Тексты песен «Robert Earl Keen»

I've got clothes in my closet and new shoes to wear And all that I wanted are more than my share And the woman who loves me she's more than a dream So why am I feeling so low down and mean? Well I gave up on smokin'...

Packed my suitcase, I racked my brain Bought a ticket on the late night train Took a taxi through the pourin' rain I'm comin' home to you Flew from Boston out to San Jose Saw our old friends in Monterey Bay When they...

Packed my suitcase, I racked my brain I bought a ticket on a late night train Took a taxi through the pouring rain I'm coming home to you Flew from Boston out to San Jose Saw our old friends in Monterrey Bay When they...

If I were the king of this old crazy world Iam telling you theread be some changes made In my golden crown, Iad lead the big parade If I were king, theread be some changes made Iad take you from your prison, and set...

It's the way you stroke my hair while I am sleepin' It's the way you tell me things I don't know It's the way you remember I came home late for dinner Eleven months and fourteen days ago CHORUS It's the little things...

Deep in the pocket, of an old sport coat jacket I chanced to discover an old memory Three for a quarter, a black and white portrait Taken of Jennifer Johnson and me I'm in the corner, my shirt collar open Like some...

Deep in the pocket of an old sport coat jacket I chanced to discover an old memory Three-for-a-quarter, a black-and-white portrait Taken of Jennifer Johnson and me I'm in the corner, my shirt collar open Like some Latin...

The sun is settin' On our time living here You've lost the will I've lost the heart We should be leavin' While the coast is still clear Cause we won't make it after dawn We can cash in our chips And pack up the car Lock...

Put the horses in the stable Load the mules on the train Set your pistols on the table leave the dogs out in the rain Take the money that they gave you Hide it in a mason jar Nobody now can save you It don't matter...

Flatter than a tabletop Makes you wonder why they stopped here Wagon must have lost a wheel Or they lacked ambition one On the great migration west Separated from the rest Though they might have tried their best They...

It's a long strecth of highway At midnight in New Mexico It's a small colored light That shines from your car radio It's the old motel owner Who sleeps on a cot And gives you the very last cup from his pot It's a...

(Jimmy Driftwood) One night as I lay on my pillow Moon shining bright as the dawn I saw a man come-a-walkin' He had a long chain on I heard his chain a clankin' It made a mournful sound Welded around his body Dragging...

I guess we've come full circle We're strangers once again It's hard to know we'd ever come to this It's funny you were saying how you'd miss The good ole times, while all alone I'm thinking You're the one I'll miss...

The lonesome oak tree held it's fire into November We watched the last brown leaf hit the ground and blow away An evening gun shot let's him know the hunt is over A familiar cold moves in, somewhere between snow and...

There's a salt grain tapping on your window There's a cool breeze blowing off the bay And a warm flame dancing with our shadows To music playin' far away I never meant to stay an hour I thought that I was passin'...

The man outside he works for me, his name is Mariano He cuts and trims the grass for me he makes the flowers bloom He says that he comes from a place not far from Guanajuato That's two days on a bus from here, a...

Mom got drunk and Dad got drunk at our Christmas party We were drinking champagne punch and homemade eggnog Little sister brought her new boyfriend He was a Mexican We didn't know what to think of him until he sang...

Mr. Wolf and Mama Bear were banging on the door I told 'em once, I told 'em twice, don't come 'round here no more They've stolen all our chickens, they killed our neighbor's cat Last night I saw 'em talking to big...

I crossed the Mississippi, Turned south at San Antone A bowie knife, a woolen coat, A grip bag on my arm It's all somebody needs to make it through the land Walk the night, travel light, cross the Rio Grande Someone...

The first of the month Brings back the notion Of a big round white dance hall And a cool summer night Red cherry faces set black shoes in motion To the oom pa pa rythym of a German delight And I tried hard to tell you...