I was born to sing a good-time song You know that nothin' used to bring me down 'Til the day I fell in love with you And baby that's the day I found Chorus: Y...

Seems like such a long time ago I was walking on a lonely road Getting tired of dreamin' alone Like all the lonely people I had known Seems like such a long ti...

Written by - John D Loudermilk Doo, doo, doo, doo Doo, doo, doo, doo We had a quarrel A teenage quarrel Now I'm as blue as I know how to be I can't call you on...

Written by - Jim & Ingrid Croce I've been up and down and around and 'round and back again I've been so many places I can't remember where or when And my only b...

Lazy days in mid-July Country Sunday mornings Dusty haze on summer highways Sweet magnolia calling Now and then I find myself Thinkin' of the days That we were...

My dusty feet have kicked the stones Between a thousand railroad ties From Boston down to New Orleans I left the girls a-cryin' But I've still got some ramblin'...

Well the South side of Chicago Is the baddest part of town And if you go down there You better just beware Of a man named Leroy Brown Now Leroy more than troub...

Four-and-twenty virgins come down from Inverness, And when the Ball was over, there were four-and-twenty less, Singin' balls to your partner, your ass against ...

Written by - Eric Von Schmidt You big fat woman get your fat leg off of me You big fat woman get your fat leg off of me You feel so good Scare the hell out of m...

Written by - Jim & Ingrid Croce Chorus: Big wheel, don't you roll Big diesel, don't you whine Through the night as I'm runnin' down the road Big semi, don't you...

Well out of southern Illinois Come a down-home country boy He gonna make it in the city Playin' guitar in the studio Well he hadn't been there an hour When he m...

oooo you might not ever get rich but tell you it's better digging a ditch there aint no telling who you might meet a moviestar or maybe even a pennyache workin...

I don't gamble, I don't fight I don't be hanging' in the bars at night Yeah, I used to be a fighter But now I am a wiser man I don't drink much, I don't smoke ...

Like the pine trees lining the winding road, I got a name, I got a name; Like the singing bird and the croaking toad, I got a name, I got a name And I carry it...

Chain Gang - Written by - Sam Cooke He Don't Love You - Written by - J Butler, C Mayfield & C Carter Searchin' - Written by - Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller That's...

Chain Gang - Written by - Sam Cooke He Don't Love You - Written by - J Butler, C Mayfield & C Carter Searchin' - Written by - Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller That's...

Traditional - Adapted & Arranged by - Jim Croce I know a fool who blows a horn He comes from way down South, oh yeah And you ain't seen some blowin' since you b...

Cigareets and whuskey and wild wild women They'll drive you crazy they'll drive you insane Cigareets and whuskey and wild wild women They'll drive you crazy the...

Well I know that I shouldn't have done it I know it just wasn't right Cause they got me back up to the cotton mouth river and I can't cross late at night Chor...

Written by - Jim Croce She was just a country girl Didn't have those New York City ways When she hopped a bus in Ohio Headin' for the crowded streets where no o...

Uptown got its' hustlers, the bowry got its' bums And 42nd street got a big Jim Walker He a pool-shootin son of gun Yeah he big and dumb as a man can come But h...

Dreamin' Again -- Jim Croce Don't you know I had a dream last night, that you were here with me Lyin' by my side so soft and warm And we talked a while and sha...

Written by - Jim Croce Well, she was standing by my dressing room after the show Asking for my autograph and asked if she could go Back to my motel room But the...

Some people say I'm a no 'count Others say I'm no good But I'm just a nat'ral born travellin' man Doin' what I think should, oh yeah Doin' what I think should ...

You may talk of gin and beer When you're stationed way out here An' you're sent to penny fights an' Aldershot it But when it comes to slaughter You will do your...

Chorus: And you think you've seen trouble Well you're lookin' at the man ah ha Oh, the world's own original hard luck story And a hard time losin' man Oh, some...

Jim Croce Hey Tomorrow Written by - Jim Croce From - You Don't Mess Around With Jim Hey tomorrow, where are you goin' Do you have some room for me 'Cause night ...

Written by - Jim & Ingrid Croce Perhaps I'll never show this world all I could be I just can't sing to any man the song he wants to hear And I know that some wo...

Well, I know it's kind of late I hope I didn't wake you But what I got to say can't wait I know you'd understand 'Cause every time I tried to tell you The word...

