The lights are down low and so am I

I drink not to think and I hate to go home

Home’s where the hurt is my sweet love is gone

Gone like a leaf in a dust of wind

Gone like a robin when winter sets in

Gone is my love since my bird has flown

Home’s where the hurt is my sweet love is gone

Gone like a leaf in a dust of wind

Gone like a robin when winter sets in

Gone is my love since my bird has flown

Home’s where the hurt is my sweet love is gone

She sees in me the things you used to see

And she’d like to feel these arms that you’ve left empty

So how long can I keep loving you if she keeps loving me

How long can I hold on to nothing

If she keeps holding on to me

And she wants the part of me that you’ve stopped wanting

So how long can I keep loving you if she keeps loving me

She’d like to be the one that I come home to

And be all the things you used to be

And she’d like to be the one who sleeps beside me

So how long can I keep loving you if she keeps loving me

How long can I hold on to nothing

If she keeps holding on to me

And she wants the part of me that you’ve stopped wanting

So how long can I keep loving you if she keeps loving m–e

Title: Bandy The Rodeo Clown
Performed by: Moe Bandy
Written by: Lefty Frizzell
Transcribed by: Kevin Bradbeary kbradbeary@aol.com

Who was once a bull hooking son of a gun
Now who keeps a pint hid out behind chute number one
Who was ridin high till a pretty girl rode him to the ground
Any kid knows where to find me I’m Bandy the rodeo clown
In the ridin and the ropin I was closin in on number on
Now in dreams at night I ride on that silver saddle I never
won. Since she left me the whiskey takes me to the rodeo
grounds, Where the cowboys think I’m handy I’m Bandy the
rodeo clown.

(Chorus)

I could ride em all
The bulls and the broncs knew I was boss
But the ride that woman took me on broke a whole lot more
Than this old cowboy’s bones.
While the tears on my makeup melts my painted smile into a
frown. The crowd thinks I’m a dandy I’m Bandy the rodeo
clown

(Repeat chorus and last verse to end)

You hugged my mom and kissed my daddy’s hand

It had been three years since you left me

And it broke my heart to see you once again

Don’t know how you knew I’d stopped drinking

But it was so good to kiss and hold the kids

Never seen so many eyes start crying

When you said darling will you marry me again

Then we all held each other tightly

As if we knew the world would surely end

Never seen so many eyes start crying

When you said darling will you marry me again

Darling will you marry me again

Said the closest she’d be was around

And now she was leaving cause she couldn’t fight

My honky tonk merry go round

If it was a woman she’d know what to do

But she couldn’t take being put down

My bottles and bar rooms night after night

Of my honky tonk merry go round

Cause my pay checks still buys tickets that come in flip top cans

My silver dimes still strike up that old juke box band

Where once rode a king now sad lonely clown

Is riding a honky tonk merry go round

So she left me and I thought well maybe that’s good

I won’t feel so guilty tonight

But some how some where something went wrong

With my complete honky tonk life

Cause my pay checks still buys tickets that come in flip top cans

My silver dimes still strike up that old juke box band

Where once rode a king now sad lonely clown

Is riding a honky tonk merry go round

Is riding a honky tonk merry go round

Instrumental Break: E – E – B7 – B7 – B7 – B7 – E – E

I Hope This Small Bouquet Of Words
Are The Sweetest Ones You’ve Ever Heard
‘Cause I Can’t Think Of Any-one
I’d Rather Hold Till Life Is Done[(E][-][E7)]
This Love Of Mine For You Will Grow And Grow[(E][-][E7)]
And I Just Thought That You Would Like To Know
My Love Will Be A Burning Flame
Till I’m Just A Picture In A Frame
Yes I’ll Still Love You Just The Same
E (E – B7 – E – Stop)
Till I’m Just A Picture In A Frame

FYI: – this is my 2000th tab so in a way it is special to
me. I purposefully stayed with a classic country song
because this is what I miss hearing.

Capo 2

Your eyes are not the eyes I should be seen in
But right now they’re all I want to see
Your touch is not the touch I belong to
But tonight you’re the one that’s reachin’ me

Chorus:
Oh ain’t it easy following the feeling
It started with a smile and hello
We’re hardly more than strangers, ignoring all the dangers
Following the feelin down at cheatin?? row

I know tomorrow I’ll be sorry
Lovin’ you might be too much to pay
But tonight you’re in my arms, not on my conscience
And I can’t think beyond where we lay

Chorus

Following the feelin down at cheatin’ row

But I wish I had someone I could leave so I could stay

I’m not the kind who runs around and cheats on his wife

Cause if I had someone to cheat on I’d go home tonight

I don’t like this honky tonking drinkin’ all the time

But I wish I had someone I was drinkin’ off my mind

If I had someone to do wrong I’d only do her right

Cause if I had someone to cheat on I’d go home tonight

There’s no one at home waiting for me

No one to hold when I turn out the lights

Once I knew a man who cheated and threw away his life

Now if I had someone to cheat on I’d go home tonight

If I had someone to cheat on I’d go home tonight

I swore my ways that I would mend

But you cheated dear and that’s a sin

Here I am I’m drunk again

I’m drunk because that you are gone

At the bar I’m standing, all alone

Drowning my sorrows deep with in

Here I am I’m drunk again

I don’t like this life of mine

Drinking whisky beer and wine

Dear I know this is the end

Here I am I’m drunk again

I’m drunk because that you are gone

At the bar I’m standing, all alone

Drowning my sorrows deep with in

Here I am I’m drunk again

Oh I am just a cowboy on my way back to Houston
I used to play the rodeos but I can’t play ‘em like I used to
I’ve given' it up, I’m layin’ it down
I’ve had enough of bein?? a rodeo clown
So if you see a tear runnin down my face
Don’t ask me why, cause cowboys ain’t suppose to cry

Steel solo

Oh I am just a drifter on my way back from Denver
I kept ‘em laughin from in my barrel but now it seems too hard to handle
So I’ve given' it up, I’m layin’ it down
I’ve had enough of bein?? a rodeo clown
So if you see a tear runnin’ down my face
Don’t ask me why, cause cowboys ain’t suppose to cry