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Dirt road in the twi-lght, woods so cool and dark.
Up a-head pale ne-on, somewhere a dog barks,
Honky-tonk moon, keeps shining on my ba-by and me

Breaking up the pool balls, chalk-ing up the cues
Juke box pumping soft-ly, lazy sum-mer blues
Honky-tonk moon, keeps shining on my ba-by and me


Chorus

Through the blue smok-y haze, all through the haze
Trouble seems to melt a - way.............
My heart's on a roll, i'm easy in my soul
There's no hur-ry, no wor-ry, things are go-in' my way

My arms a-round my ba-by, shuf-flin' on the floor
Cig-a-rettes and saw-dust, squeak-y old screen door.
Honk- tonk moon, keeps shin-in on my ba-by and me.

Out-side the dark is fal-ling, stars are twinkling bright
That old hoot owl is calling, every-things all right
Honk- tonk moon, keeps shin-in on my ba-by and me.
Honk- tonk moon, keeps shin-in on my ba-by and me.

There's a dirty piece of cardboard
That reads montgomery ward
Taped across the window of my old ford.
A six-pack on the front seat and a box of chicken wings,
I'm dialin' 'cross the radio for a song that i can sing

I'd better change my wandrin ways,
I know i've seen my better days,
Always gettin' high when i get low.
Well, i left my soul out in the rain,
Lord, what a price i've had to pay.
The storms of life are washin' me away.


An old mail pouch, tobacco sign
Fadin' on the barn,
Bringin' back sweet memories of mama's farm
When love was just a country girl that lived on down the road.
Spoken: you know, she almost had me turned around,
But that was years ago.

I'd better change my wandrin ways,
I know i've seen my better days,
Always gettin' high when i get low.
Well, i left my soul out in the rain,
Lord, what a price i've had to pay.
The storms of life are washin' me away.
Yeah, the storms of life are washin' me away.

He wore starched white shirts buttoned at the neck,
And he'd sit in the shade and watch the chickens peck.
And his teeth were gone, but what the heck,
I thought that he walked on water.

He said he was a cowboy when he was young.
He could handle a rope and he was good with a gun.
And my mama's daddy was his oldest son,--
And i thought that he walked on water.


Chorus

If the story's told, only heaven knows.
But his hat seemed to me like an old halo.
And although his wings, they were never seen.
I thought that he walked on water.

Then he tied a cord to the end of a mop,
And said, "son, here's a pony, keep her at a trot."
And i'd ride in circles while he laughed alot.
Then i'd flop down beside him.

And he was ninety years old in sixty-three
And i loved him and he loved me.
And lord, i cried the day he died,

'cause i thought that he walked on water.

Chorus

You may think that i'm talking foolish
You've heard that i'm wild & i'm free
You may wonder how i can promise you now
This love that i'm feeling for you always will be
You're not this time that i'm killing
I'm no longer one of those guys
As sure as i live this love that i give
Is gonna be yours till the day that i die -- oh baby


Chorus...

I'm gonna love you forever, forever & ever amen
As long as old men sit & talk about the weather
As long as old women sit & talk about old men
If you wonder how long i'll be faithfull
I'll be happy to tell you again
I'm gonna love you forever & ever, forever & ever amen

They say that time takes it's toll on a body
Makes the young girls brown hair turn grey
But honey, i don't care, i'm not in love with your hair
And if it all fell out well i'd love you anyway
They say that time can play tricks on a memory
And people forget things that they knew
But it's easy to see it's happening to me
I've already forgotten every woman but you --- oh baby


Chorus......

Just listen to how this song ends
I'm gonna love you forever & ever forever & ever
Forever & ever forever & ever amen

I'm getting out of this high-rise penthouse suite
Where we pretend life's rosy and sweet
I'm going back to the folks that i used to know
Where everyone is what they seems to be

And these high-class friends that you like to hang around
When they look my way they're always looking down
I'm tired of spending every dime i make
To finance this way of life i've learned to hate

(chorus)
I'm going back to a better class of loser
This up-town living's really got me down
I need friends who don't pay their bills on home computers
And who buy their coffee beans already ground
You think it's disgraceful that they drink three-dollar wine
But a better class of loser suits me fine

You say the grass is greener on the other side
From where i stand i can't see grass at all
And the concrete and the steel won't change the way you feel
It takes more than caviar to have a ball

(repeat chorus)

You think it's disgraceful that they drink three-dollar wine
But a better class of loser suits me fine

I remember how it used to feel
Riding down old two mile hill
Tennis shoes up on the handle bars
Paying no mind to the passing cars
No doubts, no fears, just like when you are here


Chorus:
No chains, no strings, no fences, no wall
No net, just you to catch me when i fall
Look heart, no hands.

