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"A Bar With No Beer"

"A Bar With No Beer"


The beachcomber works by the ocean all day
He gets what the tourists and the sea throw away
He's hot and he's thristy and the words hurt his ears
When they tell him he stopped in a bar with no beer

It's lonesome away from your kinfolks at home
By the campfires at night where the buffalo roam
But there's nothin' so lonesome, so morbid or drear
Then to sit on a stool in a bar with no beer

There's a dog on the sidewalk for his master he waits
But his boss is inside drinkin' wine with his mates
He hurries for cover and cringes in fear
Ain't no place for a dog 'round a bar with no beer

Now Billy the barfly, first time in his life
He went home cold sober to his lovin' wife
He walks in the kitchen, she says, you're early, my dear
He breaks down and tells her, the bar's got no beer

The owner is anxious for the beer man to come
There's a far away look on the face of the bum
The waitress is cranky, she says, it's lonely in here
What a terrible place is a bar with no beer

Well, I've had me some trouble, I've had me some pain
Been locked up in the cold and left out in the rain
I fought with the law but there's one thing I fear
To get stuck in a town in a bar with no beer
 
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"A Million Miles To The City"

"A Million Miles To The City"


Yeah, I remember it now, we were kids back then livin' down on the farm
We were told that the city could only bring us harm
"How far is the city?" somebody said, and "oh, that's a great big town."
Barbara said, "why, it's a million miles," and the story got around

[Chorus:]
It's a million miles to the city
From the hills and valleys we know
It's a million miles to the city
And someday we all wanna go

There was a town nearby, but a town is a town, and a city...well, that's something else
Our daddy had been to a city but he never was much help
"Why the buildings are taller than oak trees." ah, but we knew better than that
Ain't nobody could climb that high, the cities were wide and flat

[Chorus]

Well now time has passed and we have grown and travelled far and wide
The cities have changed the kids we were, we see it in each others eyes
But I'd love to go back to those hills again, to the boy I used to be
Where the leaves and the wind and the whippoorwills were part of the land like me

[Chorus x2]
 
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"A Picture Of Your Mother"

"A Picture Of Your Mother"


My little girl and I lost mama just three years ago
And now that she is older there are things she wants to know
She said, "please daddy tell me 'bout my mother 'cause I miss her."
I said, "get pen and paper and I'll help your draw her picture."

I said, "first draw a heart so big there's room for little else
Then write a million for the things that she denied herself
Draw a rose the kind of which there'll never be another
And when you finish you will have a picture of your mother

"If you want to make the picture even more complete
You could draw a little cottage, draw it nice and neat
Draw a bright and shining sun up in the sky above
But then again I guess it's pretty hard to draw my love

"So draw a heart so big that there is room for little else
Write a million for the things that she denied herself
Draw a rose the kind of which there'll never be another
And when you finish you will have a picture of your mother."
 
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"A Week In A Country Jail"

"A Week In A Country Jail"


One time I spent a week inside a little country jail
And I don't guess I'll ever live it down
I was sittin' at a red light when these two men came and got me
And said that I was speeding through their town

Well, they said,"tomorrow morning you can see the judge then go."
They let me call one person on the phone
I thought I'd be there overnight so I just called my boss
To tell him I'd be off but not for long

Well, they motioned me inside a cell with seven other guys
One little barred up window in the rear
My cellmates said if they had let me bring some money in
We ought to send the jailer for some beer

Well, I had to pay him double 'cause he was the man in charge
And the jailer's job was not the best in town
Later on his wife brought hot bologna, eggs and gravy
The first day I was there I turned it down

Well, next morning they just let us sleep but I was up real early
Wonderin' when I'd get my release

Later on we got more hot bologna, eggs and gravy
And by now I wasn't quite so hard to please

Two days later when I thought that I had been forgotten
The sheriff came in chewin' on a straw
He said, "where is the guy who thinks that this is indianapolis?
I'd like to talk to him about the law."
Well, I told him who I was and told him I was working steady
And I really should be gettin' on my way
That part about me bein' who I was did not impress him
He said, "the judge'll be here any day."

