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Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout the Good Old Days) The Judds Grandpa tell me 'bout the good old days Sometimes it feels like this world's gone crazy Grandpa take me back to yesterday When the line between right and wrong didn't seem so hazy CHORUS Did lovers really fall in love to stay And stand beside each other come what may Was a promise really something people kept Not just something they would say Did families really bow their heads to pray Did daddies really never go away Oh, Oh Grandpa tell me bout the good old days Grandpa everything is changing fast We call it progress but I just don't know And Grandpa lets wander back into the past then paint me the picture of long ago Repeat Chorus |
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Luckenbach Texas Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson Part 1:(Waylon) There 're only two things in life that make it worth livin' It's guitar tuned good and firm feelin' women I don't need my name in the marquis lights I got my song and I got you with me tonight Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of love Chorus(Waylon): Let's go to Luckenbach Texas with Waylon and Willie and the boys This successful life we're livin' has got us fueding like the Hatfields and McCoys Between Hank Williams pain songs,Newberry's train songs and blue eyes cryin' in the rain out in Luckenbach Texas ain't nobody feelin' no pain Part 2:(Waylon) So baby let's sell your diamond ring Buy some boots and faded jeans and go away This coat and tie is choking me In your high society you cry all day We've been so busy keepin'up with the Jones Four car garage and we're still building on Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of love Chorus (Waylon) Chorus (Willie): Let's go in Luckenbach Texas with Willie and Waylon and the boys This successful life we're livin' has got us fueding Like the Hatfields and McCoys Between Hank Williams pain songs Jerry Jeff's train songs and blue eyes cryin' in the rain out in Luckenbach Texas ain't nobody feelin' no pain |
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YOU'RE LOOKIN' AT COUNTRY Loretta Lynn Well, I like my lovin' done country style And this little girl would walk a country mile To find her a good old slow-talkin' country boy, I said a country boy I'm about as old-fashioned as I can be And I hope you're likin' what you see 'Cause if you're lookin' at me You're lookin' at country. CHORUS You don't see no city when you look at me 'Cause, country's all I am I love runnin' bare-footed through the old corn fields And I love that country ham-ha-ham Well, you say I'm made just to fit your plans But does a barnyard shovel fit your hands If your eyes are on me You're lookin' at country. This here country is a little green And there's a lot of country that-a you ain't seen I'll show you around if you'll show me a weddin' band I said a weddin' band When it comes to love, well, I know about that Country folks If you're lookin' at me You're lookin' at country. Repeat Chorus |
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COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER Loretta Lynn Well, I was born a coal miner's daughter In a cabin on a hill in Butcher Holler We were poor, but we had love That's the one thing that daddy made sure of He shoveled coal to make a poor man's dollar. My daddy worked all night in the Vanleer coal mine All day long in the field a-hoin' corn Mommie rocked the babies at night And read the Bible by the coal-oil light And ever'thing would start all over come break of morn'. Daddy loved and raised eight kids on a miner's pay Mommie scrubbed our clothes on a washboard ever' day Why, I've seen her fingers bleed To complain there was no need She'd smile in Mommie's understanding way. In the summertime we didn't have shoes to wear But in the wintertime we'd all get a brand new pair From a mail order catalog Money made from sellin' a hog Daddy always managed to get the money somewhere. Yeah!, I'm proud to be a coal miner's daughter I remember well - the well where I drew water The work we done was hard At night we'd sleep 'cause we were tired I never thought of ever leaving Butcher Holler. Well, a lot of things have changed since way back then And it's so good to be back home again Not much left but the floor Nothing lives here anymore Except the mem'ries of a coal miner's daughter. |
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Rhinestone Cowboy Glen Campbell I've been walkin' these streets so long Singin' the same old song I know every crack in these dirty sidewalks of Broadway Where hustle's the name of the game And nice guys get washed away like the snow and the rain There's been a load of compromisin' On the road to my horizon But I'm gonna be where the lights are shinin' on me Like a rhinestone cowboy Riding out on a horse in a star-spangled rodeo Like a rhinestone cowboy Getting cards and letters from people I don't even know And offers comin' over the phone Well, I really don't mind the rain And a smile can hide all the pain But you're down when you're ridin' the train that's takin' the long way And I dream of the things I'll do With a subway token and a dollar tucked inside my shoe There'll be a load of compromisin' On the road to my horizon But I'm gonna be where the lights are shinin' on me Like a rhinestone cowboy Riding out on a horse in a star-spangled rodeo Rhinestone cowboy Gettin' cards and letters from people I don't even know And offers comin' over the phone Like a rhinestone cowboy Riding out on a horse in a star-spangled rodeo Rhinestone cowboy Gettin' cards and letters from people I don't even know |
