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Well they're building a gallows outside my cell I've got 25 minutes to...
My daddy left home when I was three / And he didn't leave much to ma and...
If heartaches brought fame in love's crazy game, / I'd be a legend in my...
(Dream on, dream on teenage queen prettiest girl we've ever seen) / There's a story in our...
I know that hearts were loving / Long before I was here / And I'm not the first to ever...
Big John / Big John / Every morning at the mine, you could see him...
Now I taught the weeping willow how to...
Like a bird on a wire Like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free Like a...
When you're weary, feeling small, / When tears are in your eyes, I will dry / them...
Country boy, ain't got no shoes / Country boy, ain't got no...
I got a crib full of corn, and a turnin' plow / But the grounds to wet for the hopper...
Everybody knows where you go when the sun goes...
I remember when I was a lad, / times were hard and things were...
Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling. / From glen to glen, and down the mountain...
Delia, oh, Delia Delia all my life / If I hadn't have shot poor / Delia I'd have had her for my...
Desperado, why don't you come to your senses? / You been out ridin' fences for so long...
Devil Went Down to Georgia / It's been ten long years since...
Well he's not very handsome to look at / Oh he's shaggy and he eats like a...
A young cowboy named Billy Joe grew restless on the...
There's a place I know where the train goes...
I got a friend named Whiskey Sam / He was my boonierat buddy for a year in...
Field of diamonds in the sky, worlds are whirling right on by. / Are you wondering who am...
The first time ever I saw your face, I thought the sun rose in your...
My mama always taught me that good things come from adversity if we put our faith in the...
Beside a Singin' Mountain Stream / Where the Willow grew / Where the Silver Leaf of...
I hear the train a comin' / it's rolling round the...
[Chorus:] / Four strong winds that blow lonely, seven seas that run...
Where the road is dark and the seed is sowed / Where the gun is cocked and the bullet's...
Hey, get rhythm when you get the blues / Hey, get rhythm when you get the...
An old cowboy went riding out one dark and windy day...
I found him by the railroad track this morning / I could see that he was nearly...
You can run on for a long time / Run on for a long time / Run on for a long...
The old home town looks the same, / As I step down from the...
Well you ask me if I'll forget my baby. / I guess I will...
Oh, Lord, help me walk / Another mile, just one more mile; / I'm tired of walkin' all...
Hey porter! Hey porter! / Would you tell me the time? / How much longer will it be till we...
I was a highwayman. Along the coach roads I did ride / With sword and pistol by my...
Just around the corner there's heartaches / Down the street that losers...
I hurt myself today / To see if I still feel / I focus on the pain / The only thing that's...
I couldn't manage the problems I laid on...
On A Monday I Was Ar-rested (Uh Huh) / On A Tuesday They Locked Me In The Jail (Oh...
Early one morning / With time to kill / I borrowed Jebb's rifle / And sat on a hill / I saw a lone...
i love you love you / i love you / just in case you care you know i...
[Chorus] I never picked cotton But my mother did And my brother did And my sister did And my daddy...
[FIRST VERSE:] / Well, you're my friend / And can you see / Many times we've been out...
At my door the leaves are falling / A cold wild wind has come / Sweethearts walk by...
I keep a close watch on this heart of mine / I keep my eyes wide open all the...
There are some people,who say we cannot tell, / Whether we are saved or, whether all is...
[Verse 1] / Well I won't back down, no I won't back down / You can stand me up at the gates of...
I got rid of the shackles that bound me and the guards that were always around...
We got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper...
*featuring Merle Haggard / Hold on honey I'd like to say / I'm busting out and breaking...
Hear that lonesome whippoorwill? / He sounds too blue to fly. / The midnight train is whining...
I was totin my pack along the long dusty Winnemucca...
If I were a carpenter / and you were a lady, / Would you marry me anyway? / Would you have my...
If you could read my mind, love, / What a tale my thoughts could tell. / Just like an old time...
There are places I'll remember / All my life / Though some have changed / Some forever / Not for...
He's in the jailhouse now / He's in the jailhouse now / I told him once or...
Go away from my window / Leave at your own chosen speed / I'm not the one you want...
We got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper...
Lord have mercy on me Was the kneeling drunkard's plea And as he knelt there on the ground I know...
