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  • I wanna go where no one goes

    Out to the west with the burning sand

    I wanna see those rocks rise high and

    Bleach my soul in a burning land

    I paid for fare, I'll go today

    Make my way to the Jasper Hills

    Where the desert wind and the tumbleweeds blow

    I'll find the fountain and drink my fill

    All God's children will gather there

    To praise the dust and breathe the sand

    Laying down the loads they bear

    All God's children will gather there

    Some will walk with the light of day

    You might never find the way

    Some will crawl by the light of the moon

    You might learn too much too soon

    All God's children will gather there

    To praise the dust and breathe the sand

    Laying down the loads they bear

    All God's children will gather there

    In a distant scene like a fever dream

    A gypsy city stands alone

    Nail your prayer to a wooden beam

    Strike a match and watch it glow

    All God's children will gather there

    To praise the dust and breathe the sand

    Laying down the loads they bear

    All God's children will gather there

    All God's children will gather there

    To praise the dust and breathe the sand

    Laying down the loads they bear

    All God's children will gather there

  • Hair’s all hangin past my neck 

    All four tires lost their tread

    Sleepin’ in a motel bed

    I wish it was my own

    Truck stop pills and cigarettes 

    The only meal that I could get

    Snow it ain’t done falling yet 

    And I’m so far from home

    Hill Country Highway runs such a long way

    One year and one day since I’ve been gone

    Texas’ got them longhorns

    Kansas grows that sweet corn

    Arkansas is just thorns and Coppers on the roadside

    Headin' down the mountain

    I feel my wheels a’slidin’

    Hope this ain’t my last ride

    I guess we’ll know directly 

    Open fields of mule deer

    Wonder why we’re all here

    Try to keep my mind clear and stay between the ditches

    Hill Country Highway runs such a long way

    One year and one day since I’ve been gone

    Hill Country Highway runs such a long way

    One year and one day since I’ve been gone

    Since I’ve been gone

  • Always thought that I knew what I needed

    If I knew anything at all 

    I was chasin’ after a shadow over the wall

    But my pride was soon defeated 

    When I met you out of the blue 

    Now the road keeps right on turnin’ 

    And I keep on followin’ you 

    Been a-way up on the mountain

    Been waitin’ for the day 

    I could hardly recognize you through the gray 

    But you don’t leave me doubtin’ 

    Or wonderin’ what to do 

    so if you’ll let me darlin’ 

    I’ll keep on followin’ you

    Followin’ you

    Followin’ You

    Now there ain’t too much for certain 

    And the night keeps rollin’ on 

    You’ve got these wheels pointed toward the dawn 

    Oh I know that I’ll be hurtin’

    If this ever all falls through 

    But the road keeps right on turnin’

