Executed? I Am Never Coming Back to This Town Again

Somewhere Far Abroad:  Silver Anniversary Album

Rounder Records, Aug 2, 2019.

1.  Both Ends of the Train
(Tim Stafford-Steve Gulley/Daniel House Music, BMI-Gulley'south Curve Music,BMI)

I roomed with him in Rockville in 1925
He was doing life and I was doing time
His memory drifted dorsum 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 clay
Ran into trouble when his soldier days were through
Ended up a k miles away

Don't waste fond words or distressing goodbye
Lay me downwardly on the wide open manifestly
Out beneath the quilted heaven
Where I can run into both ends of the railroad train

He said I saw the Buffalo, the herds would last for days
Back earlier the railroad came
At present information technology's all moved on without me only I miss the older ways
And I know it can never be the aforementioned

They buried him at Rockville and his kind won't ascension again
I promise his soul tin detect some rest
To the earth he's long forgotten, but to me he was a friend
I still call up his last request

two.  Somewhere Far Away
(Shawn Lane-Gerald Ellenburg/Cat Town Music-BMI, Wadako Publishing-BMI)

Have you e'er been left all lonely like a child
No ane happens your way
People stare through y'all as they pass yous by
As they hurry forth through their day

In the busy courtyard there the green grass y'all'll find
Water flows cool o'er the vine
Pennies smooth brilliant as they glare in the sun
And they happen to be mostly mine

Happen to be more often than not mine
Have yous ever tried to run across all the stars in the sky
Looking up through the big metropolis lights
An empty street gives you a chill in your soul

As a folio of the paper blows by
A trivial bird makes this large city his home
He could leave but he chooses to stay
Yous wish you could enquire him to infringe his wings
And wing somewhere far away

Fly somewhere far abroad.

3.  Beloved Kentucky
(Shawn Lane-Gerald Ellenburg/True cat Town Music-BMI, Wadako Publishing-BMI)

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

I'yard leaving tonight for honey Kentucky
Where wild roses bloom this time of yr
I tin feel the April sun shining on me
Every bit I walk the fertile footing I dear so beloved

Is the corn however growing in the meadow
Where Miller plowed the ground in early leap
Are the dogs withal running through the red oaks
I'chiliad going back to alive that way again

I long to see sugariness Angelina
I wonder if she even so remembers me
Information technology's been many years since I've seen her
In my heart in that location'due south a identify she'll always be

I'm leaving tonight for Honey Kentucky
Where wild roses bloom this time of year
I can feel the summer sun shining on me
As I walk the fertile basis I love so dear

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

He'southward out on the prairie tonight, headed for Austin
She worries near him alone, and prays for him oftentimes
She said don't embrace your tracks
And so yous tin find your way dorsum
Non a cloud in the heaven as the coyote cries in the altitude
In Texas tonight

He camped for the night on the banks of the big Brazos River
And he dreamed of his wife dorsum at dwelling house and the life he would give her
He said it wouldn't be long
Until these difficult times are gone
He hums a sweet melody every bit the gilt harvest moon slowly rises
In Texas tonight

No 1 can say what volition be
In life there's no guarantees
Somewhere on the prairie tonight, this side of Austin
She worries about him alone, and prays for him often
She'll dream of beloved without end
Until she sees him once more
Not a cloud in the sky as the coyote cries in the distance
In Texas this evening

5.  Cochise County
(Tim Stafford-Bobby Starnes/Daniel House Music, BMI-It Says What It Says Music,BMI)

He was built-in nigh Hale Missouri

On the day that Vicksburg brutal

And heaven hath no fury

like a boy raised up in hell

He heard almost Frank and Jesse

And how they robbed to feed the poor

Simply he robbed to conform his pleasure

and killed for goose egg more than

Chorus

Expressionless or alive read his bounty

30 notches on his gun

The meanest human in Cochise County

picked the wrong place to run

 Riding out to California

Where no law had heard his name

Well-nigh the bright San Pedro Valley

Like a moth drawn to a flame

 He hired with Johnny Ringo

Curly Bill and Texas Jack

He loaned his soul to the devil

But he'll never get information technology back

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

Instrumental.

