A soft summer rain she was when she came and settled my old dusty worn-out soul While I watched in a dream and dreamed as I watched The sweetest and the shortes...

Silence is golden my love tell me now with your eyes No need to speak just let me see your eyes look love to me Silently place your warm hand in mine Safe and s...

Sometimes you sing for the money sometimes you sing for the show Sometimes you sing for the dewy eyed darlings Still makes them cry don't you know Sometimes you...

Widow Jones couldn't make it on her own Frank was 'lectrafied leaving six kids half grown In her misery she sent for me the singer of sad songs And I sympathize...

(Is everybody ready now? Yeah! Okay!) Here we go singin' in the kitchen all together now singin' in the kitchen Everybody singin' in the kitchen bangin' on the...

(Please baby wait for me wait for me) I got smashed last night on a bottle of gin and I had a fight with my best girl friend When I'm drinkin' I am nobody's fr...

Well I pulled out of Pittsburgh a rollin' down that Eastern Seaboard I got my diesel wound up she's a goin' like never before There's a speed zone ahead alright...

The sandman told me he's done all he can The situation calls for more than sand You been cryin' all night long Tossin' and turnin' and it's almost dawn I am her...

You promised love that never would end but now you are gone and the hurtin' begins Just what do you mean that I'm no more than a friend Oh darling have you forg...

Chorus: Somedays are diamonds, somedays are stone Somedays the hard times won't leave us alone Sometimes the cold wind brought chill to my bones Somedays are di...

I used to like to listen to the tales of the old men who sat around the old park square But the piddlers and the whittlers and the checker boards're gone There'...

The corn was dry and the weeds were high when daddy took to drinking Then him and Lucy Walker they took up and ran away Mama cried a tear and then she promised ...

Did you hear about Stacy Brown (no we didn't but we'd like to) He had every chick in town (no he didn't but he tried to) He got looks he got class do anything t...

She's a wild girl but that's alright Because she's living in a wild world And she's kinda like the queen bee Swimming in cola like a strange bird You don't want...

I sold the farm to take my woman where she longed to be We left our kin and all our friends back there in Tennessee I bought those oneway tickets she had often ...

Never hit seventeen when you play against the dealer For you know the odds won't ride with you Never leave your woman alone when your friends around to steal he...

In the park I see a daddy with the laughin' little girl that he's a swinging And I stop beside a Sunday school and listen to the song they're singing I'm headin...

I was hangin' round Nashville writin' songs and playin' them for all of the stars Watchin' them laugh and hand 'em back livin' on hope and Hershey bars So I paw...

(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 pla...

Just as far as I can remember she'll remain the rose of my heart Mama took sick along in December February brought us broken hearts The reason we've not called ...

SYMPATHY Writers Bobby Bare, Charlie Williams Oh well, I look in your eyes And what do I see Well, I don't see love All I see is sympathy Before she came along...

Why must you always try to make me over Take me as I am or let me go White lilies never grow on stalks of clover Take me as I am or let me go You're trying to ...

Won't you take me home to mama she loves me and she'll keep me safe and warm All I ask is take me home to mama please take me home to mama's arms Oh greyhound ...

Talk me some sense talk me some sense Put a song of love and laughter on your face Talk me some sense talk me some sense Cause the way you're talkin' now is a d...

There was a tall oak tree that loved a bubblin' brook And the bubblin' brook loved a mountain high And the mountain high loved the sky above The creator looked ...

Chorus: Pour me another Tequila Sheila, Take off that red satin dress I cross the border and I beat the dealer For all the damn gold in Juarez I feel like old ...

[ Both ] A little love that slowly grows and grows Not one that comes and goes that's all I want from you A sunny day with hopes up to the sky a kiss and no goo...

If you love somebody enough You'll follow wherever they go That's how I got to Memphis That's how I got to Memphis If you love somebody enough You'll go where ...

I thought I'd like to lead the bachelor life for a while Live alone and have some fun So I told her to take the kids and go back to her mama (That's how I wante...

(SPOKEN IN A SING-SONG PATTER RATHER THAN SUNG) Gather 'round, cats, and I'll tell you a story About how to become an All American Boy Buy you a gittar and put...

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...

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...

