TRAVIS TRITT
DOWN THE ROAD I GO
(Columbia CK-62165)
October 3/2000
Produced by Billy Joe Walker
Brent Mason, James Burton, Albert Lee, Ray Flacke - el.guitar
Larry Byrom, Dan Dugmore, Billy Joe Walker, Mac McAnally - ac.guitar
Jerry Douglas - dobro
Glenn Worf, Mike Brignardello - bass
Greg Morrow - drums/percussion
John B. Jarvis - piano/organ
Pat Coil - synthesizer
Glen Duncan - fiddle
Aubrey Haynie - fiddle/mandolin
Carl Jackson - banjo/vocals
Jelly Roll Johnson - harmonica
Vocals:
Dana McVicker, Curtis Wright, John Wesley Ryles, John Cowan, Wes Hightower
1.
DOWN THE ROAD I GO
(Bob DiPiero - Dennis Robbins - Travis Tritt)
« © '00 Love Monkey Music, BMI »
Let me tell you baby you want to pin me down
Better get your hammer girl and nail me to the ground
Cause you won't find no grass stains on the bottom of my feet
The only home I've ever known is out there on the street
You call me insane honey that's my middle name
And I don't care which way the wind will blow
Cause I don't know so down the road I go
You see I tried to settle down not too long ago
You can lock my body up but you can't calm my soul
I don't want to hurt you or put you on a shelf
But my daddy told me all my life you've got to be yourself
You call me insane...
(Oh get on)
[ guitar ]
I'm sure there's lots of guys out there who've learned to tow the line
Complared to them my life may look a wreck
But girl you've been to college so you should know by now
And if you can't understand me what the hell did you expect
I'm giving you fair warning I'm gonna say goodbye
And when I'm walking out the door don't want to hear you cry
There's so much highway out there that I ain't never seen
And all I need is cigarettes guitars and gasoline
You call me insane...
Down the road I go I'll see you around
Cause I'm leaving town yeah yeah yeah
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2.
LIVIN' ON BORROWED TIME
(Bob DiPiero - Dennis Robbins - Travis Tritt)
« © '00 Love Monkey Music, BMI »
Well I'm swimmin' in debt and the money's all gone
I ain't got nothin' I can call my own
Work my fingers to the blood and bone
For a big disappointment when my paycheck comes
If I only had a little I could do just fine
I could put a down payment on some peace of mind
But I'm hangin' at the end of a credit line
Lord I'm just livin' on borrowed time
My truck's financed through the union bank
But I don't have enough to even fill the tank
I'd take you for a drive girl but I just can't
Cause the damned old motor won't even crank
Our trailer's plenty big if we lived outside
But I can't swing the payments on a double wide
You better hold a place in that welfare line
Cause I'm just livin' on borrowed time
Well if it comes real cheap but it don't come free
Then it stays off limits to a guy like me
They say it brings trouble having money to burn
I reckon that's a lesson I won't have to learn Lord Lord
[ guitar ]
Well if it comes real cheap...
Yeah I bought my wife a little diamond ring
Her mom said hon can't even see that thing
It'll be paid off when I'm sixty-five if I'm lucky enough to still be alive
Even if I was to up and pass away my family doesn't have enough to dig my grave
No tombstone just an old wood sign sayin' he was just livni' on borrowed time
I'm out there swingin' from a credit line Lord I'm just livin' on borrowed time
Lord I'm just livin' on borrowed time
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3.
BEST OF INTENTIONS
(Travis Tritt)
« © '00 Travis Tritt Publishing, BMI »
I had big plans for our future said I'd give you the whole world somehow
I tried making good on that promise thought I'd be so much further by now
Never could build you a castle even though you're the queen of my heart
But I've had the best of intentions from the start
Now some people think I'm a loser cause I seldom get things right
But you make me feel like a winner when you wrap me in your arms so tight
Please tell me you will remember no matter how much I do wrong
That I had the best of intentions all along
I gave you a ring and I promised you things I always thought we'd do
But my best-laid plans slipped right through my hands to show my love for you
And if you could read my heart then you'd know without exception
It was all with the best of intentions
[ piano ]
I gave you a ring...
So here I am asking forgiveness and praying that you'll understand
Don't think I take you for granted girl I know just how lucky I am
Though you deserve so much better you won't find devotion more true
Cause I've had the best of intentions girl I've had the best of intentions
Yes I've had the best of intentions loving you oh oh
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4.