    And I keep on followin’ you

    Followin’ you

    Followin’ You

  • The Yanks took our corn, the Rebs took our cotton

    The bank took our land and the tax got our home

    We yoked up our oxen and loaded the wagons

    With a drove of poor yearlings we started to roam

    Get along little yearlings we're going to Texas

    Don't stray far away or you can't hear the bells

    Get along little yearlings we're going to Texas

    Stay close to the wagons and all will be well

    Twas in Alabama we lost our first wagon

    We thanked the good Lord we lost only one

    In old Mississippi we fought the Jayhawkers

    And in Louisiana we buried a son

    Get along little yearlings we're a-going to Texas

    Don't stray far away or you can't hear the bell

    Get along, little yearlings, we're going to Texas

    Don't stray from the wagons and all will be well

    There bears in these woods there wolves there's injuns

    There's quicksandy holes there mountains of stone

    Last night a poor yearling strayed too far from camp

    And this morning we found a bundle of bones

    Hooray hoorah give a big hallelujah

    Our journey is ending, we're very near there

    Give thanks to the ox and give praise to Jehovah

    Tonight we're resting beneath the lone star

    Get along little yearlings, we're going to Texas

    Don't stray far away or you can't hear the bells

    Get along little yearlings, we're going to Texas

    Stay close to the wagons and all will be well

  • Don't hold me so close and start me to hurting

    Cause I'm falling in love with you, it's certain

    Don't you say that you love me till you've made up your mind

    For it's hard to be sure in such a short time

    In such a short time you've taught me to love you

    I'm laying my feelings for you on the line

    If you think you love me, search deep in your mind

    The first time I saw you I just couldn't speak

    You left me so breathless and my knees were so weak

    I knew what was happening Lord I knew all the time

    But it's hard to be sure in such a short time

    Don't hold me so close and start me to hurting

    Cause I'm falling in love with you it's certain

    Don't you say that you love me till you've made up your mind

    For it's hard to be sure in such a short time

    In such a short time, you've taught me to love you

    I'm laying my feelings for you on the line

    If you think you love me, search deep in your mind

    For it's hard to be sure in such a short time

  • You know there's pain in my heart cause I'm grieving

    For all the words you said when you said you were leaving

    Oh the sadness cause my heart still believes in

    Love that you gave up so easily

    We didn't have to fall apart

    Here we lie in pieces

    I should have known from the start

    I just couldn't see it

    Oh the sadness

    Cause my heart still believes in

    The love that you gave up so easily

    All the lies, yeah you tried deceiving

    But I already knew you'd given up on me

    Now I'm broken

    Cuz my heart still believes in the love that you gave up so easily

    We didn't have to fall apart

    Here we lie in pieces

    I should have known from the start I just couldn't see it

    Oh I'm broken cause my heart still believes in

    The love that you gave up so easily

    As for the anger, well I'm sorry for the fighting

    Staying out all night, I guess I'll have to take some blame

    Oh the sorrow cause my heart still believes in

    Love that I gave up so easily

    We didn't have to fall apart

    Here we lie in pieces

    I should have known from the start

    But I just couldn't see it

    Oh the sorrow

    Cause my heart still believes in

    Love that I gave up so easily

    Oh the sorrow, cause our hearts once believed in

    The love that we gave up so easily

  • Hold to the curb don't go too slow

    Keep your eye on the bend in the road

    Wind up at the bottom of the hill

    The Hounds are bawlin' loud and shrill

    Mind your speed, don't grind the gears

    Pull your hat down past your ears

    Don't wave when you pass by

    Though you have no reason why

    Seven days of sandy roads

    Seven nights the same old clothes

    Nowhere else I can stay

    Guess I'm bound to get away

    Listen here partner don't chase your tail

    You're out of your mind boy you're off the rails

    Go back Salisaw there's nothing here for you at all

    Beware the stormy shotgun rider

    Pain and death are sure to follow

    Seven days of sandy roads

    Seven nights the same old clothes

    Nowhere else I can stay

    Guess I'm bound to get away

    Well, turtle waitin in an old pothole

    Save your tire and free his soul

    Beware the stormy shotgun rider

    Pain and death are now behind you

  • I saw a red bird outside my window

    He was singing a lonely tune

    Calling back my old memories

    Red bird, do you have to go so soon?

