My name's in the paper where I took the boy scouts to hike My hands're all dirty from working on my little boy's bike The preacher came by and I talked for a mi...

I'm five hundred miles away from home Teardrops fell on mama's note when I read the things she wrote She said we miss you son we love you come on home Well I di...

Here am I a beggar I never thought it would turn out like this I'd be begging for your kiss But I must have your love Here am I a beggar I've reached the point...

'Neath your feet you feel the world is shaking And your dreams slowly sifting thro' your hand But there's a place you'll never be forsaken I'm a warm fire burni...

[ Skeeter ] Dear John oh how I hate to write dear John I must let you know tonight That my love for you has died away like grass upon the lawn And tonight I wed...

I never was great at pickin' cotton but Lord I always carried all my rows There were those who could pick it clean or better But didn't I pick my cotton with a ...

Abilene Abilene prettiest town I've ever seen Women there don't treat you mean in Abilene my Abilene Crowded cities ain't nothing free nothing in this town for...

I'm calling from the station and I haven't got much time to let you know Got a ticket for Missouri and there's things I need to say before I go If I could I'd h...

Oh the sound of the thing is not a ring it's more like a pleasant purr And the only sound I hear at night is the sound of my purring air-conditioner The air is ...

Alimony alimony work till my fingers are bloody and boney Me oh my oh goodness sake I'm paying for my mistake Ali-money I call it ali-money you married men may ...

Gather 'round cats and I'll tell you a story 'bout how to become an all-American Boy Just buy you a guitar and put it in tune And you'll be a rockin and a rolli...

All the good times are past and gone all the good times are past and gone All the good times are past and gone what's left for a poor boy to do I can still see...

Another love has ended (another love has ended) Like so many in the past (a million loves in the past) And people now are saying ( everybody's saying) I just kn...

Open the gates up hey screw did you miss me Jimmy I see that you found a new friend Warden come down here and kiss me hello cause I'm back home in Huntsville ag...

Will you be there in the courtyard Barbara Joe Will your honor be avenged with justice done When they cover my head over Barbara Joe Will you hide your face in ...

I drive all day at hauling freight until I get my fill And after five I'm always found at Dottie's Bar and Grill I talked with all the local crowd a couple hour...

[ Bobby ] I guess I'd better try again to straighten up my tie again before I leave [ Skeeter ] The party's over the laughter's died there's no one in this room...

She was young and she was pretty a victim of a rich man's whim When she met a wealthy gentleman Big Ben Colson and she had a child by him Well he promised her a...

I had a bird he flew away and I guess he's gone to stay But I see him winging on his way my flyaway bird named Yesterday He's over the place of my birth he's c...

Mhmmm hmm hmm How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man And how many seas must a white dove sail before she can sleep in the sand And ho...

(I sit here and look at you, lonely room it's sad for lovers change their ways Just like me you miss the love we once knew she's left me in the world of blue Lo...

They say for every boy there's a girl and she's waitin' somewhere in this world It's all been planned to someone up above and I know it's written in the book of...

Bottles and boxes and ten miles a day he walks slowly making his rounds Picking up bottles and boxes and papers and anything else we'd throw down He's hump-back...

They say there he sits in his big white wicker rocker Eatin' candy coated cashews sippin' orange lemonade While a sweet young thing fans the flies from off his ...

Bye bye love bye bye happiness hello loneliness I think I'm gonna cry Bye bye love bye bye sweet caress hello emptiness I feel like I could die Bye bye my love ...

Let me carry that old suitcase hon And here's my hat to shade your pretty head from the sun Let's keep moving down the road that has no end it seems For a long ...

Here I am a livin' fast smokin' Lucky's and talkin' trash Hangin' out on a barroom stool actin' like a fool Out of work and out of luck stay out late and I drin...

You speak and the words flow like honey your kiss holds a promise so sweet But all of these things that you tell me you tell to each new love you meet Candy coa...

I keep changin' my mind just can't make up my mind I've been workin' hard and dreamin' bout all the things we're gonna do And how satisfyin' it would be to feel...

At the airport in Chicago Sunday night a soldier and his pretty wife came by She had brought him there to send him off to war I heard him say now don't cry anym...

Chicken every Sunday mama everything's all right Johnny was just a little boy the day his daddy died And his mama had a hard time keepin' them both but the Lord...

She smiled and said if you are who I think you are I'd really like to meet you I laughed and said if you are what I think you are I'd like to meet you too She s...

It's cold as a well in Cincinnati jail I ain't got nobody I ain't got nobody Shouldn't have drunk that wine it messed up my country mind But I didn't know that ...

