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unknown Deur: Kenny Rogers
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Land:	*****
Soort musiek:	*****
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1. _ Ruby

2. _ Slow Dance More

3. _ Love Will Turn

4. _ She Believes In Me

5. _ Something Is Burning

6. _ Lady

7. _ Reuben James

8. _ Just Dropped In

9. _ All I Need Is You

10. _ Lucille

11. _ Love The World Away

12. _ Love Is Strange

13. _ Missing You

14. _ You Decorated My Life

15. _ Morning Desire

16. _ Buy Me A Rose

17. _ Coat Of Many Colors

18. _ Long Arm Of The Law

In cumberland kentucky
On a cool hot evening
Billy lay in love with marrianne
She was a rich judge's daughter
He was a son of a miner
But that night their love was more than they could stand
The judge said to his daughter
That son of that coal miner
Is someone you'll go hell to leave alone
She knew his dad so well
She knew she couldn't tell
But the truth was bound in show before too long

Their love had started growing on its own
You can't out run the long arm of the law
No, you can't out run the long arm of the law
Billy placed his hand on mary
And he felt the baby's moving
Kissed her and said i'll see you when i can
The judge had made a promise
When he caught up with billy
He'd sent him far away from marianne
The whole town knew he'd do it
Too many times he'd proved it
To at least a hundred men behind the wall

He'd smiled behind that frown
And when he brought that gavel down
He called himself the long arm of the law
And he'd set his mind on seeing billy fall
In a hot humid mine shack
A mid-white pulled the sheet back
And placed cool damp towel on marianne
Billy's eyes were wide with wonder
From the spell he was under
When she placed the new born baby in his hands
He didn't hear the siren
Just a baby's crying
That miracle of love was all he saw

When the door came crashing down
And billy turned around
He felt the heart and soul inside him fall
He stood face to face
With the long arm of the law
You can't out run the long arm of the law
No, you can't out run the long arm of the law
You can hide out for a while
He says with a smile
But you can't out run the long arm of the law

Seemed like everybody down in cumberland kentucky
Came out that day to see poor billy's trial
The court was called to order
There sat the judge's daughter
She looked so proud
Holding billy's child
When they brought billy to him
The judge just look right thru him
As he held that holy bible in his hand
And he smiled at his grandson
Then his eyes cut back to billy
And said i think this time
The law will understand
Son, i sentence you to live with marianne

You can't out run the long arm of the law
No, you can't out run the long arm of the law
He said to billy with a smile
I know you hide out for a while
Ah but you can't out run the long arm of the law
No you can't out run the long arm of the law

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19. _ Coward Of The County

(roger bowling/billy edd wheeler)

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.

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:

"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'."
But you coulda heard a pin drop when tommy stopped and blocked 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'.
He said, "this one's for becky," as he watched the last one fall.
And i heard him say,

"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 didn'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.