The Charlie Daniels Band

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"My Baby Plays Me Just Like A Fiddle"

"My Baby Plays Me Just Like A Fiddle"


My baby plays me just like a fiddle
She knows I love her a lot, not a little
I'm just a stick that she likes to whittle
I got a heart and she's in the middle of it
I got the hoe cakes she's got the griddle
My baby plays me just like a fiddle
I come home at night
She wants to go dancin'
I'm so doggone tired
I just don't feel like romancin'
Then she walks into the room
With those blue jeans painted on
Then I change my tune
It's always the same old song
My baby plays me just like a fiddle
She knows I love her a lot, not a little
I'm just a stick that she likes to whittle
I got a heart and she's in the middle of it
I got the hoe cakes she's got the griddle
My baby plays me just like a fiddle
My buddies call to ask
If I want to go fishin'
For some large mouth bass
Then she says she's been wishin'
We could stay at home
Then she gives me that look
She's got that red dress on
And she's got me on the hook
My baby plays me just like a fiddle
She knows I love her a lot, not a little
I'm just a stick that she likes to whittle
I got a heart and she's in the middle of it
I got the hoe cakes she's got the griddle
My baby plays me just like a fiddle
She's goes to the stereo
Takes off my Lynyrd Skynyrd
She puts on Julio
And the light starts gettin' dimmer
She says I love you
Puts them arms around my neck
I smell French perfume
And I know what's coming next
My baby plays me just like a fiddle
She knows I love her a lot, not a little
I'm just a stick that she likes to whittle
I got a heart and she's in the middle of it
I got the hoe cakes she's got the griddle
My baby plays me just like a fiddle
My baby plays me just like a fiddle

 

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"My Beautiful America"

"My Beautiful America"


Have you ever spent the late afternoon
Watching the purple shadows deepen in Arizona desert?
Or seen a herd of Elk plough their way
Through waist deep snow on a cold Colorado dome?
Did you ever see the sun go down in Hawaii,
Or seen the stormy waves break over the rock bound coast of Maine?
Or have you ever see an eagle fly up out of the mists of Alaska?
Or a big October moon hanging full over the still Dakato badlands?
Have you ever tasted the gumbo in New Orleans, Bar-B-Que in Carolina
Or the chicken wings in Buffalo?
Have you ever had Brunswick stew in Maken, or cornbread in Burmingham?
Or briskets slow cook over hill country mesquite wood?
Did you ever drink the water from a gurgling branch in Utah,
Or, stand on the mountain above El Paso Del Norte
And see the lights twinkling clear over in Mexico?
Did you ever jingle horses in the pre dawn stillness of a perfect Texas day
And watch their shodded hooves kicking up sparks on the volcanic rock?
Or attended a truck line on a foggy Carolina morning,
Or heard the distant love song of a lovesick whipperwill
On a pristine Tenneesee late night?
Have you seen the faces on Mount Rushmore or stood at the Vietnam monument?
Have you ever crossed the mighty Mississippi,
Or been to the daddy of them all in Cheyenne, Wyoming?
Or seen the mighty Volve run out on the football field on a chilly autumn afternoon?
Did you ever see the Chicago skyline from Lake Shore Drive at night?
Or the New England follage in the fall,
Or the summer beauty of the Shanandoah valley,
Or Indiana covered with new snow?
Did you ever seen a herd of wild horses running free
Across the empty spaces in Nevada?
Or, caught a walleyed pike out of a cold Wisconsin stream?
Or ,marveled at the tall ship docked in the harbor at Baltimore?
Did you ever see the early morning dew sparkling on the blue grass,
Or, the wind stir the wheat fields on a hot Kansas afternoon?
Or, driven the lonely stretches of old Route 66?
Have you ever heard the church bells peal their call to worship
On an early Sunday, in some small town in the deep south?
Or pass through the redwood forest just as the sun was going down?
Have you ever been to Boise or Batchlee or Boford or Billings?
Have you ever passed through Sanford or Suffacer San Angelo?
Have you ever seen the falls at Nigara?
The ice palace in Saint Paul?
Or the Gateway to the west?
This then is America!
The land God blesses with everything
And no Effel Tower: no Taj Mahal;
No Alps; No Andes;
No native hut; nor Royal Palace -
Can rival her awesome beauty,
Her diverse poplulation, her monolithic majesty.
America the Free!
America the mighty!
America the beautiful!
I pledge alligence to the flag of the United States of America
And to the republic for which it stands
One Nation Under God indivisible
with liberty and justice for all!

 

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"My Christmas Love Song To You"

"My Christmas Love Song To You"


It's Christmas TIme
My favorite time of the year
It's so good being here
At home with the ones that we love
It's Chriustmas time
Snowflakes and mistletoe
The things that dreams are made of
Every year we celebrate
Around our christmas tree
Every year you seem to be
More beautiful to me
So close your eyes
Don't think about the things
Just lie here and let me sing
My christmas love song to you

 

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"New Pharisees"

"New Pharisees"


They go walking into church every Sunday morning
They the self-appointed sin patrol
Well they whisper and they gossip behind the back
Of anybody that they can't control

See that girl in the choir she's got evil desires
She must be drinking from the devil's well
She's a downright disgrace with that paint on her face
She looks just like a Jezebel

And they're running around putting everybody down
What are you trying to do?
You need to pick up the Book and take another look
'Cause brother I've got the news for you
You know Jesus was sent with a new covenant
And he even died for you

New pharisees like a fatal disease
Always flapping your jaws trying to live by the law

