Tom T. Hall

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A Headstone For Harry

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[Verse 1] A young boy walked into the Somerset pool room All us ole boys were just standing around The kid said 'scuse me, do you know my daddy? He's dead and he's lying out there in the ground

A Hero In Harlan

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A Hero In Harlan Recorded by Tom T. Hall Album: Tom T. Hall Sings Miss Dixie & Tom T. (Capo on 2, in 6/8 time)

A Million Miles To The City

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[Verse 1] Yeah, I remember it now, we were kids back then Living down on the farm We were told that the city Could only bring us harm

A Picture Of Your Mother

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My little girl and I lost mamma just three years ago And now that she is older there are things she wants to know She said please daddy tell me bout my mother cause I miss her

A Week In A County Jail

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One time I spent a week inside a little country jail And I don't guess I?ll ever live it down I was sittin' at a red light when these two men came and got me And said that I was speeding through their town

The Adventures Of Linda Bohannon

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{verse 1] In a town about the size of a truck-stop or bigger Lived Linda Bohannon, a natural queen She lived with her folks in a little white farmhouse She helped out by hoeing the corn and the beans

Aint Got The Time

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I can tell your heart's been broken in two you are looking for a shoulder I've found out that other people's tears just seem to make me older I'd like to help with your broken heart really I think it's a crime

Another Town

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Another Town:Tom T. Hall. Album - Rhymes And Other Five And Dimers - #1 on BB Hot Country Albums and #181 on BB Hot 200 on MERCURY Records in 1973.

Back When Gas Was Thirty Cents A Gallon

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Back when gas was thirty cents a gallon America was young and strong and brave Lord knows that I didn't have much money

Back When We Were Young

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Song: Back When We Were Young Artist: Tom T. Hall Album: For The People In The Last Hard Town Year: 1973

Ballad Of Forty Dollars

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The man who preached the funeral Said it really was a simple way to die ... He laid down to rest one afternoon And never opened up his eyes ... They hired me and Fred and Joe

Bar With No Beer

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The beach comber works by the ocean all day He gets what the tourists and the sea throw away He's hot and he's thirsty and the words hurt his ears

The Barn Dance

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[Verse 1] One night as I was sleepin' something awakened me There was a light on in my barn so I went down to see I peeked through a big ole crack in the door and a-what do you think I saw? The animals were having a barn dance right in the horse's stall

Bill Monroe For Breakfast

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When I was just a little boy, we lived down on a farm Seven miles from nowhere and a hundred miles from harm We made our livin' from the dirt, if anything would grow And we got our country music from a big old radi-} o. And;

Bluegrass Break Up

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[Verse 1] Well, we're finally breakin' up our bluegrass band And the thought of it is more than I can stand But if parting is a one chance to survive You'll take the dobro and I'll take the five.

La Blues

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I got off the airplane 'long about 7:30 in L.A. What a drag to realize that everything's so different and so same All my California friends are searching for their minds

Candy In The Window

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Candy In The Window:Tom T. Hall. Album - Rhymes And Other Five And Dimers - #1 on BB Hot Country Albums and #181 on BB Hot 200 on MERCURY Records in 1973.

Christmas Is

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Verse Christmas is Jesus and people and things Christmas is something the whole world can sing Christmas is finding your enemies and friends And starting all over again

Come On Back To Nashville

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[Chorus] Come on back to Nashville, it's a pretty old city We'd painted and fixed up the old Music Row Tootsie's still kickin', they won't let her fry chicken But the music's still loud and the beer is still cold.

Country Is

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Country Is - sittin' on the back porch List'nin' to the whipporwills - late in the day Country Is - mindin' your business Helpin' a stranger - if he comes your way.

Country Songs For Children

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1.) I Love 2.) Sneaky Snake 3.) The Mysterious Fox of Fox Hollow * 4.) How to Talk to a Little Baby Goat 5.) The Barn Dance

The Dancing Tree

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There's a little ol' tree that grows out in my yard He's not very wide or too tall or too large He stands there so still 'til the wind comes to call When the wind blows, the little tree starts having a ball

Day Drinkin

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[Verse] Hey Jabes, you know when we get home We're really gonna catch it, what's our excuse this time? Well dear, we'll just tell 'em, we're sittin'

