No more dirty dishes in the sink when I come homeI don't have to worry if I'll spend the night aloneI can go to sleep and leave my record player onYou're not there to hear me if I cryThere's no way to say how much...

She packed her bags and moved to Florida I've been blue since she's been goneAnd this bowling green motel room Is now my old Kentucky homeAll she left me was some whiskey And these funny cigarettes she rolledIt must...

Just divorced was written On the window of the carIt looked like a tombstone Parked beside the local barOnce he'd drove it crazy Now he's driven it too farJust divorced was written On the window of the carSomeone...

There's a thief in my bedroom But I'm not afraidThieves all get caught by Mistakes that they've madeThis one has torn my emotions apart Somebody's stealing my heartWell somebody's kisses are wet on my lip Somebody's...

Well I hope the years that wrinkled up our facesHave enjoyed us half as much as we did thenAnd if I should die before you jump your tracesWould you do one more favor for a friendRemember all my songs and all their...

Maria has a music box she winds up most every dayOnce a week is all it takes to make the music playMelody is just some childhood lullabye her mother used to sing to herAnd the road down to the city goes right by...

I'd walk across Kansas in a New York minute Climb the Colorado mountains in the fallCrawl through Arizona like a flatland lizard If I thought it'd do me any good at allI could swim Lake Erie with my hands tied behind...

There's a stack of daily papers on her doorstepAnd the grass has grown up more than she'd allowYes it looks to me to be a little more than a vacationNever knew that I'd miss her until nowFrom both ends the candle...

Seems like it's rainin' harder todayThe rain must of known I was comin' this wayIt ain't easy living on the runIf I pick up my step and pull my belt down tightI can make it to the border by saturday nightAnd it's...

I can't see nothing but spotlights spotlights see nothing but meAll of my music is lonely yeah all of my heartaches were freeDon't waste your time or your flash bulbs too many heroes are deadYou like to live in the...

Why did you come here what do you needDon't look at me like you want me to pleadMy friends are dyin' to make rock and roll standWhile we've been livin' in a country rock bandWe've gotta slow down come down we got to...

Betty drove the semi she pulled up to the pumpI thought I wanted a Coca-Cola and I started out on the jumpShe said hold it Dave come quick there's something you gotta seeThat man had got a dancing bear tied up to that...

I never meant to leave her my intentions were to stayIt wasn't nothing she had done or nothing she could sayTo change this old familiar feeling that makes chills run through my skinLess she read my mind and saw the...

I've seen the old man sittin' 'round The courthouse square back home in townTalking bout the big war back in 1943Sayin' how much good it's done Medals gleamin' in the sunCussin' at my long hair And my talk of bein'...

My hands are shaking as I'm sadly learning The truth behind your innocent disguiseYou never thought I knew that you had been untrueBut I once saw the devil somewhere in your eyesAnd now you got the nerve To ask me...

I met her in Atlanta she was a dancing in a cafeWith a price tag on her body and a tombstone in her eyeYou could tell she was not happy by the way she kept on staringPast the other side of nowhere at a man she'd like...

River you heard my first cry as a baby And like my mom you sang me lullabiesYou knew my fishing pole When I was eight years old And river you never told me liesRiver I can see you from my window Your muddy water makes...

If you're feeling lonely And think you're the only one Left that's alone in a barIf you need somebody With shoulders to cry on Well, baby, I'm not very farJust look for my name on a jukebox When you're tired of being...

I can feel your arms around me like it was yesterdayI can feel your breathing next to me and hear your laughter***You tried to tell me what was right and I told you what was realAll I ever live for now is this piece...

Would you lay with me in a field of stoneIf my needs were strong would you lay with meShould my lips grow dry would you wet them dearIn the midnight hour if my lips were dryWould you go away to another landWalk a...

I bought this rhinestone suit in CaliforniaThese boots came all the way from MexicoThis Cadillac ain't nothin' son you ought to see the GreyhoundI bought to take my band from show to showSeen my face a thousand times...

Ain't no sense in crying Lord I'd rather see you smileCome down from the city life and stay with me awhileThere's so much that nature wants to share with you and mePut your hand in mine and let this old world set us...

Will you hurt me more than the pain of sharing herWith other lovers believers or deceiversWell the answer can't be found when I'm aloneSo Rachel take me home and make me feel like a manI know I swore that I'd be...

Every night another woman every day a different townIf I'm not accused of speeding I'm accused of coming downWith a legal dose of something that you heard was going roundAnd you wondered why I lost my sense of...

Well I've hiked through the sage brush I ran up some railI slept on the bench in a few county jailsAnd they laugh as they knocked all the wind from my sailWhen I was a young Dallas CowboyI've tried hard to tackle the...

I painted quite a picture for the girls in her hometownAnd she was no exception to the ruleSinging all them songs about the places that I've beenMade a body feel just like a foolShe was like the paper bag that once...

He came from Kentucky least ways that's what I've been toldMe and fate had left that state before his corpse got coldHe'd been killed for gold hhen California could be soldTo any fool who had been told bbout the...

The key turns in the door the boards squeak on the floorAnd guilty footsteps linger on the hallI'd fight but I'm too weak pretending I'm asleepWhile hearing guilty footsteps in the hallGuilty footsteps always wake me...

You put a whole lot of lonesome in me can't you seeYou gave me a forest then burnt down the treesYou preached me a serman until I believedThen you put a whole lot of lonesome in meI just wanted someone to take me you...

I got drunk in Austin Texas I missed my plane in North CarolinaSpent all of my money on a long distance callHuntsville Prison walls so high I'm so lonesome I could dieYou could make a grown man cry if you wanted toSay...

And I'd like to take you take you awayAnd if you'd come with me we'd leave here todayThere's nothing to hold you as strong as this feelingAnd I've got to have you as soon as I canAnd I know you're worried about where...

On Sunday after church there'd always be a picnicThere'd be kinfolks callin' until dawnMe I'd play the guitar and my Uncle Merle would singAnd grandpa he'd play that fiddle all night longNow the women folk they would...

Well it's 40 below and I don't give a ***, Got a heater in my truck and I'm off to the rodeoIt's an alla man left and alla man rightCome on you ***in' dummy get your right step rightGet off stage you god damn goof...

Hey gypsy, hey gypsy come on home Even if it's just to paint your wagonOld hobo how long can this go on She's mending socks and sittin' home a naggin'Hey outlaw let's spend some time together she said outlawIt does...

He carries his ID's and his books bound in leatherAnd a change of clothing and a picture of Anna when she was youngerLeast he forget her and in among his papers is a list of all the people that he knewAnd many sent...