Greatest Songs lyrics

Got the alarm clock set for seven
Got the taxi called for nine
Plane takes off at eleven
and I gotta be there on time.

Told the boss I was going to my mother's
Told mama I was gonna see a friend
Don't want no one to know I'm slippin'
Out of town on a wild weekend.

Gonna have a wild weekend
Gonna have a wild weekend
With the pretty little blond haired blue eyed darling

Look at me walking the streets at 3 a.m.
And you're saying what a crazy fool I am
But the one I love is out tonight with him
Somewhere making love at 3 a.m.

I need a drink but all the bars are locked up tight
A lonely man gets mighty thirsty late at night
I won't ever kiss her sweet, sweet lips again
This old world's an awful place at 3 a.m.

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There's a whole lotta people lookin' down their noses at me
Cause I didn't come from a wealthy family
There was ten of us livin' in a two room shack
On the banks of the river by the railroad track
We kept chickens in a pen in the back
And everybody said we was po' folks.

My daddy was a farmer but all he ever raised was us
Dug a forty foot well struck thirty-six gallons of dust

(God put a song in the heart of an angel)
(And softly she sang it to me.)

I get to thinking lots of times
About back when I was a lad
Of the old homeplace where I grew up
Of the days both good and bad.

My overalls were hand-me-downs
My shoes were full of holes
I used to walk four miles to school every day
Through the rain, the sleet and the cold.

They're not teardrops
Just sincere drops
They're I love you drops
'Cause I love you. (I love you.)

They were on my pillow when I woke up this morning
They were on the letter I tried all day to write
And just a little while ago I saw them
Falling on your picture as I kissed it goodnight.

I love you drops
I miss you drops
Hurry home drops
You've been gone so long drops.

Every time I hear the midnight trains
Rollin' out to the open plains
A sense of freedom fills my veins
I get the fever.

Every time a sparrow flies
Up into the endless skies
Something down inside me cries
I get the fever.

I get the fever to pack up and leave here
And wander wild like the wind
This town's too full of mem'ries of cruel love
And I can't stand it seein' her with him.

I love those bright lights and country music.

I won't stay home and cry tonight like all the nights before
I've just learned that I don't really need you anymore
I found a little place downtown where guys like me can go
And they've got bright lights and country music.

Bright lights and country music a bottle and a glass
Soon I'll be forgetting that there ever was a past

(Still) though you broke my heart
(Still) though we're far apart
I love you still
(Still) after all this time
(Still) you're still on my mind
I love you still

I've lost count of the hours
and I've lost track of the days
In fact, I've lost just about everything
Since you went away
Everything, that is, except the memories you left me
And that's one thing that no one can mar

I'm not looking for a sweetheart
Just a gentle lady friend
Someone I can softly turn to
When I need to now and then
When my head gets kinda tangled
And my soul is lying bare
I reach over in the Corner of my life
And I find you waiting there

You're a number I can phone
You're a letter I can write
You're my water when I'm thirsty
In the middle of the night