The jailer had a wife and let me tell you she was awful
But she brought that hot bologna every day
And after seven days she got to lookin' so much better
I asked her if she'd like to run away

The next mornin' that old judge took every nickel that I had
And he said, "son, let this teach you not to race."
The jailer's wife was smilin' from the window as I left
In thirty minutes I was out of state
 
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"Ain't Got The Time"

"Ain't Got The Time"


I can tell your heart's been broken in two you are looking for a shoulder
I've found out that other people's tears just seem to make me older
I'd like to help with your broken heart really I think it's a crime
But I ain't got the time ain't got the time
All that I can give you is a wellwish I hate to be that way I know that it's selfish
But baby I've got a destiny to meet and I know it's on down the line
Ain't got the time ain't got the time

I can tell that you've been hurt pretty bad you need someone to cry to
You're like a bird with the broken wing and you need some place to fly to
But I've found out from life that I can't live nobody's but mine
Ain't got the time ain't got the time
All that I can give you is a wellwish...
 
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"All You Want When You Please"

"All You Want When You Please"


I'm sittin' here lookin' at some mighty hard times money ain't growing on trees
A little while ago I was rollin' in dough singin' all you want when you please
All you want when you please girls all you want when you please
The wind blows up this road all summer in the evening it cools one and all
If you like a good breeze you can have all you please
If you don't get blown away in the fall
All you want when you please girls all you want when you please

My money's all gone and my breeze died down my bloom of youth's gone to seed
I sit here and cry for the days all gone by when I sang all you want when you please
All you want when you please girls all you want when you please
Well the meat's all lean and the bread's all done
And the cook rides a big white horse
You just come like you look and if you get your picture took
You can tell 'em you was at the Mardi Gras
All you want when you please girls all you want when you please
 
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"America The Ugly"

"America The Ugly"


There was a man came to see the USA from a foreign land
To photograph the progress of dear old Uncle Sam
He got off the boat in New York went down to the Bowery
I know what the man went to photograph and to see
There were hopeless hungry living dead
Winos who sell their souls for a bottle of a cheapest red
That's the picture that he wanted
And that's what he got they say America the ugly today

He went to the Appalachians and he saw what we all have seen
Where people live on bread and soup fat back and pinto beans
He saw the hungry children and he photographed the ragged clothes
I guess we're gonna try to tell him that it ain't so
There were good men standin' around with nothing to do
Pregnant young women who didn't even have a pair of shoes
The man got his pictures and what are we going to say America the ugly today

Then he went to the medicare centers and he saw the old people there
It seems that the young generation just didn't want 'em in their hair
He saw the poor man workin' it out while the mighty rich lives high
And my friend that brings a gleam to the enemy's eyes
There were some folks had plenty and some had none at all
The enemy knows when a heart gets hard the country is bound to fall
If we get heads and hearts together we won't have to hear them say
America the ugly today America the ugly today
 
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"And I Love You So"

"And I Love You So"


And I love you so the people ask me how
How I've lived till now I tell them I don't know
I guess they understand how lonely life has been
But life began again the day you took my hand
And yes I know how lonely life can be
The shadows follow me and the night won't set me free
But I don't let the evenings get me down now that you're around me

And you love me too your thoughts are just for me
You set my spirit free I'm happy that you do
The book of life is brief and once the pages read all but life is dead that is my belief
And yes I know...
And I love you so
 
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"Another Town"

"Another Town"


Loving you was just a storybook of fair I've decided there ain't no real life anywhere
Soon I'll be a painted picture in the book of your mind
Another town is somewhere down the line
Another town another grocery store another town another set of swinging doors
And somehow I'm a little bit suspecious in my mind
It's another town that don't need my kind

Tell your mama she was sure a dandy cook tell your papa that I understood his looks
If I put it all together you're a piece that wouldn't fit
There's another town a comin' up I guess
Another town another grocery store...

As I leave you let me leave you with this thought
Time is candy and we ate all that we bought
And teardrops they're just wrappers on the ground
That a new wind blows into another town
Another town another grocery store...
Another town another grocery store...
 
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