1.

Comfort Me

Craig Wiseman - Don Poythress

© Mrs Lumpkin's Poodle, ASCAP

Wake me my lady don't let me sleep
Open my eyes to the wonders you keep
Let me look at you see how you shine
I'll fall in love like I've done every time

Lay me in soft green grass down where the river runs
Under the mountain caps gold with the setting sun
Walk me along the bay beyond the verdant trees
Carry me with your grace forever comfort me

You walk on water searching the East
The souls of the masses pass at your feet
Looking up at you tears in their eyes
Fathers of fathers of fathers gone by

Walk me down old main streets ride me down rusty rails
Fields full of summer wheat peppered with rounded bales
Steeples where church bells ring lighthouses by the sea
Reach out through gathered storms faithfully comfort me

I am your tired I am your poor in spirit
Yearning to breathe breathe free breathe free

Lay me in soft green grass down where the river runs
Under the mountain caps gold with the setting sun
Walk me along the bay beyond the verdant trees
Carry me with your grace forever comfort me

Walk me down old main streets ride me down rusty rails
Fields full of summer wheat peppered with rounded bales
Steeples where church bells ring lighthouses by the sea
Reach out through gathered storms faithfully comfort me

Hey comfort me comfort me comfort me comfort me

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2.

Tickin' Away

Lore Orion

© Rev'd Up Music, BMI

The clock above the bar is telling me it's 12:15
And it's not such a gentle reminder that I'm where I shouldn't be

I just keep waiting for something to happen
Waiting for somebody to come walking in
Somebody as perfect as you were so I can try it again

But chances are so hard to come by
And the second one is impossible to find
The clock keeps running and the odds keep getting higher
That it's all just a fantasy of mine

But I shouldn't be thinking about it
I shouldn't be worried about it
It's just a clock on the wall
But it's ticking away it's ticking away
It's ticking away it's ticking away

I suppose I should cut all my losses
Go home with a six-pack of beer
There ain't nobody in the world like you baby
If there was she wouldn't be coming in here

But I shouldn't be thinking about it...

Yeah it's ticking away it's ticking away
It's just a clock on the wall but it's ticking away

I suppose I should cut all my losses
Go home with a six-pack of beer
Hey ticking away ticking away ticking away
Ticking away ticking away ticking away ticking away

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3.

Home

Craig Wiseman - Tommy Mullins

© Mrs Lumpkin's Poodle, ASCAP

Mama's got her apron on standing in the kitchen
Cooking up my favorite dish whatever she is fixing
Daddy's in a picture in a frame
That's always sitting by the phone

Daffodils are popping up out behind the clothesline
Underneath that tree I planted when I was just a boy of nine
Man I never can believe just how much it's grown when I go

Home back home to the gentle place that held be close
As I became a man and the streets are all familiar
And an old friend shakes my hand and I feel fine so fine
Yeah knowing that this road I'm wandering on
From time to time it always leads me home

Brother he'll be waiting with the latest from the grapevine saying
Man you won't believe them stories about those crazy friends of mine
And all them little scandals that a small town can't seem to leave alone

Later on we'll sit around bellies tight from supper
Telling all them stories that we just can't get enough of
And somewhere in an honest laugh

It'll finally hit me that I'm home back home
Where the memories all have gathered up
And slowly turned to gold
And I carry them along with me wherever I may go
And I feel fine so fine
In knowing that this road I'm wandering on
From time to time it always leads me home back home

Well I go and put some flowers down at daddy's stone
And I see that empty space beside him
It always makes me glad that I came

Home back home where the Bible is the Bible
And the angels get their wings and the circle is unbroken
When I hear them church bells ring and I feel fine
You know I feel so fine
Yeah knowing that this road I'm wandering on from time to time unwinds
Cross the rivers through the pines it always leads me home
Back home yeah I'm going back home back home

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4.

(# 5 country hit)
(# 40 pop hit)

Red Ragtop

Jason White

© Acuff-Rose Music, BMI

I was twenty and she was eighteen
We were just about as wild as we were green
In the ways of the world

She picked me up in that red rag top
We were free of the folks and hiding from the cops
On a summer night running all the red lights

We parked way out in a clearing in a grove
And the night was as hot as a coal burning stove
We were cooking with gas knew it had to last

In the back of that red rag top
She said Please don't stop

Well the very first time her mother met me
Her green eyed girl had been a mother to be for two weeks

I was out of a job and she was in school
And life was fast and the world was cruel
We were young and wild we decided not to have a child

So we did what we did and we tried to forget
And we swore up and down there would be no regrets
In the morning light but on the way home that night

On the back of that red rag top
She said Please don't stop loving me

We took one more trip around the sun
But it was all make believe in the end
No I can't say where she is today
I can't remember who I was back then

Well you do what you do and you pay for your sins
And there's no such thing as what might've been
That's a waste of time drive you outta your mind

I was stopped at a red light just yesterday
Beside a young girl in a cabriolet
And her eyes were green I was in an old scene

I was back in that red rag top
On the day she stopped loving me
I was back in that red rag top
On the day she stopped loving me

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5.

