Ladies Love Outlaws

Waylon Jennings Ladies Love Outlaws Lyrics
1.Thanks

Sunday morning in the valley
We would gather for the service
Emily Jane would run to meet me
She'd smile at papa, kinda nervous

All the people came from miles around
I can still hear the sound

As they sang thanks to the Lord
For the sun up in the sky
For the corn that's growing high
And for the child that didn't die

Thanks to the Lord
For the crops and for the farm
For the strength in my right arm
And for keepin' us from harm

Thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks
Thanks to the Lord, for a girl like Emily Jane

Came the day that we were married
All our folks from the congregation
Emily Jane was like an angel
The sweetest thing in all creation

Papa hugged me and my mama cried
Everybody smiled with pride

As they sang thanks to the Lord
For the sun up in the sky
For the corn that's growing high
And for the child that didn't die


2.Revelation

Lyricist:Bobby Braddock

Somewhere in Vietnam a 19-year-old soldier
Walked out of a barroom
And he said, â½I must be seeing things
That bourbon hit me like a baseball bat'

In Bellfast Ireland a little lady
Dropped her shovel in her garden
She raced across the yard
And ask her neighbor Mrs Clancy, what was that

In Memphis Tennessee a teacher
Raised the window, closest the river
And the children in her classroom swore
They'd heard a choir singing down the street

In Washington DC
A private secretary's lips began to quiver
And the President just put aside his papers
And rose quickly to his feet

I lay in a cheap motel in the arms
Of someone else's woman
When a loud explosion rocked the room
And turned the morning into night

I jumped out of bed and ran into the street
With hardly any clothes on
As the sky lit up my heart stood still
And I could feel my face was turnin' white

All at once the clouds rolled back
And there stood Jesus Christ in all His glory
And I realized the saddest eyes
I'd ever seen were lookin' straight at me

I guess I was awakened by
The penetrating sounds of my own screamin'
And it didn't take me long to stumble
Out of bed and fall down on my knees

As tears rolled down my face I cried
Dear God, I'm thankful I was only dreamin'
And if I never go to hell, Lord
It'll be because You scared it out of me


3.Delta Dawn

Lyricist:Larry Collins, Alex Harvey

In her younger days they called her Delta Dawn
Prettiest woman you ever had laid eyes on
But a man of low degree stood by her side
Promised her he'd take her for his bride but he lied

Delta Dawn, what's that flower you have on
Could it be a faded rose of days gone by
Did I hear you say he was meetin' you here today
To take you to his mansion in the sky?

She's forty-one and her daddy still calls her baby
All the folks around Brownsville say she's crazy
â~Cause she walks downtown with a suitcase in her hand
Looking for a mysterious dark haired man

Delta Dawn, what's that flower you have on
Could it be a faded rose of days gone by
Did I hear you say he was meetin' you here today
To take you to his mansion in the sky?

Delta Dawn, what's that flower you have on
Could it be a faded rose of days gone by
Did I hear you say he was meetin' you here today
To take you to his mansion in the sky?

Delta Dawn, what's that flower you have on
Could it be a faded rose of days gone by
Did I hear you say he was meetin' you here today
To take you to his mansion in the sky?

Delta Dawn what's that flower you have on
Could it be a faded rose of days gone by
Did I hear you say he was meetin' you here today
To take you to his mansion in the sky?


4.Sure Didn't Take Him Long

Lyricist:Waylon Jennings

My long and lean and hungry looks
Really used to turn her on
Till she found two hundred pounds
Or true love muscle and bone

I made up my mind to keep what was mine
He made up mind I was wrong
To take my Ann took a hell of a man
But it sure didn't take him too long

It sure didn't take him long
Changing her mind
Sure didn't take her long
To leave me behind

She had breakfast with me met him at three
By supper time she was gone
To take my Ann took a hell of a man
But it sure didn't take him too long

Now Ann never was a righteous girl
But you really couldn't call her bad
I'd have to say as long as she stayed
Lord, she gave it all that she had

One look at them, two looks at him
I knew I'd be a living alone
To take my Ann took a hell of a man
But it sure didn't take him too long

It sure didn't take him long
Changing her mind
Sure didn't take her long
To leave me behind


5.Frisco Depot

Lyricist:Mickey Newbury

Frisco's a mile long away
You can afford to fly
But it might as well be the moon
Lord, when you're as broke as I

Here I sit with my head in my hands
Watching the trains roll by
Lord, the Helping Hand Mission man warned me
That the nights here got cold

When you're cold, there's nothing as welcome as sunshine
When you're dry, there's nothing as welcome as rain
When you're alone, there's nothing as slow as passin' time
When you're afoot, Lord, there's nothing as fast as a train

Old Frisco's a mighty rich city
Now that ain't no lie
Well, they have some buildings
That reach nearly a mile in the sky

Everyone's so busy, they can't tell me the reason why
Here's a world full of people so damn many people alone
When you're alone life just don't seem worth living
While you're alive gotta learn to live with the pain.