Dont Forget The Coffee Billy Joe

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[Verse] It snowed the night be- fore and it had frozen on the ground We didn't have a car and we lived seven miles from town And I can hear my daddy's voice so many years a- go Sayin', "Don't forget the coffee Billy Joe"

The Duck And The Rooster

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[Verse 1] It'll take me a minute to tell you this rhyme Of the duck and the rooster that I knew one time A little duck hatched out a day or two late His mama had already gone to the lake

Everybody Loves To Hear A Bird Sing

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Sometimes birds don't have enough to eat There's not enough food in the fields or the street There are too many cities where there used to be trees So it's left up to you and me

Everything From Jesus To Jack Daniels

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You wake up in the morning drink a beer and take a Valium And you're trying to forget about the things you did last night Flip through that morning paper read the horoscope and the comics

Famous In Missouri

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[Verse 1] Hey, I was famous in Missouri, Everybody knew my name From Kansas City to St Louis, They knew how well I played my game,

Faster Horses

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He was so thin I swear you coulda used him for a whip He had to drink a beer to keep his britches on his hips I knew I had to ask him 'bout the mysteries of life He spit between his boots and he replied:

Forbidden Flowers

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There are flowers in the cities Some with color some are pale You may find them on the sidewalks

Forget It

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[Verse 1] I gave myself some good advice forget it It's gonna drive me crazy if I let it I forgot the line as soon as I had said it But it's good advice for you and me forget it

Fox Hollows Animal Train

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When we took off, we almost had a critter of each kind We had a duckbill platypus and we had a big ol' lion We had a horse with two front teeth and a monkey on a chain Riding on Fox Hollow's Animal Train

Fox On The Run

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Chorus: She walks through the corn leadin? down to the river Her hair shone like gold in the hot mornin' sun She took all the love that this poor boy could give her And left me to die like a fox on the run

Gimme Peace

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[Verse 1] Let me sit on your porch, let me drink a beer Let me scratch that hound dog's ear Let me rock in your rocking chair Gimme peace, gimme peace, gimme peace

Girls In Saigon City

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Girls In Saigon City Recorded by Tom T. Hall Album: I Witness Life/100 Children Capo on 3

Greed Kills More People Than Whisky

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[Verse 1] I was standin' outside of a hotel in Houston blinkin' my eyes in the bright morning sun A feller next to me said where are you headed I told him to Nashville cause that's where I'm from

Hello Mrs Johnson

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() WELL HELLO MRS. JOHNSON YOU SELF-RIGHTEOUS WOMAN SUNDAY SCHOOL () TEACHER WHAT BRINGS YOU OUT SLUMMIN? DO YOU RECKON THE () PREACHER WOULD APPROVE WHERE YOU () ARE SITTIN? HERE () VISITIN? WITH () BACK-SLIDDIN? CHRISTIAN

Homecoming

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I guess I should've written, Dad To let you know that I was comin' home ... I've been gone so many years I didn't realize you had a phone ... I saw your cattle comin' in

How To Talk To A Little Baby Goat

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How do you talk to a little baby goat? You can't go "meow" like a cat When you go "meow" to a little baby goat He can't go "meow" right back

I Care

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[Verse 1] When the TV won't work and your toys fall apart And you have a sad feeling deep in your heart You wanna go out but it's raining out there I want you to know I care

I Cried All The Way To Kentucky

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-- 1st VERSE -- When I got the word that our Uncle Joe died I did what we all did, I sat down and cried Got into my car, headed home for the hills Back home to Kentucky where the funeral was held

I Flew Over Our House

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That old Kentucky moon was shinin' bright as day The stars were twinklin' in the milky way The pilot said "If you look close, there's Frankfort on the right" I flew over our house last night

I Hope It Rains At My Funeral

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A man with forty acres plowed and planted Can't send no fourteen year-old boy to no school The only thing I learned in the years I worked on my daddy's farm Was, "Son, you better get them crops in when it turns cool."

I Like Beer

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In some of my songs I have casually mentioned The fact that I like to drink beer But this little song is more to the point

I Like To Feel Pretty Inside

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A mink wears a mink coat the whole year around Even when he is not going to town A skunk has a striped coat, "it's pretty," he thinks Although we all know he stinks An elephant has hide as hard as a rock

I Love

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I Love - little baby ducks Old pickup trucks Slow movin' trains - and rain I Love - little country streams Sleep without dreams

I Miss A Lot Of Trains

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When the () train pulls in the station you'll be () waiting By the () track. Your have-in trouble sleep-in nights you () want me to come back. () But that old train will roll On by, You'll know I never () came. While I () sleep good And miss a lot of () trains.

