We got up before sunup to get the work done up. We'd work in the fields till the sun had gone down. We've stood and we've cried as we helplessly watched.
If you've got time to say goodbye. Have mercy on a guy that's gonna miss you. I know you're in a hurry. But consider all the hurt I'm going through. .
The Blood Red Sun Beat Down And Baked The Red Clay Ground. Dust Kicked Up Around His John Deere Wheels. No Trace Of Rain In Sight A-gain He'll Lose The Fight.
If you see my baby while making your rounds. In some crowded nightspot or cafe in town. Tell her I miss her and I'm still around. If you see my baby in this lonesome old town.
You say that you like ridin'. In my Cadillac. When I try to kiss you. You keep on pushin' me back. You say you like to party. and the money that I earn.
You must have been mad at me when you said I'm in love with you. And you made me believe in you and that you wanted me. If you really had love in mind and it hurtin' me all this time.
If we make it through December. Everything's gonna be all right, I know. It's the coldest time of winter. And I shiver when I see the falling snow. If we make it through December.
If we never meet again, this side of heaven. As we struggle through this world and it's strife. There's another meeting place somewhere in heaven. By the side of the river of life.
We can call Mrs Johnson to keep the kids a day or two. Take the early flight to Florida just the way we used to do. Have room service bring us breakfast make love all through the day.
You made plans to leave a thousand times I know. And a thousand times I should have let you go. But each time I'll always beg you back somehow. If I'd left it up to you it'd all be over now.
IF I COULD BE HIM. (Merle Haggard). '65 Tree Publishing, BMI. . We're all friends you and I me and him. And it's wrong to want you like I do. And no way can wrong be right but I'd give the world tonight.
I almost felt you touching me just now. I wish I knew which way to turn and go. I feel so good and then, then I feel so bad. I wonder what I ought to do.
I'll get by as long as I have you. Though there'll be rain and darkness too. I'll not complain, I'll see it through. . Poverty may come to me, it's true.
Lights in the parlor fires in the grate. LoOk on the mantle says its getting late. Urtains on the window snowy white. . The parlors pleasant on Sunday night.
Did you ever steal a quarter when you was 10 years old?. Ever wear a brogan with a hole in the sole?. Did you ever ride a freight train while runnin' from the law?.
I've got a yearning to hold you tight at burning desire I live with day and night. Everything I lose keeps on hanging on. This feeling isn't leaving and by now it should be gone.
I'm gonna break every heart I can. I'd be a find-'em-and-fool-'em man. I'm gonna dedicate my whole life to this one plan. Well if I live and have enough time.
I lost my mind the day I lost your love. I lost everything except the will to cry. If you find me crawling back from time to time. It's not you I want, I'm looking for my mind.
Yeah I'm bringin' home some good news. Got some things you'll be glad to hear. Like I'm leavin' town and won't be back. Around just long enough to get my gear.
Though I haven't got a penny to my name. I've got wealth beyond compare just the same. In my mind the greatest treasure there could be. Just to live the way I live because I'm free.