Spending All My Life Trying to Get Back Home Again

Somewhere Far Abroad:  Silver Ceremony Album

Rounder Records, Aug 2, 2019.

1.  Both Ends of the Railroad train
(Tim Stafford-Steve Gulley/Daniel Firm Music, BMI-Gulley's Curve Music,BMI)

I roomed with him in Rockville in 1925
He was doing life and I was doing fourth dimension
His memory drifted back when he was most live
When Frank and Jesse James were in their prime

He was a corporal, fought the Kiowa and Sioux
From Sulphur Springs to Kansas dirt
Ran into problem when his soldier days were through
Ended upwardly a one thousand miles away

Don't waste fond words or sad goodbye
Lay me downward on the wide open plain
Out beneath the quilted heaven
Where I can come across both ends of the train

He said I saw the Buffalo, the herds would last for days
Back before the railroad came
Now it's all moved on without me only I miss the older means
And I know it can never be the same

They buried him at Rockville and his kind won't ascent once again
I hope his soul can find some remainder
To the world he's long forgotten, but to me he was a friend
I still recall his last request

2.  Somewhere Far Away
(Shawn Lane-Gerald Ellenburg/True cat Town Music-BMI, Wadako Publishing-BMI)

Have you ever been left all alone like a kid
No ane happens your way
People stare through you as they laissez passer you past
As they bustle along through their day

In the busy courtyard at that place the greenish grass you lot'll find
Water flows cool o'er the vine
Pennies shine bright as they glare in the sun
And they happen to exist mostly mine

Happen to exist by and large mine
Accept you e'er tried to see all the stars in the sky
Looking up through the big urban center lights
An empty street gives y'all a arctic in your soul

As a page of the newspaper blows past
A lilliputian bird makes this big city his habitation
He could go out but he chooses to stay
Yous wish you could inquire him to infringe his wings
And fly somewhere far away

Fly somewhere far away.

3.  Dear Kentucky
(Shawn Lane-Gerald Ellenburg/Cat Boondocks Music-BMI, Wadako Publishing-BMI)

I miss the homeplace on the hillside
And the smell of apple blossoms in the air
I miss daddy'southward stories by the fireside
And my momma'southward voice as she kneeled in prayer

I'm leaving tonight for dear Kentucky
Where wild roses bloom this time of yr
I tin can experience the April sun shining on me
As I walk the fertile ground I love so dear

Is the corn still growing in the meadow
Where Miller plowed the ground in early spring
Are the dogs still running through the blood-red oaks
I'1000 going dorsum to live that way again

I long to see sweet Angelina
I wonder if she however remembers me
It'south been many years since I've seen her
In my center in that location's a place she'll ever be

I'm leaving tonight for Beloved Kentucky
Where wild roses blossom this time of year
I tin feel the summer sun shining on me
As I walk the fertile ground I love and so dearest

4.  In Texas Tonight
(Tim Stafford-Bobby Starnes/Daniel House Music, BMI-It Says What It Says Music,BMI)

He's out on the prairie tonight, headed for Austin
She worries about him lone, and prays for him often
She said don't cover your tracks
So you can notice your way back
Not a cloud in the heaven as the coyote cries in the distance
In Texas this evening

He camped for the nighttime on the banks of the large Brazos River
And he dreamed of his wife back at home and the life he would give her
He said it wouldn't be long
Until these hard times are gone
He hums a sweet tune as the gold harvest moon slowly rises
In Texas this night

No one can say what will be
In life in that location'south no guarantees
Somewhere on the prairie tonight, this side of Austin
She worries well-nigh him alone, and prays for him oft
She'll dream of love without finish
Until she sees him again
Not a cloud in the sky as the coyote cries in the distance
In Texas tonight

five.  Cochise Canton
(Tim Stafford-Bobby Starnes/Daniel Business firm Music, BMI-It Says What It Says Music,BMI)

He was born near Hale Missouri

On the day that Vicksburg fell

And heaven hath no fury

similar a boy raised up in hell

He heard virtually Frank and Jesse

And how they robbed to feed the poor

Just he robbed to adapt his pleasure

and killed for naught more

Chorus

Dead or alive read his bounty

30 notches on his gun

The meanest man in Cochise County

picked the wrong place to run

 Riding out to California

Where no law had heard his name

Nearly the bright San Pedro Valley

Similar a moth drawn to a flame

 He hired with Johnny Ringo

Curly Beak and Texas Jack

He loaned his soul to the devil

But he'll never go it back

6.  Orville's Webb
(Jason Burleson / Terrible Two's Music-BMI)

Instrumental.

