lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

DOLLAR POOL FOOL

(Walter M. Cowart) « © '81 Drunk Monkey Music, ASCAP »
She's a tantalizin' stepper and a mighty handsome dresser
You can hear them neck bones pop when she walks by
She's a very astute mover everything seems to behoove her
And she never for an instant wondered why

Clean across the table I was totally unable
To tear my eyes away and watch the game
When she slide out of her coat Lard it made a big knot in my throat
And I knew right then I'd never be the same

Two mad men don't feel no pain
Or care if it is all in vain
The night was cold and we were hot
And I feel them dollar pools make a man a fool
[ guitar ] Wonder if that other guy knew that he was a gonna die
Or if he heard my pool cue slice the air
I tried to call the other day but my whole family moved away
Guess I'm lucky not to get the chair

Two mad men don't feel no pain...
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2.

LEARNING TO LIVE AGAIN

(Bob McDill) « © '81 Ranger Bob Music, ASCAP / PolyGram Int, ASCAP »
Well I've been a long time tryin' to heal this broken heart
And all I've done is ease the pain before I end up apart
But it's hard to get back on your feet when you take one on the chin
And Lord it ain't no easy thing learning to live again

Oh headaches heartaches hiccoughs heartbreaks healin' and holdin' on
Long days long nights dim lights hold tight ever since you've been gone
Oh I'll shake it or take it and somehow I'll make it till the hurtin' ends
But Lord I think I'm dyin' learning to live again
[ guitar ] Well I try to keep my pride up and raise this achin' head
But it's hard to start life over when you've been left for dead
It seems I just get on my feet and my knees begin to bend
I'm gonna be awhile I know learning to live again

Oh headaches heartaches hiccoughs heartbreaks...
Lord I think I'm dyin' learning to live again
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3.

CALL ME THE BREEZE

(John J. Cale) « © '81 Johnny Bienstock Music, BMI »
Well they call me the breeze I keep blowing down the road
They call me the breeze I keep blowing down the road
I ain't got me nobody so I ain't carryin' me no load

Ain't no change in the weather ain't no change in me
Ain't no change in the weather ain't no change in me
I ain't hidin' from nobody ain't nobody hidin' from me
[ guitar ] I got that green light baby I gotta be movin' on
I got that green light baby I gotta be movin' on
I might go out to California might go down to Georgia to my home

Yeah they call me the breeze...
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4.

TAKE ME AS I AM (OR LET ME GO)

(Boudleaux Bryant) « © '54 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Why must you always try to make me over
Take me as I am or let me go
White lilies never grow on stalks of clover
Take me as I am or let me go

You're trying to reshape me in a mold love
In the image of someone you used to know
But I won't be a stand-in for an old love
Take me as I am or let me go
[ steel ] You've tried to change me ever since you met me
Take me as I am or let me go
If you don't want me like I am forget me
Take me as I am or let me go
Then take me as I am or let me go
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5.

LET HIM ROLL

(Guy Clark) « © '76 World Song Publishing, ASCAP »
Let him roll Lord let him roar
He always said that heaven was just a Dallas whore

He was a wino tried and true
Done about everything there is to do
He worked on freighters he worked in bars
He worked on farms and he worked on cars
It was white port that put that look in his eye
That grown men get when they need to cry
We sat down on the curb to rest
And his head just fell down on his chest
He said every single day it gets
A little bit harder to handle and yet
And he lost the thread and his mind got cluttered
And the words just rolled off down in the gutter
He was elevator man in a cheap hotel
In exchange for the rent on a one room cell
He's old in years beyond his time
Thanks to the world and the white Port wine
So he says son he always called me son
He said life for you has just begun
And he told me a story that I'd heard before
How he fell in love with a Dallas whore
He could cut through the years to the very night
When it ended in a whore house fight
And she turned his last proposal down
In favor of being a girl about town
Now it's been seventeen years right in line
And he ain't been straight none of the time
Too many days of fightin' the weather
And too many nights of not being together
So he died
[ harmonica ] When they went through his personal affects
In among the stubs from the welfare checks
Was a crumblin' picture of a girl in a door
An address in Dallas and nothin' more
The welfare people provided the priest
A couple from the mission down the street
Sang Amazing Grace and no one cried
Cept some lady in black way off to the side
We all left and she was standing there
Black veil coverin' her silver hair
And 'ol ene-eyed John said her name was Alice
And she used to be a whore in Dallas

Let him roar Lord let him roll
Bet he's gone to Dallas rest his soul
Lord let him roll Lord let him roar
He always said that heaven was just a Dallas whore
Let him roar Lord let him roll
I bet he's gone to Dallas rest his soul
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6.

