Bobby Bare

[fox69]

"Desperados Waiting For The Train"

"Desperados Waiting For The Train"



I'd play the Red River Valley
And he'd sit in the kitchen and cry
Run his fingers through seventy years of living and wonder
Lord, has every well I drilled gone dry
We was friends me and this old man
Desperados waiting for the train
Desperados waiting for the train.

He's a drifter and a driller of oil wells
And an old school man of the world
Taught me how to drive his car when he's too drunk to
And he'd wink and give me money for the girls
Our lives was like some old western movie
Like desperados waiting for the train
Like desperados waiting for the train.

From the time that I could walk he'd take me with him
To a bar called the Green Frog Cafe
There was old men with beer guts playin' dominos
Lyin' bout their lives while they'd play
I was just a kid they all called his sidekick
Like desperados waiting for the train
Like desperados waiting for the train.

One day I looked up and he's pushin' eighty
There's brown tobacco stains all down his chin
To me he's one of the heroes of this country
So why's he all dressed up like them old men
Drinking beer and playing moon and 42
Like desperados waiting for the train
Like desperados waiting for the train.

Just before he died I went to see him
I was grown and he was almost gone
So we closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen
And sang another verse to that old song
He said come on Jack I swear this time it's comin'
And we're desperados waiting for the train
We're desperados waiting for the train.

We're desperados waiting for the train...

 

[fox69]

"Detroit City"

"Detroit City"



I wanna go home, I wanna go home
Oh, how I wanna go home.

Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City
And I dreamed about those cottonfields and home
I dreamed about my mother dear, old papa, sister and brother
I dreamed about that girl who's been waiting for so long
I wanna go home, I wanna go home, oh, how I wanna go home.

Homefolks think I'm big in Detroit City
From the letters that I write they think I'm fine
But by day I make the cars, by night I make the bars
If only they could read between the lines.

'Cause you know I rode the freight train north to Detroit City
And after all these years I find I've just been wastin' my time
So I just think I'll take my foolish pride
And put it on a Southbound freight and ride.
And go on back to the loved ones, the ones that I left waitin' so far behind.

I wanna go home, I wanna go home,
Oh, how I wanna go home...

 

[fox69]

"Diet Song"

"Diet Song"



Breakfast, black coffee, one slice of dry toast
No butter, no jelly, no jam
Lunch, just some lettuce, two celery stalks
No booze, no potatoes, no ham.

Dinner, one chicken wing, broiled not fried
No gravy, no biscuits, no pie
And this dietin', dietin', dietin', dietin'
Sure is a rough way to die.

So pass me a carrot stick, peel me a prune
A glass of skim milk and that's all
Turn off the TV for the Big Mac commercial
It's drivin' me right up the wall.

And I'm thinkin' of french fries, sausage and waffles
Spaghetti and cookies and cake
And each night I'm dreamin' of chocolate ice cream.
And I'm starvin' to death when I wake.

Supper, two pieces of cauliflower, raw
Some beefsteak the size of a nail
One sliced tomato, a small dab of slaw
I swear I ate better in jail.

Stop eatin' that pizza right under my nose
Girl that's the least you can do
Put down that candy bar while I'm singin'
I'm starvin' my pants off for you.

You're fixin' the kids all those creamed mashed potatoes
But it's bouillon and water for me
Hey, you got a lock on the refrigerator
Lord knows where you're hidin' the key.

While I'm starvin' for food late at night
I'm starvin' for lovin' from you
But you say that when I can see my own dick
You'll be glad to look at it too.

So pass me a carrot stick, peel me a prune
A glass of skim milk and that's all
You and Jane Fonda and old Richard Simmons
Are drivin' me right off the wall.

Now when I am dead with the insurance paid
You'll look down at me and you'll grin
You'll say, well the boy tried and he suffered and died
But don't he look good when he's thin? oh my.

And this dietin', dietin', dietin', dietin'
Sure is a rough way to die...

 

[fox69]

"Don't It Make You Want To Go Home"

"Don't It Make You Want To Go Home"



Don't it make you wanna go home now?
Don't it make you wanna go home?
All God's children get weary when they roam
Don't it make you wanna go home?
Don't it make you wanna go home?

Oh, the whippoorwill roost on the telephone poles
When the Georgia sun goes down
Well, it's been a long time but I'm glad to say
That I'm goin' back down to my hometown.

Goin' down to the greyhound station
Gonna buy me a oneway fare
Good Lord's willin' and the creeks don't rise
Watch it for I'll be right there.

Don't it make you wanna go home now?
Don't it make you wanna go home?
All God's children get weary when they roam
Don't it make you wanna go home?
Don't it make you wanna go home?

But there's a six lane highway down by the creek
Where I went skinny dippin' as a child
And the driving show where the meadow used to grow
And the strawberries used to grow wild.

There's a drugstrip down by the riverside
Where my grandma's cow used to grace
Now the grass don't grow and the river don't flow
Like it did in the childhood days.

