Happy Woman Blues lyrics

written by Lucinda Williams

Lucinda Williams lead vocals and acoustic guitar
Mickey White acoustic rhythm and lead guitars, harmony vocals
Rex Bell electric bass and harmony vocals
Andre Matthews electric rhythm, lead and slide guitars
Ira Wilkes drums
Mickey Moody pedal steel guitar
Malcolm Smith fiddle and viola

Howlin' at midnight, winter creepin' in
Feel like I've gone and lost my best friend
My best friend, lost my best friend
This car's headed down the wrong track again

I ain't got nobody, I'm nobody's girl
Gonna get in my Mercury and drive around the world
Around the world, all around the world
When I reach that mountain top I'll stand with flags unfurled

John Ciambotti bass guitar
Donald Lindley drums
Charlie Sexton guitar
Roy Bittan accordion
Buddy Miller guitar
Steve Earle acoustic guitar
Jim Lauderdale harmony vocals

I think I lost it
Let me know if you come across it
Let me know if I let it fall
Along a back road somewhere
Money can't replace it
No memory can erase it
And I know I'm never gonna find

written by Lucinda Williams

Lucinda Williams lead vocals and acoustic guitar
Mickey White acoustic rhythm and lead guitars, harmony vocals
Rex Bell electric bass and harmony vocals
Andre Matthews electric rhythm, lead and slide guitars
Ira Wilkes drums
Mickey Moody pedal steel guitar
Malcolm Smith fiddle and viola

Can you relieve me, baby

Maria, you're still wild and restless
And I can just see ya ridin' in a rodeo
You might even make it down to Texas
Or you might head out west to New Mexico

So pack up all of your belongings
A pick-up will take you where you wanna go
You can ride out when you hear mountains calling
Out to Canada or the canyons of Colorado

New York City was always your home

Mickey White guitar
Andre Matthews guitar
Rex Bell bass
Ira Wilkes drums
Mickey Moody steel guitar
Malcolm Smith fiddle

You're the one you're my shinin star
You're the one I've been waiting for
Let's fly away to some foreign country
Where nobody knows who we are
I wish I had a ship to sail the waters
I wish I had about a hundred dollars

How long have you been hangin' around

Your eyes fixed to the cement ground

Your heart is warm, your hands are cold

You know the truth, but the story gets old
You stood on the corner for a long time

People passin' by you gave you nickels and dimes

They think you're one of the nameless

Cuz you got no record and you ain't famous

Oh, Bill, I know how you're feelin'

You feel so good, Lafayette, now I've come to greet you

Tell all my friends I've come back again

I couldn't stay away, I was gone only a day

But I'm comin' back to my sweet Lafayette

I'm goin' down to Lafayette, I don't care how long I'm gone

It's so hard to leave you, Lafayette, now I know where I belong

When that sweet fiddle sounds and Clifton gets down

Just another one night stand

Just another man to forget

Just another empty hand

With nothin' left to bet
It doesn't really matter what i say

There's no one here to blame

I'll just close the door and walk away

Let down once again

I can't even say you lied to me

'Cause you ain't said nothin' yet

You never even tried for me

There's nothin' to regret

Just another one night stand

we all make mistakes sometimes
and I have made my share of mine
but if I have to, I'll walk the line
just to prove my love
you know I'd give everything I've got
and what I'd give would be a lot
I would smooth out all the rough spots
just to prove my love
let me prove my love for you
let me do whatever I can do
let me show my heart is true
let me prove my love for you

Refrain:

Louisiana man with a style his own,

Not like some other men I've known,

With his cowboy boots and his hats he wore so well;
Caught me eye on the very first day

And I never will forget the way

He played guitar and he sang just like an angel.

Thoughts of you flicker past,

Goin' on down the road so fast,

The trees and the bushes and the telephones poles fly by.

Well, I'm rollin' along the highway

Livin' the life I'm used to

I thought about you all the way from

Little Rock to Houston

And now I can't seem to get you off my mind

But your tied to somebody else

I think about you all the time

And I just can't help myself

Sometimes I don't know right from wrong

I find it easy to fall

It's hard when I been up all night long