Well Hank made a living out of lonely He sang like a freight train whistle moan Said "You'll never get out of this world alive" As if he'd always known, Lord, L...

You just wanna be weird You're just hopin' that someone will notice you Go ahead and be weird 'Cause we know it's just a phase you're goin' through You're so c...

People talkin', think I'm alright Think I'm doin' fine Goin' through the motioms of my life Go to work now, every mornin' Yeah, I play the part Hide away the co...

There's a tomcat in the alley scarin' up a fight There's a mother softly kissing her little one goodnight There's peace and then there's chaos, reality and drea...

In the after hours Slowly shifting down Last call is over The sign is turned around The chairs are on the tables The drinks are on the house The talk is on the ...

Have you ever seen a wild magnolia There's only one place it grows On the shady banks of the Tennessee River Sheltered, untouched and alone There's a place in m...

She'll turn thirty-four this weekend She'll go out with her girlfriends They'll drink some margaritas, cut up and carry on There'll be guys and there'll be come...

You come banging on the screen door Begging me to let you in All I got to say is, "Honey, where you been?" This time I think it's you that's surrenderin' You s...

(Bob DiPiero/John Scott Sherrill) We can talk and talk all night If you want to that's all right Till I've heard every word you've got to say Go ahead and take...

Who's that knocking in the middle of the night With a hand full of flowers to make it all right If you're thinking i'll forgive you one more time I ain't that ...

Now Bettery was your average ordinaly girl Never wanted very much out of this world Just an occasional dinner and twril From a regular guy (Bridge) So Betty ...

Her lips and her dress, they're both ruby red She tinks that's how you hide the pain you feel inside And she comes out every night to soak up the neon light Her...

BURNING MEMORIES WRITERS MEL TILLIS, WAYNE P WALKER BURNING MEMORIES (Mel Tillis - Wayne P Walker) « © '63 Cedarwood Publishing » Tonight I'm burning old love...

Sweet Abilena looks out at the midwestern sky Sweet seventeen with a faraway look in her eyes She said, "I feel like a bird in a cage But come September I'm fly...

Well I said he had a lot of potential He was only misunderstood You know he {really didn't mean} to treat me so bad He wanted to be good And I swore one day I w...

COME ON AND SING WRITER MEL TILLIS Come on and sing girl sing boy sing a happy song Come on and sing girl sing boy this old world may not last long Most everyb...

You know everyday I walk down memory lane Trying to find a way past the same old pain Ah you know, but now the message is loud and it's clear There ain't no way...

DETROIT CITY WRITERS MEL TILLIS, DANNY DILL I wanna go home I wanna go home oh how I wanna go home Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City And I dreamed abo...

NIGHT IS FALLIN' ON THIS HONKY-TONK CITY COUNTRY MUSIC SPILLIN' OUT ON THE STREET WELL, IT SURE CAN SOUND GOOD TO A HARD-WORKIN' MAN AT THE END OF A HARD-WORKIN...

We tried and we tried but it's over Guess I didn't fit the imagine in your mind Now you tell me to find another lover But baby aren't you gettin' outta line Do...

My eyes may be hollow / My face may be pale I may be just a shadow of my former self But tonight the ghost of heartaches past / Is steppin' into town Gonna haun...

EMOTIONS WRITERS MEL TILLIS, RAMSEY KEARNEY Emotions what are you doing oh don't you know you'll be my ruin You've got me crying crying again when will you let...

Tommy Lee James/Jennifer Kimball Every time that you walk by I can't believe that I Have to live without you Every time I hear your name It hits me just the sam...

(Bob DiPiero/Jim Photoglo) I never knew how good a love could be All I'd ever known was make believe So many times I played the fool Baby,till I met you Now e...

GOODBYE WHEELING WRITER MEL TILLIS I've been reeling around Wheeling West Virginia just a little too long Now I gotta be leaving cause one deceiving free wheel...

HEART OVER MIND (Mel Tillis) « © '61 Cedarwood Publishing » I love you so much that I can't leave you Even though my mind tells me I should Then you make me th...

You've been spreadin' the blues All over the place Walking around with that look on your face Teardrops fallin hard on the cold cold ground It's time you lay th...

(Pam Tillis/Bob DiPiero) She saw the ragged edge of nowhere from a fast moving train Watched the scenery fly by with a fever in her brain Seemed like a good ti...

HONEY (OPEN THAT DOOR) (Mel Tillis) « © '61 Cedarwood Publishing » Honey honey honey won't you open that door This is your sweet daddy don't you love me no mor...

