Тексты песен «Billy Joe Shaver»

Down the road a ways I've heard said A new day's coming on Where the women folks are friendly And the law leaves you alone I'll believe it when I see it And I haven't seen it yet Don't mind me just keep on...

American me, so wild and so free Crossing the borders did nothing to me The milk and the honey were power and greed That's how it goes, American me And the [?] sun rising slow in the morning Makes river lost low like...

Way down in Virginia Amongst the tall grown sugar canes Lived a simple man and a dominiker hen And a rose of a different name. Well, the first time I felt lightning I was standing in the drizzling rain With a trembling...

(Chorus) I'm playing Checkers while they're playing Chess They make the big moves and make me a little less Even when I win, beat the pants off of the best I'm still playing Checkers while they're playing Chess (Verse)...

I met her one evenin' in a bar room downtown She was the picture of truth Her shoulders were sagged and her head was bowed down Like me she was livin' the blues When the music had ended and the crowd dwindled down...

On a rainy, windy morning that's the day that I was born on In the old sharecroppers one room country shack They say my mammy left me, same day that she had me Said she hit the road and never once looked back Verse...

On a rainy, windy morning that's the day that I was born on In the old sharecroppers one room country shack They say my mammy left me, same day that she had me Said she hit the road and never once looked back Verse 2:...

I left barber college Searchin' for knowledge, Went to the university. I must confess, sir This lady professor She turned me on to anthropology. Now I'm a homo erectus Got to connect this Bone that I discovered...

She's the queen of the red hot mamas/hottest thing around And she shows up at a honky tonk cause she can right just lay it down Ya know she get on down/on down to the ground She's the cats meow and a dogs bow...

(G)On a rainy, windy morning that's the (C) day that i was born on In the old (G) sharecroppers one country (D7) shack (G) They say my mammy left me, (C) same day that she had me Said she (G) hit the road and (D7 )never...

(Verse) I'll love you as much as I can That's about all I can do I've always loved a little too much There's not much of me for you (Chorus) You want everything love can bring If you'll leave me now I'll understand I...

(Verse) From the dimness of night I have awakened to my vanity Oh, why have I all these years suffered this insanity? Thank God I can feel you really live inside me I'm in love, I'm in love (Verse 2) Oh, the first and...

Hey I'm just an old chunk of coal But I'm gonna be a diamond some day I'm gonna grow and glow till I'm so blue pure perfect I'm gonna put a smile on everybody's face I'm gonna kneel and pray every day Lest I should...

Verse 1: Down a dangerous road, I have come to where I'm standing With a heavy heart, and my hat clutched in my hand Such a foolish fool, God ain't known no greater sinner I have come in search of Jesus, hoping he...

Lord have mercy on me Was the kneeling drunkard's plea And as he knelt there on the ground I know that God in Heaven looked down I went down by an old country church I saw the drunkard stagger and lurch And as he...

(Chorus) Last call for alcohol I'm finally through with you (Verse) It's too late to go home early And the crowd is thin and fast I swear to God the next drink I take It's gonna be my last (Verse 2) I'm sick and...

I'm gonna live forever I'm gonna cross that river I'm gonna catch tomorrow now You're gonna wanna hold me Just like I've always told you You're gonna miss me when I'm gone Nobody here will ever find me But I...

Long in the tooth, long in the tooth Tryna tell ya I'm long in the tooth Well, you still do all night what It takes all night to do But the whipping folk don't complain Cause they still have the younger man's brain I...

I've spent a lifetime making up my mind to be More than the measure of what I thought others could see Good luck and fast bucks are too far and too few between For Cadillac buyers and old five and dimers like me...

I've got a slow rollin' low Ain't a mother would want me Done got me so down, bent out of round Don't know my head from my toes There ain't a hand here to hold Ain't a shoulder to cry on Then a lesson to learn or a...