The Oak Ridge Boys

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"Everybody Wins"

"Everybody Wins"


Bombs fly, angels cry
Tears that fall from the children's eyes
Rain that waters the bitter weed of hate
Choking out the tender heart
The strong survive but they bear the scars
Another generation where the smoke never clears away
Why can't we all get along with each other
Be a brother be a friend
If we loved each other more
There'd be nothing left to fight for
No contender no surrender
Everybody wins
Don't say you can't change
Human nature it's a greedy thing
Well I'm a believer
Where there's a will there's a way
And I believe in standin' up
You and yours but where there's love
We stand beside each other and we're not too proud to say

 

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"Everyday"

"Everyday"


You know a smile never goes out of style
So brighten up the one that you wear.
Let it shine and you just might find
You’ll lighten up the load that you bear.

You know with all the trouble and sorrow in the world

It seems like the least we can do,
Just take that smile into the street
And share it with everybody you meet.

Everyday (everyday) I want to shake somebody’s hand
Everyday (everyday) I want make somebody know
(That thinks they can) that they can (yes they can)
Everyday (everyday) I want to try (I want to try)
To show my brothers and my sisters
That I want to help them along the way everyday, everyday.

You know a kind work never goes unheard
But too often goes unsaid.
And on the tongue of the old and the young
It’s swallowed up with pride instead.

You know with all the trouble and sorrow in the world
It seems like the least we can do
Just take a kind word into the street
And share it with everybody you meet.

Everyday (everyday) I want to shake somebody’s hand, yer
Everyday (everyday) I want make somebody know
(That thinks they can) that they can (yes they can)
Everyday (everyday) I want to try (I want to try)
To show my brothers and my sisters
That I want to help them along the way everyday, everyday.

If they’re lost I want to show them the sunshine
If they look tossed I want to throw them a lifeline.
I want the reach out my hand, (reach out) yer (a hand to hold)
Oh yeah, and let ’em know (let ’em know)
There’s a light (that there’s light) down at the end of the road.

If they’re lost I want to (show them the sunshine)
If they’re tossed I want to (throw them a lifeline).

Well everyday (everyday) I want to shake somebody’s hand, mmm
Everyday (everyday) I want make somebody know
(That thinks they can) that they can (yes they can)
Everyday (everyday) I want to try (I want to try)
To show my brothers and my sisters
That I want to help them along the way everyday, everyday.

Everyday, everyday (everyday) I want to shake somebody’s hand, yer
Everyday (everyday) I want make somebody know
(That thinks they can) that they can (yes they can)
And everyday (everyday) [fading]

 

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"Fall"

"Fall"


You say you never fell before
But this time you must have slipped, now you know how it feels.
You say you've always watched your step
But this time you must have tripped and went head over heels.
Now you say it, your so good and you want me to fall too
What a crazy thing to ask someone you love to do.
No I'd rather not fall.

Fall leads a river wrong
And it pulls apart a mountain and throws him over the edge.
At first it feels real good
But he's half way down when he sees there's real trouble ahead.
Above the ragged rocks below, he wonders was it worth the thrill.
Cause if the fall don't do him in then the sudden stop surely will.
No I'd rather not fall.

Just let me slip into this slow and easy
I've got my sight set on the long, long haul.
I believe we're headed for the same place baby
Let's change this pace to a slow crawl
I'll walk in standing tall, but I'd rather not fall.

Fall takes a shooting star
And it burns into a streak of disappearing light
And when the darkness falls
It turns away the sun and leaves us here in the night.
Steals the green from the trees
And paints them red and gold
Leaves them standing there in the winter air
With their branches bare and cold
No I'd rather not fall.

Just let me slip into this slow and easy
I've got my sight set on the long, long haul.
I believe we're headed for the same place baby
Let's change this pace to a slow crawl
I'll walk in standing tall, but I'd rather not fall.
No I'd rather not fall.
No I'd rather not fall.

 

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"Fall To Fly"

"Fall To Fly"


She moves her tiny baby closer to the ledge
The mother eagle knows it's time for him to leave the nest
And he is free falling, discovering new wings
And as the rocks rise up to meet him he feels his mother underneath him

Sometimes you have to fall
To find out who you are
Don't be afraid to fail
Because you learn each time you try
Sometimes you have to fall to fly

Have you felt that God is slow to answer when you call
Have there been times you doubted He was ever there at all
You've been free falling and God in Heaven knows
The hardest part of loving is to let your children go

A lesser love would always hold us and try to keep us safe
But God knows when the time is right to take His hands away

 

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"Family Reunion"

"Family Reunion"


