Tell the world I've recovered, tell them I can walk again
I guess they'll forget to call me all my foul weather friends
This time I was lucky when I was shoved against the wall
That there was something there behind me
or I know I would have fall

Well hello again my angel I'

I loved a sweet little thing she was just 16
Pretty as the stars above
But her mom snuck up to my pickup truck
I was snatched from the arms of love

I had a class full of sass disguised as math
The only reason I showed up
But the man with the chalk sent
me for a walk

Well when I was young my momma
Read the nursery rhymes beside my bed
And though they sounded mighty fine
They made no sense to me
But now that I am all grown up
It seems my life had changed as such
So I went out and made me up a nursery
rhyme for me

Chorus
I

Skinny dippin' in the Perdenales River
Country girl sure could make me shiver
Right now that's just what I could use
To wash away these big city blues

Hollywood stars beneath my feet
Everywhere I look I see concrete
I could use a little Southern rain
Blanco County c

Chorus
Don't call me a fool
I know where she's been
When they turn on those
Lights in town
She'll go there again
There's no need in cryin'
You don't make the rules
I know where she's goin'
So don't call me a fool

Well, I don't know the reason
That yo

I been hangin' round this place I been lookin' through your space
I been waitin' for you I've been waitin' for you
All the places you would go, All the people that you know
I've been lookin' for you I've been lookin' for you
and all those pretty people up on El Cerrito place

Feelin good my friend, I got 4 wheels upon the road
Feelin good again, I don't need to share the load
Well I got ties that show a backbone made of silver
Well I got willie playin on my radio
I had an angel and she promised she'd deliver
Gonna save my soul, but she left a hole

Yeah up on the cap rock me and my baby ride
We're goin' a hundred miles an hour
cause this ol' Ford can still fly
Got four roses in a sack and we ain't lookin' back tonight

Some top forty shorty's singin' on the radio and there's
Cotton fields forever on both sides of the r

Pick up a pizza pineapple ham
Put it in the back of a good times van
Go out and pick up the rest of the band
And we gonna have a good time

Lilly of the valley Lilly on the rug
Lilly drove here in a VW bug
Am I on the guest list give her a shrug
And we gonna have a g

There's no more flowers
There's no more spring
There's no more promises
Of golden wedding rings
I'd love to care enough
To slam another door
And I would but I don't
Feel that way anymore

I don't want to write you letters
I don't want to write you songs
I

Gonna go downtown
Get me off the farm
Find a pretty little girl
Take her by the arm
Get a whiskey and a beer
In the mood to play
If the rain don't stop today

Well I worked all summer
In the goddamn sun
When the boss ain't lookin'
Gonna have to run
Do

My little brother was just ten years old
When we hit bad weather and
hid in the hold
We could see Texas it was only a mile
Oh little brother I remember your smile
At Indianola
My dad built a sawmill
Of cypress and stone
It was there on Medina
That we made our

My name is John O'Reilly
And my father worked the fields
In the hills of old Killarney
Where I helped him turn the wheels
My arms grew hard as iron for a boy of 17
And I used my fists for gambling in those wet Killarney streets

Well the ship left for America and I broug

I got a friend he ain't never had no wife
He don't understand why
she's the joy of my whole life
He said explain and I know it sounds uncouth
But it is a feelin' in my stomach
if you want to know the truth

It's a taste I like to call my own
It's a smell I only smell

Well, I loved a girl she lived down in Pecos
Pretty as she could be
I worked the rigs on out in Odessa
To give her whatever she needs
But that girl she runs with an
old company bum
'Cause a diamond was not in her hand
But he left her soon 'neath the big
Loving moo

I drove all night to North Mississippi, I drove all day
to the place I call home I hope that Johnny's still
waitin' there for me, to take me beside him
and call me his own

Chorus
But it's too late now
It's too late now
The smell of magnolia is so sweet
In my mou

I will see you in the mornin'
When the moonlight leaves the trees
But I will always feel the embers
Of the flames in Tennessee

I was sleepin' when they came knockin'
They said boy you better leave
Said South Nashville it's a-rockin'
And they can't get no relief

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Well, I had a buddy back in '81 and we
made ourselves a pact
We were headin' for the new pipeline
we were never comin' back
We worked 80 hours makin' time
and a half but
La Grange was too damn hot
So we drove back home here at the
end of that week
And we spent

I woke up early Sunday mornin'
Had myself a piece of toast
Had 50 dollars in my pocket
Gonna chase myself a ghost

Went down Camino Espinoza
Gonna get me a divorce
Gonna split with all my money
See that girl who loves a horse

Chorus
It's New Years Day here

I've got a picture it's glued in a book
Of most of my family that somebody took
Grandpa died early before I could know the man
That they tell me I take after so
Though I don't remember it still makes me laugh
When I see us together in photograph

Mamma and Daddy burned h