(Spoken) He kisses her goodbye, And heads for the radio station Oh, he hates to leave her, But he's got another show to do He knows she gets lonely, So he lets...

Well, I've a-come here to tell you folks, I'm ragged but I'm right I'm a tranp and a rounder, I stay out late at night A porterhouse steak three times a day for...

The girl that you described sounds so familiar The one you say you've loved for quite some time Are you sure there's no mistake for I have a feeling That your r...

Dolled up to the nines, you got the eyes locked on tall and dark Well, he's mighty pretty but I'll bet he ain't worried a bit about your heart He's a real Casan...

Please release me, let me go 'Cause I don't love you anymore And to live without love is a sin So release me and let me love again I have found a new love, dear...

Well I was standin' in the tavern a-feelin' blue My foot on the rail, just a-thinkin' 'bout you But I won't be blue all day Because relief - is just a swallow a...

Old heart it's finally over It ended with the dawn Last night she packed her things to go This morning she was gone It's ashame you had to lose her 'Cause you ...

Well, I was sent to a place in North Carolina To check up on a moonshine still When I got there to my suprise I could see a little light on the hill Well, the f...

It never crossed my miind that we'd end up like this tonight We were sitting there exchangin' glances It started with a smile, lights were low and we talked awh...

So many times she has cheated And settled me down with her charms It's easy to see how she's done me But right now I'd come back and melt in her arms Doing wit...

The wind blows Sunday papers at my feet As I walk down this cold and lonely street My hands searched through my pockets for a dime While the memory of you eats ...

(L Flatt) [tempo increases with each verse] Roll in my sweet baby's arms Roll in my sweet baby's arms I'll lay around this shack 'Til the mail tain comes back...

Well I'm a write a little letter gonna mail it to my local DJ Yes it's a jumpin' little record I want my jockey to play Roll over Beethoven I gotta hear it agai...

Rollin' in my sweet baby's arms Rollin' in my sweet baby's arms Lay around the shack till the mail train comes back And I'll roll in my sweet baby's arms I ain...

Roly Poly eatin' corn and taters hungry every minute of the day Roly Poly knowin' all the biscuits long as he can chew it it's okay He can eat an apple pie and ...

Rosie's the barmate at Bret Wilson's Tavern That's where I'll be all night long She pours me my label and sits at my table And hums me a honky tonk song Rosie ...

You've painted up your lips An rolled and curled your tinted hair Ruby are you contemplating going out somewhere The shadows on the wall tell me the sun is goin...

Now when the big bad wolf got in grandma's house And Little Red Riding Hood was scared as a mouse Well, just like her I'm scared through and through That some t...

Well, you and your true love have parted And you left her all alone Don't tell the kids until it's to late Just say that the fault was your own Run boy as fast...

On the bank of the river stood Running Bear, young Indian brave On the other side of the river stood his lovely Indian maid Little White Dove was her name, such...

I was born in Saginaw, Michigan I grew up in a house on Saginaw Bay My dad was a poor, hard-working Saginaw fisherman Too many times he came home with too littl...

Written by Fuzzy Owen (?) With time my face has wrinkled but my blue eyes still sparkle With the love I felt for you the day we met And to me you're just as lo...

All the years have seemed so short since I have known you And the love I've shared with you I won't forget And if we should ever reach a hundred years dear You ...

Deep within my heart lies a melody A song of old San Antone Where in dreams I live with a memory Beneath the stars all alone It was there I found beside the Al...

How many times have you heard someone say If I had his money I could do things my way But little they know, it's so hard to find One rich man in ten with a sati...

Darlin', there's talk around town, 'Bout a girl who spreads love around With soft lips, and eyes crystal blue Darlin', say it's not you They say that she calls...

There's a sea between our hearts where the waves are cold and dark And the undertow of loneliness gets strong My heart's caught in the tide of a love that you'v...

Searching, I've spent a lifetime darling Searching, looking for someone like you Dreaming in all my dreams I dream that someday I'd find someone like you Other...

The seasons come, the seasons go We get a little sunshine, rain and snow Just the way that it was planned to be But there's no seasons in my heart While you pla...

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...

Darling, look what you've done to my life the change is plain to see You took each part of this broken heart and made a new man of me When I thought that all wa...

Comb your hair and paint and powder, You act proud and I'll act prouder, You sing loud and I'll sing louder, Tonight we're settin' the woods on fire, You're my...

Do you see what I see, she's perfect And she can do no wrong Well, that's hardly true knowing as I do But I've loved her for so long I think she hung the moon,...

