Tom Paxton. . It's a long and a dusty road. It's a hard and a heavy load and the folks we meet ain't always kind.. Some are bad and some are good. Some have done the best they could. Some have tried to ease our troubling mind..
Took my girl home the other night. Got myself in an awful fight. She said, "Doux, doux, darlin'. Won't you please come in?". Her old lady socked me with a rollin' pin.
I almost went too far. I almost turned my back. On everything I hold dear. How'd I get off track. Show me a sign, one gentle touch. To remind me why I'm here.
Baby, I'm up, then down. I can laugh too soon. Or cry at the Harvest moon. . Go downtown. I'm barefoot, dancin' in the fountain. Either way, it's easy with you.
Love doesn't come with a contract. You give me this, I give you that. It's scary business when your heart and soul is on the line. Baby, why else would I be standing 'round here so tongue-tied.
I will crawl through your grief. I will cry 'til I drown. Cut a path through your dark. 'Til Im lost and youre found. . Turn your black into gray. I wont hurt when I bleed.
I heard our song from a passing car. Music faded down the boulevard. Streets of empty silence cried out loud. Telling me that I need you now. . Lonely whistle of a passing train.
Kevin Fowler - If These Old Walls Could Talk. . (chorus). If these old walls could talk. I'd be a sad man. She'd left me long ago. If she knew the things I did back then.
Holding down a job too long. Ain't never been my forte. Soon as I'm hired I end up fired. For showing up too late. . I ain't too good at hammer swinging.
Way back when I was in High School,. I had a girl her name was Linda Sue.. One friday at the ball game,. She said I had it I'm breakin' up with you. Come along bout a monday morning..
Well, I woke up this mornin'. I was feelin tired and used. Higher than a mountain top. Thanks to 90 proof. Well, there callin me all over town. Who cares what they think.
Picked up the paper just the other day. When I was over 'round Chickasha. Flipped over to the classified ads. To see what I could find. Somewhere in the lost and found.
Check engine light came on in my pick up truck. So I took a piece of black tape and I covered it up. I knew there was a problem underneath the hood. But I just kept on driving, a little faster then I should.
There's a month of sunday papers. In the weeds that's taken over. That ol' gravel driveway. And a quart of milk, half empty. Two weeks past the experation date.
It's such a pretty world today look at the sunshine. And every day's the same since I met you. It's such a pretty world today knowing that you're mine.
Just because I tell you there's nobody like you. That don't mean that it's true. And if I should whisper the words I love you. That don't mean that I do.
Outside my window I see there's the world full of men. They're tall and strong and living like I might have been. But I met a woman and she took the life out of me.
I've been down to Mississippi. Down through New Orleans, yes, I have. I've played in California. There's not much that I haven't seen, no, there's not.
I'm a long way from home and so all alone and I'm scared like I thought I'd never be. I'm a long way from home and everything is wrong Lord please watch over me.
If heartaches brought fame in love's crazy game. I'd be a legend in my time. If they gave gold statues for tears and regrets. I'd be a legend in my time.