It took a little time to get up to speed
To find the confidence and strength i need
To just let go and reach for the sky
You know sometimes it felt i could fly.
No doubts, no fears, just like when you are here.

Chorus


It doesn't take much, just a smile or a touch
And i'm a kid again, i can almost feel that wind

Look heart, no hands then play full chord to end
Jason a. wendtland

On the other hand - randy travis
On one hand i count the reasons i could stay with you
And hold you close to me, all night long.
So many lover's games i could play with you
And on that hand i see no reason why it's wrong

Chorus:

But on the other hand, there's a golden band
To remind of someone who would not understand
On one hand i could stay and be your loving man
But the reason i must go is on the other hand


In your arms i feel the passion, i thought had died
When i looked into your eyes i found myself
When i first kissed your lips i felt so alive
I've got to hand it to you girl, you're something else

Repeat chorus

Verse 1
Suppose i called you up tonight
And told you that i love you
And suppose i said i want to come back home
And suppose i cried and said i think i finally learned my lesson
And i'm tired of spending all my time alone
If i told you that i realized you're all i ever wanted
And it's killing me to be so far away
Would you tell my that you love me too
And would we cry together
Or would you simply laugh at me and say...


Chorus
I told you so, i told you so
I told you some day you'd come crawling back
And asking me to take you in
I told you so, but you had to go
Now i've found somebody new
And you will never break my heart in two again


Verse 2
If i got down on my knees
And told you i was yours forever
Would you get down on yours too and take my hand
Would we get that old-time feeling
Would we laugh and talk for hours
The way we did when our love first began
Would you tell me that you've missed me too
And that you've been so lonely
And you've waited for the day that i returned
And we'd live and love forever
And that i'm your one and only
Or would you say the tables finally turned
And would you say...

(chorus)

Verse 1

Well last night i dug your picture out from our old dresser drawer
I set it on the table and i talked to it til four
Then i read some old love letters right up til the break of dawn
Well tonight i'm sittin alone diggin up bones

Chorus
I'm a diggin up bones
Exhuming things that's better left alone
I'm resurrecting memories of a love that's dead and gone
Well tonight i'm sittin alone diggin up bones

Verse 2
Then i went through the closet and i found some things in there
Like that pretty lingerie that i bought you to wear
Then i recalled how good you looked each time you had it on
Well tonight i'm sittin alone diggin up bones

Verse 3
Then i went through the jewelry and i found our wedding rings
I put mine on my finger and i gave yours a fling
Across this lonely bedroom of our recent broken home
Well tonight i'm sittin alone diggin up bones
Repeat chorus

I heard a freight train out across the way
I heard a woman sing amazing grace
I heard a night bird call to its mate
When i heard you whisper my name
I heard freedom break its chain
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I heard a heart beat where once on sound remained
I heard angels rise and praise
When i heard you whisper my name
Chorus:
I heard music bring a heart of stone to tears
I heard peace ring like an anthem through the years
And i heard hatred fall from grace
When i heard you whisper my name


Beating softly against the waves
Fell a sound of an early morning rain
And though the lighting and thunder came
I still heard you whisper my name
And i heard angels rise and praise
When i heard you whisper my name

You've been too gone, too long,
It's too late to come back now
It's been so long since you walked out my door
Now you're just an old song nobody sings anymore
I gotta a new love and she's the true love
But darlin' how could you have known?
Cause you've been too gone, for too long
Now it's too late to come back home

You've been a long way, goin' the wrong way
Don't even set your suitcase down
You wanted to roam, now you're paying the bills
You're an old rollin' stone who ran over the hills
I had a good cry when you said "goodbye"
I didn't wanna let you go
But you've been too gone for too long
Now it's too late to come back home

I had a good cry when you said "goodbye"
I didn't wanna let you go
But you've been too gone for too long
So why don't you just stay gone?
You've been too gone for too long
Now it's too late to come back home

On the top shelf in the closet,
In the workshop where he spent his extra time
Was a dust wooden box _that i had never noticed till that time
And we set on the table and carefully, we opened up the top
And stared into the memory_daddy kept inside the box

There was a letter from mamma, when she went out to reno
To help her sister out in 62
And a flower from hawaii, when they went on vacation
It was the first time that my daddy ever flew

And the pocket knife i gave__to him on fathers day
Years ago, i thought it had been lost
We all thought his heart was made from solid rock
But that was long before we found the box

I guess we always knew it_but "i love you" was hard for him to say
Some men show it easy and some just never seem to find the way
But that night i began__to see the softer side of some i had lost
I saw the love he kept inside the first time_we opened up the box

There was a picture that was taken,when he and mom were dating
Standing by his 1944,
And the faded leather bible, he got when he was baptised
I guess no one understood him like the lord

And the poem that he had written, about his wife and children
The tender words he spoke were quite a shock

