"Willie And Laura Mae Jones"



Willie and Laura Mae Jones were our neighbours a long time back
They lived down the road from us in a shack just like our shack
We worked the fields together learned to count on each other
When you live off the land you ain't got time to think of another man's color

The cotton was high and the corn was growing fine
That was another place and another time

Sit out on the front porch every evening when the sun went down
Willie would play and Laura would sing and them younguns'd dance around
I'd bring out my guitar and we'd play on through the night
Every now and then ol' Willie would grin and say boy you play all right

The cotton was high...

The years rolled past our land and took back what they'd given
We all knew we'd had to move if we were gonna make a livin'
So we all moved off and went about our separate ways
It sure was hard to say goodbye to Willie and Laura Mae

The cotton was high...

The years rolled past our doors and we heard of them no more
When I saw Willie downtown the other day
Said y'all stop right by now we could all sit down and eat by
Sure love to see your children and Laura Mae

Shook his head real slow and his eyes were kind
This is another place and another time

The cotton was high...

"Willy The Wandering Gypsy And Me"



Three fingers whiskey pleasures the drinkers
And moving does more than the same thing for me
Willy he tells me that doers and thinkers say movin' is a closest thing to being free
Willy rosins his riggins laid back his wages he's dead cert on ridin' the big rodeo
My woman's tight with an overdue baby and Willy keeps yelling hey Gypsy let's go
Willy you're wild as a Texas Blue Norther ready rolled from the same makins as me
Well I reckon we're gonna ramble till hell freeze us over
Willy the wandering Gypsy and me

Now ladies we surely will take up your favors
And we'll surely worn you there never will be
A single soul living that could put brand or handle
On Willy the wandering Gypsy and me
Well dance on the mountains shout in the canyons
Swarm it ain't loose herd like a wild buffalo
Jammin' our heads full of figures and angles and tellin' us stuff that we already know
Willy you're wild...
Yeah Willy you're wild...

"Woman I Hate It"



Woman, I hate, hate it
When I wreck your alibi
Woman, I hate, hate it
When I catch you telling lies

I used to be your knight in silk pyjamas
Now you're running back home to your Mama
I don't even know why
Woman I hate, hate it

Woman I hate, hate it
When you brush my moves aside
Woman I hate, hate it
When you shoot holes through my pride

I used to be your Latin lover boy
Now you treat me like a worn-out toy
Your lovin' brings me no joy
Woman I hate, hate it

I hate the way you run me round in circles
I don't know which way to go
Should I believe or should I believe me
I guess I'll never know

Woman I hate, hate it
When you make that step on me
Woman I hate, hate it
When you just won't let me be

You used to be a smilin' Mona Lisa
Take the breath from everyone that meets you
Now you don't even try
Women I hate, hate it

I hate the way you run me round in circles
I don't know which way to turn
I've made mistakes but I ain't mistaken
This time I think I've learnt

Women I hate, hate it
And my whining days are through
You're gonna hate, hate it
When the tables turn on you

If I can't be your knight in shining armour
Ain't don't treat me like no poor darn farmer
So baby, don't even try
Women I hate, hate it
Women I hate, hate it

"Woman Let Me Sing You A Song"


Woman let me sing you a song
Woman let me sing you a song
That tells how you've done me wrong
So it's your fault if it's long.
Woman let me sing you a song.

Well, the neighbors all say I run around
Yeah. the neighbors all say I run around
But baby if I do I'm still miles in back off you
Woman let me sing you a song.

[Instrumental]

You tell our friends I drink too much
Now the whole town knows I drink too much
But the reason why I drink
Is a thought you make to think
Woman let me sing you a song.

Woman let me sing you a song
Woman let me sing you a song
I said I'd die for you
And I have the time or two
Woman let me sing you a song.

Now, woman I've done sang you my song...

"Woman, Don't You Ever Laugh At Me"


Yes, I guess I let you make a fool of me
So I'll just go my foolish way and let you be
But if you should find some human in my misery
All I ask is, please don't laugh,
Woman don't you ever laugh at me.