7.   Ain't No Better, Own't No Worse
(Wayne Taylor-Tim Stafford/Xl WAT Music-BMI, Daniel Firm Music-BMI)

Another day simply like the last

I can encounter my future living in the past

Same ol' chapter, different verse

Ain't No Better, Ain't no worse

Ain't getting no younger, least I'grand getting older

Got the weight of the globe on my shoulders

Need to put my problems up on the shelf

cease feeling distressing for myself

You're a young man, all you got is time

That'southward what I thought when I was in my natural prime number

Go along digging that hole, one day you'll see

Buddy Yous'll air current upwards but like me

8.  A Place I've Never Seen
(Shawn Lane-Gerald Ellenburg/Cat Town Music-BMI, Wadako Publishing-BMI)

9.   I Already Practice
(Tim Stafford-Steve Gulley/Daniel House Music, BMI-Gulley's Bend Music,BMI)

1) He could tell the machine was comin' from the grit a mile away

He climbed down off the tractor, without too much to say

A handshake and a promise of riches he'd never seen

He said "My Daddy bought this land when he was seventeen."

2) The man in the suit just smiled and said "I don't think you lot sympathize."

If you merely sign these papers, you'll be a wealthy man

Purchase a mansion on a hilltop, Simply enjoy the view

The old homo looked out in the distance and said, "I already practice"

CH) The current of air still blows the fields of corn where we worked when I was young

I still aroma the honeysuckle, gustation the water on my tongue

In my optics, the skies are e'er Carolina blue

Y'all say I could live anywhere I want,

I already do

three) He climbed dorsum on his Farmall, watched big coin drive away

He yet had things to do and it was fashion upwardly in the day

He wiped the sweat out of his eyebrows, Cut a chew of King Bee Twist

Never gave some other thought to all the things he might have missed

TAG) If you have a life that's simple, someone whose dear is true

You hope one solar day to have it all, but Yous already do

ten.   Life Vocal
(Shawn Lane/True cat Town Music-BMI)

11.  I Can't Recollect of Ane
(Wayne Taylor-Ronnie Bowman/Twoscore WAT Music-BMI, William Franklin Publishing-BMI)

12.  That Sounds More Like Heaven to Me
(Wayne Taylor/Xl WAT Music-BMI)

Original Traditional

Rounder Records,  Sept 9, 2016.

* 2017 GRAMMY Nomination - Best Bluegrass Album
* 2017 IBMA Gospel Recorded Operation of the Year Nomination ~ Hallelujah
* Number # 1 Album on Roots Music Report and Bluegrass Unlimited Charts
* Two # 1 Songs on Bluegrass Today Chart
* Number # 6 Album on the RMR Tiptop Bluegrass Anthology Nautical chart for the Year 2017

2. If Lonesome Don't Impale Me
(Tim Stafford-Bobby Starnes/Daniel Business firm Music, BMI-It Says What It Says Music,BMI)

