Roger Miller

[fox69]

"Chug-A-Lug"

"Chug-A-Lug"


Chug-a-lug, chug-a-lug
Make you wanna holler hi-dee-ho
Burns your tummy, don't you know
Chug-a-lug, chug-a-lug

Grape wine in a mason jar
Homemade and brought to school
By a friend of mine and after class
Me and him and this other fool decide that
We'll drink up what's left
Chug-a-lug so we helped ourself
First time for everything
Mmm, my ears still ring

Chug-a-lug, chug-a-lug
Make you wanna holler hi-dee-ho
Burns your tummy, don't you know
Chug-a-lug, chug-a-lug

4 H and an ffa
On a field trip to the farm
Me and a friend sneak off behind
This big old barn where we uncovered a covered up
Moonshine still and we thought we'd drink our fill
And I swallowed it with a smile
Ooh, I run ten mile

Chug-a-lug, chug-a-lug
Make you wanna holler hi-dee-ho
Burns your tummy, don't you know
Chug-a-lug, chug-a-lug

Jukebox and sawdust floor
Somethin' like I ain't never seen
Heck, I'm just going on 15,
But with the help of my fanaglin' uncle
I get snuck in
For my first taste of sin
I said let me have a big old sip
Bbbb I done a double back flip

Chug-a-lug, chug-a-lug
Make you wanna holler hi-dee-ho
Burns your tummy, don't you know
Chug-a-lug, chug-a-lug

 

[fox69]

"Colonel Maggie"

"Colonel Maggie"


Colonel Maggie is my friend she got my self respect right back for me
Colonel Maggie is my friend with good old motherly sweet sympathy

Flat down on the street with a bottle at my feet
Gutter life and wine was all I craved
Then she came up to me from the Salvation Army
She thought that I was good enough to save

Colonel Maggie is my friend she tried to put some pride back into me
Colonel Maggie is my friend with good old motherly sweet sympathy

She helped me to my feet and she got me off the street
I was far too sick to look ashamed
Some soup and hot tea and a blanket over me
And when we talked she called me by my name

Well that was years ago now I don't drink no more
And rest her soul old Maggies dead and gone
And when my will-powers weak I walk back to that street
And Colonel Maggie seems to walk along

 

[fox69]

"Country Girl"

"Country Girl"


I met you my country girl you didn't have a thing
I fell in love I dressed you up, then I bought the ring
I was teaching you to love, you were leaning fine
Then one day you learned too much and it poisoned your sweet mind
Now you've gone and left me you're with somebody new
But I wonder if you told him I bought the clothes on you
When you two are dancin' and you whisper soft and sweet
I wonder if you'll tell him I bought the shoes on your feet
Now you've gone and left me you're with somebody new
But I wonder if you told him I bought the clothes on you
When you two are dancin' and you whisper soft and sweet
I wonder if you'll tell him I bought the shoes on your feet

 

[fox69]

"Crystal Day"

"Crystal Day"


Riding the sky, easy to fly
Oh, on a lovely crystal day
Kicking the sun, watching it run
Gee what a lovely crystal day

Rainbows up here. blows through your hais
In such a friendly kind of way
Do you suppose Larks really grow
Or is this just a crystal day

Watching the town awaken
His concrete arms are shakin'
Big city stores are yawning
Blinking her eyelash awnings

Good morning wind, kiss me again
And let me taste your moonlight spray
I can't believe I'm really me
Part of this lovely crystal day

Now country scenes roll past me
Got just enough time to last me
Cows and sheep are talking
The telephone poles are walking

That setting sun, having his fun
Giving somebody else his day
Wish it was me, for can't you see
I'm gonna miss this crystal day

La..la..la.....