7.   Ain't No Meliorate, Ain't No Worse
(Wayne Taylor-Tim Stafford/Forty WAT Music-BMI, Daniel House Music-BMI)

Another solar day just like the last

I can come across my future living in the past

Same ol' chapter, unlike verse

Ain't No Better, Ain't no worse

Ain't getting no younger, to the lowest degree I'm getting older

Got the weight of the world on my shoulders

Need to put my problems upward on the shelf

end feeling lamentable for myself

You lot're a boyfriend, all yous got is time

That'south what I thought when I was in my natural prime

Keep digging that hole, one mean solar day you'll see

Buddy You'll wind up but similar me

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

9.   I Already Do
(Tim Stafford-Steve Gulley/Daniel Firm Music, BMI-Gulley's Curve Music,BMI)

1) He could tell the car was comin' from the dust a mile away

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

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

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

2) The man in the adapt merely smiled and said "I don't think y'all sympathise."

If y'all but sign these papers, y'all'll exist a wealthy human

Buy a mansion on a hilltop, Just enjoy the view

The old homo looked out in the altitude and said, "I already do"

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

I withal olfactory property the honeysuckle, taste the h2o on my tongue

In my eyes, the skies are always Carolina blue

You say I could alive anywhere I want,

I already do

3) He climbed back on his Farmall, watched big money drive away

He even so had things to exercise and it was manner up in the 24-hour interval

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

Never gave another idea to all the things he might accept missed

TAG) If yous have a life that'southward simple, someone whose love is true

You hope i mean solar day to have information technology all, but You already practise

10.   Life Song
(Shawn Lane/Cat Town Music-BMI)

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

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

Original Traditional

Rounder Records,  Sept 9, 2016.

* 2022 GRAMMY Nomination - All-time Bluegrass Album
* 2022 IBMA Gospel Recorded Functioning of the Year Nomination ~ Hallelujah
* Number # ane Album on Roots Music Report and Bluegrass Unlimited Charts
* Two # one Songs on Bluegrass Today Nautical chart
* Number # six Anthology on the RMR Top Bluegrass Anthology Nautical chart for the Year 2017

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

Chorus

The whiskey's for the difficult times

From here it's all uphill

So if lonesome don't impale me

Maybe the whiskey will

Maybe the whiskey will

Poetry

Well she left me without warning

Packed it up and gone

She'll hitting Galax by forenoon

Fourth dimension for moving on

Fare thee well, then long

Poetry

Well yous know This ain't my starting time fourth dimension

and she won't be the concluding

All I need is a reason

George Dickel And a glass

information technology's coming on me fast

Verse

I'll be over her tomorrow

Just hurtin just the same

Cause tonight I'm drowning sorrow

And blowing out a flame

Just like a hurricane

2. Last Time I'll Ever Get out This Boondocks
(Tim Stafford-Jon Weisberger/Daniel Firm Music, BMI-Use Your Words Music,BMI)

Chorus

I'grand leaving this boondocks for the terminal time

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

I should take been smarter the first time

Information technology's The concluding fourth dimension I'll ever leave this town

Verse

The first time was only a alarm

Trouble's coming down the line

Information technology moved in to stay come the morn

So I'm leaving this cold town behind

Verse

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

And wonderin' if I'll ever learn

The next time is leap to be meliorate

Ane day it's gonna be My turn

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

Verse

In North Carolina, in the County of Wilkes

At that place's a tale of deception, murder and guilt

I'll spare no pity, the truth I volition tell

Let God alone estimate me, this side of hell

Verse

Miss Annie and Laura, the fairest of fair

Bandage a spell on all suitors, with dazzler so rare

One was jealous, the other naive

One planned to ally, ane to deceive

Chorus

Tom won't you play your fiddle?