You've been grown for so long
There's no one left who'll forgive
You find yourself searching your mind
For the links to the chain

When you're cold, there's nothing as welcome as sunshine
When you're dry, there's nothing as welcome as rain
When you're alone, there's nothing as slow as passin' time
When you're afoot, Lord, there's nothing as fast as a train


6.Under Your Spell Again

Lyricist:Buck Owens

I swore the last time that you let me down
That I wouldn't see you if you came around
I can't tell my heart what's right or wrong
And I've been so lonesome ever since you've been gone

You've got me under your spell again
Sayin' those things again
Makin' me believe that you're just mine
Dreamin' those dreams again
Schemin' those schemes again
I've gotta take you back just one more time

Everybody tells me that I'm a fool
That I never should have put my faith in you
Way down deep inside I guess, I know it's true
No one else can make me feel the way you do

You've got me under your spell again
Sayin' those things again
Makin' me believe that you're still mine
Dreamin' those dreams again
Schemin' those schemes again
I've gotta take you back just one more time
I've gotta take you back just one more time
I've gotta take you back just one more time


7.I Think It's Time She Learned

Lyricist:Jessi Colter, Waylon Jennings

How many times must I tell her?
How many times must I say?
I won't be around to pick her up again
From now on she'll have to find her own way

How many years have I loved her
While she stood by so unconcerned?
But the things she don't know I'll teach her when I go
She's been wrong and I think it's time she learned

I think it's time she learned
Love can't live when love is not returned
She thought that I would always stand by
But she's been wrong and I think it's time she learned

I think it's time she learned
Love can't live when love is not returned
She thought that I would always stand by
But she's been wrong and I think it's time she learned
She's been wrong and I think it's time she learned


8.Ladies Love Outlaws

Lyricist:Lee Clayton

Bessie was a lovely child from West Tennessee
Leroy was an outlaw, hard and mean
One night she saw him staring and it chilled her to the bone
She knew she had to see that look on a child of her own

'Cause ladies love outlaws
Like babies love stray dogs
Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold
Outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul

Jessie like Cadillacs and diamonds on her hands
Waymore had a reputation as a lady's man
Then one night, her light of love finally gave a sign

'Cause ladies love outlaws
Like babies love a bunch of stray dogs
Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold
Outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul

Yeah, ladies love outlaws
Like babies love a bunch of stray dogs
Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold
Outlaws touch ladies anywhere they want


9.Never Been to Spain

Lyricist:Hoyt Wayne Axton

Well I've never been to Spain
But I kinda like the music
Say the ladies are insane there
And they sure know how to use it

You can't refuse it, can't misuse it
They never gonna lose it

Well I've never been to england
But I kinda like the Beatles
I was headed for Las Vegas
But I only made it out to needles

Can't you feel it you must believe it
'Cause it feels so good

Well I've never been to heaven
But I've been to Oklahoma
People tell me I was born there
But I really don't remember

Well Oklahoma or Arizona
And what do it matter

Well I've never been to Spain
But I kinda like the music
Say the ladies are insane there
And they sure know how to use it

You can't refuse it, can't misuse it
And they never gonna lose it


10.Crazy Arms

Now blue ain't the world for the way that I feel
And the storm's brewing in this heart of mine
This ain't no crazy dream I know that it's real
You're someone else's love now you're not mine
Crazy arms that reach to hold somebody new
While my yearning heart keeps saying you're not mine
My troubled mind knows soon to another you'll be wed
But for now I'm just lonesome all the time
So take all the treasured dreams I had for you and me
And take all the love I thought was mine
Someday these crazy arms may hold somebody new
But for I'm just lonesome all the time
Crazy arms that reach...
But for now I'm just lonesome all the time