1. HIGHWAY SONG

Well, another day, another dollar, after I've sang and hollered,
Oh, it's my way of living, and I can't change a thing
Another town is drawing near. Oh, baby, I wish you were here!
But the only way I can see you, darlin', is in my dreams
It's a highway song... you sing it on and on... on and on...

Well, the hurt you leave behind, it's the hurt that's on your mind
Oh, and last night's show took its toll on me
Well the city lights fly by me, as I lay my body in my bed,
Oh, and dreams of you Dance through my head
It's a highway song... you sing it on and on... on and on...
Highway song... is as lonely... as the road I'm on...

It's those big wheels are ready to roll. We've be flyin' high and so low
Lord, and all this madness, ain't crazy as it seems
Everywhere, they stop and stare. I'm just a stranger on this road
Oh, I stand alone, only in my dream
Highway song... you sing it on and on... on and on...
Highway song... is as lonely... as the road I'm on..
Highway song... you sing it on and on... on and on...
Highway song... is as lonely... as the road I'm on...


2. FLY AWAY

Wake up baby, smile at me
The sun is shinin' and the wind's blowin' free
I got to thinkin' ooo yesterday
That silver bird can take us away
Get it on now

Single boys, they're out on the town
Lookin' for them pretty girls hangin' around
Man on the radio is tellin' us the news
Summertime's here, kick the mud off your
Shoes, yeah

[Chorus:]
Fly away, fly away
That silver bird can take us away
Fly away, do it today
Come on, woman, now let's get away

I'm tired or workin', feels like for nothin'
Well, I ain't gettin' any younger
Why can't I live for today

Are you tired of workin', feels like nothin'
Well, you ain't gettin' any younger
Why can't we all live for today?

Friends of mine want'a'buy me a drink
So loaded now, hell, I can't even think
Went on home, I put my lady in the car
Jumped on that bird just to see how far we could....

[Repeat chorus]


3. WISHING WELL

Take off your hat; kick off your shoes
I know you ain't goin' anywhere
Run 'round the town, singin' your blues
I know you ain't goin' anywhere
You've always been a good friend of mine,
But you're always sayin' farewell
And the only time that you're satisfied
Is with your feet in the wishing well
Oh, Yeah, Wish !
Throw down your gun – you might shoot yourself –
Or is that what you're tryin' to do?
Put up a fight you believe to be right
And someday the sun will shine through
You've always got something to hide ;
Something you just can't tell.
And the only time that you're satisfied
Is with your feet in the wishin' well
Oh, Yeah,
But I know what you're wishin' for :
Love in a peaceful world. Yeah,
Love in a peaceful world. Oh, yeah,
Love in a peaceful world.
Mmmmmmmm,
Na na na na na na na-na,
Na na na na na na na,

You've always been a good friend of mine,
But you're always sayin' farewell
And the only time that you're satisfied
Is with your feet in the wishing, well!
Oh! Yes! But, uh, Ow!
I wish you well,
Oo-oo-ooh! The wishing well! Ow!
Everybody has a wish,
Everybody has a dream. Yeah, yeah!
I wish you well, Ow!
Well, you dream, your own time,


4. GIMME, GIMME, GIMME

Ohh, lets get it on

Wellll, good God mama what's wrong with your face
Been out all night you're a total disgrace
Here you come again with your hands out by your side
Yes, I don't know what's the matter with you
Dad summit money thing you act like a fool
Sometimes I don't know what's goin' on about that

Well Gimme, Gimme, Gimme that's all I ever hear
Ain't got no money to buy me a beer
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme that's all I ever get from you
You can slap that be-bop you can shove me around
Won't put me six feet in the ground
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, you got those old gimme blues

Wellll, Mr. Businessman what do you say
I seen you a poundin' on my door today
Look at that honey, he's got his hands out by his side
Yes, gimme this, gimme that like a rubber band
He's got those stretch marks all over his hands
He's got a reputation for those old gimme bluesss

Gimme, Gimme, Gimme that's all I ever hear
Ain't got no money to buy me a beer
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme that's all I ever get from you
You can slap that be-bop you can shove me around
Won't put me six feet in the ground
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, you got those old gimme blues
Yes, you got them blues honey
Ahh, would you get it on that slide guitar

Yes, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme that's all I ever hear
Ain't got no money to buy me a beer
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme that's all I ever get from you
And you can slap that bad old be-bop you can shove me around
Won't put me six feet in the ground
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, you got those old gimme blues

Well I'm sure all my buddies been here before
Mr. Businessman I'm poundin' on your door
I think that man and a woman's got somethin' on me

Yes, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme that's all I ever hear
Ain't got no money to buy me a beer
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme that's all I ever get from you
You can slap that bad old be-bop you can shove me around
Won't put me six feet in the ground
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, you got those old gimme blues


5. FOX CHASE

Howdy folks, this is your old buddy Shorty Medlocke
I'd like to tell you about an old bunch of fox hounds I got
Ole Ring, an Ole Tige and Ole Rover
And when we start out across them Georgia hills a-huntin'
And them foxes sound something like this

(Harmonica),Ooooh, ooh, ooh, git it sic em, catch it
(Harmonica),Get em Ring. (Harmonica) ,Ooooh, ooh, ooh

Ahhh, Lets play a lil' song

Well I got in my pickup,
Four forty four
And the stakes kept on, and the black cat choked, and I was ready to stroll
And I crossed over into Texas, sucked to the fence and it didn't want to go
Lord do you - slow, Honey I'll do your foxes just
like so many times before

