...my daddy left home when I was three...
... high on a mountain in western Montana...
... a bunch of lonesome and very quarrelsome heroes...
...got a dirty room in a cheap hotel to call my home...
...adios amigo, adios my friend, the road we have traveled...
...the perfume that she wore was from some little store...
...another woman turn me down would never made my...
...lazy days in midjuly, country sunday mornings...
...when you said you were leaving tomorrow...
...there must be some way out of here said the joker to the thief...
...I ain't looking to compete with you, beat or cheat...
...what can I do?what can I say?running down...
...maybe I didn't love you quite as often as I could have...
...a long long time ago, I can still remember how the music...
...and I love you so, people ask me how...
...and when she smiles she makes the sun shine...
...you fill up my senses like a night in the forest...
...sometimes when I'm alone I think of an old house...
...hey sight for sore eyes it's long time no see...
...I stepped into an avalanche, it covered up my soul...
...we skipped the light fandango...
...well bad news travel like wildfire, good news travel slow...
...you walk into your room with your pencil in your hand...
...call him drunken Ira Hayes, he won't answer anymore...
...the mornin' sun touched lightly on the eyes of Lucy Jordon...
...well it's four o'clock in the afternoon and the anchors...
...I asked my love to take a walk...
...I was running through the summer rain trying to catch...
...now I taught the weeping willows how to cry...
...well I've got great big blisters on my bloodshot eyes...
...I know some species living underground...
...how many times must a man walk down before he can...
...bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles...
...out on the trans canada highway a girl was hitchhiking...
...is it a kind of dream floating out on the tide...
...I could have been most anything I put my mind to be...
...buddy you hear: I am just calling from close to nowhere...
...by the time I get to Phoenix she'll be rising...
...I was a P.F.C. on a search patrol, hunting Charlie down...
...come all you rounders if you wanna hear the story about...
...Casey joins the hollow sound of silent people walking down...
...so long my old friend, we won't meet again...
...sit by my side; come as close as the air...
...pardon me boy, is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo?...
...yesterday a child came out to wonder...
...cotton candy, two for a quarter, see if the fat man can guess...
...riding on the City of New Orleans, Illinois central...
...cold blue steel out of money, one eye open...
...all you need is time, all you need is time time time...
...I can't seem to get my sleep now any old night...
...come a long way since we last shook hands...
...flipped into the wind like the ashes of her cigarette...
...coming from London from over the pole...
...some's got all and some's got nothing...
...all day I face the barren waste without the taste of water...
...come and listen you fellows so young and so fine...
...candlelights burning down softly; words flying...
...Dear Abby, Dear Abby, my feet are too long...
...first time I shot Delia I shot her in the side...
...the crops are all in and the peaches are rotten...
...go on girl, take your chances, see how long...
...ain't no use to sit and wonder why babe, it won't matter...
...down in Valadero, Don Qixote appered to me, exiting Las Americas...
...I'm just a typical American boy from a typical American town...
...don't you know I had a dream last night, and you were here...
...four o'clock in the afternoon and I didn't feel like very much...
...I've got to leave old Durham town...
...I close my eyes only for a moment and the moment's gone...
...dusty skies, I can't see nothing in sight...
...Duvalier was a bitter man who cursed the morning sun...
...I left home a long long time ago in a tin can for the road...
...in the early morning rain with a dollar in my hand...
...oh Eily dear, the pipes, the pipes are calling...
...well it's all right, riding around in the breeze...
...close your eyes, give me your hand darling...
...the eastern world it is exploding, violence flaring...
...everybody knows that the dice are loaded, everybody rolls...
...everybody's talkin' at me, I can' hear their voices...
...it's four in the morning the end of december...
...farewell Angelina, the bells of the crown are being stolen...
...you remember me when the west wind moves...
...How high's the water, mama?...
...teardrops fell on mamas note when I read the words...
...from the back door of your life you swept me out dear...
...we're sitting out here on the runway, waiting for...
...I hear the train a-comin' it's rollin' round the bend...
...don't look so sad, I know it's over...
...four strong winds that blow lonely, seven seas...
...from a distance the world looks blue and green...
...if you see me with a great big smile...
...Galveston oh Galveston, I still hear your seawinds...
...it's knowing that your door is always open...
...Georgia, Georgia, the whole day through...
...hey there georgy girl, swinging down the street so fancy-free...
...it was early in the fall and a-blowing up a squall...
...I found him by the railroad track this morning...
...rust on your fingers, you've got rubbles at your feet...
...the old home town looks the same as I step down from the train...
...I was born in Inverness on the second day of spring...