play a joyful song

Don't worry about tomorrow

Cause tomorrow you'll be gone

Poesy

Annie said Laura, Tom said to me

Meet him on the hillside neath the sycamore trees

merely after midnight this last day of May

Become to him Laura, and both run abroad

Verse

She hid like a panther in the black of the night

and killed Laura Foster with a bone handle knife

She buried her torso in a common cold shallow grave

along with her secret, in the Wilkes County clay

Verse

At present Sheriff Bob Grayson was a difficult jealous man

All that he wanted was young Laura'due south manus

His heart was broken, his head full of rage

when he blamed Tom Dula, not a question was raised

Verse

In the hamlet of Statesville, his case quickly tried

He spoke not a word, in defense of his life

They hung him past the cervix on the final day of June

And His concluding request was an onetime dabble tune

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

one) Thought I'd requite it i more endeavor

Only she was setting me up to say goodbye

Simply similar this teardrop in my eye

she ain't worth it

2) Picked mysef up off the floor

Watched her walk right out the door

Reached for my sometime 44

but she ain't worth it

three) Simply that was a long time ago

Now I've taught myself simply to let it go

Only sit and bathe in the afterglow

Cause she ain't worth it

CH) She ain't worth the worry man

Better become out now while you tin can

Become that girl off your mind

male child that reason own't got no rhyme

Ain't no need to waste your time

she ain't worth information technology

4) Every 24-hour interval a make new fight

She'll break your eye just for spite

Something here don't add up right

She ain't worth it

5) You might think I had information technology made

merely you don't know the price I paid

Let'southward just call a spade a spade

boys she ain't worth information technology

half dozen) Before the ring was off her mitt

She was making plans with some other man

I hope by at present you empathise

She own't worth it

The Game

Rounder Records, January 2014.

* Nominated for 2022 IBMA Album of the Year
* Nominated for 2022 IBMA Song of the Year - The Game
* Reigned at #1 for vii months on the Bluegrass Unlimited Album Nautical chart (Jun-Dec 2014)

* Named the #ane Bluegrass Album of the Twelvemonth by critic Daniel Mullins in his end of the year Pinnacle 20 Albums of 2022 list in Bluegrass Today.

2. Remind Me of Y'all
(Tim Stafford-Craig Market/Daniel Firm Music, BMI-Drop D Publishing, BMI)

I started slowly similar I ever exercise

Day sometime coffee at the cleft of noon

I found your number in the pocket of my pants

The practiced 24-hour interval I was wishing for never had a take a chance

Jumped in that pickup that I bought for you

Gauge they don't brand 'em like they used to exercise

Turned on the radio and much to my surprise

In that location ain't no way you lot know, to Hide Your Lying Optics

CH) Merely like the sun keeps comin up and down

Some memories keep on coming back around

I don't need another reason to believe

Like I need annihilation reminding me of you

It's always love that turns your head around

Information technology hurts similar hell when it comes crashing down

We lost rail of right and wrong somehow

Who's to blame and does information technology affair at present?

We had our moment simply it'south come and gone

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

I wish that I could close the volume, and let the story stop

Merely every time I plough the page, you're turning upward over again

5.A Change of Organized religion in Tennessee
(Tim Stafford-Steve Gulley/Daniel House Music, BMI-Gulleys Curve Music, BMI)

Five) I used to believe every line, used to hang on every word
girl, If yous said information technology, it was true
Now the things i took for gospel just get more absurd
And the Truth is just another point of view

CH) In Montana, the mountains are forever
 blue skies as far equally yous can see
In California in that location's no irresolute of the seasons
But there'due south been a modify of Faith in Tennessee

V) I woke up born over again this morning, finally saw the light
Then many other things I couldn't  see
 a make new Book of Revelation gave me dorsum my sight
there's been a change of Faith in Tennessee

Br) you were my  redemption simply the toll was way too loftier
 conservancy dont hateful nothin til it's  costless

V) I made my peace with my maker, at present I'chiliad gear up to motion on
Roll the stone across the door
The body of our love is laying in the tomb
Its gone and will ascent once more no more than

7.Church building Bell Nuptials Blues
(Tim Stafford-Jon Weisberger/Daniel House Music, BMI-Use Your Words Music, BMI)

Walking down the boulevard on a Sunday afternoon
Feeling proficient correct downwards to my my shoes
So I heard 'em ringing out, where I'm headin, in that location'due south no incertitude
I've got the church bell wedding blues

