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Mary Anne and Wanda were the best of friends
All through their high school days Both members of the 4H Club Both active in the FFA After graduation Mary Anne went out lookin' for a brand new world Wanda looked all around this town and all she found was Earl Well it wasn't two weeks after she got married that Wanda started getting abused She put on dark glasses and long sleeved blouses And make-up to cover a bruise Well she finally got the nerve to file for divorce She let the law take it from there But Earl walked right through that restraining order And put her in intensive care Right away Mary Anne flew in from Atlanta On a red eye midnight flight She held Wanda's hand as they worked out a plan And it didn't take 'em long to decide That Earl had to die Goodbye Earl Those black-eyed peas They tasted all right to me Earl You're feelin' weak Why don't you lay down and sleep Earl Ain't it dark Wrapped up in that tarp Earl? The cops came by to bring Earl in They searched the house high and low Then they tipped their hats and said, "thank you ladies if you hear from him let us know" Well the weeks went by and Spring turned to Summer And Summer faded into Fall And it turns out he was a missing person who nobody missed at all So the girls bought some land and a roadside stand out on Highway 109 They sell Tennessee ham and strawberry jam and they don't lose any sleep at night 'cause Earl had to die Goodbye Earl We need a break Let's go out to the lake Earl We'll pack a lunch And stuff you in the trunk Earl Well is that all right Good Let's go for a ride Earl hey (The Dixie Chicks do not advocate premeditated murder, but love getting even.) |
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| 2. |
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It was about five 'til five on Friday
We were all getting ready to go And the boss man started screaming and his veins began to show He said you and you come with me 'cause you're gonna have to stay My heart was thumping I was jumping I had to get away Some days you gotta dance Live it up when you get the chance 'Cause when the world doesn't make no sense And you're feeling just a little to tense Gotta loosen up those chains and dance Well I was talking with my baby over a small glass of tea He asked the loaded question He said "how do you feel about me?" My mind was racin' I was pacin' but the words just wouldn't come And there was only one thing left to do I feel it comin' on Some days you gotta dance Live it up when you get the chance 'Cause when the world doesn't make no sense And you're feeling just a little too tense Gotta loosen up those chains and dance A Haaa... Some days you gotta dance Live it up when you get the chance 'Cause when the world doesn't make no sense And you're feeling just a little to tense Gotta loosen up those chains and dance You gotta loosen up those chains and dance Come on and loosen up those chains and dance |
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| 3. |
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| 4. |
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My daddy sits
on the front porch Swimgin' lookin' out on a vacant field Used to be filled with burly tobacco Now he knows it never will My brother found work in Indiana Sister's nurse at the old folks home Momma's still cookin' too much For supper and me I've been a longtime Gone been a longtime gone No I ain't hoed a row Since I don't know when longtime gone And it ain't comin' back again~ Delia plays that old church piano Sittin' out on her daddy's farm She always thought that we'd be Together lord I never meant to do Her harm said she could hear me Singin' in the choir me I heard another song I caught wind And hit the road running' and Lord I been a longtime gone Been a longtime gone lord I ain't had a prayer since I don't know when longtime gone And it ain't comin' back again~ Now me I went to nashville Tryin' to be the big deal Playin' down on broadway geltin' There the hard way livin' from a tip Jar sleepin' in my car Hockin' my guitar yeah I'm gonna be a star~ Now me and delia singin' every sunday Watchin' the children and the garden grow We listen to the radio to hear What's cookin' but the music Ain't got no soul now they sound tired But they don't sound haggard They got money but they don't have cash They got junior but they don't have hank I think I think I think The rest is a longtime gone no I Ain't hit the roof since I don't know When longtime gone and it ain't comin' back I said a longtime gone no I ain't honked the horn since I don't know when longtime gone And it ain't comin' back again~ I said a longtime longtime longtime gone Oh it's been a longtime Longtime longtime longtime gone Oh it's been a long~ time Gone longtime longtime Longtime gone yeah yeah~ |
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Well there was a little falter at the altar of confession
Down on its knees, true love did fall After 31 days of sleepless nights, she woke up to end it all. With "I love you" on a fresh tattoo engraved upon his chest She tore her name right off his heart So here's to the unblessed. Chorus: Oh love, Oh love, you fickle thing Such pretty words, and golden rings. It was a broken dream right from the start Bless their tortured, tangled hearts. Well a blast of confusion, coupled with delusion Makes the best made plans sometime fail. They wined and they dined, had piece of mind She bought a gown and he rented tails. But the mighty cloud of destiny, came driftin' though the gates And busted up what could have been a perfect, hopeless case. Chorus: Oh love, Oh love, you fickle thing Such pretty words, and golden rings. It was a broken dream right from the start Bless their tortured, tangled hearts. Chorus: Oh love, Oh love, you fickle thing Such pretty words, and golden rings. It was a broken dream right from the start Bless their tortured, tangled hearts. |
