1.Deep In The Heart Of Texas
The stars at night - are big and bright
Deep in the heart of Texas.
The prairie sky - is wide and high
Deep in the heart of Texas.
The Sage in bloom - is like perfume
Deep in the heart of Texas.
Reminds me of - the one I love
Deep in the heart of Texas.
The cowboys cry - ki-yip-pie-yi
Deep in the heart of Texas.
The rabbits rush - around the brush
Deep in the heart of Texas.
The coyotes wail - along the trail
Deep in the heart of Texas.
The doggies bawl - and bawl and bawl
Deep in the heart of Texas.
2.Write This Down
I never saw the end in sight; fools are kind of blind.
Thought everything was going alright, but I was running out of
time.
'Cause you had one foot out the door, I swear I didn't see
But if you're really going away, here's some final words from
me.
Chorus：
Baby, write this down, take a little note to remind you in case
you didn't know,
Tell yourself I love you and I don't want you to go, write this
down.
Take my words, read 'em every day, keep 'em close by, don't you
let 'em fade away,
So you'll remember what I forgot to say, write this down.
I'll sign it at the bottom of the page, I'll swear under oath
'Cause every single word is true, and I think you need to know,
So use it as a bookmark, stick it on your 'frigerator door,
Hang it in a picture frame up above the mantel where you'll see
it for sure.
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You can find a chisel, I can find a stone.
Folks will be reading these words, long after we're gone.
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Oh I love you and I don't want you to go, baby write this down.
3.I Can Still Make Cheyenne
Her telephone rang 'bout a quarter to nine
She heard his voice on the other end of the line
She wondered what was wrong this time
She never knew what his calls might bring
With a cowboy like him it could be anything
And she always expected the worst in the back of her mind.
He said, 'It's cold out here and I'm all alone,
I didn't make the short go again and I'm coming home.
I know I've been away too long.
I never got a chance to write or call
And I know this rodeo has been hard on us all
But I'll be home soon and honey is there something wrong？'
Chorus：
She said, 'Don't bother comin' home.
By the time you get here I'll be long gone.
There's somebody new and he sure ain't no rodeo man.'
He said, 'I'm sorry it's come down to this.
There's so much about you that I'm gonna miss.
But it's alright baby, if I hurry I can still make Cheyenne.
Gotta go now baby, if I hurry I can still make Cheyenne.
He left that phone danglin' off the hook
Then slowly turned around and gave it one last look
Then he just walked away
He aimed his truck toward that Wyoming line
With a little luck he could still get there in time
And in that Cheyenne wind he could still hear her say.
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4.Heartland
When you hear twin fiddles and a steel guitar,
You're listening to the sound of the American heart.
And Opry music on a Saturday night
Brings a smile to your face and a tear to your eye.
Chorus：
Sing a song about the heartland,
The only place I feel at home.
Sing about the way a good man
Works until the daylight's gone.
Sing the rain on the roof on a summer night
Where they still know wrong from right.
Sing a song about the heartland.
Sing a song about my life.
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There a place where mornings are an endless blue
And you feel mother nature walk along with you,
Where simple people living side by side
Still wave to their neighbor when they e drivin？by.
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5.Love Without End, Amen
I got sent home from school one day with a shiner on my eye.
Fightin' was against the rules and it didn't matter why.
When dad got home I told that story just like I'd rehearsed.
And then stood there on those tremblin' knees and waited for the
worst.
Chorus：
And he said, 'Let me tell you a secret about a father's love,
A secret that my daddy said was just between us.'
He said, 'Daddies don't just love their children every now and
then.
It's a love without end, amen, it's a love without end, amen.'
When I became a father in the spring of '81
There was no doubt that stubborn boy was just like my father's
son.
And when I thought my patience had been tested to the end,
I took my daddy's secret and I passed it on to him.
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Last night I dreamed I died and stood outside those pearly
gates.
When suddenly I realized there must be some mistake.
If they know half the things I've done, they'll never let me in.
And then somewhere from the other side I heard these words
again.
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6.Check Yes Or No
It started way back in third grade.
I used to sit beside Emmylou Hayes
A pink dress, a matching bow, and her pony tail.