IT'S A GREAT DAY TO BE ALIVE
(Darrell James Scott)
« © '95 April Music, ASCAP »
I got rice cooking in the microwave got a three day beard I don't plan to shave
And it's a goofy thing but I just gotta say hey I'm a doing alright
Yeah I think I'll make me some homemade soup
Feeling pretty good and that's the truth
It's neither drink nor drug induced no I'm just doing alright
And it's a great day to be alive I know the sun's still shinin' when I close my eyes
There's some hard times in the neighborhood but why can't every day be just this good
It's been fifteen years since I left home said good luck to every seed I'd sown
Give it my best and then I left it alone oh I hope they're doin' alright
Now I look in the mirror and what do I see a lone wolf there starin' back at me
Long in the tooth but harmless as can be Lord I guess he's doing alright
And it's a great day to be alive...
Sometimes it's lonely sometimes it's only me and the shadows that fill this room
Sometimes I'm falling desperately callin howling at the moon ooh ooh
Well I might go get me a new tatoo or take my old Harley for a three day cruise
Might even grow me a fu man chu
And it's a great day to be alive...
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5.
LOVE OF A WOMAN
(Kevin Brandt)
« © '94 Songs Of Lastrada, BMI »
My baby knows me better than I do
Funny how a woman has that over a man
So I can do anything with her here beside me
Leaning on her's where I make my stand
Where would we be without the love of a woman
Standing behind her man even when he's wrong
The true pure undying love of a woman
Makes a man a fool to think he can make it alone
My daddy was a wild one when he was younger
Everybody told my mama he'd be hard to tame
Full of himself he said sir to nobody
But you oughta see him come a running when mama calls his name
Where would we be...
[ steel - guitar ]
A man goes crazy trying to catch his feelings
Too much pride or maybe the words come out wrong
But that's okay cause he's still her hero
Steady as a rock her love keeps rolling along
Where would we be...
Makes a man a fool to think he can make it alone
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6.
NEVER GET AWAY FROM ME (FOR WAYLON AND JESSI)
(Bob DiPiero - Dennis Robbins - Travis Tritt)
« © '00 Love Monkey Music, BMI »
I was a real Casanova in my hometown
Never really thought about settling down that is until you came around
Yeah it's been a few years but I remember it well
I was a rowdy no-gooder you were hotter than hell
I spent all my time hot on your trail
You could've run through the mountains could've sailed across the deep blue sea
I knew from the start couldn't let you get away from me
Well your mama and your daddy they didn't approve
They told you me was trash and I was born to lose
But that didn't faze me I was gonna have you
So I begged and I pleaded something I'd never done
And sure as tomorrow has a rising sun
There was no mistake honey you were the one
You could've run through the mountains could've sailed across the deep blue sea
But one thing's for sure you would never get away from me
The sweetest things in life take you by surprise
Like the heaven I see looking in your eyes
Though you weren't sure how an outlaw's love would be
I made up my mind not to let you get away from me
[ guitar ]
As we get a little closer to our rocking chairs
I think back on the good life that we have shared
And how our love has grown down through the years
So snuggle up to me baby turn out the lights
There's no where on this earth I'd rather be tonight
Then lying in your arms holding you tight
As time rolls by one thing's still plain to see
I'd have been a fool to let you get away from me
You could've run through the mountains could've sailed across the deep blue sea
But I'd have been a fool to let you get away from me
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7.
MODERN DAY BONNIE AND CLYDE
(Walt Aldridge - James Leblanc)
« © '00 April Music, ASCAP »
Well it's a long way to Richmond rolling north on 95
With a redhead ridin' shotgun and a pistol by my side
Tearing down that highway like a modern day Bonnie and Clyde
We met at a truckstop Johnson City Tennessee
I was gassin' up my Firebird when I heard her calling me
Said which way are you headed boy do you need some company
She had me stoppin' at a quick mart before we made it out of town
Next thing she was running at me telling me to lay that hammer down
Cause there's a man right behind me doin' his best to slow me down
Yeah and it's a long way to Richmond...
[ dobro ]
Well we pulled up to a motel in the middle of the night
We were countin' all the money smokin' stolen Marlboro lights
Lord we never saw 'em comin' till they read us both our rights
Yeah and it's a long way to Richmond rollin' north on 95
With a sheriff right beside me pistol pointed at my side oh Lord
Such a disappointing ending for this modern day Bonnie and Clyde yeah
[ dobro ]
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8.
