Friends in Low Places
- Blame it all on my roots
- I showed up in boots
- And ruined your black tie affair
- The last one to know
- The last one to show
- I was the last one
- You thought you'd see there
- And I saw the surprise
- And the fear in his eyes
- When I took his glass of champagne
- And I toasted you
- Said, honey, we may be through
- But you'll never hear me complain
- (chorus)
- 'Cause I've got friends in low places
- Where the whiskey drowns
- And the beer chases my blues away
- And I'll be okay
- I'm not big on social graces
- Think I'll slip on down to the oasis
- Oh, I've got friends in low places.
- Well, I guess I was wrong
- I just don't belong
- But then, I've been there before
- Everything's all right
- I'll just say goodnight
- And I'll show myself to the door
- Hey, I didn't mean
- To cause a big scene
- Just give me an hour and then
- Well, I'll be as high
- As that ivory tower
- That you're livin' in
- *chorus*
Callin' Baton Rouge
- I spent last night in the arms
- Of a girl in Louisiana
- And though I'm out on the highway
- My thoughts are still with her
- Such a strange combination of a woman and a child
- Such a strange situation stoppin' every hundred miles
- Callin' Baton Rouge
- A replay of last night's events
- Roll through my mind
- Except a scene or two
- Erased by sweet red wine
- And I see a truck stop sign ahead
- So I change lanes
- I need a cup of coffee
- And a couple dollars change
- Callin' Baton Rouge
- (chorus)
- Operator won't you put me on through
- I gotta' send my love down to Baton Rouge
- Hurry up won't you put her on the line
- I gotta' talk to the girl just one more time.
- Hello Samantha dear, I hope you're feelin' fine
- And it won't be long until I'm with you all the time
- But until then I'll spend my money up right down to my last dime
- Callin' Baton Rouge.
- *chorus*
- Callin' Baton Rouge
- Sweet Baton Rouge, my Baton Rouge
Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)
- This ol' highway's getting longer
- Seems there ain't no end in sight
- To sleep would be best, but I just can't afford to rest
- I've got to ride in Denver tomorrow night
- I called the house but no one answered
- For the last two weeks no one's been home
- I guess she's through with me, to tell the truth I just can't see
- What's kept the woman holding on this long
- (chorus)
- And the white line's getting longer and the saddle's getting cold
- I'm much too young to feel this damn old
- All my cards are on the table with no ace left in the hole
- I'm much too young to feel this damn old
- The competition's getting younger
- Tougher broncs, you know I can't recall
- The worn out tape of Chris LeDoux, lonely women and bad booze
- Seem to be the only friends I've left at all
- *chorus*
- Lord, I'm much too young to feel this damn old.
American Honky-Tonk Bar Association
- If your paycheck depends on the weather and the clock
- If your conversation calls for
- A little more than a coffee pot
- If you need to pour your heart out
- And try to rectify some situation
- That you're facing
- Contact your American Honky-Tonk Bar Association.
- When Uncle Sam dips in your pocket
- For most things you don't mind
- But when your dollar goes to all of those
- Standing in a welfare line
- Well rejoice you have a voice
- If you're concerned about the destination
- Of this great nation
- It's called the American Honky-Tonk Bar Association.
- It represents the hardhat
- Gunrack, achin'-back
- Over taxed, flag-wavin', fun-lovin' crowd
- They're heart is in the music
- And they love to play it loud
- There's no forms or applications
- There's no red tape administrations
- It's the American Honky-Tonk Bar Association.
- We're all one big family
- Throughout the cities and the towns
- We don't reach for handouts
- we reach for those who are down
- And every local chapter has a seven day a week
- Available consultation
- For your frustration
- It's called the American Honky-Tonk Bar Association.
- It represents the mud flaps
- Six pack, bare crack
- Over-taxed, flag-wavin', fun-lovin' crowd
- They're heart is in the music
- And they love to play it loud
- There's no forms or applications
- There's no red tape administrations
- It's the American Honky-Tonk Bar Association.