She kissed me on the school bus, but told me not to tell.
Next day I chased her round the playground
Across the monkey bars, to the merry-go-round
And Emmylou got caught passing me a note
Before the teacher took it, I read what she wrote.
Chorus：
Do you love me, do you wanna be my friend？
And if you do, well then don't be afraid to take me by the hand
If you want to.
I think this is how love goes, check yes or no.
Now we're grown up and she's my wife.
Still like two kids with stars in our eyes.
Ain't much changed, I still chase Emmylou.
Up and down the hall, around the bed in our room.
Last night I took her out in a white limousine
Twenty years later, she still gets to me
Can't believe it's been that long ago.
When we got started with just a little note.
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7.The Fireman
Chorus：
Well they call me the fireman, that's my name.
Making my rounds all over town, putting out old flames.
Well everybody'd like to have a what I got.
I can cool 'em down when they're smold'ring hot.
I'm the fireman, that's my name.
Last night they had a bad one a mile or two down the road.
Well my buddy walked out and left his woman burning out of
control.
Well I was down there in about an hour or so.
With a little mouth to mouth she was ready to go.
I'm the fireman, that's my name.
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Got a fire engine red - T - bird automobile.
In a minute or less I can be dressed fit to kill.
I work 24 on, 24 off.
When they get too hot, they just give me a call.
I'm the fireman, that's my name.
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They call me the fireman, that's my name.
8.Run
If there's a plane or a bus leaving Dallas
I hope you're on it
If there's a train moving fast down the tracks
I hope you caught it
Cause I swear out there ain't where you ought to be
So catch a ride, catch a cab
Don't you know I miss you bad
But don't you walk to me
Baby run, cut a path across the blue skies
Straight in a straight line
You can't get here fast enough
Find a truck and fire it up
Lean on the gas and off the clutch
Leave Dallas in the dust
I need you in a rush
So baby run
If you ain't got a suit case
Get a box or an old brown paper sack
And pack it light or pack it heavy
Take a truck, take a Chevy
Baby just come back
There's a shortcut to the highway out of town
Why don't you take it
Don't let that speed limit slow you down
Go on and break it
Baby run, cut a path across the blue skies
Straight in a straight line
You can't get here fast enough
Find a truck and fire it up
Lean on the gas and off the clutch
Leave Dallas in the dust
I need you in a rush
So baby run
Baby run
Oh baby run
Baby run
9.Murder On Music Row
Nobody saw him running from sixteenth avenue.
They never found the fingerprint or the weapon that was used.
But someone killed country music, cut out its heart and soul.
They got away with murder down on music row.
The almighty dollar and the lust for worldwide fame
Slowly killed tradition and for that someone should hang (oh,
you tell them Alan).
They all say not guilty, but the evidence will show
That murder was committed down on music row.
Chorus：
For the steel guitars no longer cry and fiddles barely play,
But drums and rock roll guitars are mixed up in your face.
Old Hank wouldn have a chance on today radio
Since they committed murder down on music row.
They thought no one would miss it, once it was dead and gone
They said no one would buy them old drinking and cheating songs
(I l still buy m)
Well there ain no justice in it and the hard facts are cold
Murder been committed down on music row.
Chorus：
Oh, the steel guitars no longer cry and you can hear fiddles
play
With drums and rock roll guitars mixed right up in your face
Why, the Hag, he wouldn have a chance on today radio
Since they committed murder down on music row
Why, they even tell the Possum to pack up and go back home
There been an awful murder down on music row.
10.The Chair
Well, excuse me, but I think you've got my chair.
No, that one's not taken, I don't mind
If you sit here, I'll be glad to share.
Yeah, it's usually packed here on Friday nights.
Oh, if you don't mind, could I talk you out of a light.
Well, thank you, could I drink you a buy？
Oh, listen to me, what I mean is can I buy you a drink？
Anything you please.
Oh, you're welcome, well, I don't think I caught your name.
Are you waiting for someone to meet you here？
Well, that makes two of us glad you came.
No, I don't know the name of the band, but they're good.
Aren't they, would you like to dance？
Yeah, I like this song too, it reminds me of you and me.
