Pat Green Album

Now up and at 'em here we go I'm off again to the rodeo
And I've sure got a lotta other little things on my mind
One is a song I just started writing
Another is a girl I just finished fighting
She said it was me but Lord I just don't believe her
And if you want to know where I'm coming from
Just sit right there and I'll tell you son
This life I lead ain't as wonderful as it appears

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Here I go again just singin' in this dive
Lone Star Beer in my cereal is keepin' me alive
I gave up on Nashville a long time ago
Yeah but here I go Lord, once again oh here I go

Now I don't need to be too rich
I'm just and old hard-headed sonuvabitch
With my eyes still set on the glory days
Back in the times of the Dukes of Hazard
Listening to Willie and old Merle Haggard
And smiling just a little as I poked along in my truck
Now there's a lot of poor folks in my situation
With years of heartache and frustration
Just kinda watching as their dreams turned into years

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Let me tell you folks it don't really matter
That beer drinkin' never made you fatter
It's all those nights on the couch with the T.V. dinner
After twelve years with Copenhagen
I've finally found out that I was mistaken
It's not gonna be something to add some years to my life
And that's why I'm still dipping it today
And every morning I hear mama say
That shit is gonna kill you if the women don't get you first

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(Pat Green and Kirk Zander)

I found you in a Louisiana roadside park
Beat up, broke down no place left to turn
I took you back to Texas under a harvest moon
We found a little place to call our own
We shared all the hopes and dreams of our younger years
Married at the tender age of twenty-one
Rollin' down the highways, dirt roads and the byways
You liked to drive so I would go shotgun

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We'd go down to the river
Where I could hold your body close to mine
We'd listen to the rhythm
Of that old water rollin
You can stay with me until the morning light

Somewhere through the year somebody turned your head
And has taken my sweet love so far from me
Yeah he swept you off to Boulder
Where the air it gets much colder
Than this southern boy would ever like to see

I think of calling you on lonely nights
When being alone gets the best of me
Yeah but this here whiskey bottle
Will take me to a place
Where you and I will always be

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When you came back home everybody said I was a fool
'Cause I took you back without a word to say
But I couldn't go on living thinkin' about all I was missin'
And I don't give a damn about what those people say

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(Pat Green and Page Blanton)

From Dalhart to Del Rio and out El Paso way
Well I'll be doin' fine on Houston time
And when the sun sets on the Copano Bay
Well from way up where the Red River flows
On down to the Rio Grande
I was born a native Texican
And I'm proud to say that I am

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Yeah I like Texas, Ain't it fine here
Like to pick my guitar down in Luckenbach
And drink that Shiner Bock beer
Yeah I like Texas man there ain't no doubt
Just listen to me 'cause I know what I'm talking about

Well there's old dancehalls and little café's
Where you can get a taste of the Lone Star State
Strap on your boots and have yourself a laugh or two
Well there's no line dancin' just straight romancin'
That hill country love is what I fancy
Where streams run clear and Lord the skies they are so blue

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It's a two day old burrito on a lukewarm beer to go
On the Sunday side of a roadtrip weekend
And Lordy I was feelin' so low
When somebody flipped on the jukebox
And I heard old Bob Will say
“won'tcha' say all night stay a little longer”
so I held on another day

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(Pat Green)

Found myself in a barroom
Doin' things I ought not to
Watching my life as it slowly passed me by
I was holding on to lovers
And disregarding others with my lies

Living my whole life like this
I guess is risky business
Some folks say that I won't last too long
And I can't say I blame them
For saying what they're saying
'Cause right now I'm just holding on

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I'm just an old dancehall dreamer
Living my life in the past
Holding on to dreams and them slow moving trains
And I don't know how long I can last

So I called out to Jesus
Said Lord I really need you
You've got to carry me for a while
I've been running too long
Singing these old tired songs
As the wheels keep turning out the miles

Like I said I'm just a dreamer
But I've gotta' keep believing
Someday things will go my way
I'm just running from the devil
I've got one foot on the pedal
While the other one is laid up in the grave

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(Pat Green)

Women and whiskey, they ain't the answer
Lord I just know that this is true
But the way that I'm feeling
I just might be thinking
Lord tonight they just might have to do

I've spent a lot of long and lonely nights in honky tonk taverns
Two fisted drinking and fighting back against the wall
And I know it's a problem, a no win situation
But I can't seem to resist that old whiskey call

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Mister pour us a drink
Hell give us the bottle
Set us down in the corner
Until we're two sheets gone
And don't tell me no stories
About a good hearted woman
I want to hear “Your Cheatin' Heart”
And cry all night long

Me and my buddies, we've got a lot in common
We all wish we could take time and turn it around
Take us back to the good old days
Hard work and cowboy ways
Take us to a swingin' door saloon
This is what we'll say

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(Walt Wilkins)

Home from church now, let your hair down
It's the Lord's favorite day
There's a dance river tavern, where the drums and fiddles play.
So wear your new shoes, your red boots
Your dress I can't forget

Like to watch you dance around me
Like rain in Lafayette.

Summer's coming, my brain is humming
Something only you can do.
And the way your eyes are smiling
I know mine must be shining too.
Your my lovely, my only
My one, my alouette

Like to watch you dance around me
Like rain in Lafayette

So let the rain fall, can't hurt us at all
Get as wet as we can get

Like to watch you dance around me
Like rain in Lafayette

So let the rain fall, can't hurt us at all
Get as wet as we can get
Like to watch you dance around me like rain in Lafayette.

