"Look Around You"


How do you like it
Being lonely
From what I see
You're someone who knows
Well, maybe you and I
Could get together
Then we won't be lonely anymore.

Look around you
See where you've been
You may never have to
Pass that way again
Look around you
If you need a friend
I might be the one
Who'll make your loneliness end.

Would you like to have someone to hold you
Someone to tell your troubles to
Someone to catch you if you've fallen
Someone who really cares for you.

Look around you
See where you've been
You may never have to
Pass that way again
Look around you
If you need a friend
I might be the one
Who'll make your loneliness end...

[Instrumental to fade]

"Looking Back"


Looking back, over my life
I can see where I caused you strife
But I know, yes, I know
I'd never make that same mistake again

Looking back, over my deeds
I can see signs of wise man heeds
And if I just have a chance
I'd never make that same mistake again.

Once my cup was overflowing
I gave nothing in return
Now, I can't begin to tell you
What a lesson I have learned.

Looking back over the slate
I can see love turn to hate
But I know, yes, I know
I'd never make that same mistake again.

[Instrumental]

But I know, yes, I know
I'd never make that same mistake again...

"Lord Have Mercy On A Country Boy"


Well, I grew up wild and free
Walkin' these fields in my bare feet
There wasn't no place I couldn't go
With a twenty-two rifle and a fishing pole.

[Chorus:]
Well, I live in the city but don't fit in
You know its a pity the shape I'm in
Well, I got no home and I got no choice
Oh Lord, have mercy on a country boy.

[Instrumental]

When I was young I remember well
I'd hunt the wild turkey and the bob-white quail
The river was clear and deep back then
And fishin' lines tied to the willow limb.

[Chorus:]
Well, I live in the city but don't fit in
You know its a pity the shape I'm in
Well, I got no home and I got no choice
Oh Lord, have mercy on a country boy.

[Instrumental]

Well, they dammed the river, they dammed the stream
They cut down the cypress and the sweet gum trees
There's a laundra' mat and a barber shop
And now the whole meadow is a parkin' lot.

[Chorus:]
Well, I live in the city but don't fit in
You know its a pity the shape I'm in
Well, I got no home and I got no choice
Oh Lord, have mercy on a country boy...

"Lord, I Hope This Day Is Good"



Lord, I hope this day is good
I'm feelin' empty and misunderstood
I should be thankful, Lord, I know I should
But Lord I hope this day is good

Lord, have you forgotten me
I've been prayin' to you faithfully
I'm not sayin' I'm a righteous man
But Lord I hope you understand

I don't need fortune and I don't need fame
Send down the thunder, Lord, send down the rain
But when you're plannin' just how it will be
Plan a good day for me

Lord, I hope this day is good
I'm feelin' empty and misunderstood
I should be thankful, Lord, I know I should
But Lord I hope this day is good

You've been the King since the dawn of time
All that I'm askin' is a little less crime
It might be hard for the devil to do
But it would be easy for you

Lord, I hope this day is good
I'm feelin' empty and misunderstood
I should be thankful, Lord, I know I should
But Lord I hope this day is good

"Louisiana Saturday Night"


[Chorus:]
Well, you get down the fiddle and you get down the bow
Kick off your shoes and you throw 'em on the floor
Dance in the kitchen 'til the morning light,
Louisiana Saturday night!

Waiting in the front yard sitting on a log,
A single shot rifle and a one eyed dog.
Yonder come the kinfolk, in the moonlight
Louisiana Saturday night!

[Chorus:]
Well, you get down the fiddle and you get down the bow
Kick off your shoes and you throw 'em on the floor
Dance in the kitchen 'til the morning light,
Louisiana Saturday night!

[Instrumental]

My brother Bill and my other brother Jack,
Belly full o' beer and a possum in a sack.
Fifteen kids in the front porch light,
Louisiana Saturday night!

When your kinfolks leave and the kids get fed,
Me an' my woman gonna slip off to bed.
Have a little fun when we turn off the light,
Louisiana Saturday night!

