Waylon Jennings

fox69 · 28.12.2014

"Freedom To Stay"

"Freedom To Stay"

I tied my bandana took my pack from the floor
You were still sleeping as I stood at the door
Once more I was headin' to God only knows where
That's when it hit me I was already there.

I could ramble a thousand miles or more
Never find the light I've seen in your eyes before
You gave me the freedom to go on my way
But you gave me much more you gave me the freedom to stay.

Why keep on runnin' just to wish on a star
Searching for Heaven when I know where you are
Life is just empty when you're walking alone
So wherever we're going girl Lord it's good to be at home.

I could ramble a thousand miles or more
Never find the light I've seen in your eyes before
You gave me the freedom to go on my way
But you gave me much more you gave me the freedom to stay...

fox69 · 28.12.2014

"Friends In California"

"Friends In California"

I've got friends in California
Who really care about me
And right now a friend is what I need the most
Somewhere out in California
Is where I ought to be
So I'll pack up my trouble
And take 'em to the coast

This old town is gettin' colder
With winter comin' on
But it was just as cold back in Juli
There ain't nothin' here to hold me
With storm clouds movin' in
Lord knows I need a friend and sunny skies
I've got some cousins up near Frisco
They've been on my mind
And my best friend's got a place in Malibu
I've got an old flame in the desert
Livin' on the Falkland
I'd be better off with her then here with you

I've got friends in California
Who really care about me
Right now a friend is what I need the most
Somewhere out in California
Is where I ought to be
So I'll pack up my trouble
And take 'em to the coast

fox69 · 28.12.2014

"Frisco Depot (San Francisco Depot)"
(originally by Mickey Newbury)

"Frisco Depot (San Francisco Depot)"
(originally by Mickey Newbury)

Frisco's a mile long away
You can afford to fly
But it might as well be the moon,
Lord, when you're as broke as I.
Here I sit with my head in my hands
Watching the trains roll by
Lord, the Helping Hand Mission man warned me
That the nights here got cold.
When you're cold there's nothing as welcome as sunshine
When you're dry there's nothing as welcome as rain
When you're alone there's nothing as slow as passin' time
When you're afoot Lord there's nothing as fast as a train.

Old Frisco's a mighty rich city
Now that ain't no lie
Well, they have some buildings
That reach nearly a mile in the sky.
Everyone's so busy they can't tell me the reason why
Here's a world full of people so damn many people alone
When you're alone life just don't seem worth living
While you're alive gotta learn to live with the pain.
You've been grown for so long
There's no one left who'll forgive
You find yourself searching your mind
For the links to the chain.
When you're cold there's nothing as welcome as sunshine
When you're dry there's nothing as welcome as rain
When you're alone there's nothing as slow as passin' time
When you're afoot Lord there's nothing as fast as a train...

fox69 · 28.12.2014

"G.I. Joe"

"G.I. Joe"

Well he smoked those Camel cigarettes about three packs a day
Nicotine stains on his fingers when he'd stretch them out to play
That old "Midnight special" is one he loved to do
Then he'd sing "I'm walking the floor over you

TV preachers and welfare checks for him just had no place
But he'd take his time to tune real good when he sang "Amazing Grace"
He'd say boys I'm old and crazy but I still give a damn
And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam

He'd drag out that old uniform
And say "they used to call me slim"
He never could get it buttoned up
But the pride looked good on him
He still feels the way he felt
Over forty years ago
Here's to the old man
Here's to G.I. Joe

He only sang the old songs, he's standing still in time
"My Phillipino baby", right there on his mind
Then he'd talk about the big one, the war we didn't lose
He'd pick a little bit like Travis "Re-Enlistment blues"

He'd drag out that old uniform
And say "they used to call me slim"
He never could get it buttoned up
But the pride looked good on him
He still feels the way he felt
Over forty years ago
Here's to the old man
Here's to G.I. Joe

Here's to my old man
And all the G.I. Joe's

fox69 · 28.12.2014

"Games People Play"

"Games People Play"

Oh, the games people now
Every night and every day now
Never meanin' what they say now
Never sayin' what they mean, oh no.

Well, they wile away the hours
In their ivory towers
Till they're covered up with flowers
In the back of a black limousine, oh yeah.

Lotten da la da da da
Lotten da la a dee de dee
Talkin' bout you and me
And the games people play, oh now.

Well, we make one another cry
Break a heart then we say goodbye
Cross our hearts and we hope to die
That the other one's to blame.

But neither one will ever give in
So we gaze at an eight by ten
Thinkin' bout the things that might have been
And it's a dirty rotten shame, yes it does.