If Tomorrow Never Comes
- Sometimes late at night
- I lie awake and watch her sleeping
- She's lost in peaceful dreams
- So I turn out the lights and lay there in the dark
- And the thought crosses my mind
- If I never wake up in the morning
- Would she ever doubt the way I feel
- About her in my heart
- (chorus)
- If tomorrow never comes
- Will she know how much I loved her
- Did I try in every way to show her every day
- That she's my only one
- And if my time on earth were through
- And she must face the world without me
- Is the love I gave her in the past
- Gonna be enough to last
- If tomorrow never comes
- 'Cause I've lost loved ones in my life
- Who never knew how much I loved them
- Now I live with the regret
- That my true feelings for them never were revealed
- So I made a promise to myself
- To say each day how much she means to me
- And avoid that circumstance
- Where there's no second chance to tell her how I feel
- *chorus*
- So tell that someone that you love
- Just what you're thinking of
- If tomorrow never comes
Unanswered Prayers
- Just the other night a hometown football game
- My wife and I ran into my old high school flame
- And as I introduced them the past came back to me
- And I couldn't help but think of the way things used to be.
- She was the one that I'd wanted for all times
- And each night I'd spend prayin' that God would make her mine
- And if he'd only grant me this wish I wished back then
- I'd never ask for anything again.
- (chorus)
- Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers
- Remember when you're talkin' to the man upstairs
- That just because he doesn't answer doesn't mean he don't care
- Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
- She wasn't quite the angel that I remembered in my dreams
- And I could tell that time had changed me
- Inn her eyes too it seemed
- We tried to talk about the old days
- There wasn't much we could recall
- I guess the Lord knows what he's doin' after all.
- And as she walked away and I looked at my wife
- And then and there I thankedd the good Lord
- For the gifts in my life.
- *chorus*
- Some of God's greatest gifts are all too often unanswered...
- Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers
Standing Outside the Fire
- We call them cool
- Those hearts that have no scars to show
- The ones that never do let go
- And risk the tables being turned.
- We call them fools
- Who have to dance within the flame
- Who chance the sorrow and the shame
- That always comes with getting burned.
- But you've got to be tough when consumed by desire
- 'Cause it's not enough just to stand outside the fire.
- We call them strong
- Those who can face this world alone
- Who seem to get by on their own
- Those who will never take the fall.
- We call them weak
- Who are unable to resist
- The slightest chance love might exist
- And for that forsake it all.
- They're so hell-bent on giving, walking a wire
- Convinced it's not living if you stand outside the fire.
- (chorus)
- Standing outside the fire
- Standing outside the fire
- Life is not tried, it is merely survived
- If you're standing outside the fire.
- There's this love that is burning
- Deep in my soul
- Constantly yearning to get out of control
- Wanting to fly higher and higher
- I can't abide
- Standing outside the fire.
- *chorus*
- Standing outside the fire
- Standing outside the fire
- Life is not tried, it is merely survived
- If you're standing outside the fire.
Rodeo
- His eyes are cold and restless
- His wounds have almost healed
- And she'd give half of Texas
- Just to change the way he feels
- She knows his love's in Tulsa
- And she knows he's gonna go
- Well, it ain't no woman, flesh and blood
- It's that damned old rodeo.
- (chorus)
- Well, it's bulls and blood
- It's dust and mud
- It's the roar of a Sunday crowd
- It's the white in his knuckles
- The gold in the buckle
- He'll win the next go 'round
- It's boots and chaps
- It's cowboy hats
- It's spurs and latigo
- It's the ropes and the reins
- And the joy and the pain
- And they call the thing rodeo.
- She does her best to hold him
- When his love comes to call
- But his need for it controls a man
- And her back's against the wall
- And it's ";So long girl, I'll see you.";
- When it's time for him to go
- You know the woman wants her cowboy
- Like he wants his rodeo
- *chorus*
- It'll drive a cowboy crazy
- It'll drive the man insane
- And he'll sell off everything he owns
- Just to pay to play her game
- And a broken home and some broken bones
- Is all he'll have to show
- For all the years that he spent chasin'
- This dream they call rodeo.
