If I could see you just one time oh how it'd ease my troubled mind. If I could hold you just one time and then pretend that you're still mine. Oh oh oh how I miss you so oh oh I need you so.
She would meet me in the morning on her way down to the river. Waiting patient by the chinaberry tree. With her feet already dusty from the pathway to the levee.
She just caught the Jamestown Ferry it's not a hot day in January. Like she said it'd be if she ever left me. A case of gone was all she carried as she got on the Jamestown Ferry.
It's such a pretty world today look at the sunshine. And every day's the same since I met you. It's such a pretty world today knowing that you're mine.
Just because I tell you there's nobody like you. That don't mean that it's true. And if I should whisper the words I love you. That don't mean that I do.
Outside my window I see there's the world full of men. They're tall and strong and living like I might have been. But I met a woman and she took the life out of me.
I've been down to Mississippi. Down through New Orleans, yes, I have. I've played in California. There's not much that I haven't seen, no, there's not.
I'm a long way from home and so all alone and I'm scared like I thought I'd never be. I'm a long way from home and everything is wrong Lord please watch over me.
If heartaches brought fame in love's crazy game. I'd be a legend in my time. If they gave gold statues for tears and regrets. I'd be a legend in my time.
Off to my right a freight train engine's screamin' to my left I hear a baby cry. To my devided soul they just add more confusion as I walk out into the night.
Hunky Dory Hunky Dory Hunky Dory it's all right with me. Time is a runnin' out with our love affair I can see it in your face it's everywhere. You haven't left a stone or turn and left not a bridge that haven't burnt.
Hot Rod Lincoln. . My pappy said, son, you're gonna drive me to drinkin'. If you don't stop drivin' that hot rod Lincoln. [ guitar ]. . Now you've heard the story of the hot-rod race.
So I stepped up for the weighin' I knew the scales were wrong. Cause you know how them drugstore scales get stepped on all day long. A little fortune card came out it bears upon my mind.
I know that you've heard people say many, many times. You don't pass through this world. But once you'll get yours and I'll get mine. But I've got a philosophy I believe I'd rather go by.
Watch for the postman to bring you a letter and don't you let that make you sad. You may not understand now but you will later I never meant to treat you bad.
The old hometown looks the same as I step down from the train. And there to meet me is my mama and my papa. And down the road I look and there runs Mary hair of gold and lips like cherries.
The wind and I have a lot in common it seems we're always in a race with time. We never know just where we're goin' or think about what we leave behind.
I was down and out as any man could be. Sleeping in a mission they have for guys like me. My shoes for a pillow beneath my head a cold hard mattress for my bed.
I've got a lot of memories to last the rest of my life. So if you don't want to love me baby that'll be all right. I'm gonna take all the loving that I have for you.
Some people don't know exactly where to go in. And they'll take the path that's easiest for the load. The quickest way to get there with the most is. They'll take the front of a bus the back of the church.