Тексты песен «Jeannie C. Riley»

He was just every day plain as water or a piece of clay Why did I let him stay I love him Early morning the paper came he would run out in the rain He would kiss me on his way I love him Then for breakfast I'd make a...

If you could read my mind, love What a tale my thoughts could tell Just like an old time movie 'Bout a ghost from a wishing well In a cast the dark or a fortress strong With chains upon my feet You know that ghost is...

Mr Harper (what do you want) I feel sorry for you (oh yeah) Cause I understand the reason you drink and think what you do Mr Harper (what) your woman is weak (oh yeah) You can't hold up your head and walk down Harper...

He's gotta shine kind of a smile And when he smiles at me I collect all warm inside Yes he's got me right where he wants me And I wouldn't trade him for the King of Siam Oh my no man knocked my man He's got a birddog...

While looking through an old scrapbook of mine I let the pages take me back through time Just an old scrapbook yellowed with age But a million old mem'ries still live on each page Memories that never will die from our...

The train whistle blew for Coal Road Crossing In a few more minutes we'll pull into town I'll have to face the folks who'll come to meet us I'll try to keep my tears from fallin' down It won't be the way we always had...

Oh singer sing me an old song yeah Oh singer sing me an old song sing me an old song about cotton bales Tell me how the good earth feels down in the high white cotton yeah Cause in my life I'll never get to walk on my...

We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee We don't take our trips on LSD We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street 'Cause we like a living right and being free We don't make a party out of loving 'Cause we like...

The teacher said it's time to think about the annual play To be put on next month and sponsored by the PTA Most of you have seen the script and now the question is Who would like to play the part of honey The part calls...

I keep the books at the country courthouse And answer phones of every kind from coast to coast Help keep the astronauts in space with complicated formules And give you echoes of my voice in song I wash your dishes iron...

There are the roses and there are the thorns There's a time for happiness and there's a time to mourn There's a time to love then when love is faded and worn Oh oh instead of the roses there are the thorns Once there...

I was born a way back in the hills in a shack the oldest child of ten On one hot and sultry day mama got sick and passed away Givin' birth to baby brother Ben I stood there and I cried as I watched my mama die I guess I...

We saw a sign Welcome Satan Place when we moved to town that day And rows of little white homes that looked like castles all along the way But after livin' there a while we found it wasn't what we thought at all They...

When I am gone sing for me no sad songs plant no flowers at my head Feed the green grass that coveres me or a dew drop wet And I hope you'll remember even if I forget And sing me no sad songs and shed me no tears [...

City sidewalks, busy sidewalks Dressed in holiday style In the air there's a feeling Of Christmas Children laughing, people passing Meeting smile after smile And on every street corner you'll hear Silver bells, silver...

Sippin' Shirley Thompson is a gas Anytime you see her you can always count on Shirley for a glass She knows more words with just four letters than the dictionary ever had She uses them to color up the stories of the...

From the seed of a lifetime to the harvest years A girl knows the bitter and sweet taste of tears The first love was a green love it was free and sincere It ended in heartbreak and the young taste of tears Then came the...

It's so still I can't hear the pages that fall as I look through my yearbook again And I know I'll cry at the picture I see teardrops on page forty-three There's a picture of us on page forty-three together with you I...

You had quite good thing goin' with the girls you used to knowin' You went up and down your list just like a yo-yo And though it may be hard to stop it I'm afraid you'll have to drop it Cause if you want me to love you...

On the back side of Dallas in the dingy bar on a wornout stool she sits And her trembling hand thumbeles for another kingside filter cigarette She blows a puff of smoke then settles back and look across that light blue...