All I expect is your respect
For the pride inside of me
All I ask is please don't laugh
Woman, don't you ever laugh at me.

[Instrumental]

I guess I was just a joke to you right from the start
And the biggest live fool of all those when I gave my heart
Now it's past you don't jest it affects my sanity
All I ask is please don't laugh
Woman, don't you ever laugh at me.

All I expect is your respect
For the pride inside of me
All I ask is please don't laugh
Woman, don't you ever laugh at me.

Uhuh woman, don't you ever laugh at me...

"Women Do Know How To Carry On"



Women do know how to carry on
Well there won't be too much cryin' time alone
They'll be right back puttin' me and make up on
Women do know how to carry on

When she can't keep love afloat she will survive
In her soft and sexy way she's gonna shuck and jive
Wipe the tears and find the things that she needs to get along
Women do know how to carry on women do know how to carry on yeah

Never knew a man who could take a fall
They'll land right on their pride and then they waste it all
But even when the best she's ever had is gone
Women do know how to carry on

Women do know how to carry on...
Women do know how to carry on
They'll be right back puttin' me and make up on
There won't be too much cryin' time alone
They'll be right back puttin' me and make up on
Women do know how to carry on

"Workin' Cheap"



Every since the day I was big enough to put my pants on by myself
You could find me somewhere with the radio turned on
Then one night I gave my heart to an old beat-up guitar
It never left my arms till I was almost grown

I had to try my hand as a workin' man tried to be my daddy's son
But my mind was packed and gone and headed south
Momma said I'll pray for you then she said goodbye
To the only one out of seven that didn't work out

Now I'm way down hear in Dixie playing honky tonk music
Keepin' some joint a jumpin' every night of the week
Lord knows it's hard to keep a dance hall woman happy
When you're drinkin' a little too much and you're workin' cheap

Well I ain't done a thing I can brag about to anyone back home
Just another night club singer with a real good band
If a jealous woman don't kill me and momma keeps on prayin'
Someday I might be more than what I am

Now I'm way down hear in Dixie...
When you're drinkin' a little too much and you're workin' cheap

"Working Without A Net"


Well the road can be a circus, a death defying act
But the clowns don't come around no more since the monkeys off my back
I stand here on the stage, as the house lights fade to black
Your love helps me forget, I'm working without a net

Up on the high wire, I hear the crowd begin to call
Some want you to fly, some want to see you fall
Now and then I stumble, but I ain't fallen yet
Your love helps me forget, I'm working without a net

I used to depend on some things I did not need
I leaned on some crutches that kept me off my feet
Standing here without them now,well it scares me half to death
Your love helps me forget, I'm working without a net

Up on the high wire, I hear the crowd begin to call
Some want you to fly, some want to see you fall
Now and then I stumble, but I ain't fallen yet
Your love helps me forget, I'm working without a net

Up on the high wire, I hear the crowd begin to call
Some want you to fly, some want to see you fall
Now and then I stumble, but I ain't fallen yet
Your love helps me forget, I'm working without a net

"World Of Our Own"



We'll build the world of our own that no one else can share
All our sorrows will leave far behind the stairs
And I know you will find there'll be peace of mind
And we'll live in a world of our own.

Close the door light the lights we'll stay at home tonight
Far away from the bustle and the bright city lights
Let the world fade away just leave us alone
And we'll live in a world of our own.

We'll build the world of our own that no one else can share
All our sorrows will leave far behind the stairs
And I know you will find there'll be peace of mind
And we'll live in a world of our own.

Oh, my love oh my love I've cried for you so much
Lonely nights without sleeping while I long for your touch
Now your lips can erase the heartache we've known
Come with me to the world of our own.

We'll build the world of our own that no one else can share
All our sorrows will leave far behind the stairs
And I know you will find there'll be peace of mind
And we'll live in a world of our own.

And I know you will find there'll be peace of mind
And we'll live in a world of our own...