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| 6. |
| 5:56 |
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Two days past eighteen
He was waitin' for the bus in his army greens Sat down in a booth a café there Gave his order to the girl with a bow in her hair He's a little shy so she gave him a smile And he said would you mind sittin' down for a while And talkin' to me I'm feelin' a little low She said I'm off in an hour and I know where we can go So they went down and they sat on the pier He said I bet you got a boyfriend but I don't care I've got no one to send a letter to Would you mind if I sent one back here to you? I cried Never gonna hold the hand of another guy Too young for him they told her Waitin' for the love of a travelin' soldier Our love will never end Waitin' for the soldier to come back again Never more to be alone When the letter says a soldier's comin home So the letters came From an army camp In California then Vietnam And he told her of his heart It might be love And all of the things he was so scared of Said when it's gettin kinda rough over here I think of that day sittin' down at the pier And I close my eyes and see your pretty smile Don't worry but I won't be able to write for a while I cried Never gonna hold the hand of another guy Too young for him they told her Waitin' for the love of a travelin' soldier Our love will never end Waitin' for the soldier to come back again Never more to be alone When the letter says a soldier's coming home (Martie's fiddle break - Emily's dobro break) One Friday night at a football game The Lord's Prayer said and the anthem sang A man said folks would you bow your heads For the list of local Vietnam dead Cryin' all alone under the stands Was a piccolo player in the marching band And one name read and nobody really cared But a pretty little girl with a bow in her hair I cried Never gonna hold the hand of another guy Too young for him they told her Waitin' for the love of a travelin' soldier Our love will never end Waitin' for the soldier to come back again Never more to be alone When the letter says a soldier's comin I cried Never gonna hold the hand of another guy Too young for him they told her Waitin' for the love of a travelin' soldier Our love will never end Waitin' for the soldier to come back again Never more to be alone When the letter says a soldier's comin home |
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| 7. |
| 3:32 |
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There is no good reason
I should have to be so alone I'm smothered by this emptiness Lord I wish I was made of stone Like a fool I lent my soul to love And it paid me back in change God, help me Am I the only one who's ever felt this way? A heart that's worn and weathered Would know better then to fight But I wore mine like a weapon Played out love like a crime And it wrung me out and strung me out And it hung years on my face God, help me, Am i the only one who's ever felt this way? Now my sense of humor needs a break I see a shadow in the mirror And she's laughing through her tears One more smile is all I can fake There is a wound inside me And it's bleeding like a flood There's times when I see a light ahead Hope is not enough. And another night surrounds me And it pounds me like a wave God, help me, Am i the only one who's ever felt this way? God, help me, Am i the only one who's ever felt this way? |
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| 8. |
| 4:00 |
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| 9. |
| 4:51 |
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The moon is full and my arms are empty
All night long I’ve pleaded and cried You always said the day that you would leave me Would be a cold day in July Your bags are packed not a word is spoken I guess we said everything with good-bye Time moves so slow and promises get broken On this cold day in July Sun’s comin’ up comin’ up down on Main Street Children shout as they’re running out to play Head in my hands here I am Standing in my bare feet Watching you drive away Watching you drive away You said that we were gonna last forever You said our love would never die It looks like spring and It feels like sunny weather But it’s a cold day in July On sun’s comin’ up comin’ up Down on Main Street Children shout as they’re running out to play Whoa head in my hands Here I am standing in my bare feet Watching you drive away Watching you drive away The moon is full and my arms are empty All night long how I’ve pleaded and cried You always said the day that you would leave me, Would be a cold day in July Here comes that cold day in July Oh Yeah Oh yeah la da da la da da la da da Oh Ooo |
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| 2:34 |
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Chorus
