Yes they'll all come to meet me arms areaching smiling sweetly
Yes it's so good to touch the green green grass of home
The old house is still standing though the paint is cracked and dry
And there's that old oak tree that I used to play on
Down the lane I walk with my sweet Mary hair of gold lips like cherries
It's good to touch the green green grass of home
Now I awoke looked around me at the grey walls that surround me
And I realized I was only dreaming
For there's a guard and there's the sad old padre arm in arm we'll walk at daybreak
And again I'll touch the green green grass of home
Yes they'll all come to meet me arms areaching smiling sweetly
It's so good to touch the green green grass of home
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Well it's not clinging to the rocks and I'd be planted on their columns now that bind me
Oh or somethin' that somebody said because they thought we fit together walking
It's just knowing that the world will not be cursin' or forgivin'
When I walk along some railroad track and find
You're movin' on the back roads by the river of my mem'ry
For hours you're just gentle on my mind [ guitar ]
I still might run in silence tears of joy might stain my face
And a summer sun might burn me till I'm blind
But not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the back roads
By the rivers flowin' gentle on my mind
Yeah 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 down across my face
Through cupped hands round a tin can I pretend I hold you to my breast and find
That you're waving from the back roads by the river of my mem'ry
Ever smiling ever gentle on my mind
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Soon I'll return bringing you all the love your heart can hold
Please say si si say you and your Spanish eyes will wait for me [ guitar ]
Soon I'll return...
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Lotten da la da da da lotten da la a da de dee
Yeah talkin' bout you and me and the games people play
Oh 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
Neither one will ever give in so we gaze at an eight by ten
Thinkin' bout the things that might have been it's a dirty rotten game
Lotten da la da da da...
People walkin' up to ya singing glory hallelujah
And they're tryin' to sock it to ya in the name of the Lord
They're gonna teach you how to meditate read your horoscope cheat your fate
And furthermore to hell with hate come on get on board
Lotten da la da da da...
Look around and tell me what you see what's happened to you and me
God grand 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 and you don't give a lot
Lotten da la da da da...
Lotten da la da da da...
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There goes my reason for living there goes the one of my dreams
There goes my only possesion there goes my everything
As my mem'ry turns back the pages
I can see the happy years we had before
Now the love that kept this old heart beating
Has been shattered by the closing of the door
There goes my reason for living...
There goes my everything
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I wanna live live and let live I want all the love this life has to give
I wanna smile and be friendly with you I wanna live and let you live some too [ guitar ]
Rover is big Tabby is small Betty is short Jimmy is tall
They wanna live live and let live they want all the love this life has to give
They wanna smile and be friendly with you they wanna live and let you live some too
They wanna live and let you live some too
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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 [ guitar ]
Yes today I started loving you again
Yes I'm right back where I've really always been
And I got over you just long enough to let my heartaches mend
Then today I started loving you again
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And I have found a new love dear and I'll always want her near
Her lips are warm while yours are cold release me my darling let me go [ steel - piano ]
Oh please release me can't you see you'd be a fool to cling to me
To live a lie would bring us pain so release me and let me love again
Yes release me and let me love again
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There'll be no mansions waiting on the hill with crystal chandeliers
And there'll be no fancy clothes for you to wear
Everything I have is standing here in front of you to see
All I have to offer you is me [ steel ]
Sweetheart I'll give you all my love in every way I can
But make sure that's what you want while you're still free
The only gold I have for you is in this wedding band
Cause all I have to offer you is me
There'll be no mansions waiting on the hill...
All I have to offer you is me
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Uh baby's packed her soft things and she left me
But I just know she didn't mean to make me cry
It's not her heart it's just her mind she didn't mean to be unkind
Why she even woke me up to say goodbye [ guitar ]
Uh baby's packed her soft things oh and left me...
She even woke me up to say goodbye
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Yes Lord you gave me a mountain a mountain oh I may never climb
And it isn't a hill any longer you gave me a mountain this time
My woman got tired of the hardships tired of the grief and the strife
So tired of working for nothing tired of being my wife
She took my one ray of sunshine she took my pride and my joy
And she took my reason for living she took my small baby boy
Yes this time Lord you gave me a mountain...
You gave me a mountain this time
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