트러디셔널 팝, 웨스턴 스윙, 재즈, 트러디셔널 컨트리, 카우보이 송, 홍키 통크, 락 앤 롤, 포크, 록에 이르기까지 수많은 장르를 자신만의 고유한 어법으로 승화시킨 차별화되고 비범한 컨트리/팝 장르의 변종들을 탄생시킨 윌리 넬슨의 컬렉션 2번째 발매반. 아티스트로서의 의욕적인 세월만큼이나 수많은 카우보이 모자를 바꾸어 썼을 그의 모습이 그대로 베어있는 컬렉션으로 Ray Price, Leon Russel, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings 등 록과 컨트리를 대표하는 뮤지션들과의 듀엣곡이 다수 포함된 16곡의 히트 넘버를 담고있다. .... ....
It's been rough and rocky travelin', But I'm finally standin' upright on the ground. After takin' several readings, I'm surprised to find my mind`s still fairly sound.
I guess Nashville was the roughest, But I know I said the same about them all. We received our education In the cities of the nation, me and Paul.
Almost busted in Laredo, But for reasons that I'd rather not disclose, But if you're stayin' in a motel there and leave, Just don't leave nothin' in your clothes.
And at the airport in Milwaukee, They refused to let us board the plane at all, They said we looked suspicious, But I believe they like to pick on me and Paul.
I guess Nashville was the roughest, But I know I said the same about them all. We received our education In the cities of the nation, me and Paul.
I'd have to be crazy To stop all my singing And never play music again. You'd call me a fool If I put on a top hat And ran out to flag down the wind. I'd have to be weird To grow me a beard Just to see what the rednecks would do. I'd have to be crazy Plum out of my mind To fall out of love with you. You know I (and I don't intend to) But should there come a day, When I say that I don't love you They'll lock me away ay ay. It sure would be weird To live in an envelope Waiting along for a stamp You'd swear I was loco To rub for a genie While burning my hand on the lamp And I may not be normal But nobody is So I'd like to say 'fore I'm through I'd have to be crazy Plum out of my mind To fall out of love with you
As I look at the letters that you wrote to me it's you that I am thinking of As I read the lines that to me were so sweet I remember our faded love I miss you darling more and more every day as heaven would miss the stars above With every heartbeat I still think of you and remember our faded love
I think of the past and all the pleasures we've had as I watch the mating of the dove It was in the springtime that you said goodbye I remember our faded love I miss you darling...
Oh since my baby left me I've found new place to dwell Down at the end on Lonely Street at Heartbreak Hotel I get so lonely baby I get so lonely baby I get so lonely I could die And though it's always crowded you can still find some room For broken hearted lovers to cry away the gloom I get so lonely baby I get so lonely baby I get so lonely I could die
Well the bellhop's tears keep flowing the desk clerk's dressed in black They've been so long on Lonely Street they'll never never never get back I get so lonely baby I get so lonely baby I get so lonely I could die So if your baby leaves and you got a tale to tell Just take a walk down Lonely Street to Heartbreak Hotel I get so lonely baby I get so lonely baby I get so lonely I could die
I was a highwayman. Along the coach roads I did ride With sword and pistol by my side Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade Many a soldier shed his lifeblood on my blade The bastards hung me in the spring of twenty-five But I am still alive.
I was a sailor. I was born upon the tide And with the sea I did abide. I sailed a schooner round the Horn to Mexico I went aloft and furled the mainsail in a blow And when the yards broke off they said that I got killed But I am living still.
I was a dam builder across the river deep and wide Where steel and water did collide A place called Boulder on the wild Colorado I slipped and fell into the wet concrete below They buried me in that great tomb that knows no sound But I am still around..I'll always be around..and around and around and around and around
I fly a starship across the Universe divide And when I reach the other side I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can Perhaps I may become a highwayman again Or I may simply be a single drop of rain But I will remain And I'll be back again, and again and again and again and again..
Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you You're so like the lady with the mystic smile Is it only 'cause you're lonely they have blamed you? For that Mona Lisa strangeness in your smile?
Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Lisa? Or is this your way to hide a broken heart? Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep They just lie there and they die there Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa? Or just a cold and lonely lovely work of art?
Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Lisa? Or is this your way to hide a broken heart? Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep They just lie there and they die there Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa? Or just a cold and lonely lovely work of art?
It might be in the middle of the afternoon Maybe somewhere in the middle of the night I might not be thinking anything at all When a perfect stranger's face catches a certain light
And my heart jumps 'cause all at once There you are, standing right in front of me There you are, as lovely as you'll always be And here I go back into those memories Where you are still in love with me
I know I'll never hold you in my arms again I know I'll never hear you speak my name I look around this lonely room and I can see Your memory's the only thing that hasn't changed
And I close my eyes and every time There you are, standing right in front of me There you are, as lovely as you'll always be And here I go back into those memories Where you are still in love with me
A long time forgotten are dreams that just felt by the way. And the good life he promised ain't what she's living to day. But she never complains of the bad times or bad things he's done Lord. She's just talks about the good times they've had and all the good times to come.
She's a good hearted woman in love with a good timin' man. She loves him in spite of his ways that she don't understand. Through teardrops and laughter
they'll pass though his world hand in hand. A good hearted woman lovin' her good timin' man.
He likes the night life
the brightlights and good timin' friends. when the party's all over she welcome him back home again. Lord knows she don't understand him but she does the best that she can. 'Cause she's a good hearted woman she loves her good timin' man.
My world is like a river as dark as it is deep Night after night the past slips in and gathers all my sleep My days are just an endless stream of emptiness to me Filled only by the fleeting moments of her memories Sweet memories sweet memories hmm
She slipped into the silence of my dreams last night Wondering from room to room turning on each light Her laughter spills like water from the river to the sea And I'm swept away from sadness clinging to her memories Sweet memories sweet memories hmm
I bless the day I found you I want to stay around you And so I beg you, let it be me Don't take this heaven from one If you must cling to someone Now and forever, let it be me Each time we meet love I find complete love Without your sweet love what would life be So never leave me lonely Tell me you love me only And that you'll always let it be me Each time we meet love I find complete love Without your sweet love what would life be So never leave me lonely Tell me you love me only And that you'll always let it be me
Take the ribbon from my hair Shake it loose and let it fall Lay it soft against your skin Like the shadows on the wall Come and lay down by my side Till the early morning light All I'm takin' is your time Help me make it through the night
I don't care who's right or wrong I don't try to understand Let the devil take tomorrow Lord, tonight I need a friend
Yesterday is dead and gone And tomorrow's out of sight And it's sad to be alone Help me make it through the night
And it's sad to be alone Help me make it through the night I don't wanna be alone Help me make it through the night
I love you I'll prove it in days to come I swear it's true, darling you're the only one I think of you of the past and all our fun I love you I'll prove it in days to come
You're my darling you've been true I should have been good to you You're the one that's in my heart While we're apart
I'll be true I'll prove it to you some day I love you in my heart you'll always stay I've been so blue and lonesome all these days I love you I'll prove it a thousand ways
I'll be nice and sweet to you and no more will you be blue I'll prove I love you every day all kinds of ways So darling please wait, please wait until I'm free There'll be a change, a great change made in me
I'll be true there'll never be a blue day I love you I'll prove it a thousand ways
Without a song the day would never end Without a song the road would never bend When things go wrong a man ain't got a friend Without a song That field of corn would never see a plow That field of corn would be deserted now A man is born but he's no good no how Without a song I got my trouble and woe but, sure as I know, the Jordan will roll And I'll get along as long as a song, strong in my soul I'll never know what makes the rain to fall I'll never know what makes that grass so tall I only know there ain't no love at all Without a song I've-a got my trouble and woe and, sure as I know, the Jordan will roll And I'll get along as long as a song, strong in my soul I'll-a never know what makes that rain to fall I'll never know what makes the grass so tall I only know there ain't no love at all Without a song