One More From The Road

(ed king - ronnie vanzant)

Seven years of hard luck, comin' down on me
From the florida border, yea up to nashville tennessee
I worked in every joint you can name, mister every honkytonk
Along come mr yankee slicker, sayin' maybe you're what i want

(chorus)
Want you to sign your contract
Want you to sign today
Gonna give you lots of money
Workin' for mca

9000 dollars, that's all we could win
But we smiled at the yankee slicker with a big ol' southern grin
They're gonna take me out to california gonna make me a superstar
Just pay me all of my money and mister maybe you won't get a scar

(chorus)

Suckers took my money since i was seventeen
If it ain't no pencil pusher, it got to be a honkytonk queen
But i'll sign my contract baby, and i wan't you people to know
That every penny that i make, i'm gonna see where my money goes

(chorus)

(jimmy rodgers)

Give me a t for texas, give me a t for tennessee
Give me a t for texas, give me a t for tennessee
Give me a t for thelma, woman made a fool out of me

If you don't want me baby, mama you sure don't got to stall
If you don't want me baby, mama you sure don't got to stall
I've had more pretty women than a passenger train could haul

I'm gonna buy myself a shotgun, one with a long shiny barrel
I'm gonna buy myself a shotgun, one with a long shiny barrel
I'm gonna shoot me a rounder oh that stole away my gal

I'd rather drink your muddy water, sleep down in a hollow log
I'd rather drink your muddy water, sleep down in a hollow log
Than to be in atlanta, georgia, treat me like a dirty dog
(i don't have to go for that)

If you don't want me baby, mama you sure don't got to stall
If you don't want me baby, mama you sure don't got to stall
'cause i've had more pretty women than a passenger train could haul
And that ain't all

I'd rather drink your muddy water, sleep down in a hollow log
I'd rather drink your muddy water, sleep down in a hollow log
Than to be in atlanta, georgia, treated like a dirty dog

Oh give me a t for texas, give me a t for tennessee
Give me a t for thelma, woman made a fool out of me
Give me a t for texas, give me that t for tennessee
Give me a t for thelma, woman made a fool out of me
One more time

Give me a t for thelma, oh that woman made a fool...
I said said oh, that woman made a fool
Out of me, yeah

(allen collins - ronnie vanzant)

If i leave here tomorrow
Would you still remember me?
For i must be travelling on, now,
'cause there's too many places i've got to see.
But, if i stayed here with you, girl,
Things just couldn't be the same.
'cause i'm as free as a bird now,
And this bird you can not change.
Lord knows, i can't change.

Bye, bye, its been a sweet love.
Though this feeling i can't change.
But please don't take it badly,
'cause lord knows i'm to blame.
But, if i stayed here with you girl,
Things just couldn't be the same.
Cause i'm as free as a bird now,
And this bird you'll never change.
And this bird you can not change.
Lord knows, i can't change.
Lord help me, i can't change.

(robert johnson)

I went down to the crosroads
Fell down on my knees
Down to the crossroads
Fell down on my knees
I said i'm beggin' for mercy won't you take me
If you please

I went down to the crossroads
Tried to beg a ride
I went down to the crossroads
Tried to beg a ride
Nobody seemed to know me
Everybody passed me by
Take a ride

Going down toward rosedale
Took loretta by my side
Going down to rosedale
Took loretta by my side
Can still buy a house there
On the riverside
One more time

You can run, you can run
Tell all my friends i'll be by
You can run, you can run
Tell my friends i'll be by
And i'll be stayin' in the crossroads
I believe i'm sinkin' down

(allen collins - ronnie vanzant)

I asked the wiseman one sunny day
Can you help me find my way
You're so much older and wiser too
Would you help me mr wiseman
I'm feelin' blue
Oh i'm not satisfied

He said you're not doin too bad, not bad at all
You're just trying to walk son before you can crawl
You got stacks of money to sky up above
Now all you need is to find you a love

He sent me searchin' to find my love
He sent me searchin' to the lord up above
He sent me searchin' just to find the mornin' dove
And she'll tell you where to find your love
Oh mr wiseman i need to find my love

You can have anything in this god's world
But you won't be happy son 'til you find a girl
Now you can be happy boy if you try
Find a woman boy, you'll be satisfied

He sent me searchin' to find my love
He sent me searchin' , i said lord up above
He sent me searchin' just to find the mornin' dove
And she'll tell you where to find your love

He sent me searchin' to find my love
He sent me searchin' , i said lord up above
He sent me searchin' just to find the mornin' dove
And she'll tell you where to find your love

Oh lord, he sent me searchin'

(ed king - ronnie vanzant)

Two feets they come a creepin'
Like a black cat do
And two bodies are lyin' naked
Creeper think he got nothin' to lose
So he creeps into this house, yeah
And unlocks the door
And while a man reaching for his trousers
Shoots him full of .38 holes

(chorus)
Its a saturday night special
Got a barrel that's blue and cold
Ain't no good for nothin'
But put a man six feet in a hole

Big jim's been drinkin' whiskey
And playing poker on a losin' night
Pretty soon, big jim starts a thinkin'
Somebody been cheatin' and lyin'
So big jim commences to fightin'
I wouldn't tell you no lie
And big jim done grab his pistol
Shot his friend right between the eyes

(chorus)

Hand guns are made for killin'
Ain't no good for nothin' else
And if you like your whiskey
You might even shoot yourself
So why don't we dump 'em people
To the bottom of the sea
Before some fool come around here
Wanna shoot either you or me

(ronnie vanzant -- allen collins)

Thirty days, lord and thirty nights
I'm comin' home on an airplane flight
Mama waitin' at the ticket line
Tell me son why do you stand there cryin'

(chorus)
It was the needle and the spoon
And a trip to the moon
Took me away, took me away

I've been feelin' so sick and tired
Got to get better, lord before i die
Seven doctors couldn't help my head, they said
You better quit, son before your dead

(chorus)
Quit the needle. quit the spoon
Quit the trip to the moon
We gonna take you away. lord, we gonna take you away

(spoken)
It was the needle and the spoon

I've seen a lot of people who thought they were cool
But then again, lord i've seen a lot of fools
Well, i hope you people, lord can hear what i say
You'll have your chance to hit it some day


(chorus)
Don't mess with the needle or a spoon
Or any trip to the moon
It'll take you away

Lord, their gonna bury you boy
Don't mess with the needle
Now i know, i know, i know...