I hear that your new romance has faded just the way ours did sometime ago Well I've lost count of all the times I've waited For you to tell me that you've misse...

I heard the front door closing softly as I wakened from my sleep With the last touch of her lips Lord like a whisper on my cheek And I cursed the sun for rising...

Coutin' the hours countin' the days till I'll be back in your arms to stay I left Lake Charleston on 72 and I drove the Highway 10 Took a ride at a second light...

(Daddy what if the sun stop shinin' what would happen then) If the sun stopped shinin' you'd be so surprised You'd stare at the heavens with wide open eyes And ...

[ with The Family ] (Daddy's been around the house too long He's watchin' TV drinking beer and singing crazy songs He don't ever yell at us so something must be...

See the ruins on the hill where the smoke is hanging still Like an echo of an age long forgotten There's a story of a home crushed beneath those blackened stone...

Her house on the corner of Cedar and Elm still stands in our town But it's been empty since she moved away the day that the saw mill closed down We'd sit on her...

I've been writin' Mary Lou letters every day But I just found out lately how she throws them all away She don't even bother to read the things I say So I'm gonn...

It's snowing out there in the gloaming I've sat here and watched it all night Little kids will be thrilled when they awaken and look at the fields deep and whit...

Delia's gone one more round Delia's gone First time I shot Delia shot her in the side The second time I shot her she laid right down and died Delia's gone one m...

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 about those cottonfields and home I dreamed abou...

Breakfast black coffee one slice of dry toast no butter no jelly no jam Lunch just some lettuce two celery stalks no booze no potatoes no ham Dinner one chicken...

Don't it make you wanna go home now don't it make you wanna go home All God's children get weary when they roam Don't it make you wanna go home don't it make yo...

For a long long time now just about every night You found some excuse not to hold me tight No matter what I do you sit and pout don't let that doorknob hit you ...

There ain't no use to sit and wonder why babe it don't matter nayhow And there ain't no use to sit and wonder why babe if you don't know by now When the rooster...

I see your van you're a guitar man it's written all over your face To make it big you quit your gig a playin' bass at the airbase You've come to town you've bee...

A scarecrow and yellow moon and road house on the edge of town Hear that midnight rooster crow well I have one more before I go But Honey don't turn out the lig...

You make my eyes run over all the time you're happy when I'm out of my mind You don't love me yet you won't let me be don't you ever get tired of hurtin' me You...

I'm down in Mexico had to go won't be home no more I want mom and dad to know I miss and love them so Though I'll never see them anymore The day that I turned...

[ Both ] Sweet dream babby sweet dream baby sweet dream baby how long must I dream Dream baby got me dreamin' sweet dreams the whole day through Dream baby got ...

You sit there a crying cry in your beer You think you got troubles well my friend listen here Don't tell me your troubles I got enough of my own Be thankful you...

Drinkin' from the bottle and singin' from the heart Cryin' blues in motel rooms Lord the hard times weren't that hard And some fell in and some fell out and som...

Dropkick me, Jesus, through the goal posts of life End over end, neither left nor to right Straight through the heart of them, righteous up rights Dropkick me, ...

I'll be dropping out of sight for awhile I'll be crying and crying's not my style If they ask you how I took it say I smiled but I'll be dropping out of sight f...

In the early morning rain with a dollar in my hand With an aching in my heart and my pockets full of sand I'm a long way from home and I miss my loved ones so I...

Lord it's easy as dreaming falling in love with you But it's hard as dying knowing these dreams won't come true Tonight I lie here sleepless without you and th...

Fairy tale fairy tale tell me now a fairy tale Tell me once again how it's me that you adore And how we gonna live so happily for ever more Once upon a time no...

(Rock of ages cleft for me) There's a family Bible on the table its pages torn and hard to read But the family Bible on the table will ever be my key to memory ...

We worked through spring and winter through the summer and through the fall But the mortage worked hardest and the steadiest of us all It worked on nights and S...

Come sit beside me and I'll sing you one last song for you to carry with you as you go And I'll remember you here in the frosty dawn and the lightly falling Feb...

Baby you know me well you know I mean what I say Before I say farewell I'll give you just one more day So you can find out what's happening find out what's happ...

I have appointed me the captain of my destiny And proclaimed myself the pilot of my soul But my mind remains uneasy cause the rest of me Depends on someone I do...

I hear that train a comin' rollin' around the bend I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when I'm stuck in Folsom Prison and time keeps draggin' on And t...