[Chorus:]
Well, you get down the fiddle and you get down the bow
Kick off your shoes and you throw 'em on the floor
Dance in the kitchen 'til the morning light,
Louisiana Saturday night!

[Chorus:]
Yeah, you get down the fiddle and you get down the bow
Kick off your shoes and you throw 'em on the floor
Dance in the kitchen 'til the morning light,
Louisiana Saturday night!

[Instrumental]

[Chorus:]
You get down the fiddle and you get down the bow
Kick off your shoes and you throw 'em on the floor
Dance in the kitchen 'til the morning light,
Louisiana Saturday night!..

"Love Is On A Roll"



I can't work late
Although I need the money
Gotta get home to my lovin honey
She'll be there waitin', waitin' impatiently
Love is on a roll
Love is on a good roll.

Usually I meet with the boys of Friday
Only this mornin' she said 'this is my day
The look she gave me sent a shiver down into my soul
Love is on a roll
Love is on a good roll.

Our love is on a roll
Our love is on a good roll.

I'm a songwriter a professional dreamer
Mostly a singer but sometimes a screamer
I should know if anybody knows at all
When love is on a roll
Love is on a good roll.

So I gotta go, I gotta get home early
Be with my woman, soft an curvy
Makes me feel like a king
And not a regular Joe
Love is on a roll
Love is on a good roll.

Love is on a roll
Love is on a good roll.

Our love is on a roll
Our love is on a good roll
Our love is on a roll
Our love is on a good roll.

Love is on a roll
Love is on a good roll.

Love is on a roll
Love is on a good roll.

"Love Me Over Again"



Likely as not, there's been better weather
I feel real sure, there's been better times
Right here tonight with you all around me
I'm so glad right now is mine.

Honey, tonight make it alright
Turn on your smile for me, for awhile
Take me away from where I have been
I know you love me, but love me over again.

You have the way to fill my emotions
Till there's not a word left in my mind
Times get so hard, so confusing
You make now a so much better time.

So honey tonight, make it alright
Turn on your smile, for me for awhile
Take me away from where I have been
I know you love me but love me over again.

Yeah, honey tonight, make it alright
Turn on your smile, for me for awhile
Take me away, from where I have been
I know you love me, but love me over again..

"Lovin' Understandin' Man"


My baby changes like the weather
One day she's warm and then she's cold
But someday I'll understand her better
In about a thousand years or so.

But as long as there's blue sky above me
As long as there's life in my hands
My baby knows I always will be
Her lovin' understandin' man.

My baby rocks me like the ocean
Don't know which way she's gonna go
But maybe someday she'll find direction
In about a thousand years or so.

But as long as there's blue sky above me
As long as there's life in my hands
My baby knows I always will be
Her lovin' understandin' man.

[Instrumental]

But as long as there's blue sky above me
As long as there's life in my hands
My baby knows I always will be
Her lovin' understandin' man...

"Loving You So Long Now"


I've been loving you so long now
What I'd give if I could see you once again
Just to throw my arms around you
And live those happy times again.

Lovely lady, it seemed so right
When I held you all through the night
I could see me forever loving you
I never thought of losing you.

'Cause, I've been loving you so long now
What I'd give if I could see you once again
Just to throw my arms around you
And live those happy times again.

[Instrumental]

Hungry lovers, we used to cling so tight
Whisper softly all through the night
And I remember so many loving days
I can't believe they've slipped away.

'Cause, I've been loving you so long now
What I'd give if I could see you once again
Just to throw my arms around you
And live those happy times again.

I've been loving you so long now
What I'd give if I could see you once again
Just to throw my arms around you...

"Loving You's Like Coming Home"


I've been rained on, I've been wind blown
Took a wrong road every now and then
I've been passed up, once or twice stuck
And I thought love was just around the bend
But lately my hope was wearing thin.

[Chorus:]
It's a lonesome and endless highway
I've been searching for so long
And after all the miles I've travelled
Loving you's like coming home.