Mama taught us how to sing in harmony
Grandma used to stomp her foot and slap her knee
I can still hear daddy singin'
Down by the old mill stream
When uncle Jim played the fiddle
You could hear it talk you could hear it sing
And it echoed down the mountains
To those Georgia pines
Ran through Tennessee just like that old moonshine
Old Joe Clark Cripple Creek Annie Get Your Gun
I guess my old time favorite was that Fox on the Run
Like a fox, like a fox on the run
Grandpa played the dobro till the break of dawn
Me I had this guitar and I'd strum along
Carol played the washboard and the tamborine
Little Mary Beth would always help us sing
And it echoed down the mountains
To those Georgia pines
Ran through Tennessee just like that old moonshine
Old Joe Clark Cripple Creek Annie Get Your Gun
I guess my old time favorite was that Fox on the Run
Like a fox, like a fox on the run
Oh like a fox on the run, like a fox on the run
Oh like a fox on the run, like a fox on the run
Mama taught us how to sing in Harmony

 

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"Fancy Free"

"Fancy Free"


I'm sitting fancy free, because she was to go
She's tired of loving me, she told me so
I guess she don't know just how much she means to me
But along with all my dreams I'm sitting fancy-free
Yes I'm sitting free even thou I love her still
She'd be no good to me if I held her against her will
Even thou that girl she's the best part of my world
Along with all my dreams I'm sitting fancy-free
Oh lord you just don't know how it hurts to say goodbye
She did her best to stay I can't say she did not try
I just hope the road she takes leads back to me
So along with all my dreams I'm sitting fancy-free
Yes I'm sitting free even thou I love her still
She'd be no good to me if I held her against her will
Even thou that girl she's the best part of my world
Along with all my dreams I'm sitting fancy-free
Yes I'm sitting free even thou I love her still
She'd be no good to me if I held her against her will
Even thou that girl she's the best part of my world
Along with all my dreams I'm sitting fancy-free
Yes I'm sitting free even thou I love her still
She'd be no good to me if I held her against her will
Even thou that girl she's the best part of my world
Along with all my dreams I'm sitting fancy-free

 

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"Farther Along"

"Farther Along"


Tempted and tried we're oft made to wonder
Why it should be thus all the day long
While there are others living about us?
Never molested though in the wrong
When we see Jesus coming in glory
When He comes down from His home in the sky
Then we shall meet Him in that bright mansion
We'll understand it all by and by
Farther along we'll know all about it
Farther along we'll understand why
Cheer up my brother live in the sunshine
We'll understand it all by and by

 

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"Fear Of The Flame"

"Fear Of The Flame"


There’s a time that I recall
When I tried to give it all
And got burned by the flame
That I thought would keep me warm
So I promised myself then
That I’d never care again
And I would not forget that roses have thorns.
[CHORUS:]
Don’t go near the fire it will hurt you, it will burn you
Love and desire only lead to pain.
The heart that gives in becomes ashes in the wind
O but you came along and cured my fear of the flame.
I learned from your love
Just how wrong I was
When you came along
And carried all my fears away
So gentle and tender,
Cinder by cinder
I hardly remember the fool who used to say.
[CHORUS:]
With your love I know
Through your eyes I see
It’s a lonely, lonely heart
Who’d believe.
[CHORUS:]
[CHORUS:]
[CHORUS fading]

 

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"First Christmas Day"

"First Christmas Day"


The First Noel, the angels did say
Was to certain poor shepherds in fields where they lay
In fields where they lay keeping their sheep
On a cold winter's night that was so deep
Beautiful baby lying there beneath the shining star
Looking at your mama through those lovely eyes
Do you know who you are
Wrapped in a blanket on the hay
First Christmas day
Lowly shepherds and mighty kings
Have waited for your birth
Baby can you hear the angels sing
Peace and joy on earth
Promise of a better way
First Christmas day
Do You know Your Father's plan
Do You know the things You'll say
When You become a man
Do You know the price You'll pay
Beautiful Baby in the manger bed
Holding to Your mama's hand
The wondrous Love that sent You here
Help us understand
Remember when we pray
First Christmas day

 

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"First Christmas Gift"

"First Christmas Gift"


God rest ye merry gentlemen
Let nothing you dismay
Remember Christ our Savior
Was born on Christmas day
To save us all from Satan's pow'r
When we were gone astray
O tidings of comfort and joy
Comfort and joy
O tidings of comfort and joy
Christmas was a present from God on high
A Child was born so that man wouldn't die
He gave His Son so that we might live
Jesus was the very first Christmas Gift
Wrapped in swaddling clothes He lay
Ribbon of light around His head they say
High in the Heavens a star was lit
For Jesus was the very first Christmas Gift
Shepherds as well as kings did come
To look down upon the Holy One
Angels rejoiced and the world was blessed
With Jesus the very first Christmas Gift
Since then we dread and shop and fret
And spend a fortune over it
Greed shows up in kids and grown ups
Worrying about what we're gonna get
When all it takes is a prayer of thanks
To God for the very first Christmas Gift