...the longer I know her the more I can tell...
...Now I've heard there was a secret chord...
...did I see you down in a young girl's town...
...some say a heart is just like a wheel, when you bend it...
...put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone...
...we had an apartment in the city, me and Loretta...
...take the ribbon from your hair, shake it loose...
...the scene was a small roadside cafe...
...I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm...
...do not forsake me oh my darling on this our wedding day...
...underneath the mask of the sulphur sky...
...see how big the tree has grown, but friend it hasn't been...
...someone's got it in with me, they're planting stories...
...come on all of you big strong men...
... if you could read my mind, what a tale my thoughts would tell ...
...if you see her say hello, she might be in Tangier...
...if you were gone the moon would lose its brightness...
...ever again the morning creeps across your shoulder...
...well I hope that I don't fall in love with you ...
...once my future was shiny as the seat of my pants are today...
...they say every man can be replaced, yet every distance...
...go away from my window, leave at your own chosen speed...
...at my door the leaves are falling...
...snowy nights and Christmas lights, icy window panes...
...you must leave now, take what you need you think will last...
...hey little one, don't you cry, you must be brave...
...I get a sad kind of feeling when I see a passenger train...
...I keep a close watch on this heart of mine...
...Jesus was a carpenter and he worked with a saw and a...
...she would meet me in the morning on my way down to the river...
...I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night...
...we come on the sloop John B; my grandfather and me...
...II've been chasin' after Josie since the day I was born...
...well now I've just come back from the city...
...I come from just the other side of nowhere...
....leaves were falling just like embers in colors red and gold...
...L.A's asleep; you roll up your window....
...trailers for sale or rent, rooms to let: fifty cents...
...on a cold white winter morning: kitty come, kitty come...
...I came by myself to a very crowded place...
...go pack up all your dishes, make note of all good wishes...
...I want to hop on the last train in the station...
...the rain falls down on last year's man, that's a jews harp...
...woke up late again this morning cause I was late again...
...what'll you do when you get lonely...
...when I was just a lad of ten my father said to me...
...once upon a time you dressed so fine, you threw the bums a dime...
...the festival was over and the boys were all plannin' for a fall...
...little boxes on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky tacky...
...come they told me : pa rum pa pum pum...
...by yon bonnie banks and by yon bonnie braes...
...you thought that it could never happen...
...bluebird, I'm with you whenever you fly...
...I've got the feelin' called the blues oh Lord...
...I have seen the morning burning golden on the mountain in the sky...
...city girls just seem to find out early...
...told you get a cab and come over...
...operator: number please, it's been so many years...
...long time ago in Betlehem, so the Holy Bible say...
...busted flat in Baton Rouge : heading for a train...
...I gave my woman half my money at the general store...
...and I think of you now as a dream that I had long ago...
...you got your ticket and your hotel keys...
...way down in the State of Georgia, among the swamps...
...up in that new space station living Kennedy's dream...
...once there was this kid who got into an accident...
...take the quiet like a river, like the silver streams...
...moon river, wider than a mile...
...hello hey buddy, wanna thank you for the ride...
...train whistle blowing makes a sleepy noise...
...I knew a man "Bojangles" and he'd dance for you...
...hey mister tambourine man: play a song for me...
...crimson flames tied through my ears rolling high and mighty traps...
...what am I gonna do? I'm crying a bottle of wine over you...
...when I awake I think of you who made my heart break...
...anyone here know who goes forward who can stay...
...if you get the feeling all alone...
...o holy night, the stars are brightly shining...
...well the time went so quickly; I went lickety spittely...
...dere's an ol' man called de Mississippi...
...I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me...
...down the street the dogs are barking...
...there's a danger zone, not a stranger zone...
...sticks and stones will break my bones but I always will be true...
...Hey look yonder comin' : comin' down the railroad track...
...somewhere over the rainbow, way up high...
...two partners went in search for gold as friendly as can be...
...pearly shells from the ocean, shining in the sun...
...there was a woman in my backyard...
...it's nine o'clock on a Saturday; the regular crowd shuffles in...
...see him wasted on the sidewalk in his jacket and his jeans...
...you got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend...
...come gather around me children, a story I will tell...
...Proserpina, Proserpina, come home to your mother...
...pussywillows, cat-tails, soft wind and roses...
...don't know where I'll be tomorrow...
...a hundred and eighty were challenged by Travis to die...
...the captain touched his swagger stick up to his golden eye...
...they got drunk last night...
...have you heard of a ship called the good Reuben James...
...an old cowpoke went ridin' out one dark and windy day...