(Pat Green)

September comes to Texas just one time every year
So we get our guns and our pickup trucks
And a bunch of that Lone Star beer
Well we head out for the open plains
Where the birds they flow like wine
We hunt them up and then we shoot them down
Man it makes me feel so fine
The manly sport is what I'm talking about
So you can grab your pouch of chew
If we get bored 'cause the birds won't fly
We'll shoot rabbits with my .22

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I don't wanna go to Paris, I get enough French with my fries
Just send me on down to Abilene
For the hunting man's paradise
Honey you can stay at home all day
Laugh and dance go out shopping and play
'cause I'll be out with the boys
on a West Texas Holiday

Hunting is a lot like religion or so it is I'm told
They're both just a simple little way of life
And they're both good for your soul
From Robert Earl Keen to Robert E. Lee
Perfect strangers or best of friends
We all have a common little bond between us
We were born to be hunting men
If it flies it dies or so they say
And so often times it's true
Yeah but you take yours and I'll take mine
And we'll have us a Bar-B-Que

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(Robert Earl Keen)

I left Houston, Texas on a Gulf Coast Hurricane
I was blown down by tornadoes, washed up by the rain
Well my pappy wasn't happy with me, he told me to go
So I stole my daddy's Cadillac, and I headed down the road
I had a grin from ear to ear with each and every mile
I'm headed for the border man, I'm goin' down in style.

Well I hit Corpus Christi, and the wind was at my back
I drove them women crazy in my daddy's cadillac
I'd cruse them down the boulevard, treated them like queens
I took them all the places that they wanted to been seen
And when I had to leave them, I'd tell them with a smile
I'm headed for the border, man I'm goin' down in style.

Well, you've got to take your chances if they ever come along
Close your eyes and listen to that great big engine wind
And it down really matter, whether you are right or wrong
Cause when you cross the border yeah you leave this world behind
I stomped down on the pedal, I set the cruise control
Five hundred raging horses blew on by the state patrol
Yeah, there sirens were screaming, Lord the lights were flashing red

A dozen more were waiting at the road block up ahead
I scattered them like chickens, I heard one of them cry
"He's headin' for the border man, he's goin' down in style."

Yeah when you cross the border you ain't ever coming back
And there ain't no redemption when the cops are on your tail
The closest thing to heaven, is the great big Cadillac
The city lights of Houston, or the fiery gates of hell
They nabbed me on the hill that overlooks the Rio Grande

I'm feeling just like Moses looking at the promise land
They hauled me back to Houston, they threw me into jail
My momma started crying when my daddy paid the bail
I'm sorry I'm not there to hear the outcome of my trial

(Pat Green)

I can remember my grandpa when I was five years old
He'd pull me up on his knee
And I remember every story that he ever told
He and my grandma well they would always be
Two southern lovers just kissing on each other so tenderly

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And he'd say, all I ever wanted to be was your family man
To work real hard girl and give you everything I can
I just want to be your family man
Tell the children that I'll always lend a helping hand
I just want to be your family man
Just want to be your family man

Mom and Dad worked real hard to raise us kids
They were always there for me
And it didn't matter what it was I did
They've seen the hard times, the sickness and the hell
It didn't really take too long
Before they found that money it don't mean wealth

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Last night I had a dream from heaven up above
He taught me how to win her heart and win her love
He said it I was going to love you then listen to what he said and do it His way

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He said you just got to be her family man
Work real hard boy, but live your life according to my plan
You just got to be her family man
Tell the children, tell them exactly who I am
You just got to be her family man
Just got to be her family man

(Pat Green)

What the hell am I doing down in Kansas City
I know damn well it ain't where I belong
Think I'll quit my job come 5 o'clock
Find my lonely way back home

My baby said just what are you trying to prove here
Do you really want to leave me here alone
I said I'm staring at this ocean full of Yankees
And I'd rather be in Texas on my own

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So we were southbound 35
We were headed down the road
Hit the border by the morning
Let Texas fill my soul
Yeah let Texas fill my soul

The tears start to flow about the time when I was leaving
She said I guess you better take me along
God might have made me born a yankee
But it's time that I made Texas my home

So we loaded her stuff into my pickup
Said goodbye to all my friends
Called my brother down in Austin
Said I'm headed home again

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She had her feet up on the dashboard
She was holding my hand and wearing only a smile
She said it's gonna be hard to start all over
But the feeling I have will make it all worthwhile

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(Pat Green)

Tree blows against my window, there's a storm brewing in my heart
Watching credits roll on a late night TV show
Lonely street light peeking through the cracks in my window shade
After all that he's seen I wonder if he truly knows
Did he watch her when she slammed the door
Like a hammer against the nail
Leaving me in what's become a lonely prison cell

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I thought always meant forever
I guess you couldn't play second fiddle to my old guitar
Like an old man drinking down at the tavern
Well I was one for the road and now you're headed on back home

I met you at a party, seems like only yesterday
We were falling in love and living to chase our dreams
I gave you flowers on Valentine's
And I had a strong feeling deep down inside
That someday we'd make a home and a family
I'd say I'm sorry in a heartbeat if you would only let me
I could learn to forgive if you could only forget
In a hotel room down in Austin after another one night show
I caught your silhouette creeping down the street under a moonlight glow
And as you took my hand, so went all my pain
We stepped right off the platform and caught the midnight train

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