The Lonesome Sisters With Riley

The Lonesome Sisters The Lonesome Sisters With Riley Lyrics
1.God's Golden Key

We all must resign to our heavenly path
Our world here is small, full of joy full of wrath
silvery gleams moonlit the sea
and awaiting in heaven is God's Golden key.

God's golden key we all hope to hold
it's a shining example of rewards untold
we try to open the door in this life here below
but only God's golden key will unlock our new home

God's golden key we all hope to hold
it's a shining example of rewards untold
we try to open the door in this life here below
but only God's golden key unlocks our new home


2.Oh Sleeper

Doves are mourning way up in the lattice
The night folds back its starry wings
I'm thinking of you in the twilight
Among the shadows of the angels it brings

Oh sleeper now you're heart is waking
As you leave me on this silent shore
And the chords of your soul that once were broken
Will ring across the waves now evermore

One terrible beautiful morning
As the bird shakes off the rain of dawn
I'll shake off time from this body
And meet you in that eternal home


3.Going Home Shoes

I lay awake and sleep when I rise
Come and go the train a mechanical tide
Work everyday but all that I own
Is the dream of a bridge that will lead me home


On holy ground all things become new
And there I'll stand in my going-home shoes
Longing rolls down my window pane
All green and gold a beautiful rain
Streets wear jewels of shattered glass
Waiting for the saints to pass


On holy ground all things become new
And there I'll stand in my going home shoes


4.Forgiveness

If you're looking for someone who will wait home every night
Someone who understands that you try to do right
Someone who has compassion for the things that you do
Well I know just that someone that you can turn to

Chorus:
Explain it all to him and maybe he will take you in
And you can tell him about the sorry, cheating fool that you
have been
You want a love that divine
You need the heavenly kind
You want forgiveness, tell it to Jesus
That's his job not mine

You look me in the eye and pretend that you don't see
That the man that you are now is not the man you meant to be
Don't look to me for comfort, don't tell me to understand
Cause darlin' I can't help you but maybe he can


5.Go Home Little Girl

Go home, go home little girl
Go home before I hurt you
I can't help doin' the things that I do
So go home and find someone to love you

You came to me because that you love me
But I can't give a love same as you
I will love you for tonight
But when dawn brings daylight
I will leave and I'll only hurt you

Can't you see that I don't want to hurt you
Why cling to me the way that you do?
I want you to go if you stay don't you know
Loving me can only hurt you

So go home, go home little girl
Go home before I hurt you
I can't help doin' the things that I do

So go home and find someone to love you


6.Rain and Snow

Well I married me a wife, gave me trouble all my life
Run me out in the cold rain and snow,
rain and snow, run me out in the cold rain and snow


She came on down the stairs throwin' back her yellow hair
and her cheeks were as red as a rose,
as a rose, her cheeks were as red as a rose


she came into the room where she met her fatal doom
and I aint gonna be treated this old way,
this old way, and I ain't gonna be treated this old way


I shot through the head and I laid her on the bed
and I ain't gonna be treated this old way
this old way, and I ain't gonna be treated this old way


Her baby cried all night I know that what I done ain't right
the wind howls her name oh so low,
oh so low, the wind howls her name oh so low


7.They All Pale

Tonight, here at the bar
I may be drinking with somebody new
And I might smile as I look into his eyes
But all I can see is you

He may lead me out on the floor
Well he could dance me right into the sea
And I could float as he holds me in his arms
But I'm still drowning since you left me

Chorus:
They all pale when I think of you
And the love that we once knew
Their eyes shine so bright in the barroom light
But they pale when I think of you

And when last call comes around
I might hand him the key to my door
And I might tell him that he's the only one
What does it matter, if you don't want me anymore


8.Token Reminder

I used to think that love was an airplane
Fly me away to some distant land
But now like a traveler I'm home and so lonely
With nothing to show but this chain in my hand

Chorus:
I'm sitting here holding this little silver key chain
All of my hopes and dreams in my hand
I gave him my heart and he gave me this key chain
A token reminder of a fool hearted man
When I first met him he promised to take me
To live in a beautiful land of delight
Where stars would be shining and birds would be singing
And he would be mine for the rest of my life

He called me his darlin', he called me his sweetheart
He said he would love me and always be near
But his wasn't true love it was just a vacation
And all that I got was this cheap souvenir


9.Wild Bill Jones

I was out a walkin around one night and I met with old Wild Bill
Jones
He was walkin' he was talkin' with the girl I love and I bid him
for to leave her alone
He says young man I am twenty-one to old for to be controlled


I drew a revolver from my side, I destroyed one poor boys soul
He rambled and he scrambled all on the ground and gave one
deathly moan
He looked in the face of his own true love, says 'oh darlin you
are left alone.'


Oh it's bring me a pillow for to lay down my head and a hammer
to beat out my brains
Corn whiskey has destroyed my body poor boy, pretty women has
run me deranged.


10.Oh Sing to Me of Heav'n

O sing to me of Heav'n
When I am called to die
Sing songs of holy ecstasy,
To walk my soul on high.

There'll be no sorrow there
there'll be no sorrow there
In Heav'n above where all is love
there'll be no sorrow there

When cold and sluggish drops
Roll off my dyin brow,
Break forth in songs of joyfulness,
Let Heav'n begin below.

There'll be no sorrow there
there'll be no sorrow there
In Heav'n above where all is love
there'll be no sorrow there

Then to my raptured ear
Let one sweet song begin
Let music charm me last on earth,

And greet me first in Heav'n.


11.What Can I Do

A one Way ticket west,
she'll ride a horse like the rest
Prairie dogs in the night
and rattlesnakes bite

She'll live a cowgirl's dream
She'll be a Lonestar Queen

Abilene is a town
that the rodeo's in
He's the one on her mind
as the city lights dim

She'll live a cowgirl's dream
She'll be a lonestar queen

Chorus:
Now Cowgirls get lonely sometime
they sit and cry at a cheap five and dime
In the East she would dream all the time
of how western girls live
The way their spurs jangle down the trail
She sees was only a fairy tale
This western life doesn't seem quite her own
She'll take a one way trip home

This western life doesnt seem quite her own
Send this eastern girl home


12.Highlander's Farewell