"Wrong"



It was a picture perfect wedding
We had the whole world at our feet
Everyone thought we were
Heading down a lovers easy street

We'd have a house out in the country
A picket fence, the whole nine yards
They said our love would last forever
It was written in the stars

Wrong
I should have known it all along
When the future looks too bright
Can't be anything but right
Wrong

I was all but devastated
When she told me we were through
In a while the heartache faded
And I found somebody new

I swore that this time would be different
I had it all figured out
I wouldn't make the same mistakes
I knew what love was all about

Wrong
I should have known it all along
When the future looks too bright
Can't be anything but right
Wrong

Wrong
Everything was going strong
The sky was always blue
Thought my dreams had all come true
Wrong
Wrong.

"Wrong Road To Nashville"



I must of failed to find a trail outside t x arkana
I didn't see and inbeknowst to me I overshot louisana
I was backtracking and looking back in mobile alabama
Ooh haha

I had a dream it didn't seem to far to nashville tennessee
I busted down somewhere around the old muddy mississippi
I got do a number two cause memphis ain't where I want to be
Ooh oh no

I do be damn here I am hangin' out on music row
Been here now on a year nobody cares nobody knows
Been gone from home to long which way to turn which way to go
Ooh I don't know

I must of failed to find a trail outside t x arkana
I didn't see unbeknowst to me I overshot louisiana
I was backtracking an looking back in mobile alabma
Ooh haha

Hey heyhey ooh haha

"Year 2003 Minus 25"
(duet with Willie Nelson)



Welcome to the years 2000 minus 25
Oh, say can you smell her for the smoke
God's still up there laughin' so she's gotta be alive
Who says he can't take a dirty joke,

Power isn't power does and power slips away
It's so easy to abuse
Who'd've thought them Arabs would've bought
The USA just to give it to the Jews.

Singin' crime still don't pay just like it used to
And you know that time slips away till you die
Well, I don't give a damn when I choose to
No it don't hurt so bad when you're high.

Oh, say does the future of the homesick
And the brave even matter anymore
There ain't no more reason for them boys
To run away than there was to fight before.

Would you tell me why the hell we'd try to win back in a war
What we wasted in the last
Might just ain't as righteous as it used to be before
When your army's out of gas.

Singin' crime still don't pay just like it used to
And you know that time slips away till you die
Well, I don't give a damn when I choose to
No it don't hurt so bad when you're high.

Singin' crime still don't pay just like it used to
And you know that time slips away till you die
Well, I don't give a damn when I choose to
No it don't hurt so bad when you're high...

"Yellow Haired Woman"


Yellow haired woman
Good for nothing empty headed
Most lovely creature that I've seen
With lips that kiss with such a firy stain
Many times I've dreamed
Of leaving my life behind knowin' all the while
I'm a victim of the smile of this yellow haired woman.

[Instrumental]

Yellow woman flows across this rich satin bed
Magnified of perfect feature leaving nothing left unsaid
As I listen to her breathing suddenly
I find no escape I'm weary kind
Who sets it up my mind it's this yellow haired woman.

[Instrumental]

Many times I've dreamed
Of leaving my life behind knowin' all the while
I'm a victim of the smile of this yellow haired woman...

"Yes, Virginia"


I've been telling you there's someone else, Virginia.
Your not listening and this time I think you should.
But, you've never cared for me, have you Virginia?
So you just can't see how anybody could.

[Chorus:]
Yes, Virginia. There is another woman.
And she loves me like I used to wish you'd do.
Yes, Virginia. There is another woman.
Now I need her more than I ever needed you.

I have never measured up to what you wanted.
I'm through trying now I know, I never can.
That's the reason why I love her so, Virginia.
She accepts me just exactly like I am.

[Chorus:]
Yes, Virginia. There is another woman.
And she loves me like I used to wish you'd do.
Yes, Virginia. There is another woman.
Now, I need her more than I ever needed you.

Yes, Virginia. There is another woman.
Now, I need her more than I ever needed you...

"You Asked Me To"



Long ago and far away
In my ol' common labor shoes
I turned the world all which a way
Just because you asked me to.

Like unto no other
Feel simple love is simple true
There's no end to what I'd do
Just because you asked me.

