"Such A Lovely Lady"


Last night I came home and found you there
You with your pretty eyes and shinin' hair
Look at you, you're the kind of woman men stop and stare
Such a lovely lady to be mine.

Such a lovely lady should be somewhere else
It seems to me, the likes of me, isn't hard to find.

Sometimes going home, though it's not fair
I stop and have a drink or two, to see who's there
But when I do you're the kind of woman
I just leave them there
You're such a lovely lady to be mine.

[Instrumental]

Such a lovely lady should be somewhere else
It seems to me, the likes of me, isn't hard to find.

Last night I came home and found you there
You with your pretty eyes and shinin' hair
Look at you, you're the kind of woman men stop and stare
You're such a lovely lady to be mine.

Such a lovely lady to be mine...

"Sweet Fever"


I've been feelin' funny
Shakin' like a leaf
I don't know what's wrong
But something's strong
Sure got a hold on me.

Sun lights up my morning
Moon lights up my night
And I light up when
Your name comes up
I feel all funny inside.

I got a sweet fever
Comin' all over me
I got a sweet fever
I wonder what can it be?

I don't know what happens
But you come walking by
I can't speak
My knees get weak
I feel half paralysed.

My temperature keeps rising
My head is feeling light
I sing love songs
All day long
I toss and turn all night.

I got a sweet fever
Comin' all over me
I got a sweet fever
I wonder what can it be?

[Instrumental]

I got a sweet fever
Comin' all over me
I got a sweet fever
I wonder what can it be?

I got a sweet fever
Comin' all over me
I got a sweet fever
I wonder what can it be?..

"Take It Easy On Yourself"


There's two hundred people pushin' up daisies
In the graveyard out back of the old Baptist church
There were some schemers, some sinners and dreamers
And not one died wishin' they spent more time at work.

[Chorus:]
Take it easy on yourself
The world will keep turnin'
Without any help
I love you better than anyone else
Take it easy on yourself.

Leave all the old tears, the good times and lost years
The guilt and the heartache right where they are
I got no hard lesson just love without question
So right now just lay down in these open arms.

[Chorus:]
Take it easy on yourself
The world will keep turnin'
Without any help
I love you better than anyone else
Take it easy on yourself.

Unhook your burden let it all free
Sometimes life's harder than it ought to be.

[Instrumental]

I got no hard lesson just love without question
So right now just lay down in these open arms.

[Chorus:]
Take it easy on yourself
The world will keep turnin'
Without any help
I love you better than anyone else
Take it easy on yourself.

Take it easy on yourself...

"Talk Is Cheap"


Talk about life, talk about death
Talk about catching every breath
Talk about when, and talk about why!
Talk about do, and talk about don’t
Talk about will and talk about won’t
Talk about the sweet… bye and bye

[Chorus:]
Well, talk is cheap and times are wasting
Get busy living or at least die trying
Wine is for tasting, roads for taking
Talk is cheap and times are wasting!

Talk about right, and talk about wrong
Talk about trying to get along
Talk about the way it all would be.
Talk about now, and talk about then
Talk about everywhere you’ve been
Talk about being free.

[Chorus x2:]
Well, talk is cheap and times are wasting
Get busy living or at least die trying
Wine is for tasting, roads for taking
Talk is cheap and times are wasting!

"Tears Of The Lonely"



Faded pictures, yellow from time
Well worn memories of days gone by
Needing someone and nobody's there
These are the things
Broken dreams are made of,
Lord they're everywhere.

Oh, the tears of the lonely
Keep falling all the time,
Tears of the lonely
Never dry.

Another nighttime that just never ends
A helpless longing for what might have been
Another morning to face all alone
These are the things
Broken dreams are made of,
They go on and on.

Oh, the tears of the lonely
Keep falling all the time,
Tears of the lonely
Never dry.

Oh, the Tears of the lonely
Keep falling all the time,
Tears of the lonely
Never dry...

"Tempted"


Tempted, tempted, tempted to fall in again
Tempted, tempted, I'm tempted to fall in love again.

Sometimes love, can hurt you bad
Make you stop and wonder what you really had
But I guess it's all part of the master plan
To be tempted to fall in love again.

Tempted, tempted, tempted to fall in again
Tempted, tempted, I'm tempted to fall in love again.

