I called her today, an accidental mistake And her name slipped out to some friends Forgotten old feelings are brand new today 'Cause I'm right back where I've a...

A word or two to Mary, please write a letter for me That's what my buddy said to me today I couldn't keep from cryin', sad eyes are looking at me He said, I'll ...

Well I'll give you love that's above and beyond the call of love And I'll never ever make you cry Yes I'll give you love that's above and beyond the call of lov...

They're a gonna put me in the movies they're gonna make a big star out of me We'll make a film about a man who's sad and lonely and all I gotta do is act natura...

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...

All the time yes darling all the time Through the years through smiles or tears I'll love you Every day I'll prove it every way Through the years through smiles...

When we were young along the Mississippi life was never lonely way back then We'd need each other down along the dirt road And go for walk so along the river be...

When she wakes up this morning and turns to kiss me She'll find I let her sleep because we talked so late last night She'll know I kissed her face gently till m...

Amy left her crayons on the table yesterday So I called her in and asked her to help put them away And I noticed on the table there's a picture she had drawn It...

Wake up and open your eyes breakfast's on and the sun is high Off to work I'll kiss you goodbye I'll phone you at noon and I'll miss you till five It's another ...

There are places to go where the cold north wind blows Mountain's tall and the seashore have its charms But the best place for me darling where I want to be Is ...

Just follow the stairway to this lonely world of mine You'll find me waiting here in Apartment No 9 Not so very long ago you walked away from me And after all t...

Everybody calls me Bo I got no money but I hold my row Some folks say I'm just a no good kind But I can ride for miles in old boxcar smoke cigarettes butts and ...

The world goes around and the young men get old The people next door are all down with the cold The stars are in the heaven that's where they belong They don't ...

I can see the sadness in your eyes knowing that I'm going to leave If I told you the reason you'd never understand cause the truth you never could see So I'm go...

I asked my love to take a walk just to walk just a little way Down beside where the waters flow down by the banks of the Ohio And only say that you'll be mine i...

I thought I had seen pretty girls in my time but that was before I met you I never saw one that I wanted for mine but that was before I met you I thought I was ...

I'll be there before the next teardrop falls If he brings you happiness then I wish you both the best It's your happiness that matters most of all But if he eve...

I didn't think too much about books and schoolin' Cause there are more important things to do I'd just sit out in the yard and pick my ol' banjo Tryin' to do wh...

I know she's gonna get me back when I get home again Cause she pretends to get upset when I call her little girl And as we lie there trying to outlove each othe...

Back about eighteen hundred and some a Louisiana couple had a red headed son No name soothe him Jim Jack or Joe they just called him Billy Bayou Billy Billy Bay...

You think only of yourself I think only of you too What chance for me is left since both of us love you We only think we agree on it's not to make you blue We h...

I'm looking for a brand new bed of roses A love just like mine that stands the test of time I'm looking for a brand new bed of roses a love with everlasting cli...

Burgers and fires and cherry pies it was simple and good back then Walkin' in the sand hand in hand never thinkin' that it could end Makin' our love with the mo...

The bills are all due and my baby need shoes but I'm busted Cotton is down to a quarter a pound but I'm busted I got a cow that's gone dry and a hen that won't ...

There's a white Christmas in my hometown Where the streets are snowy, shining bright And the lights so on all the Christmas trees are burning For old Santa's su...

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

Completely helpless I'm standing alone facing the whole world now that you're gone Completely helpless oh what can I do completely helpless oh without you With...

When I was a little bitty baby my mommy would rock me in the cradle In them old cottonfields back home When I was a little bitty baby my mommy would rock me in ...

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Charlie Rich (words and music by Kenny O'Dell) My baby makes me proud, Lord don't she make me proud She never makes a scene by hanging all o...

Oh the crystal chandeliers light up the paintings on your wall The marble statuettes are standing stately in the hall But will the timely crowd that has you lau...

One day you came along and spoke so tenderly You kissed me oh so sweet and gave your love to me One moment in my life I clung to every thrill Time was a preciou...

The world will tumble from its axes the sun will be covered by the sea The moon will burn and turn to ashes the day you stop loving me You gave me love and with...

