You thought you'd set the world on fire that life was just a song You thought if you'd try hard enough things couldn't turn out wrong How feeble is the
And so I finally get the chance to love you just when I thought everything was lost But he walked out on you and now you need me You want me to take up
BAXTER HILL Years ago grandaddy Baxter gave dad 40 acres Daddy proudly named it Baxter Hill Him and Mom raised seven kids And gave us each 1 acre In
When the Lord made me he made a simple man Not much money and not much land He didn't make me no baker or legal charmer And the Lord made me a blackland
The claim we hold is a good as gold bonanza Hand in hand we built this land the Ponderosa ranch Our birthright is this Cartwright bonanza We here belong
Bimbo Bimbo where ya gonna go-e-o Bimbo Bimbo whatcha gonna do-e-o Bimbo Bimbo does your mummy know You're goin' down the road to see a little girl-e-
I'm sending you a big bouquet of roses one for every time you broke my heart And as the door of love between us closes tears will fall like petals when
(Burning bridges behind me) all I want is to forget you somehow Found some letters you wrote me this morning And they told of a love we once knew Now
Tonight I'm burning old love letters photographs and memories of you Hoping somehow I'll feel better and that when the smoke is gone I won't want you
Well have you ever passed the corner of 4th and Grand Where a little ball of rhythm has a shoeshine stand People gather round and they clap their hands
You're telling everybody that she loves you you know she don't You're telling everybody that she'll come back you know she won't You tell the same old
I can tell that you're already growing tired of me You want no part of me, even started lying to me And if you started out to break this heart inside
Oh mama I'm excited I'm almost out of breath And what I saw the light that made me run myself to death I was on the mountain side when I looked down below
Well, the bills are all due and the babies needs shoes, we're busted We've had a hard time since they closed down the mines, we're busted Got a cow that
Dance her by me one more time the girl you're with used to be mine I'll try to smile when you'll dance by I don't want her see me cry In the heart that
I met you, my country girl, you didn't have a thing I fell in love, I dressed you up, then I bought the ring I was teachin' you to love, you were learnin
A young cowboy named Billy Joe grew restless on the farm A boy filled with wanderlust who really meant no harm He changed his clothes and shined his boots
Tear a star from mounty sky and the sky feels blue Tear a petal from a rose and the rose weeps too Take your heart away from mine and mine will surely