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I've Always Been Crazy
05:09
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I've always been crazy and the trouble that it's put me through
I've been busted for things that I did, and I didn't do
I can't say I'm proud of all of the things that I've done
But I can say I've never intentionally hurt anyone
I've always been different with one foot over the line
Winding up somewhere one step ahead or behind
It ain't been so easy but I guess I shouldn't complain
I've always been crazy but it's kept me from going insane
But sweet lovin’ baby, are you really sure that you understand
The chances your taking loving a free living woman?
Are you really sure, you really want what you see?
Be careful of something that's just what you want it to be
Hoo
I've always been crazy and the trouble that it's put me through
I've been busted for things that I did, and I didn't do
I can't say I'm proud of all of the things that I've done
But I can say I've never intentionally hurt anyone
I've always been different with one foot over the line
Winding up somewhere one step ahead or behind
It ain't been so easy but I guess I shouldn't complain
I've always been crazy but it's kept me from going insane
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You Asked Me To
03:31
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Long ago and far away
In my ol' common labor shoes
I turned the world all which a way
Just because you asked me to
Like unto no other feel
Simple love is simple true
And there's no end to what I'd do
Just because you asked me
Let the world call me a fool
But if things are right with me and you
That's all that matters and I’ll do
Anything you asked me to
Knowing how much I love you
And after all that I've been through
I'd turn and walk away from you
Just because you asked me to
(I hope you'll never do)
Let the world call me a fool
But if things are right with me and you
That's all that matters and I’ll do
Anything you asked me to
Let the world call me a fool
But if things are right with me and you
That's all that matters and I’ll do
Anything you asked me to
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Out Among The Stars
03:55
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It's midnight at a liquor store in Texas
Closing time another day is done
When a boy walkes in the door and points a pistol
He can't find a job, Lord, he's found a gun
Pulls it off with no trace of confrontation
Then he lets the old man run out in the street
Even though he knows they'll come with guns a blazing
And already he can feel that great relief
Oh, how many travelers get weary
Bearing both their burdens and their scars
Don't you think they'd love to stop complaining
And fly like eagles out among the stars?
He pictures the arrival of the cruisers
Sees that old familiar anger in their eyes
He knows when they're shooting at this loser
They'll be aiming at the demons in their lives
Oh, how many travelers get weary
Bearing both their burdens and their scars
Don't you think they'd love to stop complaining
And fly like eagles out among the stars?
The evening news carries all the details
He dies in every living room in town
In his own a bottle's thrown in anger
And his father cries, we'll never live this down
Oh, how many travelers get weary
Bearing both their burdens and their scars
Don't you think they'd love to stop complaining
And fly like eagles out among the stars?
Fly like eagles out among the stars
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If you're feeling salty, then I'm your tequila
If you've got the freedom I've got the time
There ain't nothing sweeter than naked emotions
So you show me yours, hon, and I'll show you mine
No ma'm I know this ain't all that you've ever been used to
You with your rings on your fingers and time on your hands
Sometimes it's nice to have somebody nice to be close to
God knows I've been there before you and I understand
If you're feeling salty, then I'm your tequila
If you've got the freedom I've got the time
There ain't nothing sweeter than naked emotions
So you show me yours, hon, and I'll show you mine
And I wish that I was the answer to all of your questions
God I know you wish you were the answer to mine
And darling if you ain't a thing but a change in direction
Lord don't you know you'd be somethin' I'm lucky to find
If you're feeling salty, then I'm your tequila
If you've got the freedom I've got the time
There ain't nothing sweeter than naked emotions
So you show me yours, hon, and I'll show you mine
So you show me yours, hon, and I'll show you mine
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5. |
Black Rose
03:03
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Way down in Virginia
Amongst the tall grown sugar canes
Lived a simple man and a dominique hen
And a rose of a different name
Well, the first time I fell lightly
I was standing in the drizzling rain
I had a trembling hand and a bottle of gin
And a rose of a different name
Well, the devil made me do it the first time
The second time I done it on my own
Lord, put a handle on a simple handed gal
And help me leave that black rose alone
When the devil made that man
Lord, he threw the pattern away
He was built for speed with the tools
You need to make a new fool every day
Way down deep and dirty
On the darker side of shame
I caught a cane cuttin' man with a bottle of gin
With a rose of a different name
Well, the devil made me do it the first time
The second time I done it on my own
Lord, put a handle on a simple handed gal
Help me leave that black rose alone
Well, the devil made me do it the first time
The second time I done it on my own
Lord, put a handle on a simple handed gal
And help me leave that black rose alone
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6. |
This Time
02:33
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I look for trouble and I found it son
Straight down the barrel of a lawman's gun
I tried to run but I don't think I can
You make one move and you're a dead man friend
Ain't living long like this
Can't live at all like this, can I baby?
