The Charlie Daniels Band

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"Even Up The Score"

"Even Up The Score"


Like a serpent in the sand
Coiled up to strike you when your back is turned
He's an evil man
Wicked since the day that he was born
When the morning comes
I'll meet him in the street and try to gun him down
He took your life away
What a dark bitter day
I held her in my arms and I swore
I'd even up the score
The sun is in my eyes
Sweat is on my face and I can hardly stand
Fear is in my heart
Telling me to turn and run away
A killer all his life
He looms before me like a demon dark and cold
But I made you a vow
And I won't break it now
I'll die here if that's what's in store
Or even up the score
Face to face we stand in silence now
Not one whisper in the crowd
Like in a dream I watch his hand float down
I hear the shots ring out he's lying dead upon the ground
He took your life away
What a dark bitter day
I held her in my arms and I swore
I'd even up the score
Even up the score

 

[fox69]

"Everything Is Kinda All Right"

"Everything Is Kinda All Right"


Early mornin' sun shines through the bubbles in my bed
The whistle on the westbound leaves a come on in my ear

I think today is Sunday but I'm just to drunk to say
But there ain't no to sweat it hell its just another day

Everything is kinda alright
We gonna make it through the long night
Everything is gonna work out alright
'Long as we keepa movin’ on

Last nights cigarettes are still smokin' in my mind
I need to get myself together but I just can't find the time

I'd like to go to California but you can't get very far
On an empty pack of Zig-Zags and a out of tune guitar

Everything is kinda alright
We gonna make it through the long night
Everything is gonna work out alright
'Long as we keepa movin'

 

[fox69]

"Evil"

"Evil"


I was born way back in the woods & swamp
On the Hickory River shore
In a dirty old one-room pine-log shack
With sawdust on the floor
Was a graveyard out in the back of the house
And a skull up over the door
I been handling snakes since I was three
And I ain't gonna take it no more
Cause I'm evil
Keeps pouring out of me
I said I'm evil
Keeps pouring out of me
All my life I've been evil as I can be
My daddy was a Louisiana mojo man
The devil followed him around
You always know when grass wouldn't grow
Where his foot wouldn't touch the ground
My momma could snap her fingers
And make the fire come tumbling down
I'm the seventh son of the seventh son
You better not mess around
I said I'm evil
Keeps pouring out of me
Evil
Keeps pouring out of me
All my life I've been evil as I can be

 

[fox69]

"Fais Do Do"

"Fais Do Do"


Les le bon temps rouler! (Let the good times roll!)
Hey baby won't you stop what you're doin'
Go on home put your red dress on
Tell you mama I said not to worry
I'll have you home before the break of dawn
Sonnier's got his squeeze box pumping
Thibadeaux's got his fiddle out
Meet me over by the side of the river
There's big doins down at Boudreaux's house
Take my bateaux down to the bayou
Pole on over to the fais do do
Don't be late
Don't keep me waitin'
Everybody's gonna go
I wanna be there when the band starts playin'
Zydeco music makes me wanna dance
Sun's goin' down and a full moon's shinin'
Mighty fine night for the big romance
I've got a question, I just might pop it
I know something that you don't know
I got a ring of gold in my pocket
Tonight's the night and you can't say no
Take my bateaux down to the bayou
Pole on over to the fais do do
Don't be late
Don't keep me waitin'
Everybody's gonna go
Take my bateaux down to the bayou
Pole on over to the fais do do
Don't be late
Don't keep me waitin'
Everybody's gonna go

 

[fox69]

"Fathers And Sons"

"Fathers And Sons"


My daddy had so much to tell me things he said I had to know
Don't make my mistakes there are rules you can't break
But I had to find out on my own
Now when I look at my own son I do what my father went through
There's only so much you can do
You're proud when they walk but you're scared when they run
That's how it always has been between fathers and sons

It's a bridge you can't cross it's a cross you can't bear
It's the words you can't say the things you can't change
No matter how much you care
So you do all you can and then you gotta let go
You're just part of the flow of the river that runs between fathers and sons

