George Jones

[fox69]

"For Better Or For Worse"

"For Better Or For Worse"


It's not the love and honour, it's that promise to obey
That makes me think by marryin' we might be doin' wrong
And until death do you part just seems to choke me up to say
My love's for better or for worse, but not for long

Because the season soon will start in Hialeah
Every year I like to see the horses run
And if I lose it's just a short trip to Miami
Where a beach bum always finds 'em when it's fun

Well I was a hopin' our relationship could stay the way it's been
And I'd feel guilty if I tried to put you on
You seem to want more than the understanding woo we made a way back when
For better or for worse, but not for long

Well if it's any comfort, when I leave it won't be someone else
To turn my head and make me leave you far behind
Your competition is the wanderlust and follow it somehow
I must You kept my heart content but not my mind

Well you might see me on a newscast from Sun Valley
I hear the skiing's fine there in July
Or I might just top the rocks on the next spaceship
'Cause they tell me it's the only way to fly

So no matter what the postmark reads from Tahoe to Tangiers
I'm where it's happening and that's where I belong
And I really mean the note "I'm having fun, wish you were here"
For better or for worse, but not for long
Well my love, better or for worse, but not for long

 

[fox69]

"Frozen Heart"

"Frozen Heart"


Frozen heart that's standin' all alone
It's because your love is forever gone
Needin' you like a cold hand needs a glove
Take my heart and warm it with your love
I can't count the times I've hide my face
Tryin' just to be in your warm embrace
The winter of life has fallen at my door
If you said I don't love you any more

Frozen heart that's standin' all alone
It's because your love is forever gone
I'm needin' you like a cold hand needs a glove
Take my heart and won't you warm it with your love...

 

[fox69]

"Girl At The End Of The Bar"

"Girl At The End Of The Bar"


If you'd ever been drinking
I know that you'd seen her
At the end of the bar all alone
She knows what you're thinking
When you try to approach her
And anything you say might be wrong.

She's not there for company
She don't like to remember
She once let herself go too far
She's not there to complain
She just wants to remain
The girl at the end of the bar.

The girl at the end of the bar
Who once let herself go too far
Now carries love like a scar
The girl at the end of the bar

She had so many hard knocks
She don't play the jukebox
She's lived all those sad songs first hand
What's made her so bitter
And why love has quit her
Is because she has loved the wrong man.

The smile she's not wearing
Is the sign she's not caring
And the part of her permanence call
She's not there to complain
She just wants to remain
The girl at the end of the bar.

She's the girl at the end of the bar

 

[fox69]

"Girl I Used To Know"

"Girl I Used To Know"


There's a picture that I carry,
One we made some time ago
If they ask who's in the picture with me,
I say just a girl, I used to know

Just a girl, I used to go around with
Just a friend, from long ago,
I don't tell them how lost I am without her
I say she's just a girl, I used to know.

I say, she's just another girl now
Just a flame, that's lost it's glow
And I say, her name has slipped my mind now,
And she's just a girl, I used to know

Just a girl, I used to spend some time with
Just a friend, from long ago,
I don't talk about the nights I cry about her
I say she's just a girl, I used to know.

Just a girl I used to knowâ?¦

 

[fox69]

"Give My Love To Rose"

"Give My Love To Rose"


I found him by the railroad tracks this morning
I could see that he was nearly dead
I knelt down beside him and I listened
Just to hear the words the dying fellow said.

He said they let me out of prison back in Frisco
For ten long years I've payed for what I'd done
I was trying to get back to Louisiana
Just to see my Rose and get to know my son.

Won't you tell them I said thanks for waiting for me
And tell my boy to help his mama at home
Tell my Rose to try to find another
For it ain't right that she should live alone.

Mr. here's the bag with all my money
It won't last them long the way it goes
God bless you for finding me this morning
Now don't forget to give my love to Rose.

Give my love to Rose, won't you Mr.
Take her all my money, tell her buy some pretty clothes
Tell my boy that daddy's so proud of him
And don't forget to give my love to Rose...