Written by - Maury Muehleisen I remember Mary, she was so hard to find Or was I blind People said be wary She'll take your heart if you're kind Then she'll tak...

Well, I know it's kind of late I hope I didn't wake you But what I got to say can't wait I know you'd understand Ev'ry time I tried to tell you The words just c...

Like the pine trees lining the winding road I've got a name I've got a name Like the singing bird and the croaking toad I've got a name I've got a name And I ca...

Well, I know it's kind of late I hope I didn't wake you But what I got to say can't wait I know you'd understand Every time I tried to tell you The words just c...

Snowy nights and Christmas lights, Icy windowpanes, Make me wish that we could be Together again And the windy winter avenues Just don't seem the same, And the ...

Written by - Jim & Ingrid Croce If it were just another day You know I might have stayed But I couldn't hang around To be beaten to the ground Chorus: You aske...

Written by - Jim Croce He struggled so hard to be king Working night and day Dreaming of only one thing Never a holiday Somewhere along the way He forgot she wa...

Guess that it was bound to happen Was just a matter of time But now I've come to my decision And it's a-one of the painful kind 'Cause now it seems that you wan...

Guess that it was bound to happen Was just a matter of time But now I've come to my decision And it's a-one of the painful kind 'Cause now it seems that you wan...

Written by - Jim Croce Smoke another cigarette, have another drink or two Sit by the telephone 'til morning She never tells me where she's goin' But I think it'...

Written by - Jim Croce With just a sleeping bag and an old guitar I left the band in New Orleans I did some time with the bottle, some with the river queens I n...

Hey love don't be afraid to stay until tomorrow Lover's dawn is waiting just this side of day If you thought i loved you yesterday I'll love you more than that ...

Well things were spinnin' round me And all my thoughts were cloudy And I had begun to doubt all the things that were me Been in so many places You know I've run...

Well things were spinnin' round me And all my thoughts were cloudy And I had begun to doubt all the things that were me Been in so many places You know I've run...

Well things were spinnin' round me And all my thoughts were cloudy And I had begun to doubt all the things that were me Been in so many places You know I've run...

If you get to feelin' all alone When your good time friends have all got up and gone Don't come knockin' around my door Because I've heard your lines before Ch...

Traditional - Revised & Arranged by - Jim Croce Nobody loves a fat girl But oh how a fat girl can love Nobody seems to want me I'm just a truck upon the highway...

Old man river, that old man river, he must know somethin', But He don't say nothin' That old man river, he just keeps rolling along He don't plant tater's, Don...

Ol' man river That ol' man river He don't say nothin' But he must know somethin' Cause he just keeps rollin' He keeps rollin' along Rollin' along He don't plant...

We been runnin' away from Somethin' we both know We've long run out of things to say And I think I better go So don't be getting excited When you hear that sla...

Operator, could you help me place this call, you see the number on the match box is old and faded, she's living in LA, with my best old ex friend ray, a guy she...

Operator, well could you help me place this call? See, the number on the matchbook is old and faded She's living in L A with my best old ex-friend Ray, A guy sh...

Photographs and memories Christmas cards you sent to me All that I have are these To remember you Memories that come at night Take me to another time Back to ...

Written by - Jim Croce & Ingrid Croce When I was a boy in the days of the train I'd sit by the tracks on a long summer day And I'd wave at the brakesman And he'...

Written by - Jim Croce & Ingrid Croce The railroads and the riverboats That bred the mighty men That we read about and we dream about The men who built this lan...

CHORUS: Oh Rapid Roy that stock car boy He too much too believe You know he always got an extra pack of cigarettes Rolled up in his T-shirt sleeve He got a tat...

Written by - Jim Croce Used to be that I could see A reason to be happy 'cause I was free But then recently it seems I've been lettin' your mem'ry get to me Us...

Gonna tell you a story that you won't believe But I fell in love last Friday evenin' With a girl I saw on a bar room TV screen Well I was just gettin' ready to...

Written by - Maury Muehleisen Sometimes I think about our good old high school days You would always kid about my adolescent ways Oh, Mary, Mary, good to see yo...

Say I Love You In A Song -- Jim Croce well, I know it's kinda late, I hope I didn't wake ya what I gotta say can't wait, I know ya'd understand 'cause every ti...

I drive a broke down rig on "may-pop" tires Forty foot of overload A lot of people say that I'm crazy Because I don't know how to take it slow I got a broomstic...