I've been left flat, I've been laughed at,
Wound up right back where I started from.
Been the wrong way down a one way
And I thought some day my day would come.
But lately I'd almost given up.

[Chorus:]
It's a lonesome and endless highway
I've been searching for so long
And after all the miles I've travelled
Loving you's like coming home.

[Instrumental]

Well, I've been flagged down, I've been turned round
And all that I found was a dead end street.
I've been stranded, marked and branded,
Treated underhanded by everyone I meet.
But lately my dream is getting weak.

[Chorus:]
It's a lonesome and endless highway
I've been searching for so long
And after all the miles I've travelled
Loving you's like coming home.

[Chorus:]
It's a lonesome and endless highway
I've been searching for so long
And after all the miles I've travelled
Loving you's like coming home...

[Instrumental to fade]

"Maggie's Dream"


Maggie's up each morning at four a.m.
By five at the counter at the diner
Her trucker friends out on the road will soon be stoppin' in
As the lights go on at Cafe Carolina.

Maggie's been a waitress here most all her life
Thirty years of coffee cups and sore feet
The mountains around Ashville
She's never seen the other side
Closer now to fifty than to forty.

Maggie's never had a love
She said she's never had enough
Time to let a man into her life
Aw, but Maggie has a dream
She's had since she was seventeen
To find a husband and be a wife.

[Instrumental]

Maggie knows the truckers most by first name
What they'll have to say and what they'll order
And they take her in their stories to places far away
And leave her with the dishes, dreams and quarters.

Maggie's never had a love
She said she's never had enough
Time to let a man into her life
Aw, but Maggie has a dream
She's had since she was seventeen
To find a husband and be a wife.

And she relies upon the jukebox on the lonely afternoon
When the business starts to slow down
She plays the saddest tunes
And she stares off down the highway
And she wonders where it goes
Nobody to go home to
And it's almost time to close...

"Magic Carpet"


I wish we had a magic carpet
Together we could fly
We could sail away forever
And let the world go on by

If I had Aladdin's lantern,
Here's what I would do
I would gently, gently rub it
And make your dreams come true.

But I don't have a magic carpet
And magic lamps are hard to find
I can't conjure up a secret potion
To steal your heart and make you mine.

All I've got is a four leaf clover
It's my only good luck charm
And I get a magic feeling all over
When I'm lying in you arms.

[Repeat 3rd and 4th Verse]

"Maybe I Just Don't Know"



You came to me like a dove on the wing
As great as your beauty, was your freedom within
You said to me the things on your mind
But I couldn't help you, I couldn't unwind.

Maybe I should have held you, maybe I should have tried
Maybe I could have helped you through the night
Maybe I should know better, sometimes which way to go
Maybe I just don't know.

Sometimes the ground looks as hard as a rock
But sometimes it's muddy, so hard to walk
Sometimes the beauty is covered with snow
Sometimes the right seems the wrong way to go.

Maybe I should have held you, maybe I should have tried
Maybe I could have helped you through the night
Maybe I should know better, sometimes which way to go
Maybe I just don't know...

"Maybe That's All It Takes"



I'll love you forever and a day
That's what the love songs like to say
In love it seems, life is but a dream
When we started out it felt that way.

But it didn't take us very long
To find out the world is not a song
Life gets blue and love does too
You learn to forgive and just go on.

Maybe that's all it takes
Just letting go of the old mistakes
And holding on tight to the love we made
Maybe that's all it takes.

We've done our share of slamming doors
And wondering what were together for
Yes, we've been through a tear or two
For every tear I love you more.

And maybe that's all it takes
Just letting go of the old mistakes
Holding on tight to the love we made
Maybe that's all it takes.

Maybe that's all it takes
Just letting go of the old mistakes
Holding on tight to the love we made
Maybe that's all it takes...

"Miller's Cave"



Way down in the state of Georgia
Through the swamps and the everglades
There's a big hole in Tiger Mountain
God, help the man who gets lost in Miller's Cave.

