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1. _ Colorado Christmas
Looking out the window of this hollywood hotel,
You'd never know that it was christmas eve.
The billboards and the neon took the place of silver bells,
And the temperature is 84 degrees.
I can hear the traffic on the crowded strip below
As the palm trees poke their heads above the scene
There's not a single reindeer and it hardly ever snows,
And santa drives a rolls royce limosine.
But all along the rockies you can feel it in the air
From telluride to boulder down below
The closest thing to heaven on this planet anywhere
Is a quiet christmas morning in the colorado snow
I remember christmases when i was just a boy
In the morning i would run to see the tree.
And the carolers on the hillside sang their songs of christmas joy
Well, i always thought they sang them just for me.
Now the sun is setting in the california sky
And i can't find the spirit anywhere
So i think it's time for me to tell los angeles goodbye
I'm going back home toook for christmas there
But all along the rockies you can feel it in the air
From telluride to boulder down below
The closest thing to heaven on this planet anywhere
Is a quiet christmas morning in the colorado snow
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2. _ Baltimore
Baltimore, can you be in town tomorrow? baltimore, igot no money for this call baltimore, i don't think i can hold my sorrow any longer in baltimore i feel i'm up against a wall baltimore, can y
Nd me in this city now? baltimore, i don't know how much i've been changed baltimore, i don't think i'm very pretty now baltimore, can a meeting be arranged? well i've been down, and i've been sorry, it's so hard to say it when you're tied deep in the hollow of a drum oh yeah, but i don't care to hear you say you're worried you can find me in the morning if you come balktimore, the best stories i remember baltimore, about friends i used to know i've got a letter i could send her to baltimore now if you refuse to show well i've been down, and i've been sorry, it's so hard to say it when you're tied deep in the hollow of a drum oh yeah, but i don't care to hear you say you're worried you can find me in the morning if you come baltimore, can you be in town tomorrow? baltimore, igot no money for this call baltimore, i
Don't think i can hold my sorrow any longer in baltimore i feel you're up against a wall in baltimore
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3. _ Battle Of New Orleans
In 1814 we took a little trip,
Along with colonel jackson down the mighty mississip.
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans,
And we fought the bloody british in the town of new orleans.
We fired our guns and the british kept a comin',
There wasn't 'bout as many as there was awhile ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
On down the mississippi to the gulf of mexico.
Oh we looked down the river and we seen the british come.
There must have been a hundred of 'em beatin' on a drum.
They stepped so high and they made their bugles ring.
We stood behind our cotton bales and didn¹t say a thing.
Old hickory said we could take 'em by surprise,
If we didn¹t fire our muskets till we looked 'em in the eyes.
We held our fire till we seen their faces well,
Then we opened up our squirrel guns and gave 'em a little...well....we...
....fired our guns and the british kept a comin',
There wasn't 'bout as many as there was awhile ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
On down the mississippi to the gulf of mexico.
We fired our cannons till the barrels melted down,
Then we grabbed an alligator and we fired another round.
We filled his head with cannonballs and powdered his behind,
And when we touched the powder off, the gator lost his mind.
We fired our guns and the british kept a comin',
There wasn't 'bout as many as there was awhile ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
On down the mississippi to the gulf of mexico.
We fired our guns and the british kept a comin',
There wasn't 'bout as many as there was awhile ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
On down the mississippi to the gulf of mexico.
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4. _ Cosmic Cowboy
Merry-go-rounds and burial grounds
Are all the same to me.
Horses on post and kids and ghosts
Are spirits that we ought to set free.
Then city slicker pickers got a lot of
Slicker licks than me.
But ridin' the range and acting strange
Is where i want to be.
And i just wanna be a cosmic cowboy
I just wanna ride and rope and hoot (hoot!)
Well i just wanna be a cosmic cowboy
Talkin' 'bout a supernatural country rockin' galoot
Well skinny dippin' and lone star sippin' and steel guitar
And are just as good as hollywood and some boogie-woogie bars.
I'm gonna buy me a vest and a head out west
My little woman and myself.