- *chorus*
- Well, it's bulls and blood
- It's dust and mud
- It's the roar of a Sunday crowd
- It's the white in his knuckles
- The gold in the buckle
- He'll win the next go 'round
- It's boots and chaps
- It's cowboy hats
- It's spurs and latigo
- It's the ropes and the reins
- And the joy and the pain
- And they call the thing rodeo.
- It's the broncs and the blood
- It's the steers and the mud
- And they call the thing rodeo
What She's Doing Now
- Last time I saw her it was turnin' colder
- But that was years ago
- Last I heard she had moved to Boulder
- But where she's now, I don't know
- But there's somethin' 'bout this time of year
- That spins my head around
- Takes me back, makes me wonder
- What she's doin' now.
- (chorus)
- 'Cause what she's doin' now is tearin' me apart
- Fillin' up my mind and emptying my heart
- I can hear her call each time the cold wind blows
- And I wonder if she knows what she's doin' now.
- Just for laughs, I dialed her old number
- But no one knew her name
- Hung up the phone, sat there and wondered
- If she'd ever done the same
- I took a walk in the evenin' wind
- To clear my head somehow
- But tonight I lie here thinkin'
- What's she doin' now?
- *chorus*
We Shall Be Free
- This aint comin from no prophet
- Just an ordinary man
- When I close my eyes I see
- The way this world shall be
- When we all walk hand in hand
- When the last child cries for a crust of bread
- When the last man dies for just words that he said
- When there's shelter over the poorest head
- We shall be free
- When the last thing we notice is the color of skin
- And the first thing we look for is the beauty within
- When the skies and the oceans are clean again
- Then we shall be free
- We shall be free
- We shall be free
- Stand straight, walk proud
- 'Cause we shall be free
- When we're free to love anyone we choose
- When this worlds big enough for all different views
- When we all can worship from our own kind of pew
- Then we shall be free
- We shall be free
- We shall be free
- Have a little faith
- Hold out
- 'Cause we shall be free
- And when money talks for the very last time
- And nobody walks a step behind
- When there's only one race and thats mankind
- Then we shall be free
- We shall be free
- We shall be free
- Stand straigt,
- walk proud,
- have a little faith,
- hold out
- We shall be free
- We Shall be free
- We shall be free
- Stand straight,
- have a little faith
- We shall be free
- We shall be free
- We shall be free
Papa Loved Mama
- Papa drove a truck nearly all his life
- You know it drove mama crazy being a trucker's wife
- The part she couldn't handle was the being alone
- I guess she needed more to hold than just a telephone
- Papa called Mama each and every night
- Just to ask her how she was and if us kids were alright
- Mama would wait for that call to come in
- When Daddy'd hang up she was gone again.
- (chorus)
- Mama was a looker
- Lord, how she shined
- Papa was a good'n
- But the jealous kind
- Papa loved Mama
- Mama loved men
- Mama's in the graveyard
- Papa's in the pen.
- Well, it was bound to happen and one night it did
- Papa came home and it was just us kids
- He had a dozen roses and a bottle of wine
- If he was lookin' to surprise us, he was doin' fine
- I heard him cry for Mama up and own the hall
- Then I h heard a bottle break against the bedroom wall
- That old diesel engine made an eerie sound
- When Papa fired it up and headed into town.
- Well, the picture in the paper showed the scene real well
- Papa's rig was buried in the local motel
- The desk clerk said he saw it all real clear
- He never hit the brakes and he was shifting gears.
- *chorus*
Shameless
- Well I'm shamemeless when it comes to loving you
- I'll do anything you want me to
- I'll do anything at all.
- And I'm standing here for all the world to see
- Oh baby, that's what's left of me
- Don't have very far to fall
- You know now I'm not a man who's ever been
- Insecure about the world I've been living in
- I don't break easy, I have my pride
- But if you need to be satisfied
- I'm shameless, oh honey, I don't have a prayer
- Every time I see you standin' there
- I go down upon my knees.
- And I'm changing, swore I'd never compromise
- Oh, but you convinced me otherwise
- I'll do anything you please.
- You see in all my life I've never found
- What I couldn't resist, what I couldn't turn down
- I could walk away from anyone I ever knew
- But I can't walk away from you.
