THE LONGER YOU WAIT. (Merle Haggard). '65 Tree Publishing, BMI. . The longer you wait to leave me the longer I'll hurt when you're gone. And the longer it takes you to break my heart the longer the pain lingers on.
The long distance love affair,. We just had on the phone,. Left me with "Don't worry darlin',. I'm on my way home.". So break out the champagne,. We've got good love on the mend..
Well, the girl turned ripe and the pickers came today. Had an uncle who was farmin' down in Tennessee. And I stopped by to see him there brought this friend with me.
I hear people talkin' bad. About the way we have to live here in this country. Harpin' on the wars we fight. And gripin' 'bout the way things oughta be.
Down every road there's always one more city. I'm on the run, the highway is my home. I raised a lot of Cain back in my younger days. While Mama used to pray my crops would fail.
I only call when I've had that one too many. And my lonely room goes spinning in a whirl. And tonight I couldn't even find my pillow. I've got the emptiest arms in the world.
Tonight there'll be candlelight and roses. In this little country chapel that's almost falling down. There'll be tears in this old farmer's eyes this evening.
Your strange love was what I found. The day the rains came down. And I remember we found shelter in the cave. With the rain clouds up above. In the darkness we found love.
Each night I leave the bar room when it's over. Not feeling any pain at closing time. But tonight your memory found me much too sober. Couldn't drink enough to keep you off my mind.
You've got the bull of the wood. You've got the beaver from Missouri. We can't get nothin' done on this C.B. . You've got the bull of the woods. You've got the beaver from Missouri.
I've been throwing horseshoes. Over my left shoulder. I've spent most all my life. Searching for that four-leafed clover. . Yet you ran with me. Chasing my rainbows.
[Merle]. Far to sense you'd up and leave that's what you say. Don't you know that the road can run both ways. . [Bonnie]. Well I'm so sure before each other we're all wrong.
Suddenly it's over, the war is fin'lly done.. Soldiers in the desert sand, still clingin' to a gun.. No-one is the winner an' everyone must lose.. Suddenly the war is over: that's the news..
I get this going fever everytime I hear a tune. That talks about South Texas where the cactus is in bloom. I feel I oughta be there every evening after dark.
The pieces are all falling together. The picture is coming in view. When I thought the end was upon me. I found my purpose in you. . And let the power that made.
You taught me how to love with all my heart. With all my soul I trusted you. And now you say we'll have to live apart. A thing I don't know how to do.
Yes I know I've been untrue. And I should have been good to you. But please have mercy on this heart of mine. Take me back and try me one more time. .
Where's that gal with red dress on some folks called her Dinah. Stole my heart away from me way down in Louisiana. Take me back to Tulsa I'm too young to marry.
I feel tears wellin' up. Cold and deep inside. Like my heart's sprung a big break. And a stab of loneliness sharp and painful. That I may never shake.
This morning when I woke up. it was just like the last. That lonely old heartache that haunts from the past. the memories of my old life. when we knew it would last.