The old hometown looks the same as I step down from the train. And there to meet me is my mama and my papa. And down the road I look and there runs Mary hair of gold and lips like cherries.
The wind and I have a lot in common it seems we're always in a race with time. We never know just where we're goin' or think about what we leave behind.
I was down and out as any man could be. Sleeping in a mission they have for guys like me. My shoes for a pillow beneath my head a cold hard mattress for my bed.
I've got a lot of memories to last the rest of my life. So if you don't want to love me baby that'll be all right. I'm gonna take all the loving that I have for you.
40 days, 40 fights. 40 showdowns in 40 nights. town to town, in high demand. can't slow down. I'm a wanted man.. . Chorus. I'm a gunslinger honey. hunting you down.
In the little town that I grew up in. Me and my buddies always had big dreams. Kelly set her sights on making movies. Randy was swinging for the major leagues.
Verse # 1. I wish that I could hold you...Oh, Just one more time...One more time to touch your face, kiss your cheek...just one more time... I can't express how much my heart aches for you... how much I wanna be touched by you. Oh, my sweet baby...if I could just feel you...Oh, I wanna feel you...if only just one more time..
I might bark at you and get a little loud. Embarrass you, someday in a crowd. Might run you 'round in circles, make you dizzy in the head. I might run you ragged once or twice, forget to get you fed.
Redemption is all I really need. 'Cause I've been living like a liar and a thief. They say that you spend your lifetime burning. But I spend mine, just turning and turning.
Get real this ain't the way we used to feel. What we once earned we have to steal conceal it ain't real. Come on we've been defending for so long. I don't know who we're trying to con it's gone so come on.
Sometime I live the country. Sometime I live in town. Sometime I have a grave notion. To jump into the river and drown. . Quit your ramblin' quit your gamblin'.
The air is turning cold outside. It's a rabbi in a brothel for the third time. The gold tooth of a broken man. A white glove in a purse down at the bottom of the sea.
I could hear them singing like they are gonna fall out. Raising hands and hoping,. singing, bringing in the sheets soldiers marching by. I want to go there when I die.
how do you think i did it. with a check, with a smile. it takes a special person. to go that extra mile. what do you think i was after. make a friend for a while.
Never had one, always wanted one good man. Just like every girl 'round the world wants a good man. So we hold on 'cause we know he's out there. Taking so long but I know he's out there.
Young men, please be careful with the young ladies. Don't do the things, you know that guys do. 'Cos she's growing up and showing it, you know she believes.
The air stands still as they walk in. Pounding hearts, flashing eyelids. Focused on her touch, before he noticed. Bedroom doors don't lock on their own.
The girl from the canyon smiled a smile that brought me home. As sick and bleedin' as I was she took me on her own. Brought me to the canyon where the sun poured down like rain.
Well Irene, goodnight Irene, Irene goodnight. Goodnight Irene, goodnight Irene. I'll see you in my dreams. Last Saturday I got married. Me and the wife settled down.