"Shutting Out The Light"


I left the light in my window
Burning bright for you
And the door to this heart of mine
I left that open too.

We once had a love together
I believe that it was true
But now you search for somethin' better
So I'm shutting out the light on you.

Yes, I'm shutting out the light in my window
Locking up the heart that beats for you
This heart of mine can't take it any longer
So I'm shutting out the light on you.

[Instrumental]

I still recall when you told me
But I've made your every dream come true
But we now are dreaming of another
But baby, are you only foolin' you?

If I had a chance I'd wait forever
There's no use pursuing what's not true
This heart of mine can't take it any longer
So I'm shutting out the light on you.

Yes, I'm shutting out the light in my window
Locking up the heart that beats for you
This heart of mine can't take it any longer
So I'm shutting out the light on you...

"Sick And Tired"



Oh baby, tell me what you gonna do
Oh baby, tell me what you gonna do
I'm sick and tired
From foolin' round with you.

Get up every morning pick up somethin' to eat
I'm gonna go to work and you brush your teeth
Come home in the evenin' and you're still in bed
Got a rag tied round your head.

Oh baby, tell me what you're gonna do
I'm sick and tired a foolin' round with you.

It's the last time I'm tellin' you
Better change your ways
Last time I'm tellin' you
I mean what to say.

Last time I'm tellin' you you better stop to try
You're gonna find yourself outside
Oh baby, tell me what you're gonna do
I'm sick and tired from fooin' round with you.

"Sight For Sore Eyes"
(performed with Jessi Colter)



I knew the day i met you
Where i stood
There was no way that you
Would stay for good
But when you left
I just kept hanging in
Praying that i see you
Once again
And you sure are a sight
For sore eyes
Just seeing you again is worth
Every tear i cried
Oh don't keep me waiting
Come inside
You sure are a sight
For sore eyes

Just take me in your arms
and don't explain
And kiss away the teardrops
And the pain
Don't feel that theirs a thing
You need to say
Your here and that's
What matters anyway

You sure are a sight
For sore eyes
Just seeing you again is worth
Every tear i cried
Oh don't keep me waiting
Come inside
You sure are a sight
For sore eyes
You sure are a sight
For sore eyes

"Silent Partners"



He stands in the doorway, his hands upon his hips
She stands by the jukebox, a sweet smile on her lips
He slowly walks up to her, she reaches out for him
It's almost like some magnet is pulling both of them

Then he says, and she says

Silent partners, they don't say a word
She is the adjective and he is the verb
They speak with their bodies and they talk with their eyes
They don't make no promises so they don't tell no lies
Silent partners, silent partners

Later in their love nest at half past ecstasy
They cling to each other and lie there silently
She would like to tell him what she feels in her heart
And he would like to bare his soul but don't know where to start

So he says, and she says

Silent partners, they don't say a word
She is the adjective and he is the verb
They speak with their bodies and they talk with their eyes
They don't make no promises so they don't tell no lies
Silent partners, silent partners, silent partners, silent partners

"Silver Ribbons"



Travelin' down this lonesome railroad
Silver Ribbons with no ends
A million miles a crossties
Mark a million miles I've been.

I've picked peaches down in Georgia
Apples up in Maine
Pulled cotton out in Texas
Ridin' on the train.

I was just a lad of seventeen
My daddy turned me loose
Silver ribbons callin' me
Engine and caboose.

I can't recall my mother
She left when I was two
Brunetts, blondes and red heads
Were the only love I knew.

Don't ask me where I'm going
Don't ask me where I've been
Those silver ribbons will take me there
There and back again.

One more time back again

Travelin' to the tune of freight wheels
Is such a lonely sound
Hear that lonesome whistle blow
As leavin' another town.

I wish someone was waitin'
Somewhere to welcome me
Then those silver ribbons
Would see no more of me.

Don't ask me where I'm going
Don't ask me where I've been
Those silver ribbons will take me there
There and back again...

"Sing The Blues To Daddy"



Come on home and sing the blues to daddy
Tell it all to one who understands.

I hear that your new romance has faded
Just the way ours did sometime ago
I've lost count of all the times I've waited
For you to tell me that you've missed me so.

Come on home and sing the blues to daddy
When things don't work out the way you planned
Come on home and sing the blues to daddy
Tell it all to one who understands.

Like a child that's found a brand new plaything
Each one is more fun than those before
But there's a faithful one who's always waiting
To be picked up and kicked around once more.

Come on home and sing the blues to daddy
Tell it all to one who understands.

Come on home and sing the blues to daddy
Tell it all to one who understands...

"Singer Of Sad Songs"



Widow Jones couldn't make it on her own
Frank was 'lectrafied leaving six kids half grown
In her misery she sent for me the singer of sad songs
And I sympathized and eulogized Frank Jones.

And she cried singer of sad songs
I need your services today
Doctor of broken hearts I'll wash your clothes
And mend your socks for your pay.

Farmer Brown had always dreamed of city lights
Mini skirts on pretty girls were in his sights
So one early morn he left his corn to harvest a field of sin
Mrs. Brown called me shortly after three a.m..