Gather round me buddies hold your glasses high And drink to the fool the crazy fool who told his baby goodbye Too late he finds he loves her so much he wants to...

Remember when I saw you standing slightly cryin' empty-handed With no one that you could call your own Looking up to someone somewhere asking for life with no d...

Four strong winds that blow lonely seven seas that run high All these things that don't change come what may But my good times are all gone and I'm bound for mo...

On the warm summer's evening on a train bound for nowhere I met up with a gambler we were both too tired to sleep So we took turns a starin' out window at the d...

Every triangle has three sides it's true There's the wife's side the husband's and my side too What's the difference who's to blame everybody suffers the same O...

(Y'all settle down! Everybody be quiet because daddy's gonna sing a quiet song called the Giving Tree) Once there was a giving tree who loved a little boy And ...

The Gods were angry with me for loving you The Gods were angry with me because they knew I stood at heaven's portals but they were too high for any mortal such ...

(I'm goin' home I've been gone so doggone long now at last the rambling fever's gone I'm goin' home I know that mama'll cry with joy To see her wanderin' boy I'...

Remember the nights we would jam in the motels After the honky tonks closed No one had credit And no one had no place to go Just crazy kids with 'lectric machi...

Goodnight Irene goodnight Irene I'll see you in my dreams Sometimes I live in the country Sometimes I live in town Sometimes I take a big notion To jump in the...

She don't hold and kiss me like she did one time I think my sweet baby's got leavin' on her mind The longer I know her the more I can tell my darling's not hap...

I've laid around and played around this old town too long Summer's almost gone winter's comin' on I've laid around and played around this old town too long And ...

I remember the day when the snow melted away and the great snowman was wed He said yes I do and little Linda said it too and the great snowman was wed Well Jim...

The old hometown looks the same as I step down from the train And there to meet me is my mama and my papa And down the road I look and there runs Mary hair of g...

Stick my thumb out catch a ride maybe this time I'll be satisfied Find a new town bout a mile maybe this time I will stay a while Then if no one wants this rest...

There's an old man sittin' in a rented room sittin' and watchin' the wall Tryin' to remember the good ole days and wonderin' why the kids don't call They used t...

Have I stayed away too long Have I stayed away too long If I came home tonight Would you still be my darling Or have I stayed away too long I'm just outside of...

He was a friend of mine he was a friend of mine He died without a penny he didn't have a dime he was a friend of mine He died neath the midnight sun he died nea...

He got the whole world in his hands the whole world in his hands He got the whole world in his hands he's got the whole world in his hands He's got the wind and...

When the sun shines babe it'll wake you in the morning When the moon fades away then you gonna find me gone I'll kiss her lips so fine put that ring back on her...

Hello darlin' nice to see you it's been a long time You're just as lovely as you used to be How's your new love are you happy hope you're doing fine Just to kno...

Take the ribbon from your hair shake it loose and let it fall Laying soft upon my skin like the shadows on the wall Come and lay down by my side till the early ...

Oh I'm so homesick all I do is roam the street Can't sleep at night can't eat a bite homesick too homesick to eat I'm so homesick I'm going crazy and I don't kn...

I wonder how the old folks are at home I wonder if they miss me while I've gone I wonder if they pray for their boy who went away And left his mom and papa all ...

Well it's lonesome in this ol' town everybody puts me down I'm a face without a name just a walking in the rain A going back to Houston Houston Houston I got h...

Some people worry bout tomorrow well all my worried days are through Cause I just got mine all together how about you girl how about you Those loose ends have r...

I don't believe I'll fall in love today old memories of you stand in the way Well I just can't make my heart find someone new It's always much too busy loving y...

[ Both ] I don't care the sun don't shine I don't care the bells don't chime Just as long as you love me I don't care the tops don't spin I don't care the gins ...

[ Bobby ] Don't get no attention from the people on the street They don't even see us they just step right on our feet Two unnoticed people in this great big wo...

[ Both ] I love you you you no one else will ever do always true true true I'll forever be to you I love you no one new will never ever do I'll always be true t...

(I love you drops I miss you drops hurry home drops you've been gone too long drops They're not teardrops just sincere drops that say I'm lonesome and I love y...

Sorrow comes like a thief in the night and leaves me cold and sad Lord please Lord send a word from her cause I need some good news bad Why did she take her lov...

I saw the light I saw the light no more darkness no more night Now I'm so happy no sorrow in sight praise the Lord I saw the light I wandered so aimless life f...

I stopped by at the party of an old friend But then I saw this old sweetheart I once knew And I vowed as I set me down beside her that darling I was coming home...