Lyle Lovett

[fox69]

"White Boy Lost In The Blues"
(originally by Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee)

"White Boy Lost In The Blues"
(originally by Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee)



You bought you a six string Gibson
You bought you a great big house
You try to sing like Muddy Waters
And play like Lightnin' sounds

But since I blowed my harp
You feelin' mean and confused.
It got you chained to your earphones,
You just a white boy, lost in the blues.

You got your 44 Desoto
Great big horns that toots,
44 bad buttons on your every-day suit,
But since I bent mah strings
You been feelin' mean and confused
It got you chained to your earphones,
You just a white boy, lost in the blues.

I got my home on the hillside
Never feel the cold
Got my loving woman
And the bluuuues in my soul
Since I heard you cooking
I been really mean and confused
It got me chained to my headphones
White boy, lost in the blues...

It's got you chained to your earphones
Yer jes' a white boy. lost int he blues...

It's got me chained to my earphones
A white boy, lost in the blues...

It's got you chained to your earphones,
A white boy, lost in the blues!

 

[fox69]

"White Freightliner Blues"

"White Freightliner Blues"


I'm going out on the highway
And listen to them big trucks wind
I'm going out on the highway
And listen to them big trucks wind
Oh, white freightliner, won't you steal away my mind

Well, it's bad news from Houston
Half my friends are dying
Well, it's bad news from Houston
Half my friends are dying
Oh, white freightliner, won't you steal away my mind

Well, New Mexico ain't bad, Lord
The people here, they treat you kind
Well, New Mexico ain't bad, Lord
The people here, they treat you kind
Oh, white freightliner, won't you steal away my mind

Lordy, Lord I'm gonna ramble
Till I get back to where I came
Lordy, Lord I'm gonna ramble
Till I get back to where I came
Till that white freightliner's gonna steal away my brain

I'm going out on the highway
And listen to them big trucks wind
I'm going out on the highway
And listen to them big trucks wind
Oh, white freightliner, won't you steal away my mind

I'm going out on the highway
And listen to them big trucks wind
I'm going out on the highway
And listen to them big trucks wind
Oh, white freightliner, won't you steal away my mind

Oh, white freightliner, won't you steal away my mind

 

[fox69]

"Who Loves You Better"

"Who Loves You Better"


Late nights in musty motel rooms
Stale lives left by someone else
White lies I wish I could tell you
And questions I ask of myself

Why do I do the things that make me sorry
Why do I do the things that make you cry
Will I lose your love to another
Who loves you better than I

The angels smile when you're praying
But the devil laughs when you lie
And some things they go without saying
When tears fill up your eyes

Why do I do the things that make me sorry
Why do I do the things that make you cry
Will I lose your love to another
Who loves you better than I

Some questions beg for an answer
Like a poet begs for a rhyme
Somehow all I can remember
Is holding your hand in mine

Late nights in musty motel rooms
Stale lives left all alone
He's telling you how he wants you
And I'm praying he doesn't know

Why I do the things that make me sorry
Why I do the things that make you cry
If I could lose your love to another
Who loves you better than I

Who loves you better than I

 

[fox69]

"Whooping Crane"

"Whooping Crane"


I Think I'll look around for a whooping crane
I Think I'll look around for a whooping crane
What do ya think this pain has got me?
You think I'm uptight but I'm not
It's just that, I look around for a whooping crane
And I can't find one...

So, I Think I'll look around for a drinking stream
I think I'll look around for a drinking stream
They say you turned the water to wine
And they must have been right this time because
I look around for a drinking stream but I can't find one...

Mighty red man painted ponies brown
Fallen Eagle, feathers on the ground
And the bulletts they spin your dreams around
And they paint your face on the penny brown

So, I think I'll look around for the Yellowstones
I think I'll look around for the Yellowstones
Set your eyes on the eagle's flight,
Cause the, the eyes of God have lost their sight
I look around for the Yellowstones, but I can't find one...

Mighty red man painted ponies brown
Fallen Eagle, feathers on the ground
And the bulletts they spin your dreams around
And they paint your face on the penny brown

Think I'll look around for a whooping crane
I Think I'll look around for a whooping crane
What do ya think this pain has got me?
You think I'm uptight but I'm not,it's just that
I look around for a whooping crane and I can't find one...

