Unreleased Songs

The Del McCoury Band Unreleased Songs Lyrics
1.White House Blues

Lyricist:Wilbur Jones

McKinley hollered, McKinley squalled
Doc said, 'Mr. McKinley I can't find the 'cause
You're bound to die, you're bound to die'

He jumped on his horse, threw down the reins
He said to his horse, 'You gotta outrun this train
From Buffalo to Washington'

The doc came a-runnin', he took out his specs
He said to McKinley, 'Better cash in your checks
You're bound to die, you're bound to die'

'Now look here rascal, you see what you've done
You shot my husband I've got your gun
I'm carryin' you back to Washington'

Oh Roosevelt's in White House, he's doin' his best
McKinley's in the graveyard, he checking his rest
He be gone for a long time
Yeah, gone long time


2.Queen Anne's Lace

Lyricist:David Charles Olney

With every golden curl in place
She's as fine as Queen Anne's lace
No one could ever fault
The way she looks tonight

The man standing by her side
Shows her off with such eager pride
Seems since I saw her last
She done all right

She could never place me in her mind
For me the years have not been kind
She'd never see the boy she knew
In the man I've grown to be

From her station and her place
She'd never recognize my face
I have fallen like a wind blown leaf
From her memory

For she's traded all her pain
For bright lights and chilled champagne
And I'm sure her new found friends
All think they know just where she's been

Yes, they think they know here well
All the stories I could tell
She's as fine as Queen Anne's lace
But I knew her when

Oh, it's hard to believe, I know
But she once loved me long ago
I suppose I should be hurtin'
Just to see her once again

Oh, but now that she's grown so proud
I wouldn't want her anyhow
She's as fine as Queen Anne's lace
But I knew her when

For she's traded all her pain
For bright lights and chilled champagne
And I'm sure her new found friends
All think they know just where she's been

Yes, they think they know here well
All the stories I could tell
She's as fine as Queen Anne's lace
But I knew her when


3.Try Me One More Time

Lyricist:Ernest Tubb

Yes, I know I've been untrue
And I have hurt you through and through
But please have mercy on this heart of mine
Take me back and try me one more time

If my darling, you could see
Just what your leaving's done to me
You know that love is still the tie that binds
Take me back and try me one more time

In my dreams I see your face
It seems there's someone in my place
But does he know that you were once just mine
Take me back and try me one more time

If you just forgive me now
I'll make it up to you somehow
I promise never again to be unkind
Take me back and try me one more time
Take me back and try me one more time


4.The Times They Are A Changin'

Lyricist:Bob Dylan

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone

If your time to you is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin

And there's no tellin' who that it's namin'
'Coz the loser now will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'

Come senators and congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Or he who has stalled

The battle outside is ragin'
Will soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command

Your old road is rapidly agin'
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend a hand
For the times they are a-changin'

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past

The order is rapidly agin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'


5.Same Kind of Crazy

Lyricist:Delbert Mcclinton, Gary Nicholson

Did you ever meet somebody that likes all the same things you
do?
Somebody who can make you or break you anytime they want to
I met her at a red light, love at first sight, can this be true?
She's good for me and she told me I was good for her too

Now, I don't want to jump into anything
I've been tryin' to use some self restraint
But man it's amazin'
She's the same kind of crazy as me

Wild, wild nights, chasin' each other through the moonlight
My, my, my, I finally got somethin' right

'Cause every little off-beat move she makes
Suits me to a tee
You know what I'm sayin'
She's the same kind of crazy as me

It's gettin' hard to use a ladder 'cause I keep climbin' down
just to kiss her
'Cause she's out of my sight for a minute or two, I start to
miss her
We stay all tangled up in each other's arms and it's so nice
She talks in her sleep but she always gets my name right

If there's anything at all that's wrong with her
It's somethin' that I can't see
Ain't no doubt about it
She's the same kind of crazy as me

Wild, wild nights, chasin' each other through the moonlight
My, my, my, I finally got somethin' right

'Cause every little off-beat move she makes
Suits me to a tee
You know what I'm sayin'
She's the same kind of crazy as me

You know what I'm sayin'
She's the same kind of crazy as me


6.Bluest Man In Town

Lyricist:Bill Monroe

You went away to leave me here
To find somebody new
You're happy now with your new love
And I'm alone and blue

The shadows are creepin' around my door
The sun will soon go down
The night birds are cryin' on the mountain
I'm the bluest man in town

You took away a love we knew
You wrecked our happy home
You left me with a broken heart
So blue and all alone

The shadows are creepin' around my door
The sun will soon go down
The night birds are cryin' on the mountain
I'm the bluest man in town

The shadows are creepin' around my door
The sun will soon go down
The night birds are cryin' on the mountain
I'm the bluest man in town


7.1952 Vincent Black Lightning

Lyricist:Richard Thompson

Said Red Molly to James, 'That's a fine motorbike
A girl could feel special on any such like'
Said James to Red Molly, 'My hat's off to you
It's a Vincent Black Lightning 1952'

'And I've seen you at the corners and cafes it seems
Red hair and black leather, my favorite color scheme'
And he pulled her on behind
And down to Knoxville they did ride

Said James to Red Molly, 'Here's a ring for your right hand
But I'll tell you in earnest, I'm a dangerous man
I've fought with the law since I was seventeen
I robbed many a man to get my Vincent machine'