You may think she's not been true All those things she's telling you But believe me, what she says is really true 'Cause I'm the one who left her there I'm the ...

I started drinking and acting crazy way back in sixty-five Momma would pray and say he's my baby, Lord, please keep him alive Sister came home with two little c...

No, I don't know the girl at the bar in the short red dress I haven't had the chance to get acquainted with her yet But I can tell that she's lonely by the sadn...

Lord, she needs someone to hold her when she cries She packed her few belongings left a note and now she's gone And I can't stand to think of her out there so ...

The mayor gave me the key to the city No welcome wagons already appeared But again I'll be packing and leaving For it's plain now that she once lived here It m...

That girl that you keep watchin' is in a place she don't belong And she's just not the kind to do anything wrong This room filled with goodness is gonna make th...

Well, you asked me to tell you about her Since we have been friends for so long Well, she's really an outstanding woman More precious than any I've known She's...

Just because I ask a friend about her Just because I spoke her name somewhere Just because I rang her number by mistake today She thinks I still care Just beca...

Written by Dickey Lee (As performed by George Jones) Just because I ask a friend about her Just because I spoke her name somewhere Just because I rang her numb...

I'm her world and she revolves around me Just being close to me makes her love grow Each night she thanks God for the day she found me For when she came home th...

If she's not with the one she loves She'll love the one she's with I'll tell you why I'm always near And not far from her kiss For if she's not with the one sh...

Well, I said, friend don't take her, she's all I got Please don't take her love away from me I'm begging you friend, don't take her, she's all I got She's every...

Her hair should be a little darker And her eyes should be a deeper blue She's not perfect but I'm happy I found her 'Cause she's as close as I can get to loving...

There's a picture that I carry One we made some time ago If they ask who's in the picture with me, I say just a girl I used to know Just a girl, I used to go a...

Look out heart I can tell you have weaken For I feel those heartaches began She's come back and I don't know what has brought her She don't love me she's just l...

I won't say that I'm the only one, who loves her And I won't say I make her happy all the time There's someone she can't forget I know she never will, and yet B...

I'm thinking of a little lady She bears her load without a friend The one who rocked me in my cradle And through the years she loves me yet The roses on her ch...

Well, You tell me how she was when you once knew her How She played her games with many, many men And you tell me that you don't think I'd be with her If I coul...

She'll never grace the centerfold of Playboy magazine And chances are you'll never see her on the silver screen She's by far the biggest star the world will nev...

Everytime I tiurn around you turn up and turn me down For you've got me buffaloed into your ways of thinking Seems like all you want to do is hurt me love me aw...

Oh a shoe goes on the other foot tonight We'll find out if two wrongs can make a right Tonight I'll push my heartaches out of sight Cause the shoe goes on the o...

Chorus: Well I'm sick, sober and sorry Broke, disgusted and sad Sick, sober and sorry But look at the fun that we had Well we met with some gal in a tavern And...

Silent night, Holy night All is calm, all is bright Round yon virgin mother and child Holy infant so tender and mild Sleep in a heavenly peace Sleep in a heaven...

He stands in the doorway, his hands upon his hips She stands by the punch bowl, a sweet smile on her lips He slowly walks up to her, she reaches out for him It'...

City side walks, busy side walks dressed in holiday style In the air there's a feeling of Christmas Children laughing, people passing, meeting smile after smile...

The moon was softly shying on an old Kentucky home The fragrance of magnolia's filled the air A lonely girl was writing to her sweet heart all alone To say how ...

When your arms hold me I thrill through and through When your arms hold me I thrill the same too No other can take it from these arms of mine Oh, this feeling y...

Sing me a song of sadness And sing it as blue as I feel If a tear should appear it's because she's not here Sing a sad song and sing it for me She's unhappy wi...

The warden led a prisoner down the hallway to his doom I stood up to say good-bye like all the rest And I heard him tell the warden just before he reached my ce...

I never felt more like singing the blues I never thought that I'd ever lose Your love dear why'd you do me this way Well I never felt more like crying all night...

Johnny's in the jailhouse sleeping it off Church folks sayin' that his soul is lost Man, you should've seen all the faces turn red Just this morning when the pr...

Well I pulled outta Pittsburgh a rollin' down that Eastern Sea board I got my diesel wound up and she's a runnin' like a never before There's a speed zone ahead...

If you look for me on a Friday night It might take you some time With a payday in my pocket Lord, I'm a little bit hard to find I might miss a day at work When...

