V.1 I think today's gonna be the day, all my luck's gonna turn I think the boss'll take what I'm worth, and turn it into what I earn I'm thinkin' if I keep my c...

V.1 A pine-log shack a mile off the state road Daddy took odd jobs, momma raised us three Times were mean, and our home was a haven It was all we had, in coldwa...

V.1 Don't sit behind that veil of smoke pretending not to see The walk is slow, the smile is gone, But it's still the same old me The man who drank his final gl...

V.1 Well, you've called my kinfolk trash all their lives And I'm a chip off the heap, ask any one of my ex-wives I'm a social drinker, and I stay social all I c...

V.1 Thought I'd made a clean break from her And all the past was through I thought the nights of hurt were numbered I never counted on you Br You were waiting ...

Ch. Old 45's can kill you Like a bullet to the brain Her memory spins 'round and 'round It can drive a man insane When the needle drops,... I can't stop The lon...

V.1 Raeleen wheeler was the first girl I loved Through the last year of high school, we were thicker than blood Holed up in mississippi, and starvin' for fun We...

V.1 You can tell that I'm a big man in this town And I'm the king of every street that I walk down It ain't much to brag about, but it's all mine From main stre...

Ch. She'll go down in honky-tonk history With her name on a plaque, describin' the fact that she left me She'll be a legend in her own time Right up in back of ...

V.1 The way his shoulders bore the world You could see he'd loved the girl He looked like he'd walked through hell On a road the rest of us knew well I said, "f...

Ch. It's a bright shining star, it's warmth fills the barroom And the spell that it weaves any man would beguile But when the morning light falls, and the dream...

V.1 Our eyes met and I didn't turn sick in the dance hall We took to lovin' and the world didn't end in a fireball As the years went past, my mind never snapped...