The warden let the prisoner down the hallway to his doom. I stood up to say goodbye like all the rest. And I heard him tell the warden just before he reached my cell.
Chased our dreams endlessly through it all she stood by me. More than that Lord she was such a friend. Dreamin's all I had to give she needed more to live.
I'll play second fiddle. To your new love while it lasts. Just like all the others. I've played for in the past. Why can't I be a leader. And play your leading part?.
Once I was a slave at the saw mill. Talk about a poor boy talk about a poor boy let me have a dollar bill. My work was so hard at the saw mill. Talk about a poor boy talk about a poor boy let me have a dollar bill.
Well now since I turned old Satan down I know for sure I'm heaven bound. There ain't nothing he can do to stop me. Since he showed me heaven's light I know for sure I'm headed right.
You can dance, every dance with the guy. Who gives you the eye, l et him hold you tight. You can smile, every smile for the guy. Who holds your hand 'neath the pale moonlight.
Well, now since I turned old Satan down. I know for sure I'm heaven bound. There ain't nothing he can do to stop me. Since he showed me heaven's light.
Well, I've been sorta worried. About Santa Claus this year. 'Cause we live way out west. And it didn't snow out here. Well, I'm a tellin' you not to worry.
Gonna get me up in the morning the same place that I lay down. And sit there and watch the sun come up on San Francisco town. And I mosey down to the corner of Gaide and Ashberry street.
Santa looked like daddy. Or daddy looked like him. It's not the way I had him pictured. Santa was a much too thin. . He didn't come down the chimney. So momma must have let him in.
There's a place down the street we call Sam's Place.. It starts a-jumpin' every evening when the sun goes down.. You can always find me down at Sam's Place,.
Sally told Mary Mary told Jerry Jerry's a spreading it round. That we had a quarrel a foolish quarrel now we're the talk of the town. . Well now rumors are flying like leaves in the air whispering that I let you down.
[ Don Rich ]. Sally used to carry my books to school Sally was a good ole girl. Helped me with my homework cause I was a fool cause Sally was a good ole girl.
Ruby oh Ruby honey are you mad at your man. . I was sittin' in the shade with shovel with my spade diggin' in the ground gold mine. Ruby Ruby honey are you mad at your man.
I'm gonna lay around the shack till the mail train comes back. Then I'll roll in my sweet baby's arms. Well I ain't gonna work on the railroad I ain't gonna work on the farm.
I am a roving gambler I've gambled all around. Whenever I need my deck of cards I lay my money down. I lay my money down I lay my money down. I had not been in Vegas any more days than three.
I'm gonna lay around the shack till the mail train comes back. Then I'll roll in my sweet baby's arms. . Well I ain't gonna work on the railroad. I ain't gonna work on the farm.
Wish that I was on ole Rocky Top. Down in the Tennessee hills. ain't no smoggy smoke on Rocky Top. ain't no telephone bills. . Once I had a girl on Rocky Top.
[ duet with Don Rich ]. I'm gonna roll out the red carpet when you come home. I'm gonna treat you like a VIP I feel like you ain't never known. Gonna have a brass band at the station gonna let 'em know what the united nation.
Oh I must have had rocks in my head well I believed anything that you said. Like a puppy I rolled over and played dead oh I must have had rocks in my head.