(Pam Tillis/Bob DiPiero/Jan Buckingham) Baby I've got this sinkin' feeling I've done something I can't undo And I could kick myself from Tennessee to Texas If ...

Ain't tried cigarettes There is always alcohol I could stay up all night long Don't need to sleep at all I've got credit cards I could run'em up I could play wi...

I AIN'T NEVER (Mel Tillis - Webb Pierce) « © '59 Cedarwood Publishing » I ain't never I ain't never Seen nobody like you oh oh oh never have I ever seen nobody...

Under the sun, under the moon Under the sky midnight blue Under the maple, under the roof I got down on my knees and told the truth I told Him I was tired of f...

Oh yeahuh huh Lost and all alone, looking for a reason for being in this crazy world Trying to go on lookin for the answers to the questions, There u were From...

You drove up in your pickup truck that hot September day Not a wisp of wind in the parking lot but honey I was blown away And later on that fall at the Dixie Ma...

I WISH SHE WOULDN'T TREAT YOU THAT WAY WRITERS WALTER IGLEHART, KEVIN WELCH The way she treats you Is a dog gone crime I just get blue about it all the time Dr...

I know it was pretty strange timing and maybe the odds were bad We were awkward as a couple of left-footed dancers,baby we were pretty sad You tried to tell me ...

IF I DIDN'T LOVE YOU WRITERS TINA ARENA, PAM RESWICK, STEVE WERFEL So good When it's good I wanna spend my whole life lovin' you But I'm tired And you don't kn...

There's room at my table, why don't you pull up a seat? The music's inviting but I'm staying off of my feel The floor's getting crowded, but I don't wanna take ...

Surely you can sit down a while Maybe you can even smile And I'll try to pretend That you love me again But it might take me a little while Soon you'll be hold...

The first I heard you close in my arms I was sure that our love could survive any storm I wish I could say I still felt the same And what's causing these blues ...

I can't make you stay, and boy I wouldn't want to Go on walk away, but don't say I didn't warn you Have you forgotten how it was Before I wrapped you in my love...

You say she wounded your heart And it's too tender to touch Oh, baby I know Words can be sharper than knives And they can cut just as much Oh, baby I know Just ...

Those safe at home days Are gone for little girls They're out there with the boys Out in the big bad world Intense pressure hanging over my head Tonight I need ...

You gave him some good years Now you'd like them back Mistakes become clearer After the fact Now when you pick up the pieces But you can't make them fit Don't w...

You've been spreadin' the blues All over the place Walking around with that look on your face Teardrops fallin hard on the cold cold ground It's time you lay th...

Mary was married with children Had the perfect suburban life Till her husband came clean with the help of Jim Beam And confessed all his sins in one night Said ...

It's a potentially dangerous situation Baby you're my kind of trouble Livin' ain't livin' if you don't take risks Can't you feel the magic whenever we kiss Oh ...

Duet with Marty Roe of Dimond Rio Tonight - I am the hero that you dream Tonight - I am the angel that you see Tonight - we shine with love so new But time alo...

First time that you caught my eye I said to myself that guy is a little bit gun shy Gonna have to be sly I knew that it would be wrong If I came on too strong G...

You are a stranger, a stranger to me One more face without a history I've been so lonely, so lonely too long That tonight all my inhibitions are gone And you go...

The song came and went Like the times that we spent Hiding out from the rain under the carnival tent I'd laugh and he'd smile And it would last for a while You ...

Lookin' at you through a misty moonlight Katydid sing like a symphony Porch swing swayin' like a Tennessee lullaby Melody blowing through the willow tree What ...

A baby with a baby just barely seventeen My mother mourned her innocence While she bounced me on her knee A daddy on the road added to her tears and trials Like...

MENTAL REVENGE (Mel Tillis) « © '66 Cedarwood Publishing » I hope that the friend you've thrown yourself with gets drunk and loses her jo And ever road you're ...

If you're coming with me you need nerves of steel Cause I take corners on two wheels It's a never-ending circus ride The faint of heart need not apply Mi Vida ...

From the highest highs To the lowest lows We've gone as fare as two can go And we'll never, never be the same And we fought to keep our love alive When it was h...

I walked into the club last night I hadn't been there for so long Thinking foolishly I might find you sitting all alone But oh how dreams lie When she put her a...

You may see me and think that I'm happy 'Cos I'm out with somebody new Well, I made make believe He's everything I need But it's not like it was with you If I'...

I followed you around like a little lost child barely dancin' with your shadow I didn't say a thing, I let you run wild 'til your love pierced me like an arrow ...