    Redbird, keep singing

    Sing your song to me

    Redbird, don't leave me

    In this moment, you're all that I need

    Well I've tried, I've tried, I've tried

    I went out of my way to hide

    I was too afraid to think about you

    With you way out on the other side

    Redbird, keep singing

    Sing your sad melody

    Redbird, don't leave me

    In this moment, you're all that I need

    Redbird, don't leave me

  • A cold cup of coffee in my hand

    I can see a hundred miles from where I stand

    The honeysuckle flowers are in bloom

    But it just don't seem as sweet without you

    My lonesome song

    Is ringing through the valley down below

    And I'm thinking about the days of long ago

    The way I'm feeling

    Makes me want to find my way back home

    Now I'm out here on this mountain all alone

    A great blue sky is all I see above

    And blue is how I feel without your love

    The sun is shining brightly in my eyes

    But I see so many shadows since you said goodbye

    And my lonesome song

    Is ringing through the valley down below

    And I'm thinking about the days of long ago

    And the way I feeling

    Makes me want to find my way back home

    Now I out here on this mountain all alone

    Midnight comes and stars fill the sky

    And bitter tears will come and fill my eyes

    Thinking of how I didn't treat you right

    Singing to the dark and lonesome night

    My lonesome song

    Is ringing through the valley down below

    And I'm thinking about the days of long ago

    And the way I'm feeling

    Makes me want to find my way back home

    Now I'm out here on this mountain all alone

  • Jump through the window

    Jump through the window

    Youma jay

    Youma jai

    Youma wake up my people

    That's the thing you can't sit down in the night for

    Jumping through the window

    Nail hooks the trouser nail

    Trouser hooks the nail

    Jump through the window

    Jump through the window

    Youma jay

    Youma jai

    Youma wake up my people

    That's the thing you can't sit down in the night for

    Jumping through the window

    Nail hooks the trouser nail

    Trouser hooks the nail

    Nail hooks the trouser nail

    Trouser hooks the

    Nail hooks the trouser nail

    Trouser hooks the nail
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  • Leavin’ you tomorrow 

    Leavin’ you tomorrow babe

    Crossing that county bridge 

    Ain’t coming back again 

    Last chance to win

    Last chance to win

    I’ve gambled it all boys

    It’s my last chance to win

    The wood’s too wet for burnin’ 

    Wood’s too wet for burnin’ lord

    I lost my hat to the howling wind

    Ain’t comin’ back again 

    Last chance to win

    Last chance to win

    I’ve gambled it all boys

    It’s my last chance to win

    When I had a dollar 

    When I had a dollar lord 

    I wished I had a dollar more 

    Ain’t coming back again 

    I’m weary of the the waiting

    Weary of the waiting here

    Playing tunes to empty rooms 

    Ain’t comin’ back again 

    Last chance to win

    Last chance to win

    I’ve gambled it all boys

    It’s my last chance to win

  • For many years I loved her, I tried so hard I couldn’t do more

    So the reason that she’s going I guess I’ll never see

    There’s what I never offered, like money for things and diamonds and rings

    And though I never gave it, I almost bought it

    I almost told her so

    I almost told her so

    I almost told her

    We had so much in common, she loved my friends, never thought it would end

    Where I surely know I’m lonesome, like I guess I’ll always be

    Never thought she would do better than the love I brought even if it’s a thought

    The words remain unspoken, but I almost said it

    I almost told her so

    I almost told her so

    I almost told her

    If she knew for sure I loved her, would she be gone just traveling on

    To where I cannot see her, where I cannot tell her

    I almost told her so

    I almost told her so

    I almost told her

  • Old man always there by the window

    Tell me what you see passin’ by

    Cars on the road and the traffic’s rollin’

    Summer sun’s in my eyes


    How did the years add up to this livin’

    Even I can’t quite say

    There was a time I was waitin’ for somethin’

    Now it just looks that way


    Cracks in the sidewalk

    Nothin’ left to do

    Finds me ‘round nightfall 

    with the East Due West blues


    And I’ll spend my days just nickel and dimin’

    Leave this wide world alone

    Uphill one way is down another

    Who are you to throw a stone


    Cracks in the sidewalk

    Nothin’ left to do

    Finds me ‘round nightfall 

    with the East Due West blues


    Old man always there by the window

    Tell me what you see passin’ by

    Cars on the road and the traffic’s rollin’

