Verse 1:. So you sailed away. Into a grey sky morning. Now I'm here to stay. Love can be so boring. . Nothing's quite the same now. I just say your name now.
Smoky old bars, bright neon lights. Good ole boys and girls of the night. An ice cold beer and a good shot of brandy. I've always had a sweet tooth. For the devil's candy.
No rush though I need your touch. I won't rush your heart. Until you feel on solid ground. Until your strength is found, girl. . I'll fill those canyons in your soul.
Well I'm gonna show her. That I can forget her. That little girls lovin'. Meant nothin' to me. . If you go lookin' at the bottom. of a whiskey bottle, that's where I'll be.
Well if a drunk mans says what a sober man thinks. Then right now I think I'm thikin' out loud a lot. Hey girl, you wanna split a shot?. Take me drunk, I'm home.
The night my baby left me I crossed the bridge to Juarez avenue. Like that movie "Touch of evil" I got the Orson Wells, Marlene Dietrich blues. Where Orson walks in to the whore house and.
Two men rode in from the south, a rainy autumn night. The Sky above and the mud below. They walked into the Deacon's bar, they were Mexican by sight. The sky above and the mud below.
Panco Villa crossed the border in the year of ought sixteen. The people of Columbus still hear him riding through their dreams. He killed seventeen civilians you could hear the women scream.
I was walking down a quiet road in Ireland. Out beneath those tough old ancient stars. When I thought I heard old Scottish Mike singing Carrick Fergus.
Farewell to the lights of Madera, I'm leaving with the wind at my back. Tell all of my friends in Dos Palos, I'm gone but I'll be circling back. Now I'm crossing the Chowchilia River.
I was born in Oklahoma, 1931. Outside the town of Spavinaw. Where the red dust clouds the sun. And I ran beneath your diamond skies. And I drank your waves of grain.
Well I live out in Southern Arizona. I followed an abandoned railroad track. Trains they used run from Bisbee out to Juarez. But the copper mines are closed and the trains ain't comin' back.
There's a hound dog running all alone through the piney woods. Lord his howlin' tears the soul out of me. There's a jay bird calling up a funeral dirge.
The Dutchman is not the kind of man. To keep his thumb jambed in a dam that holds his dreams in.. But that's a secret only Margaret knows.. When Amsterdam is golden.
He had a vision of Anne Marie. With a rosary in her hand. So it's exit the rainmaker. The old gray flannel man. With a closet full of business suits. He left a letter near the phone.
Now where was you when the train left town. Standin' on the corner with my head bowed down. Hey the train that carried her from town hey hey hey. I wish to the Lord that train would wreck kill the engineer break the fireman's head.
Troublesome waters around me do roll. They're rockin' my boat and wreckin' my soul. Loved ones are driftin' and livin' in sin. The treacherous whirlpools are pullin' them in.
'Tis sweet to be remembered on a bright or a gloomy day. 'Tis sweet to be remembered by a dear one far away. 'Tis sweet to be remembered, remembered, remembered.
Sometimes I'm fine I get to thinking of the past. We swore to each other that our love would surely last. You kept right on lovin' I went on a fast. Now I'm too thin and your love is too vast.
'Til the end of the world rolls round, I'll keep on loving you. As long as the sun goes up and comes down. 'Til the big blue sky goes down to the ground.