At the bottom of Green Mountain William Deacon stands and stares into the rain. With coal grey eyes yellow teeth and a face that shows the strain. Of his fight against the people who would cut Green Mountain down.
It's good to touch the green green grass of home. The old hometown looks the same as I step down from the train. There to meet me is my mama and papa.
I have thought I was a big big man much too big to cry. Then I fell in love with you thought you loved me too then you said goodbye. I can't forget the day that you walked away from your love I'll never be free.
Just at the close of a bright summer day just as the twilight had faded away. Soft on the breeze like the cool of a dove someone was singin' an old song of love.
Well, she's a friend, she's a lover. She's a woman, she's a wife. She's the answer to the prayer that every lonely man dreams of. She's a temptress, she's a lady.
She's up there in the cheap hotel I'm down here in the bar. I just slipped out and left her there before things went too far. I'd like to love her but I know what that would do to me.
I didn't know my baby love me so until that letter come to let me know. Now I pack my bags and then I'll go and catch a first train I see headin' south.
Oh, you tell me that you're leavin'. And tomorrow you'll be gone. But if you decide to change your mind. I'll be here, come on home. . You accused me that I cheated.
The Comancheros're takin' this land the Comancheros're takin' this land. Paul Regret of New Orleans a fast man with a gun. Didn't want to go but he had to run when he shot down the judge's son.
Tu du dup to do do do do too do do doo. I didn't know it was the bubbles in the wine. Or the touch of her lips that blew my mind. Cause I became a man of Chip'n Dale's Place.
Catch a little raindrop. (Catch a little raindrop). Catch a little raindrop. (And here's what you should do). . Give it to a flower. (Give it to a flower).
Way down on Mississippi big river. Came a mighty big man. He built a town on that river. And owned everything in that glen. . He fell in love and married a girl.
I got a big ole shoulder to cry on. So bring your big ole heartache to me. Don't go looking for someone else. 'Cause this is where you ought to be. . This is the first one that you'd cried on.
You can find me anytime that you want to. But I've been here so long nobody seems to want to. In this very room another man took the place of me. A room filled with beertops covered with teardrops that's where you'll find me.
In eighteen-fourteen we took a little trip. Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississipp'. We took a little bacon and we took a little beans.
This old house is falling down the board is rotten up from the ground. Anna Anna I wanna see my Anna. The bacon's cold the gravy's steamed to eat my cooking ain't same as it seemed.
Just walk on out the door it's all over. Forgiving you is just a waste of time. I don't believe that I'll live to regret it. 'Cause you're ancient history to this heart of mine.
Last night all alone in a barroom met a girl with a drink in her hand. She had ruby red lips and coal black hair and eyes that would tempt any man. Then she came and sat down at my table and as she placed her soft hand in mine.
Well, today I'm so weary, today I'm so blue. Sad and broken hearted and it's all because of you. Life was so sweet dear, life was a song. And now you've gone and left me, oh where do I belong?.
(Your cheatin' heart will tell on you). Your cheatin' heart will make you weep. You'll cry and cry and try to sleep. But sleep won't come the whole night through.