Merle Haggard

fox69 · 11.10.2014

"Opportunity To Cry"

"Opportunity To Cry"

Just watch the sunrise on the other side of town
Once more I've waited and once more you've let me down
This would be a perfect time for me to die
So I'd like to take this opportunity to cry.

You gave your word now I return it to you
With this suggestion as to what you can do
Just exchange the words I love you for goodbye
While I take this opportunity to cry.

I'd like to see you but I'm afraid
That I don't know wrong from right
And if I saw you would I kiss you
Or want to kill you out of sight.

It's been a long night so I think I'll go home
And feed my nightmares they've been waiting all night long
They'll be the last ones to tell me goodbye
They'll give me many opportunities to cry.

Well, I'd like to see you but I'm afraid
That I don't know wrong from right
And if I saw you would I kiss you
Or want to kill you out of sight...

fox69 · 11.10.2014

"Our Paths May Never Cross"

"Our Paths May Never Cross"

Lady I know your out there somewhere
Like me your feeling lost
Maybe right now we both need each other
But our paths may never cross.

People like us never find each other
Love is our greatest loss
Baby I know you are out there some where
But our paths may never cross.

We're to people that should be together
Cause we're lonely at the very same time
But there's a million to many good reasons
Why your love can never be mine.

Mabye this song was written for you
Listen, don't turn it off
I wish you could learn it
And come sing it with me
But our paths may never cross.

I wish you could learn it
And come sing it with me
But our paths may never cross...

fox69 · 11.10.2014

"Out Among The Stars"

"Out Among The Stars"

It's midnight at a liquor store in Texas.
Beneath the neon, close up's just begun.
When a boy walks in the door and points a pistol.
He can't find a job, but man, he's found a gun.

But a change of heart before there's confrontation.
Let's the old man live and run out in the street.
But he knows that soon they'll come with guns a blazing.
And already he can feel a great relief.

Oh how many travelers get weary,
Bearing both their burdens and their scars,
Don't you think they'd love to stop complaining,
And fly like eagles out among the stars.

He pictures the arrival of the cruisers.
Sees that old familiar anger in their eyes.
He knows that when they're shooting at this loser,
They'll be aiming at the daemons in their lives.

Oh how many travelers get weary,
Bearing both their burdens and their scars,
Don't you think they'd love to stop complaining,
And fly like eagles out among the stars.

The evening news it carries all the details.
He dies in every living room in town.
And in his home a bottle's thrown in anger.
And his father cries, "We'll never live this down."

Oh how many travelers get weary,
Bearing both their burdens and their scars,
Don't you think they'd love to stop complaining,
And fly like eagles out among the stars.
Oh-Oh, and fly like eagles out among the stars.

fox69 · 11.10.2014

"Pancho And Lefty"

"Pancho And Lefty"

[Willie:]
Living on the road my friend, is gonna keep you free and clean
Now you were your skin like iron, your breath as hard as kerosene
Weren't your mama's only boy, but her favorite one it seems
She began to cry, when you said goodbye, and sank into your dreams.

Poncho was a bandit boys his horse was fast as polished steel
He wore his gun outside his pants for all the honest world to feel
Poncho met his match you know on the deserts down in Mexico
Nobody heard his dyin' words, oh, but that's the way it goes.

All the Federalis say
We could've had him any day
We only let him slip away
out of kindness I suppose.

Lefty he can't sing the blues, all night long like he used to
The dust that Poncho bit down south, ended up in Lefty's mouth
Day they laid poor Poncho low, Lefty split for Ohio
Where he got the bread to go, ain't nobody knows.

All the Federalis say
We could've had him any day
We only let him slip away
out of kindness I suppose.

[Merle:]
The poets tell how Poncho fell, and Lefty's living in a cheap hotel
The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold, so the story ends we're told
Poncho needs your prayers, it's true, but save a few for Lefty, too
He only did what he had to do,now, he's growing old.

All the Federalis say
We could've had him any day
We only let him slip away
out of kindness I suppose.

A few Federalis say
We could've had him any day
We only let him go so long
out of kindness I suppose...

fox69 · 11.10.2014

"Peach Picking Time In Georgia"

"Peach Picking Time In Georgia"

When it's peach picking time in Georgia apple picking time in Tennessee
Cotton picking time in Mississippi everybody picks on me
And when it's roundup time in Texas the cowboys make whoopee
And way on down in Alabama it's gal picking time to me
Yodel le-ee oh le-ee oh de oh le-ee.

