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The Country Side of Bill White

by Bill White

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Is it true that country music Has no more Phantom Engineers Or heroes like Bid Bad John? Or Johnny Horton singing :The Battle of New Orleans" Tell me where have all the good songs gone? Does anybody have the time To listen to the voices From the heavenly battlefield on high? They might not have the answers But they still ask the questions We just walk around and wonder why I don't care where you live in this country I don't care if your state is red or blue But you had better stand up for my rights If you want me to stand with you Chorus: There are nights when you should lock your doors Don't even open them a crack Or all you love will get blown out In a carpet bag or a gunny sack But someday everything we lost Will come roaring back Behind the wheel of a Memphis Cadillac Nobody's writing songs Like "The Devil Came to Kansas" Or "He Stopped Loving her Today." Lefty, Hank, and Jimmy Jumped into the water tank Ain't no use in waiting for a train When all of macon county Is all dressed up and lonely And the band doesn't know what song to play. Because yesterday lies further Than the eyes can see And tomorrow is too many miles away I don't care what you smoke Or who you marry Just don't touch the flag that flies Above the cemetery Repeat Chorus I was driving on the freeway Everyone was of the same mind If the weren't, it would be a helluva sight Each one driving to a different drummer it would really be a bummer They'd be crashing into each other, left and right There is a cadillac a comin Must be doin about a hundred Can't tell who is drivin, but that's all right If it's Jefferson Davis or Honest Abe Shuck Pruett or the Babe But I know who he is carrying tonight It's David Bowie and Elvis Singing on an old song The kind you dont hear much anymore it was written by Stephen Foster Born on the fourth of July in Pittsburgh Called, "Hard Times Come Again No More" Repeat Chorus
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chorus every day another nightmare every night a different girl im movin fast but goin nowhere livin on the dark side of the world busted an axle out of memphis heading up highway 51 busted throygh the last road block one less bullet in my gun at least im out of texarkana where the sherriff wants me dead leaving the bloody road behind me for the endless highway up ahead repeat chorus i never meant to kiill nobody but i was high on daddys juice after what i did to that hostage i couldnt afford to cut her loose if i can cross this goddam river i might live another day but i will always be in darkness i know there is no other way repeat chorus
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shes the kind of girl you dont forget if youre lucky enought o have known her at all from the moment i felt her breath on my neck i knew id come to here anytims she called last time i saw her she was getting on a bus she was leaving town for good gave me a number where she could be reached but i never called her like i promised that i would chorus now she only comes out when it rains most times she just sits by the window bearing the burden of her pain she only comes out when it rains i fist met her way back in 71 we spent a few nights on the town that was the year i started drinking hard she kept me from going down now when i think of her it makes me cry to know where she is at today lifting her face up to be kissed by the clouds because they wash her tears away repeat chorus
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Down from Missouri Drivin a truck full of illegal beer Outran the troopers across the Missippippi bridge I tried to leave you after we made the split But the wind was cutting through the trees and you wouldn’t let go of my wrist chorus Baby Im sorry Nothing ever comes out right Yeah its hopeless even on a full moon night We shacked up in Memphis near the Mississippi bridge Stayed drunk all winter Cant remember all the things that we did Sundays in Shakerag with a guitar on my knee Got a call from Nashville and I wasn’t taking you with me repeat chorus Next time I saw you you were going through some heavy times You cried on my shoulder all I could d was pour you another glass of wine I said I cant help you but Ill stay till youre on your feet But before we even finished making love I had my bags out in the street That’s when I told you something that you didn’t want to know That I would never follow you to where you wanted to go Just because your prison is put together with pretty nails Doesn’t make it any different than any other stinkin jail repeat chorus
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Chorus: repeat between each verse When you get older You get a little slower If you get much slower You don't get much older Police have been chasing me But I've been keeping hid By the time they catch me They'll forget everything I did You can sing your song You can dance your dance but don't expect the cops to understand To them you're just a funny little man You never shut your mouth Until you died in a hotel bed I never realized how pretty you were Until I saw you lying dead I thought there was a limit On the years a man can run But one thing the law never forgets Is an outlaw with a gun They cornered me on Second Street Just a little Southeast of Main Before I could count to ten I was already slain I woke up in the graveyard Didn't know what to do So I read the names on every grave Til I found the one that belonged to you Now I been riding the midnight train For three days straight The porter said I missed my stop Now I'm back at the boarding gate.
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If it takes a lifetime to cry How many tears must be shed How many lost, forgotten nights Have I passed in this hospital bed The window pane was broke And a mockingbird flew in As the room filled up with smoke The sirens called to me again I miss your portrait on the wall I used the wipe the dust from off your eyes Why does the rain refuse to fall Why do the dead refuse to rise Is this really how it is Is the world the way it seems On the radio, Richie says, "Don't mind me 'cause I ain't nothing but a dream" I remember Moustache Irv I remember Dusty too But I never cried for them And I'm just trying to get through to you It takes a lifetime to cry A kid is running down the road Somebody shoots him from behind The cymbals crash, the stage explodes This fucking world has lost its mind Your body sinks beneath the waves And what was once a sea of love Is the rolling memory of your grave People gather on the shore The temperature is getting high Im still here but you are gone You left me a lifetime to cry After our years of joy and laughter I've got a lifetime left to cry ________________________________________

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released October 11, 2017

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