    Summer sun’s in my eyes


    Cracks in the sidewalk

    Nothin’ left to do

    Finds me ‘round nightfall 

    with the East Due West blues


    Cracks in the sidewalk

    Nothin’ left to do

    Finds me ‘round nightfall 

    with the East Due West blues

  • Momma made papa be quiet as a mouse

    So papa climbed up on top of the house

    Made a lot of whoopie made a lot of noise 

    Stood up and cheered with the rest of the boys 


    Baby’s in the cradle 

    Brother’s gone to town 

    Sister’s in the parlor trying on a gown

    Mama’s in the kitchen messing all around

    Papa’s on the housetop won’t come down 


    The blues they come the blues they come

    Nobody know where the blues come from 

    The blues they go the blues they go 

    And everybody’s happy when the old blues go


    Baby’s in the cradle 

    Brother’s gone to town 

    Sister’s in the parlor trying on a gown

    Mama’s in the kitchen messing all around

    Papa’s on the housetop won’t come down 


    Papa saw a chicken out in the yard

    Picked up a rock and hit him hard

    Hit him hard killed him dead 

    Now the chicken’s in the gravy and the gravy’s on the bread 


    Baby’s in the cradle 

    Brother’s gone to town 

    Sister’s in the parlor trying on a gown

    Mama’s in the kitchen messing all around

    Papa’s on the housetop won’t come down 


    Hush little baby don’t you cry 

    Blues gonna leave you by and by

    Papa came in sure was coy 

    Put the baby in the cradle and the blues outdoor 


    Baby’s in the cradle 

    Brother’s gone to town 

    Sister’s in the parlor trying on a gown

    Mama’s in the kitchen messing all around

    Papa’s on the housetop won’t come down

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  • As I walked through the door and my eyes fit the darkness

    I saw him alone at the bar.

    I went over to him, said you may not know me

    But I sure do know who you are

    But don't worry my anger was spent long ago

    And only the memory remains

    But lord how I suffered, sometimes I still wonder

    And maybe now you can explain


    Tell me how could I love her so much

    And then lose her so quickly to someone like you

    How did you know how to hold her and please her

    How did you know what to do

    After all of the time I spent learning to love her

    Be what she needed me to

    How could I love her so much

    And then lose her so quickly to someone like you


    He said friend let me buy you a drink

    And I'll tell you a story that's sad but it's true

    How I loved her and held her till some riddler stole’d her

    From me like I stole’d her from you

    I guess no one can own her, a heart like a soldier 

    Of fortune and love like a man

    Still all I can think of is finding her new love

    And asking this question again


    Tell me how could I love her so much

    And then lose her so quickly to someone like you

    How did you know how to hold her and please her

    How did you know what to do

    After all of the time I spent learning to love her

    And be what she needed me to

    How could I love her so much

    And then lose her so quickly to someone like you


    Tell me how could I love her so much

    And then lose her so quickly to someone like you

    How did you know how to hold her and please her

    How did you know what to do

    After all of the time I spent learning to love her

    And be what she needed me to

    How could I love her so much

    And then lose her so quickly to someone like you


    Tell me how could I love her so much, and then lose her so quickly to someone like you