I Want My Dog Back

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I came home from work last night and this is what I found My wife was gone, my dog was gone, there was no one around She took the car and took my dog, I don?t know where she?s at I don?t care where she went I want my dog back.

I Washed My Face In The Morning Dew

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[Verse 1] The first strange town I was ever in The county was hangin' a man Nobody cared if he lived or died And I just didn't understand

I Wish I Had A Million Friends

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[Verse 1] I wish I had a million friends And a playground as big as the world I wish I had a million friends Some kittens, some boys and some girls

In Search Of A Song

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1.) The Year That Clayton Delaney Died * 2.) Who's Gonna Feed Them Hogs 3.) Trip to Hyden 4.) Tulsa Telephone Book ** 5.) It Sure Can Get Cold in Des Moines

It Feels Better Now

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It feels better now I got time out of the way It feels better now you said it would someday Like miles behind a runner I watch the passing summers

It Rained In Every Town Except Paducah

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[Verse] Worked construction for a while in St Louis I was helping build a great big new motel It rained so much I couldn't make the Payments

It Sure Can Get Cold In Des Moines

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The Iowa weather was thirteen below I had come to Des Moines for a radio show I awoke in the evening from a traveler's sleep

Jesus On The Radio

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Verse 1: Mama likes to listen to the Grand Old Gospel Time Daddy is a cowboy, drinking beer and wine Mama's in the kitchen, standing there all alone She got Jesus on the radio and Daddy's on the phone

Kentucky February 27 1971

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[Verse 1] There were signs beside the road like "Jesus Saves" And "Relieve yourself the fast and gentle way" I was looking for an old man who lived way back in these hills Who just might have a story I could tell

The Last Country Song

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Verse 1: It's the last country song by the last country band In the last honky-tonk in the world It's the last country dance on the last hardwood floor For the last country boy and girl

Lets Go Shopping Today

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Let's go shopping today I wanna get you a dream I wanna get you a rainbow Get you a cloud and a stream The cloud will have silver inside

Lets Play Remember

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Remember the day that we went to the moon We went to the moon in the middle of June And as we blew over, we met an old cow I know you remember that now

Life Dont Have To Mean Nothing At All

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[Verse 1] Now if you wanna be happy let me tell ya how to do it, You get up in the morning at you get right to it, You bring home the bacon and you make a little bread, Get a little sleepy and you go back to bed.

Little Bitty

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() Have a little love on a () little honey-() moon You got a little dish and you () got a little () spoon A little bitty house and a () little bitty () yard A little bitty dog and a () little bitty () car. Well, it's al-() right too be little () bitty

The Little Lady Preacher

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Oh the little lady preacher from the Limestone Church I'll never forget her I Guess

Local Flowers

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I have traveled this world over I have rambled all my days When my journey's have all ended Place some flowers on my grave.

Lost In Florida

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[Chorus] If you find me take me home if they don't want me leave me alone If you find out they forgot me take me back to ole Sopchoppy (Lost in Florida lost in Florida)

The Man Who Shot Himself

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Https://open.spotify.com/track/0mwU2YGUuiPH4QC4Fgafne?si=98e120c5b71a4479 Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4eMPO21d1w Worked out on request for caleb.greenwell from US If you like my "work" don't hesitate to add favorite or to give it the STARS it deserves (with explination?). Here is the list of all the songs I did upload for UG:

Me And Jesus

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(Chorus) Me and Jesus, got our own thing goin'. Me and Jesus, got it all worked out. Me and Jesus, got our own thing goin'.

The Monkey That Became President

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[Verse] I was there on the day the monkey came into this world His face was round and reddish and his hair was slighltly curled He didn't look too different from the others I had seen Who'd a thought he was the answer to the nations dream

The Mysterious Fox Of Fox Hollow

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The mysterious fox of Fox Hollow He plays with a foxy old bunch He comes out at night to steal chickens And someday he might steal your lunch

O Christmas Candle

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Verse Oh Christmas candle please light up the way Back to my memories of yesterday Cicles hanging on evergreen trees Buttery snowflakes that fell on my cheeks (+measure)

Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine

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Spoken: How old do you think I am he said I said well I didn?t know He said I turned 65 About eleven months ago

Old Five And Dimers Like Me

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Old Five And Dimers Like Me:Tom T. Hall. Album - Rhymes And Other Five And Dimers - #1 on BB Hot Country Albums and #181 on BB Hot 200 on MERCURY Records in 1973.