And she cried singer of sad songs
I need your services today
Doctor of broken hearts got some
Early hybrid corn for your pay.

Lovely Lucy sat there sippin' a glass of wine
She was at the church waitin' till after nine
But the groom to be was somewhere free with a case of yellow spine.
Lovely Lucy she's still a virgin and that's a crime.

And she cried singer of sad songs
I need your services today
Doctor of broken hearts got a
Slightly used diamond for your pay...

"Six Strings Away"


In days gone by but not forgotten
I plowed in the fields and I pulled in the cotton
Things you'd never think I've done when you see me now
I pick and sing and they think I'm a star
But every time I look down at my old guitar
I know I'm just six strings away from that same ol' plow.

I drive a new Royce Rolls
Buy them tailor made clothes
How long will good times stay
A poor boy ways
And hard time days
Just six strings away.

[Instrumental]

I met a girl 'bout a year ago
In a little country town where I played a show
And though I love her I still wonder just what she'd do
If I laid that old guitar down
How long would she hang around?
Or is she just six strings away from someone new.

Well, them six little strings
Buy rings and good things
But how long would she stay
If she knew poor boy ways
And and hard time days
Just six strings away...

"Six White Horses"



Come here and look through the window over he
Open up the shatters tell me watch you see
Was that his knock that I heard at the door
Or is it six white horses coming down the road.

Come here and touch me and say that it's all right
You know that to my eyes the days are as the the nights
Read again the letter that tells me that he's gone
To hell with the fighting I want my son home.

I taught him to fish and I taught him to be strong
Taught him that killing any man is wrong
But tomorrow in battle I'd run to where he stood
If the help of a blind man do any good.

Last night I went to this room for a while
I touched all the things that he used as a child
I rock the cradle where he used to lay
I'd found these tin soldiers and threw them away.

Come here and look through the window over he
Open up the shatters tell me watch you see
Was that his knock that I heard at the door
Or is it six white horses coming down the road...

"Slow Movin' Outlaw"



All your ol' stations are being torn down
And the high flying trains no longer roar
The floors're all sagging with boards a suffering
From not being used anymore.

Things're all changing the world's rearranging
A time that will soon be no more
Where has a slow movin'
Once quickdraw outlaw got to go?

The whiskey that once settled the dust
And tasted so fine now taste so faint
And the mem'ries that once floated out come back stronger
More clearly with each drink you take.

The women that warmed you once thought
So pretty now look haggard and old
Where has a slow movin'
Once quickdraw outlaw got to go?

The land where I travel once fashion with beauty
Now stands with scars on her face
The wide open spaces are closing in quickly
From the ways of the whole human race.

And it's not that I blame them for claiming her bounty
I just wish they're takin' it slow
'Cause where has a slow movin'
Once quick draw outlaw got to go?

Where has a slow movin'
Once quick draw outlaw got to go?...

"Slow Rollin' Low"



I got a slow rollin' low
Ain't a mother would want me
Done got me so down bent out of round
Don't know my head from my toes.

Ain't a hand here to hold
Ain't a shoulder to cry on
Ain't a lesson to learn or a corner to turn
Twixt the dyin' and me.

Lord, I wanted to be
Something you could depend on
Lawdy, Lawd, woe is me
Ain't a body would care.

I got a slow rollin' low
Forgot the words to my song
Ain't that just like a fool to want a ride
On them trains when the train is all gone.

"Small Packages"



Tall, don't always mean bigger
Short, don't ever mean small
If you make up your mind you never can tell
You could be the biggest and the bestest of all.

'Cause some things come in small packages
Sometimes heroes do too
If you have the courage and you have the heart
That hero just might be you.

Loud, don't always mean stronger
Shy, don't ever mean weak
The less you can say sometimes can mean more
If you choose to use the right words to speak.

'Cause some things come in small packages
Sometimes heroes do too
If you have the courage and you have the heart
That hero just might be you.

Some things come in small packages
Sometimes heroes do too
If you have the courage and you have the heart
That hero just might be you...

"Smokey On Your Front Door"



You got a Smokey on your front door
A Smokey on your back door, too
Lord-a-mercy, Buddy, I wouldn't wanna be in your shoes
I can hear you talkin', I can hear you singin' the blues
You got a Smokey on your front door
A Smokey on your back door, too

You got a woman on the East Coast
One on the coast out West
One wants a baby, one wants a brand new dress
No way around it, you're gonna spend some money,I guess
With a woman on the East Coast
One on the coast out West

Diesel is up, the freight is down
I believe they're jerkin' you boys around
Somebody oughta tell 'em if they don't know
Little wheels turnin' makes a big wheel roll

You got a Smokey on your front door
A Smokey on your back door, too
Lord-a-mercy, Buddy, I wouldn't wanna be in your shoes
I can hear you talkin', I can hear you singin' the blues
You got a Smokey on your front door
A Smokey on your back door, too

"So Good Woman"



Just so good woman Lord you're just too good for me
The way I am is the way I'll always be
You know I'll run around all of my life
You could've done better cause you been a good wife
You're so good woman Lord you're just too good for me.

