I keep the radio on most all night long and listen to the songs they play Sometimes I hum tap along with my thumb listen to the words they say And I have to adm...

Each day I'll do a golden deed By helping those who are in need My life on earth is but a span And so I'll do the best I can Life's evening sun is sinking low ...

(Don Reid) Album: Innerview (1972) I've sung everything from hard times to heaven To the cold winds that chilled my very soul And I've sung everything from lo...

ALL I CAN DO WRITER DOLLY PARTON It's all I can do to keep from falling in love with you All I can do to keep from letting it show Yeah it's all I can do to ke...

Before you take another step there's something you should know About the years ahead and how they'll be You'll be living in a world where roses hardly ever grow...

I know you're a woman a sensitive kind A fairy-tale princess with hearts on your mind Who needs to be showered with candy and flowers And told that you're loved...

Maybe the first time I saw them I was nine going on ten years old I fell in love with their music and with the stories their music told I had all of their long ...

Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me I once was lost but now I'm found Was blind but now I see It was Grace that taught my heart to f...

I'm dreamin' of you And that makes me Atlanta blue, blue, blue Just a name I remember Just someone I used to know Someone I never quite got over A long long ti...

Away in a manger No crib for a bed The little Lord Jesus Laid down His sweet head The stars in the bright sky Looked down where He lay The little Lord Jesus As...

Among the local taverns there'll be a slack in business Cause Jesse's drinkin' came before the groceries and the rent Among the local women there'll be a slack ...

{Then Jesus was lead by the spirit into the wilderness To be tempted by the Devil} In the wilderness Jesus stayed Forty nights and forty days The Devil came in...

She was called a scarlet woman by the people Who would go to church but left me in the streets With no parents of my own, I never had a home But an eighteen yea...

If you're listenin' Billy Christian come on home Are you listening Billy Christian if you are then go on home Everything is like you left it she spends all the ...

We all four grew up together In a small Virginia country town And, for some strange reason God only knows We got to singin' around And about twice a year at the...

In the twilight glow I see her blue eyes crying in the rain As we kissed goodbye and parted I knew we'd never meet again Love is like a dying ember only memorie...

Found some letters you wrote me this morning they told of a love we once knew Now they're gone I'd burned them to ashes don't want nothing to remind me of you B...

Carry me back Lord while I still got the time Is Jimmy through serving is Hitch with Uncle Sam Do the kids still spend Saturday nights driving round Hamburger D...

Have you ever passed the corner of 4th and Grand Where a little ball of rhythm has a shoeshine stand People gather round and they clap their hands he's a great ...

There was a group of little guys grew up together In the fifties when rock and roll was hot And every time they turned on a radio station Chuck Berry and Little...

Christmas to me is wherever she might be Singing carols with the choir, hanging stocking by the fire Making Christmas bows, hanging mistletoe 'Cause where she i...

The bright array of city lights as far as I can see The great white way shines through the night for lonely guys like me The cabaretes and honky tonks their fla...

Tommy's selling used cars, Nancy's fixing hair, Harvey runs a grocery store and Margaret doesn't care Jerry drives a truck for Sears and Charlotte's on the make...

I've got a couple more years on you baby that's all I've had more chances to fly more places to fall Ain't that I'm wiser it's only that I've spent more time wi...

I was raised on matinees on Saturday afternoons, Lookin' up at Hoppy, Gene and Roy oh boy! And I grew up a-thinkin', "the best a man could do Is be a rootin'-to...

His deeds were never published for the public things he did were never done for show His name was never printed in the paper until about two days ago He only fi...

Do I love you more than mere words could ever say Am I crazy to think that I could find another way Do I need to tell you I'll always be true do I well darlin' ...

What's that flower you have on Delta Dawn Delta Dawn what's that flower you have on could it be a faded rose of days gone by And did I hear you say he was meeti...

I've sung everything from hard times to heaven To the cold winds that chilled my very soul and I've sung everything from lonely nights in taverns To dime store ...

She was standin' in the crowd All alone and lookin' pretty Listening to the music that we played She walked up and whispered I leaned down and listened To the r...

Saturday morning serials chapters 1 through 15 Fly paper penny loafers Lucky Strike Green Flat tops sock hops Studebaker Pepsi please Ah do you remember these C...

When the sun wakes up in the west And lays it's head down in the east When they ordain Madlyn O'Hare And she becomes a priest When a San Diego sailor Comes hom...

I'm wore out from apologizing sick and tired of compromising The next word that you hear will be goodbye I've had enough of talkin' bout it I might be sorry bit...

