George Jones

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Billy Ray Wrote A Song

Billy Ray Wrote A Song

Well, we left home free spirits, me and Billy Ray
He was a going to be going to be going and I was running away
Now we was broke before we got started and it got worse later on
I wrote home for money and Billy Ray wrote a song.

Now the people sure get picky when it comes to givin' a ride
It didn't take long us leavin' but I thought we'd never arrive
Now we get more rides than hitches as we hitch hiked along
I got sore feet and blisters and Billy Ray wrote a song.

Billy Ray wrote a song about everything we did
I was a-findin' fault he was findin' rhyms that fit?
Well, we did a lot of thinkin' most of my thoughts were wrong
I wanted to ride to Nashville but Billy Ray wrote a song.

Well, we got into Nashville tired, a-hungry and cold

If we'd had a dime between us we could a-called everybody we know
We found a bar still open a little band was pickin' away
And I set in to drinkin'. Billy Ray set in to play,

He was an overnight sensation I heard the radio say
Somehow they failed to mention the miles all along the way
Anyway that's how it happened, yeah, and it sure happened strong
They wrote about it happenin' Billy Ray wrote a song.

Billy Ray wrote a song about everything he knew
If I'd a known what I know now, well, I'd-a been writting too
Billy Ray sure had it made and I'm still taggin' along
I'm a-writing home for money, Billy Ray' still writes the songs...

 

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Blackboard Of My Heart

Blackboard Of My Heart

When I was young and went to school they taught me how to write
To take the chalk and make a mark and hope it turns out right
Well that's the way it is with love and what you did to me
I wrote it so you'd know that I was yours eternally.

(Chorus)
But my tears have washed I love you from the blackboard of my heart
It's too late to clean the slate and make another start
I'm satisfied the way things are although we're far apart
My tears have washed I love you from the blackboard of my heart.

If you'd been true the way you should and not have gone astray

These tears would not have fallen down and washed the words away
No need to talk, 'cause if the chalk should write those words again
It will be for someone else not things that might have been.

(Chorus)
But my tears have washed I love you from the blackboard of my heart
It's too late to clean the slate and make another start
I'm satisfied the way things are although we're far apart
My tears have washed I love you from the blackboard of my heart...

 

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Blindfold Of Love

Blindfold Of Love

I keep bumpin' into trees
Eyes wide open I can't see (mississippi downtown)
We're in the blindfold of love
I can't find my way downtown
Everything spins around and around (mississippi downtown)
We're in the blindfold of love.

I was hooked right from the start
And it's tearing me apart
That little girl's got a bear hug on my heart
I stay worried all the time
I can't get it off my mind (mississippi downtown)
We're in the blindfold of love.

(Mississippi downtown, Mississippi downtown.)

I'm as lost as I can be
Being in love is killin' me (mississippi downtown)
We're in the blindfold of love.
I can't see across the street
To recognize the friends I meet (mississippi downtown)

We're in the blindfold of love.

I was hooked right from the start
And it's tearing me apart
That little girl's got a bearhug on my heart
I stay worried all the time
I can't get it off my mind (mississippi downtown)
We're in the blindfold of love.

(Mississippi downtown, Mississippi downtown.)

Well, I was a-hooked right from the start
And it's tearing me apart
That little girl's got a bearhug on my heart
I stay worried all the time
I can't get it off my mind (mississippi downtown)
We're in the blindfold of love.

(Mississippi downtown.)
We're in the blindfold of love.
(Mississippi downtown.)

 

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Blue Moon Of Kentucky

Blue Moon Of Kentucky

Blue moon of Kentucky keep on shining
Shine on the one that's gone and proved untrue
Blue moon of Kentucky keep on shining
Shine on the one that's gone and left me blue
It was on the moonlight night the stars were shining bright
It whispered from on high your love has said goodbye

Blue moon of Kentucky keep on shining
Shine on the one that's gone and said goodbye
I said the blue moon of Kentucky keep on shining...
Well it was on the moonlight night...
Well it was on the moonlight night...

 

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Blue Side Of Lonesome

Blue Side Of Lonesome

I'm calling to tell you it's over yes darling you're now free to go
You're saying you're sorry you hurt me but you can hurt me no more I know
You're asking me where this call comes from oh I hope that you won't interfere
If your new romance turns out a failure here's where to find me my dear
I'm just on the blue side of lonesome right next to the Heartbreak Hotel
In a tavern that's known as Three Teardrops on a barstool not doing so well

The floor's got a carpet of sorrow but no one can weep in the aisle
And they say someone broke the bar mirror with only the ghost of a smile
The hands of the clock never alter for things never change in the place
There's no present no past and no future we're the ones who have lost in love's race
I'm just on the blue side of lonesome...