Lately I've Been Leanin' Toward The Blues / Lazy loafin' good for nothin' no count knock...
I don't want no aggravation / When my train has left the station / If you're there or...
With the twilight colors falling / And the evening laying...
It should be a while before I see Dr. Death / So it would sure be nice if I could get my...
Ten years ago on a cold dark night / Someone was killed beneath the townhall...
I have been a rover / I have walked alone / Hiked a hundred highways / Never found a...
Well, you wonder why I always dress in black, / Why you never see bright colors on my...
Was on one cold winter's night / And the wind blew across the wild...
I give my woman half my money at the general store I said, "Now buy a little groceries, and don't...
We saw houses falling from the sky Where the mountains lean down to the sand We saw blackbirds...
Take one fresh and tender kiss / Add one stolen night of...
When life seems full / Of clouds and rain / And I'm full / Of nothin' but...
[Recitation:] Lord, I've never lived where churches grow I loved creation better as it stood That...
Is it getting better / Or do you feel the same / Will it make it easier on you...
Well, I left Kentucky back in '49 / An' went to Detroit workin' on a 'sembly...
Look a-yonder comin' / Comin' down that railroad track / Hey, look a-yonder...
Your own, personal, Jesus / someone to hear your prayers, / someone who...
I walked through a county courthouse square / On a park bench, an old man was sittin'...
From the hands it came down / From the side it came down / From the feet it came...
Love is a burning thing / and it makes a firery ring / bound by wild...
We're the best partners this world's ever seen, / Together as close as can...
Rowboat Row me to the shore / She don't wanna be my friend no...
You wired me awake / And hit me with a hand of broken nails / You tied my lead and pulled my...
Well, my name it is Sam Hall, Sam Hall. / Yes, my name it is Sam Hall; it is Sam...
San Quentin, you've been livin' hell to me / You've hosted me since nineteen sixty...
The lights In the harbor / Don't shine for me / I'm like a lost ship adrift on the...
Belinda was mine 'til the time that I found her / Holdin' Jim / And lovin'...
There's a southern accent, where I come from The young'uns call it country The Yankees call it dumb...
Jesus I don't wanna die alone Jesus oh Jesus I don't wanna die...
Well, I left my motel room, down at the Starkville...
As I walked out on the streets of Laredo. / As I walked out on Laredo one...
Well, I woke up Sunday morning / With no way to hold my head that didn't...
I'm gonna write a tear stained letter, / I'm gonna mail it straight to...
In a little cabaret in a South Texas border...
Back about eighteen and twenty-five / I left Tennessee very much...
Up in the mornin', out on the job / Work like the devil for my...
Ira Hayes, / Ira Hayes / [CHORUS:] / Call him drunken Ira Hayes / He won't answer...
The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars Restless by day And by night rants and rages at...
Well I had a little feeling to have a big...
I heard the laughter at the depot / But my tears fell like the...
"And I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder. One of the four beasts saying, 'Come and see.' and...
There once was a man who just couldn't cry / He hadn't cried for years and for...
It all began when they took me from my home / And put me on Death...
Harry Truman was our president / A coke an burger cost you thirty...
There once was a musical troupe / A pickin' singin' folk group / They sang the mountain...
So blue Lonesome too But still true / Rosie haunts me Makes me think of...
Johnny Yuma was a rebel / He roamed through the west / Did Johnny Yuma, the rebel / He wandered...
You're gonna break another heart, you're gonna tell another...
Bad luck wind been blowing at my back / I was born to bring trouble to...
I have been ungrateful And I have been unwise Restless from the cradle But now I realize It's so...
Don’t call my name out your window, I’m leavin' / I won’t even turn my...
Wanted man in California, / Wanted man in Buffalo / Wanted man in Kansas City, / Wanted man in...
I'm a poor wayfaring stranger / While traveling thru this world of...
We'll meet again / Don't know where / Don't know when / But I know / We'll meet again / Some sunny...
Were you there when they crucified my lord ? / Were you there when they crucified my lord...
Why me Lord, what have I ever...
[Verse 1:] / Would you lay with me in a field of stone / If my needs were strong would you lay with...
Well they gave him his orders at Monroe, Virginia, / Said: "Steve, you're way behind...