My conscience finally got to me. Workin' sixty hours a week. Leavin' her alone, bored to death at home. So, one day, I asked off early. . I dropped that bottle of wine.
Well, I'm laid up on a creek-bank. With a cold one in my hand. It's eighty-eight in the shade. I got the bait in an old tin can. . An' ol' Blue's been a barkin'.
The hood's up, the oil is leakin'. The bolt's broken off an' my knuckles are bleedin'. But the sun is shinin' an' the birds are singin'. An' so am I. .
You know if I'd seen her comin'. I'd probably tried to hide. But I came around the corner. And she caught me by surprise. . There was no ice cold shoulder.
rollin rollin here they come. outta pickup trucks into the clubs. sweet little small town hotties. (so hot). from the hollar from the sticks. in cowboy boots and blue jean hips.
Well, I went to the doctor to tell him the news. I got a fever from my head to my shoes. Nurse said sorry but the doc's not in. He's got the fever too, it's summer again.
Here's the thing about your memory. It could be a thousand miles. It could be as many days. But when it's sweeping over me. I'm so powerless. It just caries me away.
I need something to brag about. A new car, a big two story house. I can't win her love without. Something to brag about. . Well goodness gracious, what's that I see.
I could search from now 'til the end of time. And never find another you. I'm so glad because I know you're mine. Someone to give my love to. . I believe, my love, that you're one of a kind.
There's a burned out farmhouse down the road. Barn's fallin' in, field's over grown. Keep out sign on a broken fence, passers by say, "What a mess!". It don't cross their mind that not long ago, that was.
I showered her in diamonds, sprinkled her in gold. And all the red roses she could hold. Makin' sure no compliment was spared. . Sittin' in the back of a black limousine.
I'm lookin' like a lobster, wearin' flip flops and a stetson. Guess that's why they call it fishin' instead of catchin'. 'Cause I ain't had a single bite all day.
You won't learn nothing from the sunshine, boy. Except how to get away from home. You won't learn nothing from the darkness, boy. Except how to die all alone.
Ain't much I ain't tried. Fast livin', slow suicide. Then a-runnin' in a place to hide. Just looking for you. . My friends, they all agree. Ain't many a fool like me.
Well, I'm standin' with my head bowed down, now. That ain't right, that ain't wrong. It's just a feelin' but I can't shake it. Well, I keep on tryin' but it's been so long.
When she had twenty years she turned to her mother. Saying mother, I know that you'll grieve. But I've given my soul to St. John the gambler. Tomorrow comes time to leave.
When the wind don't blow in Amarillo. And the moon along. The Gunnison don't rise. Shall I cast my dreams. . Upon your love, babe. And lie beneath. The laughter of your eyes.
Snow don't fall on summers time. Wind don't blow below the sea. My loves lies 'neath frozen skies. And waits in sweet repose for me. . Her eyes did laugh, her lips did sing.
Babe you can't hold me I'm too slippery. I do no sleepin' I get lonely. But you can touch me if you want to. But I got poison I just might bite you. .
Mr. Ten Dollar man. Let me tell where you're bound. Drink your green liqour, Lord. You'll roll to the ground. . But you come around here. With your money in your hand.