 

[fox69]

"Dad Blame Anything A Man Can't Quit"

"Dad Blame Anything A Man Can't Quit"


I'm a two pack a day man smoke like a fiend
Like a burned out bearing in a bad machine
I can't breath in the morning till I get myself a cigarette lit
I say dad blame anything a man can't quit

I'm a brand new newly-wed married again nine times previous and this makes ten
I ought to be kicked so hard till I can hardly walk around or sit
I say dad blame anything a man can't quit
Still I keep it up keep it up and do it all the time
Every now and then I make up my mind
To give it up give it up throw it away I usually change my mind later on up in the day
I'm a two pack a day man...
I keep it up keep it up and do it all the time...
I'm a two pack a day man...

 

[fox69]

"Dang Me"

"Dang Me"


Well, here I sat high, getting ideas
I ain't nothing but a fool to live like this
Out all night, and running wild
Woman sitting home with a month old child
So

So Dang me, Dang me
They ought to take a rope and hang me
High, from the highest tree
Woman would you weep for me
BeupBeupBeupBeupBeupBeupBuem
One More
BeupBeupBeupBeupBeupBeupBuem

Just sitting round drinking with the rest of the guys
Six rounds bought, and I bought five
Spent the groceries and half the rent
Like 14 dollers and 27 cents

So Dang me, Dang me
They ought to take a rope and hang me
High, from the highest tree
Woman would you weep for me
BeupBeupBeupBeupBeupBeupBuem
One More
BeupBeupBeupBeupBeupBeupBuem

They say roses are red, and violets are purple
Sugars sweet and so is maple suprple
But I'm the seventh out of the seven sons
My pappy was a pistol, I'm a son of a gun

So Dang me, Dang me
They ought to take a rope and hang me
High, from the highest tree
Woman would you weep for me
BeupBeupBeupBeupBeupBeupBuem
One More
BeupBeupBeupBeupBeupBeupBuem

 

[fox69]

"Darby's Castle"

"Darby's Castle"


See the ruin on the hill where the smoke is hanging still
Like an echo of an age long forgotten
There's a story of a home crushed beneath those blackened stones
And the roof that fell before the beams were rotten
Seems old Darby loved his wife and he labored all his life
To provide her with material possessions
And he built for her a home of the finest wood and stone
And the building soon became his sole obsession
Oh it took three hundred days for the timbers to be raised
And the silhouette was seen for miles around
And the gables reached as high as the eagles in the sky
But it only took one night to bring it down when Darby's castle tumbled to the ground

Though they shared the common bed there was precious little said
In the moments that were set aside for sleeping
For his busy dreams were filled with the rooms he'd yet to build
And he never heard young Helen Darby weeping
Then one night he heard the sound as he laid his pencil down
And he traced it to her door and turned the handle
And the pale light of the moon through the window of the room
Split the shadows where two bodies lay in tangle
Oh it took three hundred days...

 

[fox69]

"Dark Side Of The Moon"

"Dark Side Of The Moon"


I was the words and you were the music
We were a song, sung out of tune
There is a light that brightens the night-time
Ah but there's a dark side of the moon

I was a house and you were my window
I could see light, but only through you
Now I'm a house without any windows
Ah there's a dark side of the moon

Love is a lovely, lovely feeling
Love is the light that shines from the moon
There is a light that brightens the night-time
Ah but there's a dark side of the moon

Love is a lovely, lovely feeling
Love is the light that shines from the moon
There is a light that brightens the night-time
Ah but there's a dark side of the moon

 

[fox69]

"Days Of Our Wives"

"Days Of Our Wives"


She watches the soaps and pins all her hopes and her dreams
She lets her mind drift with the scripts that unfold on the screen

She can't live like they live but each day she sits there and tries
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our wives

One life to live, one heart to give to her man
She's raising her babies and doing the best that she can

So she watches the soaps and sometimes just sits there and cries
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our wives

So fly away heart on the wings of make believe things
It's nice to pretend and maybe cry at the end

So she watches the soaps and sometimes just sits there and cries
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our wives

Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our wives

 

[fox69]

"Dear Heart"

"Dear Heart"


Dear heart wish you were here to warm this night
Dear heart it seems like a year since you went out of my sight
A single room a table for one it's a lonesome town alright
But soon I'll kiss you hello at our front door
And dear heart I want you to know I'll leave your arms never more