You can't afford no ring You can't afford no ring I shouldn't be wearing white and you can't afford no ring You finally took my hand You finally took my hand It took a nip of gin but you finally took my hand Chorus Mamma don't approve Mamma don't approve Daddy says he's the very best And mamma don't approve Chorus Baby's on its way Baby's on its way Say I do and kiss me quick 'Cause baby's on its way I shouldn't be wearing white and you can't afford no ring! |
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| 11. |
| 2:40 |
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I mistook the warnings for wisdom
from so-called friends quick to advise though your touch was telling me otherwise Somehow I saw you as a weakness I thought I had to be strong Oh but I was just young I was scared I was wrong Not a night goes by I don't dream of wandering through the home that might have been I listened to my pride when my heart cried out for you Now everyday I wake again In a house that might've been A home Guess I did What I did believing that love is a dangerous thing Oh but that couldn't hurt anymore than never knowing Not a night goes by I don't dream of wandering through the home that might have been I listened to my pride when my heart cried out for you Now everyday I wake again In a house that might've been A home A home..... four walls, a roof, a door, some windows just a place to run when my workin day is through they say home is where the heart is if the exception proves the rule I guess that's true Not a night goes by I don't dream of wandering through the home that might have been I listened to my pride When my heart cried out for you now everyday I wake again In a house that might've been A home a home |
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| 5:15 |
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Every step of the way
We walk the line Your days are numbered So are mine Time is piling up We struggle and we scrape We’re all boxed in Nowhere to escape City's just a jungle More games to play I'm trapped in the heart of it Trying to get away I was raised in the country Been working in the town I been in trouble since I Set my suitcase down I ain't got nothing for you I had nothing before Don't even do anything For myself anymore Sky's full of fire Rain pouring down There's nothing you can sell me So I'll see you around All my powers of expression And thoughts so sublime Could never do you justice In reason or rhyme Well there's only one thing I did wrong I stayed in Mississippi a day too long The devil's in the alley, mule kicking in the stall Say anything you wanna, I've heard it all I was thinking about the things that you said I was dreaming I was sleeping in your bed Walking through the leaves, falling from the trees Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees Well so many things we never will undo I know you're sorry, well I'm sorry too Some people'll offer you their hand and some won't |
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| 4:58 |
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I said I want to touch the earth
I want to break it in my hands I want to grow something wild and unruly I want to sleep on the hard ground In the comfort of your arms On a pillow of bluebonnets In a blanket made of stars Oh, it sounds good to me I said, cowboy take me away Fly this girl as high as you can into the wild blue Set me free, oh I pray Closer to heaven above and closer to you Closer to you I want to walk and not run I want to skip and not fall I want to look at the horizon And not see a building standing tall I want to be the only one For miles and miles Except for maybe you And your simple smile Oh, it sounds good to me Yes, it sounds so good to me Cowboy take me away Fly this girl as high as you can into the wild blue Set me free, oh I pray Closer to heaven above and closer to you Closer to you I said I want to touch the earth I want to break it in my hands I want to grow something wild and unruly Oh, it sounds so good to me Cowboy take me away Fly this girl as high as you can into the wild blue Set me free, oh I pray Closer to heaven above and closer to you Closer to you Closer to you Cowboy take me away Closer to you |
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| 4:41 |
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Dragon tales and the "water is wide"
Pirates sail and lost boys fly Fish bite moonbeams every night And I love you Godspeed, little man Sweet dreams, little man Oh my love will fly to you each night on angels wings Godspeed Sweet dreams The rocket racer's all tuckered out Superman's in pajamas on the couch Goodnight moon, we'll find the mouse And I love you Godspeed, little man Sweet dreams, little man Oh my love will fly to you each night on angels wings Godspeed Sweet dreams God bless mommy and match box cars God bless dad and thanks for the stars God heard "amen," wherever you are And I love you Godspeed, little man Sweet dreams, little man Oh my love will fly to you each night on angels wings Godspeed Godspeed Godspeed Sweet dreams |
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I took my love and I took it down
I climbed a mountain and I turned around And I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills Well the landslide brought me down Oh, mirror in the sky What is love Can the child within my heart rise above Can I sail thru the changing ocean tides Can I handle the seasons of my life Well, I've been afraid of changing 'cause I built my life around you But time makes you bolder Children get older I'm getting older too Well... Well, I've been afraid of changing 'cause I built my life around you But time makes you bolder Children get older I'm getting older, too Well I'm getting older too So, take this love and take it down Year and if you climb a mountain and ya turn around And if you see my reflection in the snow-covered hills Well the landslide brought me down And if you see my reflection in the snow-covered hills Well maybe Well maybe Well maybe the landslide will bring you down |
