Came in here to do some drinkin' not what you're thinkin' A little relexin's all I got on my mind But I tell by the way you're lookin' at me you are lonely Hone...

(Well all the beer and all my friends are gone) It sure was fun having all the gang around tonight Laughin' and singin' and talkin' about old times We raised o...

I've traveled all around this country In my time I thought I'd seen it all But today I took a detour down a back road Through a little town whose name I can't r...

It's not working the way that I planned it We're no closer than we were at the start I can find my way to your body But I can't find my way to your heart Are w...

A long time of loving her good timing man He's fightin' his future in a hillbilly band He promisses the good life and a big diamond ring All she wants is a baby...

Who was once a bull hooking son of a gun Now who keeps a pint hid out behind chute No 1 Who was ridin' high till a pretty girl rode him to the ground Any kid kn...

I finally found a place where I can take it All this loneliness you've left behind On a mountain that's no hill for a climber Just one step up sit back and pour...

Like old Dr Pepper sometimes she's misunderstood And like the Colonel's Chicken boys she's finger lickin' good She knows when I need her and she's always super ...

Like old Dr Pepper sometimes she's misunderstood And like the Pernal's Chicken boys she's fingelicking good She knows when I need her and she's always super qui...

I've never seen so many faces goin' to so many places at one time This Dallas Fort Worth Airport is so big it blows this country boy's mind She said she'd meet ...

There comes a time in every love when some rain must fall But our love is strong enough to with stand it all We're not two kids anymore we know how life can be ...

Now I live across town from the only one I love No woman wants a man that drinks too much I know she'd take me back again if I could quit for good Lord knows I'...

Bye bye love, bye bye happiness Hello loneliness I think I'm gonna cry Bye bye love bye bye sweet caress Hello emptiness I feel like I could die Bye bye my love...

I don't know how long you left me here alone But I sure was a lonesome someone And I learned from a friend how cheaters never win Oh, but we sure have more fun ...

You came to me this mornin' several hours late I looked for you last night she would not wait You tell me I"ve been cheatin' your voice cuts like a knife But co...

Oh, I am just a cowboy on my way back to Houston I used to play the rodeos But I can't play 'em like I used to I've given it up I'm layin' it down I've had enou...

I came down from Detroit in my new Cadillac love coupe I thought San Antone was the place for a playboy to play I found me a darlin' with skin just as smooth as...

Cold Fort Worth beer just ain't no good for jealous I try it night after night You're in someone else's arms in Dallas does Fort Worth ever cross your mind Dar...

Of all the love affairs to die I wagered yours and mine Would live to hear the golden chimes of time But risking you led me into a world of cheatin' fools A wor...

Listen to the fiddles from the fais do do playin' all of my favorite songs Papa Thibodaux Belinda hey Jole Blon Cher Cherie you're the one for me I told you lon...

Step by step you been leaving any day now you'll be gone Leaving me with your mem'ry and I'll miss you for tears to come And it's killin' me to know that I can...

I had everything in my favor under God's blue sky Your good love and a baby girl homemade apple pie A dog a cat two cars and a boat a home and a piece of land A...

How many times did we get back together How many times did we start all over Think about it darling who cares who's right or wrong Just get all your love togeth...

In the back of my mind you're calling my name I just can't believe that your feelings have changed Without you I know my future is past So I keep holding on to ...

Give me liberty or give me all your love Darling lately you've been talkin' in your sleep Your old used to be has tempted you to leave If you think you want hi...

Lately I've been through some heavy thinkin' I've about decided what to do You're doin' things to make me think of drinkin' Gonna honky tonk right out on you I...

That far away look in your eye Gets farther as each day goes by I feel like I'm wasting your time There ain't nothing but goodbye on your mind How long can I k...

You wrote Your Cheatin' Heart about A gal like my first ex-wife And you moaned the blues for me and for you Hank Williams you wrote my life The cold cold heart...

She reads all the ads in the paper each day And dreams about how it will be Taking vacations and buying new clothes When the hard times are over for me She set...

Hello Mary (hello Mary) yeah this is me Yeah I know I told you I'd be home by three But you gotta believe me this is real I got caught up in a business deal And...

I said I'd never do it again I swore my way that I would mend But you cheated dear and that's a sin here I am I'm drunk again I'm drunk because that you are go...

Tryin' to make a livin' it's harder every day By the time I see a dollar just another bill to pay I got a wife and family and the bills are pilin' high These da...