Old Habits Die Hard

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Verse 1: Old habits die hard, old habits like loving you Like spending my days and nights in missing you Hours that were yours echo like empty rooms Strange faces in your place can't keep away the gloom

Old Side Of Town

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Ain't it strange how people change And almost over-} night Who once was a country girl Is now a social-} ite We're proud for you, but when you're through

Ole Lonesome George The Basset

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[Verse 1] Ole Lonesome George the basset lived in Brentwood, Tennessee And even though he had his faults, he was a sight to see He taught the show dog puppies to always try and please To hold their heads and tails up and not wet the judge's knees

Once Upon A Road

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[Verse] Once upon a road when I was innocent and free And the back roads of America were like toy land to me It surely was the promised land and we had ourselves a dream Oh how the milk and honey flowed once upon a road

Over And Over Again

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Over and over say you'll forgive me For the crazy fool I've been Over and over I'll be sorry over and over again

Pamela Brown

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I'm the guy who didn't marry pretty Pamela Brown Educated, well intentioned good girl in our brown. I wonder where I'd be today if she had loved me too; Probably be driving kids to school.

Pay No Attention To Alice

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SONG: PAY NO ATTENTION TO ALICE ARTIST: TOM T. HALL TAB BY: DON CZARSKI EMAIL: [email protected]

Pinto The Wonder Horse Is Dead

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[Verse 1] I read it in the paper just about a week ago It was on the back page and not many people know Boy it made me feel bad when I picked it up and read Pinto the wonder horse is dead

Pisty

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Verse 1: I got a little friend named Pisty, she's a dandy She doesn't care for movies or for candy She doesn't care for TV or for frogs The reason that she doesn't, she's a dog

The Promise And The Dream

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[Verse 1] There's a sadness in your singing I have never heard before There's a dying in your living that exists from shore to shore There's a coward in your character that I have never seen America what happened to the promise and the dream

Raking Up Leaves

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All summer long you smelled like lotion And we made love when we took the notion Summer is gone and it's hard to believe How lonely I am raking up leaves

Ramonas Revenge

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[Verse 1] Ramona lived just down the hill from us She kept the house, her mother drove the bus (an old yellow school bus) Ramona had a handicap the neighborhood knew well Ramona couldn't speak or couldn't spell

Randy Raccoon

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[Chorus] This is the story of Randy Raccoon He stays up all night and he sleeps until noon He's been up so long, he's got rings on his tail He's wearing a mask like he should be in jail

Ravishing Ruby

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Ravishing Ruby She's Been A-round For A While Ravishing Ruby She Was A Truck Stop Child Born In The Back Of A Rig Somewhere Near L.A. Ravishing Ruby You Poured A Lot Of Hot Coffee In Your Day

Salute To A Switchblade

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Me and Yates, an Army buddy of mine We?re doing three years in Germany at the time We came upon these Frauleins in a bar Yates said, "Darf Ich sie begleiten?"; they said, "Ya." (And "Darf Ich sie begleiten?" means, "Can we sit with you all?")

The Saturday Morning Song

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Verse 1: Here's a little song that you can sing on Saturday morning Mmm-hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm, boogie (boogie) Here's a little song that you can sing on Saturday morning Mmm-hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm, boogie

Second Handed Flowers

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I was working in Miami for a day or 2 I decided I'd look Up a girl that I once knew I bought some flowers and went To see the girl I used to know the lady at her door said She had married long ago. Times will change and towns Will change and there I was alone suddenly I wondered

Shame On The Rain

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[Verse] Shame on the rain for making me twice as blue It's raining in my heart on my window too Days just like this have put out the flame I've got that smoke in my eyes shame on the rain

Shoe Shine Man

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[Verse] Well i can sing i can dance i can play the harmonica too I got abrand new thing called the south side montgomery blues You better stick around and watch cause im an entertaining fool

Shoeshine Man

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Spoken: Well I met the man in Montgomery, Alabama I was waiting on a bus and he was shining shoes And I heard him say: I'm a shoeshine man, number one in the land

