When I was a little guy. My daddy told me "Mister,. Don't ever try to climb too high. Cause it's the fall that gets ya. And some dreams can never come true.
There ain't a lot that you can do in this town. You drive down to the lake and then you turn back around. You go to school and you learn to read and write.
Back in my old home town. There were long summer days. And there were leaves on the ground. And it was too cold to play. . The city's colder than cold.
I pulled out of Pittsburgh rolling down the Eastern seaboard. I've got my diesel wound up and she's running like never before. There's a speed zone ahead on right and I ain't see a cop all night.
I could tell you I came by to say hello. But I knew good and well that you weren't home. Now these lines I write. Will reach you by midnight. Tell you that it's over, anyhow.
She was walking down the street. Looking fine as she could be, hey, hey. She was walking down the street. She's looking fine as she could be, hey, hey.
This old town filled with sin it will swallow you in. If you have some money to burn. Take it home right away you got three years to pay. But satan is waiting his turn.
Well get out of that bed, wash your face and hands. Get out of that bed, wash your face and hands. Well get in that kitchen. Make some noise with the pots and pans.
(david olney version - from eye of the storm). If I was saturday night. And you were sunday morning. For a fleeting moment we could touch at midnight.
Way out yonder, where the wild wind blows. There's a place there lonely fools can go. Where if you hold your money, it'll burn your hand. So you buy you a ticket to the shadowland.
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Since I first saw you I've been thinkin' about you. And now I'm out here on this highway goin' crazy without you. I can't help but want you girl, you're young and you're pretty.
Jimmy joined the army â??cause he had no place to go. There ain't nobody hirin'. 'Round here since all the jobs went. Down to Mexico. Reckoned that he'd learn himself a trade maybe see the world.
By the rivers of Babylon. Where he sat down. And there he wept. When he remember Zion. . It was the wicked. . Carry us away captivity. Require from us a song.
(townes van zandt). . Ride the blue wind high and free. She'll lead you down through misery. Leave you low, come time to go. Alone and low as low can be.
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I used to wake and run with the moon. I lived like a rake and a young man. I covered my lovers with flowers and wounds. My laughter the devil would frighten.
I'm just a regular guy. Never get rich, but I always get by. I got me a wife and a couple a kids. I done pretty much like my daddy did. . He always did the best that he could.
I got a sixty-nine chevy with a 396. Fuelie heads and a hurst on the floor. She's waiting tonight down in the parking lot. Outside the seven-eleven store.
I was born on the other side of town. Everybody over here just put me down. I never thought about it much. Till the first time I saw you. Uh oh, what's a poor boy gonna do.