- I have never let anything have this much control over me
- I work too hard to call my life my own
- I have never let anything have this much control over me
- I work too hard to call my life my own
- And I've made myself a world and it's worked so perfectly
- But it's your world now, I can't refuse
- I've never had so much to lose
- Oh, I'm shameless.
- You know it should be easy for a man who's strong
- To say he's sorry or admit when he's wrong
- I've never lost anything I've ever missed
- But I've never been in love like this.
- It's out of my hands.
- I'm shameless, I don't have the power now
- I don't want it anyhow
- So I got to let it go.
- Oh, I'm shameless, shameless as a man can be
- You make a total fool of me
- I just wanted to you to know.
- Oh, I'm shameless, I just wanted you to know
- Oh, I'm shameless, Oh, I'm down on my knees
- shameless
Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House
- Yes, she's my lady luck
- Hey, I'm her wild card man
- Together we're buildin' up a real hot hand
- We live out in the country
- Hey, she's my little queen of the South
- Yea, we're two of a kind
- Workin' on a full house.
- She wakes me every mornin'
- With a smile and a kiss
- Her strong country lovin' is hard to resist
- She's my easy lovin' woman
- I'm her hard-workin' man, no doubt
- Yea, we're two of a kind
- Workin' on a full house .
- Yea, a pickup truck is her limousine
- And her favorite dress is her faded blue jeans
- She loves me tender when the goin' gets tough
- Somtimes we fight just so we can make up.
- Lord I need that little woman
- Like the crops need the rain
- She's my honeycomb and I'm her sugar cane
- We really fit together
- If you know what I'm talkin' about
- Yea, we're two of a kind
- Workin' on a full house.
- This time I found a keeper, I made up my mind
- Lord the perfect combination is her heart and mine
- The sky's the limit, no hill is too steep
- We're playin' for fun, but we're playin' for keeps.
- So draw the curtain, honey
- Turn the lights down low
- We'll find some country music on the radio
- I'm yours and you're mine
- Hey, that's what it's all about
- Yea, we're two of a kind
- Workin' on a full house.
- Lordy, mama, we'll be two of a kind
- Workin' on a full house.
That Summer
- I went to work for her that summer
- A teenage kid so far from home
- She was a lonely widow woman
- Hell-bent to make it on her own
- We were a thousand miles from nowhere
- Wheat fields as far as I could see
- Both needing something from each other
- Not knowing yet what that might be.
- 'Til she came to me one evening
- Hot cup of coffee and a smile
- In a dress that I was certain
- She hadn't worn in quite a while
- There was a difference in her laughter
- There was a softness in her eyes
- And on the air there was a hunger
- Even a boy could recognize.
- She had a need to feel the thunder
- To chase the lightning from the sky
- To watch a storm with all its wonder
- Raging in her lover's eyes
- She had to ride the heat of passion
- Like a comet burning bright
- Rushing headlong in the wind
- Now where only dreams have been
- Burning both ends of the night.
- That summer wind was all around me
- Nothing between us but the night
- When I told her that I'd never
- She softly whispered that's alright
- And then I watched her hands of leather
- Turn to velvet in a touch
- There's never been another summer
- When I have ever learned so much.
- We had a need to feel the thunder
- To chase the lightning from the sky
- To watch a storm with all its wonder
- Raging in eachother's eyes
- We had to ride the heat of passion
- Like a comet burning bright
- Rushing headlong in the wind
- Now where only dreams have been
- Burning both ends of the night.
- I often think about that summer
- The sweat, the moonlight and the lace
- And I have rarely held another
- When I haven't seen her face
- And every time I pass a wheat field
- And watch it dancing with the wind
- Although I know it isn't real
- I swear inside I feel
- Her hungry arms again.
- She had a need to feel the thunder
- To chase the lightning from the sky
- To watch a storm with all its wonder
- Raging in her lover's eyes
- She had to ride the heat of passion
- Like a comet burning bright
- Rushing headlong in the wind
- Now where only dreams have been
- Burning both ends of the night.
- Rushing in long in the wind
- Now where only dreams have been
- Burnin' both ends of the night
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