Lord, put your hand to the handle of my hoe. Let me make another step, help me go another row. Even know I'm tired, got to try to make a dollar. For my wife and kids, living over in the holler.
If I could find the strenght I need to do the thing I should. I just walk on out that door be rid of you for good. But a man ain't always strong enough to tell himself that he's been wrong.
We don't dance the two-step anymore. All we need's a small part of the floor. The band can go on playing almost anything it wants. When you fall in love every thing's a waltz.
I stole her from Emmett Fry, and now what's done is done.. Like any man I'm afraid to die, but I'm hurt too bad to run.. I ran with her to Walker's Woods with him close on my heels;.
I walked into a tavern to have a drink and kill some time. A little boy approached me with tears in his eyes. He wasn't more that five or six but he stood like a man.
This old hat's hung on the bedpost too long. Forgotten like some used to be remembered like a song. Where all the words are so easy to recall. Hmm, this old hat.
Words & Music by. Ed Bruce, Glenn Ray & Patsy Bruce. . Too many dusty trailtowns, too few and far between. Tired saloons with sawdust-covered floors. Too many one more showdowns and aces over queens.
Words & Music by. Ed Bruce, Jeff Elliott and Mike Morgan. . How could I have known back at the start. The day might ever come when you would break my heart.
He was born, in three quarter time. When the guitars played flat. The world sang out of tune. . A hundred years late. But ahead of his time. And I swear not a minute too soon.
Words & Music by Ed Bruce. . I wish I'd known the man a little better. That turned my mama on. He must have been a heck of a man. 'Cause mama was a lady, don't you know.
It wasn't me, and I know it wasnt her. We just ran out the ways, to make it work. If I could hate her like I love her. God you know, that's what I do.