Conway Twitty

[fox69]

"Baby I'm-A Want You"

"Baby I'm-A Want You"


Baby, I'm a-want you
Baby, I'm a-need you.

You're the only one
I care enough to hurt about.
Lately I'm a crazy but I just can't live
Without your lovin' and affection.

Givin' me direction like a guiding light
To help me through my darkest hours.
Lately I'm a-prayin' that you'll
Always be a stayin' beside me.

Used to be my life was
Just emotions passing by.
Feeling all the while
But never really knowing why.

Baby, I'm a-want you
Baby, I'm a-need you.

You're the only one
I care enough to hurt about.
Lately I'm a prayin' that you'll
Always be a stayin' beside me.

Use to be my life was
Just emotions passing by.
Feeling all the while
But never really knowing why.

Baby, I'm a-want you and
Baby, I'm a-need you.
Baby, I'm a-want you and
Baby, I'm a-need you

 

[fox69]

"Baby's Gone"

"Baby's Gone"


My hand is trembling as the key unlocks the door
My legs are shaky as I walk across the floor
My voice weakens as I call out I'm home
Do my eyes deceive me or is my baby gone?

Baby's gone she couldn't stand to tell me face to face
And things just ain't the way they used to be
Around this place
Her perfume lingers where she once lay her head
And I can almost taste the teardrops that she shed
As she searched her mind and tried to find
Just where our love went wrong
But it's ended and it's over, and baby's gone.

Baby's gone she couldn't stand to tell me face to face
And things just ain't the way they used to be
Around this place
Her perfume lingers where she once lay her head
And I can almost taste the teardrops that she shed
As she searched her mind and tried to find
Just where it all went wrong
But it's ended and it's over, and baby's gone...

 

[fox69]

"Back Home Again"

"Back Home Again"


There's a storm across the valley
The clouds're rolling in
The afternoon is heavy on my shoulders
There's a truck on the forelane
A mile or more away
The whining of his wheels just makes it colder.

I'm an hour away from ridin'
On your prayers up in the skies
Ten days on the road I'm nearly home
There's a fire softly burning
Supper's on the stove
But the light in your eyes makes me warm.

Hey, it's good to be back home again, yes it is
Sometimes this old farm feels like a long lost friend
Hey, it's good to be back home again.

There's lots of news to tell you
How I spent my time
About the latest things the neighbors say
And your mother called last Friday
Somethin' makes her cry
And I felt our baby moved, just yesterday.

Hey, it's good to have you home again hmm
Sometimes this old farm feels like a long lost friend
Hey, it's good to have you home again.

It's the sweetest thing I know of
Just spendin' time with you
It's the little things that make a house a home

Like a fire softly burning and supper's on the stove
But it's the light in your eyes that makes me warm.


Hey, it's good to be back home again, yes it is
Sometimes this old farm feels like a long lost friend
Honey, it's good to have you home again

Oh, ain't it good to be together again?..

 

[fox69]

"Back Street Affair"

"Back Street Affair"


You didn't know I wasn't free
When you fell in love with me
And with all your young heart, you learned to care
It brought you shame and disgrace
The world has tumbled in your face
Because they call our love a back street affair.

They say you wrecked my home
I'm a husband that's gone wrong
They don't know the sorrow that we've had to bear
For the one that I'm tied to
Was the first to be untrue
And yet they call our love a back street affair.

We have each other now
That's all that matters anyhow
For the judgement of gossip's never fair
We'll just be brave and strong
Then some day they'll see they're wrong
So let 'em call our love a back street affair.

We'll be free to love someday
When all the talk has died away
And the happiness we hoped for then we'll share
I'll climb a mountain high
And then the world can hear me cry
That our love's not a back street affair...

 

[fox69]

"Back When Judy Loved Me"

"Back When Judy Loved Me"


There was backstreets of Birmingham,
Taking my clothes and my food and a trash can.
Sleeping in alleys at night, making love to a bottle of wine
'Cause you know life is to succeed
But that was back when Judy loved me
Somewhere in yesterday, seems a million miles away.

Back in the days Judy used to beg me to take her away
But I was too young and livin' was fun
I didn't know how time would change me
Life slid by me too fast, the fun didn't last,
It's too late to get back to the days when Judy loved me.

Riding a frieght train goin' nowhere
Don't use mirrors anymore, they show my grey hair
Giving my place in the welfare line
Trading my soup for a bottle of wine
'Cause you know life is to succeed
But that was back when Judy loved me.

Somewhere in yesterday, seems a million miles away
Back in the days Judy used to beg me to take her away
But I was too young and livin' was fun
I didn't know how time would change me.

Life slid by me too fast, the fun didn't last,
It's too late to get back to the days when Judy loved me
Back when Judy loved me.
Back when Judy loved me...

 

[fox69]

"Bad Boy"

"Bad Boy"


Everyday your husband goes to work from nine to five
Wakes up in the morning and puts on his coat and tie
Sits down at the table with some coffee and the news
'Two eggs over easy,' girl, that's all he says to you
The kids are all in school now and you sit home alone
Spendin' all your time down it the basement a-washin' clothes
Somehow this just ain't the way you dreamed love would be
I can look into your eyes and tell just what you need.

You need a bad boy
To love you up and down
A bad boy
To take you on the town
It's plain to see what you need's
A little bit of mystery
You need a bad boy
A bad boy like me.