And when we come to town the people gather around
And marvel at the little baby's health.
And i just wanna be a cosmic cowboy
I just wanna ride and rope and hoot (hoot!)
Well i just wanna be a cosmic cowboy
I said a supernatural country rockin' galoot.
Then a big raccoon and a harvest moon
Keep rolling through my mind.
And a home on the range where the antelope play
Is sometimes hard to find.
So don't bury me on the lone prairie.
I'd rather play there alive.
Well, i'm doing my best i keep my farm in the west
My little bronco in over-drive.
And i just wanna be a cosmic cowboy
I just wanna ride and rope and hoot (hoot!)
Well i just wanna be a cosmic cowboy
Talkin' 'bout a supernatural country rockin' galoot.
And i just wanna be a cosmic cowboy
I just wanna ride and rope and hoot (hoot!)
Well i just wanna be a cosmic cowboy
Talkin' 'bout a supernatural country rockin' galoot
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5. _ Fish Song
Sat here by this stony brook until the grey day turned to dust
When up swam a fish with a children's book thought that i was lost.
He was on his way to the salmon hop, that's where they go to breed
Saw me sitting on this log and thought i'd like to read.
The night was cloudy but the moon he found a hole
Said that he felt bad for me cause i had no place to go
Why aren't you at the harvest ball with some sweet young gal
You just sit like a bump on the log and call that fish your pal.
Well, i told him i was an orphan lived here all alone
But many people have often tried to catch and take me home
They never caught me!
Thought that i was a hiding, call this log my home
But the fish and the moon and a sweet young gal
All want me for their own.
The night was cloudy but the moon he found a hole
Said that he felt bad for me cause i had no place to go
So i met that gal at the harvest ball, she took me to her room
While i slept in children's dreams, the fish ran away with the moon.
The fish ran away with the moon
The fish ran away with the moon.
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6. _ Jambalaya
Goodbye joe, me gotta go, me oh my oh
Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou
My yvonne, the sweetest one, me oh my oh
Son of a gun, we'll have good fun on the bayou
Jambalaya, a-crawfish pie and-a fillet gumbo
'cause tonight i'm gonna see my machez amio
Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gay-oh
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou.
Thibodeaux, fountaineaux, the place is buzzin'
Kinfolk come to see yvonne by the dozen
Dress in style, go hog wild, me oh my oh
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou.
Jambalaya, a-crawfish pie and-a fillet gumbo
'cause tonight i'm gonna see my machez amio
Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gay-oh
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou.
Jambalaya, a-crawfish pie and-a fillet gumbo
'cause tonight i'm gonna see my machez amio
Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gay-oh
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou.
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou.
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou.
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7. _ Buy For Me The Rain
Buy for me the rain, my darling, buy for me the rain;
Buy for me the crystal pools that fall upon the plain.
And i'll buy for you a rainbow and a million pots of gold.
Buy it for me now, babe, before i am too old.
Buy for me the sun, my darling, buy for me the sun;
Buy for me the light that falls when day has just begun.
And i'll buy for you a shadow to protect you from the day.
Buy it for me now, babe, before i go away.
Buy for me the robin, darling, buy for me the wing;
Buy for me a sparrow, almost any flying thing.
And i'll buy for you a tree, my love, where a robin's nest may grow.
Buy it for me now, babe, the years all hurry so.
I cannot buy you happiness, i cannot by you years;
I cannot buy you happiness, in place of all the tears.
But i can buy for you a gravestone, to lay behind your head.
Gravestones cheer the living, dear, they're no use to the dead.
