Category: All Songs

Losing You

Jim,

—Jimmy Martin

There's no such thing as sleep for jealous fools
And being jealous of someone like you is sorta foolish too
The life you chose is the life you want I guess
Loosin' you might be the best thing yet

Chorus:
The longest day I lived I'd still be suffering from the shame
In the gutter you were makin yourself quite a name
I wanted you and you wanted…
Anyone you could get
Loosin' you might be the best thing yet

Patiently I sit alone and wait
Knowin' where you were and what you were doin
Turn'd my love to hate
My foolishness is all that i regret
Loosin' you might be the best thing yet

Chorus

Loosin' you might be the best thing yet…

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Verse:

I I7 IV IV
IV I II V
I I7 IV IV
I I – V V – I I

Chorus:

IV IV I I
I I II V
I I I IV IV
I I – V V – I I

I'd Like To Be Sixteen Again

Jim,

—Jimmy Martin

Oh the worst mistake I could ever make was to take that weddin' vow
'
Cause now I'm tied to a nagging wife and always in a row

Too scared to talk I'll walk the chalk, my head I'll meekly bow

And I'd like to be sixteen again and know what I know now

Chorus:
Yea, I'd like to be sixteen again and know what I know now

The girls I'd please with every squeeze and make em holler wow!

But its too late to change my fate, such things is not allowed

And I'd like to be sixteen again and know what I know now

I've spent my youth a runnin' round, well I thought I knew it all

But what I've learned it learned it hard and now my head is bald

I reminisce of things I missed, of fields I'd liked to plough

But I'd like to be sixteen again and know what I know now

My teeth are gone, I'm not too strong, don't have too much to build

And even a jug of Geritol won't change the way I feel

I'm like the dog too old to bite, all I can do is growl

But I'd like to be sixteen again and know what I know now

Verse:

|:  I I I IV
V V V I  :|

Chorus:

IV IV IV I
I I II V
I I I IV
V V V I

Just Because

Jim,

—Shelton Brothers
Just because you think you're so pretty
Just because you think you're so hot
Just because you think you've got something
That nobody else has got
You made me spend all my money
Then you laughed and called me old Santy Claus
But I'm telling you, honey I'm leaving you
Because, just because.

Just because you think I'll be lonesome
Just because you think I'll be blue
Just because you think I'll be foolish
To stay at home and wait for you
You made my drop all my girlfriends
Then you laughed and called me mister Santy Claus
Well, I'm telling you, baby I'm through with you
Because, just because.

There'll come a time you'll be lonesome
There'll come a time you'll be blue
When old Santy Claus won't be near you
To pay the bills for you
Though you may say that I'm foolish
There just ain't no Santy Claus
I'm telling you, good gal I'm through with you
Because, just because.

Verse and Chorus:

I I I V
V V V I
I I I – I7 IV
IV – IV#º I – VI II – V I

 

Please Help Me I'm Falling

Jim,

—Don Robertson & Hal Blair

Please help me I'm falling in love with you
Close the door to temptation don't let me walk through
Turn away from me darling I'm begging you to
Please help me I'm falling in love with you

I belong to another whose arms have grown cold
But I promised forever to have and to hold
I can never be free dear but when I'm with you
I know that I'm losing the will to be true

Please help me I'm falling and that would be sin
Close the door to temptation don't let me walk in
For I mustn't want you but darling I do
Please help me I'm falling in love with you

Verse

I I IV I
I IV – I II V
V I I – I7 IV
IV I V I

 

This World's No Place To Live (But It's Home)

Jim,

—Buzz Busby & Leon Morris
In the cool and silent dawn, Lord I travel here alone
And the wind sends back an echo of my cry
For I've seen the quiet dead and I've heard the living moan
This world's no place to live in, but it's home

Chorus 1:
A song I seem to hear, it comes a winging to my ear
A hundred million voices soft and low
The dream, the hopes and fears of so many thousand years
This world's no place to live in, but it's home

Each new born baby's cry is the hope of men grown old
For to change this world in lighter, brighter ways
But alas they hope in vain for it all remains unchanged
This world's no place to live in, but it's home

Chorus 2:
For the time of death is long, and the grave lies icy cold
Man's last and long asleep when life is done
So I'll linger yet awhile, give out love, a song, and a smile
This world's no place to live in, but it's home

Verse

|:  I I IV I
IIm V I I  :|

Chorus

IIm IIm IV I
IIm IV V V
I I IV I
IIm V I I

 

Friend of the Devil

Jim,

I lit out from Reno
I was trailed by twenty hounds
Didn't get to sleep that night
Till the morning came around

Set out runnin' but I take my time
A friend of the Devil is a friend of mine
If I get home before daylight
I just might get some sleep tonight

Ran into the Devil, babe
He loaned me twenty bills
I spent the night in Utah
In a cave up in the hills