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| 4:30 |
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When the train rolls by
I'm gonna be ready this time When the boy gets that look in his eye I'm gonna be ready this time When my momma said I look good in white I'm gonna be ready this time Oh yeah... Ready, ready, ready, ready, ready to run All I'm ready to do is have some fun What's all this talk about love? I feel the wind blow through my hair I'm gonna be ready this time I'll buy a ticket to anywhere I'm gonna be ready this time You see, it feels like I'm starting to care (And) I'm gonna be ready this time (ready this time) Oh yeah... Ready, ready, ready, ready, ready to run All I'm ready to do is have some fun What's all this talk about love? Ready To Run Ready To Run Oh... Ready, ready, ready, ready, ready to run All I'm ready to do is have some fun What's all this talk about love? Ready To Run Ready To Run Ready To Run Ready To Run Ready To Run Ready To Run Im Ready To Run I'm ready Oh, I'm ready to run I'm ready Ready To Run Ready To Run |
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Who Doesn't Know What I'm Talking About
Who's Never Left Home, Who's Never Struck Out To Find A Dream And A Life Of Their Own A Place In The Clouds, A Foundation Of Stone Many Precede And Many Will Follow A Young Girl's Dream No Longer Hollow It Takes The Shape Of A Place Out West But What It Holds For Her, She Hasn't Yet Guessed Chorus: She Needs Wide Open Spaces Room To Make Her Big Mistakes She Needs New Faces She Knows The Highest Stakes She Travelled This Road As A Child Wide Eyed And Grinning, She Never Tired But Now She Won't Be Coming Back With The Rest If These Are Life's Lessons, She'll Take This Test Repeat Chorus She Knows The Highest Stakes As Her Folks Drive Away, Her Dad Yells, "Check The Oil!" Mom Stares Out The Window And Says, "I'm Leaving My Girl" She Says, It Didn't Seem Like That Long Ago When She Stood There And Let Her Own Folks Know She Needed Wide Open Spaces Room To Make Her Big Mistakes She Needs New Faces She Knows The Highest Stakes She Knows The Highest Stakes She Knows The Highest Stakes She Knows The Highest Stakes She Knows The Highest Stakes |
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I wished I was smarter, I wished I was stronger.
I wished I love Jesus, the way my wife does. I wish it had been easier, instead of any longer. I wished I could have stood where you would have been proud, that won't happen now, that won't happen now. Chorus: There's a whole lot of singing that's never gonna be heard, Disappearing everyday without so much as a word somehow. Think I broke the wings off that little song bird, She's never gonna fly to the top of the world right now. Top of the world. I don't have to answer any of these questions. Don't have no God to teach me no lessons. I come home in the evening, sit in my chair. One night they called me for supper, but I never got up, I stayed right there in my chair. Chorus: There's a whole lot of singing that never gonna be heard, Disappearing everyday without so much as a word somehow. Think I broke the wings off that little song bird, She's never gonna fly to the top of the world right now. Top of the world. I wished I'd a known you, wished I'd a shown you, All of the things I was on the inside. I'd pretend to be sleeping, when you come in in the morning To whisper good-bye, go to work in the rain. I don't know why, don't know why. Cause everyone's singing, we just wanna be heard. Disappearing every day without so much as a word somehow. Wanna grab a hold of that little song bird, Take her for a ride to the top of the world right now. Whoa. Whoa. To the top of the world. To the top of the world. To the top of the world. To the top of the world. To the top of the world. To the top of the world. To the top of the world. To the top of the world. |
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He pushed me 'round
now I'm drawin' the line He lived his life now I'm gonna go live mine I'm sick of wastin' my time Well now I've been good for way too long Found my red dress and I'm gonna throw it on 'Bout to get too far gone Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition Need a little but more of my twelve ounce nutrition One more helpin' of what I've been havin' I'm takin' my turn on the sin wagon On a mission to make something happen Feel like Delilah lookin' for Samson Do a little mattress dancin' That's right I said mattress dancin' Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition Need a little bit more of what I've been missin' I don't know where I'll be crashin' But I'm arrivin' on a sin wagon When it's my turn to march up to glory I'm gonna have one hell of a story That's if he forgives me oh Lord, please forgive me Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition Need a little bit more of that sweet salvation They may take me with my feet draggin' *I'll fly away* on a sin wagon |
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