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The only the thing I see ahead is
Just the heat a rising off the road The rainbows I've been chasing keep on fading before I find my pot of gold But more and more I'm thinking, that the only treasures that I'll ever know Are long ago and far behind and wrapped up in my memories of home Home was a swimming hole and a fishing pole and the feel of a muddy row between my toes Home was a back porch swing where I would sit and mom would sing amazing grace While she hung out the clothes, Home was an easy chair with my daddy there and the smell of Sunday supper on the stove My footsteps carry me away but in my mind I'm always going home Now the miles I put behind me ain't as hard as the miles that lay ahead And its much too late to listen to the words of wisdom that my daddy said The straight and narrow path he showed me turned into a thousand winding roads, My footsteps carry me away, but in my mind I'm always going home. Home was a swimming hole and a fishing pole and the feel of a muddy row between my toes Home was a back porch swing where I would sit and mom would sing amazing grace While she hung out the clothes, Home was an easy chair with my daddy there and the smell of Sunday supper on the stove My footsteps carry me away but in my mind I'm always going home Yeah, the straight and narrow path he showed me turned into a thousand winding roads, My footsteps carry me away, but in my mind I'm always going home. |
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| 2. |
| 3:43 |
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If You Want Me To - Joe Diffie
Darlin' I'll pack up my clothes Take my heart on down the road I'll even make believe I don't love you. Lose my mind, go insane, turn my face to the pourin' rain There's nothin' I wouldn't do if you want me to. But I'd rather stay around and love you And be the one to make your dreams come true But if it takes good-bye to make you happy Then I'll just walk away if you want me to. If there's no way to make it work I'll find a way to hide the hurt I'll do my best to do what's best for you. I'll just take your memory and disappear quietly Quit acting like a fool if you want me to. But I'd rather stay around and love you And be the one to make your dreams come true But if it takes good-bye to make you happy Then I'll just walk away if you want me to. Ohh if it takes good-bye to make you happy Then I'll just walk away if you want me to. |
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| 3:47 |
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There's something wrong
Lord I'm feeling it too That runs through my heart Like a torch cuts through steel You haven't said a word Are you feeling it too Is it cold in here Or is it just you Did I leave the door wide open And let the chill just kill that old desire Should I put my arms around you Or put another log on the fire Is it my imagination Or did the temperature just drop A notch or two Is it cold in here Or is it just you There's no warmth at all When I try to hold you near You stare into space As if I wasn't here Did our love just die Or is it just about to Is it cold in here Or is it just you Did I leave the door wide open And let the chill just kill that old desire Should I put my arms around you Or put another log on the fire Is it my imagination Or did the temperature just drop A notch or two Is it cold in here Or is it just you Oh is it cold in here Or is it just you |
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| 3:41 |
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I could tell he'd had a tough life
By the way he sat and stared And me, I'd come to push and shove So I pulled up a chair. We talked of roads untraveled We talked of love untrue Of strings that come unraveled We were kings and kindred fools And just when I'd hit bottom That old man raised his glass And said at least we had our chances There's those who never have. So here's to all the soldiers Who have ever died in vain The insane locked up in themselves The homeless down on Main To those who stand on empty shores And spit against the wind And those who wait forever For ships that don't come in. He said it's only life's illusions That bring us to this bar To pick up these old crutches And compare each other's scars 'Cuz the things we're calling heartache Hell, they're hardly worth our time We bitch about a dollar When there's those without a dime. And as he ordered one last round He said I guess we can't complain God made life a gamble And we're still in the game. So here's to all the soldiers Who have ever died in vain The insane locked up in themselves The homeless down on Main To those who stand on empty shores And spit against the wind And those who wait forever For ships that don't come in. |
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| 3:48 |
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Well the beer's on the bar and the smoke fills the air
And there's a fool in every corner man I just don't care Tight pants, line dance, stetson hats and cowboy boots They got a Friday night, get right, honky tonk attitude Well the waitress never leaves you with a half-empty glass And every girl's on the dance floor shakin' her... well It's a two step, three step, outta step, country mood They got a Friday night, get right, honky tonk attitude Well now everybody knows that's where everybody goes Just to dance away their blues So leave your cares behind, it's just a state of mind What have you got to lose Hey bartender pour us another round, We're just get gettin' started don't shut us down We need a slow dance, romanced, last chance rendezvous We need a Friday night, get right, honky tonk attitude If you've got a Friday night, get right, honky tonk attitude Yeah you need a Friday night, get right, honky tonk attitude |
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| 3:46 |