Oh Elizabeth, I want to see your pretty face I want to touch your lips, I want to feel your warm embrace Don't know if I could ever live my life without you Oh ...

Eve don't you know that God loves you so He only asks that you not disobey He gave you the world, what were you thinkin' girl? To let the Devil take it all away...

As I look at the letter that you wrote to me it's you that I am thinking of As I read the lines that to me were so dear I remember our faded love I miss you dar...

I woke up this morning feeling fine I woke up with heaven on my mind I woke up with joy in my soul cause I knew my Lord had control I knew I was walkin' in the ...

I saw a man today who said he talked to you Not so long ago I think a month or two As my mind raced back in time I prayed oh Lord don't let it show He thinks I ...

I've been hearin' you're concerned about my happiness But all that thought you're givin' me is conscience, I guess If I were walkin' in your shoes I wouldn't wo...

I'm tryin' to get over you, seems to take so long I'm cryin', it's about you, God, where did this thing go wrong? Forever I will love you, I'll never get over ...

Last night quietly he walked through my mind as I lay searching for sleep His arms reached out he whispered my name as he brushed a tear from my cheek And then ...

The longer I know her the more I can tell My darling's not happy with me The longer I know that I know her too well The less love in her eyes I see 'Cause she ...

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

If that old hat I wore could only talk And tell seome of the things that he has seen There's stories that would fill it to the brim If that old hat could tell i...

Well, God got things back together And the world started growing again Noah's sons had sons And a descendant of Shem's Was a man called 'Abram' God hand-picked...

I'll love you as if tomorrow is not coming And you'll cry as if your heartache will never end I can't let you go is what you'll end up saying Knowing he'll alwa...

Passed me by one summer day, flashed those big brown eyes my way And oh, I wanted you forevermore I'm not one that gets around, swear my feet's stuck to the gro...

I believe in music I believe in love I believe in music I believe in love I could just sit around makin' music all day long Long as I'm makin' music I know I ca...

Oh I can't help it if I'm still in love with you Today I passed you on the street and my heart fell at your feet I can't help it if I'm still in love with you S...

The year you were snow queen at the high school Christmas ball The night we got snowed in and prayed it wouldn't thaw The year I bought your bracelet and you bo...

I still miss someone At my door the leaves are falling a cold wild wind will come Sweethearts walk by together and I still miss someone I go out on a party and ...

I WANT TO CARRY YOUR SWEET MEMORIES WRITER LEW DeWITT I wanna carry your sweet memories to my grave At last I've broken off the chain Now just a few shoppin' m...

When she bought her furs heels I was there When she combed those last pigtails from her hair When she wore her sister's dress to the prom I must confess When th...

I wish I could be in Knoxville tonight so I wouldn't worry if you were all right And you wouldn't wonder where I spent the night If I could only be in Knoxville...

I wonder how the old folks are at home I wonder if they miss me while I roam I wonder if they pray for the boy who went away And left his dear old parents all a...

If you hurt me you won't be the first or the last in the lifetime of many mistakes But I won't spend tomorrow regreting the past for the chances that I didn't t...

Close your eyes close that door you don't have to worry anymore Cause I'll be your baby tonight Dim the lights draw the shades honey you don't have to be afraid...

When you're lyin' there in bed, late at night and all alone With nothin' on but the radio Listenin' to the midnight man takin' telephone requests Playin' songs ...

I'll go to my grave lovin' you, lovin' you I'd give all I've saved lovin' you, lovin' you And should, and should I live again Even then, it won't end For I'll g...

When you grow tired of bein' pretty when you grow older and pay your dues When you grow tired of too much living honey I'll take care of you I'll make good for ...

I'M NOT QUITE THROUGH CRYING WRITER LEW DeWITT Perhaps I outta mingle with the crowd just a little bit more Perhaps I outta find somebody new Perhaps I outta h...

I'm sorry you had to be the one To say I'm sorry to me I'm sorry is never easy to say And alone's never easy to be After all the things I've done in my life So...

I have been (I have been) a very pilgrim (a very pilgrim) Falling short (falling short) as you can see (as you can see) But every day (every day) I'm getting cl...

Sometimes I find myself just sittin' all alone and wondering Tryin' hard to figure out my life and what it means It's not the things I never got the chance to d...

If we took just a little more than we should have taken If by chance we let something good go bad If we sorta made a mess out of what we have together Still it'...

Seasons come and seasons go summer nights to winter snow But even time could never change the love I have for you I've been rich and I've been poor I've done wi...

