I like drinking whiskey I like being straight I like a voodoo spinners And I like live bait I like a hundred miles an hour I like Sunday driving too I like bei...

Chorus Well it's a nickel for the fiddler It's a nickel for his tune It's a nickel for the tambourine kind of afternoon And it's a high holiday on the 21st of J...

Baby don't let em' blow smoke up your dress Don't let em' break your heart Don't start thinkin' that life's a mess You've done just fine so far And when the way...

Oh a time there was I was feelin' so hopeless It's a wonder I didn't cave in I kept throwing love at all the wrong people Never to see it again Chorus Oh Lord...

I wish I had a dime for every bad time But the bad times always seem to keep the change You been all alone so you know what I'm sayin' And when all you can reca...

I wish I had a dime for every bad time but the bad times always seem to keep the change You been all alone so you know what I'm sayin' so when all you can recal...

I'm gonna leave Texarkana I'm goin' down to Louisiana I'm gonna try my luck in Baton Rouge I'm gonna follow ol red river down Till I see the lights of town I ai...

Sometimes a loser Sometimes a hero This is a lonely captain's story Sword and a pistol by his side Chorus Do Lord oh do remember him Yes, yes, remember him Th...

Standing at the window her face to the glass As far as she can see the time has come to pass As far as she can see the sky is all ablaze And this looks like the...

He's a black haired boy of some confusion and he makes no excuse for the things that he's usin' He's gentle and wild and a child of the mountain his words are f...

Lawdy mercy land of goshen shades of gray out on the ocean Don't you dare take that boat out to sea For the high seas are runnin' you will sure enough be done i...

Now broken hearted people always seem to drink and tryin' to drown those sorrows ain't as easy as you think But living with a liar is a hard old way to go Laugh...

At the Broken Heart Ranch You can always get work As a cowfool There's feelin's to wrangle Loose ends to untangle and tie Sun up to sundown Ridin' herd on old ...

I found comfort and courage in bottles of whiskey I swear to you friends that that life is some risky I have backed away quickly from those who tried to burn me...

William Butler Yeats in jeans Got up to play guitar and sing In some join in Mission Beach last night At the door sat Tom Waits In a pork pie hat and silver ska...

When I was a young man my daddy told me A lesson he learned, it was a long time ago If you want to have someone to hold onto You're gonna have to learn to let g...

I played the Red River Valley He'd sit in the kitchen and cry Run his fingers through seventy years of livin' "I wonder, Lord, has every well I've drilled gone ...

I played the Red River Valley He'd sit in the kitchen and cry Run his fingers through seventy years of livin' And wonder, "Lord, why has every well I've drilled...

I'd play the Red River Valley and he'd sit in the kitchen and cry And run his fingers through seventy years of livin' And wonder Lord has every well I drilled g...

Don't be a stranger If you're looking for a friend If you want an even break You've got to learn to bend You don't have a song If you don't know how to sing Yo...

I was feelin' depressed I was feelin real low down I felt so bad I could not get my butt up off the grounds I was mopin' around the house I was bumpin' into wal...

Well don't you take it too bad if you're feelin' unlovin' If you're feelin' unfeelin' if you're feelin' alone Don't take it too bad cause it ain't you to blame ...

I wish I was in Austin In the Chili Parlour Bar Drinkin' Mad Dog Margaritas And not carin' where you are But here I sit in Dublin Just rollin' cigarettes Holdi...

Well I wake up every morning Lord and what do I see I got a fool in my mirror and he's lyin' to me He says aw man she's comin' back you just hide and watch That...

Who walked out when the times got hard When the truck broke down in the whole front yard It wasn't me, it wasn't you Who shot pool all night long Wound up betti...

Forever ain't easy to come by For always ain't never to sure For certain is less than you hoped for For someone it's hard to endure Foresaken must sometimes bef...

Fort Worth neon shinin' bright Pretty lights red and blue They shut down all the honky tonks tonight Say a prayer or two, if they only knew You used to say the...

Now here comes Texas rolling through my mind There ain't nothing to it mama don't be cryin' It's just one of those things that everyone goes through Just an old...

A hand is just another kind of hammer made of steel Beating blindly on the anvil a hammer cannot feel But a hand is for reaching out and touching all you can Ho...

I used to be Juanita's old boyfriend We sure gave 'em some stories to tell Now I can't even find her picture I guess I'm finally through foolin' myself I used ...

Who wouldn't notic the fire in your eyes Or the bitter direction of impending goodbyes I'm fallen and folded and wilted in place At the sight of you standing wi...

Somedays I think this old machine is out to get me Somedays she does what I tell her It's like dancing with a widow-maker forty hours a week You know I'm talkin...

Well, I was passing by a pawn shop In an older part of town Something caught my eye And I stopped and turned around I stepped inside and there I spied In the m...

Ain't nothin' in the world that I like better Than bacon & lettuce & homegrown tomatoes Up in the mornin' out in the garden Get you a ripe one don't get a hard...

Sorry 'bout your mama Sorry 'bout your paw Sorry 'bout the business With your brother-in-law Hard cheese about the money man Hard cheese about the stock Hard ch...

I don抰 love you much do I Just more than human tongue can tell and that's all I don抰 love you much do I Remember how I kissed you in the hall Chorus See how i...

Oh Ellis Island was swarming Like a scene from a costume hall Decked out in the colors in Europe And on fire with the hope of it all There stood my father's own...

I had a friend named Bill Campbell he used to rob steal and gamble And on the side he'd beg so he mopped up Well I told ol' Billy shouldn't do but ol' Bill said...

I rolled off the San Francisco mint in 1909 The last one they ever made, you should've seen me shine When I landed on the counter they gave me to a kid Making c...

