Wharf Rat
Old man down Way down, down, down by the docks of the city Blind and dirty Asked me for a dime, a dime for a cup of coffee I got no dime but I got some time to hear his story My name is August West, and I love my Pearly Baker best more than […]
Rosa Lee McFall
Out on the lonely hillside In a cabin low and small Lived the sweetest rose of color My Rosa Lee McFall Her hair was brightsome color Her voice was sweet to me I know that I will always love her And I hope that she loved me A asked her to be my darling And […]
Love, Please Come Home
As you read this letter that I write to you Sweetheart I hope you understand That you’re the only love I knew Please forgive me if you can Sweetheart I beg you to come home tonight I’m so blue and all alone I promise that I’ll treat you right Love, oh love oh please come […]
Wild Bill Jones
I was out a-walking around one night And I met with old Wild Bill Jones. He was walking, he was talking with the girl I love And I bid him for to leave her alone. He said, “Young man, I’m 22; Too old for to be controlled.” I drew a revolver from my side And […]
Bound To Ride
Well I’m going, down the road Got my shoes upon my feet Honey come on, I’m bound to ride Honey come on, I’m bound to ride Don’t you want to go? Well I know, it won’t be long Til I hold you in my arms Baby come on, I’m bound to ride Honey come on, […]
Sorrow Is A Highway
My heart is like a white line Divided, separated in these feelings over you My mind, it is also like a white line Endlessly searching, a man without a clue You got me thinking there’s a fire down below ‘Round and ’round in circles is as far as I can go The same old repetition, […]
Manzanita
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Big Mon
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Salty Dog Blues
Standing on the corner with the lowdown blues A great big hole in the bottom of my shoes Honey let me be your salty dog Let me be your salty dog Or I won’t be your man at all Honey let me be your salty dog Look it here Sal, I know you Run down […]
My Love Come Rolling Down
Don’t need your whiskey, don’t need your rum. Don’t need your whiskey, don’t need your rum. All I need is my sweet baby when the summertime comes. She makes my love come rollin’, rollin’ down, She makes my love come rollin’, rollin’ down There’s a warm wind blowing, and its blowing from the south. There’s […]
Wild Horses
Childhood living Is easy to do The things you wanted I bought them for you Graceless lady You know who I am You know I can’t let you Slide through my hands Wild horses Couldn’t drag me away Wild, wild horses Couldn’t drag me away I watched you suffer A dull aching pain Now you’ve […]
Big River
Now I taught the weeping willow how to cry And I showed the clouds how to cover up a clear blue sky And the tears that I cried for that woman are gonna flood you, Big River And I’m gonna sit right here until I die I met her accidentally in St. Paul, Minnesota And […]
Willin’
I been warped by the rain Driven by the snow I’m drunk and dirty, don’t you know And I’m still… willin’ And I was out on the road late at night I seen my pretty Alice in every headlight Alice, Dallas Alice I’ve been from Tucson to Tucumcari Tehachapi to Tonapah Driven every kind of […]
Brakeman’s Blues
Portland Maine is just the same as sunny Tennessee Portland Maine is just the same as sunny Tennessee Any old place I hang my hat is home sweet home to me Hey, hey, hey I went to the depot and looked up on the board Went to the depot and looked up on the board, […]
Running On Empty
Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields In sixty-five I was seventeen and running up one-oh-one I don’t know where I’m running now, I’m just running on Running on, running on empty Running on, running blind Running on, running into the […]
Psycho
Can Mary fry some fish, Mama? I’m as hungry as can be Oh lordy, how I wish, Mama You could keep the baby quiet cause my head is killing me I seen my ex last night, Mama At a dance at Miller’s store She was with that Jackie White, Mama I killed ’em both, and […]
I’ll Remember You, Love, In My Prayers
When the curtains of night are pinned back by the stars And the beautiful moon sweeps the sky When the dew drops of heaven are kissing the rose It is then that my memory flies Upon the wings of some beautiful dove To hasten the message of cheer I’ll send you a kiss of affection […]
And Am I Born To Die?
And am I born to die? To lay this body down? And must my trembling spirit fly Into a world unknown Soon as from earth I go What will become of me Eternal happiness or woe What shall my portion be A land of deepest shade Unpierced by human thought The dreary regions of the […]
Hold That Woodpile Down
Went to town the other night (Hold the woodpile down) Heard a little noise, sound like a fight (Hold the woodpile down) Police running, jumping all around (Hold the woodpile down) All the moonshiners come to town (Hold the woodpile down) And I was rambling, rambling As long as the world goes round The backyard […]
China Doll
A pistol shot at 5 o’clock The bells of heaven ring “Tell me what you done it for” “No I won’t tell you a thing “Yesterday I begged you Before I hit the ground – All I leave behind me Is only what I found “If you can abide it Let the hurdy-gurdy play – […]
Little Sadie
I was out one night, makin’ a round. I met Little Sadie, and I shot her down. Went back home, got in my bed, A forty-four smokeless under my head. Got up next morning about half past nine. The hacks and the buggies were standin’ in line. All of them good folks waitin’ around To […]
The Gold Rush
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On The Southbound
Well I woke up this morning when the cold Chicago wind Blew my newspaper blanket off my back Through my dirty broken window the grey sun filtered in As I dreamed about the Southbound railroad track I could almost hear the crickets in a sleepy cottonfield As daddy drove our vagon to Virgin But today […]
Little Maggie
Oh yonder stands little Maggie With a dram glass in her hands She’s drinking away her troubles She’s a courting some other man Oh how can I ever stand it Just to see them two blue eyes A shining in the moonlight Like two diamonds in the sky Last time a saw little Maggie She […]