Don't it make you wanna go home now?
Don't it make you wanna go home?
All God's children get weary when they roam
Don't it make you wanna go home?
Don't it make you wanna go home?

Don't it make you wanna go home?
Don't it make you wanna go home?...

 

[fox69]

"Don't Let That Doorknob Hit You"

"Don't Let That Doorknob Hit You"


[Norma]

For a long, long time now just about every night
You found some excuse not to hold me tight
No matter what I do you sit and pout
Don't let that doorknob hit you going out.

Don't let that doorknob hit you going out honey
Others lips now thrill you there's no doubt
There's no burden like the love you make me live without
Don't let that doorknob hit you going out.

I've laid awake nights to two or three
So near to you but you're so far from me
The battle's done you won the fight no doubt
Don't let that doorknob hit you going out.

Don't let that doorknob hit you going out honey
Others lips now thrill you there's no doubt
There's no burden like the love you make me live without
Don't let that doorknob hit you going out.

Don't let that doorknob hit you going out...

 

[fox69]

"Don't Think Twice, It's All Right"

"Don't Think Twice, It's All Right"



There ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
It don't matter anyhow
And there ain't no use to sit and wonder why babe
If you don't know by now.

When the rooster crows at the break of dawn
Look out your window I'll be gone
You're the reason I'm traveling on
Don't think twice it's all right.

Ain't no use in turnin' on your light babe
A light I'll never know
Ain't no use in turnin' on your light babe
I'm on the dark side of the road.

Still I wish there was something you would do or say
To try and make me change my mind and stay
We never did too much talking anyway
Don't think twice it's all right.

I'm walkin' down that long lonesome road babe
Where I'm bound I can't tell
But goodbye is too good a word gal
So I'll just say fare thee well.

Now I ain't saying you treated me unkind
You could have done better but I don't mind
You just sorta wasted my precious time
Don't think twice it's all right.

Don't think twice it's all right...

 

[fox69]

"Don't Think You're Too Good For Country Music"

"Don't Think You're Too Good For Country Music"



I see your van you're a guitar man
It's written all over your face
To make it big you quit your gig
A playin' bass at the airbase.

You've come to town you've been turned down
But it's just a question of taste
Don't think you're too good for country music
Just because you can rock and roll.

Likely as not your licks are hot
But you won't work much here in Nashville
You're really keen on BB King
But they don't cut him here in Nashville.

And if you don't pick them country licks
You can bet somebody else will
Don't think you're too good for country music
Just because you can rock and roll.

(Pickin' good, pickin' good, pickin' good
Sound like hell but pickin' good.)

You're really hot on ZZ Topp
But you ain't doin' any session
Your licks are neat but you won't eat
Until you learn one little lesson.

You boogie good and I knew you could
But they don't boogie much in Nashville
Don't think you're too good for country music
Just because you can rock and roll...

 

[fox69]

"Don't Turn Out The Light"

"Don't Turn Out The Light"



A scarecrow and yellow moon and road house on the edge of town
Hear that midnight rooster crow well I have one more before I go
But honey don't turn out the light
'Cause I think I'm in the mood for love tonight.

The night is cool beneath the stars I'm ridin' home in John's old car
Got my head out in the wind here I am drunk up again
But honey don't turn out the light
'Cause I think I'm in the mood for love tonight.

Me and John in a pickup truck a bottle of gin and a paper cup
Runnin' wild and livin' hard and I passed out in our front yard
But honey don't turn out the light
'Cause I think I'm in the mood for love tonight.

The moon is high the sun is down honey came out in her old night gown
On a porch at a quarter o'three talkin' to the deputy sheriff and me
But honey don't turn out the light
'Cause I think I'm in the mood for love tonight.

I said honey don't turn out the light
'Cause I think I'm in the mood for love tonight...

 

[fox69]

"Don't You Ever Get Tired"

"Don't You Ever Get Tired"



You make my eyes run over all the time
You're happy when I'm out of my mind
You don't love me yet you won't let me be
Don't you ever get tired of hurtin' me?

You must think I look bad with a smile
For you haven't let me have one in such a long long while
Still I keep running back how can this be
Don't you ever get tired of hurtin' me?

You must think I look bad with a smile
For you haven't let me have one in such a long long while
Still I keep running back how can this be
Don't you ever get tired of hurtin' me?...

 

[fox69]

"Down In Mexico"

"Down In Mexico"



I'm down in Mexico, had to go,
Won't be home no more
I want mom and dad to know
I miss and love them so
Though I'll never see them anymore.

The day that I turned twenty one I could hardly wait
To say goodbye to mom and dad and shake the hand of fate
Fate was with me from the start, until that fateful day
A big man he took my sweetheart and I took his life away.

Now I'm down in Mexico, had to go,
Won't be home no more
I want mom and dad to know
I miss and love them so
Though I'll never see them anymore.

I stood and watched the man as he fell
And then I heard the policemen's whistle blow
And when I thought about that prison cell
I thought about old Mexico.

Now I'm down in Mexico, had to go,
Won't be home no more
I want mom and dad to know
I miss and love them so
Though I'll never see them anymore...