Every fourth dimension I hear them old bells ring, band ring
For everybody else its Happy news
Just all I hear is another song of how yous proved untrue
And I go the church bell wedding blues

Maybe if I accident this town, modify my indicate of view
Some might just give up but I reject
Put the pedal to the floor just to hear my engine roar
And drive away These Church building bell hymeneals dejection

Every time I hear them old bells band, band ring
For everybody else it'south Happy news
only all I've got is a broken heart and information technology'south left a mighty bruise
Sounds like The church building bell nuptials blues

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

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

V1) Information technology'due south my last day on the chore, afterward xl years of loading coal I knew 1 24-hour interval I'd face up the terminate

Seems similar only yesterday, a straight backed boy barely twenty ane who didn't accept to strain to catch his wind

There'southward a lot of mixed emotions, all the friends and family I've seen come and go downward in the hole

And I'm  not sure if I'm the kind of man, who can spend all 24-hour interval sitting past himself, slowly growin' old
With a fishin' pole

CH) it'south my  last mean solar day in the mine
I never thought there would come up a fourth dimension
Id never become back hole-and-corner, lay my dinner saucepan down
It's my last mean solar day in the mine

V3) the super said to me, today we're gonna keep you lot off the line, but stay behind

Well I know that's how it goes, but I'd rather throw my marker in the auto one last time Would be and then fine

Sounds of Home

Rounder Records, 2011

* Nominated for 2012 IBMA Album of the Year
* Nominated for 2012 IBMA Vocal of the Twelvemonth - Sounds of Dwelling
* Nominated for 2012 IBMA Instrumental Recorded Performance of the Year - Roaring Creek

iii. Bluebird Days
(Tim Stafford-Craig Market place/Daniel Firm Music, BMI-Drop D Publishing, BMI)

CH) Bluebird Days, the way I remember them

Wing  fly abroad at summertime'south finish

remember my friend

Till they come up around once again

1) Frozen in my memory, the solar day that I met you

I saw the finish of winter in a flash of pulverisation blue

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

2) At present the nights are getting colder and the days are non so long

I think nearly you lot every fourth dimension I hear that song

I'll be waiting if y'all observe your mode back domicile to me again

5. Heather and Baton
(Tim Stafford-Steve Gulley/Daniel Business firm Music, BMI-Gulleys Curve Music, BMI)

i) Heather and Billy only had one son of their own

Just you lot hardly ever saw him playing all lone

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

Only every Monday's child felt at home, never solitary

2) Sad-eyed Samantha, she's only half-dozen years old

But she tells you things a kid should never know

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

It'due south a wonder she'due south standing here today, God fabricated a style

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

A quiet habitation just never was their fashion

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

Truth is they just couldn't turn 'em down

iii) Heather and Billy, they're just similar me and y'all

But look a little closer and you lot'll learn a affair or two

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

When Baton says we're gonna make information technology through, we always practice

9.If You've Got Something to Say
(Tim Stafford-Jon Weisberger/Daniel Firm Music, BMI-Use Your Words Music, BMI)

1) Lately you been acting similar there's something on your mind

tell me would yous similar to clear the air

It'south hard for me to reach yous when you're preoccupied

Honey that won't go you anywhere

CH) But If You've Got Something to Say

Come right out and say it, I'll find out anyway

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

If Y'all Got Something to Say

ii) Yesterday yous told me that you lost your wedding band

Today I establish it tucked inside your purse

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

Empty words only make it worse

CH) But If You've Got Something to Say

Come right out and say it, I'll discover out anyway

Don't allow me get on living in this dream of yesterday

If Y'all Got Something to Say

BR) If you lot actually think it's over

You don't need an alibi

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

TAG) Don't make me wait forever Babe, you know I'm turning grayness

If You Got Something to Say

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

i) Grocery line headlines

all kinds of cease signs

Do it at present deadlines

were bringing me down

My mode of living

was taking not giving

the art of forgiving

was short in supply

CH) These days I listen

for what I've been missing

Like stories my son wants to tell

I've learned how to boring downwards

Every day I'g above ground

I'thou Drinking from a Deeper Well

ii) Today's all we're living

tomorrow's not given

but riches are hidden

in everyday life

So find your own reason

and there'll be a season

keep on believing

and drink till you're total

TAG:  sugariness inspiration

simple salvation

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 Anthology of the Year

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

Get the yard cut down and the babies fed
A meg songs runnin' through my head
Daylight comes I'll be gone once more
When does the highway ever end
My shoulders bare such a heavy load
Hard to proceed my thoughts all in a row
I can't slow down the life I've chose
Somehow I love the way it goes
Time moves fast and the wheels turn slow
That's how the life of a travelin' human goes