NEW CUT ROAD

(Guy Clark) « © '79 World Song Publishing, ASCAP »
Coleman Bonner was a fiddle playin' fool
He's a backwoods rounder and a breaker of mules
Coleman Bonner's got a wore out bow
He's been playin' two days down the new cut road

Now Coleman's little sister said you better act right Coleman
Daddy's gone to Louisville he'll be back tonight
He's gonna get another wagon and a good pair of mules
Oh we gonna move to Texas we just waitin' on you

Now Coleman's daddy he pulled up in the yard
He said pack up your lives kids it's gettin' too hard
Kentucky's alright but there's too many people
For just the other day I thought I saw a church steeple

Now Coleman said daddy don't you worry bout me
I'm gonna stay here in Kentucky till the day I d
I wanna drink that sourmash I wanna race that mare
And I got me woman with the fox red hair

Now you all been movin' west since the day you got married
Well I'm gettin' off the wagon daddy I'm too old to be carried
Gonna stay here in Kentucky where the bluegrass grow
I'm gonna play it all night down the new cut road
[ fiddle ] Now Coleman's daddy said what's it all comn' to
Young people these days are just as stubborn as mules
You can't make him go he's too old for that
It's that damned old fiddle and that bowler hat

Now Coleman's mama said let the boy stay
Cause he's raised up solid and he can find his own way
But as for me honey I'm with you
I always thought Kentucky was just passin' through

Coleman's little sister she started into a cryin'
And his daddy shook his head for the very last time
Coleman's mama said somebody gotta do it
Wouldn't be no Kentucky less you didn't stick to it Coleman

Coleman Booner stood on the porch of that cabin
Watched 'em all go to Texas in a covered wagon
He pulled out his fiddle and he rosined up his bow
And he played a little tune called the new cut road
[ fiddle ] **********

7.

SHE IS GONE

(Willie Nelson) « © '78 Full Nelson Music, BMI »
She is gone but she was here
And her presence is still heavy in the air
What a taste of human love
But she is gone and it don't matter anymore

But I don't care she was mine
Now her heart belongs to someone I don't know
She is gone but she was here
And my life will never be the same again
[ steel ] Crossing dreams with our lives
It was more than just a woman and a man
It was love without disguise
Now my life will never be the same again

Cause she is gone but she was here
And her presence is still heavy in the air
What a taste of human love
But she is gone and it don't matter anymore
[ steel ] She is gone but she was here
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8.

DROPPING OUT OF SIGHT

(Tom T. Hall) « © '66 New Keys Music, BMI / Unichappell Music, BMI »
I'll be dropping out of sight for a while
I'll be crying hey but crying ain't my style
If they ask you how I took it say I smiled
But I'll be dropping out of sight for a while

This old town can do without me for a laughing stock
Since she's gone I'm in a funny state of shock
And I'm so troubled I could walk a thousand miles
So I'll be dropping out of sight for a while
[ steel + fiddle ] Now if you don't see me living like I did
It's because the coward in me went and hid
So before this same old circle drives me wild
I'll be dropping out of sight for a while
Well I'll be dropping out of sight for a while
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9.

SUMMER WAGES

(Ian Tyson) « © '69 WB Music, ASCAP »
Never hit seventeen when you play against the dealer
For you know the odds won't ride with you
Never leave your woman alone when your friends are out to steal her
Years I've gambled and lost like summer wages

And we'll keep rolling on till we get to Vancouver
And the one that I love who's living there
It's been six long months and more since I've seen her
May be gambled and gone like summer wages

In all of the beer bars down along Main Street
The dreams of the seasons are all spilled out on the floor
All the big stands of timber just waitin' for falling
And the hookers waitin' watchfully as they sit there by the door

So I'll work on the towboats with my slippery city shoes on
Which I swore I would never do again
Through the gray fog-bound straits where the cedars stand a waitin'
I'll be far off and gone like summer wages
[ fiddle ] In all of the beer bars down along Main Street...
So I'll work on the towboats...
Years I've gambled and lost like summer wages
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10.

WHITE FREIGHT LINER BLUES

(Townes VanZandt) « © '81 Bughouse Music, ASCAP / Katie Bell Music, ASCAP »
I'm goin' out on the highway listen to them big trucks whine
Goin' out on the highway listen to them big trucks whine
White freight liner won't you steal away my mind

New Mexico ain't bad Lawd the people there they treat you kind
New Mexico ain't bad Lawd the people there they treat you kind
White freight liner won't you steal away my mind

Bad news from Houston half of all my friends all died
Bad news from Houston half of all my friends all died
White freight liner won't you steal away my mind
[ guitar ] Lord I'm gonna ramble till I get back to where I came
I said Lord I'm gonna ramble till I get back to where I came
White freight liner won't you haul away my mind

If you see Miss Caroline tell her that I'm doin' fine
If you see Miss Caroline tell her that I'm doin' fine
Till that white freight liner it done hauled away my mind

I'm goin' out on the highway...
[ guitar ] **********