He said, "I'll make your dreams come true in Texas? And he captured my Appalachian heart I was so naive that I believed him When he promised we'd never
On the back side of Dallas, in the dingy bar On a wornout stool she sits And her trembling hand thumbles for another Kingsize filter cigarette She blows
I got drunk in Austin Texas I missed my plane in North Carolina Spent all of my money on a long distance call Huntsville Prison walls so high I'm so lonesome
By David Allan Coe Well, I've hiked through the sage brush, I ran up some rail I slept on the bench in a few county jails And they laugh as they knocked
When your money's gone Friends have turned you down And you wander 'round Just like a hound (A lonesome houn') Then you stop to say "Let me go away from
There goes my reason for living there goes my everything I hear footsteps slowly walking as they gently walk across a lonely floor And a voice is softly
My driftin' mem'ry goes back to the spring of '43 When I was just a child in mama's arms My daddy plowed the ground and prayed that some day we could
Way back in '29 somewhere in Coffeeville Was a honky tonk named Big Mable Murphy's She had a sweetheart named Little Melvin And hair would fly between
I can see a long line of cars with their headlights on I can see kinfolks cryin' cause somebody's gone Then they gather around as it let the sinner men
I just left San Antonio Heading down to the town of Laredo Got my mind on the border of Mexico Gonna stop for a tank off To go at a place called a Purple
I didn't hear the engines of a jet plane I didn't hear the whistle of a train I didn't hear the taxi driver knockin' on my door I didn't hear her walkin
Before you take another step there's something you should know About the years ahead and how they'll be You'll be living in a world where roses hardly
(She wakes me with a kiss every morning) And she loves me to sleep every night How lucky I am to have searched for And found the beginning of the rest
Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp O.C. Smith Oh the path was deep and wide from footsteps leading to our cabin Above the door there burned a scarlet lamp
Sweetheart, it's been several days now Since they found me on the street But since then an old friend Lonely Five And he's got me back on my feet This
(Today I can feel it touching home) Today pain became a real life's hurtin' thing And the choir of loneliness sang me a song Now I know what it means
Last night she let the strong red wine carry her away She smoked up her old sunshine as if it still shined every day Her hand reached out and touched
The words of her promise, the flame of her faith And the love that would never drift away Where did they go, Lord, where did they go? Somehow forever