He slipped the handcuffs on behind my back
And left me reeling on a steel reel rack
They got 'em all in the jailhouse baby
Ain't living long like this
Can't live at all like this, can I baby?
Grew up in Houston off the wayside drives
Son of a carhop and some all night dives
Dad drove a stock car to an early death
All I remember was a drunk man's breath
Ain't living long like this
Can't live at all like this, can I baby?
You know the story how the wheel goes 'round
Don't let them take you to the man down town
Can't sleep at all in a jailhouse baby
Ain't living long like this
Can't live at all like this, can I baby?
I live with Angel she's a roadhouse queen
Makes Texas Ruby look like Sandra Dee
I want to love her but I don't know how
Down at the bottom in the jailhouse now
Ain't living long like this
Can't live at all like this, can I baby?
You know the story about the jailhouse rock
Don't want to do it but just don't get caught
They got 'em all in the jailhouse baby
Ain't living long like this
Can't live at all like this, can I baby?
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I look for trouble and I found it son
Straight down the barrel of a lawman's gun
I tried to run but I don't think I can
You make one move and you're a dead man friend
Ain't living long like this
Can't live at all like this, can I baby?
He slipped the handcuffs on behind my back
And left me reeling on a steel reel rack
They got 'em all in the jailhouse baby
Ain't living long like this
Can't live at all like this, can I baby?
Grew up in Houston off the wayside drives
Son of a carhop and some all night dives
Dad drove a stock car to an early death
All I remember was a drunk man's breath
Ain't living long like this
Can't live at all like this, can I baby?
You know the story how the wheel goes 'round
Don't let them take you to the man down town
Can't sleep at all in a jailhouse baby
Ain't living long like this
Can't live at all like this, can I baby?
I live with Angel she's a roadhouse queen
Makes Texas Ruby look like Sandra Dee
I want to love her but I don't know how
Down at the bottom in the jailhouse now
Ain't living long like this
Can't live at all like this, can I baby?
You know the story about the jailhouse rock
Don't want to do it but just don't get caught
They got 'em all in the jailhouse baby
Ain't living long like this
Can't live at all like this, can I baby?
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I'm A Ramblin' Man
03:32
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He’s been down to Mississippi
Down through New Orleans
Yes he has
Well, he’s played in California
There ain't too much he hasn't seen
No there ain't
Well, he’s a ramblin' man
Don't fool around with a ramblin' man
He left a girl in West Virginia
Up there where that green grass grows
Yes he did
Got a girl in Cincinnati
Waitin' where the Ohio river flows
Oh, girl
‘Cause he’s a ramblin' man
Don't give your heart to a ramblin' man
You better move away
You're standin' to close to the flame
Once he mess with your mind
Your little heart won't be the same
‘Cause he’s a ramblin' man
Don't mess around with a ramblin' man
Well, up in Chicago
He was known as quite a boy
Yes he was
And down in Alabama
They call him the man of joy
And they still do
‘Cause he’s a ramblin' man
Don't give your heart to a ramblin' man
You better move away
You're standin' to close to the flame
Once he mess with your mind
Your little heart won't be the same
‘Cause he’s a ramblin' man
Don't give your heart to a ramblin' man
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Cowboys ain't easy to love and harder to hold
They'd rather give you a song than diamonds or gold
Lone star belt buckles and old faded Levi's
And each night begins a new day
If you don't understand him, and he don't die young
He'll probably just ride away
Mammas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
Don't let 'em pick guitars or drive them old trucks
Let 'em be doctors and lawyers and such
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
'Cause they'll never stay home and they're always alone
Even with someone they love
Cowboys like smoky old pool rooms and clear mountain mornings
Little warm puppies and children and girls of the night
Them that don't know him won't like him
And them that do sometimes won't know how to take him
He ain't wrong, he's just different
But his pride won't let him do things to make you think he's right
Mammas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
Don't let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks
Let 'em be doctors and lawyers and such
Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
'Cause they'll never stay home and they're always alone
Even with someone they love
Mammas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
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Take the ribbon from my hair, shake it loose and let it fall
Lay it soft upon my skin, like the shadows on the wall
Come and lay down by my side 'til the early morning light
All I'm takin' is your time, help me make it through the night
I don't care what’s right or wrong, I don't try to understand
Let the devil take tomorrow, ‘cause tonight I need a friend
Yesterday is dead and gone and tomorrow's out of sight
And it's sad to be alone, help me make it through the night
I don't care what’s right or wrong, I don't try to understand
Let the devil take tomorrow, ‘cause tonight I need a friend
Yesterday is dead and gone and tomorrow's out of sight
And it's sad to be alone, help me make it through the night
And it's sad to be alone, help me make it through the night
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11. |
We Had It All
04:02
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I can hear the wind a blowing in my mind
Just the way it used to sound
Through the Georgia pines
You were there to answer when I called
You and me we had it all
Remember how I used to touch your hair?
While reaching for the feeling
That was always there
You were the best thing in my life I can recall
You and me we had it all
I know that we can never live those times again
So I let my dreams take me back to where we have been
Then I'll stay with you, oh, as long as I can
Oh it was so good
Oh so good
Oh it was good when you were my man
I'll never stop believing in your smile
Even though you didn't stay
It was all worthwhile
You were the best thing in my life I can recall
You and me we had it all
I know that we can never live those times again
So I let my dreams take me back to where we have been
Then I'll stay with you, oh, as long as I can
Oh it was so good
Oh so good
Oh it was good when you were my man
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Everybody knows you've been steppin' on my toes
And I’m gettin' pretty tired of it
You keep a steppin' out of line and messin' with my mind
If you had any sense you'd quit
'Cause ever since I was a little bitty teeny girl
You said you was the only man in this whole world
Now you better do some thinkin' then you'll find
You’re not the only daddy that'll walk the line
I keep a workin' every day all you want to is play
I'm tired of stayin' out all night
I'm comin' unglued from your funny little moods
Now honey baby that ain't right
'Cause ever since I was a little bitty teeny girl
You said you was the only man in this whole world
Now you better do some thinkin' then you'll find
You’re not the only daddy that'll walk the line
You keep a packin' up my clothes nearly everybody knows
That you're still just a puttin' me on
When I start a walkin' gonna hear you start a squawkin' and beggin'
Beggin’ me to come back home
'Cause ever since I was a little bitty teeny girl
You said you was the only man in this whole world
Now you better do some thinkin' then you'll find
You’re not the only daddy that'll walk the line
You’re not the only daddy that'll walk the line
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It's been a long time
Since I've had a good time
And I think it's high time I did
Could I have this dance
It feels like romance
And it's good to be feeling like this
The lights are down low
The band's playin' slow
To the beautiful Tennessee Waltz
How many love songs
How many dance floors
Have lovers like us waltzed across
So waltz me to heaven tonight
To the waltz of the angels we'll blissfully blind
On past the milky way to paradise
Won't you waltz me to heaven tonight
Waltz me to heaven tonight
Honky tonk angels in heavenly flight
With the moon as our halo and stars in our eyes
Won't you waltz me to heaven tonight
Waltz me to heaven tonight
Hold your heavenly body against mine so tight
As the band softly plays on this magical night
We'll dance past the milky way to paradise
With the moon as our halo and stars in our eyes
Won't you waltz me to heaven tonight
Won't you waltz me to heaven tonight
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Shannon McNally Nashville, Tennessee
Americana, Singer Songwriter. Listen to the 2023 Singles "Magnolia", "Wasted Time", & "Hello". Album "The Waylon Sessions" out now.
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