I've got a scrap book full of pictures [Incomprehensible] frozen in the air Needin' lots of lace And baby's breath in my hair Don't wanna say that I was just r...

(Pam Tillis/Paul Overstreet) There's no mistakin' what's takin' place here I can't pretend anymore You know that I love you,but it's not enough to Keep you awa...

Babysitter said 7 She's 15 minutes late Jimmy's still playing in the bath Cold macaroni on his plate I still haven't done my hair I hate doing my hair It never ...

Her name pops up in every conversation Got a way of firin' up the boy's imagination Oh yeah, she's popular girl She's a popular girl She's obscene in all the r...

You think you're a special case That the world's got it out for you You talk like you're full of good reason But you act like it just ain't, too You hope all y...

Well she broke your heart into a million pieces And your confidence is scattered on the wind Your mind is set on never even tryin' love again But you don't own ...

It's been kicking around since '72 And there's not a whole lot that it ain't been through Never quite learned to play by the rules And there's one in every drea...

Love, you're getting lazy You're forgettin' to give me Sweet sugar words that I wanna hear You've been neglectin' me You know jealously, it is a bitter as a gre...

SO WRONG WRITERS DANNY DILL, CARL PERKINS, MEL TILLIS I've been so wrong, for so long Thought I could live without the love that you give I was wrong, oh, so w...

I ain't even gonna to ask you I can read you like a book Girl if I ever saw one that's an I can't believe I did that look You look like something that the cat d...

We gave the day up to a back road And let it take us out of town To a spot down by the river To watch the sun go down We must have sat and talked for hours Not...

chorus) Sweethearts dance, thats what we do A two heart two-step baby, thats me and you Sweetheart's dance 'round and 'round Make out in the corner Lover's qua...

Sunlight is gone, a wind stirs the willow Whippoorwills call from high on the hill Deep shadows fall as I wait for you by the window Soon you'll be here, drawin...

It's a slow, smoky scene at the county line cantina Where strangers stop to hear her sing a song She's a legend 'round these parts For stealing all the hearts o...

She follows the path of least resistance She doesn't care to see the mountain top She twists and turns with no regard to distance She never comes to a stop And...

THERE GOES MY LOVE WRITER BUCK OWENS There goes the guy I used to know there goes the guy that I love so There goes the arms that used to hold me tight There g...

You're here in my arms right where you say you wanna be While across the room I watch the one who set you free It didn't take me long to mend the heart she tore...

THOSE MEMORIES OF YOU WRITER ALAN O'BRYANT Chorus: Those memories of you still haunt me Every night when I lay down I'll always love you my little darling Unti...

Once I had flowers at sunset Breakfast in bed And I hated myself for what I never felt I couldn't love him Then I had fire at midnight Passion that brough tear...

In a cloud of dust On a greyhound bus She crossed the cook county line Slept all the way to nashville Big dreams running through her mind She said sure as Im br...

UNMITIGATED GALL WRITER MEL TILLIS Well how can you have the unmitigated gall To come back now expecting me to fall Right down on my knees and kiss your feet y...

VIOLET AND A ROSE WRITERS MEL TILLIS, BUD AUGE, JOHN REINFELD A violet fell in love with a rose And started it flashing from it's head to it's toes Then one da...

In the middle of the meadow I sit staring at my kite A ball of string and a paper dream that I could not make fly Then daddy pulled it to the sky, behind him as...

So many nights we didn't fight but never talked much We just lost touch I think we knew our dream come true was slowly dying No denying Now comes the time we mu...

(Pam Tillis/Bob DiPiero/Steve Seskin) Going out every night Doing all the wrong things to feel alright Waking up all alone Dying to call you on the telephone I...

Funny, just the other day I was walking down the street Stopped into that place You know, the one where we used to meet Thought I heard you call my name And I w...

I can see a new expression on my face I can feel a strange sensation taking place I can hear the guitars playing lovely tunes Everytime that you walk in the roo...

He was strong and of sound mind 'Til the day he crossed the line Between an east Kentucky girl and his wife In his heart there wasn't room So they tore his hear...

The stage is set The lights are low Soft music on the radio The sheets are fresh The wine is cold And nights like this Were made for love And now there is only ...

You say you're not missin' me darlin' I know you are and always will be I saw you at the club actin' so in love Ah, but that don't mean nothing to me 'Cause as ...

You make all the right moves And you talk so smooth And you look like a winner to me With your sure-shot savvy, you're my heart's desire And I'm happy to be sta...

A baseball glove in the second grade put this little scar on my chin And at 31 they put glasses on me when I couldn't tell an "h" from an "n" I bounced back fr...