Let the world call me a fool
But if things are right with me and you
That's all that matters
And I'll do anything you asked me to.

Knowing how much I love you
And after all that I've been through
I'd turn and walk away from you
Just because you asked me to.
(Lord. I hope you'll never do.)

Let the world call me a fool
But if things are right with me and you
That's all that matters
And I'll do anything you asked me to.

"You Beat All I Ever Saw"


I've walked through many towns
With fortunes lost and found
Seen the beauty of this land
Made by nature and by men.

But when I leave I don't look back
For I've only left my tracks
I've crossed the burning bridges
And walked through miles of sand.

Seen the lowliest in the law
You beat all I ever saw.

[Instrumental]

I've dreamed a million miles
About your eyes and smiles
I know I've loved the best
I can't be content with last.

I've scanned the skies of blue
For just one glimpse of you
But they threw away the mold
Of a love that's grown so cold.

Your heart would never thaw
You beat all I ever saw...

"You Can Have Her"



Well, you can have her
I don't want her
She didn't loved me anyway
She only wanted
Someone to play with
But all I wanted was love to stay.

The girl I love
Upped and left me
She ran away with my best friend
Comes home at night
For just an hour
When daylight comes she's gone again.

You can have her
I don't want her
She didn't loved me anyway
She only wanted
Someone to play with
But all I wanted was love to stay.

When you're stuck
With the wrong woman
There ain't that much that you can do
You just dig a hole
And crawl right in it
Then you pull the ground right over you.

You can have her
I don't want her
She didn't loved me anyway
She only wanted
Someone to play with
But all I wanted was love to stay.

Life without love
Is mighty empty
But confession is good for your soul
I'd rather have love
For just an hour
Than have the world and all of its gold.

You can have her
I don't want her
She didn't loved me anyway
She only wanted
Someone to play with
But all I wanted was love to stay.

Yeah, you can have her
I don't want her
She didn't loved me anyway
She only wanted
Someone to play with
But all I wanted was love to stay...

"You Deserve The Stars In My Crown"


You're the one who took the time
Looked for a reason to believe
Five hundred pounds of [?]
Which shines on the better side of me

More than anyone
You're a part of all I say and do
When it's all said and done
When they remember me, they'll think of you

You always believed
That's what brought me up when I was down
And I do believe
You deserve the stars in my crown

You always believed
That's what brought me up when I was down
And I do believe
You deserve the stars in my crown

And I do believe
You deserve the stars in my crown

"You Don't Mess Around With Me"



I blew in from Texas
And you don't know who I am
Most of you could care less
And the rest don't give a damn
But you might take special notice
When you take a look at me
I'm everything you've ever been
And ever want to be

My game is the winner take all
I live on the edges
So i'm subject to a fall
I ain't never been a loser
I ain't never gonna be
I'm like runnin' in a ringer
You don't mess around with me

I've got money in my pocket
I've got money in the bank
If I look like a poor boy
I've got much more than you think
I got a woman on my right arm
Woman on my left
When it comes to women,Lord
I just can't help myself

I know it's not the right thing to do
But I could never change
Even if I wanted to
So if you are a lady
Anf if you always want to be
I'm a living lovin' legend
You don't mess around with me

She's got honey drippin' off her lips
So good you can taste
A walkin' aphrodisiac
Too damn good to waste
Prancin' like a thoroughbred
Out to win the race
It don't matter how good lookin'
Or how good she may be
There's just one foregone conclusion
You don't mess around with me

"You Love The Ground I Walk On"



I work so hard to win myself a place in life
And leave behind the slums and poverty
Now I have wealth, a fancy home, a pretty wife
She loves the ground I walk on but she don't love me.

You like the places that I take you, don't you girl
At last you were where you've always longed to be
You're very much at home here in this kind of world
You love the ground I walk on but you don't love me.

And I know just what would happen
If there came a dawn
That I was broken down and out
I'd reach and you'd be gone.

Don't worry girl that kind of dawn will never come
You'll always have the things you want from me
But it's so sad to know that when we're all alone
You love the ground I walk on but she don't love me.

You love the ground I walk on but she don't love me...