Everybody's talking bad about Ramona They say she's changed a lot since I've been gone They say she may not be too glad to see me Cause Ramona doesn't know I'm ...

A / / / 2 / / / 3 / / / 4 / I've been-- chasin' the big wheels G D All over Nashville Waitin' for my big break to come Livin' on ketchup soup, homemade ...

They call me the Nashville Rebel they say leave that boy alone Don't you give him advice or he'll turn to ice and you might as well talk to stone But I've got t...

If it wasn't for the powder and the fine tooth com If it wasn't for the powder and the fine tooth com You know the Nashville women might as well stay home yeah ...

Well I've never been to Spain but I kinda like the music Say the ladies are insane there and they sure know how to use it They don't abuse it can't refuse it ne...

I've always loved the ladies ladies love the games Seems the things they want the most is they always want to change The only thing that changes is my mind I ne...

From Herte Mississippi to Tupelo then I caught an eastbound freight With sky high hopes opened out scopes and hurt all over my face New York City is a bad place...

(Collins - Joy) From Herte, Mississippi to Tupelo Then I caught an eastbound freight With sky high hopes opened out scopes And hurt all over my face New York ...

Aint no good chain gang Johnny Cash & Waylon Jennings Bet it ain't raining back home Bet your sister's still on the phone Bet Momma's in the kitchen, cooking f...

Verse 1: C/G G She was a good looking woman no doubt C/G A high steppin' mover that men talk about But everything bad in me She bro...

(Wayne C Thompson - Johnny Christopher) Read in the paper nearly everyday People breaking up and just walking away From love and that's wrong, don't you know t...

I know your leaving's too long overdue For too long I've had nothing new to show you Goodbye dry eyes I've watched your plain feet off west to the moon It felt ...

Verse 1: Well i nearly got caught at a Burger King And a couple of times on a plane I thought i was safe from detection With all of the weight i had gained B...

(John Lennon - Paul McCartney) I once had a girl Or should I say she once had me She showed me her room, isn't it good Norwegian Wood? She asked me to stay And ...

(John Lennon - Paul McCartney) I once had a girl Or should I say she once had me She showed me her room, isn't it good Norwegian Wood? She asked me to stay An...

I once had a girl or should I say she once had me She showed me her room isn't it good Norwegian Wood She asked me to stay and she told me to sit anywhere So I ...

NOTHING CATCHES JESUS BY SURPRISE WRITERS WAYLON JENNINGS, TOM DOUGLAS Catching Babe Ruth catching Roger Marist The way you caught my eye in Paris, Tennissee Se...

You have made no secret of your new love affair He buys you pretty presents and he takes you everywhere You seen him all the places where you and I once went Si...

(Don Bowman) You have made no secret of your new love affair He buys you pretty presents and he takes you everywhere You seen him all the places where you and I...

There's a road in Oklahoma Straighter than a preacher, longer than a memory And it goes forever onward It's been a good teacher for a lot of country boys like m...

New York woman tryin' to make me love her A sad eyed girl with rollers in her hair Down the hall somebody's cookin' cabbage Kids are running up and down the sta...

Old age and treachery always overcomes youth and skill Ain't too much that we won't do what Waylon won't Willie will Even though we've spent our lives charging ...

Verse 1: A D A E A Blow on you restless wind, up to your old tricks again A E A ...

Blow on you restless wind up to your old tricks again Bear down you Texas sun you make the desserts dry and the brush fires run Splintered wood rusty chains thi...

I've spent the lifetime making up my mind to be More than the measure of what I thought others could see Good luck and fast bucks are too far and too few betwee...

Old Five And Dimers ---- Billy Joe Shaver Verse 1: A E I've spent a lifetime, making up my mind to be ...

I've spent the lifetime making up my mind to be More than the measure of what I thought others could see Good luck and fast bucks are too far and too few betwee...

(Roger Miller) Old friends pitching pennies in the park Playing croquet till it's dark, old friends, mhm, old friends Oh, old friends swapping lies of life and ...

(Roger Miller) Old friends pitching pennies in the park Playing croquet till it's dark, old friends, mhm, old friends Oh, old friends swapping lies of life and ...

Verse 1: D A I grew up in Wyoming In and around Jackson's hole In the shadows of the Tetons Where summers are hot And winters unbearably cold But the...

Chorus: G A D G A D G Omaha you've been weighing heavy on my mind A D I guess i never really left at all G ...

I gotta quit this smokin' it's because of my chokin' I gotta quit this drinkin' it's been messin' up my thinkin' Baby you're included in my plan You're one of m...

Everybody knows you've been steppin' on my toes And I'm gettin' pretty tired of it You keep a steppin' out of line You're messin' with my mind If you had any se...

