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Carry On
03:40
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I wish i was dead or drunk or deceived like so many good friends of mine
‘Cause time it does kill the last of my will to see through my reckless eyes
If you should go yours and I should go mine we’ll meet in heaven or hell
We never cared for much in between of the world we desperately dwell
Chorus:
oooo, How I loved you in the dawn
oooo, but our souls they drift apart
oooo, we must carry on again
oooo , carry on my dearest friend
The moon shines on the porch of the train as i bid New Orleans goodbye,
it reminds me again of the man that I am and the thought brings tears to my eyes,
The miles between your heart and mine don’t lessen the love we share,
So if I should fail or die or prevail my fate is yours to bear
(Chorus)
I’m weary and tired I’ve nearly expired as the bottle’s killed in the end,
your face comes to mind and I smile and sigh as I ride on again
(Chorus)
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Sleeping Tight
05:01
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If I had one wish oh, I would sleeping tight.
Rest my weary eyelids and drift off in the night.
But I’m still contemplating and in comes the morning light.
I choke on my breath as clouds go rolling by
In my dreams oh, your face it is quite clear
I held you so close were did you disappear?
Yonder comes my baby she’s prayin’ for a smile
she sees the hurt i’m in and the devil in my eyes
she knows i’m dreading but hoping for a sign
a long lost friend would save me from my nightmares tonight
I kept on walking and refused every ride
Said i’m searching for a ghost have you seen him pass by?
Somewhere I’m pickin’ daisies oh I’m laughin’ like a child
far from misfortune and a worn out tortured mind
maybe someday I’ll see you on a lonely drunken train ride
you could pick a melody and I’ll just close my eyes
Life is hell and God can’t put you through it twice
Dreams are in between but I ain’t sleepin’ tonight
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3. |
Dirty Dog
05:10
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Pretty darlin’ I’m going down now you’ve said you don’t want me around
I chased a freight train bound out of mind out of town
to find my peace in old southern sounds
I dreamt you face by the fire side, I screamed your name in the moonlight
baby please let me come home I can’t make it on my own like a dirty dog
like a dirty ooohhhooohhoho
I stumbled toward Decatur to go to town for one last round
and I shot poor Louis for the gold he found
I ain’t got my .44 no more and the warden says I’m done for
and darlin I might never see you again
I’m workin’ a shank and counting the days
‘til that warden turns his back after spittin’ in my face
babe I’m comin home I can’t make it on my own like a dirty dog
like a dirty ooohhhooohhohooo
I snuck my way back to Baton Rouge
to grab some cash to come home to you
and blew the safe at the county bank
I was stuffin’ bills in my coat pocket
runnin’ home through swamp and thicket
Found my way to our front door
I was peekin’ through the shades to find your face
and there’s another man layin’ where I used to lay
only two shots rang loud I dug two holes in the ground like a dirty dog
like a dirty ooohhhooohhohooo
I dreamt your face your face by the fireside
I screamed your name in the moonlight
Babe please let me come home I can’t make it on my own like a dirty dog
like a dirty ooohhhooohhohooo
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4. |
Awoken By Gunfire
02:36
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Intro/Outro:
I had a dream the other night under an open sky
there was everything I’d spent my whole life to find
so I set down my hat and tried to admire
but I was awoken by gunfire, lord I was awoken by gunfire
Have you felt the sweetest sorrow, the pain in laughter, heaven or hell?
lord I know I may die tomorrow my bodies borrowed so I don’t care
Hearin’ the howls of a pack of coyotes high on a mountain cold and alone
I pray your name oh so gently i love you dearly i hope you know
I’ve fought back tears I’ve been mean and angry took life for granted for too many years
but I know now and i’m sore and sorry I’s blind and ornery now I see clear
(outro)
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5. |
Fall From Grace
05:53
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Lover hear me cryin’ Oh, I’m stumblin’ through the darkness
can’t find my way home
I’m pickin’ through the ashes and my head it aches
and my thoughts are all clouded in blue
(Chorus)
Lord, I’m a fool x4
if I should fall from grace would you want me babe
even if I was ruined?
Oh, could you find a way for my soul to save
even if it might ruin you too?