(George) With all my love, my dreams and plans I placed a ring upon your hand To tell the endless love we found Loves golden band, size seven, round (Both) S...

Skip as rope, skip a rope Listen to the children while they play Now ain't it kinda funny what the children say Skip a rope Daddy hates mommy, mommy hates dad ...

Well, I just get in my slippers and I light up my pipe Sit down in my easy chair and fill the thing up right I hear somebody holler and I jump to my feet Go tak...

My shoulder still burns where you touched me last night You hugged me and walked out the door We've been pretending that we're only friends But tonight we can f...

Pick me a town in any clime Where people like a rockin' time And stay awake both day and night Till everybody's feelin' right Then throw me smack dab in the mi...

A dollar an hour, eight hours a day Will soon make a young man wither away I work for my family with my wrinkled hands For I'm a small time laboring man Six lo...

Honey, you think you've got an attitude So you treat him just a liitle to loose Well, buddy you think she's a little to cold So you act like a two year old Don...

Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling, Calling for you and for me, See on the portal He's waiting and watching, Watching for you and for me Come home, Come home...

When the postman delivered the letter Well, it filled her old heart full of joy But she didn't know 'til she read the inside It was the last one from her darlin...

This old road of love ain't for Sunday drivers There's very few survivors in a would of hit and run But we cared enough to hold on to each other We pulled the l...

Somebody keeps paying my bar ta But the bartender won't tell me who He gives me six cold ones, to go when he closes And slips me a dollar or two My woman is ke...

Someday my day will come And I won't need a thing at all Yes, I can stand proud and tall And say just what I feel Someday my day will come When dreams become r...

There's a picture that I carry One we made some time ago When they ask who's in the picture with me I say just someone I used to know Just someone I used to sp...

If you do your best to do what's right And you don't have trouble sleeping at night And the devil don't fill your soul with cry And there's somone who's watchin...

Forgive me if I'm pesimistic today But I seem to feel our love slipping away I have no special reason for feeling this way It must have been something I dreamed...

(Bobby Braddock) (GJ) I've got a real important jo In a large office buildin' Ridin' people in an elevator I drive a '57 Chevrolet With busted tail lights Bu...

Just when the sunshines the brightest And the world looks alright, again Then the clouds fill the sky's You can't believe your eyes Sometimes you just can't win...

(Billy Sherrill, George Richey, Sammy Lyons) (GJ) You always said someday you'd go to live (In Southern California) And me I'd stay right here in Tennessee Y...

There's a rambleshackle shack Down in old Caroline It keeps a callin' me back To that gal of mine Yeah, If I had the wings Of a beautiful dove Yes, you know I'...

I've tried everything I know to make you happy Never knew someone could be so hard to please Loving you is hard and I'm not sure I'll make it But at least I've ...

Been runnin' around, seen many a town, and maybe you'll find I'm the kind of guy that brags But listen to me and see if you don't agree No melody rolls like tha...

Has it been a year since the last time I've seen her My God I could swear it was ten And the ocean of liquor I drank to forget her Is gonna kill me but I'll dri...

I'll tell you the reason I sit here a-greivin' I want you to know one by one I've been defeated by someone who cheated My heart out of all of it's fun Happy we...

There's a story spreading 'round 'bout a stranger in our town And the people say he's weird as he can be Big sunglasses, a big black hat, they all say, say who'...

Suppose tonight would be our last night together And the love we have known came to an end Would we laugh and tell ourselves think nothing of it Or would we cry...

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 plai...

Well I slipped out of the house about sundown while mama was a washing her hair And you can bet your bottom dollar she'll come a lookin' for me When she finds t...

(Both) Just as far as I can remember She'll remain the rose of my heart Mom took sick along in December February brought us broken hearts (George) The reason...

Well, I looked over Jordan and what did I see Comin' for to carry me home A band of angels comin' after me Comin' for to carry me home Swing low, sweet chariot...

This old smoke filled bar is something I'm not used to, I gave up my home to see you satisfied; I just called to let you know where I'll be living, It's not muc...

Well, I'm a-gonna tag along with Jesus I'm a-gonna keep a-taggin' along Well, if I see that's heaven's story Ain't nothin' ever a-go wrong Ah, when the saint g...

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 you...

Where's that gal with the red dress on, Some folks call her Dinah Stole my heart away from me Way down in Louisiana Chorus: Take me back to Tulsa, I'm too youn...

If you can find it in your heart to just forgive I'll come back and live the way you wanted me to live All I want is just to be your man Please come and get me ...