You always leave me holding the bag Don't you know it's gettin' purty heavy to drag You think it's funny but it ain't no gag How come you always leave me holdin...

Haven't got a worry haven't got a care Haven't got a thing to call my own Though I'm out of money I'm a millionaire I still have my home in San Antone Well whe...

My glass is empty and so are my arms The lights are down low and so am I I drink not to think and I hate to go home Home's where the hurt is my sweet love is go...

She'd be hurt if she knew I was drinking Cause one's too much and twelve just ain't enough She knows how it messes up my thinking How it makes me look for someo...

Well, I'm a honky tonk man and I can't seem to stop I love to give the girls a whirl to the music of an old jukebox But when my money's all gone I'm on the tele...

She stood there with tears in her beautiful eyes Said the closest she'd be was around And now she was leaving cause she couldn't fight My honky tonk merry go ro...

It's late and the crowd is leaving The lights in the jukebox are out The waitress just cleaned off my table And said they were closing the lounge And I've tried...

If we let ourselves get carried away How far do you think we would go Would tomorrow find you closer to me Or would goodbye be too close to hello? Are you sure...

How long does it take to learn to love you Just long enough to look into your eyes And how long does it take to be a stranger Just long enough for you to say go...

After hundreds of lies fake alibis After too many times of playing out all night After too many women too many times of actin' free After all this time of cheat...

Everybody says you let me down I should be ashamed to take you round Makes no difference what you used to do darling I could never be ashamed of you Maybe you w...

I woke up this morning feeling like I never felt before My head aches my eyes are red and I hurt places I ain't hurt before Though I don't remember I really don...

Today the midnight oil's all over someone And those forbidden places aren't forbidden anymore If my back door could talk it would tell me That my borrowed angel...

I never take a drink or go out dancin' When you live alone that's hard to do I might miss a chance to find a new love But I never miss a day missing you Last n...

Well I finally made it through a day without her I don't feel her presence anywhere I don't sit around and think about her anymore Now I've convinced myself tha...

I need a great big bottle of VO's to go I need two long loving arms to roll up in Some fool just played your song on the jukebox And that same ole hurt is hurti...

What in this world has come and slipped up on me What is this crazy thing I feel I can't believe that love is callin' my name I can't believe it but it's real ...

I reached out my hand to gently touch her For a moment there I think she almost smiled Then she trembled turned away whispered some day not today Gettin' over b...

When I loved you I was foolish and I knew it Being true was something you could not retain After all the times I told myself don't do it Like a moth I fall into...

I'm looking for a new way to love you Cause the old way don't work anymore Darlin' we once had a secret Love only we knew about Now darlin' you're so cold when...

Pardon me I don't know what made me break down Don't apologize for bringing up her name There was a time it didn't hurt to talk about it But lately the thought ...

You've known so long that you were wrong but still you had your way You told her lies and alibis and hurt her more each day But now your conscience bothers you ...

As the world turns to the edge of night All my children come out to cry I've got a flashing guidin' light and the price is right Where they searched for tomorro...

I'm not here just drinking someone's mem'ry away But I wish I had someone I could leave so I could stay I'm not the kind who runs around and cheats on his wife ...

She'd like to give me things that you've stopped giving She sees in me the things you used to see And she'd like to feel these arms that you've left defeat So h...

You no longer turn to me when you need turnin' on You've got a lotta love to give but you don't give at home You don't touch me with your eyes the way you used ...

The barroom atmosphere really brings my heart no cheer Watchin' bubbles in my beer don't ease my mind It just helps to keep the hurt from hurting Like I keep hu...

I drove through the park Lord I searched all the bars Where I made out with love too many times It was always so easy to find an unhappy woman Till I started lo...

It's a cheatin' situation a stealin' invitation To take what's not really ours and make it through the midnight hours It's a cheatin' situation just a cheap imi...

The smoke in this barroom burns my eyes The jukebox is playing much to loud Lonesome songs that make me wanna cry And I can't hardly move for the crowd But it'...

Goodbye Joe me gotta go me oh my oh Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou My Yvonne the sweetest one me oh my oh Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the ba...

Goodbye Joe me gotta go me oh my oh Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou My Yvonne the sweetest one me oh my oh Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the ba...

Well, I've been kicked out of might near ever bar in town I've been locked up for drivn' 120 through town Been shot and cut with a knife for messin' round with ...

She was a lady from the country of eleven hundred springs She could drink more beer than I could buy She was a lady from the country of eleven hundred springs I...

