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In an Alabama graveyard on a December day
A young man with a guitar stares in to space and plays
no one there to listen No on there but him
And the Ghost of Hank Williams sings “Your Cheatin Heart” again

Chorus
Marty Robbins, Pasty Cline, Ernest Tubb, and Red Solvine
Jimmy Rodgers, and old Lefty were my friends.
It’s so lonesome here tonight, but someday I’ll see the light
When the ghost of Hank Williams sings “Your Cheatin Heart” again

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It was 2 am in Nashville and the Ryman Stage was bare
There was just a lot of memories from the Opry being there
In the stillness of the morning in a cold December wind
And the Ghost of Hank Williams plays “Your Cheatin Heart” again

Chorus

There’s a DJ in Ohio that recalls that New Years Day
When he had to tell the nation tha his singer passed away
Sometimes when it’s late at night he’ll let some records spin
And the ghost of Hank Williams sings “Your Cheatin Heart” again

Chorus

First Verse

David Allan CoeLooking In The Mirror
Capo 1

Looking In The Mirror
Must be harder than you thought
Truth is not a pretty sight to see
Cheatin aint worth cheatin honey
When youre getting caught
Lovin him while losin you and me.

Maybe I was foolish
Sometimes dreamers often are
I believed that you believed in me
Standing in loves quicksand honey
Reachin for a star
Lookin for your love to set me free.

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Ive seen all them dreams
I ever thought was coming true
Shattered like the mirror in your hall
Leaving you reflection like a four letter word
Fading quickly on some bathroom wall.

Trying to understand love
Is the hardest part of all
Does it really matter whose to blame
Once I called you honey
Now I never call at all
Knowing you would only call me names.

Seeing it was over
Did not mean that you could go

Leaving me the pleasure of the pain
Trusting someone else will be
A harder row to hoe
Lovin wont me be easier again.

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Looking In The Mirror
Must be harder than you thought
Truth is not a pretty sight to see
Cheatin aint worth cheatin honey
When youre getting caught
Lovin him while losin you and me.

Everytime it rains Lord I stand at my window
All I do is wring my hands and moan
Can you hear the thunder roar
Can you hear that Lonesome wind blow
Tell me baby why you been gone so long

Tell me baby why you been gone so long, been gone so long
Tell me baby why you been gone so long
Wolf was scratchin at my door Lordy don?t you hear that
lonesome wind blow
Tell me baby why you been gone so long

Somebody said that they thought they saw you way down in Reno
With a big ol man from San Antone
They tell me I?m a fool to cry for you but what do they know
Tell me baby why you been gone so long

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I guess there?s nothing left for me to do but go get stoned
Let the past paint pictures through my head
Might drink a fifth of Thunderbird and try to write a sad song
Tell me baby why you been gone so long.

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David Allan CoeA Sense of Humor
Capo 1

Every night another woman
Every day a different town
If I’m not accused of speeding
I’m accused of coming down
With a legal dose of something
That you heard was going ‘round
And you wondered why I lost my Sense of Humor.

Every song another record
Every day just like a clock
Knowing well I’ve had to take it
Till I make it to the top
With the devil right behind me
And my heart about to stop
Then you wondered why I lost my Sense of Humor.

Twenty years I was in prison
More than that I was alone
Some lily-white reporter
Thinks it’s time that I was stoned
Without sin, he wrote the story
And it chilled me to the bone
Then he wondered why I lost my Sense of Humor.

I shaved my beard and cut my hair off
It don’t matter anyhow
It was truth that told the answers
To the questions up till now
“Crucify him,” someone shouted

Then they wondered why I lost my Sense of Humor.

Hey, take them crosses from my doorstep
There’s no reason to my rhyme
Everybody knows somebody
Will take care of me in time
I made friends of all you stand for
But the blind can’t lead the blind
Just be glad I haven’t lost my Sense of Humor.

Just be glad I haven’t lost my Sense of Humor
‘Cause if I ever catch you I’m gonna kick your ass.

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Yeah, I’ve seen your face in magazines
Yeah I’ve read all of those press room queens descr i ptions
I can’t believe the lies they tell
But truth is not the way to sell subscr i ptions
After all the smoke had cleared away
Did not take me long to find out what you had to say
This is just a game and I’m glad I finally learned to play by the rules
Do they really think we’re fools

They put you down behind my back
Distorting all the honest facts about you
While searching through your lyric sheets
For secret meanings too discreet to doubt you
Isn’t it a shame they never heard
They finally wrote you off as really being too absurd
While all the time you sacrificed your rhymes to find a word they could not see
Hidden in your melodies

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Like a tree that could bend with the wind
Like a river that flows around the bend
Like a dream, like a song, they all cross right or wrong
They just keep on building castles in the sand

Then just like you they told me lies
And offered corporate alibis to change me
My songs were taken through the mill
While managers were hired to rearrange me
They led me to the slaughter like a lamb
I just kept pretending that I did not give a damn
Now this situations gotten too far out of hand to be real
I don’t wanna make a deal

The parasites reach for your heart
Each one must try do their part to drain you
You give them your best autograph
On pictures, knowing well, they’re gonna frame you
Don’t you know it happens every time
Little did they know that I could read between the lines
You told them times were changing but they did not heed the signs, I’m not that green
Bobby,do you know what I mean

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I’m Like a tree that can bend with the wind
I’m like a river that flows around the bend
I’m like a dream, like a song, that I’ve crossed, right or wrong
And I’ll just keep on building castles in the sand

They drove me in their limousines
My pockets bursting at the seems with money
They said that I could take your place
By putting makeup on my face like honey
Now don’t you know it chilled me to the bone
They even had the nerve to ask me if i could re-write Like a Rolling Stone
Thats when I told they the should leave my ass alone, its plan to see
I just wanted to be free

Chorus 1

And every song i write my friend
I play it with my band

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Corrections welcome.