People walkin' up to ya
Shouting glory hallelujah
Well, they wanna sock it to ya
In the name of the Lord.

Gonna teach you how to meditate
Read your horoscope and cheat your fate
Furthermore to hell with hate
Come on and get on board.

Lotten da la da da da
Lotten da la a dee de dee
Talkin' bout you and me
And the games people play, oh now.

Look around and tell me what you see
What's happened to you and me
God give me the serenity
To remember who I am.

'Cause you've given up your sanity
For your pride and your vanity
Turn your back on humanity
'Cause you don't give a do de dee.

Lotten da la da da da
Lotten da la a dee de dee
Talkin' bout you and me
And the games people play, oh now...

fox69 · 28.12.2014

"Gemini Song"

"Gemini Song"

I could tell you a story from another day in time
How a high falootin' woman tried to make me walk the line
She was into changin' too damn hard to please
And the last time I saw her she was down on her knees.

Born under the sign of the Gemini twins
There's two sides to me and they ain't even friends
All sides are rising and there ain't no in between
When I'm bad I'm bad when I'm good I'm the best you ever seen.

Sometimes I'm out a prowlin' and carryin' on
Too high to know when it's time to take it home
When I'm like that it's hard to leave the women alone
It ain't easy thinkin' right with a good looking wrong.

For another sign of the Gemini twins
This two sides to me and me ain't even friends
All sides are rising in the rainbow in between
When I'm good I'm good when I'm bad I'm the worst you ever seen.

There's a good hearted woman waitin' when I come in
She don't wasting time and asking me about where I've been
She keeps it all together and to wish that you could see
Know she goes about bring it out the best side of me.

Born under the sign of the Gemini twins
There's two sides to me and they ain't even friends
All signs are rising, and there ain't no in between
When I'm bad I'm bad when I'm good I'm the best you ever seen...

fox69 · 28.12.2014

"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
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 something that somebody said because they thought we fit together walkin'
It's just knowing that the world will not be cursin' or forgivin'
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 's 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 the 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 flowing 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 to hold you to my breast and find
That you're waving from the back roads by the rivers of my mem'ry
Ever you're just gentle on my mind

fox69 · 28.12.2014

"Get Naked With Me"

"Get Naked With Me"

I bring it up
You're quick to cover it all up again
Thought we were friends
What are friends for?
The old bones in your closet
Must really embarrass you
And so to save face
It's a locked place

[Chorus:]
I don't see why you don't get naked with me
Get all the little secrets out in the open air
'Cause we won't ever be
All that we could be

As long as you won't get naked with me
The future's gettin' shaky
From all this holdin' back
There's something in your past

That seems to haunt you
For better or for worse, I said
I meant it through and through
No one has ever loved you
More than I do

[Repeat Chorus]

fox69 · 28.12.2014

"Girl I Can Tell (You're Trying To Work It Out)"

"Girl I Can Tell (You're Trying To Work It Out)"

Girl I can tell you're trying to work it out
Tryin' to get a handle on what life is all about
Between womenhood and nursery rhymes
Tryin' to find the truth in lovers lies
Girl I can tell you're trying to work it out.

Girl I can see you're wantin' to give it a try
Taking all the good and the bad the truth and the lies
Feelings inside you, you can't talk about
Feelings have a way of not comin' out
Girl I can see you're trying to work it out.

Between womenhood and nursery rhymes
Looking for the truth in lovers lies
And the ties that bind the things that last through time
Girl I can tell you're trying to work it out...

fox69 · 28.12.2014

"Goin' Down Rockin'"

"Goin' Down Rockin'"

One foot on the mountain, the other one in the stream
All kinds of trouble and I'm caught in between
I can't change my way of doin'; it's gonna lay like it falls
If I can't go down rockin', I ain't gonna go down at all
She was a child of acquired money, had that silver spoon
I knew she had a little wild streak and needed breathing room
If I can't be your sugar daddy, I won't be your Neanderthal
If I can't go down rockin', I ain't gonna go down at all

Spent a little time in the congregation, that's how I was raised
Spent a little time in trouble, but I do have my ways

Won't be your Neanderthal.
Tonight I had good intentions of crawling into bed
Resting my body and clearing my head
But, just about midnight, I got that telephone call
If I can't go down rockin', I ain't gonna go down at all

Spent a little time in the congregation, that's how I was raised
Spent a little time in trouble, but I do have my ways
If I can't go down rockin', I ain't gonna go down at all
If I can't go down rockin', I ain't gonna go down at