Sneaky Snake

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Boys and girls take warning If you go near the lake Keep your eyes wide open And look for Sneaky Snake Now maybe you won't see him

The Song Of The One Legged Chicken

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Do you like true stories? I do That's why I'm singing this song A song about a one-legged chicken Who lives in the straw on the floor in my barn I remember the day she was hatched out

Song Of The South

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[Verse] Cotton on the roadside, cotton in the ditch We all picked cotton but we never got rich Daddy was a veteran, a Southern Democrat he said They oughta get the rich men to vote like that

Spokane Motel Blues

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I don't know what I'm doing here, I could be someplace else Like in Atlanta drinkin' wine, wine, wine I don't know what I'm doing here, I should be someplace else Like in Kentucky drinkin shine, shine, shine

Susies Beauty Shop

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[Verse 1] My wife went doen to Susie's Beauty Shop the other day To get her face fixed up and get a little old permanent wave Then she came home with more news than I saw on my TV She walked in the door and she jumped on me

Texas In Love With Me

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It wasn't much, but I sold it all, and I moved to San An-{D} tone Knowing in my heart, that Texas had to be my home I fell in love with Texas, I was happy, I was free But Texas never fell In love with me.

That Song Is Driving Me Crazy

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That song is driving me crazy I gotta hear it again First time I heard it I was with some friends It's a simple little song you can sing along With an old time melody So would you play that crazy little song again for me

That's How I Got To Memphis

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If you love somebody enough You'll follow wherever they go That's how I got to Memphis That's how I got toooo Memphis

Too Many Do Goods

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We got too many do-goods and not enough hard Working men. We got too many hands out and not enough lendin' A hand.

Trip To Hyden

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[Verse 1] Tossed and turned the night before in some old motel Subconsciously recalling some old sinful thing I'd done My buddy drove the car and those big coal trucks shook us up As we drove on into Hyden in the early morning sun

Tulsa Telephone Book

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Have you read any good telephone books lately? If you ain't then let me recommend one I've already read that Tulsa telephone book through thirteen times If you don't know any last names it ain't much fun

Turn It On Turn It On Turn It On

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[Verse 1] Johnny got up one mornin' he went down to the company store Got him a big box of bullets to fit into his 44 The storeman said son are you gonna work you know you owe me too much to stop John said I got a little working to do but I ain't goin' by your clock

Wash My Hands In The Morning Dew

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The first strange town I was ever in The county was hangin' a man Nobody cared if he lived or died And I just didn't understand

Watermelon Wine

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1. I WAS SITTING IN MIAMI POURING BLENDED WHISKY DOWN WHEN THIS OLD GREY BLACK GENTLEMAN WAS CLEANING UP THE LOUNGE THERE WASN'T ANYONE AROUND BUT THIS OLD MAN AND ME THE GUY WHO TENDED BAR WAS WATCHING IRONSIDES ON TV UNINVITED, HE SAT DOWN AND OPENED UP HIS MIND

Were All In This Thing Alone

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(Hey, there) you know she left me. (Hey, there) I've been crying. In a boat, on a plane, in a train in my House by the phone. (Hey, there) we're all in this thing alone.

When Nobody Wants Your Body Anymore

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VERSE You were meant for me and there ain't no two ways about it Even on my darkest day oh they couldn't make me doubt it Someday things are gonna be the way they were before When nobody wants your body anymore

Who's Gonna Feed Them Hogs

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I met him in a hospital about a year ago And why i still remember him i guess i'll never know He'd lie there and cry out in a medicated fog, "here i am in this dang bed and who's gonna feed them hogs?"

Year Clayton Delaney Died

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Clayton was the best guitar picker In our town I thought he was a hero And I used to follow Clayton around I often wondered why Clayton

The Year That Clayton Delaney Died

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I remember the year that Clayton Delaney died They said for the last two weeks that he suffered and cried It made a big impression on me although I was a barefoot kid They said he got religion at the end and I?m glad that he did

You Are A Star Brittnis Song

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[Verse 1] You are wonderful You are great How old are you now? Four, five, six, seven, eight

Your Man Loves You, Honey

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Had my golf clubs on my shoulder when you saw me first today Wearin' my old army sweater that you thought you threw away And when you saw me standin' there you shook your head and sighed When you saw I'd bought a sixpack I thought you were gonna cry