Jerry Reed

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"500 Miles Away From Home"

"500 Miles Away From Home"



Now y'all don't jump in till I tell ya to fellas
You ready cause I'm gonna claw a while
Now get ready to hit that chord right now
That's good yes alright

Teardrops fell on my mama's note when I read the words she wrote
She said we miss you son we love you come on home
Well I didn't have to pack I was wearin' it on my back
And I'm five hundred miles away from home
Feelin' dirty

Away from home away from home cold and tired and all alone
Well I'm five hundred miles away from home

Yeah pick it boy

Do it again
Watch me ah yeah can’t get enough ha ha

I can't remember when I ate I just thumb and walk and wait
I'm still five hundred miles away from home
If my luck had been just right I'da be with them all tonight
But I'm five hundred miles away from home
With my guitar alright

Away from home away from home...
I'm comin' home mama yeah

 

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"A Friend"

"A Friend"



Now this old life ain't somethin' that you live all by yourself
There always comes a time you need a friend
Sometimes this world can get so heavy and the road can get so long
That you need someone to lend a helpin' hand

Well I learned life the hard way I took all my knocks and lumps
But when I look back down the road at where I've been
I can see that all the things that I've done in this ol' life have been more fun
Cause I shared them with someone who was a friend

You've got to care about one another be a friend and be a brother
Cause you're always gonna need someone that you can lean on
You've got to help each other out that's what this life is all about
Cause there ain’t no way that you can make this journey alone

Well I guess that I'm just lucky cause I've been there and back
Yes I've seen life about every which way you can
But as far as I'm concerned the greatest thing that a man can learn
Is when you're down it's great to turn to a friend

Well I guess that I'm just lucky cause I've been there and back...
Turn to a friend

 

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"A Thing Called Love"

"A Thing Called Love"



Six foot six stood on the ground, weighted 235 pounds
But I saw that giant of a man brought down to his knees by love
He was the kind of man who would gamble on love
Look you in the eye and never back up
But I saw him crying like a little whipped pup because of love

Can't see it with your eyes, hold it in your hands
Like the rules that govern our land
Strong enough to rule the heart of every man, this thing called love

It can lift you up, it can put you down
Take your world and turn it all around
Ever since time nothing's ever been found stronger than love
Men like me they worry and doubt
Trouble their minds day in and day out
Too busy a livin' to worry about a thing called love

And then I see a mother's tenderness
As she holds her young close to her breast
Then I say thank God this world will win with the thing called love

 

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"A Worried Man"

"A Worried Man"



Well it takes a worried man to sing a worried song
It takes a worried man to sing a worried song
Well it takes a worried man to sing a worried song
I'm worried now but I won't be worried long

Well I went down to the river I lay down to sleep
I went down to the river to lay me down to sleep
Well I went down to the river I lay down to sleep
When I woke up there were shackles on my feet

So it takes a worried man to sing a worried song...

This train I ride is twenty one coaches long
This train I ride is twenty one coaches long
This train I ride is twenty one coaches long
That woman I love she's on that train and gone

That's why it takes a worried man to sing a worried song...
Oh yes it takes a worried man to sing a worried song...

 

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"Age"

"Age"


I've been up and down around and around and back again
I've been so many places I can't remember where or when
And my only boss was a clock on the wall and my only friend
Never really was a friend at all

I've traded love for pennies I've sold my soul for less
Lost my deals in that long tunnel of time
I've turned inside out around about and back and then
Found myself right back where I started again

Once I had myself a million now I only got a dime
But the difference don't seem quite so bad today
Now with a nickel or a million I was searchin' all the time
For something that I'd never lost or left behind

I've traded love for pennies I sold my soul for less...
[ guitar ]
Now I'm in my second circle and I'm headin' for the top
And I've learned a lot of things along the way
I'll be careful while I'm climbin' cause it hurts a lot to drop
And when you're down nobody gives a damn anyway

I've traded love for pennies I sold my soul for less...

 

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"Alabama Jubilee"

"Alabama Jubilee"



Well you oughta see deacon Jones as he rattles his bones
Ol' Parson Brown jumpin' around like some kinda clown
Ol' Aunt Jemima she done passed a hundred and three
Shoutin' out full o'pep

Grab a weenie and help yourself
Well one legged Joe jumpin' around on his sore toe
Throw away his crutch and hollered toe ain’t sore no more
Well it's hail hail the gang's all here for the Alabama Jubilee
Watch it son

You oughta see deacon Jones as he rattles his bones...

 

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"Alabama Wild Man"

"Alabama Wild Man"



Alright, watch out

Now my daddy was hard shelled Alabama preacher
My momma was a dedicated Sunday school teacher
My brother went to college and got a PhD
Daddy said the only dud in the family was me

He said, "Boy, you ain't never going to amount to a thing
You set around with that silly looking guitar and sing
You hang around them juke joints all the time
Making music like some wild man done lost his mind"

Going sock it to me
Well, what's that supposed to mean
Boy, you just a wild man

Well, then one day Daddy told me
"Boy, I've had enough now you just
Pack up that guitar, you just pack up your stuff"
So I left home and organized myself a band
Called myself the Alabama Wild Man

Well, I worked all them joints from the east to the west
Never making no money and a starving to death
A living on coffee and cold sardines
Soda crackers and pork n beans

But I finally went to Music City USA
Said I'm the Alabama Wild Man and I'm here to stay
Took my guitar and showed 'em what I'm talking about
So we made a little record and we put it out

With me going
Sock it to me, honey
Haha, hook it, boy
Play that guitar

Well, now I'm driving, the Cadillac's a city block long
The Alabama Wild Man could do no wrong
'Cause I'm selling them records
And I'm working them shows
And people love me everywhere I go

But a funny thing happened about a week or so back
I was a showing my hometown and the place was packed
Guess who was sitting on the front row seat
Was my daddy grinning up at me batting at me

Yelling
"Sock it your daddy, Wild Man
Hook it boy, hook it
Play that guitar, show 'em, son"

"Yeah, that's my boy, alright
Taught him everything he knows
Bought him his first guitar
Ah, sock it to your daddy, son"

"Go ahead put it to me, put it to me
Keep them checks coming in, boy
We going to pave the drive next week"

 

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"All Day Ride"

"All Day Ride"



The sun is goin' down late here
There's a beautiful woman on my mind
Maybe I found me a ready made alibi
To live my life from a poetry in rhyme

If the rain should cease to fall tomorrow
Then the sun would surely shine in vain
And maybe it's telling me that every little thing belongs
And it's been that way since this old world began

Oh Lord this boy is flyin' high
On a handsome pair of wings like an eagle in the sky
Maybe I'll find a home somewhere in the bye and bye
But there's five hundred miles behind me more to roam
Makin' it an all day ride back home

There's a lesson I've learned from believing
That the world around you can't stay the same
So I live my life by the words of my chosen song
And hope sooner or later that the world will be singin' along

Oh Lord this boy is flyin' high...

 

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"Almost Crazy"

"Almost Crazy"



I'm almost crazy almost crazy
Couldn't go to sleep last night walked the floor until the daylight
Thinkin' how it used to be when you were here with me
And honey I'll live with your memory till I'm almost crazy almost crazy
I've paid a million times for the way I've been so blind
Cause everytime I think of you my heart wants to break in two
And I'm no notning nothing but the blues till I'm almost crazy hmm
I thought I didn't need your love to share hmm
I had to lose you to find out how much I care now I'm almost crazy almost crazy
I see the fool I've been and if I'd get you back again
Well I'm gonna prove to you that my love is really true
Cause honey I've cried and cried for you till I'm almost crazy almost crazy
I'm almost crazy