You're so good lookin' Lord you could've done better than me
You're so good lookin' no you could've done better than me
Look at them men lookin' you too while you're lookin' at me and I'm happy you do
You're so good lookin' Lord you could've done better than me, yeah.

Look at the man lookin' at you too
But you're lookin' at me Lord, I'm happy you do
You're so good lookin' Lord you could've done better than me
And you're so good woman you're just too good for me...

"So You Want To Be A Cowboy Singer"
(performed with Tony Joe White)



[Tony:]
City light are shining like diamonds
Coming from the southwestern lows
Big jet engines screaming like ten thousand horses
Another town, another show.

[Waylon:]
I don't talk about the women that I've known from time to time
You know that I just can't be alone
You know there's no one waiting for me anywhere
That I love, like I love the one at home, love the one at home.

[Chorus:]
So you want to be a cowboy singer
It can make you rich or make you poor
Just turn it loose, let it out, and hook em' down the road
There's always room for one more.

[Waylon & Tony:]
Sometimes when I look into the mirror
I can see that I've been crazy now and then
The lines on my face won't tell you where I'm going
But it sure as hell can tell you where I've been.

[Chorus:]
So you want to be a cowboy singer
Pick them ol' guitars every night
If you're ever down around Corpus Christi Texas
Be sure to tell them all, I said, ''Hi.''
"tell 'em me an' ol' Waylon said hi.''...

"Song For The Life"



I don't drink as much as I ought to
Lately it just ain't my style
And the hard times don't hurt like they used to
They pass quicker like when I was a child.

And somehow I've learned how to listen
And it sounds like the sun going down
In the magic that morning is bringing
There's a song for the life I have found.
It keeps my feet on the ground.

The mid summer days ain't so heavy
They just flow like a breeze through your mind
And nothing appears in a hurry
To make up for some old lonesome time.

And somehow I've learned how to listen
And it sounds like the breeze dying down
In the magic that morning is bringing
There's a song for a friend that I have found.

She keeps my feet on the ground...

"Sorrow (Breaks A Good Man Down)"


Disappointments weigh so heavy
Leave it's wreckage all around
Once a good man, once respected
Sorrow breaks a good man down.

Had a good love, had a good life
Now the sadness all around
Dread the darkness, hate the daylight
Sorrow breaks a good man down.

I remember all the good times
When the world was ours to claim
Then she left me, took the sunshine
Every night wind speaks her name.

Can't stop loving, can't stop living
There's no answer to be found
No ambition, just existing
Sorrow breaks a good man down.

[Instrumental]

I remember all the good times
When the world was ours to claim
Then she left me, took the sunshine
Every night wind speaks her name.

Can't stop loving, can't stop living
There's no answer to be found
No ambition, just existing
Sorrow breaks a good man down.

Sorrow breaks a good man down...

"Spanish Johnny"
(performed with Emmylou Harris)



Those other years the dusty years
We drove the big herds through
I tried to forget the miles we rode
And Spanish Johnny too.

He'd sit beside a water ditch
When all his herd was in
And he'd never harm a child
But sing to his mandolin.

The old talk, the old ways
And the dealing of our game
Spanish Johnny never spoke
But sang a song of Spain.

And his talk with men was vicious
Talk when he was drunk on gin
Ah, but those were golden things
He said to his mandolin.

[Instrumental]

We had to stand, we tried to judge
We had to stop him then
For the hand so gentle to a child
Had killed so many men.

He died a hard death long ago
Before the road come in
And the night before he swung
He sung to his mandolin.

Well, we carried him out in the morning sun
A man that done no good
And we lowered him down in the cold clay
Stuck in a cross of wood.

And the letter we wrote to his kinfolk
To tell them where he'd been
And we shipped it out to Mexico
Along with his mandolin...

"Sparkling Brown Eyes"



There's a ramshackle shack in old Caroline
It's callin' me back to the woman of mine
Guess if I had the wings of a beautiful dove
Don't you know I'd fly away to the woman I love.

When the whippoorwills called on the hills far away
We're gonna sing a little song we're gonna hear them say
My love for you will never ever die
We bid everything sail away to the sweet by and by.

Those two brown eyes that sparkle with love
Came down to me from heaven above
Guess if I had the wings of a beautiful dove
Don't you know I'd fly away to the woman I love.

There's a ramshackle shack in old Caroline
It's callin' me back to the woman of mine
Guess if I had the wings of a beautiful dove
Don't you know I'd fly away to the woman I love.

When the whippoorwills called on the hills far away
We're gonna sing a little song we're gonna hear them say
My love for you will never ever die
We bid everything sail away to the sweet by and by...

"Stop The World (And Let Me Off)"


Stop the world and let me off
I'm tired of going round and round
I've played the game of love and lost
So stop the world and let me off.

My dreams're shattered don't you see
Now you no longer care for me
I miss the wonder of your kiss
How could you leave me here like this?

Stop the world and let me off
I'm tired of going round and round
I've played the game of love and lost
So stop the world and let me off.

[Instrumental]

Stop the world and let me off
I'm tired of going round and round
I've played the game of love and lost
So stop the world and let me off...