When the rain is blowing in your f… And the whole world is on your cas… I could offer you a warm embrace To make you feel my love When the evening shadows and the s…

Mama, take this badge off of me I can’t use it anymore It’s gettin’ dark, too dark for me… I feel like I’m knockin’ on heave… Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s…

Oh, I’m sailin’ away my own true… I’m sailin’ away in the morning Is there something I can send you… From the place that I’ll be landi… No, there’s nothin’ you can send m…

If today was not a crooked highway… If tonight was not a crooked trail… If tomorrow wasn’t such a long tim… Then lonesome would mean nothing t… Yes, 'n’ only if my own true love…

... It ain’t no use to sit and won… If’n you don’t know by now And it ain’t no use to sit and won… It’ll never do somehow When your rooster crows at the bre…

Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big… Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big… Whatever colors you have in your m… I’ll show them to you and you’ll s… Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big…

Once upon a time you dressed so fi… You threw the bums a dime in your… People’d call, say, “Beware doll,… You thought they were all kiddin’… You used to laugh about

Seen a shooting star tonight And I thought of you You were trying to break into anot… A world I never knew I always kind of wondered

Sixteen years, Sixteen banners united over the fi… Where the good shepherd grieves. Desperate men, desperate women div… Spreading their wings 'neath the f…

She’s got everything she needs She’s an artist, she don’t look ba… She’s got everything she needs She’s an artist, she don’t look ba… She can take the dark out of the n…

The guilty undertaker sighs The lonesome organ grinder cries The silver saxophones say I shoul… The cracked bells and washed-out h… Blow into my face with scorn

Love that’s pure hopes all things, Believes all things, won’t pull no… Won’t sneak up into your room, tal… Capture your soul and hold it for… You don’t want a love that’s pure

Down the street the dogs are barki… And the day is a-gettin’ dark As the night comes in a-fallin’ The dogs’ll lose their bark An’ the silent night will shatter

I can see the turning of the key I’ve been deceived by the clown in… I thought that he was righteous bu… Oh, something’s a-telling me I we… My patron saint is a-fighting with…

Oh my name it ain’t nothin’— My age it means less— The country I come from Is called the Midwest. I’s taught and brought up there