Every night at six o'clock he walks on through the door
Lays down on the couch and throws his shoes off on the floor
Tonight was gonna be the night he took you to a show
Now he's much too tired and he doesn't wanna go
Once again you spend the night in front of the TV
In bed you turn to touch him but he's already asleep.

You need a bad boy
To love you up and down
A bad boy
To take you on the town
It's plain to see what you need's
A little bit of mystery
You need a bad boy
A bad boy like me
Bad boy...

 

[fox69]

"Bad Girl"

"Bad Girl"


She's not a bad girl,
She's just a sad girl
Please don't blame her
For what she's done to me.

I know it doesn't look too good for her
And I suppose she's done the things you say
And I guess it's true I tried more than I should for her
But it's not her fault that she turned out that way.

She's not a bad girl
She's just a sad girl
Please don't blame her
For what she's done to me.

Once she was the kind of girl you'd have her be
But I was foolish then and didn't care
The first of us to ever slip around was me
And to place the blame on her just isn't fair.

She's not a bad girl
She's just a sad girl
Please don't blame her
For what she's done to me.

Please don't blame her
For what she's done to me...

 

[fox69]

"Bad Man"

"Bad Man"


I have the reputation that's known throughout the land
They say I'm faster on the draw than any livin' man
They call me a bad man they say I kill for fun
They say the only thing I know is how to use a gun.
But they don't know the reason they branded me as bad
It started many years ago when I was just a lad

I rode into a cattle town a boy of twenty three
So young and yet that very day I carved my destiny
I walked into the town saloon that sad and fateful day
Then I began to gamble to pass the time away
I thought I'd play a hand or two and hit the trail again
But Lady Luck was with me and I began to win

The dealer kept on dealin' the stakes were gettin' high
And pretty soon there was no one left but an old cowboy and I
The minutes seemed like hours you couldn't hear a sound
We'd bet and raised until we'd laid all our money down
The cowboy smiled and showed his hand
Three aces he did hold
But I laid down a royal flush and reached to claim my gold

The cowboy stood and faced me his hands hung at his hips
A look of hate was in his eyes, the smile had left his lips
He said young man slap leather I'm known for miles around
To keep my reputation up I've got to gun you down
With lightnin' speed we drew and fired
One life to me the cost
The cowboy tumbled to the floor his reputation lost

Now many years have come and gone
And many men have died
Each tried his luck and hoped he'd be the fastest gun alive
And in my many fights to live I wondered if I'd won
I'm known to all as bad man they say I kill for fun
Someday I'll meet a cowboy who's speed will meet the test
And that will end the saga of the bad man of the west...

 

[fox69]

"Bad Seed My Daddy Sowed"

"Bad Seed My Daddy Sowed"


I was found in Wilson County
Just a mile outside of town
On the doorsteps of two people
Who brought me up to where I am.

I was born to be a loser
And my name nobody knows
And as far as they concern
I'm just a bad seed daddy sowed.

They brough me up to the age of ten
Before they let me know
And since that day it seemed that life
Lost it's magic glow.

But they raised me right
And every night in prayer we bowed our heads
And they asked the Lord to light my path
And guide each step I made.

But the path you're walking on
Becomes a mighty rocky road
When you know that all you'll ever be
Is a bad seed daddy sowed.

At thirty one my heart was won
By a girl half my age
And with love so strong I could see no wrong
In decision that I made.

And you know I learned that there was truth
In all I always been told
Because you can't judge a book by its cover
And everything that's shinin' sure isn't gold.

Yes, I guess I'm guilty of dreaming an impossible dream
Because the way the things turned out
Sure isn't the way things seemed
And so tonight I'm leavin' behind
The only thing I ever had to call my own.

And I know as long as you live
You'll always be a reminder of all my wrongs
Could I hope that he'll forgive me
When he's old enough to know
That just like me he'll always be
The bad seed his daddy sowed...

 

[fox69]

"Ballad Of Forty Dollars"

"Ballad Of Forty Dollars"


The man who preached the funeral
Said it really was a simple way to die
He laid down to rest one afternoon
And never opened up his eyes.

They hired me and Fred and Joe
To dig the grave and carry up some chairs
It took us seven hours and
I guess we must have drunk a case of beer.

I guess I oughta go and watch 'em
Put him down but I don't own the suit
And anyway when they start talkin'
'Bout the fire and hell well I get spooked.

So I'll just sit here in my truck
And act like I don't know him when they pass
And anyway when they're all through
I've got to go to work and mow the grass.

Well, here they come and who's that ridin'
In that big ole shiny limousine
Hmm, look at all that chrome
I do believe that that's the sharpest thing I've seen.

That must belong to his great uncle
Someone said he owned a big ole farm
When they get parked I'll mosey down
And look it over that won't do no harm.

Well, that must be the widow in the car
And would you take a look at that
That sure is a pretty dress
You know some women do look good in black.

He's not even in the ground
And they say his track is up for sale
They say she took it pretty hard
But you can't tell too much behind a veil.

Now listen ain't that pretty
When the bugler plays the military taps
I think that when you's in the war
They always hired and played a song like that.

Well, here I am and there they go
And I guess you'd call it my bad luck
I hope he'll rest in peace but trouble is
That fellow owed me forty bucks...