I WISH I WAS WRONG
(Tommy Conners - Monte Warden)
« © '00 Warner-Tamerlane Publishing, BMI »
I never saw it coming learned the hard way love is blind
But you can't deny the bitter truth when it's right begore your eyes
But I wish I was wrong your love for me is gone
I know beyond a doubt there's no use in hanging on
But I wish I was wrong
The world trembled there beneath me it was more than I could stand
That you'd take comfort in the arms of another man
I searched my heart for answers I looked deep down in my soul
From denial to revelation that I'd have to let you go
But I wish I was wrong...
Yes I wish I was wrong
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9.
IF THE FALL DON'T KILL YOU
(Travis Tritt - Charlie Daniels)
« © '00 Wooley Swamp Music, BMI »
They'd been high school sweethearts since they were just fifteen
A storybook beginning with the wedding of their dreams
Consumed by his ambition he soon left her at home
With a promise and an empty house and too much time alone
Her boredom turned to drinking and drinking turned to lies
And he let her get too far gone before he realized
And you wouldn't recognize them if you'd known them way back when
Cause now the flame of love's burned out and can't be lit again
And it's the same old story you've heard a thousand times
Somebody's trust gets broken somebody's left behind
You try walking a tightrope but it's all uphill
And if the fall don't kill you Lord the heartbreak will
Two more childhood sweethearts in a small town far away
Committed to each other since before their wedding day
This will last forever that's what the whole town said
But there are some temptations that can turn a good man's head
She was unexpeced when she came home from town
She never even noticed all the window shades pulled down
And though he begged forgiveness she turned and ran away
With the image of betrayal that time just can't erase
And it's the same old story...
And it's a sad old benediction to a wasted slice of life
And there's an overwhelming price you've got to pay
It's a losin' proposition and it cuts just like a knife
You can't expect the hurt to go away
And it's the same old story...
And if the fall don't kill you Lord the heartbreak will oh yeah
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10.
JUST TOO TIRED TO FIGHT IT
(Stewart Harris - Travis Tritt)
« © '92 Peer Music, BMI »
Here comes that same old memory like a movie in my mind
You told me you loved another then you drove off through the pines
And I swear it feels like yesterday though it's been a long long time
I can still feel those cold chills running up and down my spine
And I've been fightin' back the memories I've been fightin' back the tears
And I'm fightin' back the hurt I still feel after all these years
If I had the strenght I'd fight to make things like they were before
But I'm just too tired to fight it anymore
Everyday my heart reminds me how I boldly spoke those lines
I can get along without you and I'm gonna be just fine
But the nights alone grew colder than I ever thought they'd be
And I spend every hour searching for what you took out of me
And I've been fightin' back the memories...
I thought time would overcome the torture
But instead I'm getting weaker every day yeah yeah
[ guitar ]
Oh I've been fightin' back the memories...
There ain't no way to hide it I'm just too tired to fight it anymore
Yeah I'm just too tired to fight it anymore
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11.
SOUTHBOUND TRAIN
(Travis Tritt - Charlie Daniels)
« © '00 Wooley Swamp Music, BMI »
Well she was born in a north woods town twenty-one winters ago
And she grew tired of the freezing cold and living in the blinding snow
This girl knew she wouldn't be there long cause she had plans and dreams
And she'd seen pictures of the sunshine state in the pages of the magazine
So she waited them tables and she used her smile saving every penny she can
For a one-way Dixie bound Amtrak ticket headed for the promised land
Her momma and daddy begged her not to go when the day she dreamed of came
And she waved goodbye sittin' way up high from the window of a southbound train
Now she's got a fire burnin' deep inside ridin' on a southbound train
And the clickety-clack of that railroad track only helps to fan the flames
No more worries no more cares she left them up in Bangor Maine
Now she's startin' a brand new life ridin' on a southbound train
[ steel - fiddle ]
She said hello sun good mornin' Daytona you're sure looking good to me
With your ocean breeze and your tall palm trees and your southern hospitality
Now she's a knockout queenie in a string bikini she's drivin' all the boys insane
And this all started with a small town dream and a ticket on a southbound train
Cause she had a fire burnin' deep inside ridin' on a southbound train
And the clickety-clack of that railroad track only helps to fan the flames
No more worries no more cares she left them up in Bangor Maine
Yeah she likes the boys with the southern drawl soakin' up the sunshine havin' a ball
She'll be the first to tell you that she owes it all to ridin' on a southbound train
[ guitar - fiddle - piano ]
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