Well, Lordy, mercy, I's in a mess. My wife run off with my TV set. Didn't bother me none that she had to go. 'Cept I's gonna miss all my TV shows. . So I looked up to heaven, got down on my knees.
Well, she's a friend, she's a lover. She's a woman, she's a wife. She's the answer to the prayer that every lonely man dreams of. She's a temptress, she's a lady.
She's up there in the cheap hotel I'm down here in the bar. I just slipped out and left her there before things went too far. I'd like to love her but I know what that would do to me.
I didn't know my baby love me so until that letter come to let me know. Now I pack my bags and then I'll go and catch a first train I see headin' south.
From a Jack to a King.. From loneliness to a wedding ring.. I played a Ace and I won a Queen,. An' walked away with your heart.. . From a Jack to a King..
Out where the bright lights are glowing. You're drawn like a moth to a flame. You laugh while the wine's over-flowing. While I sit and whisper your name.
Oh the desert dreams of a river. That will run down to the sea. Like my heart longs for an ocean. To wash down over me. . Oh won't you take me from this valley.
I've been a-waitin' for you. And you've been a-waitin' for me. Tell me that you'll always be true. And you'll be the only one for me. . Forget me not, my dear, my darling.
Haven't you seen me sleepwalking?. 'Cause I've been holding your hand. Haven't you noticed me drifting?. Oh, let me tell you I am. . Tell me it's nothing.
In the night when you call. I'll be waiting by the phone. To hear it all. And I won't leave until you call. Cause baby I don't wanna miss the way you fix me.
When the freedom you've know has left you a broken man. When everything you've ever owned slipped thru your hands. Well it don't really matter at all and you don't give a damn.
You've finally arrived at the goals that you set. You thought that was it boy, oh, but you can't quit yet. There's a lonesome old road and it starts at the top.
Just about two hundred years ago they signed that declaration. Tellin' everybody in the whole wide world. They're gonna start a brand new nation. From that day on the 4th of July has been a holiday.
For your love I'd rope the moon and put it in a blender. Mix up a concoction bound to make you surrender. I'd bite the brand off a bucking Brahma bull.
We're a [c]fun lovin? crowd, kinda [f]rowdy and loud,. Our [c]jukebox won't play no sad [g]songs,. So [c]don't come in here and [f]cry in your beer,. Cause we [c]don't care about [g]who done who [c]wrong..
Sweeter than the grapes growin' out in California. Softer than the fuzz on the sweetest Georgia peach. Warms you goin' down like a twenty-two year old brandy.
[Chorus]. Feel like I'm gettin' into something good. Don't want to stop so I'm knocking on wood. I think my streak of bad luck is over. I'm rolling in a field of five leaf clovers.
My father had so much to tell me. Things he said I had to know. "Don't make my mistakes, there are rules you can't break". But I had to find out on my own.
Way down in Sad Town, in the valley of broken dreams. We're both prisoners of past loves and things that'll never be. Somethin' tells me if you held me, the clouds would disappear.