Photographs and memoriesChristmas cards you sent to meAll that I have are theseTo remember youMemories that come at nightTake me to another timeBack to a happier dayWhen I called you mineBut we sure had a good...

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 she said she knew well and sometimes hated.Isn't that the...

I'd like to think about herAnd the way she used to love meBut I just can't live without her'Cause her arms are not around meAnd the season's getting laterAnd my body's getting colderAnd the vespers ring and I'm all...

My dusty feet have kicked the stonesBetween a thousand railroad tiesFrom Boston down to New OrleansI left the girls a cryin'But I've still got some ramblin' in meGot some miles left on my shoesAnd before I take a job...

Spin, spin, spinSpin around, spin aroundThe harlequin dances in a costume of greenSpin aroundBut under his makeup his age can't be seenSpin aroundBut where are you spinnin'When will you knowThat life is for livin'That...

Well, things were spinnin' ‘round meAnd all my thoughts were cloudyAnd I had begun to doubt all the things that were meBeen in so many placesYou know I've run so many racesAnd looked into the empty faces of the...

Mmm...MmmÂ… Walkin' back to Georgia And I hope she will take me back.Nothin' in my pockets, And all I own is on my back.But she's the girl who said she loved me On that hot dusty Macon road, And if she's still around,...

I'm a dreamer by natureAnd I've always been tryin'To dream myself out of this world that I'm inIn my dreams I escape all the troubles aroundAnd it hasn't cost a pennyFor the pleasures I've foundChorus:What is the...

Oh rapid Roy that stock car boyHe too much too believeYou know he always got an extra pack of cigarettesRolled up in his t-shirt sleeveHe got a tattoo on his arm that say babyHe got another one that just say heyBut...

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 talkedThey wouldn't listen to the fact that I was a geniusThe man...

Uptown's got its hustlersThe Bowry's got its bumsForty-second street's got Big Jim WalkerHe's a pool-shootin' son of a gunWell he's big and dumb as a man can comeBut he's stronger than a country hossAnd when the bad...

Chorus:Big wheel, don't you rollBig diesel, don't you whineThrough the night as I'm runnin' down the roadBig semi, don't you stop, 'cause if you do I'm notGonna make it back to Baltimore with my loadWell, the...

Lazy days in mid-JulyCountry Sunday mornin'sDusty haze on summer highwaysSweet magnolia callin'Chorus: But now and then I find myselfThinkin' of the daysThat (when) we were walking inThe Alabama rainDrive-in movies,...

I've been up and down and 'round and 'round and back again,Been so many places I can't remember where or when.And my only boss was the clock on the wallAnd my only friend never really was a friend at all.I've traded...

You may talk of gin and beerWhen you're stationed way out hereAn' you're sent to penny fights an' Aldershot itBut when it comes to slaughterYou will do your work for waterAn' you'll lick the boots of 'im that's got...

Sun come up in the morningBlues round my headI've got a troubled mind and plenty of time to roamAs I walk this crooked highwayNever knowin' where to goYou know the only life I know is bein' on the roadI've got holes...

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Well I got my mail late last nightA letter from a girl who found the time to writeTo her lonesome boy somewhere in the nightShe sent me a railroad ticket tooTo take me to her loving armsAnd the big steel railGonna...

Once we were loversBut somehow things have changedNow we're just lonely peopleTrying to forget each other's namesNow we're just lonely peopleTrying to forget each other's namesChorus:What came between us? Maybe we...

We been runnin' away fromSomethin' we both knowWe've long run out of things to sayAnd I think I better goSo don't be getting' excitedWhen you hear that slammin' door'Cause there'll be one less set of footstepsOn your...

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***against the wall,If ya never been had on a Saturday night, ya never...

The railroads and the riverboatsThat bred the mighty menThat we read about and we dream aboutThe men who built this landAnd the farmers and the lumbermenAnd the men who work the millsAnd the poor hard workin'...

It's been too many years inside this prisonToo many years just for one little fightHe got what was comin'And I think I served enough timeI'm goin' home tonightThat stone looks mighty coldAnd the guard that walks that...

Which way are you goin'Which side will you be onWill you stand and watch while all the seeds of hate are sownWill you stand with those who say that His will be doneOne hand on the Bible, one hand on the gunOne hand on...

When I was a boy in the days of the trainI'd sit by the tracks on a long summer dayAnd I'd wave at the brakesmanAnd he'd wave back at meWhile the thunderclouds rolledOut of East TennesseeBut the dreams of a boy...

Nobody loves a fat girlBut oh how a fat girl can loveNobody seems to want meI'm just a truck upon the highway of loveI'm all alone inside of my formWhen ev'ry ounce of me is dyin' to keep somebody warmNobody loves a...

Snowy nights and Christmas lightsIcy window panesMake me wish that we could beTogether againAnd the windy winter avenuesJust don't seem the sameAnd the Christmas carols sound like bluesBut the choir is not to...

I don't gamble, I don't fightI don't be hangin' in the bars at nightYeah I used to be a fighter butNow I am a wiser manI don't drink much, I don't smokeI don't be hardly mess around with no dopeYeah I used to be a...

Don't you know I had a dream last nightThat you were here with meLyin' by my side so soft and warmAnd we talked a whileAnd shared a smileAnd then we shared the dawnBut when I woke upOh my dream it was goneDon't you...

Well, she was standing by my dressing room after the showAsking for my autograph and asked if she could goBack to my motel room. But the rest is just a tragic taleBecause five short minutes of lovin'Done brought me...

Sometimes I think about our good old high school daysYou would always kid about my adolescent waysOh, Mary, Mary, good to see you tooHaven't seen to many of the old crewThe time just flew, and how are you? Strange we...

Yeah, I've had my share of broken dreamsAnd more than a couple of fallsAnd in chasin' what I thought were moonbeamsI have run into a couple of wallsBut in looking back at the places I've beenThe changes that I've left...

He struggled so hard to be kingWorking night and dayDreaming of only one thingNever a holidaySomewhere along the wayHe forgot she was only a girlNow his kingdom has fallenAnd it's really quite a tragic taleCause he...

With just a sleeping bag and an old guitarI left the band in New OrleansI did some time with the bottle, some with the river queensI never thought I would meet a girlWho could turn my head aroundTill I met that...

Some people say I'm a no 'countOthers say I'm no goodBut I'm just a nat'ral born travellin' manDoin' what I think should, oh yeahDoin' what I think shouldChorus:When I was a little baby my mama said, hey sonTravel...

Well out of Southern Illinois come a down home country boyHe gonna make it in the city playin' guitar in the studioWell he hadn't been there an hour, when he met a Broadway flowerYou know she took him for his money...