Oh, I believe the time is coming when the Lord will come again I believe the end is closer every day Let's be ready for the judgement when we look upon his face...

I'm thinking now of Christmas Back home the fields are white To far away to see them Wish I were there tonight I know folks back home all miss me The children'...

Oh Maybelline why can't you be true oh Maybelline why can't you be true You've started back doin' the things you used to do As I was motivatin' over the hill I...

Well me and Jesus we got our own things going me and Jesus we got it all worked out Me and Jesus we got our own things going We don't need anybody to tell us wh...

The old man who sold his apples isn't there anymore And the city square don't seem as big as it did before They tore down that old drugstore we used to love so ...

Memory is a flower you once wore in your hair You were twice as lovely as these vows that we always would share Memory is a pillow where you once layed your hea...

Well, I'm a gonna get on that ol' turnpike and I'm gonna ride I'm a gonna leave this town till you decide Which one you want the most them Opry stars or me Milw...

When the sun in the morning peeps over the hill And kisses the roses round my window sill Then my heart fills with gladness when I hear the trill Of the birds i...

I'd walk for miles, cry or smile for mama and daddy I want them, I want them to know Just how I feel, my love is real for my mama and daddy I want them to know ...

I wasn't the smart one in class And I wasn't the one who ran fast I begin things then I don't follow through But I have moments of brilliance with you There ar...

Everywhere you seem to go there I suppose you'll find a yearn Oh, how I'd like to be that man, he's got money to burn Oh, how I'd like to be that man, he's got ...

I've got a feeling you'll soon be leavin' But I won't beg you not to go Because I've always been A fool to cry for you I know this time it's really over For th...

Once I thought two happy hearts would someday be as one But then a third heart came along and now our love is gone I count the many times I said I love no one b...

Well, my baby left her jinglin' John for foldin' Fred True love never backed up one word that she said That proved to me that a black bear is green when it's re...

Chorus: Hold back the rushing minutes, make the wind lie still Don't let the moonlight shine across the lonely hill Dry all the raindrops and hold back the sun ...

Dark days ago (dark days ago) I walked all alone (walked all alone) I thought for my sins I could never atone But then I was loved when I heard a voice say Look...

T: I followed you to Texas T: I followed you to Utah G: We didn't find it there, so we moved on T: I went with you to Alabam' T: Things looked good in Birmingha...

Lately I don't even miss her Yes it's true, out of sight and out of mind All my love, yesterday, it has faded away I'd be lonely if I could find the time Helped...

I was just a gay young fellow When I found my pretty flower Growing in a field of love one day When she told me that she loved me And I knew that I must tell he...

My Lord, has called me today To go the straight and narrow way So for my Lord I'll surely live Yes, my Lord has called today God warned us all To live in sin n...

My brand new car has a dent in the fender I'm so mad I could shout But there's no need for me to complain For she'll do it the very next time out Just a while ...

Well, I saw mommy in her night gown, she was jumpin' all around Neckin' with old Santa Claus The records kept a-playin' and mommy kept a-sayin' Old Santa wasn't...

I may say that I don't care and hold up head up in the air Even tell my friends I'm glad that you don't call But when the day is through and my heartaches start...

You were something special and I loved you You left me and you hurt me and I still will do I can almost feel you touch me as I think about what used to be Yes, ...

I loved my little darling, my sweet Imogene The girl of my heart and the girl of my dreams I dreamed of a day when she'd be mine alone To share all my hopes and...

If you want to see somebody cry their heart out For a love they lost and must live without If you're not afraid my misery might rub off on you Just hang around ...

G: There's just one place for me B: Near you T: It's like heaven to be B: Near you G: Times when we're apart G: And I can't face my heart T: Say you'll never s...

WITH SAMMY KERSHAW WRITERS JIM FOSTER, MARK PETERSEN I've been abused and used and skinned up and bruised And thrown from a movin' train I've been homeless, ca...

I've got a never ending love for you From now on that's all I wanna do From the first time we met I knew I'd have a never ending love for you After all this ti...

Some folks live like a king, think they have everything With great riches and treasures untold Well we don't help what they do but when our day is through We've...

Writer Tom T Hall ?« ?© '73 Hallnote Music ?» 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 ...

I'd like to introduce myself Though you've seen me 'round Well, I'm a new man in town You won't recognize my smile It's upside down Well, I'm a new man in town...

Now and then an old friend tries to help me By telling me there's someone I should meet But I don't have the heart to start all over 'Cause my heart is laying a...

