To Niag’ra in a sleeper,
There’s no honeymoon that’s cheaper, And the train goes slow.
Ooh ooh ooh!
Off, we’re gonna shuffle,
Shuffle off to Buffalo.
Tommy played piano like a kid out in the rain
Then he lost his leg in Dallas, he was dancin’ with a train
They were all in love with dyin’, they were drinkin’ from a fountain
That was pourin’ like an avalanche coming down the mountain
All my exes live in Texas,
And, Texas is the place I’d dearly love to be,
All my exes live in Texas,
That’s why I hang my hat in Tennessee
In my Tennessee mountain home
Life is as peaceful as a baby’s sigh
In my Tennessee mountain home
Crickets sing in the fields near by
All my ex’s live in Texas,
And Texas is the place I’d dearly love to be.
But all my ex’s live in Texas,
And that’s why I hang my hat in Tennessee.
(Hey, we think alike)
There’s a yellow rose in Texas,
I’m going back to see,
No one could miss her,
Half as much as me…
Rumor spreadin’ ‘round
In that Texas town
About that shack outside La Grange
(And you know what I’m talkin’ about)
Just let me know if you wanna go
To that home out on the range
(They got a lot of nice girls)
It’s just a little bitty pissant country place
Ain’t nothing much to see
No drinking allowed, we get a nice quiet crowd, plain as it can be
It’s just a piddly squatting old time country place
Well, It’s alright to be little bitty,
A little home town or a big ol’ city,
Might as well share, might well smile,
Life goes on for a little bitty mile…
Turn me loose, set me free
Somewhere in the middle of Montana
Give me all I’ve got coming to me
And keep your retirement
And your so-called Social Security
Big city, turn me loose and set me free
Meet me in Montana,
I wanna see the mountains in your eyes
I’ve had all of this life I can handle
Meet me underneath that big Montana sky…
Wedding bells will ring so merrily
Every tear will be a memory
So wait and pray each night for me
Till we meet again
She could hear those church bells ringing, ringing
And up in the loft, that whole choir singing, singing
Fold your hands and close your eyes
Yeah, it’s all gonna be alright
. . . but Alice doesn’t live in the restaurant, she lives in the
church nearby the restaurant, in the bell-tower, with her husband Ray and
Fasha the dog. And livin’ in the bell tower like that, they got a lot of
room downstairs where the pews used to be in. Havin’ all that room,
seein’ as how they took out all the pews, they decided that they didn’t
have to take out their garbage for a long time.
Goin’ to the chapel,
And were gonna get married,
Goin’ to the chapel of love…
You saw me crying in the chapel,
The tears I shed were tears of joy.
I know the meaning of contentment;
I am happy with the Lord.
Everybody knows the secret,
Everybody knows the score,
I have finally found a way to live
In the color of the Lord
“I am the midnight watchman down at Miller’s Tool and Die.
And I watch the metal rusting, and I watch the time go by.
A week ago at the diner I stopped to get a bite.
And this here lovely lady she sat two seats from my right.
And Lord, Lord, Lord she was alright.”
He made me a watchman
Upon the city walls
And if I am a Christian
I am the least of all
Day by day, oh, dear Lord, three things I pray
To see thee more clearly
Love thee more dearly
Follow thee more nearly, day by day