Roger Miller

[fox69]

"Footprints In The Snow"

"Footprints In The Snow"


Some folks like the summertime when they can walk about
Strolling through the meadow green it's fun there's no doubt
But give me the wintertime when snow falls all around
For I found her when the snow was on the ground
Well I traced them footprints in the snow I traced the footprints in the snow
I can't forget the day my darling lost her way
And I found her when the snow was on the ground

Well I dropped in to see her there was a big round moon
Her mother said she just stepped out be returnin' soon
I found her little footprints and I traced them thru the snow
I found her when the snow was on the ground
Well I traced them footprints..

Now she's up in heaven she's with an angel band
I know I gonna meet her in that promised land
But everytime the snow falls it brings back memories
For I found her when the snow was on the ground

 

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"Freedom"

"Freedom"


What if someone said you couldn't say I love you
What if someone said you couldn't say your say
And wouldn't it be foolish if somewhere there was a rule
That said you couldn't wish a friend a happy day

What if someone said you couldn't say l'm sorry
Do you want to hear a thought to drive you wild
What if someone said you couldn't tell your baby
You're so proud to be the father of so beautiful a child

Freedom freedom freedom to say what you feel
Freedom freedom freedom to say what you feel

What if someone said you couldn't pledge allegiance
What if someone said you couldn't say your prayers
What if someone said you couldn't say your feelings
Unless your feelings coincide with theirs

Freedom freedom freedom to say what you feel
Freedom freedom freedom to say what you feel

 

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"Gentle On My Mind"

"Gentle On My Mind"


It's knowing that your door is always open and your path is free to walk
That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag rolled up and stashed behind your couch
And it's knowing I'm not shacked by forgotten words and bons
And the ink stains that have dried upon some line
That keeps you in the back roads by the rivers of my mem'ry
That keeps you ever gentle on my mind
It's not clinging to the rocks and I'd be planted on their columns now that binds me
Or somethin' that somebody said because they thought we fit together walking
It's just knowin' that the world will not be cursin' or forgiving
When I walk along some railroad track and find
That you're movin' on the back roads by the rivers of my mem'ry
And for hours you're just gentle on my mind
Though the wheet fields and the clothes lines
And the junk yards and the highways come between us
And some other woman cryin' to her mother cause she turned and I was gone
I still might run in silence tears of joy might stain my face
And a summer sun might burn me till I'm blind
But not to where I cannot see you walking on the back roads
By the rivers flowin' gentle on my mind
I dipped my cup of soap back from a gurglin' cracklin' caltron in some train yard
My beard a roughen coal pile and a dirty hat pulled low across my face
Through cupped hands round a tin can I pretend I hold you to my breast and find
That you're waving from the back roads by the rivers of my mem'ry
Ever smiling ever gentle on my mind

 

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"Get Up Early In The Morning"

"Get Up Early In The Morning"


When Christopher Columbus returned to Spain
The wise men asked him would you please explain
How'd you know the world was round he said I used my brain
And I get up early in the morning

Well get up and get up when the sun comes up
Don't lay there dozin' like a lazy pup
Health and wealth will overflow your cup
If you get up early in the morning

Andrew Jackson fought the British down in New Orleans
And he sent them runnin' through the turnip greens
When they wondered how he did it he said were just mean
And I get up early in the morning

They asked Casanova uh man what you got
That makes all the women think that you're so hot
He said well my little secret boys believe it or not
Is I get up early in the morning

 

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"Got 2 Again"

"Got 2 Again"


Now this song employ the use of numbers
What I'll do is have a volunteer give me a number
And I'll take that number and make a verse for a song out of it
Now if someone will give a number between twenty and twenty two
I'll show you what I mean (twenty one) it's very good first time twenty one
Well twenty one take away nine twelve little children standin' in the line
From that take two that leaves you ten take away eight you got two again
Yeah you got two again you got two again
You used to love me once and now you got two again
You got two again you got two again
You used to love me once and now you got two again

I see how easy it was the second verse
And if someone to give me a number between twelve and fourteen
I'll make the verse (thirteen) thirteen huh thirteen
Well thirteen multiply by one you still got thirteen but wadn't that fun
Now take the same thirteen multiply by two twenty six hours the train's overdue
Yeah you got two again you got two again...