That's Why God Made Mexico

James Slater

© Warner-Tamerlane Pub, BMI

Margie said Roy you ain't listening to me
And I've got a whole lot more to say.
Roy just crossed the floor and picked up his car keys
And she ain't seen or heard from him to this day

And that's why God made Mexico a place where we can lay low
And the Cuervo goes down nice and slow
And the warm wind blows that's why God made Mexico

And Betty fixed Joe dinner every night at half past six
Cause that's when he rolled through that door
For sixteen years and not a thank you from his lips
She don't fix him dinner no more

And that's why God made Mexico a place where we can lay low...

Cause life is sweet in a border town
You learn to let your hair down
And you don't make trouble
You learn to dance the Fandango
You change your name maybe change your face
Get used to beans and chili paste
And you learn to live and love life in the slow lane

And that's why God made Mexico a place where we can lay low
Maybe Monterey or Acapulco anywhere the warm winds blow
Don't you know that's why God made Mexico
That's why God made made Mexico

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6.

(# 1 country hit)
(# 32 pop hit)

Watch The Wind Blow By

Anders Osborne - Dylan Altman

© Showbone Music, BMI

Creek goes rippling by
I've been bare footing all day with my baby
Brown leaves have started falling deading the way

I like it best just like this doing nothing all the way
So let's lay down in the tall grass dreaming away

And all I wanna do is let it be and be with you
And watch the wind blow by
And all I wanna see is you and me go on forever
Like the clear blue sky slowly there's only you and I
And all I want to do is watch the wind blow by

Girl you know you told me not so long ago
To let it come then let it pass
And all your troubles and your sorrows
They won't last

So let me kiss you now little darling
Beneath this autumn moon
Cold winds another season will be here soon

And all I wanna do is let it be and be with you...

Yeah and all I want to do is watch the wind blow by
And all I want to do is watch the wind blow by

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7.

Illegal

Lore Orion

© Rev'd Up Music, BMI

I put my money on love again at a hundred to one
I don't mind losing I'll just try till I win
Or see how close I can come

Oh it should be illegal it gets me so high
I can fly like an eagle night after night

I've known people who have thrown in the towel
Just 'cause they've lost once or twice
But it takes a believer to put all this faith
In the toss of the dice

Oh it should be illegal it gets me so high
I can fly like an eagle night after night

Oh it should be illegal it gets me so high
I can fly like an eagle yeah night after night

Night after night after night (after night after night)
Night after night after night (after night after night)
Night after night after night

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8.

Sleep Tonight

Hillary Lindsey - Troy Verges - Angelo Petraglia

© Green Wagon Music, ASCAP

Hey darkness don't you try
To steal the moment or close my eyes
I won't let you in

Cause this feels too damn good to me
All I want and all I need
Is her touch again and again and again

I don't wanna go to sleep tonight I don't want anything to change
I don't wanna wake up and find a different day
Yeah she makes me free here between the day and the twilight
I don't wanna go to sleep tonight

Time stops dead in your tracks
Turn around and don't look back
And just let us be

I'm gonna take this time and soak it up
Forever wouldn't be long enough
If you knew her you'd agree you'd agree with me

I don't wanna go to sleep tonight I don't want anything to change...

I wish the sun would just forget to come up
And just leave us wrapped up in this love

I don't wanna go to sleep tonight I don't want anything to change...

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9.

I Know How To Love You Well

Kristian Ottestad - Arne Honda

© Blackwood Music, BMI

It's been a long time since we walked that aisle together
And you became my wife and who would've thought
You would fall for someone just like me for the best days of my life

I may not be a poet cause I ain't so good on words
I may not stand before you like a knight in shining armor
I may not be the best of singers there's better guys I've heard
But I know how to love I know how to love you well

You got your faults and I don't need to tell you I've got mine
Well I guess they all even out wherever I ride
The thought of you turns water into wine and somehow I lose a crowd

I may not drive a fancy car I don't know what it's for
I may not be the one who gets to shower you with diamonds
I may not be a rich man but you can't call me poor
Cause I know how to love I know how to love you well

As we skip the light Fandango from that old jukebox by the bar
Now honey don't it make you wonder how we ever got this far

I may not be a poet cause I ain't got much to say
I may not stand before you like that knight in shining armor
I may not be the best of singers honey that's OK
Cause I know how to love I know how to love
I know how to love you well

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10.

Sing Me Home

Wayne Kirkpatrick - Gordon Kennedy

© Warner-Tamerlane Pub, BMI

I fell by the wayside I fell on my knees
Crying why was I so hard to please
I stood at the crossroads took a long look at me
Sometimes you don't know where you're from till you leave

And I've been out there searching for a place where I belong
And on my way I heard my song let it sing me home

The sun on my shoulders and the wind at my back
I'm bound and determined to get back on track
To where the heart is where it's been all along
Sometimes you don't know what you've got till it's gone
Gone gone gone

And I've been out there searching for a place where I belong
And on my way I heard my song let it sing me home

And I've been out there searching for a place where I belong
And on my way I heard my song let it sing me home

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11.