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8. _ Grand Ole Opry Song
Come and listen to my story if you will i'm gonna tell
About a gang of fellers from down at nashville
First i'll start with old red foley doin' the "chattanooga shoe"
We can't forget hank williams with them good old "lovesick blues"
It's time for roy acuff to go to memphis on his train
With minnie pearl and rod brasfield and lazy jim day
Turn on all your radios i know that you will wait
Hear little jimmy dickens sing "take an old cold tater and wait"
There'll be guitars and fiddles, earl scruggs and his banjo too
Bill monroe singing 'em the "honky tonky blues"
Ernest tubb's number "two wrongs won't make a right"
At the grand ole opry ev'ry saturday night
There was uncle dave macon his gold tooth and plug-hat
Cowboy copas singing "tragic romance"
Signed sealed and delivered with sam and kirk mcgee
And the master of ceremony was mr. george d. hays
There was lonzo and oscar a-poppin' bubble gum
George morgan singin' "candy kisses" yum yum
"got a hole in my bucket" "bringin' in that georgia mill"
We'll sing "the sunny side of the mountain" and dance to the "chicken reel"
There'll be guitars and fiddles and banjo pickin' too
Bill monroe singin' 'em the "honky tonky blues"
Ernest tubb's number too wrongs won't make a right
At the grand ole opry ev'ry saturday night
You can talk about your singers in all kinds of way
But none could sing the old songs like bradley kincaid
With his old hound dog "guitar" and the famous "blue tail fly"
Stringbean with hank snow and old fiddlin' chubby wise
There'll be guitars and fiddles, earl scruggs and his banjo too
Bill monroe singin' 'em the "honky tonky blues"
Ernest tubb's number "two wrongs don't make a right"
At the grand ole opry ev'ry saturday night
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9. _ Honky Tonkin
When you are sad and lonely and have no place to go
Call me up, sweet baby, and bring along some dough
And we'll go honky tonkin', honky tonkin'
Honky tonkin', honey baby
We'll go honky tonkin' 'round this town.
When you and your baby have a fallin' out
Just call me up sweet mama and we'll go steppin' out
And we'll go honky tonkin', honky tonkin'
Honky tonkin', honey baby
We'll go honky tonkin' 'round this town.
We're goin' to the city - to the city fair
If you go to the city then you will find me there
> and we'll go honky tonkin', honky tonkin'
Honky tonkin', honey baby
We'll go honky tonkin' 'round this town.
When you are sad and lonely and have no place to go
Call me up, sweet baby, and bring along some dough
And we'll go honky tonkin', honky tonkin'
Honky tonkin', honey baby
We'll go honky tonkin' 'round this town.
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10. _ Living Without You
I can hear that old clock ticking, passing time up on the wall i can hear the faucet dripin in the kicthc down the hall to the one that i keep missing every night and every day
There's things you learn to live with now thats all but i'll never get used to living without you
Now i got used to tenderness, we would hold each other tight and i got used to happiness we'd make love day and night and i'll get used to mornings sitting in the evening swhen theres
There's things you learn to live with now thats all i ever do but ill never get used to living without you
Without you, the sun sill rises without you, the rivesr run i thought by now that i'd be realizing whats done is done i accept the notion that theres things we can't control like the changin of the seasons or the fact we're growing old i know i'm the reason that you had to go away i will keep believing that s the price we had to pay chorus oh theres things you learn to live with repeat
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11. _ Killybegs
My heart was warm with family love as i slipped into a chair
Beside my uncle john, my daughters 'cross the table there
I'd walked the docks in misty rain, a pain was in my legs
But i'd seen the dream of kinsmen in the boats of killybegs
The banter of my uncle and my daughters filled the air and the gunning brothers? next to us were glad that we were there
I was kind of quiet listening at the window ledge
For the music of the harbor, the birds of killybegs
Down the coast not far was galway land of joys and kinnamar? at their supper and asleep we would visit? there tomorrow
I worried if my words would e'er be sung by irishmen
Or out here on the docks??
Like the fish of killybegs
A radio was playing though we never heard a word
But the rhythm of the music was familiar if absurd and harkning intensity? for silence did i beg
Oh what a song was playing in the air of killybegs
I couldn't quite believe it for it sounded rather strange
The instruments were different and the key had been changed
I reached to turn the volume up then teetered on my legs
A girl from tipperary sang my song in killybegs
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12. _ I Am Your Heart
Hello, i am your heart
And you've got me broken one too many times
Oh, hello, this is your heart speaking
And you've got me hurt boy one too many times
Goin' away on a little vacation
I'll be gone quite a while
You won't have you no lovemakin'
You just have that ten cent smile
Goodbye, this is your heart leaving
I wish you the best luck while i'm healing up
Oh hello,this is your heart
I just telephoned to see how you're getting by.
