I had sunk as low as a man could go the world had turned me down. Then you picked me up and you kissed me sweet. You changed the beggar into a king. Yes you took the rag from off of my back.
We were proud of this house that we found on a street. In the nice part of town. Had it furnished with care we were once happy here. Now it's a beautiful unhappy home.
I thought I had seen pretty girls in my time but that was before I met you. I never saw one that I wanted for mine but that was before I met you. I thought I was swinging the world by the tail I thought I could never be blue.
Please listen to me bartender I've got something on my mind. I think I'd might feel better after one more glass of wine. I'm payin' for a broken heart the price of love is high.
Be glad you've got what you've got when you've got it. Or you're gonna find out what you've got is gone. Make sure you know what you know when you know it.
I danced with an angel one night neath the stars. While cowboys were singing and playing guitars. The tune they were playing was a beautiful waltz. And they called it Bandera and the Bandera Waltz.
I was a fool, broke every rule, blue darlin'. Saw the tears take the place of your sweet smile. I played it smart, I broke your heart, blue darlin'. And lost the only love in life worthwhile.
She was a waitress in a west Texas dance hall. I was a cowboy with a throat full of sand. I called her Honey when she brought my whiskey. And later I left there holding her hand.
She packed her bags and moved to Florida. I've been blue since she's been gone. And this bowling green motel room. Is now my old Kentucky home. All she left me was some whiskey.
My hands are shaking as I'm sadly learning. The truth behind your innocent disguise. You never thought I knew that you had been untrue. But I once saw the devil somewhere in your eyes.
If she knew that I was here with you. There ain't no doubt about what she would do. So lets get dressed and ill be on my way. You knew that I was passing through.
Outside the courthouse on 5th and vine. There's a hundred people holdin' up their homemade signs. They say they'll be there sunshine or rain. 'Till somebody listens, 'till somethin's changed.
He wore that cowboy hat to cover up his horns. Sweet talking forked tongue had a tempting charm. Before I turned around that girl was gone. All I can say is bartender pour me something strong.
I lost a bit more. Won a little mess. Said good-bye to low. And hello to less. I jacked up the car. And shot at my guest. I rolled it twice. And hoped for the best.
Down the road sits the Big O Motel,. Where people tell lies in their own private cell.. With cast down eyes and a packaged surprise,. I come and I go we plan it just so..
They say for every boy there's a girl and she's waitin' somewhere in this world. It's all been planned to someone up above and I know it's written in the book of love.
Bottles and boxes and ten miles a day he walks slowly making his rounds. Picking up bottles and boxes and papers and anything else we'd throw down. He's hump-backed and wrinkled but unlike Van Winkel he doesn't sleep his life away.
They say there he sits in his big white wicker rocker. Eatin' candy coated cashews sippin' orange lemonade. While a sweet young thing fans the flies from off his eyebrows.
How many roads must a man walk down. Before you call him a man?. Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail. Before she sleeps in the sand?. Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannon balls fly.
(I sit here and look at you, lonely room it's sad for lovers change their ways. Just like me you miss the love we once knew she's left me in the world of blue.