Come and listen to my story if you will I’m gonna tell
About a gang of fellers from down at nashville
First I’ll start with old red foley doin’ the "chattanooga shoe"
We can’t forget hank williams with them good old "lovesick blues"

It’s time for roy acuff to go to memphis on his train
With minnie pearl and rod brasfield and lazy jim day
Turn on all your radios I know that you will wait
Hear little jimmy dickens sing "take an old cold tater and wait"

There’ll be guitars and fiddles, earl scruggs and his banjo too
Bill Monroe singing out them Old Kentucky Blues
Ernest tubb’s number "two wrongs won’t make a right"
At the grand ole opry ev’ry saturday night

There was uncle dave macon his gold tooth and plug-hat
Cowboy copas singing "tragic romance"
Signed sealed and delivered with sam and kirk mcgee
And the master of ceremony was mr. george d. hays

There was lonzo and oscar a-poppin’ bubble gum
George morgan singin’ "candy kisses" yum yum
"got a hole in my bucket" "bringin’ in that georgia mill"
We’ll sing "the sunny side of the mountain" and dance to the "chicken reel"

There’ll be guitars and fiddles and banjo pickin’ too
Bill Monroe singing out them Old Kentucky Blues
Ernest tubb’s number too wrongs won’t make a right
At the grand ole opry ev’ry saturday night

You can talk about your singers in all kinds of way
But none could sing the old songs like bradley kincaid
With his old hound dog "guitar" and the famous "blue tail fly"
Stringbean with hank snow and old fiddlin’ chubby wise

There’ll be guitars and fiddles, earl scruggs and his banjo too
Bill Monroe singing out them Old Kentucky Blues
Ernest tubb’s number "two wrongs don’t make a right"
At the grand ole opry ev’ry saturday night

Well there's a dark and a troubled side of life.
There's a bright and a sunny side too.
But if you meet with the darkness and strife,
The sunny side we also may view.

Keep on the sunny side, always on the sunny side,
Keep on the sunny side of life.
It will help us every day, it will brighten all the way,
If we keep on the sunny side of life.

Oh, the storm and its fury broke today,
Crushing hopes that we cherish so dear.
Clouds and storms will in time pass away.
The sun again will shine bright and clear.

Keep on the sunny side, always on the sunny side,
Keep on the sunny side of life.
It will help us every day, it will brighten all the way,
If we'll keep on the sunny side of life.

Let us greet with a song of hope each day.
Though the moments be cloudy or fair.
Let us trust in our Saviour always,
To keep us, every one, in His care.

Keep on the sunny side, always on the sunny side,
Keep on the sunny side of life.
It will help us every day, it will brighten all the way,
If we'll keep on the sunny side of life.

If we'll keep on the sunny side of life.

When Summertime is gone and snow begins to fall
You can sing this song and say to one and all

You are my flower that's blooming in the mountain so high
You and my flower that's blooming there for me

So wear a happy smile and life will be worthwhile
Forget the tears but don't forget to smile

You are my flower that's blooming in the mountain so high
You and my flower that's blooming there for me

Way back in the hills, when a boy, I once wandered
Buried deep in her grave lies a girl that I love
She was called from this earth, a jewel fro heaven
More precious than diamonds, more precious than gold

A jewel here on earth, a jewel in Heaven
She'll brighten the kingdom around God's great throne
May the angels have peace, God bless her in Heaven
They've broken my heart and they left me to roam

When a girl of sixteen, we courted each other
She promised someday to become my sweet wife
I bought her the ring to wear on her finger
But the angels they called her to Heaven one night

A jewel here on earth, a jewel in Heaven
She'll brighten the kingdom around God's great throne
May the angels have peace, God bless her in Heaven
They've broken my heart and they left me to roam

Oh, come all you young fellers, young and so fine
Seek not your fortune in the dark dreary mine
It'll form as a habit and seep in your soul
Till the stream of your blood runs as black as the coal

Where it's dark as a dungeon, damp as the dew
Danger is double, pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls, the sun never shines
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine

Well, I pray when I'm dead and the ages shall roll
That my body will blacken and turn into coal
Then I'll look from the door of my heavenly home
And pity the miner digging my bones

Where it's dark as a dungeon, damp as the dew
Danger is double and the pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls, the sun never shines
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine

Along about eighteen twenty-five
I left Tennessee very much alive
And I never would have gotten through the Arkansas mud
If I hadn't been a-ridin that Tennessee stud

I had some trouble with my sweetheart's pa
And one of her brothers was a bad outlaw
I sent her a letter by my Uncle Fud
And I rode away on the Tennessee stud

CHORUS:
The Tennessee stud was long and lean
The color of the sun and his eyes were green
A-He had the nerve and he had the blood
And there never was a hoss like the Tennessee stud

We drifted on down into no man's land
We crossed that river called the Rio Grande
I raced my hoss with the Spaniard's foal
Till I got me a skin full of silver and gold

Me and the gambler we couldn't agree
We got in a fight over Tennessee
We jerked our guns, and he fell with a thud
And I got away on the Tennessee stud

The Tennessee stud was long and lean
The color of the sun and his eyes were green
A-He had the nerve and he had the blood
And there never was a hoss like the Tennessee stud

Well I got just as lonesome as a man can be
A-Dreaming of my girl in Tennessee
The Tennessee stud's green eyes turned blue
Cause he was a-dreamin' of his sweetheart, too

We loped right back across Arkansas
I whoop her brother and I whoop her pa
When I found that girl with the golden hair
And she was A-ridin' that Tennessee mare (whoa, boy)

The Tennessee stud was long and lean
The color of the sun and his eyes were green
He had the nerve and he had the blood
And there never was a hoss like the Tennessee stud

Stirrup to stirrup and side by side
We crossed them mountains and the valleys wide
We came into Big Muddy then we forded a flood
On the Tennessee mare and the Tennessee stud

There's a pretty little baby on the cabin floor
A little hoss colt playin' 'round the door
I love the girl with golden hair
And the Tennessee stud loves the Tennessee mare (They'se good hosses)

The Tennessee stud was long and lean
The color of the sun and his eyes were green
And he had the nerve and he had the blood
And there never was a hoss like the Tennessee stud

Who did you say it was brother?
Who was it who fell by the way?
When whiskey and blood run together
Did you hear anyone pray?

I didn't hear nobody pray, dear brother
I didn't hear nobody pray
I heard the crash on the highway
But I didn't hear nobody pray

When I heard the crash on the highway
I knew what it was from teh start
I went ot the scene of destruction
Adn a picture was stamped on my heart

There was whiskey and blood all together
Mixed with glass where they lay
Death played her hand in destruction
But I didn't hear nobody pray

I didn't hear nobody pray, dear brother
I didn't hear nobody pray
I hear the crash on the highway
But I didn't hear nobody pray

I wish I could change this sad story
That I am now telling you
But there is no way I can change it
For somebody's life is now through

Their soul has been called by the Master
They died in a crash on the way
And I heard the groans of the dying
But I didn't hear nobody pray

I didn't hear nobody pray, dear brother
I didn't hear nobody pray
I hear the crash on the highway
But I didn't hear nobody pray

I wandered so aimless, life filled with sin
I wouldn't let my dear savior in
Then Jesus came like a stranger in the night
Praise the Lord, I saw the light.

Just like a blind man I wandered a long,
Worries and fears I claimed for my own.
Then like the blind man that God gave back my sight
Praise the Lord, I saw the light

I was a fool to wander and stray,
Straight is the gate and narrow the way
Now I have traded the wrong for the right
Praise the Lord, I saw the light

I saw the light, I saw the light
No more in darkness no more in night
Now I'm so happy, no sorrow in sight
Praise the Lord, I saw the light

Now don't forget me little darling while I'm growing old and gray
Just a little thought before I'm going far away
I'll be waiting on the hillside where the wild red roses grow
On the sunny side of the mountain where the rippling waters fall

Now don't forget about those days we courted many years ago
Don't forget all the promises you gave me and so
I'll be waiting on the hillside on the day that you will call
On the sunny side of the mountain where the rippling waters fall