Chorus

The whiskey's for the hard times

From hither it's all uphill

And then if lonesome don't kill me

Possibly the whiskey will

Possibly the whiskey will

Poetry

Well she left me without warning

Packed it up and gone

She'll hit Galax by morning

Time for moving on

Fare thee well, so long

Poetry

Well you know This ain't my showtime fourth dimension

and she won't be the concluding

All I need is a reason

George Dickel And a glass

it's coming on me fast

Verse

I'll be over her tomorrow

Merely hurtin only the same

Cause tonight I'1000 drowning sorrow

And bravado out a flame

Just like a hurricane

2. Last Time I'll Ever Leave This Town
(Tim Stafford-Jon Weisberger/Daniel House Music, BMI-Use Your Words Music,BMI)

Chorus

I'm leaving this town for the last time

Don't look for me cause I won't be around

I should have been smarter the first time

It'due south The last time I'll ever exit this boondocks

Verse

The kickoff time was only a warning

Problem's coming downwardly the line

It moved in to stay come the morning

Then I'm leaving this cold town behind

Verse

I'thou wishin' that I'd never met her

And wonderin' if I'll ever learn

The next time is bound to be better

One day it'southward gonna be My plough

9. Wilkes County Clay
(Tim Stafford-Bobby Starnes/Daniel House Music, BMI-It Says What It Says Music,BMI)

Poetry

In Due north Carolina, in the County of Wilkes

There's a tale of deception, murder and guilt

I'll spare no compassion, the truth I will tell

Let God alone judge me, this side of hell

Verse

Miss Annie and Laura, the fairest of fair

Cast a spell on all suitors, with dazzler so rare

One was jealous, the other naive

One planned to marry, one to deceive

Chorus

Tom won't you play your fiddle?

play a joyful song

Don't worry about tomorrow

Cause tomorrow you'll exist gone

Verse

Annie said Laura, Tom said to me

Meet him on the hillside neath the sycamore copse

just after midnight this last day of May

Get to him Laura, and both run away

Verse

She hid like a panther in the blackness of the night

and killed Laura Foster with a bone handle knife

She cached her body in a common cold shallow grave

forth with her surreptitious, in the Wilkes County clay

Poetry

At present Sheriff Bob Grayson was a hard jealous homo

All that he wanted was young Laura's hand

His eye was broken, his head total of rage

when he blamed Tom Dula, not a question was raised

Verse

In the village of Statesville, his case quickly tried

He spoke not a word, in defence force of his life

They hung him by the neck on the final 24-hour interval of June

And His final asking was an old dabble melody

11. She Ain't Worth It
(Tim Stafford-Steve Gulley/Daniel House Music, BMI-Gulleys Curve Music,BMI)

1) Idea I'd give information technology one more endeavour

But she was setting me up to say goodbye

Just like this teardrop in my middle

she ain't worth it

2) Picked mysef up off the floor

Watched her walk correct out the door

Reached for my erstwhile 44

but she ain't worth it

3) But that was a long time ago

Now I've taught myself but to let it become

Just sit and breast-stroke in the afterglow

Cause she own't worth it

CH) She own't worth the worry man

Better get out at present while you tin can

Get that daughter off your listen

boy that reason own't got no rhyme

Own't no need to waste your time

she ain't worth it

iv) Every day a make new fight

She'll interruption your heart just for spite

Something hither don't add upward right

She ain't worth it

v) You might think I had it made

but y'all don't know the price I paid

Let'southward just call a spade a spade

boys she ain't worth it

half dozen) Before the ring was off her manus

She was making plans with some other man

I hope by now y'all understand

She ain't worth it

The Game

Rounder Records, January 2014.

* Nominated for 2014 IBMA Album of the Year
* Nominated for 2014 IBMA Song of the Year - The Game
* Reigned at #1 for vii months on the Bluegrass Unlimited Album Chart (Jun-Dec 2014)

* Named the #1 Bluegrass Album of the Twelvemonth past critic Daniel Mullins in his stop of the twelvemonth Top xx Albums of 2014 listing in Bluegrass Today.

2. Remind Me of You lot
(Tim Stafford-Craig Marketplace/Daniel House Music, BMI-Drop D Publishing, BMI)

I started slowly like I ever do

Twenty-four hour period quondam coffee at the scissure of noon

I found your number in the pocket of my pants

The good day I was wishing for never had a chance

Jumped in that pickup that I bought for you

Gauge they don't make 'em similar they used to practise

Turned on the radio and much to my surprise

There own't no way yous know, to Hide Your Lying Eyes

CH) Just similar the sun keeps comin upwardly and down

Some memories keep on coming dorsum around

I don't demand some other reason to believe

Like I need anything reminding me of you

Information technology'southward e'er beloved that turns your head around

It hurts similar hell when information technology comes crashing down

Nosotros lost track of right and incorrect somehow

Who'south to blame and does it affair now?

