The Boys Are Back

The Oak Ridge Boys The Boys Are Back Lyrics
1.Live With Jesus

Lyricist:Paul Hardy Kennerley

Seen a lot of trouble at my door
Never known a day when I ain't been poor
But I'm gonna live with Jesus in the end

Hard time is all I see
I've lost the ones that were dear to me
But I'm gonna live with Jesus in the end

I'm gonna live, I'm gonna live
I'm gonna live with Jesus in the end
I'm gonna live, I'm gonna live
I'm gonna live with Jesus in the end

When these poor bones are tired and old
I meet my savior, redeem my soul
'Cause I'm gonna live with Jesus in the end

I'm gonna live, I'm gonna live
I'm gonna live with Jesus in the end
I'm gonna live, I'm gonna live
I'm gonna live with Jesus in the end


2.Boom Boom

(*Written By John Lee Hooker)


Boom boom boom boom*
Gonna shoot you right down,
Take you in my arms
I'm in love with you.
Haw haw haw haw
Boom boom boom boom

I like the way you walk
I love the way you talk
When you walk that walk
And you talk that talk
You really knock me out
Right offa my feet.

C'mon shake it baby,
Shake it baby, Yeah
Shake it baby
Shake it up there baby,
Shake it baby
Ummm shake it baby
Shake it baby,
I love it like that
Shake it baby.

I like the way you walk
I love the way you talk
When you're walking that walk
And talking that talk
I need you right now
I mean right now
I don't mean tomorrow
I mean right now.
Haw haw haw haw
Haw haw haw haw
Boom boom boom boom
C'mon and shake it up baby,

Shake it baby,
You know what I like
Shake it baby
I like it like that,
Shake it baby
Ummm,
Shake it baby
C'mon now baby
Shake it baby,
Haw haw haw haw
Shake it baby.
You know what I like,
Shake it baby, yeah
Shake it baby.
Mmm, shake it baby
You know what I like
Shake it baby
Shake it baby
Do it like that
Shake it baby.

Boom, boom, boom, boom
Oom pah pah mau mau mau
Boom, boom, boom, boom
Oom pah pah mau mau mau
Haw haw haw haw
Oom pah pah mau mau mau.

Shake it baby, shake it baby
Shake it baby, shake it baby
Come on, come on
Shake it baby, yer shake it baby
Shake it baby,
He likes it like that
Shake it baby, shake it baby
Shake it baby, shake it baby
You know he likes it like that now
I like it like that
He loves it, I love it like that
Shake it for the man, ooooo
Shake it for the man,
Shake it baby, shake it for Richard
Shake it, shake it baby
Give that man some loving.


3.You Ain't Gonna Blow My House Down

(Written By Dallas Frazier & Glen Ashworth)


You can huff, you can puff*
And you can trash my name all around
But you ain't gonna blow my house down
You ain't gonna blow my house down.
You can howl, you can prowl
And you can romp and stomp on the ground
But you ain't gonna blow my house down
You ain't gonna blow my house down.

Open up the good book
Take yourself a good look
Ever since the start of time
Devil, you've been lyin' and killin' and robbin' us blind
Spittin' out a big talk
Struttin' with the big walk
Yeah you want to clean my clock
But devil you can't because I'm standing on the solid rock.


Yeah you want to break me
So that you can make me
Knuckle underneath your bluff
Aiming at my throat
Charging like a big bad wolf
Yeah you got a big bite
But you lost the big fight
Jesus won the victory
So devil back off 'cause the winner is living in me.


4.Beautiful Bluebird

Lyricist:Neil Young

One mornin' when I was ridin' in my old pickup truck
A beautiful bluebird came flyin' down
My eyes caught the color as it lead me down the road
Dippin' and bobbin' in the sun

Beautiful bluebird, see how she flies
Looks like she's always goin' home
If heaven had a window where the sun came shinin' through
Like a beautiful bluebird I'd come flyin' back to you

Beautiful bluebird, see how she flies
Looks like she's always goin' home

I've never seen that blue before except in one place
And she's not here with me right now
And just like a lover I watched her fly away
And that's what I remember now

Beautiful bluebird, see how she flies
Looks like she's always goin' home
If heaven had a window where the sun came shinin' through
Like a beautiful bluebird I'd come flyin' back to you

Beautiful bluebird, see how she flies
Looks like she's always goin' home
If heaven had a window where the sun came shinin' through
Like a beautiful bluebird I'd come flyin' back to you
Like a beautiful bluebird I'd come flyin' home to you


5.God's Gonna Ease My Troublin' Mind


Troublin' mind, troublin' mind*
Troublin' mind, troublin' mind
Troublin' mind, troublin' mind,
Troublin' mind, troublin' mind
Troublin' mind, troublin' mind,
Troublin' mind, troublin' mind
God's gonna ease my troublin' mind.

