1.

Walking On New Grass

Ray Pennington

© Pamper Music, BMI

I'm like a cloud driftin' from town to town
And each new love just helps me on my way
No one woman's ever gonna tie me down
When one gets too close I just back up and say

Well I gotta be walkin' on new grass singin' a new song
Tomorrow there's no telling where I'll be
But I'll be walkin' on new grass singin' a new song
The next town up the road keeps a calling me

I'm warning you don't fall in love with me
I don't plan on a being here too long
You're just a leaf caught in a playfull breeze
I'll carry you a while then be movin' on

Cause I gotta be walkin' on new grass singin' a new song...
[ instrumental ]
I won't take roots I never stay that long
And a bad seed just won't grow anyway
This rolling stone don't want to gather no moss
So when the grass starts to grow then I'll be on my way

Cause I gotta be walkin' on new grass singin' a new song...
The next town up the road keeps callin' me

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2.

Another Bridge To Burn

Harlan Howard

© Pamper Music, BMI

I've had to burn most every bridge I've crossed
It seems like everyone I've loved I've lost
When I met you I thought my luck had turned
But our love's just another bridge to burn

I'll soon light the match and move on
I've already lingered much too long
Now I'm so hurt and you're so unconcerned
And our love's just another bridge to burn
[ instrumental ]
Sometimes one must love enough for two
And that's how it's been with me and you
I'll see your face no matter where I'll turn
And our love's just another bridge to burn

I'll soon light the match and move on...

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3.

Honky Tonkin'

Hank Williams

© Fred Rose Music, BMI

Well if you're sad and lonely and got no place to go
Call me up sweet mama and bring along some dough

And we'll go honky tonkin' honky tonkin'
We'll go honky tonkin' honey baby
We'll go honky tonkin' round this town
[ instrumental ]
Well if you and your sweet daddy have a falling out
Call me up sweet mama and we'll go stepping out

And we'll go honky tonkin' honky tonkin'...
[ instrumental ]
Well we're goin' to the city to the city fair
If you come to the city honey you gonna find me there

And we'll go honky tonkin' honky tonkin'...
Yes we'll go honky tonkin' round this town

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4.

Am I Locking Someone In

Joe Hayes - Fatima Atchley

© Sawgrass Music, BMI

When you left I changed the locks on all the doors
And I swore I'd never let you in no more
But I feel your presence here just like a ghost
Each time I lock the door is when I feel it most

Am I lockin' someone out or someone in
I've got a feeling you're in the house again
Oh I wish I knew what this was all about
Am I lockin' someone in or someone out
[ instrumental ]
I just watch TV till it goes off each night
Then I lock the door and turn out all the lights
That's when you appear and I just stand and stare
I flip back all the lights and find there's no one there

Am I lockin' someone out or someone in...
Am I lockin' someone in or someone out

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5.

Pick Me Up On Your Way Down

Harlan Howard

© Pamper Music, BMI

You were mine for just a while now you're puttin' on the style
And you've never once looked back at your home across the track
You're the gossip of the town but my heart can still be found
Where you tossed it on the ground pick me up on your way down

Pick me up on your way down when you're blue and all alone
When their glamour starts to bore you come on back where you belong
You may be their pride and joy but they'll find another toy
Then they'll take away your crown pick me up on your way down
[ instrumental ]
They have changed your attitude now you're haughty and so rude
Your new friends can take the blame underneath you're still the same
When you've learned these things are true I'll be waiting here for you
As you tumble to the ground pick me up on your way down

Pick me up on your way down when you're blue and all alone...

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6.

I Washed My Face In The Morning Dew

Tom T. Hall

© Newkeys 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 just 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 moving along

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

So I washed my face in the morning dew...

The third strange town I was ever in
Seemed settled peaceful and nice
The rich got richer and the poor got poorer
And to me that didn't seem right

So I washed my face in the morning dew...

Someday times are bound to change
It can't be very far
And each injustice I have seen
Will come before the bar

Then I'll wash my face in the morning dew
Bathe my soul in the sun
Wash my face in the morning dew
And my journey will be done

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7.