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 know they all know that I love her they don't say a word I can tell The people who live here on Main Street know and respect me too well Each morning she brin...

Boring through the mountains by-passing the towns Interstate 90 is a sight to behold But that monument to progress and engineering skill Has covered up the old ...

Boring through the mountains by-passing the towns Interstate 90 is a sight to behold But that monument to progress and engineering skill Has covered up the old ...

This guitar is for sale, I'll let her go cheap She's pretty to look at but she don't earn her keep She can roar like the west wind, she can weep, she can wail B...

Well now friends you'd never guess it so I really must confess it I just met the sweetest woman of my long dismal life But a friend of mine said buddy just in c...

She was quite a looker she kept herself up well She was crowdin' forty but in the dark you couldn't tell I sat down at her table and had myself a pour Then we s...

Ain't the snow fallin' just a bit deeper these days Ain't they're building the stairs a bit steeper these days And the town's really changin' in so many ways it...

Times're gettin' hard boy money's almost gone Times're gettin' hard boy time to move along Gonna take my true love by the hand lead her from this town Times're ...

I've been on the road twenty years ten thousand nights and a million beers But I'm tired of the road Joe it's no fun anymore Joe I'm savin' my money and I'll be...

[ Both ] Together again our tears have stopped falling [ Skeeter ] The long lonely nights are now at an end [ Bobby ] The key to my heart you hold in your hand ...

[ Both ] Together again our tears have stopped falling [ Skeeter ] The long lonely nights are now at an end [ Bobby ] The key to my heart you hold in your hand ...

Midnight flights and barroom lights and rollin' for three days and nights And motel rooms have been my only home They gave me these sad knowing eyes and old age...

[ Both ] Mhm too used to that certain someone to offer my love to anyone new My excuse for not wanting no one too used to being with you [ Skeeter ] When you lo...

[ Both ] Mhm too used to that certain someone to offer my love to anyone new My excuse for not wanting no one too used to being with you [ Skeeter ] When you lo...

I am a travelin' minstrel man I'll do my best to make you happy if I can I'll sing my song and move along cause I'm a travelin' minstrel man My life is measure...

[ Both ] I give to you and you give to me true love true love On and on it will always be true love true love [ Bobby ] For you and I have a guardian angel on h...

Truck driver truck driver stop your Diamond T Do you have room inside your rig for a highway bum like me Hey thank you very much don't suppose you could sorta s...

[ Both ] I give to you and you give to me true love true love On and on it will always be true love true love [ Bobby ] For you and I have a guardian angel on h...

This mornin' I jumped on my horse and went out for a ride Some wild outlaws chased me and they shot me in the side So I crawled into a wild cat's cave to find a...

[ Bobby ] You empty all my pockets you take away my gold [ Skeeter ] You strip me of my innocence then leave me in the cold [ Bobby ] You rob me of my patience ...

Try to remember the kind of September when life was slow and oh so mellow Try to remember the kind of September when grass was green and grain was yellow Try to...

My nights have been lonely since I've been in Tulsa County And I really don't know what I'm gonna do Guess that I'll just mosey down around that southern border...

Last Saturday morning I shut off the alarm Drove out in the valley to old Dan Cook's farm A sign on the fence post put up with one nail read 10 am sharp for big...

In the unemployment line in the unemployment line I see a butcher and a baker a faker and a quaker and an old girl friend of mine There's white collars blue col...

(Okay, I'll tell you what I'm gonna do now I'm gonna tell you about a unicorn Now who knows what a unicorn is? Let me tell you about) A long time ago when the...

Inside her feeble mind She is spinning out of time Like a hunter who's gone blind, my valentine Beside her velvet nest She humiliates the best Couldn't take no...

Vincennes Vincennes Vincennes Indiana Vincennes Vincennes Vincennes my hometown I'm coming back clear the track I'm someone to someone in Vincennes my hometown ...

I know they all know that I love her they don't say a word I can tell The people who live here on Main Street know and respect me too well Each morning she brin...

Warm and free warm and free that's all it takes to get a hold on me Warm and free warm and free you never know how low you can be Till you go into an an all-ni...

Down at the railroad station my suitcase settin' by my side Got no high hopes of leaving I'm just watching the trains go by Watching the trains go by Lawyer Ja...