When the evenin' sun goes down You will find me hangin' 'round Oh, the night life, it ain't no good life But it's my life Many people just like me Dreamin' of ...

My little girl came up to me in the kitchen this evenin' While I was fixin' supper And she handed me A piece of paper she'd been writing on, and After wiping my...

Word is around he walked out on you And your world, it shattered like glass I just found out that you're back in town And searching for parts of your past You ...

Well, I can meet you on the street And I'll stop and talk to you You can walk around the block And I will walk around it too But you can sit down in the park D...

Sweetheart, did you think I'd be untrue Did you think I'd ever cheat on you No, no, no, no never Sweetheart, did you think that I'm the kind Or that I'd ever c...

Hey George did you know Waylon and Willie? They were the outlaws, I didn't know that at all son Did you roger was king of the road? Uh Huh, you got it Possum E...

No use to cry, don't even try Just stop yourself from being lonely I'm leaving you so you'll be blue a long, long time You thought you were smart to break a hea...

Everybody's lonesome for somebody else but nobody's lonesome for me So everybody's thinkin' of somebody else but nobody's thinkin' 'bout me When the time rolls ...

Imagine we're married And we're not even friends You're always right and I'm so wrong And I always have been You won't listen And our love is dying within You'...

Just thought I'd have a little fun and paint the town I always said someday I'll walk the line But now she's gone and I'm the bluest guy around And that's not e...

Well, ever since the day that you left me I been whinin' like a little lost pup The sun went down when you left town And you ain't a gonna come back up A walki...

Well, I gotta get up, I gotta keep goin' Rain or shine, sleetin' or snowin' Nothing can stop, stop me Stop my loving you Build a brick wall and I'll tear it to...

Well, I've had a splittin' headache from my eyebrows to my backbone Arthritis appendicitis brights disease and gall stones Bleedin' ulcers ingrown toe nails swo...

Have you ever come home tired and all worn out Life is gay and you're wonderin' what it's about Still you find out what is it mothers comin' for a visit Have yo...

I don't wanna see no lips of all the lips you've ever kissed I just wanna be your No 1 I don't need no one to warm me I don't care who came before me I just wan...

Everybody is 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...

We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee, We don't take no trips on LSD; We don't burn no draft cards down on Main Street, But, We love livin' right, and bein' free...

She was just seventeen but see was all woman When ol' Frank slipped the ring on her hand My God he was wealthy, owned half of the county But he'd never sixty ag...

Me and the bottle have always been friends Oh, we've had a few ol' nasty fights but the bottle would always win And when I go to answer that final curtain call ...

Caught my wife with another man Now I'm doin' ninety-nine At a prison down in Georgia Close to the Florida line I've been here for twelve long years And I fina...

The rope on the swing and the pine tree is rotten The old climbin' tree house has long been forgotten The ones who were raised here don't come any more And all ...

I remember them so clearly, Mom and dad loved them so dearly Old brush arbors by the side of the road Where I learned about salvation, From the book of Revelati...

(Pamela) There's a place dear to me where I'm longing to be With my friends at the old country church Where with mother I went and our Sundays were spent With ...

I just love that good old gospel singing I'll Fly Away's my favorite song I just love that good old time religion This old world has gone without it much too lo...

Well old King Kong was a hell of'va gorilla He stood four stories tall They shot him with missles from aeroplanes But he refused to fall With Faye Ray in the pa...

WRITERS GEORGE JONES, HAL BYNUM There's an old old house that once was a mansion On a hill overlookin' the own Where time's left a wreck where once was a beaut...

I just lost the one in life that was my everthing Some one I took for granted 'cause she was here Now what have I done to make her hate me so But on second thou...

Here I sit on the back row in a church down the street Not to far from the place where we used to meet And to find me gettin' though till you found someone to l...

I've traveled from Texas to old Louisiane Through valleys, over mountains and plains Both foot sore and weary, I rested awhile On the banks of the old Ponchertr...

On one hand I count the reasons I could stay with you And hold you close to me, all night long So many lover's games I'd love to play with you On that hand ther...

(Porter) I was going your way and it was plain to see You were going mine We were both searching for some way To leave some old memories behind (Pamela) Some...

When you found somebody new, I thought I never would Forget you for I don't think, I ever could But time has takin' all the pain, away Until now, I'm down to hu...

Once more to be with you dear Just for tonight to hold you tight Once more I'd give a fortune If I could see you once more Forget (forget) the past (the past),...

I'm so glad to have you back within these arms of mine I can finally close these eyes and get some rest Never once did I think of finding someone new 'Cause the...