'Now I'm twenty one years, I might make twenty two
And I don't mind dying but for the love of you
And if fate should break my stride
Then I'll give you my Vincent to ride'

'Come down, come down, Red Molly', called Sergeant McRae
'For they've taken young James Adie for armed robbery
Shotgun blast hit his chest, left nothing inside
Come down, Red Molly to his dying bedside'

When she came to the hospital, there wasn't much left
He was running out of road, he was running out of breath
But he smiled to see her cry
Said, 'I'll give you my Vincent to ride'

Said James, 'In my opinion, there's nothing in this world
Beats a 52 Vincent and a red headed girl
Now Norton's and Indians and Greeves just won't do
Ah, they don't have a soul like a Vincent 52'

He reached for her hand and he slipped her the keys
Said he don't have any further use for these
I see angels on Ariel's in leather and chrome
Swooping down from heaven to carry me home

And he gave her one last kiss and died
And he gave her his Vincent to ride


8.Black Jack County Chains

Lyricist:Red Lane

I was standin' by the road in Black Jack County
Not knowing that the sheriff paid a bounty
For men like me who didn't have a penny to their name
He locked my legs in thirty five pounds
Of Black Jack County chains

All we had to eat was bread and water
Every day we had to build his road a mile and a quarter
A black snake whip would sting our backs
If some poor fool complained
But we couldn't fight back wearin' thirty five pounds
Of Black Jack County chains

Then one night the sheriff lay a-sleepin'
We all gathered 'round him, slowly creepin'
Heaven help me to forget that night in the cold, cold rain
When we beat him to death wearin' thirty five pounds
Of Black Jack County chains

The wounds have all healed and I'm thankful
And there's nothin' left but scars around my ankle
The best of all no man will ever be a slave again
To a black snake whip and thirty five pounds
Of Black Jack County chains
Best of all no man will ever be a slave again


9.Good Man Like Me

Lyricist:Anthony Donald Field, Craig Abercrombie, Gregory John Page,
Jeffrey Fatt, John William Field, Murray James Cook

Now that old car, ain't gonna last
You ride all day and I'll buy the gas
The more I work, the more you spend
Tell me, honey baby, when will this all end?

Her bags are packed, my nerves are racked
She got a one way ticket, ain't comin' back
Oh baby, baby
Where you gonna find a good man like me?

Take a look at this house, turned upside down
I hung the clothes on the line
They blowed down to the ground
Tryin' to eat my own cookin' but it's awful bland
I'm tellin' you right now things are out of hand

Her bags are packed, my nerves are racked
She got a one way ticket, ain't comin' back
Oh baby, baby
Where you gonna find a good man like me?

Her bags are packed, my nerves are racked
She got a one way ticket, ain't comin' back
Oh baby, baby
Where you gonna find a good man like me?
Where you gonna find a good man like me?


10.Nashville Cats

Lyricist:John Benson Sebastian

Nashville cats play clean as country water
Nashville cats play wild as mountain dew
Nashville cats been playin' since they's babies
Nashville cats get work before they're two

Well, there's thirteen hundred and fifty two
Guitar pickers in Nashville
And they can pick more notes than the number of ants
On a Tennessee ant hill

There's thirteen hundred and fifty two
Guitar cases in Nashville
And anyone that unpacks his guitar
Can play twice as better than I will

Nashville cats play clean as country water
Nashville cats play wild as mountain dew
Nashville cats been playin' since they's babies
Nashville cats get work before they're two

Yeah, I was just thirteen, you might say
I was a musical proverbial knee high
When I heard a couple new soundin' tunes
On the tube and they blasted me sky high

Then the record man said
'Everyone is a yellow sun record from Nashville
And up north there ain't nobody buys 'em'
And I said, 'But I will and it was'

Nashville cats play clean as country water
Nashville cats play wild as mountain dew
Nashville cats been playin' since they's babies
Nashville cats get work before they're two

Well, there's sixteen thousand eight hundred twenty one
Mothers from Nashville
All their friends play music and they ain't uptight
If one of the kids will

Because it's custom made for any mother's son
To be a guitar picker in Nashville
And I sure am glad I got a chance to say a word
About the music and the mothers from Nashville

Nashville cats play clean as country water
Nashville cats play wild as mountain dew
Those Nashville cats been playin' since they's babies
Oh, them Nashville cats get work before they're two


11.Dreams

I had a dream of you the other night dear
A dream I could not live in true life I fear
You talked with a friend of mine so lovingly
Oh God, oh God, a crazy dream please let it be

Dreams, dreams of you dear
Tears, tears are so sincere
Love, love that I can't hide
These dreams are breakin' down all my pride

While music played he danced and held you, oh, so tight
The same way we did when our love was young and bright
Then he kissed you under lights that were so dim
I couldn't stand to see you there alone with him

I realize a dream is only fantasy
But tell me why these dreams seem so real to me
Every night I have this same old misery
I guess it's just because of all my jealousy


12.Cold Hard Facts

Don't run to me when he's not around
Don't come slippin' 'round my door
I tried not to see how you're using me
We played that little game before

You call me up when he's out of town
The next day you treat me like I'm just some hand me down
Is that any way for a good girl to act
I guess I'll have to face the cold hard facts

Day after day of livin' this a-way
Will take a toll on a man
And night after night, lie after lie
Stringin' me along must be your plan

Well, fools like me they never see
That empty feelin' that's in store
When the bitter truth sneaks up on you
She's headin' home cut out your door