Well I dropped the plastic seat,
go man's deep, with the promise of it right on time
Didn't bring a jack bags of one on one and maybe just a little wine
We got the fruit of the spoons sex,
bringin' live guns, seemed all ready to go
Baby, baby it's too slow, we'll be out doin' the foxes
just like so many times before

Well eeee yeah

Woh, friends are free, do what we please put out a can of ale,
Dollar a dance, gonna get a romance, a lookin' for that girl
Well, somebody nowcall a doctor,
sick on my knees, don't think I'll be happy to go
Is that the end of it, I don't know,
but I'll be out doin' the foxes just like so many times before

Oh, I'm seein' them foxes


6. TOO HARD TO HANDLE

Down south, south of the border
At a new sunrise where the
Workin' woman hates law and order
Ooh, those chaquitas with incredible thighs

Too hard to handle, they're too hard for you
Too hard to handle, they're too hard
They're too tough for you

Small time gambler lays down his money
To play some five card stud
But the big time winner really was the loser
He caught a case of a unlucky love

Too hard to handle
Too hard for you
Too hard to handle

'Cause sweet Lolita's hotter than a pepper
You know her pepper's gonna burn you in two

She's a young man's dream, every mother's nightmare
Pure woman through and through
Don't take no chances on hot romances
Such as this one, it may happen to you

Too hard to handle
Too hard for you
Too hard to handle

'Cause there's no future with a snake-eyed lover
She's hung up on them ups and downs
But if you're lonely, thinkin' you're the only
Her love's the best, it's the hottest in town, ah yes

Yeah I said
Too hard to handle
Too hard, too hard


7. LEFT TURN ON A RED LIGHT

Oooo hooo La do oh oh

It's nine o'clock at this old station
And my silver linin' ride is right on time
And as I buy myself a one-way ticket
For somewhere else on down the line
And I see that on their lonely faces
Of a people that will never come home
And when I stare into the mirror, mama
See myself all alone

Ohh!

And did you ever stop to wonder (Wonder)
About the times that she laid by your side
When you know that I was right
And you finally realize
You took a left turn on a red light

Ohh..

Sun shines down on the desert
And it seems to make my life a haze
And I dream of my childhood sweetheart
And the freedom that I had in those days
When I wake from all my dreamin'
Will this boxcar always be my lonely home, yeah
Well I don't know where I am
And I really don't give a damn
This crazy life of mine will soon be gone

Ohh..

And did you ever stop to wonder (Wonder)
About the times that she laid by your side
When you know that I was right
And you finally realize
You took a left turn on a red light

Well Ohh..

Well it's nine o'clock at this old station
Once again my ride is right on time
And as I buy myself another ticket, Lord
For somewhere else on down the line

Well I'll always be a rambler
Well the ones I love always keep tellin' me
You stare too long in the mirror, son
Someday you'll be too blind to see

Ohh..

And now I can stop my wonderin' (Wonder)
About the times that she laid by my side
Now I know that I was right
And I finally realize
I took a left turn on a red light, Oooooo

Whoa whoa oh oh


8. RATTLESNAKE ROCK N ROLLER

Well I'd rather be a fishin'
Or at least just a wishin' I was
And if you really ask me
I'll tell you what is in my heart
'Cause I'm a down home picker
And a country boy singer
To start

I love cruisin' down the highway
Gettin' set to play at night
Or sittin' in a honky tonk
With a mason jar 'till light
And if I get the call
You know I'm not afraid to fight

[Chorus:]
'Cause I'm a rattlesnake rocker
Rattlesnake rock 'n' roller
Living in the city put a bite in my soul
If you live in the country they say
You will never grow older
If you're a rattlesnake rocker
Rattlesnake rock 'n' roller.

Well I'm a headin' for the country
With the stars shinin' up above
Gonna do me some fishin'
Instead of just a wishin' I was
'Cause a rattlesnake bites
And a moonlit nites is a what I love

[Chorus]


9. DIARY OF A WORKINGMAN

In a room all alone waiting by the telephone
With a tear in his eye and a pen in his hand
So begins the diary of a working man

He'd been poor man all his life
And just when things were going right
Some stranger takes his woman away
He doesn't know if he'll see, oh, another day
Oh, another day

Time has come and he was right,
It was a cold and rainy night
And he thought for sure she would follow
But it won't be the same, no tomorrow

Now here's a man glory bound
In a pool of dreams about to drown
If he can just get through this night
Then maybe tomorrow things will work out right
Oh, will work out right

Well, with the pain in his blood
He'd love to take her if he could
And as he wakes with a scream
To only it's just reality

He woke with sweaty hands
Maybe there'll be a change in plans
With a tear in his eye and a gun in his hand
So ends the diary of a workingman


10. TRAIN, TRAIN

Oh, here it comes

Well, train, train, take me on out of this town
Train, train, Lord, take me on out of this town
Well, that woman I'm in love with, Lord, she's Memphis bound

Well, leavin' here, I'm just a raggedy hobo
Lord, I'm leaving here, I'm just a raggedy hobo
Well, that woman I'm in love with, Lord, she's got to go

Well, goodbye pretty mama, get yourself a money man
Goodbye, pretty mama, Lord, get yourself a money man
You take that midnight train to Memphis
Lord, leave me if you can
Oh, take that midnight train to Memphis
Lord, leave me if you can
Oh, take that train, baby