Now your mother she'll try to protect you
She'll hold you as long as she can
But the higher you climb the more you can see
And too soon you think you're a man
One someday you'll look at your own son
There'll be so much that you want to say
But he'll have to find his own way
Down the road he must take the course he must run
That's how it always will be between fathers and sons

It's a bridge you can't cross...
You're just part of the flow of the river that runs between fathers and sons

 

[fox69]

"Feeling Free"

"Feeling Free"


Jamming down the highway, feeling no pain
Mother nature, two wheels and a chain
It's good to be alive and brighter
Whisper in my ear, girl, hold on a little tighter

You know it's alright. living and lovin every day and night
Thankin' the lord for the music in me
Piece of mind and feeling free

Soon I'll be on the road, pickin guitar
Knowing that my home ain't very far
But don't you worry sweet thing cause you know I'll be there
To kiss my tennessee girl with the long golden hair

[Repeat chorus]

 

[fox69]

"Franklin Limestone"

"Franklin Limestone"


Franklin Limestone, always been my home
I was born in Nashville, a place I call my own
Where the mountains, and the rivers, and the valleys
We were married, you and me

We were both so happy just being together
Like a possum in the wood
So please forgive me if I forget to tell you
What you mean to me

Hard cold winter took away my mother
Papa got the fever, Lord he said he couldn't leave her
You carried me through bad times, through the worst times
You were my driving wheel

We were both so happy just being together
Like a possum in the wood
So please forgive me if I forget to tell you
What you mean to me

Workin in a coal mine, slaving in the day time
Lookin to the Good Lord for any peace of mind
The feeling if you left me on that hillside
Would break this heart of mine

We were both so happy just being together
Like a possum in the wood
So please forgive me if I forget to tell you
Lord, what you mean to me

 

[fox69]

"Free Bird"

"Free Bird"


If I leave here tomorrow
Would you still remember me
For I must be travelin' on now
There's too many places I got to see
If I stay here with you girl
Things just couldn't be the same
'Cause I'm as free as a bird now
And this bird you cannot change
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
And the bird you cannot change
And this bird you cannot change
Lord knows, I can't change
Bye and bye baby, it's been sweet love, yeah yeah
Though this feelin' I can't change
Please don't take it so badly
'Cause Lord knows, I'm to blame
And if I stay here with you girl
Things just couldn't even be the same
'Cause I'm as free as a bird now
And this bird you cannot change
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
And the bird you cannot change
And this bird you cannot change

 

[fox69]

"Frosty The Snowman"

"Frosty The Snowman"


Frosty the Snowman, was a jolly happy soul,
With a corn cob pipe and a button nose, and two eyes made of coal.

Frosty the Snowman, is a fairytale, they say.
He was made of snow, but the children know he came to life one day.

There must have been some magic in that old silk hat they found,

For when they placed it on his head, he began to dance around!

Oh, Frosty, the Snowman, was alive as he could be;
and the children say he could laugh and play,
just the same as you and me.

Thumpety thump, thump, thumpety thump, thump,
look at Frosty go.

Thumpety thump, thump, thumpety thump, thump,
over the hills of snow.

Frosty the Snowman, knew the sun was hot that day,
so he said, "Let's run, and we'll have some fun now, before I melt away."

Down to the village, with a broomstick in his hand,
Running here and there, all around the square,
sayin', "Catch me if you can."

He led them down the streets of town, right to the traffic cop;

and only paused a moment, when he heard him holler, "Stop!"

For Frosty, the Snowman, had to hurry on his way,
But he waved goodbye, sayin' "Don't cry, I'll be back again some day."

 

[fox69]

"Funky Junky"

"Funky Junky"


You can dance around if you want to
But there’s some thing a man don’t wanna do
And if you see him comin’ walkin’ down the street
You better jump right Outta his way
Everyone knows it’s a street skit
Every time he comes to town
Coz he’s got somethin’ in his left hip
The blues down walk around

Funky-junky
Funky-junky

He’s on Missouri Boulevard
About a half o’ mile south of the graveyard
Better run an leap through funky old dirt
Go one don’t find no shame
This old muskrat barbeque
And a sweetness on the railroad track
He’s gotta tiger in his living room
He gotta monkey on his back

Funky-junky
Funky-junky