Everybody knows you've been steppin' on my toes And I'm gettin' pretty tired of it You keep a steppin' out of line You're messin' with my mind If you had any se...

It's midnight at a liquor store in Texas Closin' time, another day is done When a boy walks in the door and points a pistol He can't find a job, Lord he's found...

(Waylon Jennings) I sat at a bar having a beer Trying to hold down the stool When a stranger walked in stood there beside me And plopped down there like a fool ...

To the people up in Texas it's the nearest thing to heaven here on earth The lifestyle up in Texas is just go on out and live for all it's worth Where the men a...

Some people are saying that time will take care of people like me That I'm living too fast and they say I can't last much longer But little they see that their ...

(Fred Carter) Down in the place where I call home I've been workin' my fingers to the bone Pickin' white gold, pickin' white gold All day long in Louisiana sun ...

As I wander on life's pathway know not what the future holds As I ponder hope grows fonder precious sacred seems unfold Precious mem'ries how they linger how th...

Chorus: G D Pretend i never happened Erase me from your mind You will not want to remember Any love as cold as mine Verse 1: G D I'll be leaving in the ...

(George Jones) Well, I've come here to tell you boys I'm ragged but I'm right I'm a tramp and a rounder I stay out late at night I pour a high steak Three times...

Chorus: Oh rainy day woman I've never seem to see you for the good times or the sunshine You have been a friend of mine,rainy day woman Verse 1: That woman of m...

I've been down the Mississippi Down through New Orleans Yes, I have I've played in California There ain't too much I haven't seen No, there ain't Well, I'm a ra...

Well, the little things that you say and do Make me want to be with you Rave on, it's a crazy feelin' N' I know it's got me reelin' I'm so glad that you're reve...

Verse 1: A D Reno and Me hit the freeway,south out of town on the run A E Reno was driving he asked me to roll him one ...

Somewhere in VietNam a 19-year-old soldier walked out of a barroom And he said I must be seeing things that bourbon hit me like a baseball bat In Bellfast Irela...

Verse 1: D G The highway she's a hotter than nine times the hell A D The rides are as scarce as the rain ...

You do the things that hurt me so right before my eyes Just because I love you so I overlook your lies Let you make a fool of me yes that's what I'll always be ...

Almost out of adolescence and into a world we didn't know Not necessaryly love but in trouble with a fire down below Looking back for a feeling it's just someth...

[ with Anita Carter ] I remember when you said with this ring I Thee wed Now you've gone betrayed my trust rings of gold have turned to rust Tears can't wash aw...

(Gene Thomas) Waylon Jennings & Anita Carter I remember when you said With this ring I Thee wed Now you've gone betrayed my trust Rings of gold have turned to r...

RIVER BOY WRITER FRED CARTER I was born and raised on the river It's the only life that I know People 'round here have put a name on me And I hear it wherever I...

Back home the family's eatin' dinner there's a fire in the fireside warm and bright But I won't be there today cause I've got a debt to pay And they don't let b...

[ with Lee Hazlewood ] By the banks of the river where the willows grow cold Wild birds warble the strange soundin' song By the banks of the river where the wat...

There's a road runs clear to the sky Calls to my spirit calls to my heart She's been a harbor a port in a storm She's got one more sundown and one more dawn Fi...

She was a flower for the takin', Her beauty cut just like a knife He was a banker from Macon, Swore he'd love her all his life Bought her a mansion on a mounta...

(Mel Tillis) You've painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair Ruby, are you contemplating going out somewhere The shadows on the wall tell me ...

Sally used to carry my friends to school Sally was a big old girl Did my homework 'cause I was a fool Sally was a good old girl When I want a kiss or a little ...

I'm not some long lost someone just dropped in to say hello I'm the same old lover man baby lost so long ago Cause I was born to believe I never could deceive b...

Verse 1: A D A His daddy was a honest man,a red dirt Georgia farmer His mama lived a short life having kids and bailing ...

(Billy Ray Reynolds) This letter that I'm writing would probably be The hardest thing I'll ever do But you see there's something you should know I guess I shoul...

Wish I was a millionaire I'd play rock music and grow long hair I tell you boys I'd drive a new Rolls Royce Pretty women hangin' on me I'd give 'em all the thir...

He offers you so many things that I can't give I know your young heart just can't turn him down And like you say you're free and it's your life to live See you ...

Well you say I'm the greatest bound for glory but the word is out and I learned I got the latest side of the story you're pullin' out before you get burned Your...

She called me baby baby all night long used to hold and kiss me till the dawn Then one day I woke and she was gone there's no more baby baby all night long She ...