I had a girl in Waycross Georgia
But she had unfaithful ways
She made me feel like I wasn't wanted
Like the bats and the bears in Miller's Cave.

I caught her out one Sunday morning
With a man they call big Dave
He's the meanest man in the state of Georgia
I'd rather fight a mountain lion in Miller's Cave.

I said you'll pay both you and David
I'm gonna see you in your grave
They laughed at me and then I shot 'em
I took their cheatin', schemin' bones to Miller's Cave.

Well, that woman made me feel unwanted
But I showed her I was brave
Most wanted man in the state of Georgia
They'll never find me 'cause I'm lost in Miller's Cave.

"Miracles"


Miracles, Miracles
That's what life's about
Most of you must agree
If you've thought it out.

I can see and I can hear
I can tell you why
I can think and I can feel
I can even cry
I can walk, I can run
I can swim the sea
We have made a baby son
And he looks like me.

[Instrumental]

Miracles, Miracles
That's what life's about
Most of you must agree
If you've thought it out.

But who is rich and who is poor
Who has more than me
Well, I have quite enough to win
My mind is free.

Miracles, Miracles
That's what life's about
I found you and you found me
We are not without
We are not without
We are withou it I'm happy
We are not without
We are not without I'm so happy
We are not without...

hmmm hmmm.....[till fade]

"Missing You, Missing Me"


Love is gone but not forgotten
Memories are very much alive
Life goes on and life goes well
But I wonder if I'll ever lose, the pain of missing you.

Mising you it won't let me be
Wishing you were missing me
Missing you I'll never be free
From missing you missing me.

You were here and then you left me
Well, who's to say where anyone belongs
I know now that I'll get by
But I wonder if I'll ever lose, the pain of missing you.

Mising you it won't let me be
Wishing you were missing me
Missing you I'll never be free
From missing you missing me.

[Instrumental to fade]

"Mistakes"


People tell me, boy you're crazy
Some people say that I'm nuts
For trying to get back together with you baby
They say that once is enough.

I never should have left you
'Cause now I need you
Sometimes it happens that way
I come back like a fool who's believing
No matter what they might say.

I don't want to hear another word
Don't need your well thought out advice
Though I thank you all for being kind
I can make mistakes, myself just fine.

[Instrumental]

I've got a good friend
Who knows my trouble
He thinks I'm wasting my time
Go out and have some fun
She's not the only one
But I can't leave her behind.

So, I don't want to hear another word
Don't need your well thought out advice
Though I thank you all for being kind
I can make mistakes, myself just fine.

I don't want to hear another word
Don't need your well thought out advice
Though I thank you all for being kind
I can make mistakes, myself just fine.

No, I don't want to hear another word
Don't need your well thought out advice
Though I thank you all for being kind
I can make mistakes, myself just fine...

"My Heart To You"



You give to me what life should be for everyone.
You're my pepper, you're my salt, my favorite tea.
You're my sunset on the ocean, my desert dawn.
So much of you is now a part of me.

I know a greater power must have noticed me,
And decided I would meet someone like you.
No-one on this planet thought we could ever be,
Till He gave my heart to you, and yours to me.

You've given us our children and a recipe:
For you and I, love comes naturally.
My love is somehow different than I'd have it be,
An' it's workin' on my heart, not into me.

So I know a greater power must have noticed me,
And decided I would meet someone like you.
No-one on this planet thought we could ever be,
Till He gave my heart to you, and yours to me.

"My Rifle, My Pony And Me"


The sun is sinking in the west
The cattle go down to the stream
The redwing settle in their nest
Its time for a cowboy to sing.

Purple light in the canyon
That's where I long to be
With my three good companions
Jus' my rifle, my pony and me.

Whiporwill in the willow
Sings a sweet melody
Ridin' to Amarillo
Jus' my rifle, my pony and me.

[Instrumental]

No more cows to be ropin'
Nor more strays will I see
'Round the bend she'll be waitin'
For my rifle, my pony and me.

For my rifle, my pony and me...