Written by - Jim & Ingrid Croce Spin, spin, spin Spin around, spin around The harlequin dances in a costume of green Spin around But under his makeup his age c...

Written by - Gordon Lightfoot Well I got my mail late last night A letter from a girl who found the time to write To her lonesome boy somewhere in the night She...

Written by - Jim Croce It's been too many years inside this prison Too many years just for one little fight He got what was comin' And I think I served enough t...

Sun come up in the morning Blues round my head I've got a troubled mind and plenty of time to roam As I walk this crooked highway Never knowin' where to go You ...

Written by - Maury Muehleisen Where there is a dream there is a hope for you Where there is a love there is a way Coming from the edges of the night to you Comi...

The Hard Way Every Time Written by - Jim Croce Yeah, I've had my share of broken dreams And more than a couple of falls And in chasin' what I thought were moonb...

I'm a dreamer by nature And I've always been tryin' To dream myself out of this world that I'm in In my dreams I escape all the troubles around And it hasn't co...

Written by - Terry Cashman, Gene Pistilli & Tommy West The last face that I looked on Can't recall too much about The image of it left me Each time the lights w...

Written by - Jim Croce How come we can't talk the way we used to do Nothin' seems to be the same Have we forgotten all the things we knew Was it you or I who ch...

How come we can't talk the way we used to do Nothing seems to be the same Have we forgotten all the things we knew Was it you or I who changed We got to find th...

Once we were lovers But somehow things have changed Now we're just lonely people Trying to forget each other's names Now we're just lonely people Trying to forg...

This land is your land This land is my land From California to the New York Island From the redwood forest To the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you ...

Well, it started out just like a dream And like a dream I knew that what we had Would have to end I was lookin' for a lifetime lover And you were lookin' for a ...

If i could save time in a bottle the first thing that i'd like to do is to save everyday till eternity passes away just to spend them with you if i could make ...

Well, I'm sorry for the things that I told you Words only go so far And if I had my way I would reach into heaven And I'd pull down a star for a present And I'...

Well, I'm sorry for the things that I told you But words only go so far And if I had my way I would reach into heaven And I'd pull down a star for a present And...

Written by - Jim Croce Well if you're lookin' for a good time Look hard as you want but you ain't gonna find The kinda good time you will Come ev'ry Friday 'n' ...

Written by - Jim Croce Well if you're lookin' for a good time Look hard as you want but you ain't gonna find The kinda good time you will Come ev'ry Friday 'n' ...

Written by - Jim & Ingrid Croce I'd like to think about her And the way she used to love me But I just can't live without her 'Cause her arms are not around me ...

Mm mMm m Walkin back to Georgia and I hope she takes me back Nothin in my pockets, all I own is on my back She's the girl who said she loved me on that hot dust...

How come we can't talk the way we used to do Nothing seems to be the same Have we forgotten all the things we knew Was it you or I who changed We got to find th...

Written by - Jim Croce & Ingrid Croce There's ice and snow on the northern roads And the Jersey Pike is closed Have to go and do some drivin' tonight They say I...

Written by - Jim & Ingrid Croce Tell me, what do people do When there ain't nothin' to do? When there's nobody else around to do Nothin' with or to Have you eve...

Oh my room will always have some people You see Johnny Carson is a friend of mine And my music box will always play me something If something's what I need to e...

Which way are you going, which side will you be on Will you stand and watch while, all the seeds of hate are sown Will you stand with those who say, let his wil...

Which way are you going? Which side will you be on? Will you stand and watch While all the seeds of hate are sown Will you stand with those who say "Let his wil...

Well, I had just got out from the county prison Doin' ninety days for non-support Tried to find me an executive position But no matter how smooth I talked They ...

Well I had just got out from the county prison Doin' 90 days for non-support Tried to find me an executive position But no matter how smooth I talked They woul...

Well, I just got out of the county prison doin' 90 days for nonsupport Tried to find me an executice position but no matter how smooth I talk They wouldn't list...

Uptown got it's hustlers The bowery got it's bums 42nd Street got Big Jim Walker He's a pool-shootin' son of a gun Yeah, he big and dumb as a man can come But h...

Uptown got it's hustlers Bowery got it's bums 42nd Street got Big Jim Walker He's a pool-shootin' son of a gun Yea, he big and dumb as a man can come But he str...