Well, baby do you think there's a chance
That later on I could drive you home？
No, I don't mind at all.
Oh, I like you too, and to tell you the truth
That wasn't my chair after all.
Oh, I like you too, and to tell you the truth
That wasn't my chair after all.
11.She'll Leave You With A Smile
I can see you're falling for her
Friend you know she once was mine
So I guess I oughta warn you
Cause you're showing all the signs
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She's a devil
She's an Angel
She's a woman
She's a child
She's a heartache when she leaves you
But she'll leave you with a smile
When she held me it was heaven
It was worth the losing pain
And when she's gone she'll leave you wishin'
She'd just roll your way again
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12.Amarillo By Morning
Amarillo by morning, up from San Antone.
Everything that I've got is just what I've got on.
When that sun is high in that Texas sky
I'll be bucking it to county fair.
Amarillo by morning, Amarillo I'll be there.
They took my saddle in Houston, broke my leg in Santa Fe.
Lost my wife and a girlfriend somewhere along the way.
Well I'll be looking for eight when they pull that gate,
And I'm hoping that judge ain't blind.
Amarillo by morning, Amarillo's on my mind.
Amarillo by morning, up from San Antone.
Everything that I've got is just what I've got on.
I ain't got a dime, but what I got is mine.
I ain't rich, but Lord I'm free.
Amarillo by morning, Amarillo's where I'll be.
Amarillo by morning, Amarillo's where I'll be.
13.Living and Living Well
Had a nice little life
A little boat a little beach
A little routine I liked
A blue ocean view
Free to go with the flow
Anywhere that I wanted to
But the moment you set foot on my shore
That's when I knew
There's a difference in
Living and living well
You can't have it all
All by yourself
Something's always missing
'Til you share it with someone else
There's a difference in living and living well
'Til you smiled with me
Thought that I had it good
As good as it could be
From the back of my deck
Caught a fish caught a breeze
And a thousand red sunsets
But sitting here with you girl I just saw
The best one yet
There's a difference in
Living and living well
You can't have it all
All by yourself
Something's always missing
'Til you share it with someone else
There's a difference in living and living well
My days are brighter
My sky a deeper blue
My nights are sweeter
When I'm with you
There's a difference in
Living and living well
You can't have it all
All by yourself
Something's always missing
'Til you share it with someone else
There's a difference in living and living well
14.Take Me Back To Tulsa
Take me back to Tulsa, I'm too young to marry
take me back to Tulsa, I'm too young to marry
You see that girl with the red dress on,
some folks call her Dinah
Stoled my heart away from me
way down in Louisiana
The big bee sucks the blossom
and the little bee makes the honey
Poor man throws the cotton
and the rich man makes the money
We travel all over this country wide
playing music by the hour
Always wear this great big smile
we never do look sour
Would I go...
you ...
Let me off ...
and I'll walk down to Greenwood
15.Blue Clear Sky
You swear you've had enough, you're ready to give up
On that little lie they call love, then out of the blue clear
sky
Fallin' right into your hands, like rain on the desert sand
It's the last thing you had planned out of the blue clear sky.
Chorus：
Here she comes a walkin' talkin' true love
Sayin' I been lookin' for you love
Surprise your new love has arrived
Out of the blue clear sky.
Ain't love a funny thing, one day you're givin' up the dream
And the next you're pickin' out a ring out of the blue clear
sky.
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16.The Cowboy Rides Away
I knew the stakes were high right from the start.
When she dealt the cards, I bet my heart.
Now I just found a game that I can't play,
And this is where the cowboy rides away.
Chorus：
And my heart is sinking like the setting sun,
Setting on the things I wish I'd done.
It's time to say goodbye to yesterday.
This is where the cowboy rides away.
We've been in and out of love and in-between.
And now we play the final showdown scene.
As the credits roll a sad song starts to play,
And this is where the cowboy rides away.
Chorus：
And my heart is sinking like a setting sun,
Setting on the things I wish I'd done.
Oh the last goodbye's the hardest one to say,
And this is where the cowboy rides away.
Oh the last goodbye's the hardest one to say.
This is where the cowboy rides away.
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