Don Williams

[fox69]

"Looking Back"

"Looking Back"


Looking back, over my life
I can see where I caused you strife
But I know, yes, I know
I'd never make that same mistake again

Looking back, over my deeds
I can see signs of wise man heeds
And if I just have a chance
I'd never make that same mistake again.

Once my cup was overflowing
I gave nothing in return
Now, I can't begin to tell you
What a lesson I have learned.

Looking back over the slate
I can see love turn to hate
But I know, yes, I know
I'd never make that same mistake again.

[Instrumental]

But I know, yes, I know
I'd never make that same mistake again...

 

[fox69]

"Lord Have Mercy On A Country Boy"

"Lord Have Mercy On A Country Boy"


Well, I grew up wild and free
Walkin' these fields in my bare feet
There wasn't no place I couldn't go
With a twenty-two rifle and a fishing pole.

[Chorus:]
Well, I live in the city but don't fit in
You know its a pity the shape I'm in
Well, I got no home and I got no choice
Oh Lord, have mercy on a country boy.

[Instrumental]

When I was young I remember well
I'd hunt the wild turkey and the bob-white quail
The river was clear and deep back then
And fishin' lines tied to the willow limb.

[Chorus:]
Well, I live in the city but don't fit in
You know its a pity the shape I'm in
Well, I got no home and I got no choice
Oh Lord, have mercy on a country boy.

[Instrumental]

Well, they dammed the river, they dammed the stream
They cut down the cypress and the sweet gum trees
There's a laundra' mat and a barber shop
And now the whole meadow is a parkin' lot.

[Chorus:]
Well, I live in the city but don't fit in
You know its a pity the shape I'm in
Well, I got no home and I got no choice
Oh Lord, have mercy on a country boy...

 

[fox69]

"Lord, I Hope This Day Is Good"

"Lord, I Hope This Day Is Good"



Lord, I hope this day is good
I'm feelin' empty and misunderstood
I should be thankful, Lord, I know I should
But Lord I hope this day is good

Lord, have you forgotten me
I've been prayin' to you faithfully
I'm not sayin' I'm a righteous man
But Lord I hope you understand

I don't need fortune and I don't need fame
Send down the thunder, Lord, send down the rain
But when you're plannin' just how it will be
Plan a good day for me

Lord, I hope this day is good
I'm feelin' empty and misunderstood
I should be thankful, Lord, I know I should
But Lord I hope this day is good

You've been the King since the dawn of time
All that I'm askin' is a little less crime
It might be hard for the devil to do
But it would be easy for you

Lord, I hope this day is good
I'm feelin' empty and misunderstood
I should be thankful, Lord, I know I should
But Lord I hope this day is good

 

[fox69]

"Louisiana Saturday Night"

"Louisiana Saturday Night"


[Chorus:]
Well, you get down the fiddle and you get down the bow
Kick off your shoes and you throw 'em on the floor
Dance in the kitchen 'til the morning light,
Louisiana Saturday night!

Waiting in the front yard sitting on a log,
A single shot rifle and a one eyed dog.
Yonder come the kinfolk, in the moonlight
Louisiana Saturday night!

[Chorus:]
Well, you get down the fiddle and you get down the bow
Kick off your shoes and you throw 'em on the floor
Dance in the kitchen 'til the morning light,
Louisiana Saturday night!

[Instrumental]

My brother Bill and my other brother Jack,
Belly full o' beer and a possum in a sack.
Fifteen kids in the front porch light,
Louisiana Saturday night!

When your kinfolks leave and the kids get fed,
Me an' my woman gonna slip off to bed.
Have a little fun when we turn off the light,
Louisiana Saturday night!

[Chorus:]
Well, you get down the fiddle and you get down the bow
Kick off your shoes and you throw 'em on the floor
Dance in the kitchen 'til the morning light,
Louisiana Saturday night!

[Chorus:]
Yeah, you get down the fiddle and you get down the bow
Kick off your shoes and you throw 'em on the floor
Dance in the kitchen 'til the morning light,
Louisiana Saturday night!

[Instrumental]

[Chorus:]
You get down the fiddle and you get down the bow
Kick off your shoes and you throw 'em on the floor
Dance in the kitchen 'til the morning light,
Louisiana Saturday night!..

 

[fox69]

"Love Is On A Roll"

"Love Is On A Roll"



I can't work late
Although I need the money
Gotta get home to my lovin honey
She'll be there waitin', waitin' impatiently
Love is on a roll
Love is on a good roll.

Usually I meet with the boys of Friday
Only this mornin' she said 'this is my day
The look she gave me sent a shiver down into my soul
Love is on a roll
Love is on a good roll.

Our love is on a roll
Our love is on a good roll.

I'm a songwriter a professional dreamer
Mostly a singer but sometimes a screamer
I should know if anybody knows at all
When love is on a roll
Love is on a good roll.