The winds of change are a blowin' through
Merely like they're e'er gonna practice
They'll plough the page to some other name
Different movie in the same ole frame
Lightning flashing upwardly ahead
A one thousand thousand songs runnin' through my head
I can't proper noun every identify I've been
Merely if the Lord is willing I'll be at that place once more

2. Through the Window of a Railroad train
(Tim Stafford-Steve Gulley/Daniel House Music, BMI-Gulley's Bend Music, BMI)

Everybody drives the same sometime roads these days
Don't see a thing, but they know the way
Every mile'south a marker, every town'south the aforementioned
Some other identify to finish but not to stay

Daddy was a brakeman on the Fifty&Northward
Sometimes he'd let me ride forth with him
No matter where nosotros'd stop along the manner
Everybody knew his name

A unlike story downward every line
People workin' difficult just to live and die
I saw it all once upon a time
Through the window of a train

Then we started dorsum the way we came
Like people moving through a picture frame
Seems the whole globe's farther down the track
Merely I'g always looking back

I don't expect you lot all to understand
Or see the country similar a railroad human
So many things you'd never realize
Unless you saw 'em with these eyes

Birmingham to Jackson, hear the whistle call
And the sun goes down like a large red ball
In my retention I still see information technology all
Through the window of a railroad train

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

It was down by the forked stream
Out in Sycamore Holler
I went downward in my all-time of dress
To take her from her father

With pilus downwards to her waist
The colour of strawberries
Down past the forked stream
By night fall we would ally

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

On a horse seventeen hands loftier
He rode in Sherman 's regular army
To Atlanta boondocks confronting her will
He took my adult female from me

Well I grabbed my knife and
both of my guns
In a loud voice I did call her
Upon a lightning horse I swore in one case more than
As I left Sycamore Holler

I volition bring the farmer'southward daughter
Back to Sycamore Holler

It was down by the river's border
I encounter the bivouac flicker
Four expressionless men lay behind
As I get out that camp with her

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

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

four. Homeless Man
(Wayne Taylor/40 WAT Music, BMI)

They called him Skeet, his proper name was Beak
Corporal William Howard Campbell,
they never knew and never will
He did his time with the 101
They took a simple country boy
and taught him how to use a gun
Later four long years in service,
two tours in Vietnam
The country that he served and so well
doesn't seem to give a damn
That he's a homeless man

He has a son, lives in L.A.
He hasn't spoke to him in twenty years,
he just don't know what to say
He had a loving wife, she was his correct mitt
Till the nightmares and the memories
became more than that she could stand
At present he has everything he owns
in a worn-out shopping cart
He's never begged for anything,
he just doesn't accept the heart
He'south simply a homeless man

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

They found him there i cold November nighttime
Though he'd won so many battles,
this time he'd lost the fight
No ane seemed to care that he was gone
They laid him in a pauper'south grave
with a tiny little stone
Every bit a fellow and his mother
sat alone and cried,
Holding the Silver Star medallion
someone found there by his side
He was a homeless human

He was just a homeless man

five. Where Did the Forenoon Go?
(Shawn Lane/True cat Town Music, BMI)

Where did the morning go?
I meant to do much more than with this life
I was born a clear and sunny mean solar day
Now evening shadows autumn my way
Where did the morning go?

Information technology was dawn when my babies cried
Now they're able to walk out on their ain
I've had a family unit that I've ever loved
And I made peace with my God above
But where did the morning time become?