Tell me darling in your letter do you ever think of me
Please answer little darling tell me where you can be
It's been so long dear since I've seen you but my love still lingers on
Don't forget me little darling though our love affair seems gone

This nine pound hammer is a little too heavy
For my size, Buddy for my size

Roll on buddy, don't you roll so slow
How can I roll, when the wheels won't roll

I'm going to the mountain, just to see my baby
And I ain't coming back, no I ain't coming back

There ain't one hammer, down in this tunnel
That can ring like mine, that can ring like mine

Rings like silver, shines like gold
Rings like silver, shines like gold

This old hammer, it killed John Henry
Ain't gonna kill me, ain't gonna kill me

It's a long way to Harlan, and a long way to Hazard
Just to get a little booze, just to get a little booze

Buddy when I'm log gone, won't you make my tombstone
Out of number nine coal, out of number nine coal

there's no such thing as sleep for jealous fools
and being jealous about someone like you
is sort of foolish too
the life you choose is the life you want I guess
losin' you might be the best thing yet

the longest day I live I'll still be sufferin' from the shame
while in the gutter you were makin' yourself quite a name
the loneliness is all that I regret
losin' you might be the best thing yet

patiently I sit at home and wait,wonderin' where you are
and what you are doin' has turned my love to hate
I wanted you and you wanted anyone you could get
losin' you might be the best thing yet

When you are sad and lonely and have no place to go
Call me up, sweet baby, and bring along some dough
And we'll go honky tonkin', honky tonkin'
Honky tonkin', honey baby
We'll go honky tonkin' 'round this town.

When you and your baby have a fallin' out
Just call me up sweet mama and we'll go steppin' out
And we'll go honky tonkin', honky tonkin'
Honky tonkin', honey baby
We'll go honky tonkin' 'round this town.

We're goin' to the city - to the city fair
If you go to the city then you will find me there
> and we'll go honky tonkin', honky tonkin'
Honky tonkin', honey baby
We'll go honky tonkin' 'round this town.

When you are sad and lonely and have no place to go
Call me up, sweet baby, and bring along some dough
And we'll go honky tonkin', honky tonkin'
Honky tonkin', honey baby
We'll go honky tonkin' 'round this town.

Honey you don't know my mind I'm lonesome all the time
Born to lose a drifter that's me
You can travel for so long then a rambler's heart goes wrong
Baby you don't know my mind today

Heard the music of a rail slept in every old dirty jail
And life's too short for you to worry me
When I find I can't win I'll be checking out again
Baby you don't know my mind today

I've been a hobo and a tramp my soul has done been stamped
Lord things I know I learned the hard hard way
I ain't here to judge or plea but to give my poor heart ease
Baby you don't know my mind today

Honey you don't know my mind I'm lonesome all the time
Born to lose a drifter that's me
You say I'm sweet and kind I can love you a thousand times
Baby you don't know my mind today

My walkin' shoes don't fit me anymore
My walkin' shoes don't fit me anymore
Stay on your side of town, honey, I won't be around
My walkin' shoes don't fit me anymore

It's a long way from here to over yonder
My feet, they're getting mighty sore
I ain't comin' back, you've made your mind to wander
My walkin' shoes don't fit me anymore

My walkin' shoes don't fit me anymore
My walkin' shoes don't fit me anymore
Stay on your side of town, honey, I won't be around
My walkin' shoes don't fit me anymore

I'll be a long time gone from you, baby
you'll never hear me knock upon our door
Thought you were worth it once but I was crazy
My walkin' shoes don't fit me anymore

My walkin' shoes don't fit me anymore
My walkin' shoes don't fit me anymore
Stay on your side of town, honey, I won't be around
My walkin' shoes don't fit me anymore

Tis sweet to be remembered on a bright or gloomy day
Tis sweet to be remembered by a dear one far away
Tis sweet to be remembered remembered remembered
Tis sweet to be remembered by a dear one far away

As I travel on this world just ot soothe my rovin' mind
The messages I get from a dear one left behind
They were filled with sweetest words that's so touchely when I heard

