Now life is filled with ups and downs and we both had our share. And everytime I slip and fall you're still there to care. (Together we can stand against the world as it goes turning.
I'm prayin' for rain in California so the grapes can grow and they can make more wine. And I'm a sittin' in a honky in Chicago with a broken heart and a woman on my mind.
If mem'ries were gathered like flowers each day I would pick a bouquet. To last through these long lonely hours but mem'ries aren't gathered that way.
Woke up this morning, found you were gone;. sitt'n here wondering where you are.. Looked in the closet and under the stove;. checked the garage and trunk of the car..
Well, Hank made a living out of lonely. Sang like a freight train whistle moan. Said,"You'll never get out of this world alive". As if he'd always known, Lord, Lord.
If she seems cold and bitter I beg of you. Just stop and consider all she's gone through. Don't be quick to condemn her for things she might say. Just remember life turned her that way.
Just one more dance just one more chance so I can talk to you. Don't live too fast forget the past and I will try to prove. I would do anything you want me to.
If I lost your love oh how I'd cry I'd wish I could die if I lost your love. You are to me a sweet dream come true don't know what I'd do if I lost your love.
Now if I could only start over and have a new life to begin. I wouldn't live like a rover and drift like a leaf in the wind. Cause I'm dreaming tonight of old sweethearts and believe me I've had quite a few.
Standin' on the corner of a busy street. I'm lookin' for your face in every crowd I see. Checking every honky tonk in this town. Tryin' to find the places that you hang around.
The first strange town I was ever in the county was hanging a man. Nobody cared if he lived or died and I just didn't understand. So I washed my face in the morning dew bathed my soul in the sun.
I thought about walkin' thought about talkin' thought about singin' singin' the blues. Thought about tryin' once I even thought of dyin'. But baby most of all I thought about you.
They're not teardrops just sincere drops they're I love you drops cause I love you. They were on my pillow when I woke up this morning. They were on the letter I tried all day to write.
Well I was raised on corn bread and gravy. I slept in a cardboard box till I was nearly three. I bathed myself in muddy river runnin' by our shack. By the time that I had reached thirteen I'd been through hell and back.
While walking one day in the country I saw a gathering crowd. And as my footsteps threw me closer I smell a sweet fragrance of flowers. That looked like a family reunion and my eyes not counted the tears.
Hey baby, let me see your brand new saddle. Let's that pretty thing up on my horse. Let's get it on real tight now. 'Cause we don't want you falling off.
Everybody says you let me down. I should be ashamed to take you 'round. Makes no difference what you used to do, darling. I could never be ashamed of you.
Well I ain't never, I ain't never. Seen nobody like you no, no, no. Never have I ever seen nobody like you. . Lord you call me up and say, "Meet me at nine".
HOW COME YOUR DOG DON'T BITE NOBODY BUT ME. WITH WEBB PIERCE. Writer Webb Pierce. . Well you tell me that you love me you make me feel so good. But I don't feel that you're treating me the best way that you could.
Well if you're sad and lonely and got no place to go. Call me up sweet mama and bring along some dough. And we'll go honky tonkin' honky tonkin' we'll go honky tonkin' honey baby.