1.

I'll Be Your San Antonio Rose

Susanna Clark

© Sunbury Music, ASCAP

If they'll play another love song
If that Miller Highlife sign stays dim
If you keep my glass full of whiskey
I'll whisper words I wish I'd said to him

Just ask me to dance all the slow ones
Hold me close and take me cross the floor
I'll gently lay my head on your shoulder
And pretend this never happened before

I don't want to hear a sad story
We both already know how it goes
So if tonight you'll be my tall dark stranger
I'll be your San Antonio Rose
[ guitar - fiddle ]
Well I wish I could tell you I love you
And I wish that he weren't always on my mind
If wishes were fast trains to Texas
Oh I'd ride and I'd ride how I'd ride

I don't want to hear a sad story...
[ guitar ]
I'll be your San Antonio Rose

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2.

Even Cowgirls Get The Blues

Rodney Crowell

© Visa Music, ASCAP

She's a rounder I can tell you
That she can sing 'em all night too
She'll raise hell about the sleep she lost
Even cowgirls get the blues

Especially cowgirls they're the gypsy kind
And need their reins laid on 'em loose
She's lived to see the world turned upside down
Hitching rides out of the blue

But even cowgirls get the blues
Sometimes bound to don't know what to do
Sometimes get this feeling like she's too far gone
he only way she's ever been
[ guitar ]
Lonely nights are out there on the road
Motel ceilings stare you down
There must be safer ways to pay your dues
But even cowgirls get the blues

Even cowgirls get the blues...
Even cowgirls get the blues...

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3.

Amarillo

Rodney Crowell - Emmylou Harris

© Wait And See Music, BMI

My baby never was the cheatin' kind
But it wasn't cause the ladies didn't try
Now everywhere we go they're walkin' round him slow
Givin' him a flutter and a sigh

Now I got him past that redhead in Atlanta
Lord I walked all over that black-eyed Cajun queen
But outside of Amarillo he found his thrill I'll tell you
Oh I lost him to a jukebox and a pinball machine

Oh Amarillo what'd you want my baby for
Oh Amarillo now he won't come home no more
You done played a trick on me hooked him in the first degree
While he put another quarter push Dolly and then Porter
While he racks up fifty thousand on the pinball machine
[ steel ]
If we only hadn't stopped in there for coffee
If someone hadn't played the Window Up Above
Oh he'd still be mine today but he heard those fiddles play
One look and then I knew this must be love

Oh that pinball machine was in the corner
Well he saw the lights and he had to hear 'em ring
And he never was the same after he won his first free game
Oh I lost him to a jukebox and a pinball machine

Oh Amarillo what'd you want my baby for...
Oh Amarillo what'd you want my baby for...

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4.

The Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

Rodney Crowell - Emmylou Harris

© Irving Music, BMI

I hear the sound of sorrow in the wind
Blowing down from every mile I've ever been
Calling me out on some road that just won't end
Where the sweetheart rides the rodeo again

A thousand nights a thousand towns I took the bows
There is no compensation for me now
Out along the highway where the west was won
No matter how fast I ride or far I run

Waiting for the sweetheart of the rodeo
They're comin' down from Tonopah to Tupelo
She'll come to town to ride the radio
Like she's slidin' down the walls of Jericho
There goes the sweetheart of the rodeo
[ steel ]
I stepped into the light you left behind
I stood there where all the world could see me shine
Oh I was on my way to you to make you mine
But I took the longest road that I could find

Waiting for the sweetheart of the rodeo...

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5.

Queen Of The Silver Dollar

Shel Silverstein

© Evil Eye Music, BMI

She arrives in all her splendor each night at nine o'clock
Her chariot is the crosstown bus that stops right down the block
Now the old piano minstrel plays her tune as she walks in
And the Queen of the Silver Dollar's home again

She's the Queen of the Silver Dollar she rules this smoky kingdom
Scepter is a wine glass and a bar stool is her throne
Now the jesters flock around her tryin' to win her favors
To see which one will take the Queen of the Silver Dollar home

Now her royal dress is satin it's shabby and it's torn
The royal jewels are rhinestones the shoes are scuffed and worn
Of the many roads she's been down and the places that she's seen
Well they all look at her and say God save the Queen

She's the Queen of the Silver Dollar she rules this smoky kingdom...