He washed all the road dirt from his face and from his neck And sat down at her table and she picked up his check And she took him home for reasons that she did...

Hear that old tune come driftin' down the hall Trying to put a stop to clock on the wall Free flowin' free flown Lord mama how that old thief time carries on Ta...

Pack up all your dishes. Make note of all good wishes. Say goodbye to the landlord for me. That son of a bitch has always bored me. Throw out them LA papers And...

Pack up all your dishes Make note of all good wishes Say goodbye to the landlord for me That son of a bitch has always bored me Throw out them LA papers And tha...

The old gunfighter on the porch stared into the sun and relived the days of living by the gun when deadly games of pride were played and living was mistakes not...

He's a wino, tried and true Done about everything there is to do He worked on freighters, he worked in bars He worked on farms, 'n he worked on cars It was whi...

He was a wino, tried and true Done about everything there is to do He worked on freighters, he worked in bars He worked on farms, he worked on cars Well, it wa...

I found comfort and courage from bottles of whiskey I swear to you friends these old high times sure seem risky I have backed away gently from those who tried t...

I like drinking whiskey I like being straight I like a voodoo spinners And I like live bait I like a hundred miles an hour I like Sunday driving too I like bei...

I ain't lookin' for trouble I can't stay here tonight I got to leave here on the double If I want to see the morning light Don't need no pistol for the tickets ...

Hooray for the drinkin' warm red wine On a day both bright and fair Hooray for the layin' and playin' a tune On the sunlight through your hair, your hair The su...

Chorus The only difference between men and boys Is the size of their feet and the price of their toys Always horsin' around makin' too much noise Ain't it funn...

Cowboys and Indians and trees he could clim Tomorrow came too fast but he didn't mind Ah the distance was short so light it again It don't take no time to get w...

I was sittin' on the fender of someone else's truck Drinking Old Crow whisky, hot 7-up Out in the parking lot You can hear the band a playin right through the ...

Picasso said in 1910 I'm gonna paint me a mandolin Could be cubes it could be curves I like to mix the paint with nerve I'm gonna load my brush and fire away Pa...

Now a Ramblin' Jack Elliot said: I got these lines in my face Tryin' to straighten out the wrinkles in my life When I think of all the fools I've been It抯 a won...

My father had a Randall knife My mother gave it to him When he went off to WWII To save us all from ruin If you've ever held a Randall knife Then you know my fa...

From Palo Duro Canyon outside Amarillo Texas The prairie dog town fork of the Red River flows Headed cross the plains along the coast of Oklahoma To the Mississ...

She could dance that slow Uvalde Shuffle to some cowboy hustle How she made them trophy buckles shine, shine, shine Wild-eyed and Mexican silvered, Trickin' dum...

Standin' on the gone side of leavin' She found a thumb and stuck it in the breeze She'll take anything that's goin' close to somewhere She can lay it down and l...

Standin' on the gone side of leavin' She found a thumb and stuck it in the breeze She'll take anything that's goin' close to somewhere She can lay it down and l...

Kick your shoes off in the corner mama Tuck the babies all up snug Sis Draper's comin' over, we all gonna cut a rug When you see that lantern swingin' yonder Co...

The south coast of Texas is a thin slice of life It' s salty and hard it it stern as a knife Where the wind is for blwon' up hurricanes for showin' The snakes h...

What is that sound what is that noise I cannot figure it out for the life of me boys Is it the coast guard or is it the wind Is it the mother ship comin' again ...

Now bein' six years old, I had seen some trains before, so it's hard to figure out what I'm at the depot for Trains are big and black and smokin' - steam screa...

I'm going down to Austin, Texas I'm going down to save my soul Get that bar-b-que and chili Eat my fill then come back home I'm gonna take my baby with me We go...

And that old time feelin' goes sneakin' down the hall, Like an old gray cat in winter, keepin' close to the wall And that old time feelin' comes stumblin' up th...

And that old time feelin' goes sneakin' down the hall, Like an old gray cat in winter, keepin' close to the wall And that old time feelin' comes stumblin' up th...

Here comes Martha runnin' down the pier looks like Captain Flint is here You get the bow and I get the stern Lord would you look at that Laverne Old Flint's got...

Eight years old with flour sack cape Tied all around his neck He climbed up on the garage Figurinwhat the heck He screwed his courage up so tight The whole thi...

Let us now praise a carpenter and the things that he made And the way that he lived by the tools of his trade I can still hear his hammer singing ten penny time...

If you ever go out to the circus Where the Wallendas walk on the wire I'll tell you a tale to remember When the white horses leap rings of fire It was a cold n...

Won't say I love you babe Won't say I need you babe But, I'm gonna get you babe And I will not do you wrong Livin's mostly wastin' time I waste my share of mine...

Too much workin'll make your back ache Too much trouble'll bring you a heartbreak Too much gravy'll make you fat Too much rain'll ruin your hat Too much coffee'...

I threw a rock through your window Just to let you know I love you Just to let you know I care and I ain't scared To have you see how I feel I blew a kiss thro...

The crickets are singin' the bluegills been bitin' The fireflies are flashin' with all of their might Down on the river ol' Reagan went fishin' He's layin' for ...

I beg your pardon mama what did you say My mind was drifting on a Martinque day It's not that I'm not interested you see Augusta Georgia is just no place to be ...

Gents to the middle said a young girl's fiddle And you ain't got nothin' to lose Allemande right she can play it all night She can fiddle off the bottom of your...

They baptized me one fine day Down at the river's edge All my sins are washed away Like water under the bridge I had a little girl and her eyes were blue She l...

The sun was hot and the dust rose up like smoke So we hid beneath the elm tree and watched the watermelons float There in a big 'ol tub of ice And we'd split em...