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Well I ain't afraid of die'n,It's the though of being dead
I wanna go on being me once my eulogys been read Don't spread my ashes out to sea, don't lay me down to rest You can put my mind to ease if you fill my last request Prop me up beside the jukebox if I die Lord I wanna go to heaven but I don't wanna go tonight Fill my boots up with sand, put a stiff drink in my hand prop me up beside the jukebox if I die Just let my headstone be a neon sign Just let in burn in memory of all of my good times Fix me up with a manican just remember i like blondes Ill be the life of the party even when im dead and gone Prop me up beside the jukebox if I die Lord I wanna go to heaven but I don't wanna go tonight Fill my boots up with sand, put a stiff drink in my hand prop me up beside the jukebox if I die Just make your next selection and while your still in line You can pay you last respects one quarter at a time Prop me up beside the jukebox if I die Lord I wanna go to heaven but I don't wanna go tonight fill my boots up with sand put a stiff drink in my hand prop me up beside the jukebox if I die Prop me up beside the jukebox if I die Lord I wanna go to heaven but I don't wanna go tonight fill my boots up with sand put a stiff drink in my hand prop me up beside the jukebox if I die Oh prop me up beside the jukebox if I die |
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| 4:32 |
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They were farm kids way down in Dixie
Met in high school in the sixties Everyone knew it was love from the start One July, in the midnight hour He climbed upon the water tower Stood on the rail and painted a ten-foot heart In John Deere green On a hot summer night He wrote "Billy Bob loves Charlene" In letters three-foot high And the whole town said that he should have used red But it looked good to Charlene In John Deere green They settled down on eighty acres Raising sweet corn, kids, and tomatoes They went together like a hand and a glove On a clear day from their front yard If you look and know what to look for Off to the east you can still read his words of love In John Deere green On a hot summer night He wrote "Billy Bob loves Charlene" In letters three-foot high And the whole town said the boy should have used red But it looked good to Charlene In John Deere green Now more than once the town has discovered Painting over it ain't no use There ain't no paint in the world that'll cover it The heart keeps showing through In John Deere green On a hot summer night He wrote "Billy Bob loves Charlene" In letters three-foot high And the whole town said the fool should have used red But it looked good to Charlene In John Deere green Ah, paint it green boy In John Deere green On a hot summer night He wrote "Billy Bob loves Charlene" In letters three-foot high And the whole town said the boy should have used red But it looked good to Charlene In John Deere green John Deere green |
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| 3:05 |
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She walks into Smokey's
one hip at a time Like a broken field runner slippin' through the lines He likes the way she looks so he calls a little wife says don't wait up for me, I'll be workin late tonight. Wife hangs up the phone bursts into tears calls her sister up and cries get over here. Sister tells her boyfriend be back in awhile boyfriend wants a beer, the store is just a mile. Leaves the motor runnin' he'll only be a minute, his car drives away with teenagers in it. Driver tells his buddies, got one life to live they scream into the night, lets get it over with. Chorus: Cause and effect, chain of events, all of the chaos makes perfect sense, when we're spinnin' round, things come undone. Welcome to the earth, third rock from the sun. The kid guns the gas, car starts to swerve Heads for a semi-truck, jumps the curb Truck hits a bigboy in the Shoney's parking lot Flies through the air, takes out the bank clock Clock strikes a light pole, transformer sparks lines go down, town goes dark. Waitress calls the cops says she saw it all swears a giant alien has landed at the mall Cops ring up the mayor says there's panic in the street, hate to wake you up but we cant find the chief, mayor says use your head, if he ain't in his car he's hiding from his wife, down at Smokey's bar Chorus X2 Welcome to Earth third rock from the sun. X3 |
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Well, I got my first truck when I was three
Drove a hundred thousand miles on my knees Hauled marbles and rocks and thought twice before I hauled a Barbie Doll bed for the girl next door She tried to pay me with a kiss and I began to understand There's something women like about a pickup man When I turned sixteen, I saved a few hundred bucks My first car was a pickup truck I was cruising the town and the first girl I seen Was Bobbie Jo Gentry, the homecoming queen She flagged me down and climbed up in the cab And said, "I never knew you were a pickup man" You can set my truck on fire and roll it down a hill And I still wouldn't trade it for a Coupe De Ville I got an eight-foot bed that never has to be made You know, if it weren't for trucks we wouldn't have tailgates I met all my wives in traffic jams There's just something women like about a pickup man Most Friday nights I can be found In the bed of my truck on an old chaise lounge Backed into my spot at the drive-in show You know a cargo light gives off a romantic glow I never have to wait in line at the popcorn stand 'Cause there's something women like about a pickup man You can set my truck on fire and roll it down a hill And I still wouldn't trade it for a Coupe De Ville I got an eight-foot bed that never has to be made You know, if it weren't for trucks we wouldn't have tailgates I met all my wives in traffic jams There's just something women like about a pickup man A bucket of rust or a brand new machine Once around the block and you'll know what I mean You can set my truck on fire and roll it down a hill And I still wouldn't trade it for a Coupe De Ville I got an eight-foot bed that never has to be made You know, if it weren't for trucks we wouldn't have tailgates I met all my wives in traffic jams There's just something women like about a pickup man Yeah, there's something women like about a pickup man |
