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DIRTY DIRTY MEN BYE BYE MAMA (2) Bye Bye mama, I hate to see you go You're tired of our home life, you gone with that fun-time Joe (2) Keep your lights low, don't step over no dirty cats He's a fast-talking crook, wears too many kinds of hats (2) When your world's in shambles, I'll be waiting at my door Once you come in, baby, you ain't going back for more FIRST DEGREE (2) A crime's in motion, won't somebody call the law I know my baby's with someone, laying out there in the raw (2) Break the doors all down, get everybody on the street Let's get organized people, arrest everybody that you meet (2) I want to see a line-up, just as long as this whole town Get a warrant right out, for whoever ain't around (2) Just as soon as we catch them, they got to hang in the first degree For all the suffering, suffering they caused poor me TAR RIVER FLOOD (2) Can't you see my blood, hanging over yonder hill All the faces that won't die down, memories the floods can't kill (2) The Tar River is rising up, rising to my happy home It keep on rising up that way, it's gonna soak us to the bone (2) Look at the river grow, look at the tears in my children's eyes Smoke won't blow from our chimney no more, only sound is my babies cries (2) Cry babies cry cry cry, all we owned will be lost away There won't be nothing when the river drains, house won't hold till the break of day (2) Dark night has fallen, evil lips are on my soul The muddy deep is calling me, from a chilly night without a burning coal (2) But those voices from long long ago, are moaning in the raining sky Telling me I can't let go, these are hardships I must defy (2) We gonna build our lives back up, on the land where our parents lie Get the home fires burning bright, this is where I plan to die This is where I plan to die, on the land where our kinfolk lie (2) Muddy water go on back home, get your mudprints off my floor I'm gonna build a house once more, gonna build me a stronger door 
SWEET BLOOD CALL (2) I'd have a hard time missing you, baby, with my pistol in your mouth You may be thinking about going north, but your brains are staying south (2) Just roll your pretty eyes, if you intend to stay Close them up again, and I'll blow you world away I see your eyes are rolling, Must mean your love for me's come back Must mean you're satisfied again, With our little one-room country shack (2) Even if you slip away, I'd find you before night fall You're tied to me little girl, I can feel your sweet blood call TURKEY KILLER (2) I'm a turkey killer, I don't care what the people say Take your hands off that turkey, I'm gonna blow his tail away (2) I done raised you woman, to be a frier in my pan Now you done let that meat get spoiled, by some lowdown dirty man (2) I'm a turkey killer, boy, you better tell the world goodbye You shouldn't have never landed on my woman, now you ain't never gonna fly
COLD WIND BLOWING (2) Cold wind is blowing, it's blowing all in my home My baby left the door open, when she left me all alone (2) I went to the table, that's where the telephone's supposed to be I ain't never owned one, nobody ever called me (2) I cried Lord Lord Lord, where could my baby go? I can't close my door, and I know it's going to snow (2) I ain't got no fireplace, I ain't got no kindling wood The cold wind is blowing, and it don't mean me no good GOING TRAIN BLUES (2) Hear that train whistle holler, blowing through the night Gonna leave my baby, if we have one more fight (2) Where that train can take you, you always got to go If my baby keeps on bothering me, I'm going out that front door (2) Hear them wheels whipping, on that hard luck steel My baby would be crying, if she knowed how I feel (2) She can lock the door, she can't hold that whistle down If that woman don't quit fussing, I'm gonna leave this old town I'D RATHER SAY GOODBYE RIGHT HERE I've always had my doubts, that I could trust you to the end You don't feel like my love no more, and I know you ain't no friend I really think that you should tell me, if it's worth this heavy load Because I'd rather say goodbye right here, than further down the road And don't look so sad I think I've got the strength right now, if you want to end your lying
RECREATION BLUES (2) Lord, sweet Lord, will you create my baby once again I ruined your creation, I sent her back to a road of sin (2) She used to sit on her front porch, waiting for her drunken man to make it home I kept that gal so lonely, 'till she finally started in to roam (2) Lord Lord Lord, she was such a work of art It was the weakness in my body, that finally broke her heart (2) If you ever ever ever, make a woman like that over again I'd be scared to trust myself with her, I'd just try and be her friend MIDNIGHT RAMBLER (2) I'm a midnight rambler, I don't see no one town twice I don't need none of your calf liver, I can make it on beans and rice (2) Cold nights don't bother me, I lost my baby long ago Now walking is my loving, keeps me from feeling low (2) When a man calls me, I just turn my ornery back I can't stand no more pain, I done finally lost the knack (2) I'm a midnight rambler, I'll be gone before you know Stand by your window, baby, you might get a chance to see me go BLACK NIGHT ROAD (2) I know this old road, can't get her back again I don't expect no help, it's goodbye to my friends (2) Black night road, no moon or stars in sight I'd give anything, to see some friendly light (2) My baby's dead, she found another man I'm out here on this road, trying to do what I can (2) Oh, Lord, who's been fooling with my fate I can't go on, I keep running into hate (2) Black night road, don't you leave me way out here I just can't go on, my poor heart is full of fear
LOVING YOU IS A SLOW WAY TO DIE Oh, baby, I just got to tell you this I'm really hurting, honey, I'm telling you no lie You gave me the run around, and put me through such hell Oh, loving you is such, a slow slow way to die I wish I could shake this feeling in my heart I'm going crazy, baby, you're tearing me apart I wanted us to make it, but you don't even try Yeah, loving you, sweet baby, is such a slow slow way to die I know I ought to get in my car and go It's all so stupid, I'm wasting time I know But you got my heart tied up in such a knot You're the only thing that I will ever really want Oh, baby, sweet baby, I almost feel ashamed I got to be the biggest fool, that ever called your name I see what's happening, but I can't tell you no Yeah, loving you, oh baby, is such a slow slow way to go ROBBIN' THE GRAVE (2) Come in this morning, you know I wasn't feeling all right My best friend told me, my baby died one winter night (2) I was off looking for work, I was going to bring her on along There wasn't no hiring, so I come on back home (2) I loved to hear her laugh, when we stayed up half the night STOLE FROM ME The woman took my wallet, while I was having a whiskey sleep Some cheap woman took my wallet, while I was having a drunken sleep Send back the picture, the rest you're free to keep (2) The girl I love is in the picture, always smiling back at me She's with another man, but the picture is all I ever see (2) The money the stealer got, won't buy her nothing new It's brought only heartache, since my girl told me we were through (2) Next woman I ever get, I'm gonna lock up the door Swallow my wallet, so it can't get stole no more
I WAS BETTER KNOWN FOR LOVING (UNTIL I MET YOU) I know folks think I am mean and careless beyond compare They let me out of jail today, I had to put five hundred down I don't know why I don't like being mean, it just comes out when I drink A GOOD WOMAN (2) The women I've known, they've done turned my poor heart cold They're fooling me while I'm young, they'll be fooling me when I get old (2) It's hard for me to find, a woman I believe will be true to me Because they sneak around like rattle snakes, and they sting like a bumble bee (2) I'm getting tired of being all alone, and being in all this misery They've got lots of numbers on the telephone, if I need somebody to talk to me (2) It's gonna take a good woman, to warm my heart up again But she ain't been born yet, that's why I'm heading around the bend Published by
Southern Pines Music Publishing Co. (BMI)
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