1. MOANIN’ OF THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN

BUTCH HANCOCK

Sweetheart, your heart is loaded down

  with useless burdens and bones… 

I can tell by the tear stains on the letter 

  you wrote me from the twilight zone… 

    You ask if I miss you… yes, of course I miss you…  

      I miss you every night or two… 

    When I hear the Moaning of the Midnight Train  

      it reminds me so much of you.

Wandering all alone down the road to roam… 

  Wondering ‘bout the seeds you sowed…

A rock is a rock… a hard place is a hard place… 

  but a road is a road is a road… 

    You trash it out and clean it up and almost get it right

      about the time you’re finished and through… 

    When I hear the Moaning of the Midnight Train  

      it reminds me so much of you.

One day it’s not enough… One day it’s too much… 

  One day it’s just a little bit of each… 

One day you’re face to face and you don’t even touch…

  You walk away when it’s well within your reach…

    With that wall all around you, it was me you let in…

      You said nobody but nobody would do… 

    When I hear the Moaning of the Midnight Train, 

      it reminds me so much of you.

Scratching out a living… Scratching the surface… 

  It’s just the tip of the iceberg, Kid… 

The last place you look is where you’re gonna find it… 

  and you don’t even know what it is that’s hid… 

    But don’t feel so sad… you’re not doing so bad…

      I mean… you got this far without a clue… 

    When I hear the Moaning of the Midnight Train, 

      it reminds me so much of you.

2. Long Time Gone

FRANK HARTFORD AND TEX RITTER

You cheated me and left me lonely

I tried to be your very own

There'll be a day you'll want me only

But when I leave, I'll be a long time gone

Be a long time gone

Be a long time gone

Yes, when I leave, I'll be a long time gone

You're gonna be sad, you're gonna be weepin'

You're gonna be blue and all alone

You'll regret the day you seen me weepin'

'Cause when I leave, I'll be a long time gone

Be a long time gone

Be a long time gone

Yes, when I leave, I'll be a long time gone

You'll see my face through tears and sorrow

You'll miss the love you called your own

Baby, there'll be no tomorrow

'Cause when I leave, I'll be a long time gone

Be a long time gone

Be a long time gone

Yes, when I leave, I'll be a long time gone

Long Time Gone lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

3. SNOWIN’ON RATON

TOWNES VAN ZANDT

When the wind don't blow in amarillo

And the moon along the gunnison don't rise

Shall I cast my dreams upon your love, babe

And lie beneath the laughter of your eyes

It's snowin' on raton

Come morning I'll be through them hills and gone

Mother thinks the road is long and lonely

Little brother thinks the road is straight and fine

Little darling thinks the road is soft and lovely

I'm thankful that old road is a friend of mine

Bid the years good-bye you cannot still them

You cannot turn the circles of the sun

You cannot count the miles until you feel them

And you cannot hold a lover that is gone

Tomorrow the mountains will be sleeping

Silently the blanket green and blue

All that I shall hear the silence they are keeping

I'll bring all their promises to you

4. SHE SMILES LIKE A RIVER

by Leon Russell

Well she smiles just like a river

Rolling softly to the sea.

When she blows away my problems

She helps to take, take a little weight off me.

When she's happy, I'm in heaven.

If she's down, she'll never say.

'Cause she knows I'm treading water.

Guess she feels I'm better off that way.

But when sadness overcomes me; I'm blinded by the night,

She takes my hand and leads me to the light.

And she wisphers in the morning; she knows the words to say

To keep me looking forward to the new day.

So I try just to be her lover

And I hope she understands

When I hurt her or make her crazy

That I'm just an ordinary man.

Yeah she smiles just like a river

Flowing softly to the sea.

When she blows away my problems

She helps to take a little weight off me.

5. LOVE OH LOVE PLEASE COME HOME

LEON JACKSON

As you read this letter that I write to you

Sweetheart I hope you understand

That you're the only love I knew

Please forgive me if you can

Sweetheart I beg you to come home tonight

I'm so blue and all alone

I promise that I'll treat you right

Love, oh love oh please come home

That old wind is cold and slowly creeping 'round

And the fire is burning low

The snow has covered up the ground

Your baby's hungry sick and cold

6. "Give My Love To Rose”

JOHNNY CASH

I found him by the railroad track this morning
I could see that he was nearly dead
I knelt down beside him and I listened
Just to hear the words the dying fellow said

He said they let me out of prison down in Frisco
For ten long years I've paid for what I've done
I was trying to get back to Louisiana
To see my Rose and get to know my son

Chorus:
Give my love to Rose please won't you mister
Take her all my money, tell her to buy some pretty clothes
Tell my boy his daddy's so proud of him
And don't forget to give my love to Rose

Tell them I said thanks for waiting for me
Tell my boy to help his mom at home
Tell my Rose to try to find another
For it ain't right that she should live alone

Mister here's a bag with all my money
It won't last them long the way it goes
God bless you for finding me this morning
And don't forget to give my love to Rose