Set out runnin' but I take my time
A friend of the Devil is a friend of mine
If I get home before daylight
I just might get some sleep tonight

I ran down to the levee
But the Devil caught me there
He took my twenty dollar bill
And he vanished in the air

Set out runnin' but I take my time
A friend of the Devil is a friend of mine
If I get home before daylight
I just might get some sleep tonight

Got two reasons why I cry away each lonely night
The first one's named sweet Anne Marie and she's my hearts delight
The second one is prison, babe, the sheriff's on my trail
And if he catches up with me, I'll spend my life in jail

Got a wife in Chino, babe
And one in Cherokee
First one says she's got my child
But it don't look like me

Set out runnin' but I take my time
A friend of the Devil is a friend of mine
If I get home before daylight
I just might get some sleep tonight

Got two reasons why I cry away each lonely night
The first one's named sweet Anne Marie and she's my hearts delight
The second one is prison, babe, the sheriff's on my trail
And if he catches up with me, I'll spend my life in jail

Got a wife in Chino, babe
And one in Cherokee
First one says she's got my child
But it don't look like me

I set out runnin' but I take my time
A friend of the Devil is a friend of mine
If I get home before daylight
I just might get some sleep tonight

Dear Abby

Jim,

Dear Abby, dear Abby
My feet are too long
My hair's falling out and my rights are all wrong
My friends they all tell me that I've no friends at all
Won't you write me a letter, won't you give me a call
Signed bewildered

Bewildered, bewildered
You have no complaint
You are what your are and you ain't what you ain't
So listen up buster, and listen up good
Stop wishing for bad luck and knocking on wood

Dear Abby, dear Abby
My fountain pen leaks
My wife hollers at me and my kids are all freaks
Every side I get up on is the wrong side of bed
If it weren't so expensive I'd wish I were dead
Signed unhappy

Unhappy, unhappy
You have no complaint
You are what your are and you ain't what you ain't
So listen up buster, and listen up good
Stop wishing for bad luck and knocking on wood

Dear Abby, dear Abby
Dear Abby, dear Abby
Dear Abby, dear Abby
You won't believe this
But my stomach makes noises whenever I kiss
My girlfriend tells me it's all in my head
But my stomach tells me to write you instead
Signed noise-maker

Noise-maker, noise-maker
You have no complaint
You are what your are and you ain't what you ain't
So listen up buster, and listen up good
Stop wishing for bad luck and knocking on wood

Dear Abby, dear Abby
Well I never thought
That me and my girlfriend would ever get caught
We were sitting in the back seat just shooting the breeze
With her hair up in curlers and her pants to her knees
Signed just married

Just married just married
You have no complaint
You are what your are and you ain't what you ain't
So listen up buster, and listen up good
Stop wishing for bad luck and knocking on wood
Signed dear Abby

I Always Get Lucky With You

Jim,

—Freddie Powers, recorded by Merle Haggard & George Jones

I've had good luck, and bad luck
And no luck, it's true,
But I always get lucky with you.

I've been turned on, and turned down
When the bars close at two,
But I always get lucky with you.

Bridge:
I keep two strikes against me most all of the time
And when it's down to a phone call, I'm minus a dime.

There's been good days, and bad days,
But when the day is through
I always get lucky with you

Oh, I always get lucky with you.

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Verse:

I I+5 IV IV#º
I V I V

Bridge:

IV IV#º I – V7 I
II7 II7 IIm7 V7

 

Where Will This End

Jim,

—Buzz Busby

My love it died and I'm all alone
I'm lost, I'm lost in sin
The jug not wine it goes fast (past?) like mine
Oh where, oh where will this end

Chorus:
Where will this end, I ask, my friend
What is my destiny
My broken heart, it just won't mend
Oh where, oh where will this end

What will I do, where will I go
Will I ever love again
Oh heaven, I pray, show me the way
Oh where, oh where will this end

Chorus

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Verse:

I IV – I I V
I IV – I I – V I

Chorus:

IV I I V
I IV – I I – V I

 

You Can't Ride My Mule

Jim,

—Lee Brothers Trio 1930

I've been to both sides of this old world,
Many's the sights I've seen,
I've been some places with a king,
And everywhere with a queen.

But you can't ride my mule,
No sir you can't ride my mule,
You can't ride my mule,
And treat me this old way.

I picked you up and you threw me down,
What makes you do me like this,
If you don't stop your rowdy ways,
Your greasy hair got twist.

Now, you can't ride my mule,
This mule won't ride today,
You can't ride my mule,
Till you do as I say.

You thought it smart to throw me down,
But I'll get even with you,
I'm going places and doing things,
I couldn't do with you.

You can't ride my mule,
This mule simply won't be rid,
You can't ride my mule,
Since you done the things you did.

You can't ride my mule,
I'm telling this to you
For this here mule will up and throw you down,
Your chum will be black and blue

Verse & Chorus:

VI II V I
VI II V I