Robert Earl Keen

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"Wild Wind"

"Wild Wind"


Down on Main Street after sundown
Good Time Charlie and Wandering Bill
Thought they might hold up old Hoppy's Drive In
One got away one never will

And that's the way it goes around here
I think everybody knows
That's the song we've been singin' for years
That's the way the wild wind blows

Too tall Annie kept her money
In a Bible she never read
They found Lefty her first ex-husband
In his new pickup truck at the bottom of the river bed

And that's the way it goes around here
I think everybody knows
That's the song we've been singin' for years
That's the way the wild wind blows

Luther Martin he ain't got no money
But he sells papers and buys his wine
His great granddaddy owned half of Main Street
Luther's daddy didn't have a dime

And that's the way it goes around here
I think everybody knows
That's the song we've been singin' for years
That's the way the wild wind blows

Ain't no secret ol Doc Skinner
Wrote prescriptions made lots of friends
He could dance like nobody's business
Folks around here are sure missing him

And that's the way it goes around here
I think everybody knows
That's the song we've been singin' for years
That's the way the wild wind blows
 
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"Willie"

"Willie"


Hanging on a wall like a thousand times you been there
A picture of a field of dandelions
And a young stud colt a following a cowboy on a brood mare
A bound to make it home by dinner time
There's a thunderhead a coming from the west and he's sure thinking
The rain would do this dusty dirt some good
But it ain't a cowboys weather so he nudges his old faithful
And turns around to call out to the stud

Come on Willie, there's a black cloud coming yonder
The devil beats his wife with a silver chain
Come on Willie, can't you hear the thunder
Your ma and me don't travel well in rain

It ain't nothing much to look at just a print I got from grandma
A real west river cowgirl in her day
And sometimes I need religion since the old girls gone before me
And that's when I can hear the cowboy say

Come on Willie, there's a black cloud coming yonder
The devil beats his wife with a silver chain
Come on Willie, can't you hear the thunder
Your ma and me don't travel well in rain

Now the western feeling has become another sideshow
Selling out the bygone days gone by
And we never know it's raining we can't hear it for our thunder
We can't see it for our clouds up in the sky

Come on Willie, there's a black cloud coming yonder
The devil beats his wife with a silver chain
Come on Willie, can't you hear the thunder
Your ma and me don't travel well in rain
 
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"Wireless In Heaven"

"Wireless In Heaven"


My wife took all the money, left me for a cop.
And I don't know nobody in this coffee shop.
I'm starin' at the menu board, waitin' in a line,
With ten bucks on my Starbucks card and one thing on my mind

Is there wireless in heaven? I just wanna know.
Do I need a password to log in when I go?
And does Jesus have a website to send in my e-mail?
Is there wireless in heaven, or do I go to hell?

I order mocha latte ginger jasmine tea.
The pretty little cashier girl looks up and smiles at me;
She says "it is an honor", she knows who I am,
Her grandpa plays the guitar and he's my biggest fan.

Is there wireless in heaven? I just wanna know.
Do I need a password to log in when I go?
And does Jesus have a website to send in my e-mail?
Is there wireless in heaven, or do I go to hell?

I'm cosmically connected, spiritually aware.
They say I'm apathetic, but I don't really care.
Pathetically reflective, feeling over-matched,
I wanna meet my maker with no wires attached.

Is there wireless in heaven? I just wanna know.
Do I need a password to log in when I go?
Tell me will Jesus answer my e-mail?
Is there wireless in heaven, or do I go to hell?
Is there wireless in heaven, or do I go to hell?
 
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"Young Lovers Waltz"

"Young Lovers Waltz"


Bob Wills is playing the old London hall
The whole town was out in their best
There is a boy called Caballo he sported a plow
Fell in love with a girl in the blue cotton dress

Now they weren't much on dancing that grand ballroom style
But they shuffled across the dance floor in time
She said I've nothing to offer he said I've nothing to take from you
Except for your heart if you'll say you'll be mine

Young Lovers waltzing on the town square at dawn
Round, round the courthouse with no chaperone
It's a turn for a heartbeat and a turn for a sigh
It's a turn for the waltzers that can't say goodbye

There was biscuits and gravy sweat on the ground
Harvesting late in the eve
And he lay with his blue girl when they lost their first child
Holding her to him away in their dreams

Young Lovers waltzing on the town square at dawn
Round, round the courthouse with no chaperone
It's a turn for a heartbeat and a turn for a sigh
It's a turn for the waltzers that can't say goodbye

The shadows grew longer the porch swing turned gray
The sunlight gave way to the moon
And I old Caballo rocking away
Hums to his blue girl an old bob wills tune

Young Lovers waltzing on the town square at dawn
Round, round the courthouse with no chaperone
It's a turn for a heartbeat and a turn for a sigh
It's a turn for the waltzers that can't say goodbye
 
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