Chorus:
Give my love to Rose please won't you mister
Take her all my money, tell her to buy some pretty clothes
Tell my boy his daddy's so proud of him
And don't forget to give my love to Rose

7. TREASURE OF LOVE

GEORGE JONES

[Verse 1]
I've got a pocket full of pennies
The heart full of gold
Though my troubles are many
I have treasures untold
And the shack that I live in
Is a palace to me
For the treasure of love
The treasure of love, you gave to me

[Verse 2]
In this world there are riches
That money can't buy
Like the treasure of true love
A love that won't die
So why should I worry
What tomorrow will bring
For the treasure of love
The treasure of love, makes me a king

[Verse 3]
Though my clothes are all tattered
And I've seen better days
Know it really don't matter
For I'm rich in other way
Yes, my pockets are empty
But still wealthy, I'll be
With the treasure of love
The treasure of love, you gave to me

8. SATIN SHOES 

JOE ELY

If your headed down to the river

Be sure to catchup on the news

You know they open up all the floodgates 

When Hanna wears them satin shoes

Tell me Hanna, 

Where’d you get them satin shoes?

Tell me Hanna

Where’d you get them satin shoes?

When I see miss Hanna coming

I start talking like a fool

Sweatin’ like a preacher

walking like a mule

Tell me Hanna, 

Where’d you get them satin shoes?

Tell me Hanna

Where’d you get them satin shoes?

Well her Momma she done warn me

Her Papa warned me too

“Son, watch out for Hanna

When she wears them satin shoes”

Tell me Hanna, 

Where’d you get them satin shoes?

Tell me Hanna

Where’d you get them satin shoes?

There ain’t no use pretending

You know you gonna lose

The odds they just ain’t even 

When Hanna wears them satin shoes

Tell me Hanna, 

Where’d you get them satin shoes?

Tell me Hanna

Where’d you get them satin shoes?

The sheriff’s got his lights on

He says she’s messing’ with the peace

Them shoes has got the blood hounds

chasing the police

Tell me Hanna, 

Where’d you get them satin shoes?

Tell me Hanna

Where’d you get them satin shoes?

Tell me Hanna, 

Where’d you get them satin shoes?

Tell me Hanna……

9. The Ballad Of Honest Sam

PAUL SIEBEL

There never was a bad man in the movies
Who could lie and cheat like Honest Sam.
In the card room down at Louie's
He takes the pay from the working man.

Chorus:
Lay your cards upon the table,
And everybody show their hand.
Foiled again you sad-eyed losers,
Foiled again by Honest Sam.

Once, there came a simple stranger.
He caught Sam cheatin' and words was said.
Sam just winked at Joe the Strangler,
Joe, he shot that stranger dead.

Chorus

Now Honest Sam lives in a mansion,
And he sails his ships out on the sea.
And if the Devil's paid his ransom,
Well I guess he'd pay for you and me.

Chorus

10. Mama Does The Kangaroo

BUTCH HANCOCK

Everybody dancin' on a Saturday night

Mama and Papa got it down so tight

They do a slow dance

They do a fast one too

Papa does the monkey

Mama does the kangaroo

Mama and Papa practice everything they preach

They took little baby sister right down to the beach

They took the whole fam-damn-ily on down to the zoo

That's where Papa does the monkey

And Mama does the kangaroo

CHORUS

Papa does the monkey

Mama does too

But when Papa does the monkey

Mama does the kangaroo

You want to do the monkey

Get out on a limb

Tickle your ribs till your eyes grow dim

That will be the monkey

And it'll feel good too

Papa does the monkey

Mama does the kangaroo

And if you want to do the kangaroo

Don't be a chump

Get a little runnin' start

And jump, jump, jump

Keep a'jumpin'