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...

[ Both ] We said our goodbyes long ago never thinking we'd miss each other so All the memories we can't leave behind oh we must have been out of our minds [ Ske...

[ Both ] We'll sing in the sunshine we'll laugh every day We'll sing in the sunshine then be on our way [ Bobby ] I will never love you the cost of love's too d...

Mhm mhm I was New York City bound when I left my old hometown But I got hung up like a fool somehow along the way Lord God her name was Sally she lived in the K...

What am I gonna do girl what am I gonna do I love you so much what am I gonna do What am I gonna do girl what am I gonna do I love you so much what am I gonna d...

What kind of bird is that the one with the bright red breast I know it can't just can't be the robin cause my love is not back yet The one I love and wanted to...

I hate to leave your party and these friendly people here But I don't fit in with all that's goin' on Your love's an invitation but I can't go along Cause when ...

Will anybody know I've been here when I'm gone Will anything that I've done here live on Every man's allowed just so much time And all you take along is what yo...

I have met the Master on my knees been tested and I've tried And I've seen the God of heaven paint the fields and the country side I've been the husband of one ...

I have met the Master on my knees been tested and I've tried And I've seen the God of heaven paint the fields and the country side I've been the husband of one ...

Spring could come you'd never show it love could come you'd never know it Life has drawn so many tears from your eyes You've been used then lost the user you've...

Well here I am in Chicago all alone near the place where we met I walk through the rain the wind whispers your name oh why won't they let me forget Cause when t...

Dear mom and dad I'm writing you to say I found a jo It's a good job I don't go to work till nine If my old car holds up I guess I'll be home for the Fourth Don...

[ Jeannie Bare & Bobby Bare Jr ] Mama where'd I come from did they give me to you free Did you buy me in a boystore mama where'd you find me Well Bobby I foun...

I wonder which one of us is to blame The nicest thing that's come my way is you but I cannot offer you my heart or name Oh it isn't fair to do me like you do I ...

We both know a certain party I won't mention any names But you think you love this party who's brought me so much pain I don't know what he's told you but I'll ...

On that first day of March the day that she was born Wild as the wind was on the Friday morn They all say that she looked evil even then When her daddy smiled a...

I watch you most every night see you in the front porch lights You and him sittin' in a swing radio playin' through the screen Wilma Lou Wilma Lou don' let that...

I appreciate the coffee that you made I appreciate the shelter of your roof I'll pay you back someday for all the kindness and all the other liberties I took Al...

I swear you could taste the chicken and tomatoes and the noodles and the marrow bone But it really wadn't nothin' but some water and potatoes And the wonderful ...

The year is two thousand and eighty And hardly a highway remains Gone are the days of the diesel And songs about wrecks in the rain The Macs and MacLeans have a...

It takes a worried man to sing a worried song It takes a worried man to sing a worried song It takes a worried man to sing a worried song I'm worried now but I ...

Y'all come y'all come oh y'all come to see us when you can Y'all come y'all come (oh y'all come on over to see us now and then) The kinfolks're comin' comin' b...

Show me a house with a yard full o' rusty cars and you know there'll be a coffee perkin' on a rusty stove and you walk right in, sit down and feel right at home...

Who's the greatest singer in the land (you are) Who's the world's most sweetest kindest man (you are) Who's gonna give you some ice-cream If you sing this thing...

You can't stop the wild wind from blowing You can't stop the wild wind from blowing Let us live just for tonight don't think of tomorrow Any thoughts of loving...

Lovers yes I guess I've had a few I've played the game like lovers do in the night alone Feelin's they never meant a thing to me I never knew how love could be ...

I look cute at the end of your leash Your adorable beast As I salivate on your shoes Obedient and true Loyal through and through A fuzzy reflection of you If ...

Your favorite hat, don't wanna give it back Ain't gonna give it back Big brown floppy brim, the top is cavin' in String around my chin Your favorite hat slick ...

[ Skeeter ] He knows I'm true but what he don't know is I'm true to only you Tell me where does it stop does he know our married life is on the rocks [ Bobby ] ...

He knows I'm true But what he don't know is I'm true to only you Tell me where does it stop? Does he know our married life is on the rocks? Now, before you say...