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

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

Nosotros prove up every morning,
our uniforms are pressed
All spit and polish, we have to wait our best
This message that we comport
is a heavy load to bear
For those who pay the cost with cede
We have to evidence nosotros care

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

Nosotros're the two soldiers no i wants to see
In a apparently black sedan
rolling slowly down the street
Past the toys and the bikes
below the maple trees
Where fading xanthous ribbons
wave gently in the breeze
A loved i'due south in a ameliorate place
They won't exist back no more
Now there's 2 soldiers at the door

Sometimes they encounter usa coming
and fall down on their knees
Tears are overflowing,
crying "no, God, please."
Sometimes they just stand up there, silent as a stone
With no surprise in their optics
Like they knew it all along

See the soldiers on the tarmac, gear up to deploy
Husbands and wives with picayune girls and boys
Say a silent prayer they all come back alive
And never see Jack and me pull up in their drive

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

(Instrumental)

8. A Week from Today
(Tim Stafford-Robert G. Starnes/Daniel Business firm Music, BMI-Information technology Says What It Says Music, BMI)

Time is a funny affair y'all know
No matter where you are it comes and goes
I've lived my life one day at a time
Fourth dimension is all I've had and all I know

Home is a state of mind it'due south said
Four walls and a roof inside your caput
To some it might seem strange,
only I'chiliad as well damn old to change
Now the warden says the state requires my bed

It's been fifty years since they sent me here
I had xl-ix more to get
Merely 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 concluding a twenty-four hours out there alone
This prison cell's the only home I've known
The world exterior has changed,
only the i inside'due south the aforementioned
I'll take to find a style to go back dwelling house

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

I was thinkin' 'bout Mary as I left Tucumcari
With four hours to make Santa Fe
I know she's been hopin' I'll quit this damn ropin'
Merely that'southward one thing that she'd never say

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

It's more than a livin', it's been my whole life
Taken and given the pleasure and strife…
Just I've known all along that this day would come
Guess my ropin' days are done

There's headers and heelers, addicts and dealers
And Crown to encompass the fright
I been a saint and a sinner, a loser and winner
So where do I become from here?

I could exist home by daybreak if I turn around now
I'God boys, information technology'southward been fun
Tell the girls in Nogales I'm headed to Dallas
Now my ropin' days are done

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

Dejection on blues, pain on pain
Nada to do but watch information technology rain
Tears fall downwards from missing you, oh Lord
Colour you gone and color me blue on bluish

Five years ago when we first met
I never dreamed that I'd regret
Loving you the fashion I do, oh Lord
Y'all vicious for some other and left me blue on blue

Running out of tears, running out of heart
Too tired to brand another commencement
Don't wanna find somebody new, oh Lord
Cause I'm not over you, I'thou bluish on blue

The day may come when I'll endeavour again
With a picayune luck, next time I'll win
When yous got nix, you got nothing to lose, oh Lord
When you hit stone bottom there's cypher just blues
on blues

Blues on blues, pain on pain
Nil to exercise simply sentinel it pelting
Tears fall downwardly from missing you, oh Lord
Color you gone and color me blueish on blue

xi. V-Bottom Gunkhole
(Shawn Lane/Cat Town Music, BMI)

If I can notice a river or a fast trivial stream
Or a big ole high mount
with a little lake in between

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

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

A five-bottom boat, a v-bottom boat
A v-bottom gunkhole'll accept yous
where yous want to become

Cars, planes and trains can take you
near anywhere
But a five-bottom boat is how I'd rather
get in that location

A v-lesser gunkhole, a v-lesser boat
A v-lesser boat'll have me
where I desire to go

Ane solar day I'll notice the stream that leads upwardly to
my Savior fair
I'll ride in a v-bottom boat to come across him there

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

Yous proceed saying things I don't empathize
I try existent hard to never let it testify
Your sophisticated ways have left me in a daze
I guess I'grand merely another gravel in the road

My friends all tried to tell me when I met you lot
You lot're needn't think you'll ever keep that girl
They said your high-course taste would lay my
life to waste
And I'd never be accepted in your earth

I've started to believe what they've been saying
It'south becoming clear our feelings
aren't the same
You go along trying to alter me
from what I cull to be
But you gotta know that
I don't play that game

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