Тексты песен «Tom T. Hall»

Beauty is a fading flower Tomorrow it may be gone Beauty is a fading flower Love goes on and on Today everybody wants you Brand new is better than old Who will want you tomorrow? There's beauty in your soul Beauty is...

The band played and everyone talked Through the plain old beer drinker's waltz. Well, they sweated and swore, and they spit on the floor Where the cigarette butts were all thrown They wrote on the wall and hid out from...

She sat on the bar stool, she smoked and she drank Till the past became clear and the future went blank In the path she regains all her beauty and pride But that was before Jessie died Jessie, her husband was small, he...

This song is for you big motel on the mountain Just in thought to pass the time And for the people who have loved And some have been loved And some were wanted inside your walls And for the twenty two year old college...

When I was just a little boy we lived down on a farm Seven miles from nowhere and a hundred miles from harm We made our livin' from the dirt if anything would grow And we got our country music from a big old radio And...

I have a very good friend in Nashville Tennessee Who is a semiprofessional wino And during one of our recent and frequent conversations We got to talk about his religious philosophy And as far as I could determine this...

I guess you're surprised to see me back in Louisville After all that talk about goin' up north to make my kill Why people in Toronto fell in love with me But you know how I am that night life just won't let me be...

Don't kiss my lips and say goodbye, it makes me want you more Anyway, I knew somebody like you once before I know that love is waiting for you farther down the line Candy in the window of my mind You're candy in the...

The Carter boys were born one and after another in a little old country place I was the last and the death of my mother and I know it was a pretty bad trace We'd get to drinking I'd do the singing and they taught me to...

There's a fairground down in Chattanooga Where a kiddy train runs up and down the track There's an old black hound that always hangs around And he chases that train down and back And I've been chasing you like that...

I never did like that apartment, it was not a place I like to be In summertime the place was hot in wintertime, I'd sit around and freeze I never did like that apartment seems to me it always smell like food People down...

{This story was told to me by Jerry Clover At the 1971 Disc Jockey Convention I told Jerry I's gonna write a song about it My brother Hillman gonna play 'The Cigarette Paper And The Comb' Play it} Coot Marseilles was...

I have been to New York City, I have traveled there in style It's a big convenient city but there ain't no country miles I have put my hand inside the hands of men who could not see What the singing of a bluebird means...

Country is sittin' on the back porch Listen to the whippoorwills late in the day And country is mindin' your business Helpin' a stranger if he comes your way Country is livin' in the city Knowin' your people, knowin'...

Hey Dave, you know when we get home We're really gonna catch it, what's our excuse this time? Well dear, we'll just tell 'em, we're sittin' up With this real sick friend of mine, an amazin' brain You know we just...

Well, life is a gamble and the days they're just so many decks Oh, the hours are cards, they deal and you play what you get Oh, you think of the time that you knew you could call so you raised Oh, you think of the time...

She was sadder than the day she lost her mother He felt worse than the day when he was drafted She was packing and she kept her eyes diverted He was sippin' on a beer and playin' with the dog Another single word passed...

It's a dirty title, but it's a clean song It was just a thought that hadn't been written And I believed it was a good idea The words I love you come easy To the lips of a liar or a fool If love talking is what you're...

It snowed the night before and it had frozen on the ground We didn't have a car and we lived seven miles from town And I can hear my daddy's voice, so many years ago Saying "Don't forget the coffee Billy Joe Mama needs...

We all know Jesus died upon the cross Jesus' friends thought that He might be lost But He arose and walked out of the tomb He went to heaven to prepare a room Oh you should be happy you should be glad Easter is the...