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| 3:32 |
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you could've kissed me, like this wasnt gonna last
kept me from saying something I'll never take back you could have held me like there was no chance of me waking up where I am you could have stop short of every dream I've ever had (chorus) so help me girl you've gone too far its way too late to save my heart the way it feels each time we touch I know Ive never been so loved and I can't help myself so help me girl you had to be there when that old sun came up makin last night feel like a vision of things yet to come you just had to hold me like nobody else now look what you've gone and done you had to love me till I couldnt get enough (chorus) 2x now I cant help myself so help me girl |
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| 3:55 |
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He plays guitar at a hotel bar
For out of towners and business men He struts and sings to his drum machine But he won't make it big at the Holiday Inn But she thinks that he looks like Elvis When he runs his fingers through that jet black hair And sometimes she forgets an order 'Cause she's so struck by him that she stops and stares Chorus: They gotta love bigger than the Beatles Wild and free like a Rolling Stone They gotta love takes 'em higher than the Eagles Ain't life such a sweet sweet song Na na na na na Na na na na na Na na na na yeah yeah yeah She pours some drinks, loads up the sink And dreams of being a movie star Her mama said she'd knock 'em dead But Hollywood hasn't called so far But he thinks she's as pretty as a picture When she wipes down tables in her apron strings And sometimes he forgets a chorus 'Cause she's shining like a beauty on the silver screen Chorus No you won't find their names on the walk of fame But they ain't missing much 'Cause when the lights go down on tinsel town All you need is love Chorus |
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| 2:41 |
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A little Miss Dynamite just blew my world away.
It was a pitiful sight, me begging her to stay. I never had a hunch, so how was I to know That she packed a punch that knocked my heart out cold? She put a hurtin' on this old cowboy, Broke my heart like a little play toy, Brought me to my knees from ten feet tall. The night she left me in Amarillo I cried crocodile tears in my pillow. The bigger they are, the harder they fall. How could a blue-eyed beauty only five-foot-three Lay a Texas size heartache on me? She came across so cool I didn't think that I'd get burned. Now I'm a big ol' fool with a leaving lesson learned. I thought I was strong like old Hercules, But she proved me wrong with her little c'est la vie! She put a hurtin' on this old cowboy, Broke my heart like a little play toy, Brought me to my knees from ten feet tall. The night she left me in Amarillo I cried crocodile tears in my pillow. The bigger they are, the harder they fall. How could a blue-eyed beauty only five-foot-three Lay a Texas size heartache on me? How could a blue-eyed beauty only five-foot-three Lay a Texas size heartache on me? |
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Been one tough week, dead on my feet
But, I've made plans for tonight When I'm feeling blue, know just what to do And how to make it right Seems like I've needed this forever Gonna have myself a night to remember Dim the lights, lock the door, spread your pictures On the floor, throw the dust off of our past let it All come floodin' back, cause' it ain't easy being Strong and when I can't forget your gone I just Surrender, and have myself a night to remember. Sad ain't my style but once in a while I just have to give in 'Cause a woman like you, is so hard to lose You just don't want it to end I know this can't go on forever So tonight I'll have a night to remember Dim the lights, lock the door, spread your pictures On the floor, throw the dust off of our past let it All come floodin' back, cause' it ain't easy being Strong and when I can't forget your gone I just Surrender, and have myself a night to remember. Oh it ain't easy being strong and when I can't Forget your gone I'll just surrender and have Myself a night to remember |
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| 2:58 |
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Downtown, stoplight, red car rolls by.
What else can I do, but wonder if it's you. Scanning the stations, every song they're playin' is like a soundtrack, to the love we had. I should be over you by now, but every time I turn around... It's always somethin' every day remindin' me. Everywhere I go, there's a memory. Ready and awaitin' to catch me off guard, There's no way to prepare my heart. What I wouldn't give, what I wouldn't do. If only I could just stop missin' you. I'd let go of our love, like it was never nothing. But it's always something. Lunch time, a new place. Waitress says her name. Why does it have to be, Emily. Corner store, stop in. Someone ask, "How ya been?" I say I wouldn't know. I really gotta go. Wish I could forget you, but I don't know how. Cause every time I turn around...... It's always somethin' every day remindin' me. Everywhere I go, there's a memory. Ready and awaitin' to catch me off guard, There's no way to prepare my heart. What I wouldn't give, what I wouldn't do. If only I could just stop missin' you. I'd let go of our love, like it was never nothing. But it's always something. |
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