CHORUS:
A tongue can accuse and carry bad news
The seed of distrust it will sow
But unless you have made no mistakes in your life
Be careful of stones that you throw

(SPOKEN)
Why a neighbor lady was passin’ my garden one time
And she stopped and I knew right away
That gossip not flowers she had on her mind
And this is what I heard her say
She said, you know that girl down the street, David Allan?
She should be run from our ‘midst
Why, she drinks and she talks quite a lot
Well she knows not to speak to my child or to me
And my neighbor then smiled, and I thought

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(SPOKEN)
Well a car speeding by and the screaming of brakes
A screamin’ that made my blood chill
And my neighbor’s one child had been pulled from the path
And saved by a girl that was lyin’ still
And the child was unhurt and my neighbor cried out, she said
Oh who was that brave girl so sweet
And I covered the crushed broken body and said,
Why that was that bad girl that lived down the street

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G D A G D (X2)

Back in 1953
We stole a car old Merle And Me
Never thinking wed be put in jail.
You might say that we were green
I was barely seventeen
When they put those bars between old Merle And Me.

Late one night we hit the wall
Twenty feet we had to fall
To the ground where we could craw into the weeds.
Waiting for that shotgun blast
Never thinking we could last
We sure had to grow up fast, old Merle And Me.

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We were young and crazy then
It was easy to pretend
Acting like wed never been in reform school.
Looking danger in the eye
Walking with our heads held high
We were not afraid to die, old Merle And Me.

We were living by the gun
Never caring what wed done
Swearing it was all just fun and games you know.
We would die and go to hell
Before we broke our vow to tell

How we escaped that prison cell, old Merle And Me.

How was Merle or Me to know
We would end up on death row
Waiting for our turn in the electric chair.
Shot down in a grocery store
We got busted at the door
Praying wasn’t easy for, old Merle And Me.

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G D A G D (X2)

David Allan Coe – Bossier City

My hands are shaking as I’m sadly learning
The truth behind your innocent disguise
You never thought I knew, that you had been untrue
But I once saw the devil, somewhere in your eyes.

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And now you got the nerve to ask me where I’m goin
And I don’t believe I’d tell you if I knew
I’ll be gone when the sun comes up tomorrow
I believe it’s time to say good-bye to you
And it sure smells like snow in Bossier City
But there ain’t no weather quite as cold as you
I’d sooner stand in Mother Nature’s anger
Than to spend another lonely night with you.

I’m talking but I’m feeling you’re not listenin
My words they just fall heavy on the floor
Yes it’s true that you knew, I would not stay forever
And you won’t see me crying, when I walk out your door.

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And it sure smells like snow in Bossier City
But there ain’t no weather quite as cold as you
I’d sooner stand in Mother Nature’s anger
Than to spend another lonely night with you.

David Allan Coe – Living On The Run
Capo 1

Seems like it’s rainin' harder today
The rain must of known I was comin’ this way
It ain’t easy, Living On The Run
If I pick up my step and pull my belt down tight
I can make it to the border by Saturday night
And it’s lonely, Living On The Run.

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I killed me a woman in Tennessee
I just broke jail and they’re gunnin’ for me
I’m on the run, Living On The Run
I’m on the run, Living On The Run.

My woman wanted more than a man could steal

And it got me, Living On The Run
Women love an outlaw I heard folks say
And I’ll be an outlaw till my dying day
Cause it got me, Living On The Run.

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David Allan Coe – Atlanta Song
Capo 1

I met her in Atlanta
She was a-dancing in a cafe
With a price tag on her body
And a tombstone in her eye
You could tell she was not happy
By the way she kept on staring
Past the other side of nowhere
At a man she’d like to try.

And the make-up she had painted
Could not hide the youthful motions
Of her body
I stared like all others
With my right hand in my pocket
While she showed us
Everything the law allowed.

D G A D X2

Twenty bucks an hour later
My one-bedroom apartment
I was feelin weak
She was sweet, she was gentle
As she introduced my body
To some pleasures
It had never ever known.

When I woke up in the morning
She was a-laying there beside me
Like a kitten
With her face turned to the sun
And a look of satisfaction
On her lips that made me wonder
If she ever felt ashamed
Of what we’d done.

So I left her in Atlanta
She was a-dancing in cafe
With a price tag on her body
And a tomestone in her eye
And I guess she still ain’t happy
By the way she keeps on staring
Past the other side of nowhere.