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Whiskey Bent And Hell Bound Hank Williams, Jr. I've got a good woman at home who thinks I do no wrong But sometimes lord, she just ain't always around And you know that's when I fall, I can't help myself at all And I get whiskey bent and hell bound Play me some songs about a ramblin' man, put a cold one in my hand, 'cause you know I love to hear those guitar sounds Don't you play 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry' cause I'll get all balled up inside And I'll get whiskey bent and hell bound Sure enough about closing time, (I'm) about stoned out of my mind And I end up with some honky-tonk special I found Just as sure as the morning sun come, thinking of my sweet girl at home And I need to get whiskey bent and hell bound Play me some songs about a ramblin' man, put old Jim Beam in my hand 'cause you know I still love to get drunk and hear country sounds But don't you play 'Your Cheatin' Heart' cause that'll tear me all apart I'll get whiskey bent and hell bound Yeah, old Hank's songs always make me feel low down |
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FAMILY TRADITION Hank Williams Jr. Country music singers have always been a real close family But lately some of my kinfolk have disowned a few others and me I guess it's because I went and changed my position Lord, I guess I went and broke their family tradition Chorus They yell, they wanna know: "Hank.." Why do you drink? Why do you roll smoke? Why must you live out the songs that you wrote? Stop and think it over - try to put yourself in this position When I get stoned, I'm just carryin' on and old family tradition. Now I am very proud of my daddy's name Although his kind of music and mine ain't exactly the same Stop and think it over - try to put yourself in my position When I get stoned and sing all night long it's just a family tradition Chorus 2 Don't ask me: "Hank..." Why do you drink? Why do you roll smoke? Why must you live out them songs that you wrote? If I'm down in a honky tonk, and some ole slick's tryin' to gimme some friction I says "Leave me alone, I'm stayin' all night long 'cause it's a family tradition" Lordy, I have loved some ladies, and I still love Jim Beam They both tried to kill me in nineteen seventy-three When that doctor asks me "Son, how'dja get in this condition?" I says "Hey Sawbones, I'm just a-carryin' on the old family tradition." Chorus 3 So don't ask me: "Hank..." Why do you drink? Why do you roll smoke? Why must you live out them songs that you wrote? Stop and think it over - try to put yourself in my unique position When I get stoned and sing all night long, it's just a family tradition. |
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All My Rowdy Friends Have Settled Down Hank Williams Jr. All My Rowdy Friends Have Settled Down And They Seem To Be More In To Laid Back Songs And Nobody Wants To Get Drunk And Get Loud Everybody Just Wants To Go Back Home I Myself Have Seen My Wilder Days And I Have Seen My Name At The Top Of The Page But I Need To Find Me A Friend Just To Run Around But Nobody Wants To Get High On The Town And All My Rowdy Friends Have Settled Down And I Think I Know What My Father Meant When He Sang About A Lost Highway And Ole' George Jones I'm Glad To See Is Finally Getting Straight And Waylon's Staying At Home And Loving Jesse More These Days And Nobody Wants To Get Drunk And Get Loud And All My Rowdy Friends Have Settled Down And The Hangovers Hurt More Than They Used To And Corn Bread And Iced Tea Has Took The Place Of Pills And 90-Proof And It Seems Like None Of Us Do Things Quite Like We Used To Do And Nobody Wants To Get High On The Town And All My Rowdy Friends Have Settled Down And I Think I Know What My Father Meant When He Sang About A Lost Highway And Johnny Cash Don't Act Like He Did Back In '68 And Kris He Is A Movie Star And He Moved Out To L.A. And Nobody Wants To Get Drunk And Get Loud And All My Rowdy Friends Have Settled Down Yea Me And My Rowdy Friends Done Rowded On Down |
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Country Boy Can Survive Hank Williams Jr. The preacher man says its the end of time And the Mississippi River shes a goin dry The interest is up and the stock markets down And you only get mugged if you go down town I live back in the woods you see My woman and the kids and the dogs and me I got a shotgun a rifle and a four wheel drive And a country boy can survive Country folks can survive I can plow a field all day long I can catch catfish from dusk till dawn We make our own whiskey and our own smoke too Ain't too many things these ole boys can't do We grow good ole tomatoes and homemade wine And a country boy can survive Country folks can survive Chorus Because you can't starve us out and you can't make us run Cause when them ole boy raised on shotgun We say grace and we say ma'am If you ain't into that we don't give a damn Verse We came from the West Virginia coal mines And the Rocky Mountains and the Western Skies And we can skin a buck we can run a trot line And a country boy can survive Country folks can survive I had a good friend in New York City He never called me by my name just HillBilly My GrandPa taught me to live off the land And his taught him to be a business man He used to send me pictures of the Broadway Night And I'd send him some homemade wine But he was killed by a man with a switch blade knife For forty three dollars my friend lost his life I'd love to spit some Beechnut in that dudes eye And shoot em' with my ole 45 Cause a country boy can survive Country folks can survive Repeat Chorus Verse Were from North California and South Alabam And little towns all around this land And we can skin a buck and run a trot line And a country boy can survive Country folks can survive Country boy can survive Country folks can survive |
