1.

Windy City

Bobby Osborne - Pete Goble

© Sure-Fire Music, BMI

We came to you big city from our little country town
And ev'ry step she takes with you is down
But you're as cold and heartless as your chilling winds that blow
Before you freeze her heart please let her go

Windy City you're holding my baby
With your bright lights and your avenues so wild
Windy City turn loose of my baby
If you don't give her back I lose my mind
[ mandolin + steel ]
At night I walk your sidewalks and look in every bar
I love her even though she's gone too far
Your swinging doors stay open to keep her from my side
And I'm on your lonely streets again tonight

Windy City you're holding my baby...

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2.

Ballad Of Forty Dollars

Tom T. Hall

© Newkeys Music, BMI / Unichappell Music, BMI

Well the man who preached the funeral said it really was a simple way to die
Well he laied down to rest one afternoon and never opened up his eyes
They hired me and Fred and Joe to dig the grave and carry up some chairs
It took us seven hours and I guess we must've drunk a case of beer

I guess I ought to go and watch them put him down but I don't own the suit
Anyway when they start talkin' about the fire and hell well I get spooked
So I'll just sit here in my truck and act like I don't know him when they pass
Anyway when they're all through I got to go to work and mow the grass

Well here they come and who's that ridin' in that big ole shiny limousine
Hmm look at all that chrome I do believe that that's the sharpest thing I've seen
That must belong to his great Uncle someone said he owned a big ole farm
When they get parked I'll mosey down and look it over that won't do no harm

Well that must be the widow in the car and would you take a look at that
That sure is a pretty dress you know some women do look good in black
Why he's not even in the ground and they tell that his track is up for sale
They say she took it pretty hard but you can't tell too much behind a veil

Well listen ain't that pretty when the bugler plays the military taps
I think that when you's in the war they always try and play a song like that
Well here I am and there they go and I guess you'd just call it my bad luck
I hope he'll rest in peace but trouble is that fella owes me forty bucks

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3.

I Wonder Why You Said Goodbye

Ernest Tubb

© Unichappell Music, BMI

Your letter came this very day
And it wiped all my dreams away
I read it o'er a thousand times
It's left me with a worried mind

I wonder why you said goodbye
And did you mean to make me cry
I guess until the day I die
That I will still be wondering why
[ guitar - steel ]
I dread the thought that we are through
And that you found somebody new
I love you now I always will
I'd rather die than say farewell

I wonder why you said goodbye...
[ mandolin ]
I hope and pray before my time
That you'll come back and say you're mine
Bring back the love you took away
And mend the heart you broke today

I wonder why you said goodbye...

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4.

Eight More Miles To Louisville

Louis M. Jones

© Fort Knox Music, BMI / Trio Music, BMI

I've traveled o'er this country wide a seeking fortune fair
I've been down the two coast lines I've traveled ev'rywhere
From Portland East and Portland West and back along the line
I'm goin' now to a place that's best that old home town of mine

Oh eight more miles and Louisville will come in to my view
Eight more miles on this ol' road and I 'll never more be blue
I knew some day that I'd come back I knew it from the start
Eight more miles to Louisville the hometown of my heart
[ banjo ]
There's bound to be a girl somewhere that you like best of all
Now mine lives down in Louisville she's long and she is tall
She's the kind that you can't find a ramblin' through the land
I'm on my way this very day to win her heart and hand

Oh eight more miles and Louisville will come in to my view...
[ mandolin ]
Now I can picture in my mind a place we'll call our home
A humble little cab for two we never more will roam
The place that's right for that love sight is in them bluegrass hills
Where gently flows the Ohio by a place called Louisville

Oh eight more miles and Louisville will come in to my view...

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5.

Stand Beside Me Behind Me

Paul Craft

© Songs Of PolyGram, BMI

Stand beside me behind me so loneliness can't find me
I need your love to make it from now on
Stand before me and with me so sorrow's hand can't touch me
Without your love I know I won't last long

I'm reaching out my soul to you
My heart my hand my all for you
My only prayer is just that you will always reach for me
Stand beside me behind me so loneliness can't find me
Without your love I know I won't last long
[ steel ]
I'm reaching out my soul to you...

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6.