[Instrumental]

When I miss love the most it's late at night
When the party is over and everything gets quiet
Then the memory of love starts burnin' in my brain
And I'm tempted to fall in love again.

Tempted, tempted, tempted to fall in again
Tempted, tempted, I'm tempted to fall in love again...

"That Song About The River"



I have seen the paddle wheelers
Rolling south on a summers' day.
I've seen the lovers at the guardrails
With stars in their lemonade
And I've heard the hobo's gather,
Heard their banjo's brace the blade.
Heard them sing about the river,
Called it the lazy man's parade.

Sing me that song about the river,
Green going away.
You know I always did feel like a drifter
'Bout this time of day.

Last night I stood by the highway,
Pretended I was on my way.
You know a hundred thousand headlights
Couldn't match the milky way
And when the moonlight touches the water,
Surely somethin' touches me
And I go reachin' for the river
Like it's reachin' for the sea.

So, Sing me that song about the river,
Green going away.
You know I always did feel like a drifter
'Bout this time of day.

Somethings go on forever
But truth don't ever stray.
The wind may brush the water
But the river won't persuade.

So, Sing me that song about the river,
Green going away.
You know I always did feel like a drifter
'Bout this time of day...

"That's The Thing About Love"



Sometimes you feel lost and far from home
Then with just one kiss you're a king on a throne
It can make you soar like an eagle
Or it can make you feel as meek as a dove
Whoa, that's the thing about love.

You hope and pray the right one comes along
Some fools don't know what they've got till its gone
The very one you think will never hurt ya
Always seems to be, the one that does
Whoa, that's the thing about love.

You can't have it
Until you give it
You can never give it enough
Whoa, that's the thing about love.

Naw, you can't have it
Until you give it
You can never give it enough

Well, next time you come in a natural flow
Deep in the feelin's with your heart all aglow
Don't stop to try to understand it
Just thank your lucky stars, shinin' above, and say
Whoa, that's the thing about love.

Whoa, that's the thing about love...

"The Answer"



For the life of me
You know I can't recall
My father giving mighty words of wisdom
But the more I live I see
The greatest gift of all
Is how I always knew for sure he was listening
To a million questions I felt like a fool to ask
And when I'd ask him for an answer, he'd just laugh

And say the more I learn
The more I learn how little that I know
But I'm close to understanding
Just how far I have to go
We give our hearts
We take our chances
And know the fool ain't the one with all the questions
To tell the truth, it's someone who believes they have the answers

In the years since then
When my children come
Pouring out their hearts
This old world has broken
I do the listening
I've seen what good it's done
When less not more is spoken
And when they press me hard to tell them what the answer is
I remember well and simply offer this

And say 'the more I learn
The more I learn how little that I know
But I'm close to understanding
Just how far I have to go
We give our hearts
We take our chances
And know the fool ain't the one with all the questions
To tell the truth, it's someone who believes they have the answers

And say 'the more I learn
The more I learn how little that I know
But I'm close to understanding
Just how far I have to go
We give our hearts
We take our chances
And know the fool ain't the one with all the questions
To tell the truth, it's someone who believes they have the answers

"The Flood (Wish I Was In Nashville)"


I went to see my honeydew,
She lived just down the way
I got stuck and the truck froze up
And I only got half way.

Sittin' here on the muddy road,
Stuck here all alone
The rain won't stop it's a beatin' on the top
And I should have stayed at home.

I wish I was in Nashville,
Guitar on my back
Maybe someday I will
Ride in the back of a big Cadillac. uh huh.

Must have been a half a day,
Before I got back home
The roads all mud the creeks gonna flood
And I'm here all alone

Sure feels good a gettin' back
To my old shack again
But I'm all soaked and the radios broke
And the rain keeps pouring in.

I wish I was in Nashville,
Guitar on my back
Maybe someday I will
Ride in the back of a big Cadillac. uh huh.

[Instrumental]

I wish I was in Nashville,
Guitar on my back
Maybe someday I will
Ride in the back of a big Cadillac. uh huh...

"The Letter"


Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane
I ain't got time to take a fast train
Lonely days are gone I'm a goin' home
My baby jus' wrote me a letter.