She was a lady from the country of eleven hundred springs She could drink more beer than I could buy She was a lady from the country of eleven hundred springs I...

I'll say one thing the lady's got pride Her smile never reaches her eyes anymore Our friends know I've cheated and she knows the score But she holds her head u...

I don't know if we can make it But baby, let's give it a good try We're both comin' off of losin' It ain't easy, tellin' love goodbye You don't look a thing li...

I've climbed the mountain and looked down on valleys below I've been everywhere and I've tried everything So I think that I ought to know I've sampled the bitte...

I just came by and wondered if you'd talk to me I know I shattered everything we planned And I've been chasin' dreams of what I thought was happiness When all t...

You've got to make a little love each day That's the way you make it stay If you don't use it you're gonna lose it You've got to make a little love each day No...

You can be believin' I'm a man of means Don't let yourself be fooled by these boots and western jeans I'll wear what I like to just like kings and queens do I m...

If you see your man in clothes that's old and ragged And he walks from bar to bar in worn out shoes If people point and whisper God have mercy Would you deny th...

Well if the wife and I are fussin' brother that's our right Cause me and that sweet woman's got a licence to fight Why don't you mind your own business mind you...

Well I've just left my home friends where I couldn't sleep For missin' a man that I couldn't keep She just walked out and left me for somebody else Now her memo...

(I'll never forget the night that Lefty Frizzell Called me at home back in December of 1974 And sang me a song on the phone that he and Whitey Shaffer had writ...

(No deal no deal) Now the cards are all stacked against me For reasons I don't understand And since he's taken my place at your table Then he'll have to play o...

Talk about your good times Lord I've had me some Laughter comes easy to a man when he's young But I've growed too far on this ole whiskey dream And nobody's wai...

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 mis...

It don't matter who does the callin' We both find it easy to lie We both got a needin' in common And the two of us are one of a kind Like all cheaters we've tr...

I guess if I'd admit it we'd all know who was wrong But one thing leads to another when there isn't much at home Drink and conversation helps to ease the mind B...

Sally loves Ronnie and Brenda loves Bill Bill still worships Sally and he always will Ole Ronnie left Dorothy and Margie left Hank To marry Bob Gibson who works...

We're man and wife on paper but the things just ain't the same you Lovers now are strangers how we've changed It's the end of our forever and we just can't stay...

Partners in rhyme it would be a crime If we had never got to sing together Partners in rhyme singin' every line Well, maybe we could teach the world to sing som...

This is not my first time at a party And I know when a woman's comin' on But I don't know how long I can resist her So if she's your woman please take her home ...

I never thought that one woman could hold me I've never been the one woman kind But ever since Rosie said she really loved me I can't get Rosie out of my mind ...

He'll dust off his hat clean out his ole pickup truck He's going playin' when he should be prayin' for luck Cause tomorrow he's ridin' the meanest bull he'll ev...

Papa it's so good to see you seeing you off of the wine Papa you barely miss mama she won't try to hold you this time One day her tears did stop falling she gav...

Once I had a warm and willing woman And it never crossed my heart to cross the street But lately baby's left me cold and hungry For the kind of love that made m...

Once I had a warm and willing woman And it never crossed my heart to cross the street But lately baby's left me cold and hungry For the kind of love that made m...

I've been everything that a man shouldn't be I've done things a man won't do And it's hard to believe what she sees in me After all that I put her through But ...

All she said she wanted was a piece of me Even if the part she got could never be free So I gave her love that I knew you could spare But sweetheart she took mo...

That's not really her she's not herself tonight Or she'd never let someone like you hold her so tight She'll leave here like she came here very much alone She's...

This wild crazy look in my eyes Only means I'm trying to drink her from my mind And as I watch her at the bar with all those men around I know before closin' ti...

I was following the rodeos in Texas And being chased by fathers of my ex's I wasn't looking for romance but it happened just like that When I saw her it melted ...

Not a hair out of place She makes up her face Then she makes up a lie She's dressed fit to kill And it takes all his will Not to cry She don't know that he kn...

There's an empty jar of make-up on the nightstand by the bed It keeps bringin' all the mem'ries of the love that we once had Vacant closet in our bedroom where ...

Smoke filled bar my guitar in my hand The kids sure miss you and they hate the shape they'll see me in I know I'll never love another in my time You were my wom...

Oh how hard we fought today behind that courtroom door Devidin' up the things we both had worked together for Now we go our seperate ways the ties no longer bin...