Another love before my time made your heart sad and blue
And now my heart is paying now for things I didn't do
In anger unkind words are said that make the teardrops start
Why can't I free your debtful mind and melt your cold cold heart [ steel - fiddle ]
You'll never know how much it hurts to see you sit and cry
You know you need and want my love yet you're afraid to try
Why do you run and hide from life to try it just ain't smart
Why can't I free your debtful mind and melt your cold cold heart
There was a time when I believed that you belonged to me
But now I know your heart is shackled to a memory
The more I learn to care for you the more we drift apart
Why can't I free your debtful mind and melt your cold cold heart
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Everybody's longin' for somebody else but nobody's lonesome for me
Everybody's dreamin' bout somebody else but nobody dreams about me
All I need is a bride who wants a big hearted groom
I wouldn't care if she came ridin' in on a broom
Everybody's lonesome for somebody else but nobody's lonesome for me [ steel - fiddle ]
Everybody's pinin' for somebody else but nobody's pinin' for me
Everybody's crazy bout somebody else but nobody's crazy bout me
Oh I shine up my shoes and then I slick down my hair
Put on my Sunday suit but I ain't goin' nowhere
Everybody's lonesome for somebody else but bobody's lonesome for me
Everybody's yearnin' for somebody else but nobody's lonesome for me
Everybody's fallin' for somebody else but nobody's fallin' for me
Now I ain't had a kiss since I fell out of my crib
It looks to me like I've been cheated out of my rib
Everybody's lonesome for somebody else but nobody's lonesome for me
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I got a hot rod Ford and a two dollar bill
And I know a spot right over the hill
There's soda pop and the dancin's free
So if you wanna have fun come along with me
Say hey good lookin' whatcha got cookin'
How's about cookin' somethin' up with me [ steel - fiddle ]
I'm free and ready so we can go steady
How's about sharin' all of your company
Hey sweet baby don't you think maybe
You could find us a brand new recepie
I'm gonna throw my datebook over the fence
And buy me one for five or ten cents
I'll keep it till it's covered with age
Cause I'm writin' your name down on every page
Say hey good lookin' whatcha got cookin'
How's about cookin' somethin' up with me
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Well Sug I took one look at you and it almost drove me mad
And then I even want and lost what little sense I had
Now I can't tell the day from night I'm crazy as a loon
You got me chasin' rabbits pullin' out my hair and howlin' at the moon
Some friends of mine asked me to go out on a huntin' spree
Cause there ain't a hounddog in this state that can hold a light to me
I ate three bones for dinner today I tried to tree a coon
You got me chasin' rabbits I'm cratchin' fleas and howlin' at the moon
I rode my horse to town today and a gaspump we did pass
I pulled him up and I hollered whoa and I said fill him up with gas
The man picked up a monkey wrench and wham he changed my tune
You got me chasin' rabbitts spittin' out teeth and howlin' at the moon
I never thought in this old world a fool could fall so hard
But honey baby when I fell the whole world must have jarred
I think I'd quit my doggish ways if I'd take me for your goom
You got me chasin' rabbitts pickin' out rings and howlin' at the moon
Each time I try to dress myself my hat looks like my coat
Today I try to tie a sock around my silly throat
A human being can't live like this something's got to happen soon
You got me chasin' rabbitts talkin' to myself and howlin' at the moon
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Why oh why did you desert me are you doing this for spite
If you only want to hurt me then there'll be no teardrops tonight [ fiddle - steel ]
I believe that you still love me when you wear your veil of white
But you think that you're above me and there'll be no teardrops tonight
Shame oh shame for what you're doing other arms will hold you tight
You don't care whose life you ruin so there'll be no teardrops tonight
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If you missed me half as much as I missed you
You wouldn't stay away half as much as you do
I know that I would never be this blue
If you only loved me half as much as I loved you
If you loved me half as much as I loved you...
If you missed me half as much as I missed you...
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Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and fillet gumbo
Cause tonight I'm gonna see my little cher amio
I'm gonna pick guitar fill fruit jar and be gay-o
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou [ fiddle ]
Thibodaux Fontaineaux the place is buzzin'
Kinfolk come to see Yvonne by the dozen
Dress in style and go hog wild and be gay-o
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou
Yeah jambalaya and a crawfish pie and fillet gumbo...
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Ain't had no lovin' like a huggin' and a kissin' in a long long while
We don't get nearer or further or closer than a country mile
Why don't you spark like you used to do
And say sweet nothings like you used to coo
I'm the same old trouble that you've always been through
So why don't you love me like you used to do
Well why don't you be just like you used to be
How come you find so many faults with me
Somebody's changed so let me give you a clue
Why don't you love me like you used to do
Ain't had no lovin' like a huggin' and a kissin' in a long long while
We don't get nearer or further or closer than a country mile
Why don't you say things you used to say
What makes you treat me like a piece of clay
My hair's still curly and my eyes are still blue
Why don't you love me like you used to do
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A picture from the past came slowly stealing
As I brushed your arm and walked so close to you
Then suddenly I got that old time feeling
I can't help it if I'm still in love with you [ fiddle - steel ]
It's hard to know another's lips will kiss you
And hold you just the way I used to do
Oh heaven only knows how much I miss you
I can't help it if I'm still in love with you
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We'll take in all the honky tonks tonight we're a havin' fun
We'll show the folks a brand new dance that never has been done
I don't care who thinks we're silly you'll be daffy and I'll be dilly
We'll order up two bowls of chili settin' the woods on fire [ fiddle - steel ]
I'll gas up my hot rod stoker we'll get hotter than a poker
You'll be broke but I'll be broker tonight we're settin' the woods on fire
We'll sit close to one another up one street and down the other
We'll have a time oh brother settin' the woods on fire
We'll put aside a little time to fix a flat or two
My tires and tubes are doin' fine but the air is showing through
You clap hands and I'll start howlin' we'll do all the laws allowin'
Tomorrow I'll be right back plowin' settin' the woods on fire
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You give away your kisses but you never give your heart
To anyone who's fool enough to fall
You don't feel love you don't want real love
You're window shopping that's all