I don't care how much money I gotta spend
I got to get back to my baby again
Lonely days are gone I'm a goin' home
My baby jus' wrote me a letter.

Well, she wrote me a letter
Said she couldn't live without me no more
Listen mister can't you see
I gotta get back to my baby once more
Any way, yeah,

Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane
I ain't got time to take a fast train
Lonely days are gone I'm a goin' home
My baby jus' wrote me a letter.

[Instrumental]

Well, she wrote me a letter
Said she couldn't live without me no more
Listen mister can't you see
I gotta get back to my baby once more
Any way, yeah.

Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane
I ain't got time to take a fast train
Lonely days are gone I'm a goin' home
My baby jus' wrote me a letter.

My baby jus' wrote me a letter...

"The Light In Your Eyes"



Honey when the light's not in your eyes
Just makes me want to cry
Cause I know what's ahead for me and you
Even after all that we've been through

When your eyes don't want to see me
When your arms don't hold me near
When your lips won't speak to soothe me
Cause the light's not shining clear

When your eyes don't want to see me
When your arms don't hold me near
When your lips won't speak to soothe me
Cause the light's not shining clear

I wish I had the magic words to say
So the light would never go away
It's so hard for me to realize
My world is in the light that's in your eyes.
It's so hard for me to realize
It depends upon the light that's in your eyes.

"The Long Black Veil"



Ten years ago on a cold dark night
A man was killed 'neath the town hall light
There were few at the scene but they all agreed
That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me.

The judge said, Son what is your alibi?
If you were somewhere else then you won't have to die
Well, I spoke not a word though it meant my life
For I had been in the arms of my best friends wife.

She walks these hills in a long black veil
She visits my grave when the night winds wail
Nobody knows, nobody sees,
Nobody knows, but me.

The scaffold is high an eternity nears
She stood in the crowd, shed not a tear
But sometimes at night when the cold winds moan
She comes to my grave and she cries on my bones.

She walks these hills in a long black veil
She visits my grave when the night winds wail
Nobody knows, nobody sees,
Nobody knows, but me...

"The Long Walk From Childhood"



Sandman, Candyman, Jesus and Dad, a furry soft bed to hold.
Puppy paws, Santa Clause, an' not being bad, believing in what you're told.
Oh the world of a child is all black and white, and prayers are easy to say,
No shades of grey, cloud wrong and right. I followed life that way.
On the long walk from childhood, the long walk from childhood.

Time flies, eager eyes, hungry to see, find holes in holy things.
Idols fall, one and all, and truth is a cheat that dances on puppet strings.
And the soldiers gun is a mockery, of the Sunday prayers that we prayed,
Wrong is right and right is wrong, I measured life that way.
On the long walk from childhood, the long walk from childhood.

Answer-man, Preacher-man, thinker and Bum, life is a market place.
Hear them cry, will you buy, and march to my drum, we'll save the human race.
So I hum the words and I dance the tune, and change a bit every day.
Find the truth where I can, if I can, each step along the way.
On the long walk from childhood, the long walk from childhood.

"The Old Trail"



There's a new ridge road
That cuts the mountain to the bone.
Slices through the woods
Like there ain't nobody home.
You can wheel on up the valley view.
You'll never feel the climb.
Oh, but I'll take the old trail every time.

The old trail,
Just mosies right along,
Moves at the speed of
A sweet love song
And the wind through the trees
Carries her own wind chimes.
Yeah, I'll take the old trail every time.

Lately it seems things vanish by degrees.
How soon we forget
We made our tree houses out of trees.
When we going to realize
Some reasons just don't rhyme.
Yeah, I take the old trail every time.

The old trail.
Now may she never fade.
The one where the deer
Always have the right of way.
How I love to watch the wintergreen
Along the timber lines.
Yea, I'll take the old trail every time.

People in cars
Let the radios do the talking
But I always find
That I'm singing when I'm walking.

The old trail
Just moses right along.
Moves at the speed of
A sweet love song
And the wind
Through the trees
Carries her own wind chimes.
Yeah, I'll take the old trail every time.

I take the old trail every time...