We had our moment but it'due south come and gone

A ghost that'due south haunted me for way too long

I wish that I could close the book, and allow the story cease

Merely every fourth dimension I plough the page, you're turning upwards once more

5.A Change of Religion in Tennessee
(Tim Stafford-Steve Gulley/Daniel Firm Music, BMI-Gulleys Bend Music, BMI)

5) I used to believe every line, used to hang on every word
girl, If y'all said it, it was true
Now the things i took for gospel only get more absurd
And the Truth is just another point of view

CH) In Montana, the mountains are forever
 blueish skies as far as you tin see
In California there's no irresolute of the seasons
But there's been a change of Faith in Tennessee

5) I woke up born again this morning time, finally saw the light
And so many other things I couldn't  run into
 a brand new Volume of Revelation gave me back my sight
in that location'due south been a modify of Faith in Tennessee

Br) you were my  redemption just the cost was manner too high
 conservancy dont mean nothin til it'southward  complimentary

V) I fabricated my peace with my maker, now I'chiliad ready to movement on
Roll the stone across the door
The torso of our honey is laying in the tomb
Its gone and will rise again no more

7.Church Bong Wedding Dejection
(Tim Stafford-Jon Weisberger/Daniel House Music, BMI-Use Your Words Music, BMI)

Walking down the boulevard on a Sunday afternoon
Feeling good correct down to my my shoes
Then I heard 'em ringing out, where I'm headin, there's no doubt
I've got the church bell wedding ceremony blues

Every time I hear them old bells ring, ring ring
For everybody else its Happy news
But all I hear is another song of how you proved untrue
And I get the church bell nuptials blues

Maybe if I blow this town, change my point of view
Some might just give up only I refuse
Put the pedal to the floor just to hear my engine roar
And drive away These Church bell wedding blues

Every time I hear them old bells ring, ring ring
For everybody else it'due south Happy news
but all I've got is a cleaved middle and it's left a mighty trample
Sounds like The church bell wedding blues

Every time I hear them one-time bells ring, ring ring
For everybody else it's Happy news
But all I hear them telling me is son, you'll never lose
The low and lonesome church building bell wedding blues

7.My Last Solar day in the Mine
(Tim Stafford-Wayne Taylor/Daniel Business firm Music, BMI-Twoscore WAT Music, BMI)

V1) It'southward my final mean solar day on the chore, after forty years of loading coal I knew one day I'd face the end

Seems like only yesterday, a straight backed boy barely twenty 1 who didn't take to strain to take hold of his current of air

There's a lot of mixed emotions, all the friends and family unit I've seen come and go down in the pigsty

And I'm  non certain if I'thousand the kind of human, who tin can spend all day sitting by himself, slowly growin' old
With a fishin' pole

CH) it's my  last mean solar day in the mine
I never thought at that place would come up a time
Id never go back hush-hush, lay my dinner bucket down
It'due south my last day in the mine

V3) the super said to me, today we're gonna keep y'all off the line, merely stay behind

Well I know that's how it goes, but I'd rather throw my marker in the car i concluding time Would exist so fine

Sounds of Dwelling house

Rounder Records, 2011

* Nominated for 2012 IBMA Album of the Year
* Nominated for 2012 IBMA Song of the Year - Sounds of Home
* Nominated for 2012 IBMA Instrumental Recorded Operation of the Year - Roaring Creek

three. Bluebird Days
(Tim Stafford-Craig Market/Daniel House Music, BMI-Drib D Publishing, BMI)

CH) Bluebird Days, the mode I retrieve them

Fly  fly away at summertime'due south end

remember my friend

Till they come around again

ane) Frozen in my retention, the day that I met you

I saw the end of winter in a flash of powder blue

Did I hear you say that he was carrying the sky upon his back?