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COWARD OF THE COUNTY Kenny Rogers Ev'ryone considered him the coward of the county. He'd never stood one single time to prove the county wrong. His mama named him Tommy, the folks just called him yellow, but something always told me they were reading Tommy wrong. He was only ten years old when his daddy died in prison. I looked after Tommy 'cause he was my brother's son. I still recall the final words my brother said to Tommy: "Son, my life is over, but yours is just begun. CHORUS Promise me, son, not to do the things I've done. Walk away from trouble if you can. It won't mean you're weak if you turn the other cheek. I hope you're old enough to understand: Son, you don't have to fight to be a man." There's someone for ev'ryone and Tommy's love was Becky In her arms he didn't have to prove he was a man. One day while he was workin' the Gatlin boys came callin'. They took turns at Becky.... There was three of them! Tommy opened up the door and saw his Becky cryin'. The torn dress, the shattered look was more than he could stand. He reached above the fireplace and took down his daddy's picture. As his tears fell on his daddy's face, he heard these words again: CHORUS "Promise me, son, not to do the things I've done. Walk away from trouble if you can. It won't mean you're weak if you turn the other cheek. I hope you're old enough to understand: Son, you don't have to fight to be a man." The Gatlin boys just laughed at him when he walked into the barroom. One of them got up and met him halfway 'cross the floor. When Tommy turned around they said, "Hey look! ol' yellow's leavin'." (spoken) But you coulda heard a pin drop when Tommy stopped and locked the door. Twenty years of crawlin' was bottled up inside him He wasn't holdin' nothin' back; he let 'em have it all. When Tommy left the barroom not a Gatlin boy was standin'. (Spoken) And I heard him say these final words as I watched the last one fall CHORUS 2 "I promised you, Dad, not to do the things you done. I walk away from trouble when I can. Now please don't think I'm weak, I couldn't turn the other cheek, and Papa, I sure hope you understand: Sometimes you gotta fight when you're a man." Ev'ryone considered him the coward of the county. |
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(If You're Not In It For Love) I'm Outta Here! Shania Twain Mind if I sit down? Can I buy you a round? Haven't seen your face before Are you new in town? It's the same old line Oh every time Are you here alone? Can I take you home? Now every woman sees With every "pretty please" There's a pair of lyin' eyes And a set of keys He says some be a star In the back seat of my car Oh but baby slow down Your goin' way too far Let me make it clear to you my dear Chorus: If you're not in it for love (baby) If you're not willin' to give it all you got If you're not in it for life If you're not in it for love Let me make it clear to you my dear If you're not in it for love I'm outta here! Babe I can change your world Make you a cover girl Yeah you could be a beauty queen In a magazine Now tell me, what's you sign? Why always the same old line? I'll be in number 409 If you change your mind Let me make it clear to you my dear Repeat Chorus Repeat Chorus If you're not in it for life If you're not in it for love I'm outta here! |
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DON'T CRY JONI Conway Twitty Chorus: Jimmy please say you'll wait for me I'll grow up some day you'll see Saving all my kisses just for you Signed with love forever true Joni was the girl who lived next door I've known her I guess ten years or more Joni wrote me a note one day And this is what she had to say Repeat chorus Slowly I read her note once more Then I went over to the house next door Her teardrops fell like rain that day When I told Joni what I had to say Joni, Joni please don't cry You'll forget me by and by You're just 15 I am 22 And Joni I just can't wait for you Soon I left our little hometown Got me a job and try to settle down But these words kept pounding my memory The words that Joni said to me Repeat chorus I packed my clothes and I caught a plane I had to see Joni I had to explain How my heart was filled with her memories And ask my Joni if she'd marry me I ran all the way to the house next door But things weren't like they were before My teardrops fell like rain that day When I heard what Joni had to say Jimmy, Jimmy please don't cry You'll forget me by and by It's been five years since you've been gone Jimmy I married your best friend John |
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Harper Valley PTA Jeannie C. Riley I want to tell you all a story 'bout a Harper Valley widow wife Who had a teenage daughter that attended Harper Valley Junior High Well her daughter came home one afternoon and didn't even stop to play And she said, "Mama, I've got a note here from the Harper Valley PTA" Well the note says "Mrs. Johnson, you're wearing your dresses way too high It's been reported you've been drinkin' and a runnin' round with men and goin' wild Now we don't believe you ought to be a bringin' up your little girl this way" And it was signed by the Secretary, Harper Valley PTA Well it happened that the PTA was gonna meet that very afternoon And boy, were they surprised as Mrs. Johnson wore her miniskirt into the room And as she walked up to the blackboard I can still recall the word she had to say She said "I'd like to address this meeting of the Harper Valley PTA Now there's Bobby Taylor sittin' there and seven times he's asked me for a date And Mrs. Taylor sure seems to use a lot of ice whenever he's away And Mr. Baker can you tell us why your secretary had to leave this town And shouldn't widow Jones be told to keep her window shades all pulled completely down Now Mr. Harper couldn't be here 'cause he's stayed too long in Kelly's bar again And if you smell Shirley Thompson's breath you'll find she's had a little nip of gin And then you have the nerve to tell me as a mother you think that I ain't fit Well this is just a little Payton place and you're all Harper Valley hypocrits Now I wouldn't put you on because it really did, it happened just this way That day my Mama socked it to the Harper Valley PTA That day my Mama socked it to 'em at the Harper Valley PTA |
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