I’m haunted by the bottle and the taste of death
on my breath callin’
So, I fought with my reflection now there’s broken mirrors
and blood and tears all around
-Chorus-
I’ve never known the reason but you found my heart
and fell in love with who I am
-Chorus-
Lover hear me cryin’ oh, I’m stumblin’ through the darkness
can’t find my way home
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6. |
Oh Dear Brother
06:08
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Oh dear brother I believe it’s time for leavin’
we’ve both been healin’ from wounds that won’t stop bleeding
sometimes it’s hard to remember to keep breathing
when all you feel are bad feelings
Oh dear brother Adios
when I need a fix I’ll be pushin’ with your ghost
you thought you were bad but you know I’m the worst
and I live with the ghost
Oh dear brother what have you done
we were once as close as a bullet and a gun
there’s a time for growing and you know we had our fun
you just had all you could stand dear friend
Oh dear brother I’m cryin’ and pleadin’
everyday it gets harder to believe
the lord does take and the lord he’s been greedy
don’t he know how much you need me
(first verse)
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7. |
The Way I Am
03:42
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I’ve got a short fuse lord my cannon’s loose
and I hate myself everyday that’s dealt that I couldn’t comfort you
I wish I could promise this was my last time
But i’m a bitter man and i don’t understand why in the hell I’m cryin’
It was a cold December and I still see her in my head
(Chorus)
Don’t ever say I didn’t love you everyway that I knew how
I’ll drag you down it’s just the way I am
I’ll cut you down anyway I can
I was a dirty kid on a corner drinkin’ a box of wine
I was young and dumb and getting spun, lord for the hundredth time
I was a glutton for pain I was a runaway train
So I rolled a dice for a better life and stepped out in the rain
Thought that I would walk forever, I will walk forever
-Chorus-
It was a cold December and I will walk forever
-Chorus-
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8. |
Graces Casket
04:45
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Grace was Jack’s darlin’ lovin sweety
the thought of her could still paralyze him now
and a cold wind brought him back again
back to where it all began
Started with a drink somewhere in Georgia
three weeks later married in Montana
They hid behind the shadow of their rifles
Burnin’ bright and fast in the wind
Now and then you’d read about ‘em in the papers
another sheriff gunned down in durango
You’d read they’d been caught and broke out of Yuma
with veins to thick and blood to thin
With every kill their love grew stronger
Every dollar bill they felt fonder
‘Til the night Grace mistaked the weight of her gun
Jack found her corpse with the mornin’ sun
It’s been thirty years since Jack picked up a weapon
His pistol lay down in Graces casket
and he goes by Tom And he lives in his sorrow
about the life that could have been
He sits and stares out his lonesome desert mansion
Paid in gold from the heist that killed his darlin’
And he buys his time awaiting hell
Where he’ll find Grace with his loaded gun
Where he’ll find Grace with his loaded gun
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9. |
Baby I Got You
03:49
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I ain’t got no money, baby I got you
No fancy cars or diamond ring or tap dancin’ shoes
I once was a rollin’ stone tumblin through the dark
now I’m in love with a lady down a bright shining road
I ain’t no whiskey, baby I got you
just a fiddle and a bow and an old six string
bad attitudes
we’ll be there by morning if all goes well
we’ll be snug in a boxcar on the highway again
I ain’t got no water, baby I got you
when I’m rich and famous I’ll buy you the ocean blue
I don’t ever want to hear that there ain’t anyhow
‘cause the world is my sailboat and I’m swingin’ from the bow
I ain’t got no sunshine, baby I got you
you were a candle in the darkness
you was green and I was blue
I would light up the world just to make you my girl
and we’ll dance in the ashes as the skyscrapers burn
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10. |
Some Take To Drink
02:46
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Some take to drink, others take to smoke
some take bullets some take to rope
some men are born with fire in their eyes
and they’ll dig their own graves lord
and they won’t complain when they die
Some learn to charm, others never will
some take to needles, some take to pills
some men are born with weakness in their eyes
and they’ll kill who they can lord
and they won’t understand when they die
some change their minds, others change the world
some die with nickels, some die with pearls
some men are born without a soul to tell
and they scream when they can lord
and they’ll spew their hate in the bowels of hell
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When I went down to Georgia I was on the fence
about whether I was coming home
and I know now better than before
i don’t know lord what I’m looking for
It was red red rocking chair sittin’ on the porch
pickin’ as the bottle runs dry
and I go there for the free beer
but I don’t know lord what I’m doing here
There’s a train waiting as I walk the tracks
freddie a callin’ to me
so I climbed on a bottle in my hand
why I left lord I’ll never understand
I caught that ride back to Tennessee
in the dark the wind and the rain
I caught that ride to the depths of the wind
goes to show you just can’t win
Oh, my Caroline I never should have left
and you should have never stayed with me gal
and I know now there’s two ways to be
live in love or die in misery
(first verse)
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