We all thought his heart was made of solid rock
But that was long before we found the box
Yes that was long before we found the box

There's do'ers and don'ters and i wills and won'tersd
And them, that don't even try
Givers and takers, movers and shakers
And them that are just passing by

Skidrows and winos and some folks that i know
That don't do like i think they should
I thought they were livin' their lifes all wrong
Long, before i understood


We all have to walk our own road
We can't always go where we're told
In the end where it'll end up - the lord only knows
But we all have to walk our own road

I've had some good times and i've had a good life
And i've had things goin' my way
I've walked the highground and treasures that i've found
An' women who brightened my day

Then there were times i was caught in the crosswinds
With life - goin' 'round and around
Like a ship with no sail i was caught in a gale
Til i fin'ly just ran it a-ground

I was ten years old on my grandpa's farm when it happened
After all these years i can still hear grandpa laughin'
As he applied that barnyard remedy
He passed his wisdom down to me
You don't reach for the honey without smokin' the hive

I remember my first crush was on the preacher's daughter
We were smoochin' on the front porch swing that night when he caught her
We weren't expectin' him home until quarter past ten
When the good lord taught me that lesson again
You don't reach for the honey without smokin' the hive

You don't point your pistol before you check each chamber
And you don't drink no you don't drink when you drive
It's just ordinary common sense to avoid that danger
You don't reach for the honey without smokin' the hive

She rolled into town with rodeo,she was a beauty
And that cowboy saw you wink at her,she was a cutie
The sound of jinglin' spurs caught me dead on a run
He was fit to be tied and you were under the gun
You don't reach for the honey without smokin' the hive

Chorus.
No,you don't reach for the honey without smokin' the hive
You're gonna get stung boy

Don't you cry __ don't you moan
Hang your head down all night long
That ole feeling sure ain't nothing new
It's in your walk, it's in your talk
There's only one way to shake it off,
You got to get to it before it gets to you
So put a quarter in that jukebox, let it drop
Put another one in, play it again, don't let it stop
There's only one thing i've found
That'll turn it all around
The blues can't do no business
On a honky tonk side of town
You gotta slip, you gotta slide
There're gonna try to nail your hide

Yeah, they'll put a hurting on you, given half a chance
So get mean and get slick
You gotta pull out every trick
Cause everybody knows the blues don't like to dance
To chorus:

Well, you can walk that walk
And talk that talk, and boogie till you shake it off
No the blues can't do no business
The blues can't do no business
The blues can't do no business
On the honky tonk side of town

Everybody said i'd leave you

They gave us six months to a year
Said our love would just fall pray to
The jukebox, women and the beer

They wanna get those rumours flyin'
They're watchin' for a rendez-vous
But if they ever say i'm cheatin'
They'll be lyin'
The truth is lyin' next to you

(chorus)

Thruth is
I'm gonna be here for a long long time
I'll stay forever or 'til you say goodbye
Don't need a neon moon to make my night shine
And if you need some lovin' proof

Just reach out
The truth is lyin' next to you
Over phone lines and back fences
We're the talk of this whole town
They just shake their heads in wonder
They can't believe i'm still around

They can search the backstreet barrooms
To see if i'm with someone new
But if they ever say they saw me
They'll be lyin'
The thruth is lyin' next to you

(repeat chorus twice)

You're my always and forever.
You're the one that hung the moon.
After all these nights together
I still get lost in your perfume.
And if i could write a love song,
Every line would tell the truth.
It would be a warm and soft one
And my heart would say to you

When you see me walk on water,
When the sea don't reach the shore
When the fires of hell freeze over,
I won't need you anymore

Oh, the feelings lay so easy,
Lyin' here the way we are.
No one else could ever hold me
Like the heavens hold the stars.

When you see me walk on water,
When the sea don't reach the shore
When the fires of hell freeze over,
I won't need you anymore
I won't need you anymore

Well that judge he found me guilty of wrong doing
He sentenced me to hang in mid-july
He look down at me and said you are a ruin
If i were you i'd break right down and cry
But nobody seems to care that i ain't guilty
I never did the things they said i've done
But it looks like they're gonna to hang somebody
And it's lookin like i'm goin to be the one


Chorus,


(so just) send my body home on a freight train
And don't worry none that i don't go first class
Send my body home on a freight train
So everyone can see me when i pass
And don't worry none about no fancy funeral
It don't matter how they lay me down
See they bury me out by mama's apple tree
And just send my body back to my home town

Verse 2

My mama was one damn hard workin woman
She tried to raise us kids without a pa
The last thing that she said she was on her dying bed
Was boy don't get in trouble with the law
Well whenever my time comes to meet my maker
I'm going to try to do my very best
I'm going to stand and take it like a man
When they ask if i have one request

I'll say .....(repeat chorus)