...Roland was a warrior from the Land of the Midnight Sun...
...I beg your pardon; I never promised you a rose garden...
...you've painted up your lips an rolled and curled your tinted hair...
...I will leave behind all of my clothes I wore when I...
...never saw the morning till I stayed up all night...
...San Quentin, you've been livin' hell to me...
...it seems so long ago, Nancy was alone...
...twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood...
...Missouri she's a mighty river, away you rolling river...
...I'm leaving my family; leaving my friends...
...silent night, holy night, all is calm...
...darling, I am growing old...
...they sat together in the park...
...hey little girl, with tears in your eyes...
...I pulled out of Pittsburgh rolling down the eastern seaboard...
...some people say a man is made outta mud...
...speed bonnie boat like a bird on the wing...
...somewhere my love, there will be songs to sing...
...come over to the window my little darling...
...climbing up on Solsbury Hill I could see the city lights...
...the world is full of poets walking about in gangs...
...you come home late and you come home early...
...ring anvil for the deal we dealt us by mistake...
...put your arms around me like a circle 'round the sun...
...well I got my mail late last night, a letter from a girl...
...the door it opened slowly, my father he came in...
...have you seen the old man in the closed down market...
...I'm just a normal boy, just born on trial...
...I woke up sunday morning with no ways to hold my head...
...Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river...
...now in Vienna there's ten pretty women...
...I left my home in the state of New York...
...early one morning, the sun was shining, I was laying in bed...
...say, it's the closing of the day, I'm bound to go away...
...the room was bare, it looked like someone had to get out fast...
...there's a blizzard comin' on and I'm wishing I was home...
...I am just a poor boy though my story's seldom told...
...say goodbye my own true lover as we sing a lovers song...
...I stroll along some country lane; the dead of night strikes two...
...Broken people get recycled and I hope that I will...
...I left the field one evening, my fingers so cold and sore...
...well you gassed her up, you're behind the wheel...
...I was a highwayman, upon the coach roads I did ride...
...there's a ship lies rigged and ready in the harbor...
...a lesson too late for the learning...
...there was a mummy at the fair, all crumbled in a folding chair...
...the animals walked in two by two, yes the animals...
...ten years ago on a cold dark night...
...it all began when they put me on Death Row...
...see her as she flies, golden sails across the sky...
...Virgil Caine is my name and I served on the Danville train...
...I finally broke into the prison...
...there once was a musical troupe, a picking singing...
...when they poured across the border I was cautioned...
...sometimes they ask me if I'm really happy now...
...I come from down in the valley where mister when you're young...
...some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reed...
...once we were lovers, but somehow things have changed...
...you keep sayin' you got something for me...
...come gather 'round people wherever you roam
...
...I took myself down to the Tally Ho Tavern...
...I was walking up and down the beach one bright and sunny day...
...there's a lot of strange men in cell block ten...
...I've seen and done things I want to forget...
...this old house once knew its children...
...if your memory serves you well, we were going to meet again...
...three wheels on my wagon, and I'm still rolling along...
...it is cold November and the sea crashes in...
...it was winter time in Nashville, down on music city row...
...today while the blossoms still cling to the vine...
...if today was not an endless highway...
...troublesome waters, much blacker than night...
...try to remember the kind of September...
...Tweeter and the Monkey Man were hard up for cash...
...running norton scandisk, lost file allocation map...
...when it's twilight on the trail, and I jog along...
...don't call my name out your window, I'm leaving...
...all around the water tank waiting for a train...
...wouldn't it be nice to walk together, baring our souls...
...if I see you tomorrow on some street in town...
...there's been so many people walking through my door...
...once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong...
...a lonely spot I know where no man will go...
...we shall overcome; we shal overcome...
...look what they've done to my song, ma...
...just a little rain falling all around...
...25 years of my life and still tryin' to get up that great big hill ...
...you talk like Marlene Dietrich, and you dance like...
...where have all the flowers gone? Long time passing...
...as I was a goin' over the far famed Kerry mountains...
...I'm a lineman for the county, and I drive the main road...
...Well you said you've had enough you said that you were leavin'...
...winter has me in it's grip, think I'll take a summer trip...
...wonderful baby, living on love, the sandman says maybe...
...sun's up, uhuh, looks okay, the world survives into...
...they gave him his orders in Monroe, Virginia...
...yesterday when I was young the taste of life was sweet...
...clouds so swift, rain won't lift, gate won't close, railings froze...
...I cannot follow you my love, you cannot follow me...
...I've seen love go by my door, it's never been this close before...
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