Knoxville Girl

Traditional

© Sure-Fire Music, BMI

I met a little girl in Knoxville the town we all know well
And ev'ry Sunday evening out in her home I'd dwell
We went to take an evening walk about a mile from town
I picked a stick up off the ground and knocked that fair girl down

She fell down on her bended knees for mercy she did cry
Oh Willy dear don't kill me dear I'm unprepared to die
She never spoke another word I only beat her more
Until the ground around me within her blood did flow

I took her by her golden curles and I dragged her round and round
Throwing her into the river that flows through Knoxville town
Go down go down you Knoxville girl with the dark and roving eyes
Go down go down you Knoxville girl you can never be my bride
[ steel ]
I started back to Knoxville got there about midnight
My mother she was worried and woke up in a fright
Saying dear son what have you done to bloody your clothes so
I told my anxious mother I was bleeding at my nose

I called for me a candle to light myself to bed
I called for me a handkerchief to bind my aching head
Rolled and tumbled the whole night through as trouble was for me
Like flames of hell around my bed and in my eyes could see

They carried me down to Knoxville and put me in a cell
My friends all tried to get me out but none could go my bail
I'm here to waste my life away down in this dirty ol' jail
Because I murdered that Knoxville girl the girl I loved so well

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7.

I Washed My Face In The Morning Dew

Tom T. Hall

© Newkeys Music, BMI / Unichappell Music, BMI

The first strange town I was ever in the county was hanging a man
Nobody cared if he lived or died and I didn't understand

So I washed my face in the morning dew bathed my soul in the sun
Washed my face in the morning dew and kept on movin' along

The second town I was in they were laughing at a poor crippled man
Begging for nickels and dimes on the street and I didn't understand

So I washed my face in the morning dew bathed my soul in the sun...
[ guitar - banjo ]
The third strange town that I was in was settled so peaceful and nice
The rich got richer the poor got poorer to me it didn't seem right

So I washed my face in the morning dew bathed my soul in the sun...

Someday times are bound to change it can't be very long
And each injustice I have seen will come before the bar

So I washed my face in the morning dew bathed my soul in the sun...

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8.

Love's Gonna Live Here

Buck Owens

© Tree Publishing, BMI

Oh the sun's gonna shine in my life once more
Love's gonna live here again
Things are gonna be the way they were before
Love's gonna live here again

Love's gonna live here love's gonna live here
Love's gonna live here again
No more loneliness only happiness
Love's gonna live here again
[ banjo ]
I hear bells a ringin' I hear birds a singin'
Love's gonna live here again
I hear bees a hummin' and I know the days are comin'
Love's gonna live here again

Love's gonna live here love's gonna live here...
[ mandolin ]
Love's gonna live here love's gonna live here...
Love's gonna live here again

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9.

Today I Started Loving You Again

Merle Haggard - Bonnie Owens

© Tree Publishing, BMI

Today I started lovin' you again
I'm right back where I've really always been
I got over you just long enough
To let my heartache mend
Then today I started lovin' you again

What a fool I was to think I could get by
With only these few million tears I've cried
I should have known the worst was yet to come
And that crying time for me had just begun

Today I started loving you again...

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10.

Arkansas

Damon Black

© Sure-Fire Music, BMI

Though the brambles took the cabin I was born in
And the briers reclaim the fields I used to plow
There's a yearning in my heart to be going
To that forty acre patch God sow in sprouts

Arkansas are your rivers still flowin'
Is your cotton growin' white as snow
Are the squirrels a barking upon old Crowley's ridge
Has the girl I was sparking on gone and burned another bridge
Arkansas Arkansas

I have known the troubles I was born to know
I have wanted things a poor man's born to want
And in all my dreams and mem'ries I go runnin'
Through the fields of Arkansas from which I stroll

Arkansas are your rivers still flowin'
Is your cotton growin' white as snow
Do the young men still piddle with the thought of growing rich
And slowly turn the old folks sittin' whittlin' on a stick
Arkansas Arkansas

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11.

Fireball Mail

Floyd Jenkins

© Milene Music, ASCAP

Here she comes look at her roll
There she goes eatin' that coal
Watch her fly look at her sail
Let her by by by the fireball mail
[ mandolin ]
Let her go look at her steam
Hear her blow whistle and scream
Like a hound waggin' his tail
Dallas bound bound boud the fireball mail

Here's Pig now
[ piano ]
Now here's Hal Rugg
[ steel ]
Engineer makin' up time
Tracks are clear look at her climb
See that freight clearin' the rail
I bet she's late late late the fireball mail

Leon now
[ guitar ]
Now here's Sonny on the 6-string
[ banjo ]

Watch her swerve look at her sway
Get that curve out of the way
Watch her fly look at her sail
Let her by by by the fireball mail
Yeah let her by by by the fireball mail

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