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Memphis Cadillac
05:02
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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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Dark Side of the World
02:22
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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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Full Moon Night
04:10
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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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This Divided River
04:03
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Shady Valley
04:04
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Waiting for America
03:11
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Maybe She's Right
02:08
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Get a Little Slower
02:50
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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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A Lifetime to Cry
04:54
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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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