Never ever can I foget these are some thigns that she said
Tis sweet to be remembered

From the great Atlantic ocean to the wide Pacific shore
She climbs a flowery mountains for the hills and by the shore
She's mighty tall and handsome she's known quite well by all
She's a regular combination on the Wabash Cannonball

Listen to the jingle the rumble and the roar
As she glides along the woodland through the hills and by the shore
Hear the mighty rush of the engine hear those lonesome hoboes call
Traveling through the jungle on the Wabash Cannonball

Well she came down from Birmingham one cold December day
As she pulled into the station you could hear all the people say
She's from Tennessee she's long and she's tall
She came down from Birmingham on the Wabash Cannonball

Listen to the jingle...

Here's to daddy Claxton may his name forever stand
And always be remembered in the courts throughout the land
His earthly race is over and the curtains round him fall
We'll carry him home to Dixie on the Wabash Cannonball

Listen to the jingle...

I'm a rollin' stone all alone and lost
For a life of sin I have paid the cost
When I pass by all the people say
Just another guy on the lost highway

Just a deck of cards and a jug of wine
And a woman's lies makes a life like mine
O the day we met, I went astray
I started rolling down that lost highway

I was just a lad, nearly 22
Neither good nor bad, just a kid like you
And now I'm lost, too late to pray
Lord I paid the cost, on the lost highway

Now boy's don't start to ramblin' round
On this road of sin ,or you're sorrow bound
Take my advice or you'll curse the day
You started rollin' down that lost highway

Way downtown just foolin' around
Took me to the jail
It's oh me and it's oh my
No one to go my bail

It was late last night when Willie came home
I heard him a-rapping on the door
He's a-slipping and a-sliding with his new shoes on
Mamma said Willie don't you rap no more

Way downtown just foolin' around
Took me to the jail
It's oh me and it's oh my
No one to go my bail

(break)

I wish I was over at my sweet Sally's house
Sittin' in that big armed chair
One arm around this old guitar
And the other one around my dear

Way down town just foolin' around
Took me to the jail
It's oh me and it's oh my
No one to go my bail

(break)

Now, its one old shirt is all that I got
And a dollar is all that I crave
I brought nothing with me into this old world
Ain't gonna take nothing to my grave

Way down town just foolin' around
Took me to the jail
It's oh me and it's oh my
No one to go my bail

I know not where on earth to find you
I know not how or when to start
I only know, I'm here without you
I've got pinsa nd needles in my heart

The days and night are growing longer
Since first you said that we must part
I only know, I can't forget you
With these pins and needles in my heart

I always see your face before me
Your smile is heaven's work of art
But now you're smiling at another
And there's pins and needles in my heart

Sometime, somewhere, we'll meet again, dear
Then love will make the teardrops start
Someday you'll know, how long I've waited
With these pins and needles in my heart

Well I left my home down on the rural route
I told my pa I was going stepping out
And get the honky tonk blues
Yea the honky tonk blues
Hey Lord, I got, I got the honky tonk blues

Well I stepped into every place in town
This city life has really got me down
I got the honky tonk blues
Yea the honky tonk blues
Hey Lord, I got, I got the honky tonk blues

Well I went out last night, I wore out my shoes
Woke up this morning wishing I couldn't lose
Those jumping honky tonk blues
Yea the honky tonk blues
Hey Lord, I got, I got the honky tonk blues

I'm gonna tuck my worries underneath my arm
And scat right back to my Pappy's farm
And leave the honky tonk blues
Yea the honky tonk blues
Hey Lord, I got, I got the honky tonk blues

Well I'm gonna tuck my worries underneath my arm
And scat right back to my Pappy's farm
And lose the honky tonk blues
Yea the honky tonk blues
Hey Lord, I got, I got the honky tonk blues
Hey Lord, I got, I got the honky tonk blues
Hey Lord, I got, I got the honky tonk blues, yea

I've been on the road too long
It's getting lonely out here
Night after night after night after night
Let's go home first
Honky tonk blues
Honky tonk blues