 

[fox69]

"Why I Don't Know"

"Why I Don't Know"


Was it the champagne
Was it the caviar
Was it her airplane
Was it her daddy's car
Was it the new thing
With all the dough
Why I don't know
I just had to go

Was that the yacht club
Or just a fishing boat
Was that the leg of lamb
Or was it a billy goat
Was that a snail baby
Or escargot
Why I don't know
I just had to go

I'm just a poor boy
I like to have fun
I know a pretty girl when I see one
I've seen the real thing
The imitation too
So don't go telling me what to do

Was that a beer joint
Or was that the country club
Were we fooling around
Or was it truly love
Was that a foreign film
Or just a show
Why I don't know
I just had to go

I'm just a poor boy
I like to have fun
I know a pretty girl when I seen one
I've seen the real thing
The imitation too
So don't go telling me what to do

So keep your champagne
And keep your caviar
And fly your airplane
Into your daddy's car
And so you'll understand
I'll tell you slow
Why I don't know
I just had to...go

 

[fox69]

"Wild Women Don't Get The Blues"
(feat. Francine Reed)

"Wild Women Don't Get The Blues"
(feat. Francine Reed)



Well, you hear about all these women raising about their funky, funky, funky men
They've got some trifling husbands. Lord knows, they've got a lot of no good friends
All these fretting women sitting around the house all day long, and they are wondering when their loving papas are ever coming home
Wild women never worry. Wiiiiiiild women never never worry
I got a sweet disposition. Gonna wear my very own. I ain't never gonna spend one lonely night at home all alone
I can go out and drink all the courvoisier I can find.
Walk the streets and I can tell any man to go to hell if that man doesn't know how to act right
Wild women we don't every worry. Wiiiiiiild women never never get the blues.
Well, you fellas ain't ever gonna get nothing if you keep acting like an angel, child
Give it up tonight's a real real good night. Y'all gotta learn how to get to together well
Cuz I'll tell one more thing (Francine never tells a lie)
Wild women will be the first ones, Lord to learn how to fly
Wild women never worry. Wiiiiild women don't get the blues

 

[fox69]

"Working Too Hard"

"Working Too Hard"


The whistle blows
At the break of dawn
Still that evening
The work goes on
Sixteen hours
Of every day
And Baby if I could
You know I'd walk away

I've been working too hard to win your love
Working too hard to win your love
Working too hard to win your love

Now a man he does
The things he'll do
A woman knows
Still her hope stays true
Rise up early
Rise up strong
I feel the pain Baby
Don't let on

I've been working too hard to win your love
Working too hard to win your love
Working too hard to win your love

[Instrumental]

Home is empty
The road is long
It feels like years now
That I've been gone
And all I want
And all I choose
And Baby all I have
I have to lose

I've been working too hard to win your love
Working too hard to win your love
Working too hard to win your love

I've been working too hard to win your love
Working too hard to win your love
Working too hard to win your love

I've been working too hard to win your love
Working too hard to win your love
Working too hard to win your love

 

[fox69]

"You Can't Resist It"

"You Can't Resist It"


She was old enough
To know better
And she was strong enough
To be true
And she was hard enough
To know whether
He was smart enough
To know what to do

And you can't resist it
When it happens to you
No you can't resist it
When it happens to you

And you can tell your story
And you can swear it's true
But you can save your lying
For some other fool

And you can't resist it
When it happens to you
No you can't resist it
When it happens to you

She was old enough
To know better
And she was strong enough
To be true
And she was hard enough
To know whether
He was smart enough
To know what to do

And you can't resist it
When it happens to you
No you can't resist it
When it happens to you
And you can't resist it
When it happens to you
No you can't resist it
When it happens to you

 

[fox69]

"You Were Always There"

"You Were Always There"


The sun comes up
The world goes round and round
There's no bad luck, its
Just the luck you found
You steal away
Into a lonesome sun
Another day
Is lowered in the ground

I feel my heartbeat
It's pounding in my head
I hear the hooves beat
They must be drawing near
I feel the wind blow
It's rushing through my hair
Out in the shadows
Your face is everywhere

You were standing there beside me
Right where you are supposed to be right now
Now there is no one left to guide
Tell me now what I am supposed to do
I am supposed to do

You were always there
You were always there
You were always there
You were always there

A new horizon It's all supposed to be
I close my eyes
I look at what I see
I hear the laughing and crying from above
It's just the voice
Eternal hoping love

You were standing there beside me
Right where you are supposed to be right now
Now there is no one left to guide
Tell me now what I am supposed to do
I am supposed to do

You were always there
You were always there
You were always there
You were always there

[Instrumental]

You were always there
You were always there
You were always there
You were always there

You were always there
You were always there
You were always there
You were always there

 

[fox69]

"You've Been So Good Up To Now"

"You've Been So Good Up To Now"


You don't have to live a life of sin
You don't have to break the law
And break the law again
You can make just one mistake
And it can take you to your grave, honey
One bad move can turn your world upside down
It's such a shame 'cause you've been so good up to now

Yes I saw the light fall from your eyes
Yes I saw how easy it was
The light it never lies
And as the darkness touched your lips
They tried to warn your fingertips, honey
One bad move can turn your world upside down
It's such a shame 'cause you've been so good up to now

When he looks at you what will he see
You can hide from him, baby
But you can't hide from me

You know right from right
And wrong from wrong
You know you can try to stop
But you can't stop for long
And you just don't seem to be yourself
So you do it like your someone else, honey
One bad move can turn your world upside down
It's such a shame 'cause you've been so good up to now
It's such a shame 'cause you've been so good up to now