Mom got drunk and Dad got drunk. At our Christmas party. We were drinkin' champagne punch and homemade eggnog. Little sister brought her new boyfriend.
The lonesome oak tree held it's fire into November. We watched the last brown leaf hit the ground and blow away. An evening gun shot let's him know the hunt is over.
There's a salt grain tapping on your window. There's a cool breeze blowing off the bay. A warm flame dancing with our shadows. To music playing far a way.
One night as I lay on my pillow. Moon shining bright as the dawn. I saw a man come-a-walkin'. He had a long chain on. . I heard his chain a clankin'. It made a mournful sound.
I guess we've come full circle. We're strangers once again. It's hard to know we'd ever come to this. It's funny you were saying how you'd miss. The good ole times.
It's a long stretch of highway at midnight in New Mexico. It's a small colored light that shines from your car radio. It's the old motel owner who sleeps on a cot.
Flatter than a tabletop. Makes you wonder why they stopped here. Wagon must have lost a wheel. Or they lacked ambition one. . On the great migration west.
I know that it would make you cry to find that I had gone didn't even say foodbye. You'll hate me for a while because I promised love and left you just regret.
You've been cryin' again you've been cryin' again. That old flame hasn't died it's still signed where it's always been. Will there always be this old memory to keep haunting me.
If you put your mind to it and you try just a little bit. Well I know you could be the biggest fool of the world. You had yourself quite a woman the kind you don't find everyday.
Well me and Homer Jones and Big John Talley. Had a big crap game goin' back in the alley. And I kept rollin' them sevens , winnin' all them pots. My luck was so good I could do no wrong.
Well every love has got two sides and a love just cannot live. If one side always takes and never gives. So put yourself here in my place and just think how it would be.
East bound and down, loaded up and truckin',. We're gonna do what they say can't be done.. We've got a long way to go and a short time to get there.. I'm east bound, just watch ol' "Bandit" run..
Six foot six stood on the ground, weighted 235 pounds. But I saw that giant of a man brought down to his knees by love. He was the kind of man who would gamble on love.
I'm gonna tell you a story that's all about. This job I had one time as a talent scout, hmm.. I had a hard day at the office and the boss wasn't in town.
Well now, listen people let me tell you some news. I'll sing a song called the crude oil blues. We're low on heat 'n' all. We're low on gas. And I'm so cold I'm about to freeze myself.
Well my throat was dry and it was getting late. I was at this bar on the interstate. When this guy with this bird on his shoulder walked through the door.
Well if I can keep it on the ground. When I put that hammer down. Then I'll be Texas bound and a flyin'. . I've got my 10 in the wind. Let it all hang out again.
Well, I'm gonna get out my sycamore and shine up my shoes. Meet my baby and tell her the news. I bet my bundle on a swayback nag. And I came home winner with a plenty o'swag.
Take your left foot;. Put it in front of the right.. Now, take your right foot,. Put 'er down in front of the left.. Whoa! Son, you are on your way, now;.