 

[fox69]

"God Keeps The Wild Flowers Blooming"

"God Keeps The Wild Flowers Blooming"


I been working all day long on some old forgotten place
A place where mom and papa rest beneath the cold cold clay
Though the tears may fill my eyes there's a smile upon my face
I see God remembered mom and daddy put flowers on their grave

And there's wild flowers blooming on mom and papa's graves
There's no tame ones ever brought here anymore
For the family they've all gone I've been in prison much too long
But God keeps the wild flowers blooming on mom and papa's grave

You know I still remember just as though it was only yesterday
All the hell that my mom and dad went through to live on from day to day
But the love they both gave us oh it was surely heaven sent
And all the heartaches that I know I've caused 'em God knows I'll always regret

And there's wild flowers blooming

 

[fox69]

"Gold And Silver"

"Gold And Silver"


Gold and silver have I none
I can give you more
Gold and silver have I none
I can give you love.

Don't have a gold mine or a mansion
Haven't even got you a finger ring
Deep in my heart there's a little secret now
I'm gonna share it with you.

Gold and silver have I none
I can give you more
Gold and silver have I none
I can give you love.

They can have the gold in Fort Knox Kentucky
As far as we're gonna stand on love
I knew a man once had lots of money
Cried every night for love.

Gold and silver have I none
I can give you more
Gold and silver have I none
I can give you love.

I'd rather have a sweet girl's love
than to hold a rich man's gold
Don't have a penny in our pockets
I know we're gonna live on love.

Gold and silver have I none
I can give you more
Gold and silver have I none
I can give you love...

 

[fox69]

"Gonna Come Get You"

"Gonna Come Get You"


Don't do no good for me to keep a-wishin'
It's no use cause you I keep a-missin'
I'm a-gonna get up right now
I'm a-gonna come get you
Don't do no good for me to keep a-lyin'
To myself and I'm a-gonna stop tryin'
I'm a-gonna get up right now
I'm a-gonna come get you
I'm a-gonna come get you, I'm a-leavin' in the mornin'
You better be ready I'm a-givin' you warnin'
Baby, I don't want to be left down
Cause this time I'm not a-playin' around
I've been sittin' home thinkin' and decidin'
I've made up my mind and there ain't no use a-hidin'
I'm a-gonna get up right now
I'm a-gonna come get you

You left home and you went and told your pappy
That I could'nt never ever make you happy
I'm a-gonna get up right now
And I'm a-gonna show get you
It does no good for me to be a-cryin'
It's no use for me to be denyin'
I'm a-gonna get up right now
And I'm a-gonna come get you
I'm a-gonna come get you, I'm a-leavin' in the morning
You better be ready I'm a-givin' you warnin'
Baby, I don't want to be left down
Cause this time I'm not playing around
I've been sittin' home thinkin' and decidin'
I've made up my mind and there ain't no use a-hidin'
I'm a-gonna get up right now
I'm a-gonna come get you...

 

[fox69]

"Gonna Take Me Away From You"

"Gonna Take Me Away From You"


For so long I have waited while your heart hesitated
Now there's only one thing left to do
Your hearts so divided that I finally decided
Gonna take me away from you

Gonna take me away from you
So I can't see the things that you do
This may not make much sense but in my hearts defense
Gonna take me away from you

With every click of the track my mind will go back
To the wonderful love we once knew
But it's all over now, I'll forget you somehow
When I take me away from you

Gonna take me away from you
So I can't see the things that you do
This may not make much sense but in my hearts defense
Gonna take me away from you

Gonna take me away from you
So I can't see the things that you do
With a heart full of pain, I'll catch that old train
That'll take me away from you

 

[fox69]

"Good Hearted Woman"

"Good Hearted Woman"


A long time forgotten
Are dreams that just fell by the way
And the good life he promised
Ain't what she's livin' today

But she never complains of bad times
Or the bad things he's done, no
She just talks about the good times they've had
And all the good times to come

She's a good hearted woman
In love with a good timin' man
She loves him in spite of his ways
That she don't understand

Through teardrops and laughter
They'll pass through this world hand in hand
She's a good hearted woman
Lovin' her good timin' man

Oh, he likes the night life, the bright lights
And good timin' friends
When the party's all over
She'll welcome him back home again

Lord knows she don't understand him
But does the best she can
'Cause she's a good hearted woman
She loves her good timin' man

She's a good hearted woman
In love with a good timin' man
She loves him in spite of his ways
That she don't understand

Through teardrops and laughter
They'll pass through this world hand in hand
She's a good hearted woman
Lovin' her good timin' man

Oh, she's a good hearted woman
In love with a good timin' man
She loves him in spite of his wicked [?] ways
She don't understand

Through teardrops and laughter
They'll pass through this world hand in hand
Yeah, she's a good hearted woman