hey hey He grew up b...

Did you ever sleep up behind a billboard sign On the outskirts of your hometown for no good reason Did you ever keep a picture in your back pocket Of a lady who...

I came to Nashville a long time ago people said that I could be a star But all I remember is loneliness and hunger oh I sure didn't get too far This is the last...

It gets harder for me to sleep every night And no matter what I do nothing turns out right I guess a blind man could see how losing you got the best of me Our f...

Raised up by some folks I never got to know They offered me a thing called love I took mine to go I guess they always knew I'd leave I was a mistake And it don'...

I remember to this day the bright red Georgia clay How it stuck to the tires after the summer rain Will power made that old car go my rovin' mind told me that's...

Midnight I've spent another lonely day thinkin' of you Midnight tomorrow is on its way empty and blue I'm so lonely so lonely at midnight for you Midnight oh wh...

I'm gonna smile at everyone I meet today I'm gonna walk my streets so happy they won't believe I'm gonna dance at the slidest sound of music I hear play It migh...

You found a new love and I found one too Yours is an old boy friend but mine's mountain dew Friends say you're happy and I'm happy sometimes too You're happy wi...

There wasn't nobody that ever liked him farless loved him If you never got the chance to get to know him you wouldn't thought too much of him Folks said he was ...

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 I'm ...

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

Oh well I'm tired and so weary but I must travel on Till the Lord comes and calls calls me away oh Lord I pray Well the morning's bright and the lamb is the lig...

There's a way of life that most folks don't even know about When the cotton crop fails and the garden dries up because of the drought And your only clothes're h...

Que pasa que pasa what's happening to your casa Tell little Pepino to go outside and play And let's go loco on my acapulco senorita Juanita I need you right now...

Raindrops keep fallin' on my head And just like a guy who's feet are too big for his bed Nothing seems to fit those raindrops are fallin' on my head they keep f...

River Town River Town I can't settle down long as my woman's on the prow They're peepin' out from behind shades the lovin' how my woman's made I've got to get h...

I want to introduce myself to the ladies and please don't be discouraged with my size I'm as big as the last two boys you went with About twice the love light s...

Ruby oh Ruby honey are you mad at your man I've done all I can do tryin' to get along with you and still you're not satisfied Ruby oh Ruby honey are you mad at ...

His daddy was a simple man just a red dirt Georgia farmer And his mama spent her young life havin' kids and bailin' hay He had fifteen years and an ache inside ...

Go on and leave if it's over and you no longer care for me But before you leave would you please say something nice to me Tell me a lie if you want to say you'r...

The lights in the harbor don't shine for me I'm like a lost ship adrift on the sea Sea of heartbreak lost lover loneliness memories of your caress so divine I w...

You've seen the way she pushes me around You've seen her built me up then tear me down You've seen this much but haven't seen it all stick around and see Ruby f...

The first time I kissed her she cried and said I bet I'll still love you after I die When we were married she cried then too And I could hardly hear through all...

She loves ever mornin' that the Lord gives her a rise And that second cup of coffee that helps open up her eyes She loves her home and children and the walkin's...

Yeah I don't take no lip with this cannon on my hip Let me tell you boy it ain't no toy I wear a hat just like a mounty I'm the sheriff of Boone County Be caref...

Show me a man who starts each new born day giving his thanks unto God Show me a man who digs beneath the earth Mining black gold yard by yard and that's hard Sh...

Six strings on this old guitar I broke one now there's five But five's enough to play my love song and try to win her back Cause the nights're cold and lonely s...

Somebody told Mary Mary had to tell her friends Jim got to work and he had to tell it over and over again It's the hardest thing in town how the news must get a...

She lays her head on my pillow every night she shares her dream the same dream as I The two of us together loving and living she gives me something to believe i...

You're my soul song my everything-I-do song My pick-me-up-when-I'm-blue song and that's why I sing all the time You're my soul song and that's why I call you my...

I'm a walkin' southern bound down the highway Cars and buses and the big trucks pass me by I walk awhile then I thumb they must think I'm a bum For no one will ...

Steal away steal away steal away to Jesus steal away steal away home I ain't got long to stay here I was walkin' into Savannah passed the church decayed and dim...

Gonna get out my sycamore and shine up my shoes meet my baby and tell her the news I bet my bundle on a swayback nag and I came home winner with a plenty o'swag...

(Here's the Sunshine Man here's the Sunshine Man here's the Sunshine Man) I'm the Sunshine Man you've got a problem I've got a plan When you need a helping han...

Well news're full of them super stars super roads and super cars I reckon super's just a thing to be And there's super markets and super bars and super men and ...

Dig this humm sure pick fine I'm a super sideman lemme tell you bout it boss Now some call me chief and some call me stud some call me hoss but I'll tell you bu...

Sweet dreams of you every night I go through Why can't I forget you and start my life anew Instead of having sweet dreams about you You don't love me it's plain...

My tears are falling cause you're taking her away And though it really hurts me so there's something that I gotta say Take good care of my baby please don't eve...

Take me take me to your darkest room close every window and bolt every door The very first moment I heard your voice I'd be in darkness no more Take me to your ...

Tell her you love her today tell her in your own simple way It's the same old story to her it's never old And even though she knows it she likes to be told Mayb...

Listen while I tell you bout a place I know down in Tennessee where the tall corn grows Hidden from the world in a bunch of pines The moon's a little bashful an...

I know I'm not your first love they're just a past memory But I'm the one who's got you now and that's all that matters to me I know other arms have held you bu...

Six foot six stood on the ground weighed two hundred and thirty five pounds I saw that giant of a man brought down to his knees by love He's the kind of a man t...

Let's not fight it anymore unpack the bags and close the door I'll never leave you Though you lied right from the start I can't convince my stupid heart Not to ...

Her head rolls back and forth amidst the billows of her long black shiny hair As she contemplates the ecstasy of some other love that now she wished was there I...

If you see your brother standin' by the road With a heavy load from the seeds he sowed And if you see your sister fallin' by the way Just stop and say you're go...

It's hard to find a man today with a good word for his neighbor Except the one he's a talkin' to at the time Should you find a man of God who'll have to talk to...

I hear the echo of your footsteps they're right in step with marching time Since you've walked out of my life and out of my world Please walk on out of my mind ...

I'm like a cloud driftin' from town to town 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 up a...

Wasting my time again asking you to stop seeing him I've told you goodbye for the last time but I'm wasting my time again This thing that you're doing's a sin h...

Don't your hurting me ever affect your sympathy My crying sight is all you ever see on me From down here the future never looks too bright for me The only time ...

Livin' on whiskey dirt ain't easy Lord when you're little You might say it's a mighty rough row to hold Sometimes you think that you won't get no bigger (but I ...

Who do I know in Dallas who can I call on the phone Who do I know in Dallas who'll help me forget she's gone I can't spend the night without someone the loneli...

Woman ooh sensuous woman you control the world I'm livin' in Woman ooh sensuous woman release my body and let me live again Step by step you taught me easy lov...

It's a big job just gettin' by with nine kids and a wife But I've been a workin' man dang near all of my life And I'll keep on workin' long as these two hands'r...

If I promise you to straighten up and put my life in order If I swear to you on bended knees I won't hurt you again If I become the kind of man that you want me...

Hopped a freight train out of Nashville rode it up to Ohio From my way on to Detroit stayed there for a month or so Caught a ride into Chicago with a truck driv...

She walked right up to me and took me by the hand An angel who could please most any man She said to me I'm free and you're just my kind And for a moment you al...