T: If you want to hear a love song I could sing one T: If you wanna feel the fire we could build one G: If you need to catch a rainbow we could chase one B: If ...

One has my heart, the other has my name) One has my name, the other has my heart With one I'll remain, that's how my heartaches start One has brown eyes, the o...

They say if you look long enough you can find Some good where there's bad, well, believe me I've tried 'Cause after you left me I had lots of time But the only ...

One is a lonely number One can never have fun When I met you I thought I lost the blues But now I find that I'm back in That same old boat again One is an unha...

One of these days gonna settle down I'm gonna plant my feet on good solid ground I'm gonna pull the plug on them neon lights Honey, one of these day, one of the...

If you told me that you love me I would feel so proud If you'd let me hold you honey I'd holler out loud I'll never love another Even if I can Come to me baby I...

From Morenci, Arizona where the copper mines glow I could see Clifton in the canyon below In Clifton lived Rosey, we danced and we dined On the money I made in ...

Verse 1 G C/G G C/G G The morning we moved in this house you ...

Well, it's been a long, long time now since we've met And I still think that you're the sweetest girl can get Though your hair is turning gray you get prettier ...

You came like a storm on a hot summer day I had every reason to ask you to stay When I saw what we had, it was too far away Our love was ahead of its time Our ...

What goes wrong with the mind of a man in a bar Who sits and keep drinking with his thoughts strayed so far It's the same old sad story that has often been told...

Your eyes could light the world tonight that's just how much they glow Your face could give your heart away, everyone would know But you have fell in love with ...

My arms are not reaching to hold you 'Cause you memory has stopped haunting me My heart has quit aching and contantly breaking For the first time in ages I'm fr...

I can see us now riding in a brand new wagon Happy as a king upon a throne Papa wearing overalls and Mama with her bonnet Riding in a brand new wagon going home...

Would you look at what came down the road today Wanting me to be one more mistake to make A bridge to burn to get to someone new Hey, pass me by if you're only ...

(Spoken) I was born and raised down in Alabama On a farm way back up in the woods Why I was so ragged folks used to call me Patches Papa used to tease me about...

Once I lived the life of wine and roses I drank a lot back then for one concern Success for me lay just around the corner I thought my social friends would help...

Oh well, I'm tired and so weary but I must journey on Till the lord comes and calls, calls me away, oh yes, Where the morning's so bright and the lamb is the li...

Well I look across my morning cup of coffee and see an angel smiling back at me And I think of how your loving seems to fit just like a glove And your dispositi...

Written by G Richardson and N Wilson (As performed by George Jones) Imagine a world where no music was playing Then think of a church where nobody's praying If...

Well, you didn't think I knew that you'd been cheatin' on me You thought that I was stayin' home while you went on a spree But I've been staying outta sight and...

I wanna be with you I can give you love that's true Just believe the way I feel I love you and I always will No one could take your place with me Don't ever th...

Bells will be ringing, the glad glad news Oh, what a Christmas to have the blues My baby's gone and I have no friends To wish me greetings, mhm, once again Cho...

Oh, the woman I believed in Turned up to be deceivin' She almost beaten my poor old heart to death Yes, she left my heart forsaken And every rule she's breakin'...

Please talk to my heart 'cause I'm lonesome I don't care if your loves not true And don't be afraid that you'll hurt me I'm hurting that's why I need you Pleas...

Poor little rich boy ain't got nothin' but lots and lots of money Poor little rich boy don't take nothin' but some sad poor boys honey Got to run all day with h...

I've traveled to the ends of the rainbow And I've looked for that old pot of gold But I didn't realize until I looked into your eyes That I had a greater wealth...

As time goes by the tales grow taller About possum in possum hollar As a young man I'd go a courtin' With my sweetheart named Sally Blair Down the mountain to ...

(George) Precious mem'ries, unseen angel Sent from somewhere to my soul How they linger ever near me And the sacred past unfolds Precious father, lovin' mothe...

It's not that blue Mercedes Benz That she could give to me It's not that if she married me That I would be set free It's not that she's just barrels of fun Tha...

Well I left a good job in the city a workin' for the man every night and day And I never lost one minute of sleep While worryin' bout the way things might have ...

I drink from cans then stack 'em in a pyramid so high As a monument to how I feel since she told me goodbye I like my friends around me 'cause they all understa...

I feel tears wellin' up cold and deep inside Like my heart's sprung a big break And the stab of loneliness, sharp and painful That I may never shake You might s...