(# 2 country hit)
(# 27 pop hit)

She's My Kind Of Rain

Tommy James - Robin Lerner

© Working For The Man Music, BMI

She's my kind of rain like love in a drunken sky
She's confetti falling down all night

She sits quietly there like water in a jar
Says baby why are you trembling like you are

So I wait and I try I confess like a child

She's my kind of rain like love from a drunken sky
Confetti falling down all night she's my kind of rain

She's the sun set shadows he's like Rembrandt's light
She's the history that's made at night she's my lost companion
She's my dreaming tree together in this brief eternity
Summer days winter snow she's all things to behold

She's my kind of rain like love from a drunken sky
Confetti falling down all night she's my kind of rain

So I wait and I try I confess all my crimes

She's my kind of rain like love from a drunken sky
Confetti falling down all night she's my kind of rain

She's my kind of rain like love from a drunken sky
Confetti falling down all night she's my kind of rain

She's my kind of rain rain on me
She's my kind of rain she's my kind of rain
She's my kind of rain

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12.

Who Are They

Danny Tate - Brad Warren

© ATV Songs, BMI

They say not to have too much fun they say not to get too much sun
Democrat Republican I guess I'm screwed I'm neither one
Don't say hell say what the heck do what's politically correct
Don't pray in school but have safe sex isn't that what they expect

Who are they yeah you know what they say
Who are they someone I gotta pay
Who are they they're probably living in LA
And I don't care anyway who are they

They probably own the Village Voice the Nashville Scene The People's Choice
To me it's all a bunch of noise decided on by funny boys
They say who does and don't belong they say our hair's too short or long
They say who's right and who is wrong as if we'll all just come along

Who are they yeah you know what they say...

Well I wonder if they've got a life a broken car and two ex-wives
Do they drink beer on Friday night I wonder if they like to fight
And I wonder if they've got a soul or if they like their rock and roll
Where do they live I've got to know so I can tell them off or where to go

Who are they yeah you know what they say...

Well I don't care anyway who are they
They're probably living out in LA
Who are they aw you know what they say
Who are they who are they
Who are they who are they

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13.

(# 1 country hit)
(# 27 pop hit)

Real Good Man

George Teren - Rivers Rutherford

© Universal Music, ASCAP

Girl you've never known no one like me
Up there in your high society
They might tell you I'm no good
Girl they need to understand just who I am
I may be a real bad boy but baby I'm a real good man

I may drink too much and play too loud
Hang out with a rough and rowdy crowd
That don't mean I don't respect
My mama or my Uncle Sam yes sir yes ma'am
I may be a real bad boy but baby I'm a real good man

I might have a reckless streak at least a country mile wide
If you're gonna run with me it's gonna be a wild ride
When it comes to loving you I've got velvet hands
I'll show you how a real bad boy can be a real good man
(Here we go)

I take all the good times I can get
I'm too young for growing up just yet
Ain't much I can promise you cept to do the best I can
I'll be damned I may be a real bad boy
But baby I'm a real good man

I may be a real bad boy oh but baby I'm a real good man yes I am

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14.

All We Ever Find

Kim Johnston - Liz Rose

© ATV Tunes, ASCAP

Say exactly how you feel right now you're free to say it all
There is no one here to judge you I only love you
You're free to close your eyes and fall
You can trust me this is real say exactly how you feel

Tell me all your dreams and what you think love means
We'll lock the world outside embrace the gift of time
Promising forever knowing that this moment
Might be all we ever find

Every breath of who you are tells a story that I love
I have finally found the truth in what I see in you
And what I feel with every touch the simple beauty of your heart
In every breath of who you are

Tell me all your dreams and what you think love means...
Tell me all your dreams and what you think love means...

Promising forever knowing that this moment
Might be all we ever find

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15.

(# 49 country hit)

Tiny Dancer

Bernie Taupin - Elton John

© Dick James Music, PRS

Blue jean baby LA lady she was a seamstress for the band
Pretty eyed pirate smile she'll marry a music man
Ballerina you must have seen her dancing in the sand
And now she's in me always with me tiny dancer in my hand

Jesus freaks out in the street handing tickets out for God
Turning back she just laughs the boulevard is not that bad

Piano man he makes his stand in the auditorium
Looking on she sings the song
The words she knows the tune she hums

But oh how it feels so real lying here with no one near
Only you and you can hear me when I sing softly slowly

And hold me closer tiny dancer
And count the headlights on the highway
And lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today

Blue jean baby LA lady she was a seamstress for the band
Pretty eyed pirate smile yeah she married a music man
Ballerina you must have seen her she was dancing in the sand
And now she's in me always with me tiny dancer in my hand

And hold me closer tiny dancer
And count the headlights on the highway
And lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today
And hold me closer tiny dancer
And count the headlights on the highway
And lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today

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