When loneliness is knocking at my mind happiness is something I can't find Pleasure seem forty miles behind she comes running [ guitar ] If I stand in someone e...

Well now I can see you're dancin' every dance with her And it seems to me you're dancin' much too close to her When you sat at our table you sat next to her But...

(Nickey Jaco) Well, now I can see You're dancin' every dance with her And it seems to me You're dancin' much too close to her When you sat at our table You sat ...

(Harlan Howard) She said if I ever deceived her She'd be gone before I could count ten Well, I guess that I didn't believe her 'Cause look at the trouble that I...

(Autry Inman) Everybody that I see Says she's looking good There's no doubt about it She's looking good There's just one thing that worries me It happened this ...

My friends never understood my rough and rowdy ways They think I'm the only fool my daddy ever raised But I'm gonna shine shine shine shine see me shine With a ...

Shooter you are a friend of mine I never know for sure what's on your mind Your imagination's working overtime but I don't mind Shooter you are a friend of mine...

I left the light in my window burning bright for you And the door to this heart of mine I left that open too We once had a love together I believe that it was t...

(W Starr) I left the light in my window Burning bright for you And the door to this heart of mine I left that open too We once had a love together I believe tha...

Oh baby tell me what you gonna do oh baby tell me what you gonna do I'm sick and tired from fooin' round with you Get up every morning pick up somethin' to eat ...

Verse 1: He stands in the doorway,his hands upon his hips She stands by the jukebox,a sweet smile on her lips He slowly walks up to her,she reaches out for him...

Travelin' down this lonesome railroad Silver Ribbons with no ends A million miles a crossties mark a million miles I've been I've picked peaches down in Georgia...

(Ray Corbin) Waylon Jennings & Bobby Bare Come on home and sing the blues to daddy Tell it all to one who understands I hear that your new romance has faded ...

(Ray Corbin) Waylon Jennings & Bobby Bare Come on home and sing the blues to daddy Tell it all to one who understands I hear that your new romance has faded ...

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...

I'm sittin' in the morning sun sittin' when the evening comes Watchin' the ships roll in then I watch 'em roll away again I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay wat...

In days gone by but not forgotten I plowed in the fields and I pulled in the cotton Things you'd never think I've done when you see me now I pick and sing and t...

Verse 1: E F#m A E Come here and look through the window Marie F#m A E Open up the shutters,tell me what you s...

(Dee Moeller) All your ol' stations are being torn down And the high flying trains no longer roar The floors're all sagging with boards a suffering From not bei...

Slow Rollin' Low SLOW ROLLIN' LOW (Billy Joe Shaver) I got a slow rollin' low Ain't a mother would want me Done got me so down bent out of round Don't know my h...

Tall, don't always mean bigger Short, don't ever mean small If you make up your mind you never can tell You could be the biggest and the bestest of all 'Cause ...

Chorus: You got a Smokey on your front door A Smokey on your back door,too Lord-a-mercy,buddy,i wouldn't wanna be in your shoes I can hear you talkin',i can ...

You got a smokey on your front door, a smokey on your back door too Lord, a mercy buddy, I wouldn't wanna be in your shoes I can hear you talkin', I can hear yo...

be No all around all of my life You could have done better 'cause you've been a good wife B E You're so good woman,Lord you're just to...

(Rodney Crowell) I don't drink as much as I ought to Lately it just ain't my style And the hard times don't hurt like they used to They pass quicker like when ...

Disappointments weigh so heavy leave its wreckage all around Once a good man once respected sorrow breaks a good man down Had a good love had a good life now th...

There's a ramshackle shack in old Caroline it's callin' me back to the woman of mine Guess if I had the wings of a beautiful dove Don't you know I'd fly away to...

New York woman tryin' to make me love her a sad eyed girl with rollers in her hair Down the hall somebody's cooking cabbage kids're running up and down the stai...

[ Willie Nelson ] Can't go home if you're goin' by the mill Cause the bridge's washed out at the bottom of the hill Big Creek's up and Little Creek's level plo...

Stop the world and let me off I'm tired of going round and round I've played the game of love And lost so stop the world and let me off My dreams're shattered ...

Stop the world and let me off I'm tired of going round and round I've played the game of love and lost so stop the world and let me off My dreams're shattered ...

Chorus: G C/G Storms never last do they baby D G Bad times will pass with the winds C/G Your hand in mine steals t...

A tiger always walks at night and marks his prey while everything's still He waits until it's unaware and then he strikes and makes his kill That's the way you'...

Oh such a waste of love true love and devotion Oh such a waste of love on a heart so cold with no emotion I might as well just wrap it up and wash it down the ...