Oh hello, this is your heart calling,
Well, i've got to run now, but i'll drop you a line.
I'm having fun on my little vacation
May be gone quite a while
You won't have you no lovemakin'
You just have that ten-cent smile
Hello, this is your heart
Wish you the best luck while i'm healing up
Oh goodbye
Goodbye
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13. _ Let's Talk Dirty In Hawaiian
I packed my bags and bought myself a ticket
For the land of the tall palm tree
Aloha old milwaukee, hello waikiki
I just stepped down from the airplane
When i thought i heard her say
Waka waka nuka nuka, waka waka nuka nuka
Would you like a lei? eh?
Let's talk dirty in hawaiian
Whisper in my ear
Kicka pooka maka wah wahini
Are the words i long to hear
Lay your coca nuta on ma tiki
What the hecka mooka mooka dear
Let's talk dirty in hawaiian
Say the words i long to hear
It's a ukelele honolulu sunset
Listen to the grass skirts sway
Drinking rum from a pineapple
Out on honolulu bay
The steel guitars all playing
While she's talking with her hands
Gimme gimme oka doka make a wish and wanta polka
Words i understand
Let's talk dirty in hawaiian
Whisper in my ear
Kicka poo ka maka wa wah wahini
Are the words i long to hear
Lay your coca nuta on ma tiki
What the hecka mooka mooka dear
Let's talk dirty in hawaiian
Say the words i long to hear
I boughta lota junka with my moola
And sent it to the folks back home
I never had the chance to dance the hula
I guess i should have known
When you start talking to the sweet wahini
Walking in the pale moonlight
Oka doka what a setta knocka rocka sis boom bocas
Hope i said it right
Let's talk dirty in hawaiian
Whisper in my ear
Kicka pooka maka wah wahini
Are the words i long to hear
Lay your coca nuta on ma tiki
What the hecka mooka mooka dear
Let's talk dirty in hawaiian
Say the words i long to hear
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14. _ All I Have To Do Is Dream
Dream, dream dream dream, dream, dream dream dream
When i want you in my arms,
When i want you and all your charms
Whenever i want you, all i have to do, is
Dream, dream dream dream
When i feel blue in the night,
And i need you to hold me tight
Whenever i want you, all i have to do, is
Dream, dream dream dream
I can make you mine, taste your lips of wine,
Any time, night or day
Only trouble is, gee wiz,
I'm dreamin' my life away
I need you so that i could die,
I love you so, and that is why
Whenever i want you, all i have to do, is
Dream, dream dream dream, dream
I can make you mine, taste your lips of wine,
Any time, night or day
Only trouble is, gee wiz, i
'm dreamin' my life away
I need you so that i could die,
I love you so, and that is why
Whenever i want you, all i have to do, is
Dream, dream dream dream (repeats out)
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15. _ I Break Horses, Not Hearts
From rustler's rhapsody soundtrack, warner bros. 1985
I'll drink a cold one with you and laugh the night away,
'cause i ride hard when i'm working and i work hard when i play.
But any misconception oughta stop before it starts
I'll be leaving in the morning, girl,
I break horses not hearts.
I've broken records in the roundup, where i've broke a bone or two,
But i won't ride away tomorrow and leave a broken heart with you.
Tonight can't last forever, soon i'll be long gone from these parts
You won't hate me when it's over,
I break horses not hearts.
Your smile is so inviting and you're tender to a touch,
And you're walking on the edge cause you're tempting me too much.
When your home is in the saddle, boots don't fit beneath the bed,
So when the sun comes up tomorrow, i'll be riding on instead.
Chorus
I've broken records in the roundup . . . .
You won't hate me when it's over
I break horses not hearts
I break horses not hearts
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