There's a bluegrass down in Kentucky Virginia's where they do the swing
And Carolina now I'm coming to you to spend the spring
Arkansas I hear you calling I know I'll see you soon
And there's where we'll do a little picking underneath the Ozark moon
Yodel le-ee oh le-ee oh de oh le-ee.

When all the pickers picking cotton that's when I pick a wedding ring
We'll go downtown and buy wedding gown for the wedding in the spring
I hope the preacher knows his business I know he can't fool me
When it's peach picking time in Georgia it's gal picking time to me
Yodel le-ee oh le-ee oh de oh le-ee...

fox69 · 11.10.2014

"Pennies From Heaven"

"Pennies From Heaven"

Every time it rains, it rains
Pennies from heaven
Don't you know each cloud contains
Pennies from heaven.

You'll find your fortunes falling
All over town
Make sure that your umbrella
Is upside down.

Trade them for a package of
Sunshine and flowers
If you want the things you love
You must have showers.

So when you hear it thunder
Don't run under a tree
There'll be pennies from heaven
For you and me.

Every time it rains, it rains
Pennies from heaven
Don't you know each cloud contains
Pennies from heaven.

You'll find your fortunes falling
All over town
Make sure that your umbrella
Is upside down.

Trade them for a package of
Sunshine and flowers
If you want the things you love
You must have showers.

So when you hear it thunder
Don't run under a tree
There'll be pennies from heaven
For you and me.

fox69 · 11.10.2014

"Please Mr. D.J."

"Please Mr. D.J."

Hello Mr. D.J. wont you play a song for me'
The girl I love just said good-by and I'm blue as I can be
Oh please Mr. D.J. play that song I heard you play
And send it out to someone who broke my heart today

You won't have to call her name she'll know it's meant for her
Play me that song of sadness and I'll be grateful to you sir
Oh please Mr. D.J. play that song I heard you play
And send it out to someone who broke my heart today

You won't have to call her name she'll know it's meant for her
Play me that song of sadness and I'll be grateful to you sir
Oh please Mr. D.J. play that song I heard you play
And send it out to someone who broke my heart today

fox69 · 11.10.2014

"Pretty When It's New"

"Pretty When It's New"

Love's always lovely when first two lovers meet
Hand in hand, arm in arm, walking down the street
Always seen together in everything they do
Love is always pretty when it's new

Love is always special
Especially to the heart
When it's love on sight and all is right
And there's no doubt from the start

'Fore it starts to crumble
There'll be many shades of blue
Ah but, love is always pretty when it's new

Love is always pretty when it's new
It has nothing bad about it
'Til your lover says, we're through

And old love's even sweeter
That old saying is really true
Love is always pretty when it's new

Altogether
Love is always pretty when it's new
Ah, there is nothing bad about it
'Til your lover says, we're through

And old love's even sweeter
That old saying is really true
Ah but, love is always pretty when it's new

fox69 · 11.10.2014

"Proud To Be Your Old Man"

"Proud To Be Your Old Man"

I might be over the hill
But you make growing old quite a thrill
So promenade and take me by the hand
You make me proud to be your old man

There's a lot of young men who covet your love
And you place me beyond and above
It's amazing how you understand
'Cos you make me proud to be your old man

You love me in spite of my age
You're always right there by the stage
And you say, "Beauty is found in the soul"
You make it fun to get old
And babe, when you hold like nobody can
You make me proud to be your old man

Hey, when you hold and kiss me like nobody can
You make me proud to be your old man

fox69 · 11.10.2014

"Railroad Lady"

"Railroad Lady"

She's a railroad lady just a little bit'shady
Spending her days on a train
She's the semi good looker but the fast rails they took her
Now she's trying just trying to get home again.

South station in Boston to the stockyards of Austin
From the Florida sunshine to the New Orleans rain
Now that the rail packs have taken the best tracks
She's trying just trying to get back home again.

She's a railroad lady just a little bit'shady
Spending her days on a train
She's the semi good looker but the fast rails they took her
Now she's trying just trying to get home again.

Once a high-balling loner thought he could own her
He bought her a fur coat and a big dimaond ring
But she hug in for cold cash left town on the Wabash
Never thinking never thinking of home way back then.

But the rails are now rusty the dining car's dusty
The gold bladed watches are taking their gold
The railroads're dying and the lady is crying
On a bus to Kentucky and home that's her goal.

She's a railroad lady just a little bit'shady
Spending her days on a train
Once a pull man car driver not a breakment won't have her
She's trying just trying to get back home again.

On a bus to Kentucky and home once again...