Till the music's through

That'll be the monkey

And that'll be the kangaroo

CHORUS

Papa does the monkey

Mama does too

But when Papa does the monkey

Mama does the kangaroo

I saw the rhino reekin' havoc on the floor

He danced with everybody

Everybody wanted more

I saw the giraffe drinkin' a long-neck brew

I saw Papa do the monkey

And Mama do the kangaroo

CHORUS

Papa does the monkey

Mama does too

But when Papa does the monkey

Mama does the kangaroo

11. SHE BELONGS TO ME

BOB DYLAN

She's got everything she needs, she's an artist

She don't look back

She's got everything she needs, she's an artist

She don't look back

She can take the dark out of the nighttime

And paint the daytime black

You will start out standing

Proud to steal her anything she sees

You will start out standing

Proud to steal her anything she sees

But you will wind up peeking through her keyhole

Down upon your knees

She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall

She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall

She's nobody's child, the law can't touch her at all

She wears an Egyptian ring, it sparkles before she speaks

She wears an Egyptian ring, it sparkles before she speaks

She's a hypnotist collector, you are a walking antique

Bow down to her on Sunday

Salute her when her birthday comes

Bow down to her on Sunday

Salute her when her birthday comes

For Halloween, buy her a trumpet

And for Christmas, get her a drum

12. I Don't Blame You

ERNEST TUBB & JIM SCOTT

C                                   F

I have been a wayward lover and I'm sorry

      G7                                  C

For I know that you have been so sweet to me

                                           F

All the bad things I have done now come to haunt me

      G7                            C

Every moment some mistake I seem to see

                                              F

I don't blame you now that you have turned me down

         G7                           C

Now that I have full possession of my mind

                                      F

I have cheated on you every where and how

        G7                                  C

I don't blame you for I know I'm wrong this time

                                            F

There’s an aching in my heart that seems so heavy

      G7                              C

And a yearning for your love is in my soul

                                  F

I can see the happy days we had together

         G7                             C

Now that I have made my future dark and cold

                                              F

I don't blame you now that you have turned me down

         G7                           C

Now that I have full possession of my mind

                                      F

I have cheated on you every where and how

        G7                                  C

I don't blame you for I know I'm wrong this time

13. MOBILE BLUES

MICKEY NEWBURY

Headed south to work a pipeline
Make some cash while in the meantime
Baby jumped a bird and flew away

Lordy, Lordy, my, my mind's achin'
Drunk and down and out and makin' time
With anything that comes my way

Staggered to the Greyhound station
L.A. ma'am my destination
Put me on that dog take me away

Mobile blue Lord, I can't make it
Got me down Lord, I can't take it
Here in Alabama for one more day

Lord I called a friend in Frisco Lord
He said baby's in L.A
Here I am in Alabama and two thousand miles away
Lord I got them mobile blues today

Aw I left her back in Frisco, Lord
She begged me not to go
I know somebody must have told her
That I travel and I lie

14. RAMBLIN MAN

BUTCH HANCOCK

Well I'm your Ramblin' Man and I can lift your latch

I could stay here, Mama, but I got me some trains to catch.

When that cold north wind stops blowing

I'll still be walking the line

You ever see me laughing little lady,

I'm laughing just to keep from crying

I'm your Ramblin' Man and some Christmas time

Won't you hang my holy socks on a midnight line.

Well that mountainside's just gonna sit there

That river's gonna rush on by.

But don't ask me to hang around

I couldn't stay here if I tried

I'm your Ramblin' Man and I can go where I choose

And if you sing me a song, Mama, make it a midnight blues.

Well don't that moon look beautiful, Baby,

Climbing up through the sky?

Well it looks like I'm gonna chase that moon

Mama, 'til the day I die

I'm your Ramblin' Man and there ain't no doubt

I'm gonna hang out late, Mama, with the midnight crowd

Where the silver starlight glistens

On the green mossy banks of time

I'm gonna spend my long nights listening

And looking for a star that's mine

I'm your Ramblin' Man, and 'til I come home

Won't you hang my midnight mail on a rolling stone

Ramblin' Man lyrics © BMG Rights Management

15. SITTIN ON TOP OF THE WORLD

Walter Vinson / Lonnie Chatmon

Was in the spring

One sunny day

My sweetheart left me

Lord, she went away

And now she's gone

And I dont' worry

Lord, I'm sitting

On top of the world

She called me up

From down in Al Paso

She said "Come back, daddy

Ooh, I need you so"

And now she's gone

And I dont' worry

Lord, I'm sitting

On top of the world

If you don't like my peaches

Don't you shake my tree

'N Get out of my orchard

Let my peaches be

And now she's gone

And I dont' worry

Lord, I'm sitting

On top of the world

And don't you come here runnin'

Holding out your hand

I'm gonna get me a woman

Like you got your man

And now she's gone

And I dont' worry

Lord, I'm sitting

On top of the world

'T Was in the spring

One sunny day

My sweetheart left me

Lord, she went away

And now she's gone

And I dont' worry

Lord, I'm sitting

On top of the world

11.RIVER FEVER 

BY JOE ELY

With some silver tongued bull rider from La Grange

Later that night weren't you down at the Continental

Swinging from the chandeliers and actin' strange

Baby you got it bad

Like everyone I know

Baby you've got it bad

And you don't want to let it go

I got a line on you, you got the river fever

Like a bumblebee buzzin' round a honey comb

I got a line on you, you got the river fever

Too late to skate too early to head for home

You sure looked fine in the beer sign light, baby

Scootin' your boots up and down the Broken Spoke

You shined on me like moonlight on a river

I wanted to talk but the words stuck in my throat

Oh baby you got it bad

Like everyone I know

Baby you've got it bad

And you don't want to let it go

I got a line on you, you got the river fever

Like a bumblebee buzzin' round a honey comb

I got a line on you, you got the river fever

Too late to skate too early to head for home

Don't they say that nightlife makes you crazy

The same ones that say that sex will make you blind

Don't they see the good times make you lazy

When the music plays, the moon will blow your mind

Baby you got it bad

Like everyone I know

Baby you've got it bad

And you don't want to let it go

I got a line on you, you got the river fever

Like a bumblebee buzzin' round a honey comb

I got a line on you, you got the river fever

Too late to skate too early to head for home