Shes a wild girl but that's alright. Because she's living in a wild world. And she's kinda like the queen bee. Swimming in cola like a strange bird. You don't want to get close to.
I sold the farm to take my woman where she longed to be. We left our kin and all our friends back there in Tennessee. I bought those one way tickets she had often begged me for.
The corn was dry and the weeds were high. When daddy took to drinking. Then him and Lucy Walker they took up and ran away. Mama cried a tear and then she promised fourteen children.
You promised love that never would end but now you are gone and the hurtin' begins. Just what do you mean that I'm no more than a friend. Oh darling have you forgotten so soon.
Some days are diamonds, Some days are stone. Some days the hard times won't leave us alone. Sometimes the cold wind brought chill to my bones. Some days are diamonds, Some days are stone..
I used to like to listen to the tales of the old men who sat around the old park square. But the piddlers and the whittlers and the checker boards're gone.
Well I pulled out of Pittsburgh a rollin' down that Eastern Seaboard. I got my diesel wound up she's a goin' like never before. There's a speed zone ahead alright I don't see a cop in sight.
The sandman told me he's done all he can. The situation calls for more than sand. You been cryin' all night long. Tossin' and turnin' and it's almost dawn.
(Is everybody ready now? Yeah! Okay!). . Here we go singin' in the kitchen all together now singin' in the kitchen. Everybody singin' in the kitchen bangin' on the pots and pans.
(Please baby wait for me wait for me). I got smashed last night on a bottle of gin and I had a fight with my best girl friend. When I'm drinkin' I am nobody's friend.
Silence is golden my love tell me now with your eyes. No need to speak just let me see your eyes look love to me. . Silently place your warm hand in mine.
Sometimes you sing for the money sometimes you sing for the show. Sometimes you sing for the dewy eyed darlings. Still makes them cry don't you know. Sometimes you sing for the glory but glory don't last very long.
Widow Jones couldn't make it on her own. Frank was 'lectrafied leaving six kids half grown. In her misery she sent for me the singer of sad songs. And I sympathized and eulogized Frank Jones.
A soft summer rain she was when she came and settled my old dusty worn-out soul. While I watched in a dream and dreamed as I watched. The sweetest and the shortest story told.
(Okay, hold it kids, hold it! Listen! I wanna sing a song now especially for mama.. Okay? This is for mama.). . She looks at me with the eyes of a child.
Well friends you know once I was took in by a girl with a twinkly eye. But the first time that I wasn't lookin' she ran off with a handsomer guy oh my.
(Okay, is everybody ready to be animals? Yeah!). . See that bluebird on a limb he wants you to fly away with him. He wants you to wear a featherly vest.
Shame on me for hurting you what can I say what can I do. Last night I was blind but today I see I did you wrong shame on me. . You say you won't be seein' me again you say we're through.
She called me baby baby all night long used to hold and kiss me till the dawn. Then one day I awoke and she was gone ah there's no more baby baby all night long.
You know I peeked in to say goodnight,. When I heard my child in prayer.. She said, "And for me some scarlet ribbons,. Scarlet ribbons for my hair.". .