2) Now the nights are getting colder and the days are not so long

I think about you every fourth dimension I hear that song

I'll be waiting if you lot notice your manner back home to me over again

5. Heather and Billy
(Tim Stafford-Steve Gulley/Daniel House Music, BMI-Gulleys Curve Music, BMI)

1) Heather and Billy but had one son of their ain

Simply you hardly ever saw him playing all solitary

Some were abased, some abused, some neglected, others used

But every Monday's child felt at home, never alone

2) Lamentable-eyed Samantha, she's only six years onetime

Simply she tells you lot things a kid should never know

How she cried herself to slumber, and prayed the Lord her soul to keep

It's a wonder she's standing here today, God fabricated a way

Br) Never thinking of themselves, just how to care for someone else

A placidity habitation just never was their fashion

Can't say they had a vision, or something more than proufound

Truth is they just couldn't plow 'em down

3) Heather and Billy, they're just like me and you

But look a fiddling closer and you'll larn a matter or two

How to love, how to grieve, How to make yourself believe

When Billy says nosotros're gonna brand it through, we always do

nine.If Y'all've Got Something to Say
(Tim Stafford-Jon Weisberger/Daniel House Music, BMI-Use Your Words Music, BMI)

one) Lately you been interim like in that location'southward something on your listen

tell me would you like to clear the air

It'south hard for me to reach y'all when y'all're preoccupied

Dear that won't become y'all anywhere

CH) But If You've Got Something to Say

Come right out and say information technology, I'll find out anyway

Don't put off till tomorrow what you oughtta practice today

If You Got Something to Say

two) Yesterday you told me that you lot lost your wedding ring

Today I constitute it tucked within your purse

You say that y'all still love me, Baby that don't mean a thing

Empty words simply brand information technology worse

CH) But If You've Got Something to Say

Come right out and say information technology, I'll detect out anyway

Don't let me go on living in this dream of yesterday

If You Got Something to Say

BR) If you really think it's over

You don't need an alibi

I can take the truth just I can't take a lie

TAG) Don't make me wait forever Babe, y'all know I'm turning gray

If Y'all Got Something to Say

12. Drinking From a Deeper Well
(Tim Stafford-Bob Minner/Daniel House Music, BMI-Missouriboy Music, BMI)

1) Grocery line headlines

all kinds of cease signs

Do it now deadlines

were bringing me down

My style of living

was taking not giving

the art of forgiving

was brusque in supply

CH) These days I heed

for what I've been missing

Like stories my son wants to tell

I've learned how to irksome downward

Every 24-hour interval I'k above ground

I'm Drinking from a Deeper Well

2) Today'southward all nosotros're living

tomorrow's not given

but riches are hidden

in everyday life

So find your own reason

and there'll be a flavour

continue on assertive

and drink till yous're full

TAG:  sweetness inspiration

simple conservancy

Drinking from a Deeper Well

Through the Window of a Train

Rounder Records, 2008

*  IBMA Song of the Twelvemonth 2008 - Through the Window of a Train
* Nominated for 2008 IBMA Album of the Year

one. Life of a Travelin' Man
(Shawn Lane/Cat Town Music, BMI)

Go the yard cut downwards and the babies fed
A million songs runnin' through my head
Daylight comes I'll exist gone again
When does the highway ever cease
My shoulders bare such a heavy load
Difficult to keep my thoughts all in a row
I can't slow down the life I've chose
Somehow I dear the manner it goes
Time moves fast and the wheels turn tiresome
That's how the life of a travelin' man goes

The winds of change are a blowin' through
Just like they're e'er gonna do
They'll turn the folio to another proper name
Dissimilar film in the same ole frame
Lightning flashing upwards ahead
A one thousand thousand songs runnin' through my head
I tin can't name every place I've been
But if the Lord is willing I'll be there again

2. Through the Window of a Train
(Tim Stafford-Steve Gulley/Daniel House Music, BMI-Gulley'southward Curve Music, BMI)

Everybody drives the same quondam roads these days
Don't see a thing, but they know the way
Every mile's a marker, every town'south the same
Another place to stop but not to stay

Daddy was a brakeman on the L&Due north
Sometimes he'd let me ride forth with him
No thing where nosotros'd stop forth the way
Everybody knew his proper noun

A different story down every line
People workin' difficult but to alive and die
I saw it all one time upon a time
Through the window of a train

So we started back the mode we came
Like people moving through a picture frame
Seems the whole world's further down the runway
Only I'chiliad always looking back

I don't expect you all to understand
Or see the state like a railroad man
So many things you lot'd never realize
Unless you saw 'em with these optics