The Carroll County Accident

Bob Ferguson

© Warden Music, BMI

Carroll County's pointed out as kinda square
The biggest thing that happens is the county fair
I guess that's why it seems like such a big event
What we all call the Carroll County accident

The wreck was on the highway just inside the line
Walter Browning lost his life and for a while
It seemed that Mary Ellen Jones would surely die
But she lived long enough for her to testify

Now Walter Browning was a happy married man
He wore a golden wedding ring upon his hand
But it was gone nobody knew just where it went
He lost it in the Carroll County accident

Mary Ellen testified he flagged her down
Said he was sick and could she drive him into town
And no one even doubted what she said was true
Cause she was well respected in the county too

I went down to see the wreck like all the rest
The bloody seats the broken glass the tangled mess
But I found something no one else had even seen
Behind the dash in Mary's crumpled up machine

A little matchbox circled by a rubber band
And inside the ring from Walter Browning's hand
It took a while to figure out just what it meant
The truth about the Carroll County accident

By dark of night I dropped the ring into a well
And took a sacred oath that I would never tell
The truth about the Carroll County accident
Cause the county ordered dead a marble monument
I lost him in the Carroll County accident
I lost him in the Carroll County accident

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8.

Good Deal Lucille

Jimmy D. Miller - Al Terry - Charles Theriot

© Acuff-Rose Music, BMI

Goodbye Lou cherche vous another man
Said l'amour portoujour if you can
You're high class you've got a past now you're a wheel
Ho ho good deal Lucille

Go your way leave today that's your plan
Leave me here cherche vous another man
Paint the town sorrows drown that's how I feel
Ho ho good deal Lucille
[ instrumental ]
(Ho ho good deal Lucille)

Parlez vous here's to you it's your game
If I'm here or I'm gone it's all the same
Call the tune stack the cards this is your deal
Ho ho good deal Lucille

Au revoir so long and goodbye
C'est la vie woe is me me oh my
Paint the town sorrows drown that's how I feel
Ho ho good deal Lucille

Ho ho good deal Lucille
Ho ho ho ho ho good deal Lucille

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9.

Let Me Talk To You

Danny Dill - Don Davis

© Cedarwood Pub, BMI

Just one more dance just one more chance so I can talk to you
Don't live too fast forget the past and I will try to prove
I would do anything you want me to
Don't run around don't turn me down let me talk to you

Don't go too far with that crowd at the bar
That's not the way to win please fall in love again
Give me your heart so I can start to build our life anew
I know you've paid so if you're afraid let me talk to you
[ instrumental ]
Don't go too far with that crowd at the bar...

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10.

Ballad Of Forty Dollars

Tom T. Hall

© Newkeys Music, BMI

The man who preached the funeral say it really was a simple way to die
He lay to rest one afternoon and never opened up his eyes
And 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 oughta go and watch them put him down but I don't own the suit
And 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've got to go to work and mow the grass

Here they come and who's that ridin' in that big ole shiny limousine
Look at all that chrome I do believe that that's the sharpest thing I've seen
That must belong to his rich 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
He's not even in the ground and they say that his truck is up for sale
They say she took it pretty hard but you can't tell too much behind a veil

Listen ain't that pretty when the bugler plays the military taps
I think that's when you's in the war they always hide 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 the fellow owes me forty bucks

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11.

I Lived So Fast And Hard

Dolly Parton

© Velvet Apple Music, BMI

Well I was raised on corn bread and gravy
I slept in a cardboard box till I was nearly three
I've bathed myself in a muddy river runnin' by our shack
By the time that I had reached thirteen
I'd been through hell and back

And I've been thrown from pillar to post
I've been banged around and scarred
I've done so much I've seen so much
I've lived so fast and hard
Lived so fast and hard

Now mama died when I was young and I never knew my dad
I never had the lovin' care that other children had
I spent five years in an orphan's home but I ran off one day
And I hoboed on an old freight train to San Francisco Bay

I've fought in the war I've been in jail
There ain't much I ain't done
I'd lived as much as any man
Fore I was twenty one I was twenty one
[ instrumental ]
And I've been thrown from pillar to post...

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