  • I know that you’ve got trouble by the truckload

    And you’re looking for a place to settle down

    You’d walk out of this valley

    If you knew how


    You believe that nothing short of dying

    Or maybe running for a hundred thousand miles

    Is gonna give you a way

    Out


    You can run for a while, on your own

    Until you find that you’ve been looking for the wrong thing all along

    And I’ll be waiting, watching the road

    When you come home, when you come home


    Somebody told me you were in Alaska

    Hanging out with the moose and the caribou

    You probably love Alaska

    If I know you


    And if you ever wonder what you’re doing

    Running around in the wilds of the north

    My door is always open

    If love is what you’re looking for


    You can run for a while, on your own

    Until you find that you’ve been looking for the wrong thing all along

    And I’ll be waiting, watching the road

    When you come home, when you come home, when you come home

  • Oh Starlet Iris black lily in the snow

    I’ll think of starlet iris most anywhere I go


    I left her of an evening and ended up downtown

    The whiskey overflowing I began to pour it down


    The sky is dark and the moon is bright 

    With the ground all covered with snow

    I’ll ramble ‘round this valley town with no place left to go


    The time had come for paying

    I could not foot the bill

    The sheriff was called and I was hauled 

    To the Cleburne County jail


    I wrote to her a letter 

    Said I’s so lonesome there 

    She wrote me back an answer 

    Said honey I don’t care 


    The sky is dark and the moon is bright 

    With the ground all covered with snow

    I’ll ramble ‘round this valley town with no place left to go


    At night I think about her 

    And it might be a sin

    I hope she’ll do what she used to

    When I see her again 


    Oh Starlet Iris 

    black lily in the snow

    I’ll think of Starlet Iris 

    most anywhere I go, anywhere I go


    The sky is dark and the moon is bright 

    With the ground all covered with snow

    I’ll ramble ‘round this valley town with no place left to go

  • I was stuck between the tracks when the storm blowed in

    Water rising from the bottoms of my shoes

    Baby’s on the edge of town, she’s all that really matters now

    I’m like the rain, she’s like a cloud; I only fall when she puts me down


    Long a sideways avenue, flowing near the river’s mouth

    There I held her hand and she held my hand back

    Til it wore thin the best of me, if I wanted two, she needed three

    Now she leaves her window free, hardly cares to disagree


    Magic City grey

    In the windy haze 

    Of night still shines


    Stoned on a memory, the sky’s rolling up ahead

    But I’m not too far gone to tell that I am lost

    Maybe I cannot repay the damages of yesterday

    All the words I chose to say, some that came out anyway


    Magic City grey

    In the windy haze

    Of night still shines


    So if you see me passing by, don’t worry about me I’ll be just fine

    I tried to change my baby’s mind

    That’s why I’m lonesome all the time

    Guess I’ll be lonesome all the time

  • Monday’s promises, Tuesday’s lies

    Saturday’s party is Sunday’s fight

    Something’s wrong with you and I

    Love gone wrong that used to be right


    And I can feel it slippin’ away

    Slowly slowly slippin’ away

    It’ll be gone in a few more days

    If we don’t stop this love of ours from slippin’ away


    Wednesday’s kisses, thursday’s frown

    We can’t live three days in a row

    When our world’s turned upside down

    Here we stand, watching it go


    And I can feel it slippin’ away

    Slowly slowly slippin’ away

    It’ll be gone in a few more days

    If we don’t stop this love of ours from slippin’ away


    Roses are red and violets are blue

    Sugar is sweet some of the time

    This puzzle’s missing a piece or two

    Got the grapes but never the wine


    And I can feel it slippin’ away

    Slowly slowly slippin’ away

    It’ll be gone in a few more days

    If we don’t stop this love of ours from slippin’ away


    And I can feel it slippin’ away

    Slowly slowly slippin’ away

    It’ll be gone in a few more days

    If we don’t stop this love of ours from slippin’ away

  • What your mammy told you six months ago

    Keep on your coat and hat, be ready to go

    Railroadin’ and gamblin, pickin up chips for mammy, lord lord lord


    Take your feet out the sand, stick ‘em in the mud 

    Take your feet out the sand, stick ‘em in the mud  

    Take your feet out the sand, stick ‘em in the mud 

    Take your feet out the sand, stick ‘em in the mud 


    I’ve been in that statehouse, been in that hall 

    Been in that courthouse, worst place of all

    Railroadin’ and gamblin, pickin up chips for mammy, lord lord lord


    Said that preacher, God now ain’t that a sin 

    Johnny get your whiskers cut, here comes the wind 

    Lord that preacher, God now ain’t that a sin

    Johnny get your whiskers cut, here comes the wind 


    Cars on the roadside, cars on the track 

    Spent all my money, no way to get back

    Railroadin’ and gamblin, pickin up chips for mammy, lord lord lord


    Take your feet out the sand, stick ‘em in the mud 

    Take your feet out the sand, stick ‘em in the mud  

    Take your feet out the sand, stick ‘em in the mud 

    Take your feet out the sand, stick ‘em in the mud 


    Oh, railroadin’ and gamblin, pickin up chips for mammy, lord lord lord