I'm having daydreams about night things in the middle of the afternoon And while my hands make a living my mind's home loving you I'm having daydreams about nig...

When I noticed her the first time I was outside running barefoot in the rain She lived in the house next door her nose was pressed against the window pane When ...

I wanna go home I wanna go home oh Lord I wanna go home Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City And I dreamed about those cottonfields and home I dreamed abo...

I hear the sound of distand drums far away far away And if they call for me to come then I must go and you must stay So Mary marry me let's not wait let's share...

Does my ring hurt your finger When you go out at night? When I bought if for you darling, It seemed to fit just right Should I take it to the jeweler So it won'...

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

Fools never learn you play with fire and you gonna get burn You and I are fools we play with love so we gonna get burn Fools that's what we are fools we've gone...

The strange lonely whistle of the distant movin' train Breaks the silence of the gray winter skies As I walk with my belongings down the road I'd never seen Whi...

Georgia sweet sweet Georgia keeps pulling on my ring Most men would give their right off or anything they own To have a woman just like you to be waiting when t...

Well could that look I see on you mean that you might be lonely too Well you don't have to feel so bad you're not the only one that's sad Just look at all the h...

The day you walked away you left the hurt behind A hurt that kept on growing all the time A hurt that lit the match that burned my world down Till everything wa...

Someday I think I'll take up thinking and try my best to understand How she could be loving me forever and leaving on the other hand Last night I thought I'd se...

When we met you brought the sunshine in the summer of our love And like the sun then everything was bright Your love changes like the weather now there's dark c...

A long time forgotten are dreams that just fell by the way And the good life he promised ain't what she's living today But she never complains of the bad times ...

(It's so good to touch the green green grass of home) The old hometown looks the same as I step down from the train And there to meet me is my mama and papa And...

You ask me if I'll forget my baby I guess I will someday I don't like it but I guess things happen that way You ask me if I'll get along I guess I will someway ...

Play the happiest song on the jukebox cause that's the way I'm feeling tonight Play the happiest song and I'll be headin' home To an angel waitin' there to hold...

I hear they're hiring men in Oklahoma And I've been blessed with two hard working hands I'll take that job till the mill goes back to working And we'll make it ...

Well I left my home down on a rural route I told my folks I'm goin' steppin' out Forget the honky tonk blues hey the honky tonk blues Yeah Lord I got 'em I got ...

You wanted to know that you could break my heart but I could have told you you could You just had to see if I'd go to pieces but I could have told you I would J...

Everybody says you let me down I should be ashamed to take you round Makes no difference what you used to do darling I could never be ashamed of you Maybe you w...

When all your loves have ended when all your friends have flown Who'll be around to want you when all your loves have gone Only a fool would do it after the way...

I don't just love you I live you where I'm concerned nothing comes before you If I had ten lifetimes every one I'd give you No I don't just love you no I don't ...

Just outside my window there's a sound that I can't stand The cold night rain is falling and the crying lonesome wind It's telling me you're gone and he's with ...

Once I lived a life of wine and roses and I drank a lot back then for one concern Success for me lay just around the corner I thought my social friends would he...

If tonight should be our last night together I'm not sorry that we fell in love at all If tomorrow's sun should find me hurtin' for you I know That the price fo...

It may not make me tremble the soft touch of her hand But she won't break my heart the way you do So I'm gonna try to give her the best love that I can If she j...

You'd stop at hundred and forty tears I forget the lonely years I know I've been lost for words to say I know my lonely heart would go wild you can bet I'd have...

Yes I know she's the life of the party and without her things here would die Oh but don't be fooled by her laugter she has her sad times she knows how to cry Sh...

They had meant for me one last time to see my hometown again Once again go there see the places where as a child I've been As I journeyed now it was so far out ...

I watch it's three am I know she's waitin' up again On the road I'm wonderin' what I'm gonna say Funny how the light's not turnin' maybe this time she'll be sle...

Rain dripping off the brim of my hat Sure is cold today Here I am walking down sixty-six Wish she hadn't done me that way Sleeping under a table at a road side...

Anytime the world is gettin' to me all I have to do is think of you And I know the world cannot undo me I feel so easy loving you It amazes me at all I seem to ...