So I gotta go, I gotta get home early
Be with my woman, soft an curvy
Makes me feel like a king
And not a regular Joe
Love is on a roll
Love is on a good roll.

Love is on a roll
Love is on a good roll.

Our love is on a roll
Our love is on a good roll
Our love is on a roll
Our love is on a good roll.

Love is on a roll
Love is on a good roll.

Love is on a roll
Love is on a good roll.

 

[fox69]

"Love Me Over Again"

"Love Me Over Again"



Likely as not, there's been better weather
I feel real sure, there's been better times
Right here tonight with you all around me
I'm so glad right now is mine.

Honey, tonight make it alright
Turn on your smile for me, for awhile
Take me away from where I have been
I know you love me, but love me over again.

You have the way to fill my emotions
Till there's not a word left in my mind
Times get so hard, so confusing
You make now a so much better time.

So honey tonight, make it alright
Turn on your smile, for me for awhile
Take me away from where I have been
I know you love me but love me over again.

Yeah, honey tonight, make it alright
Turn on your smile, for me for awhile
Take me away, from where I have been
I know you love me, but love me over again...

 

[fox69]

"Lovin' Understandin' Man"

"Lovin' Understandin' Man"


My baby changes like the weather
One day she's warm and then she's cold
But someday I'll understand her better
In about a thousand years or so.

But as long as there's blue sky above me
As long as there's life in my hands
My baby knows I always will be
Her lovin' understandin' man.

My baby rocks me like the ocean
Don't know which way she's gonna go
But maybe someday she'll find direction
In about a thousand years or so.

But as long as there's blue sky above me
As long as there's life in my hands
My baby knows I always will be
Her lovin' understandin' man.

[Instrumental]

But as long as there's blue sky above me
As long as there's life in my hands
My baby knows I always will be
Her lovin' understandin' man...

 

[fox69]

"Loving You So Long Now"

"Loving You So Long Now"


I've been loving you so long now
What I'd give if I could see you once again
Just to throw my arms around you
And live those happy times again.

Lovely lady, it seemed so right
When I held you all through the night
I could see me forever loving you
I never thought of losing you.

'Cause, I've been loving you so long now
What I'd give if I could see you once again
Just to throw my arms around you
And live those happy times again.

[Instrumental]

Hungry lovers, we used to cling so tight
Whisper softly all through the night
And I remember so many loving days
I can't believe they've slipped away.

'Cause, I've been loving you so long now
What I'd give if I could see you once again
Just to throw my arms around you
And live those happy times again.

I've been loving you so long now
What I'd give if I could see you once again
Just to throw my arms around you...

 

[fox69]

"Loving You's Like Coming Home"

"Loving You's Like Coming Home"


I've been rained on, I've been wind blown
Took a wrong road every now and then
I've been passed up, once or twice stuck
And I thought love was just around the bend
But lately my hope was wearing thin.

[Chorus:]
It's a lonesome and endless highway
I've been searching for so long
And after all the miles I've travelled
Loving you's like coming home.

I've been left flat, I've been laughed at,
Wound up right back where I started from.
Been the wrong way down a one way
And I thought some day my day would come.
But lately I'd almost given up.

[Chorus:]
It's a lonesome and endless highway
I've been searching for so long
And after all the miles I've travelled
Loving you's like coming home.

[Instrumental]

Well, I've been flagged down, I've been turned round
And all that I found was a dead end street.
I've been stranded, marked and branded,
Treated underhanded by everyone I meet.
But lately my dream is getting weak.

[Chorus:]
It's a lonesome and endless highway
I've been searching for so long
And after all the miles I've travelled
Loving you's like coming home.

[Chorus:]
It's a lonesome and endless highway
I've been searching for so long
And after all the miles I've travelled
Loving you's like coming home...

[Instrumental to fade]

 

[fox69]

"Maggie's Dream"

"Maggie's Dream"


Maggie's up each morning at four a.m.
By five at the counter at the diner
Her trucker friends out on the road will soon be stoppin' in
As the lights go on at Cafe Carolina.

Maggie's been a waitress here most all her life
Thirty years of coffee cups and sore feet
The mountains around Ashville
She's never seen the other side
Closer now to fifty than to forty.

Maggie's never had a love
She said she's never had enough
Time to let a man into her life
Aw, but Maggie has a dream
She's had since she was seventeen
To find a husband and be a wife.

[Instrumental]

Maggie knows the truckers most by first name
What they'll have to say and what they'll order
And they take her in their stories to places far away
And leave her with the dishes, dreams and quarters.

Maggie's never had a love
She said she's never had enough
Time to let a man into her life
Aw, but Maggie has a dream
She's had since she was seventeen
To find a husband and be a wife.

And she relies upon the jukebox on the lonely afternoon
When the business starts to slow down
She plays the saddest tunes
And she stares off down the highway
And she wonders where it goes
Nobody to go home to
And it's almost time to close...