In the beginning the Lord made the earth The Heavens, the hills and the seas Then He created the sun and the stars The land, the fruit, the trees He made all c...

He came home from working late again to a table set with candles for two And by a dying flame he hung his head in shame he forgot that she needs him too He find...

When there's no good in your good mornings too much hell in your hello And your kind heart is something less than kind When you're thinking more about the thorn...

Jesus take another look at me and tell me if I stray too far to be As close as you and I used to be Jesus take another look at me They say I've changed from all...

Dashing through the snow In a one horse open sleigh O'er the fields we go Laughing all the way Bells on Bob-tails ring Making spirits bright What fun it is to ...

THE JUNKIE'S PRAYER (Written by Lew DeWitt) That bed that I lay on is narrow and cold This sickness inside me tears at my soul And the devil awaits me, he call...

I once was lost in sin but Jesus took me in And then a little light from Heaven filled my soul He bathed my heart in love and wrote my name above And just a lit...

There's a picture that I carry one we made some time ago When they ask who's in the picture with me I say just someone I used to know Just a girl I used to spen...

Trailers for sale or rent rooms to left fifty cents No phone no pool no pets I ain't got no cigarettes But two hours of pushing broom buys a eight by twelve fou...

God promised to lead His children out of bondage He said He'd free them from Pharaoh's evil hand He said He'd guide and protect them on their journey And lead t...

If you've ever seen her livin', then you know that when she dies You can bet she ain't breathin' 'cause of the way she lies She can cry when you're leavin', the...

If you feel in your heart that love's about to start Don't be dismayed or afraid to tell him so If you feel there's a chance for a lifetime of romance Don't let...

Look at me you can't even look at me I don't know what happened to what we used to be Look at me you can't even look at me How can you say you love me you can't...

Even as greatest He was There we those who wanted to kill Him And He knew it and told His disciples That He was going to be betrayed by one of the twelve Lord,...

I was sinking deep in sin, far from that peaceful shore Very deeply stained within, sinking to rise no more But the Master of the sea, heard my despairing cry F...

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...

Busted flat in Baton Rouge, headin' for the trains Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans Bobby thumbed a diesel down just before it rained Took us all the way to New...

Long distance information get me Memphis Tennessee Help me find the party try to get in touch with me She could not leave her number but I know who placed the c...

The New Year's Eve we did the town the day we tore the goal post down We'll have these moments to remember The quiet walks the noisy fun the ballroom prize we a...

She leaves home at eight a little bit late a little bit tired of it all She unlocks the doors and does so much more than what she gets credit for She opens the ...

I saw her from a distance As she walked up to the wall in her hand she held some flowers as her tears began to fall and she took out pen and paper as to trace h...

There's lots of things in this old world fancy cars and pretty girls And something I like more than sunny skies The grandest thing I've ever seen are pictures o...

MY DARLING HILDEGARD WRITER HAROLD REID Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum Bum, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba Bum, ba, ba, um, ba, ba, buma Um, ba, ba, bum, ba, ba, bum, ba, ba...

The farther down this lonesome road I go the more I miss someone I used to know The more I think of her the more she shines my past is looking brighter all the ...

MY REWARD WRITER AUSTIN ROBERTS Heartaches and tears, so many wasted years Is that my reward for loving you While I played fair, your heart roamed everywhere I...

It started about the time she was born, Her rising above the raising of corn, Her Midwestern dream of winning the world And she was always my neighborhood girl ...

I've got a never ending love for you From now on that's all I wanna do From the first time we met, I knew I'd have a never ending love for you After all this t...

She came to me shortly after Christmas, Said she hated spoiling New Year's Eve But the truth doesn't wait to come in season And what we had feared was now belie...

No one will ever know the truth but me No one will ever know my heart is breaking although a million teardrops start to flow I'll cry myself to sleep and wake u...

Oh happy day (oh happy day) Oh happy day-ay (oh happy day) When Jesus washed (when Jesus washed) When my Jesus washed (when Jesus washed) When Jesus washed (whe...

Well, you might be a pauper or you might be a prince You have great wisdom or only common sense You might be rich and famous or a complete unknown But there's o...

There were tears in the eyes of Jesus there were nails in the palms of his hands There were thorns in his brow and only God could know how Much pain he could wi...

Here's the picture that we took in Cincinnati The time we saw that big leauge baseball game Here's the picture that we took in Printer's Alley Down in Nashville...

Precious memories, unseen angel Sent from somewhere to my soul How they linger ever near me And the sacred past unfolds Precious memories, how they linger How ...