 

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Boat Of Life

Boat Of Life

My friend, is the going rough with troubled seas around
To angry when you set your soul and dark clouds on you frown
Have you ever looked for bread and only found a stone
But it's because you're paddeling your boat of life alone.

--- Instrumental ---

Is the raft you once had charted now both blurred and marred
Is you soul and body weary, the task of rowin' hard

Have you ever looked for joy and disappointment known
But it's bacause you're paddeling your boat of life alone.

--- Instrumental ---

My friend there is one who knows your every fault and sin
And he knows your trouble and your whole dear life of sin
So why not call on Jesus, He'll help you safely on
Oh, my friend, it's foolish to paddle all alone...

 

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Body Man

Body Man

Well, here we are again, tonight, alone, just us two
Where lights are dim and true is comin' through
There's no one else in this old world as far as we're concerned
We built us a fire so let it burn.

When you look at me like you do right now, I go to pieces
'Cause I know what's on your mind, it's just me
You've got that love me look in your eyes like you've had so many times, and how
Loving you could never be better than it is right now.

Tomorrow night we'll meet again and once more fan the flame
'Cause loving you the way I do, stays the same
This love of ours is just as strong as any vow could be
And love could never be better for you and me.

When you look at me like you do right now, I go to pieces
'Cause I know what's on your mind, it's just me
You've got that love me look in your eyes like you've had so many times, and how
Loving you could never be better than it is right now.

Loving you could never be better than it is right now...

 

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Bone Dry

Bone Dry

Baby wants me to go cold turkey, bone dry
No Jack Daniels, no Jim Beam whiskey, bone dry
No stoppin' after work for a beer with the guys
Nothin' in the mornin' to open my eyes
It's hard comin' down from a permanent high, bone dry

I got my doubts if I can make it, a bone dry
It's a crazy world I don't know if I can take it, a bone dry
It's only been an hour, I'm startin' to shake
Sixty more minutes and I know I'll break
How much more of this hell can I take? Bone dry

Well, bone dry, boy, am I dry as a bone?
How'd I ever say I'd ever leave it alone?

Break down, shake down layin' in bed
Covers are soaked and I'm damn near dead and I'm bone dry

Baby took a look at her cold turkey, bone dry
I tried to smile but my mouth wasn't working I was bone dry
This is one promise that I'm gonna keep
Unless I get lucky and die in my sleep
One way or the other I'm gonna be bone dry

Well, bone dry, boy, am I dry as a bone?
How'd I ever say I'd ever leave it alone?
Break down, shake down layin' in bed
Covers are soaked and I'm damn near dead
Bone dry, bone dry, bone dry, bone dry

 

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Boogie Woogie Mexican Boy

Boogie Woogie Mexican Boy

He was just a lad, not to old
Always lived in Mexico
And every day in the hot sunshine
He would dance and sing just to pass the time.

Dancin', prancin' up the street
Not even takin' time to eat
This little boy with the great big feet
Doing the boogie with the Mexican beat.

Seniorita, I ask you please
Do not sit down on my knees
I don't like for you to tease
Love me a little but a-please don't squeeze.

--- Instrumental ---

The girls they never get a chance
'Cause he's not a-lookin' for romance
He gives them not one single glance
'Cause all he like is to do his dance.

How the girls would like to meet
This little boy with the great big feet
They think that he's so doggone sweet
A doin' the boogie with the Mexican beat.

Seniorita, I ask you please
Do not sit down on my knees
I don't like for you to tease
Love me a little but a-please don't squeeze.

--- Instrumental ---

Then one day he went to Rome
Across the border into San Antoine
The girls there wouldn't leave him alone
When he did the boogie like he did at home.

Now this little boy I want you to know
Becaue he's always on the go
He don't ask anyone to form or go
A doin' the boogie in a-Mexico.

Seniorita, I ask you please
Do not sit down on my knees
I don't like for you to tease
Love me a little but a-please don't squeeze...

 

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Book Of Memories

Book Of Memories

You've stolen my world from under me my cheating end deceving me
And now you've gone and set me free it's in my book of memories
Inside the book of pages black with photographs that take me back
I hide the dreams that used to be here in my book of memories


The photograph that shows a bride and a man with joy he could not hide
And one of a boy on his daddy's knee it's in my book of memories
Inside the book of pages black...