Now the Queen of the Silver Dollar is not as haughty as she seems
She was once an ordinary girl with ordinary dreams
But there's a man who found her and he brought her to this world
He's the one who made a Queen of a simple country girl

Yes I'm the the Queen of the Silver Dollar I rule this smoky kingdom
Scepter is a wine glass and a bar stool is my throne
Now the jesters flock around me tryin' to win my favors
To see which one will take the Queen of the Silver Dollar home

Yes I'm the Queen of the Silver Dollar I rule this smoky kingdom...
[ steel - fiddle ]
Na na na na na na na na...

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6.

One Paper Kid

Walter Cowart

© Drunk Monkey Music, ASCAP

Cowboys and indians and trees he could climb
Tomorrow came too fast but he didn't mind
The distance was short so light it again
It don't take no time to get where I am
But one paper kid wasn't really so mean
Just a little bit scared and a little bit green
And he'd heard of a place it was legal to dream
So he sat with his coffee in a blue taxes wind
And he wrote on a rock the one paper kid is rollin' again
[ harmonica ]
Driver was drunk or he just didn't see
The future is there it'll happen to me
And all the time that he wasted was his once again
It never gets long to get where you've been
Broken hearts scattered all over the past
Old glad memories trying to last
Whiskey and women and growing up fast
Fussing and loving and itching like grass
Hell that one paper kid wasn't really so mean
Just a little bit weird cause times were so lean
Now he's gone to a place where it's legal to dream
No Camels no coffee no cold morning winds
It was wrote on a rock the one paper kid is rollin' again
The one paper kid is rollin' again

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7.

Rose Of Cimarron

Rusty Young

© Fool's Gold Music, ASCAP

Roll along roll on Rose of Cimarron
Dusty days are gone Rose of Cimarron

Shadows touch the sand and look to see who's standin'
Waitin' at your window watchin' will they ever show
Can you hear them calling you know they have fallen on
Campfires cold and dark that never see a spark burn bright

Roll along roll on Rose of Cimarron...

Trails that brought them home echo names they've known
Four days high and lonely comin' to you only
You're the one they'd turn to the only one they knew who'd do
Ell her best to be around when the chips were down

Roll along roll on Rose of Cimarron...
[ guitar ]
Roll along roll on Rose of Cimarron...

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8.

Spanish Is The Loving Tongue

Charles Clark - Marc Williams - Billy Simon

© Happy Sack Music, ASCAP

Spanish is a loving tongue soft as music light as spray
Was a girl he learned it from living down Sonora way
He don't look much like a lover but he says her love words over
Mostly when he's all alone mi amor mi corazon

On the nights that he would ride she would listen for his spurs
Throw those big doors open wide raise them laughing eyes of hers
How those hours would get to flying all too soon he'd hear her sighing
In her little sorry tone mi amor mi corazon
[ mandolin ]
He ain't seen her since that night he can't cross the line you know
They want him for a gambling flight like as not it's better so
Yet he's always sort of missed her since that last sad night he kissed her
Lost his heart left her own adios mi corazon
Lost his heart left her own adios mi corazon

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9.

Cattle Call

Tex Owens

© Forster Music, ASCAP

The cattle are prowling the coyotes are howling
Out with the doggies bawl
Where spurs are jinglin' a cowboy is singin'
This lonesome cattle call

He rides in the sun till his day's work is done
And he rounds up the cattle each fall
Singin' this cattle call
[ dobro ]
For hours he will ride on the range far and wide
As the night wind blows up a squall
His heart is a feather in all kinds of weather
He sings his cattle call

He's brown as a berry from riding the prairie
And he sings with an old western drawl
Singin' this cattle call

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10.

Montana Cowgirl

Ray Park

© Fiddletown Music, ASCAP

For many long years I've played a lone hand
I rode my horse in many strange lands
Until one day I stopped for awhile
For two blue eyes and a sunny smile

So howl away you old coyote
I hear your sad and lonesome song
You're calling me back to old Montana
Back to those hills where I belong
[ banjo ]
One day I rode away from home
I'm a traveling back and it won't be long
I'll see you again in a little while
You're my darling sweet my welcome smile

So howl away you old coyote...
[ guitar - fiddle ]
So howl away you old coyote...

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