Unreleased Songs

The Buck Owen's Buckaroos Unreleased Songs Lyrics
1.Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

Lyricist:Robbie Robertson

Virgil Cane is my name
And I served on the Denville train
Till Stoneman's calvary came
And tore up the tracks again

In the winter of '65
We were hungry just barely alive
I made 10th to Richmond that fell
It was the time that I remember, oh, so well

The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing
They went la, la, la, la, la

Back with my wife in Tennessee
Well, one day she called to me
Virgil quick come see
That there goes Robert E Lee

Now I don't mind choppin' woods
And I don't care if the money's no good
You take what you need and leave the rest
But they should never have taken the very best

The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing
They went la, la, la, la, la

Like my father before me
I'm a working man
And like my brother that'll love me
He took the rebel stand

But he was just eighteen
Proud and brave
And a Yankee
Laid him in his grave

The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing
They went la, la, la, la, la


2.Hurry Come Running Back To Me

Lyricist:K. Hairston, T. Gale

I've done everything I could to make you happy
Yes, I've given everything that I could give
But the best I had to offer couldn't hold you
You just couldn't seem to live the way I live

For the glamor of the gay night life is calling
And it won't be long till you will set me free
But if your happy days should end and if lonely nights begin
Hurry, come running back to me

Come running back to mine two open arms
Come running back to mine two wailing lips
If your happy days should end and if lonely nights begin
Hurry, come running back to me, hurry, come running back to me


3.You Let Me Down

Lyricist:Buck Owens

You gave me love that I thought was true love
Something to put my arms around
You let me love to the peek of true love
And then you let me down

You let me build a beautiful dream the first dream
That my heart had found
And I built that dream to the peek of all dreams
And then you let me down

You gave my heart the will to live and then
You threw it to the ground
When I tried to get up you helped me up
And then you let me down

You gave my heart


4.You'll Never Miss The Water

Lyricist:Buck Owens, Don Rich

Oh, you'll never miss the water till the well runs dry
You'll regret each and every time you've made me cry
You'll never miss me, darling, till I say, 'Goodbye'
Oh, you'll never miss the water till the well runs dry

You thought you were taking candy from a baby
But I caught you with your fingers in the pie
Now you'd better realize just what you're doing
'Cause you'll never miss the water till the well runs dry

Oh, you'll never miss

I've headed up to here with all your cheating
And those little lies you tell me on the sly
You'd better listen close to what I'm saying
'Cause you'll never miss the water till the well runs dry

Oh, you'll never miss


5.Cinderella

Lyricist:Mize Buddy R

So you've found your prince
Charming was just a dream
There wasn't any palace
And you weren't a queen

In your faded cotton dresses
Anyone could see
But they're still Cinderella to me

Cinderella, Cinderella
This is not the way love should be
Cinderella, Cinderella
Won't you let me take you home with me?

Our honeymoon
May not be a fancy ball
You may not have a maid
And butler at your call

But I'll be more than any prince
Could ever be
And you'll be Cinderella to me

Cinderella, Cinderella
This is not the way love should be
Cinderella, Cinderella
Won't you let me take you home with me?


6.Highway Man

Lyricist:Owens Buck

I drove a Jimmy Diesel from Mojave
Up to the summit of Cajun
Headed down the hill to San Bernardino
Pushed by twenty tons of silt and stone

The warning buzzer sounded, I was low on air
I checked the pressure gage and there was no pressure there
I looked at the deep and rocky canyon down below
And I said, 'Man, what a way to go'

I saw a red light in my side view mirror
I knew there was a highway man behind
I tried to shift her down one but I missed her
Then she really started to unwind

Well, that patrolman passed me like I was standin' still
His siren started screamin' as he headed down the hill
That highway man had got a crazy notion I could see
He was gonna try to clear the road for me

I read a sign, trucks 30 miles per hour
I watched the hand go round and hit the peg
That patrol car was burnin' up the highway
And I was on him like a license tag

I started toward the ditch then I lost my nerve
I side swiped a bob-tail as I straightened the curve
I opened up my eyes and I was back on level ground
But it took five more miles to shut her down

That highway man walked up and put his hand out
And I reached out and shook it like a man
He shook me loose and said, 'Let's see your license
And don't get wise with me, I'll run you in'

'Now, where's your registration? Who owns that machine?'
He wrote me up a ticket longer than a witches dream
There's a lot of things in this ole world, I don't understand

One of them's a doggone highway man
One of them's a doggone highway man


7.Way That I Love You

Lyricist:Buck Owens

When a man loves a woman
The way that I love you
He's just asking for trouble
For a one way lover won't never do

He can't see the forest for the trees
He can't heat the wind blow for the breeze
He can't see the rainbow for the blue
When man loves a woman the way that I love you

He can't see the forest for the trees
He can't heat the wind blow for the breeze
He can't see the rainbow for the blue
When man loves a woman the way that I love you