Birmingham to Jackson, hear the whistle call
And the dominicus goes down similar a big red brawl
In my memory I still see it all
Through the window of a train

iii. Sycamore Hollow
(Shawn Lane-Gerald Ellenburg/True cat Town Music, BMI-Wadako Publishing, BMI)

It was down past the forked stream
Out in Sycamore Holler
I went downwards in my best of dress
To take her from her begetter

With hair downward to her waist
The color of strawberries
Down by the forked stream
By dark autumn we would ally

I sure dearest the farmer's daughter
Back in Sycamore Holler

On a horse seventeen easily high
He rode in Sherman 's army
To Atlanta town against her will
He took my woman from me

Well I grabbed my knife and
both of my guns
In a loud vocalisation I did call her
Upon a lightning horse I swore once more
Equally I left Sycamore Holler

I will bring the farmer'due south daughter
Dorsum to Sycamore Holler

Information technology was down by the river's edge
I run across the campfire flicker
Four expressionless men lay behind
As I get out that army camp with her

Now our children play in a forked stream
Out in Sycamore Holler
With a boy like me and a girl similar her
We'll always exist together

I certain love the farmer'southward daughter
Down in Sycamore Holler

four. Homeless Homo
(Wayne Taylor/Forty WAT Music, BMI)

They called him Skeet, his proper noun was Bill
Corporal William Howard Campbell,
they never knew and never will
He did his time with the 101
They took a elementary state boy
and taught him how to employ a gun
Afterwards 4 long years in service,
two tours in Vietnam
The land that he served so well
doesn't seem to give a damn
That he'southward a homeless man

He has a son, lives in L.A.
He hasn't spoke to him in xx years,
he just don't know what to say
He had a loving wife, she was his right hand
Till the nightmares and the memories
became more that she could stand up
Now he has everything he owns
in a worn-out shopping cart
He'south never begged for anything,
he only doesn't have the heart
He'southward only a homeless man

Now in this land of plenty
where so many have information technology all,
He sleeps in an aisle half a block from city hall

They found him in that location one cold November night
Though he'd won so many battles,
this time he'd lost the fight
No one seemed to care that he was gone
They laid him in a pauper'south grave
with a tiny little stone
As a immature man and his mother
sat lonely and cried,
Property the Silver Star medallion
someone constitute there by his side
He was a homeless human

He was just a homeless human being

v. Where Did the Morn Get?
(Shawn Lane/True cat Boondocks Music, BMI)

Where did the morning time go?
I meant to do much more than with this life
I was built-in a articulate and sunny day
At present evening shadows autumn my manner
Where did the morn become?

It was dawn when my babies cried
Now they're able to walk out on their ain
I've had a family that I've e'er loved
And I made peace with my God above
Merely where did the morning go?

I've held hands that I loved to concord
Only an evenin' came when I had to let 'em get
I still write the words down to my songs
But it's different voices that sing along
Where did the morning go?

6. Two Soldiers
(Tim Stafford-Woods Newton/Daniel House Music, BMI–Rope-a-Dope Music, BMI)

We show upwards every morning,
our uniforms are pressed
All spit and shine, we have to wait our best
This message that we acquit
is a heavy load to bear
For those who pay the price with sacrifice
We have to show we care

Everybody has a duty, a way they can shine
The ones who go over in that location
and those who stay behind
Some ain't coming back, reality is grim
Information technology'south up to me and Sergeant Jack
To pause the news to them

We're the two soldiers no 1 wants to see
In a plain blackness sedan
rolling slowly down the street
By the toys and the bikes
beneath the maple trees
Where fading yellow ribbons
wave gently in the breeze
A loved one's in a improve place
They won't be dorsum no more
At present in that location's two soldiers at the door

Sometimes they see us coming
and fall down on their knees
Tears are overflowing,
crying "no, God, please."
Sometimes they just stand up there, silent equally a stone
With no surprise in their eyes
Similar they knew it all along

See the soldiers on the tarmac, ready to deploy
Husbands and wives with little girls and boys
Say a silent prayer they all come up dorsum live
And never encounter Jack and me pull up in their bulldoze

7. The North Cove
(Jason Burleson/Terrible Twos Music, BMI)

(Instrumental)

viii. A Week from Today
(Tim Stafford-Robert G. Starnes/Daniel House Music, BMI-It Says What It Says Music, BMI)

