Night Rider's Lament Lyrics

Jerry Jeff Walker Well, our story starts in Texas, where he's tempered by the heat That skinny Alvin boy believes his fastball can't be heat So he brings it and he brings it and i...Read Full Lyrics

Say if you're South of Oklahoma, east of New Mexico, West of Louisiana, where Papa Charles always go We gotta a little place called Texas Where the women grow on trees There right ...Read Full Lyrics

Bye buckaroos it's the end of another go round I can see by the look in our eyes that we're finally windin down To the end of the wrong long time out on the trail it seems It's tim...Read Full Lyrics

Billy Joe Shaver Yea, well I spent a lifetime Just makin up my mind to be, More than the measure of What I thought others could see. Good luck and those fast bucks Are too few, an...Read Full Lyrics

Willie Nelson People are saying that times take care Of people like me And that I'm living too fast and they say I won't last Much longer But little they see that their thoughts o...Read Full Lyrics

Jerry Jeff Walker Yea, I used to look forward to Saturdays When me and my grandpa'd get way We'd hop in his pickup truck and we'd go to town We had a couple chores that we had to ...Read Full Lyrics

Jerry Jeff Walker Chorus: Pissin' in the wind, bettin' on a losing friend Makin' the same mistakes, we swore we'd never make again And we're pissin' in the wind, but it's blowing ...Read Full Lyrics

Billy Callery Lace your shoes with country blues Ramble down that dusty ole road Take your money down in the town Gonna get rich in the game Come on home drunk at day break You g...Read Full Lyrics

Bob Livingston/Gary P. Nunn Got my irons in the fire down in Texas Got a toe hold in Tennessee Got my foot in the door of that California Store Now I'm up to my ears in me Chorus...Read Full Lyrics

Bill Staines A baby child is born along the highway A tiny little thing upon the land An okie with his dreams out on the byway Lifts the tiny baby in his hand The woman smiles a l...Read Full Lyrics