You see that boy over there with that long shaggy hair
Ought to be ashamed of his self
He wearing hip-hop clothes got a ring in his nose
Don't he know he going straight to hell

And then yesterday morning me and sister Johnson
Were talkin' on the party line
She said that Deacon Brown was having dinner downtown
Somebody seen him with a glass of wine

And you act so righteous and you look so pious
You always pay your tithe
But there's a rock in your heart and a fire on your tongue
And there ain't no love in your eyes
Bad news is begotten and the devil is smiling
You gossip and you criticize

New pharisees like a fatal disease
Always flapping your jaws trying to live by the law
Well you can't get by the law so quit flapping your jaws
New pharisees yes, you're a lot like me

 

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"New York City, King Size Rosewood Bed"

"New York City, King Size Rosewood Bed"


Drove back to Birmingham
Let the sunshine on my hair
Going back to Birmingham
Let the sunshine on my hair
Leave all the things that lay beside your
New York City, king sized rosewood bed
You and me, oh mama
You got fire in your eyes
Lightning in your fingertips
Make my fever rise
You a hoochie-coochie woman
You're just the devil in disguise
Going to take all my back luck
Hitch it to the ride in time
Going to take all my back luck
Hitch it to the ride in time
I'll be back in Alabama before the day is done
Going back to Birmingham
Let the sunshine on my hair
Going back to Birmingham
Let the sunshine on my head
Leave all the things that lay beside your
New York City woman, and your
New York City king sized rosewood bed

 

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"Night Hawk"
(originally by C.W. McCall)

"Night Hawk"
(originally by C.W. McCall)



We'd worked ourselves senseless
Drivin' dry cattle, no water in sight
As we sat 'round the fire
And cursed the barbed wire
A stranger broke into our light

Not knowin' no better
Some fool went for leather
But a whispered "I wouldn't"
Put an end to the fight
Then he said, "I'm for hire.
"You need a rider.
"And I don't mind ridin' at night."

Go light on the Night Hawk
He don't smile, he don't talk
To strangers, and seldom to friends
And you'll do well to listen
When he asks you to leave him alone
He won't ask you again

Though the man is a myst'ry
The story is hist'ry
How a range fire came
Like a thief in the night
Took his young wife and babies
His would-bes and maybes
And burned out the love in his life

Go light on the Night Hawk
He don't smile, he don't talk
To strangers, and seldom to friends
And you'll do well to listen
When he asks you to leave him alone
He won't ask you again

 

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"No Place To Go"

"No Place To Go"


When a man's been mistreated
When he been kicked around
He been laughed at and lied to
Well yeah know he keeps going down
When a man hits bottom
Woman I know, yes I know
Ain't no place left to go
Ain't no place left to go
I been locked down by a woman
Locked out in the street
I been locked up in the jailhouse
I been locked into a bad, bad dream
When a man hits bottom
Tell you for sure
Ain't no place left to go
Ain't no place left to go
Well... blue is my color
Misery my ball and chain
13 is my number
Hard luck is my middle name
When a man hits bottom
Tell you for sure
Ain't no place left to go
Ain't no place left to go
Well... blue is my color
Misery my ball and chain
13 is my number
Hard luck is my middle name
When a man hits bottom
Tell you for sure
Ain't no place left to go
Ain't no place left to go
Ain't no place left to go
Oh yeah
Ain't no place left to go
...

 

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"No Potion For The Pain"

"No Potion For The Pain"


I take no tea for my fever, take no potion for my pain
I drink no "shine" for my shakin', get no kick, no, from cocaine
All I need is sweet freedom, get me back on my feet again

Well she took me for my money, just to keep her backdoor man
Then they both took out runnin', in my Cadillac sedan
Oh baby, they're gonna put me in jail for what I'm gonna do
You see, me and my 44 gun would like a word with both of you

"Blue Monday" caught me dead asleep, dead asleep at dawn
Tuesday called me Wednesday, by Thursday I was gone
Friday in the fast lane, out on 65
I took back what they owed me left no one there alive

I take no tea for my fever, take no potion for my pain
I drink no "shine" for my shakin', get no kick, no, from cocaine
All I need is sweet freedom, get me back on...
Doin' ten to twenty for murder in the first degree
But oh baby, it was worth it all to me
Take no tea for my fever, take no potion for my pain

 

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"Nothing But The Blood"

"Nothing But The Blood"


What can wash away my sins?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

Oh, precious is that flow
That makes me white as snow
No other fount I know
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
What can wash away my sins?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

Nothing but the blood of Jesus
Nothing but the blood of Jesus...

 

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"O Come All Ye Faithful"
(feat. Kathy Mattea)

"O Come All Ye Faithful"
(feat. Kathy Mattea)



O come all ye faithful joyful and triumphant
Oh come ye O come ye to Bethlehem;
come and behold him born the King of angels;
Oh come let us adore Him,
Oh come let us adore Him,
O come let us adore Him, Christ the Lord.

God of God light of light
Lo, He not the virgin's womb;
Very God begotten not created:
Oh come let us adore Him,
Oh come let us adore Him,
O come let us adore Him, Christ The Lord.

Sing choirs of angels sing in exultation
Sing all ye citizens of heaven above;
Glory to God in the highest:
Oh come let us adore Him,
Oh come let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him, Christ The Lord

See how the shepherds summoned to his cradle,
leaving their flocks, draw nigh with lowly fear
we too will thither hende our joyful footsteps;
Oh come let us adore Him,
Oh come let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him, Christ the Lord.