Mary and Martha, Peter and John
Mary and Martha, Peter and John
Mary and Martha, Peter and John
They had trouble all night long.


Down by the graveyard's stood and tall
Down by the graveyard's stood and tall
Down by the graveyard's stood and tall
There laid the long rail as well as the short.

CHORUS

If you get there before I do
If you get there before I do
If you get there before I do
You can tell my friends I'm a comin' too.

CHORUS


6.Hold Me Closely

(*Written By Brent Cobb)


Hold me closely, hold me softly*
Don't let me fall on my own,
Love me gently, don't love me at all
I'll get back on my feet right after I fall.

There is a path in this place called my life
Don't know if I can travel alone
Need someone to take me by my hand
Lead me safely to the promised land.

So hold me closely, hold me softly
Don't let me fall on my own,
Love me gently, don't love me at all
I'll get back on my feet right after I fall.

Now in life's shadows we appear afraid
But there will be light shine down on us someday
Gracefully we're sighing, we've nothing to hide
We'll meet again in the by and by.


7.Hold You In My Arms

Lyricist:Ethan Thomas Johns, Ray Lamontagne

When you came to me with your bad dreams and your fears
It was easy to see you'd been crying
Seems like everywhere you turn catastrophe it reigns
But who really profits from the dying

I could hold you in my arms, I could hold you forever
I could hold you in my arms, I could hold you forever

When you kissed my lips with my mouth so full of questions
My worried mind that you quiet
Place your hands on my face, close my eyes and say
That love is a poor man's food, don't prophesize

I could hold you in my arms, I could hold you forever
I could hold you in my arms, I could hold you forever

So now we see how it is, this fist begets the spear
Weapons of war, symptoms of madness
Don't let your eyes refuse to see, don't let your ears refuse to
hear
Or you ain't never going to shake this sense of sadness

I could hold you in my arms, I could hold you forever
I could hold you in my arms, ooh, I could hold on forever


8.Seven Nation Army

Lyricist:John Anthony White

I'm gonna fight 'em off
A seven nation army couldn't hold me back
They're gonna rip it off
Takin' their time right behind my back

And I'm talkin' to myself at night because I can't forget
Back and forth through my mind behind a cigarette
And the message comin' from my eyes say leave it alone

Don't wanna hear about it
Every single one's got a story to tell
Everyone knows about it
From the Queen of England to the hounds of hell

And if I catch you comin' back my way I'm gonna serve it to you
And that ain't what you wanna hear but that's what I'll do
And the feelin' comin' from my bones say find a home

I'm goin' to Wichita far from this opera for evermore
I'm gonna work the straw, make you sweat drip out of every pore

And I'm bleedin', and I'm bleedin', and I'm bleedin' right
before the Lord
All the words are gonna bleed from me and I will sing no more
And the stains comin' from my blood tell me go back home


9.Mama's Table

Lyricist:Jamey Johnson, George Teren

We pull a chair up every night
And eat and talk and joke and fight
Us kids learned wrong from right at mama's table
With just some hickory wood and screws
It's where my daddy read the news
You didn't put your dirty shoes on mama's table

It was the center of the best times I remember
Sometimes the only thing that brought us all together
Grandma passed it down when I was in a cradle
It's in my kitchen now but it's still my mama's table

It's where my brother and I played games
I just knew he'd gone insane the day
He carved his name in mama's table
And when we got down on our luck
It seemed like it held us up
You could always feel the love in mama's table

It was the center of the best times I remember
Sometimes the only thing that brought us all together
Grandma passed it down when I was in a cradle
It's in my kitchen now but it's still my mama's table

It has some faded spots and cracks
And a couple of burns from candle wax
A memory in each scratch on mama's table


10.The Boys Are Back

The Boys are back, bustin' on the scene*
We ain't got nothin' now that wasn't first in our dreams
We got Jesus in the front seat steerin' this thing
We're right on track, no matter how it stacks
The Boys are back, the Boys are back

The world is changin' and it ain't so cool
You got politicians lobbyin' takin' God out of school
But how can you change the game, if you don't make the rules
I feel just like a prisoner on a ship of fools
We're gonna write it down, there won't be no white flag
Cuz the Boys are back, the Boys are back

This train is comin', it's headed your way
We're up against the eve, and we got so much to say
The devil may come and try to lead us astray
But we all know where we stand at the end of the day
Like four strong winds blowing for around and back and back and
The Boys are back, the Boys are back

Well, gather round children we got a story to tell, 'bout ol'
Wally
Fowler and a dream that never fell,
Now those that came before us, gonna guide us to the water
Where we all can take the hand of the almighty Father
Until we hit the black, we've been planning this attack
And the Boys are back, the Boys are back.