Willie Nelson Album

Roly Poly eatin' corn and taters
Hungry every minute of the day
Roly Poly knowin' all the biscuits
Long as he can chew it it's okay
He can eat an apple pie
And never even bat an eye
He likes everything from a soup to hay
Roly Poly daddy's Little Fatty
I bet he's gonna be a man someday

[ fiddle - steel - piano ]

Roly Poly scrambled eggs for breakfast
Bread and jelly twenty times a day
Roly Poly eats a hard day dinner
It takes lots of strenght to run and play
Well now he pulls up weeds
And does the chores
Runs both ways through all the doors
He wears up that apetite that way
Roly Poly daddy's Little Fatty
I bet he's gonna be a man someday

If I only had one arm to hold you
Well better yet if I had none at all
Then I wouldn't have two arms that ache
For you there'd be one less mem'ry to recall
If I only had one ear to listen to
The lies that you told to me
Then I more closely resemble
The half a man that you've made of me
If I only had one leg to stand on
Then how much how much truer picture you'd see
Cause then I more closely resemble
The half a man that you've made of me

(I'm a lonely little mansion for sale)
Furnished with everything but love
I'm looking for someone to come live with me
I've got a large picture window
And a yard filled with trees
The sign reads two stories
And that's all that's for sale
But there's so many stories I could tell
My windows are closed and I'm gasping for air
My carpets are spotted
With tear stains here and there
A torn photograph still lies on my floor
And two sweethearts don't live here anymore
I'm a lonely little mansion for sale
And for someone I'd fit just like a glove
I'm a lonely little mansion for sale
Furnished with everything but love

Why do you treat me as if I were only a friend
What have I done that has made you so distant and cold
Sometimes I wonder if you'll be contented again
Will you be happy when you are withered and old
I cannot offer you diamonds and mansions so fine
I cannot offer you all the clothes that your young body crave
But if you'll say that you long to forever be mine
Just think of the teardrops the heartaches and sorrow you'll save
While I am writing this letter I think of the past
And of the promises that you have broken so free
And to this old world I'll soon say my farewell at last
I will be gone when you read this last letter from me

You asked me if I'd care
If you danced with Joe
I said yes it's all right
But my heart whispered no
For inside I was crying
For last night it was Jim
Must I play second fiddle
While you're dancing with them
Could it be maybe
I'm just imagining things
Do I believe I'm second with you
Only you know the answer
Is it me or Joe or Jim
Must I play second fiddle
While you're dancing with them

[ fiddle ]

Only you know the answer...

Take my word for what I tell you
I have never lied to you
Pay no mind to what they're sayin'
I have never been untrue
Evil tongues in town
Continue to prat aloud
Their evil news
You'll have to take my word
When I tell you I love you
I love you (I love you)

The power of gossip is always strengthen
When it finds a respected ear
If you listen the chances are greater
That a thread of doubt may appear
Evil tongues in town continue...

Evil tongues in town
Continue to prat aloud
Their evil news
You'll have to take my word
When I tell you I love you
I love you I love you
Take my word I love you
Take my word I love you

Right or wrong
I'll always love you
Though you're gone
I can't forget
Right or wrong
I'll keep on dreaming
Though I wake with
That same old regret
All along I knew I'd lose you
Still I prayed that you'd be true
In your heart you love another
But right or wrong
I'm still in love with you

[ fiddle - piano - guitar - steel ]

Right or wrong I'll always love you...

They said that my heart wouldn't have long to live
To lose you was more than it could stand
And that your love was all that could make it survive
But I'm doing all that I can
I just feed it a mem'ry to keep it alive a taste of the love that we once knew
And when my heartbeat gets weak and it's starting to die
I just feed it a mem'ry of you

I must keep my heart living someway and somehow
In case that you might change your mind
So if you can give it the love that it needs
Just come by and see it sometime
And feed it a mem'ry to keep it alive...

Just one more dance
Just one more chance
So I can talk to you
Don't live too fast
Forget the past
And I will try to prove
I would do anything you want me to
Don't run around
Don't paint the town
Let me talk to you
Don't go too far
With that crowd at the bar
That's not the way to win
Please fall in love again
Give me your heart
So I can start
To build our life anew
I know you've paid
So if you're afraid
Let me talk to you

Birds flying south to the one I love
Birds flying light and free
Don't tell my darling that you saw me
Looking the way you see me
Winds blowing warm to the one I love
Winds please kiss her for me
Don't tell my darling that you saw me
Looking the way you see me
The way you see me is how I've been
And how ever since she's been gone
But tell her you saw me like I'd like to be
Tell her I'm happy alone
River of tears that I have cried
River flow on to the sea
But if you tell my darling
You flowed from my eyes
She'd see me the way you see me
She'd see me the way you see me

I might have been a helpless soul
With nothing much in store
I might have been without a goal
Just dreams and nothing more
I might have known my life alone
But that's where you came in
Your loving arms have saved me from
The things I might have been

I might have been the kind who roams
A stranger everywhere
Just one of those poor stay-at-homes
With no one's lips to share
But your sweet kiss has changed all this
And made my life begin
So keep loving me don't let me be
The things I might have been
The things I might have been

What used to be my home has changed to just a place to stay
A crumbling last resort when day is through
Sometimes between sundown and dawn somehow I find my way
To this home motel on Lost Love Avenue
No one seems to really care if I come here at all
And the one who seems to care the least is you
I'm gonna hang a neon sign with letters big and blue
Home Motel on Lost Love Avenue