Couldn't tell my teacher my last name when I was in grade school Stuttered when I talked and everybody laughed at me I was a boy from across the tracks I wore h...

It's been ten long and lonely years since I've been to my hometown I saw fame and fortune which I finally found Everyone at home may know me and they say that I...

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

So I feel so blue sometimes I wanna die and so I've got a broken heart so what They say that time will heal all wounds in mice and men And I know that someday I...

Yes it's true that I've known other but I didn't know back then A man could ever want the way I do And the life I used to lead was before I found the need just ...

Kaw-Liga was a wooden Indian standin' by the door He fell in love with an Indian maiden over in the antique store Kaw-Liga well he just stood there and never le...

Whenever I chance to meet some old friends on the street They wonder how does a man get to be this way I've always got a smiling face Anytime and any place And ...

A lesson too late for the learning made of sand made of sand In the wink of an eye my soul is turning in your hand in your hand Are you going away with no word ...

There is something in your heart weighing heavy on your mind You need gentle arms to hold you like these gentle arms of mine You need love and understanding and...

Let me live again let me live again [ steel ] A little taste of heaven that I had before Was just enough to keep me coming back for more After loving you losing...

I'm finding that I'm spending most of my time Wondering where she goes the rest of the time But tonight I will find out for once and for all Tonight I will foll...

If she seems cold and bitter I beg of you Just stop and consider all she's been through Don't be quick to condemn her for things she might say Just remember lif...

We've decided we can't work it out we might as well call it a day We agree to disagree and go our seperate ways We just don't seem to get along we're fightin' a...

At first mom and papa called their little boy Ned They raise him on the banks of the river bed A houseboat tied to a big tall tree a home for my papa and my mam...

Yes your love put a song put a song put a song in my heart Never have I heard this beautiful music before Yes your love put a song put a song put a song in my h...

Love unending love undying love that never grows cold Love that never leaves you crying love that never grows old That's what I'd give to you if you say that yo...

(Yodel) I got a feelin' called the blues oh Lord since my baby's said goodbye Oh Lord I don't know what I'll do all I do is sit and sigh oh Lord That last long...

I'm sure you've seen me along the highway sleeping bag and guitar on my back Searching for the things in life that matter thinking that the world was out of act...

I can see your mansion on the hill Tonight down here in the valley I'm lonesome and oh how I feel As I sit here alone in my cabin I can see your mansion on the ...

Oh love's a merry go round so Mary go round with me Won't you takin' a ride deep down inside you know you'll never be free And it was love we found on the merry...

Busted flat in Baton Rouge headin' for the train feelin' nearly faded as my jeans Bobby thumbed a diesel down just before it rained took us all the way to New O...

If the wife and I are fussin' brother that's our right Cause me and that sweet woman's got a licence to fight Why don't you mind your own business mind your own...

Yes more to me than anything else I've ever known More to me than anything else I'm ever gonna see Just your love is all that I need to depend upon And each day...

My love is deep my love is wide you can't see across to the other side My love is deep my love is wide I've got too much love for you for me too hard to hide P...

Tonight my head is bowed in sorrow I can't keep the tears from my eyes My son calls another man daddy the right to his love I've been denied My son calls anothe...

I'm no stranger to loving arms Well, I'm accustomed to lady's charms You know that I didn't just arrive into town You might say that I've been around I've seen ...

He'll buy you lots of pretty things fancy clothes and fancy rings But he will never love you never more than I Your pillard home all dressed in white will be co...

Darling no one could ever take me from you I'll be with you as long as you want me to You wanted to be mine long before I hadn't a dime And darling no one could...

Well once I met a pretty little girl and she was fair to see I fell in love with a pretty little girl she fell in love with me I kissed her on her dimpled chin ...

Now and then if I could just see you just enough to get me through Get me through the times when I need love take me in now and then Now and then hold me in the...

When my baby left me she left trouble all around She left a tangle in mind and a tear in my eye and my heart was sorrow bound But when I woke up this morning I ...

Here is one that we took one Sunday afternoon I remember it was in the summer time On the back it says eight eleven sixty five the same day you promised to be m...

Well I woke up this morning when the cold Chicago wind Blew my newspaper blanket off my back Through my dirty broken window the grey sun filtered in As I dreame...