Let the beer bottle
Rattle on my pistol
On the seat of my Chevy pick up truck
And I'm taking these gravel roads
As fast as my truck will go
I'm running like a scared white tail buck

It was a long night card game
With Earl Ray and Bobby
And some ol boy they worke

theres cryin in the kitchen
theres runnin in the hall
daddys winchester wouldnt hangin on the wall
and it didnt seem like christmas very much at all

mama sent me to choppin wood before the snow
she said daddys gone to richmond and that all you need to know
i said i wann

When I was 16 took me a 15 year old wife
I guess Ive been a working man just about all my life
Like my daddy before me Ive done the best I could
Somehow things turned out a little worse than they should

Logan West Virginia is a hundred mile behind
Coal mines took my boys li

When the rain runs down your window
And you can't hold back your tears
When you're so afraid to be alone
You know I'm always right here

You cry lonely, and I come runnin
I come to your rescue, chase your blues away
You cry lonely, but you don't really want me
And I

let him sit in the kitchen
til the red rooster crows
and drink bootleg whiskey
til he loses control
let him find him somebody
he can treat like a dog
let the house fall down
and let him grow old

chorus:

but she aint goin back
she aint goin back
she

I was eightteen
My brother was twenty-one
One saturday evening
When all the work was done
We went down to the river
Had some trot lines to run

My brother Walter
Had a fight the week before
Knocked a boy named Wilson
Through the pool hall door
They said y

Well I work for the city in the town where I grew up.
Some days I run a backhoe some days I run a dump.
If I had other plans on my graduation day,
Then several years ago I guess I hauled 'em all away.
Yeah I hauled 'em all away.

She told me she was pregnant on the day I tur

Well I was hauling logs ten years ago
The news was out on the radio
That a shot was fired the night before
And a local man lay dead on the floor
And the dust was flying in the lumberyard
Lights were flashing on two black cars
I said, sheriff I ain't done nothing wrong

i use to run from the past
but the world got to spinnin so fast
i run from the future now
i run as fast as i can
tryin to be a simple man
i just want to slow down

well laugh if you want to
call me a backwards fool
but i aint takin this ride
ya'll just go on

i grew up near what they call the flats
aint too many people knows where its at
cant hear the highway cant see a way out
i guarantee it aint nothin worth cryin about

daddy left us all back in '91
left us all wonderin what it was we done
id stand in the yard and stare do

One hundred cups of coffee five hundred cigarettes
A thousand miles of highway and I ain't forgot her yet
But I keep on movin keep movin on down the line

Ain't nothin in my mirror just a cloud of dust and smoke
What do you expect when some old trucker's heart gets broke
Yea

pour my soul into my song
playin for the people all night long
i work hard for my money and i want it now
dont make me have to tear your juke joint down

chorus:

im a home homesick gypsy
i was born movin down the line
im a homesick gypsy
i aint home til i leave

If I were you
I would gladly loan to me
A dollar or two
So I could eat yeah and maybe
Get just one good night of sleep

But I'm not
And I'm stranded like a cast away in this town
And you seem so unwilling to help a fellow
When hes down
If I were you
Thats

Badge number 301
Sits in his car and stares at his gun
He wipes the the blood from his shirt,
The sweat from his brow
He got out this time but he don't know how

Well he'd go on home but nobody's there
No one to hold no one to care
There was a time he had someone

2 cups of coffee and im back on the road
80 miles to memphis, is what the lady told
she smiled and thanked me, when she picked up my change
says "you have a safe trip, stay out of the rain"

chorus:
im lookin through the windsheild
holding back the night
im lookin th

Been snowin all day when I got home
The fire was out the cabin was cold
And I poured some stale coffee from the pot
The longer I waited the snow got higher
Had to split some wood and build a fire
If she told me she’d be gone I forgot

I’d seen it snow that hard before

Got six bucks
Thats enough for a beer run
Now all we need is someone to do the buying
My buddy Lendell
He aint never got no money
But he drinks up most the beer everytime

By nine oclock got a half case between us
Pull into the Quick Pick Lendell had to have some smo

You should've kept the diamond ring, I gave it to you for free
Now I don't need no souvenirs after what you've done to me
It's just a little old shiny stone, but it sure does slow me down
So I'm gonna throw it off the nearest bridge and then I'll leave this
town

There's not

I built a fire up on the hill; I sat in the woods and drank my fill
Talked to God all night, took another shot at setting me right
Then I walked down to the road, filled a beer can full of 22 holes
Then I said goodbye, yeah I said goodbye

Chorus
I'd go back but I can't go h

all the memories of our good times
keep crowdin in my mind
but im counting on the bad times
to help me leave you behind
even though i said its over
im really not that strong
i need something to keep me goin
when im gone

as much as i want to turn around
i got