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 happy people devided by one leave nothing nothing none
Yeah you got two again you got two again...
You used to love me once and now you got two again
You used to love me once and now you got two again

 

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"Green, Green Grass Of Home"
(originally by Porter Wagoner)

"Green, Green Grass Of Home"
(originally by Porter Wagoner)



The old hometown looks the same as I step down from the train
And there to meet me is my mama and papa
Down the road I look and there comes Mary hair of gold and lips like cherries
It's good to touch the green green grass of home
Yes they've all come to meet me arms areaching smiling sweetly
It's so good to touch the green green grass of home
The old house is still standing though the paint is cracked and dry
And there's that old oak tree that I used to play on
And down the lane I'd walk with my sweet Mary hair of gold and lips like cherries
It's good to touch the green green grass of home
Yes they've all come to meet me arms areaching smiling sweetly
Lord it's so good to touch the green green grass of home
Then I awake and look around me at four grey walls that surround me
And I realized that I was only dreaming
For there's a guard and there's a sad old padre arm in arm we'll walk at daybreak
Once again I'll touch the green green grass of home
Yes they'll all come to see me in the shade of that old oak tree
As they lay me neath the green green grass of home

 

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"Guv'ment"

"Guv'ment"


Well, you dad-gum government
You sorry so 'n' so's
You got your damn hands in every pocket
Of my clothes

Well you dad-gum, dad-gum, dad-gum government
Oh don't you know
Oh don't you love 'em sometimes

Well you dad-gum government
You better pay attention
You're sittin' up there like a fool's convention
Well you dad-gum, dad-gum, dad-gum government
Oh don't you know
Oh don't you love 'em sometimes

Well you soul selling no-good
Son-of-a-shoe-fittin' firestarters
I ought to tear your no good
Perambulatory bone frame
And nail it to your government walls
All of you, you Bastards

You da-gum government
You sorry rackafratchits
You got yourself an itch a
And you want me to scratch it
Well you dad-gum, dad-gum, dad-gum government
Of don't you know
Oh don't you love 'em sometime

Well you soul selling no-good
Son-of-a-shoe-fittin' firestarters
I ought to tear your no good
Perambulatory bone frame
And nail it to your government walls
All of you, you Bastards

Well, you dad-gum government
You sorry so 'n' so's
You got your damn hands in every pocket
Of my clothes
Well you dad-gum, dad-gum, dad-gum government
Oh don't you know
Oh don't you love 'em sometimes

 

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"Half A Mind"

"Half A Mind"


l don't love you like l used to do
But l'm afraid to tell you so
l've got half a mind to leave you
But only half the heart to go

Words to tell you just don't come to me
l guess my courage is too slow
l've got half a mind to leave you
But only half the heart to go

Maybe time will prove that you're not to blame
But now's the time l need to know
l've got half a mind to leave you
But only half the heart to go

 

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"Hand For The Hog"

"Hand For The Hog"


Well they tell me but I can't be sure that a man's best friend is a mangy cur
I kinda favor the hog myself how about a hand for the hog
Ya say a hog ain't nothin' but a porky thing little forked feet with a nosey ring
Pickle them feet folks how about a hand for the hog
If you took a notion I'll bet a good hog would make a hell of a pet
You could teach him to ride and hunt you could clean him up and let him sit up front
A feller and a hog had a comedy act the feller was terrible as a matter of fact
But that hog was a funny sucker how about a hand for the hog

Well I've looked at it and it and it looks like this either you ain't or either you is
A true blue fan of the swine folks how about a hand for the hog
Well I've seen dogs that will howl and bark for no more reason than a moonless dark
And a hog won't rattle your sleep folks how about a hand for the hog
Well if you took a notion I'll bet you could teach a hog to smoke a cigarette
Well it might take a little bit a time but hell what't time to a hog ha ha ha
Well I once saw a hog with a small tattoo it read I reckon I do I do
And he did to right there in front of me how about a hand for the hog

 

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"Hard Headed Me"

"Hard Headed Me"


Well he gave me fair warning he said let him alone
But I'd had one too many and refuse to go home
Then I said somethin' awful and then so did he
And he hit me and hurt me and my eyes couldn't see
Hard hard headed me I spoke out of turn once too often
I'd be better off in my coffin hard headed me

Well she gave me fair warning many times my wife said
She said if you aim to keep me quit your fool hearty ways
I said now listen woman you better leave me alone
How long is forever that's how long she'll be gone
Hard hard headed me...
pa pa pa pa
Then they gave me fair warning all the folks in my town
They said if you ain't gonna straighten up we're gonna expell one clown
I said now just a minute here you can't do me this way
How far is to the next town I'm walking that away
Hard hard headed me..