Red Dirt Road lyrics

Connie came back for her second cousin's wedding

First time she'd been home in a year or two

Just in time for the rehearsal dinner

That crazy Connie wasn't wearing any shoes

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She lives in L.A. she flies to New York City

That woman's been around the world

You can take the girl out of the honky tonk

But you can't take the honky tonk, take the honky tonk, out of the girl

(Ronnie Dunn/Charlie Crowe)

My darling, I have wronged you

Down the devil's path I have roamed
Regret, sadness and sorrow

Now in my soul have found a home

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My Sweet Caroline

From your loving arms I've strayed

In your heart may you find

Forgiveness I pray

A fool to temptation

I surely played

I come to you for salvation

Have mercy in love's name

(Kix Brooks/Gary Nicholson)

Tommy got off at the Texaco

Came bustin' in to Norma's Café

Said come on man we gotta go
You know how those party girls hate to wait

Filled up his daddy's trunk with ice and beer

Yeah he was always stealin' the old man's car

Radio never came in too clear

So I'd hang out one on my piece of junk guitar

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Yeah we ruled from the blacktop

(Ronnie Dunn/Terry McBride)

She said what she wants is a man to be faithful

A true heart somebody willin' and able
To stay by her side through thick and thin

A tender touch every now and then

She's not hung up on fairy tales

Or some dream at the bottom of a wishin' well

Fancy cars or diamond rings

What she wants most are the little things

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That's what she gets

Red Dirt Road Lyrics

I was raised off of old route 3

Out passed where the blacktop ends

We'd walk to church on Sunday morning
And race barefoot back to Johnson's fence

That's where I first saw Mary

On that roadside pickin' blackberries

That summer I turned the corner in my soul

Down that red dirt road.

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It's where I drank my first beer

It's where I found Jesus

(Ronnie Dunn/Terry McBride)

What's it like girl

To have somebody love you
With a love

Too good to be true

You oughta know

Feels good don't it

How bout those lonely nights

You used to pray

Something like this

Would come your way

Thank your lucky stars

Lucky's what we are

Feels good don't it

Some people go through life

Never knowing

What love is

(Jerry Lynn Williams)

I sat down to say it

The words wouldn't come
I just couldn't play it

And it tore me all apart

The bell I tried to ring it

The words wouldn't come

I just couldn't sing it

And I used to know this song by heart

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I sued to sing this song to you

For days and days

In so many different manners

In so many different ways

(Ronnie Dunn)

What do I do to make you love me

Baby, like I love you
Why do you keep the key to your heart

Behind a door I can't get through

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I have faith

I hide my time

I'll be all right

I'll be fine

I'm a believer in love

Like a fool playin' with fire

While my flame burns alone

Like a slave to blind desire

Oh I keep hangin' on

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(Kix Brooks/Rafe Van Hoy)

There's a house down on the corner with the porch light on

And a window I can look in and see you're always home
Waiting for me with the lights low in your silk night gown

Somewhere on the outskirts of memory town

Past the stoplight there's a desert where my Coupe Deville

Roars down a lonely highway and it always will

She said Good-bye to her Daddy, while her Mama cried

I kept the motor runnin' in my car outside

She kissed him on the cheek, Daddy's little girl

Then a woman walked out to take on the world

Through red tail lights and a cloud of dust

We went flyin' through the night, it was all about us

Sittin' in the seat, right next to me

We drove off with a tank full of gasoline

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(Kix Brooks/Paul Nelson)

Sometimes I think about how lucky I am

To live where I do, to be what I can
And to know that you're mine when I'm holding you close

And to never forget

What matters the most

I'm gonna run with the wind behind me

Have fun when the sun is shining

Stop when the world reminds me

Got to take the time to pray

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Fight for the right to be free

(Kix Brooks/Ronnie Dunn/ Don Cook)

My baby's like a honky tonk

Open all night, make you feel right
Gets me going, got me buzzing like a neon light

Knock you out like a punch in a barroom fight

My baby's like a smooth shot of whiskey

Make you feel warm, kinda make you feel dizzy

Can't get my fill, I can't get enough

My baby's everything I love

My baby's like a Coupe Deville

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Some say a holy war is comin'

Gonna be the end of mortal man

There's a TV preacher sayin'

Armageddon is at hand
Sayin' the Jews, the Gays, the Junkies

The Politicians and Infidels

Have conjured up the devil

Upon the gates of hell

I turn on the TV

Lord I can't believe my eyes

Oh Terror walks the streets

While a million mothers cry

Christians pray to Jesus

(Niles Rogers/Jimmie Vaughan)

Say things to me like a cowgirl would

I'll do tricks for you like a cowboy should
You look romantic layin' in the hay

I need you tonight in a new kinda way

When you look at me with those eyes

It makes me start to fantasize

Do it to me like I know you could

So I can do it to you baby like a Cowboy should

Ridin' the range I think of you