Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

[fox69]

"Too Close For Comfort"

"Too Close For Comfort"



Hey!

Well, she was down on the corner, she looked so tough
Can't get any closer with her dressed up
Somewhere her boyfriend's hangin’ around
Too close for comfort and I can't stop now.

Well, she's got the freeze on, I put the heat on
Now the two are dating
I'm too close for comfort and I can't stop now
Too close for comfort and I can't stop
No, I can't stop.

I maybe wrong, I make it right
Deep in the dark but not in the light
I maybe young but not for long
’Cause I gambled like a fool.

Well, the odds are low and my hopes are high
Down on the bottle with eyes shut tight
Won't let resistance bring me down
Too close for comfort and I can't stop now
Too close for comfort and I can't stop, oh no.

Oh, I know, I know how to play it cool.

I was down on the corner with a rovin' eye
Teasin' a teaser by her stop sign
It may turn to bad lotsa luck for now
Too close for comfort but I can't stop now
Too close for comfort
I'm too close for comfort
Too, too close for comfort
I'm too close for comfort and I can't stop
Can't stop now.

Na na
Well, not now
Can't stop,
I can't stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, hey.

Oh oh
Oh oh
Oh oh
...

 

[fox69]

"Too Good To Be True"

"Too Good To Be True"



She's a young one
Hard to find
Can't be shaken
Or handed a line
Her eyes are loaded
Point at you
With a look
That's too good to be true

She takes your daydreams
No concern
All your night times
You toss and you turn
So independent
Never alone
She's a jewel
That's much too hot to be worn

She's a lovely, lovely girl
High, lookin' down
Upon her world
Well I'll take a chance
And play the fool
But I know
She's just too good to be true

She's a young one
Vanity's child
Cosmopolitan
Queen of the night
So I'll catch her in the morning
Sweet rendezvous
But I know
That girl's too good to be true

She's a lovely, lovely girl
High, in her lovely, lovely world
Wooh, I'll take the chance
And play the fool
I know that girl's too beautiful
She's too good to be true
Much too good to be true
She's too good to be true
Woohoh, too good to be true
Too good to be true
Too good to be true
Too good to be true
Girl's too good to be true

 

[fox69]

"Too Many Heartaches In Paradise"

"Too Many Heartaches In Paradise"



She was her daddy's girl with her mama's smile
A country boy's dream, she was a lover's child
She had a restless heart for the city lights
Left her country days for the city nights.

There's just too many heartaches in paradise
There's just too much to pay, too high a price
You can spend all your love and never think twice
There's just too many heartaches in paradise .

She loved those daydreams, sunsets
The endless wine, french cigarettes
Then she fell in love with a rich man's lies
He just used her up like his merchandise.

There's just too many heartaches in paradise
There's just too much to pay, too high a price
You can spend all your love and never think twice
There's just too many heartaches in paradise.

Like a fallin' star in the night
Another broken heart fades out of sight
She's goin', she's goin' home.

Oh, there's just too many heartaches in paradise
There's just too much to pay, too high a price
You can spend all your love and never think twice
There's just too many heartaches
Too many heartaches
Just too many heartaches in paradise, oooh.

 

[fox69]

"Travelin' Mood"

"Travelin' Mood"



Feelin' kinda sad and lonely
I lost my sweet one and only
Gonna find my baby, I don't mean no maybe
Gonna find her
Gonna find my baby, gonna bring her home with me

She said that she would never leave me
Now she's gone away and it grieves me
I was fast a-sleepin' when she come a-midnight creepin'
Gonna find her
Gonna find my baby, gonna bring her home with me

My bags are packed for to travel
Gonna cover many miles of gravel
Gonna find my baby 'cause she's the finest lady
Gonna find her
Gonna find my baby, gonna bring her home with me

Going down Texas, going to Georgia
Oklahoma, Mississippi, Florida
Going to Alabammy, going to Louisiana, Tennessee
I'm a-gonna find my baby, gonna bring her home with me
Gonna find my baby, gonna bring home with me
(She heard the sky was fallin')
I'm a-gonna find my baby, gonna bring her with me

 

[fox69]

"Truly Right"

"Truly Right"



I decided just to make my mind up suddenly today
Something moved me to play the game again
I’ve been trying not to believe what my friends have said to me
But it’s truly
Truly right
Truly right as rain

There’s another place yet to go before I loose the way
There’s a woman I pray that I should see
I’ve realized a little late but sadder is the fate
That it’s truly
Truly right
Truly right as rain

I know I’m holding a one way ticket in my hand
I’d like to come back …Understand

I didn’t know I didn’t know I would
I didn’t know I didn’t know I would wreck some lives
And though I understood I didn’t really think I could
I didn’t know I didn’t know I would

I’ve been trying not to believe what my friends have said to me
I’m inclined to agree with them again
When I win I don’t feel right, so I'm losing tonight
And it’s truly
Truly right
Truly right as rain

Truly
Truly right
Truly right as rain

 

[fox69]

"Tryin' To Try"

"Tryin' To Try"



Throwed a rock through your window
Just to let you know I love you
Just to let you know that I care
And I ain't scared to have you see
The way I feel

Blowed a kiss through your keyhole
Just to let you know I'm breathing
Oh, Just to try and smack you in the heart
If I were smart I'd give up
And go back home

I'm not tryin' to say I'm sorry
I'm tryin' to say I love you
Not tryin' to make excuses
Nor put myself above you
I'm not tryin' to rearrange it
Not tryin' to change it
The only thing I'm tryin' to do
Is try ---

