(C.W. McCall, Bill Fries, Chip Davis). . One green April mornin', when I was a young boy. I lay by the window, a-watchin' the rain. And I wondered if ever the sun would come shinin'.
(Chip Davis, Bill Fries). . On a cold November mornin'. Back in nineteen-thirty-seven. With an early snow a-fallin'. On the three-foot tracks at Ames.
(Ron Agnew). . The cowboy will never get married to you, girl. It's the fightin' that he just can't bear. But when there's women and whisky and beer-drinkin' brawls.
Well, in eighteen-fourteen we took a little trip. Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip. We took a little bacon and we took a little beans.
(C.W. McCall, Bill Fries, Chip Davis). . Dum da-da-dah dum da-da-dah dum da-da-dah dum-dum. Dum da-da-dah dum da-da-dah dum da-da-dah da-da-da. . Dum dum da-dum-dum-da-dum.
(Ron Agnew). . Take my duds to the junkman. Give 'im ev'rything I got. Take my brass belt buckle an' my turquoise ring. I gotta get out while I'm hot.
Me an' Earl was workin' the superslab outside a' that Ogallala?. When outta town come a local clown in a '65 Impala. Had a 'coon tail flyin' off a' his whip antenna.
(Bill Fries, Chip Davis). . Well, I found him on the corner of Seventh and Main. In the Iowa township of Sloan (Township of Sloan...). He's tired, and he's hungry, he's old, and he's grungy.
(C.W. McCall, Bill Fries, Chip Davis). . When the snow falls on Christmas Eve,. And everything's white. I sit by the window,. And remember another night.
She was born one mornin' on a Sun Juan summer back in 18-an'-80-an'-1. She was a beautiful daughter of the D & RG and she weighed about a thousand ton.
(C.W. McCall, Bill Fries, Chip Davis). . Well, now, pay attention people. Just in case you hadn't heard. There's some folks messin' 'round. With Mother Nature's little world, baby.
(C.W. McCall, B. Fries, C. Davis). From the album Wilderness. . [C.W. clears his throat.]. Roy. By C.W. McCall.. . [The only musical instrument heard is the plucking of a Jew's harp.].
Well, I had two weeks vacation comin'. So I thought I'd drive down to Florida. Spend some time with an old friend, date a few girls. Make a few parties, and just kinda live it up again.
(Bill Fries, Chip Davis). . From the album Wolf Creek Pass. . When the skies are gray, and the wind is cold, I remember. How the snow was silver, and the leaves were gold when I left her. It was early mornin', on a Rocky Mountain September. And she was gone..
(C.W. McCall, Bill Fries, Chip Davis). . One cold, black night of a Colorado winter. It snowed on Red Mountain Pass. We warned ev'rybody that the Slide was runnin'.
(C.W. McCall, Bill Fries, Chip Davis). . YEE-HAW! Merciful sakes alive! You wanna be one a' them CBers, you gonna learn how to ratchetjaw! Pay attention now; I'm only gonna explain it to ya once..
Well, the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Carried the story in BIG HEADLINES. How Kansas City George was robbed that day. When Tar Baby Billy took his bat away.
(Bob Duncan, Jeff Durrill). . Well, they're rompin' down in Austin. And they call it "Western Swing". They even wrote a song that says. "Bob Wills is still the king".
(C.W. McCall, B. Fries, C. Davis). . Did you see me at Westport Landing. On the wide Missouri shore?. Did you hear the west wind calling. In the spring of forty-four?.