"The Rose"



Some say love it is a river
that drowns the tender reed
Some say love it is a razer
that leaves your soul to bleed

Some say love it is a hunger
an endless aching need
I say love it is a flower
and you it's only seed

It's the heart afraid of breaking
That never learns to dance
It's the dream afraid of waking
That never takes the chance
It's the one who won't be taken
Who cannot seem to give
And the soul afraid of dying
That never learns to live

When the night has been too lonely
And the road has been too long
And you think that love is only
For the lucky and the strong
Just remember in the winter
Far beneath the bitter snows
Lies the seed
That with the sun's love
In the spring
Becomes the rose

"The Story Of My Life"



Someday I'm gonna write
The story of my life
I'll tell about the night we met
And how my heart can't forget
The way you smiled at me.

I want the world to know
The story of my life
The moment when your lips met mine
And that first exciting time
I held you close to me.

The sorrow in our love was breakin' up
The mem'ry of a broken heart
But later on, the joy of makin' up
Never never more to part.

There's one thing left to do
Before my story's through
I've got to take you for my wife
So the story of my life
Can start and end with you.

The sorrow in our love was breakin' up
The mem'ry of a broken heart
And later on, the joy of makin' up
Never never more to part.

There's one thing left to do
Before my story's through
I've got to take you for my wife
So the story of my life
Can start and end.

Can start and end
Can start and end with you...

"The Ties That Bind"



Knowing you, you stand by me
Through good and bad
Makes all the difference, in my life
Day by day, sweetheart I find
These are the ties, that bind

The little things you do, that please me so
Oh, the way you always understand
When simple joys, bring peace of mind
These are the ties, that bind

You're all I need, to see me through
Can I say more, than this my love?
I will live just, for your kiss my love
And I live, for your kiss my love

Forever and a day, my love will live
Oh, the flame of love will never die
So heart and soul, please say you're mine
Held by the ties, that bind...

"Then It's Love"


Some people say that love is a rose
Maybe they've hit it right on the nose
But other folks say that it's like the sun
Well, a long time ago daddy said to me
I'll help you clear up the mystery
I'll give you a simple rule of thumb.

If it knocks you off your feet
Then it's love, then it's love
If it makes your life complete
Then it's love, then it's love
If it turns you upside down
Then it's love, then it's love.
If it makes your world go 'round
Then it's love.

The dictionary won't tell you much
If love is the word you're looking up
I don't believe that the definition's right
And the encyclopedia won't reveal
The crazy way you start to feel
Kissing on a moonlit summers night.

If it knocks you off your feet
Then it's love, then it's love
If it makes your life complete
Then it's love, then it's love
If it turns you upside down
Then it's love, then it's love
If it makes your world go 'round
Then it's love.

[Instrumental]

So gonna say that love is a game
Maybe compare it to a flame
Or say it's a medicine that heals
But a band of experts could fight all night
And never figure out which one is right
But they'd agree on how it makes you feel.

If it knocks you off your feet
Then it's love, then it's love
If it makes your life complete
Then it's love, then it's love
If it turns you upside down
Then it's love, then it's love
If it makes your world go 'round
Then it's love.

Well, if it makes your world go 'round
Then it's love. ooh ooh ooh...

"This Side Of The Sun"


I thought I'd be an angel
And fly on astral skies
I thought I'd wear a fanciful disguise
And It's taken me a lotta time
To find out I'm not one
An outlaw on the run,
On this side of the sun.

I hoped I'd be a champion
And live without a care
I thought I'd change the world,
Make it just and fair
But my youth slipped by before my eyes
Much to my surprise
Before I had begun,
On this side of the sun.

Out on this end of the wind
Winter's coming 'round the bend
You pray for rain, before you know,
You're standin' in a foot of snow
So you pull your coat up to your chin
Pick your shovel up again
'Cause your work is never done,
On this side of the sun.

[Instrumental]

I took it to a fortune teller
I thought that she might help me
She looked into my eyes
And smiled mysteriously
But she didn't know as much as me
I stared back, dejectedly
'Cause I know where she's from,
This side of the sun.

Out behind these prison walls,
Dark clouds come and hard rains fall
You pause a moment for a dream,
They row you gently down the stream
You wake up angry in the night,
Jump up, ready for the fight
But the war is never won
On this side of the sun.

Now they tell me music
Can free a person's soul
So I sing a song everywhere I go
But It's not much different than before
I'm still looking for the door
I wonder if there is one,
On this side of the sun...