Well I hung out by your back porch
Just to try and catch you leaving
Oh, just to catch you unaware
That's not fair, I don't care
Cause I ain't proud

And I leaned on your door bell
Just to see if you would answer
Oh, just to see if you would open up
No such luck, I'll come back when
you calm down

I'm not tryin' to say I'm sorry
I'm tryin' to say I love you
Not tryin' to make excuses
Nor put myself above you
I'm not tryin' to rearrange it
Not tryin' to change it
The only thing I'm tryin' to do
Is try ---

 

[fox69]

"Tulsa Sounds Like Trouble To Me"

"Tulsa Sounds Like Trouble To Me"



Well me and trouble never been
Strangers nor the best of friends
Well I can find it easily
I'd assume that it'd find me

I ain't attached to what I got
And I'm sure likin' what I see
I'd follow you to Little Rock
But Tulsa sounds like trouble to me
Tulsa sounds like trouble to me

Had me a gal in Tulsa once
One day I took her out to lunch
I got up, excused myself
And fell in love with someone else

I ain't attached to what I got
And I'm sure likin' what I see
I'd follow you to Little Rock
But Tulsa sounds like trouble to me
Tulsa sounds like trouble to me

I love them Oklahoma hills
I always have, I always will
Got an itch to call 'em home
But I'd live longer stayin' gone

I ain't attached to what I got
And I'm sure likin' what I see
I'd follow you to Little Rock
But Tulsa sounds like trouble to me
Tulsa sounds like trouble to me

Yeah, it's a big ol' country here
I rambled it from ear to ear
There's places I'm still welcome in
But Tulsa it ain't one of them
Tulsa it ain't one of them

I ain't attached to what I got
And I'm sure likin' what I see
I'd follow you to Little Rock
But Tulsa sounds like trouble to me
Tulsa sounds like trouble to me
Tulsa sounds like trouble to me

 

[fox69]

"Turn Of The Century"

"Turn Of The Century"



There'll be flying boats, and condos with moats;
Cultivated oceans, floating cities in the sky.
Living underneath a bubble;
No more toil and trouble
Singin' 'bout that sweet ole by and by.

We'll all have lots of money
That we won't have to spend;
You'll be given everything
When everyone's your friend
Hanging out together
In picture perfect weather -
This time 'round the party never ends.

Hallelujah, I can't wait to see it
Hallelujah, come on and go with me
Let me show you the way it's gonna be
At the turn,
The turn of the century.

We won't need no tv preachers
To ask how much we gave
We won't need no tv preachers,
See, by then, we'll all be saved
No more fighting for a country
No child will go hungry
We'll be smiling from the cradle to the grave.

Hallelujah, I can't wait to see it
Hallelujah, come on and go with me
Let me show you the way it's gonna be
At the turn,
The turn of the century.

 

[fox69]

"Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad"
(originally by Meat Loaf)

"Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad"
(originally by Meat Loaf)



Baby we can talk all night
But that ain't gettin us nowhere
I told you everything I possibly can
There's nothing left inside of here

And maybe you can cry all night
But that'll never change the way I feel
The snow is really piling up outside
I wish you wouldn't make me leave here

I poured it on and I poured it out
I tried to show you just how much I care
I'm tired of words and I'm too hoarse to shout
But you've been cold to me so long
I'm crying icicles instead of tears

And all I can do is keep on telling you
I want you, I need you
But-there ain't no way I'm ever gonna love you
Now don't be sad
'cause two out of three ain't bad
Now don't be sad
'cause two out of three ain't bad

You'll never find your gold on a sandy beach
You'll never drill for oil on a city street
I know you're looking for a ruby in a mountain of rocks
But there ain't no coup de ville hiding at the bottom
Of a cracker jack box

I can't lie, I can't tell you something I'm not
No matter how I try
I'll never be able to give you something
Something that I just haven't got

There's only one girl that I'll ever love
And that was so many years ago
And though I know I'll never get her out of my heart
She never loved me back
Ooh I know
I remember how she left me on a stormy night
She kissed me and got out of our bed
And though I pleaded and I begged her not to walk out that door
She packed her bags and turned right away

And she kept on telling me
She kept on telling me
She just kept telling me
I want you, I need you
But there ain't no way I'm ever gonna love you
Now don't be sad
'cause two out of three ain't bad

I want you, I need you
But there ain't no way I'm ever gonna love you
Now don't be sad
'cause two out of three ain't bad

Baby we can talk all night
But that ain't getting us nowhere

 

[fox69]

"Video Tape"

"Video Tape"



If your life was on video tape
Wouldn't everything be all right?
When your head hurt the morning after
You could roll it back to late last night.

You could replay all of the good parts
And cut out what you don't like
Oh, wouldn't you be in good shape
If your life was on video tape?

If everybody had ESP
Everything would be OK
We could see trouble coming
And we could step out of the way.

When that grim reaper comes to call
We could arrange to be out of town
Oh, that would be the great escape
And you could put it on video tape.

Now I don't have a video recorder
And I don't have a crystal ball
When I'm not with my baby
Lord, I don't have very much at all.

I can't predict the future
Babe, I sure can't change the past
But I know it will all make sense
If you love me in the present tense.

If your life was on video tape
Wouldn't everything be all right?
When your head hurt the morning after
You could roll it back to late last night.

You could replay all of the good parts
And cut out what you don't like
Oh, wouldn't you be in great shape
If your life was on video tape?

If your life was on video tape
Wouldn't everything be all right?
When your head hurt the morning after
You could roll it back to late last night.