Would've been better for us both had we never
In this wide wicked world had never met
For the pleasure we've both known together
I'm sure, love, I'll never forget

Oh, I'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes
Who is sailing far over the sea
Oh, I'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes
And I wonder if she ever thinks of me

Oh, you told me once, dear, that you loved me
And you said that we never would part
But a link in the chain has been broken
Leavin me with a sad and aching heart

Oh, I'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes
Who is sailing far over the sea
Oh, I'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes
And I wonder if she ever thinks of me

When the cold, cold grave shall enclose me
Will you come there and shed just one tear
And say to the strangers around you
A poor heart you have broken lies here

Oh, I'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes
Who is sailing far over the sea
Oh, I'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes
And I wonder if she ever thinks of me

I am a pilgrim and a stranger
Traveling through this wearisome land
I've got a home in that yonder city, good Lord
And it's not not made by hand

I got a mother, a sister and a brother
Who have gone tot his way before
And I am determined to go and see them, good Lord
Over on that other shore

I am a pilgrim and a stranger
Traveling through this wearisome land
iv'e got ahome in that yonder city, good Lord
And it's not not made by hand

Now I'm goin' down to that river jordan
Just to bathe my weary soul
If I can touch but just the hem of His garment, good Lord
Than I know You'll take me home

I am a pilgrim and a stranger
Traveling throug this wearisome land
I've got a home in that yonder city, good Lord
And it's not not made by hand

Oh, I'll twine with my mingles and waving black hair
With the roses so red and the lilies so fair
And the myrtles so bright with emerald dew
The pale and the leader and eyes look like blue.
Oh, I'll dance, I will sing and my laugh shall be gay
I will charm ev'ry heart, in his crown I will sway
When I woke from my dreaming, idols were clay
All portions of love then had all flown away.

Oh, he taught me to love him and promised to love
And to cherish me over all others above
How my heart now is wond'ring misery can tell
He's left me no warning, no words of farewell.

Oh, he taught me to love him and called me his flow'r
That was blooming to cheer him through life's dreary hour
Oh, I'm longing to see him through life's dark hour
He's gone and neglected this pale wildwood flower.

I was standing by my window,
On one cold and cloudy day
When I saw that hearse come rolling
For to carry my mother away

Will the circle be unbroken
By and by, lord, by and by
There’s a better home a-waiting
In the sky, lord, in the sky

I said to that undertaker
Undertaker please drive slow
For this lady you are carrying
Lord, I hate to see here go

Will the circle be unbroken
By and by, lord, by and by
There’s a better home a-waiting
In the sky, lord, in the sky

Oh, I followed close behind her
Tried to hold up and be brave
But I could not hide my sorrow
When they laid her in the grave

Will the circle be unbroken
By and by, lord, by and by
There’s a better home a-waiting
In the sky, lord, in the sky

I went back home, my home was lonesome
Missed my mother, she was gone
All of my brothers, sisters crying
What a home so sad and lone

Will the circle be unbroken
By and by, lord, by and by
There’s a better home a-waiting
In the sky, lord, in the sky

We sang the songs of childhood
Hymns of faith that made us strong
Ones that mother maybelle taught us
Hear the angels sing along

Will the circle be unbroken
By and by, lord, by and by
There’s a better home a-waiting
In the sky, lord, in the sky

Will the circle be unbroken
By and by, lord, by and by
There’s a better home a-waiting
In the sky, lord, in the sky

You told me once you were mine, alone, forever,
An' I was yours till the end of eternity.
But all those vows are broken now an' I will never,
Be the same except in memory.
Remember me when the candle lights are gleamin'.
Remember me at the close of a long, long day.
An' it would be so sweet when all alone, I'm dreamin',
Just to know you still remember me.
Instrumental break.
A brighter face may take my place when we're apart, dear:
Another love, with a heart more bold and free.
But in the end, fairweather friends may break your heart, dear.
An' if they do, sweetheart, remember me.
Remember me when the candle lights are gleamin'.
Remember me at the close of a long, long day.
An' it would be so sweet when all alone, I'm dreamin',
Just to know you still remember me.
Just to know you still remember me.