Time is a funny thing you lot know
No matter where you lot are it comes and goes
I've lived my life one 24-hour interval at a time
Time is all I've had and all I know

Home is a country of listen it's said
Iv walls and a roof inside your head
To some it might seem strange,
but I'm too damn old to change
At present the warden says the state requires my bed

Information technology's been fifty years since they sent me hither
I had forty-nine more to get
Just a week from today
They'll open this gate for good
And I'll have to walk abroad
But Lord knows I'd stay if I could

I won't final a 24-hour interval out at that place alone
This prison house cell's the only home I've known
The globe outside has changed,
but the 1 inside's the same
I'll take to find a style to become back abode

9. My Ropin' Days Are Done
(Tim Stafford-Robert K. Starnes/Daniel House Music, BMI-It Says What It Says Music, BMI)

I was thinkin' 'tour Mary as I left Tucumcari
With four hours to brand Santa Fe
I know she'due south been hopin' I'll quit this damn ropin'
But that's one thing that she'd never say

Information technology's a cowboy's addiction, the smell and the friction
Of the rope when it's dallied and taut
Every yr it gets rougher,
but her love is tougher
Than any steer I've ever fought

Information technology's more than a livin', it'due south been my whole life
Taken and given the pleasure and strife…
Merely I've known all along that this day would come
Gauge my ropin' days are done

At that place's headers and heelers, addicts and dealers
And Crown to cover the fear
I been a saint and a sinner, a loser and winner
So where do I go from hither?

I could exist home by daybreak if I plow around at present
I'God boys, it's been fun
Tell the girls in Nogales I'k headed to Dallas
At present my ropin' days are done

10. Blues on Blues
(Tim Stafford-Robert Thou. Starnes-Jon Weisberger/Daniel House Music, BMI-It Says What Information technology Says Music, BMI-Use Your Words Music, BMI)

Dejection on blues, pain on pain
Zero to practise but watch it rain
Tears fall down from missing yous, oh Lord
Color yous gone and color me blue on bluish

Five years ago when we first met
I never dreamed that I'd regret
Loving you the style I practice, oh Lord
Yous roughshod for some other and left me blue on blue

Running out of tears, running out of heart
Likewise tired to make some other start
Don't wanna detect somebody new, oh Lord
Cause I'm non over you lot, I'm blueish on bluish

The mean solar day may come up when I'll attempt over again
With a little luck, next time I'll win
When yous got naught, you got nothing to lose, oh Lord
When you hit rock lesser in that location's nothing but blues
on blues

Dejection on blues, pain on pain
Nothing to do but watch it rain
Tears fall down from missing you, oh Lord
Color yous gone and color me bluish on blue

11. 5-Bottom Boat
(Shawn Lane/Cat Town Music, BMI)

If I tin discover a river or a fast little stream
Or a big ole high mountain
with a niggling lake in between

A 5-bottom gunkhole, a v-bottom boat
A v-bottom boat'll take me
where I want to get

Ol' Noah cried out to the Lord,
"God what shall I exercise?"
God said to build a v-lesser boat and
yous'll get through

A v-bottom boat, a v-lesser gunkhole
A v-bottom boat'll accept you
where you want to become

Cars, planes and trains tin can have y'all
almost anywhere
Only a v-bottom boat is how I'd rather
go there

A v-bottom boat, a 5-bottom boat
A v-bottom boat'll take me
where I want to go

Ane day I'll discover the stream that leads up to
my Savior off-white
I'll ride in a v-bottom gunkhole to meet him there

12. Just Another Gravel in the Road
(Wayne Taylor/Forty WAT Music, BMI)

You keep saying things I don't understand
I effort real difficult to never allow it prove
Your sophisticated ways take left me in a daze
I guess I'chiliad only some other gravel in the road

My friends all tried to tell me when I met you
You're needn't think yous'll ever continue that girl
They said your loftier-grade taste would lay my
life to waste matter
And I'd never be accepted in your world

I've started to believe what they've been proverb
It'south becoming clear our feelings
aren't the aforementioned
You keep trying to change me
from what I choose to be
Merely you gotta know that
I don't play that game

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