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Mountain Home
02:52
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Mountain Home
(Owen Temple)
He’s going back to Mountain Home
Cedar trees and stone
Said he’s been gone too long
He’s going back to Mountain Home
Live oak and limestone and rivers when it rains
Big sky and cedar trees and cold clear springs
Every shade of blue, every shade of green
He’s had gray prison walls, he’s due a change
of scene
He’s going back to Mountain Home
Cedar trees and stone
Said he’s been gone too long
He’s going back to Mountain Home
That trouble at the ranch dragged down the family name But he says he got more than his share of the blame
He’s been locked up in Huntsville for twenty years or so The middle of nowhere is where he wants to go
He’s going back to Mountain Home
Cedar trees and stone
Said he’s been gone too long
He’s going back to Mountain Home
Flashing yellow light intersection in town
Tells travelers to take warning, but most folks don’t slow down
With the post office closed,
the wind’s the only sound
He’s headed home on a one way Greyhound
He’s going back to Mountain Home
Cedar trees and stone
Said he’s been gone too long
He’s going back to Mountain Home
To that hilltop all alone
He’s going back to Mountain Home
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Desdemona
03:06
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Medicine Man
03:49
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Small Town
02:57
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Danger and Good Times
03:34
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Danger and Good Times
(Owen Temple, Adam Carroll, Scott Nolan)
Slanted eyebrows looking over his glasses
Hand on a hip flicking cigarette ashes
Listening to music with self-employed stresses
Selling all them heaters at midnight in Texas
That ain’t no microphone pass me a hit
I’d just as soon not mess with it
Too fat to fly to stoned to stack BBs
Millions of records, thousands of CDs
Danger and good times
Ain’t too hard to find
So please show me a sign
Through danger and good times
I can do you one better than that, see how this band is so well known
But that first band he was in, was bad to the bone
I ain’t never heard about no farmer going down to the Bahamas
It’s a little thing- I like to call Karma
Danger and good times
All the way down the line
It’s a mighty thin line
Between danger and good times
Watch yourself out there- they’ll knock you down
Golden years? I’m gonna have fun right now
More messed up than a turned over tackle box
Check the phonebook- there’s only one Acox
Danger and good times
Ain’t too hard to find
Please show me a sign
Danger and good times
There’s danger and good times
All the way down the line
Please show me a sign
There’s danger and good times
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6. |
Fall in Love Every Night
03:25
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Fall in Love Every Night
(Owen Temple)
Boots and rhinestones
Canadian tuxedoes
Honky tonk zeros
Neon lights
Rocky Mountain beer signs
Parking lot Thunderbird wine
Ten ‘til showtime
Dim the lights
Fall in love every night
Metal building stage sound
North Texas showdown
Feeling high and lowdown
Staying up all night
That kid’s gonna be a star
But he can’t find his car
He used his guitar
In a back room fight
He falls in love every night
Bouncing hot checks
Surviving car wrecks
Where you gonna sleep next
Hold on tight
Fall in love every night
Drinks his own snake oil
Mixed with Crown Royal
Crank in tin foil
Blacks and whites
Played cards with Freddie King
Lost everything
That he got to play and sing
But that’s all right
He falls in love every night
The clothes you slept in
You play the gig in
Don’t bother to tuck it in man
It looks all right
You fall in love every night
You fall in love every night
Fall in love every night
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7. |
Jacksboro Highway
03:41
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Jacksboro Highway
(Owen Temple, Adam Carroll)
Tinsy Eggleston rode a car bomb to Kingdom Come
Elmer Holliday laid in a shallow grave, he had to go away
Locals speaking of the Ringside Pub and the Dueces Club Keep voices low, Little Chicago is Fort Worth you know
A five mile strip, the further you went the badder it’d get 7 nightclubs, 10 motor inns to get lost in Black book with cops’ names and dollar signs Every now and then one of them gets out of line
The Chief of Police and the DA are down Jacksboro Highway
Saw Sally Rand with an ostrich fan at a fireworks stand And the greasy spoon’s upstairs room was packed at noon
High stakes poker games and slot machines Downstairs there’s no one there, just empty chairs
Parking lot full to the break of day down Jacksboro highway
Chrome wheels of Oldsmobiles’ trunks are filled With contraband so please don’t tell Uncle Sam At the Tower Motel, they won’t tell what they sell
Word gets around, when a car explodes it shakes the ground
It’s funny how time slips away down Jacksboro Highway
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8. |
Old Sam
03:22
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Old Sam
(Owen Temple, Adam Carroll)
Timber Ridge, Virginia is a mighty fine place
From that soil sprung a leader of the human race
He had eyes full of thunderstorms and hair like gold
He was seven feet tall when he was six years old- Old Sam, Big Sam
Down in Alabama in 1812
He and Andy Jackson raised all kind of hell
Got shot by an arrow but he had no fear
Hero was the job that he chose for his career- Old Sam, Big Sam
But Sam got tired of being the governor of Tennessee
So the Raven flew south to be a drunk Cherokee
He slapped a nasty Congressman right in the face
He said y’all go to hell, I’m gonna find a better place for Old Sam, Big Sam
He rambled on down to western Arkansas
Kicked around Oklahoma where he took up with a squaw In those days Texas was damn near Mexico
Old Sam decided next that was where he’s gonna go
Old Sam, Big Sam
That devil Santa Anna was a molester and a thief
Getting him throwed out a Texas was a mighty big relief After swatting Santa Anna like you would a pesky fly
He drank a river full of whiskey and ate a piece of pie
Old Sam, Big Sam
Sam told folks not to start a Civil War
But they told Sam just to go and find the door
He sired eight more kids on the Gulf Coast plain
They don’t bear the scars but they all bear the name of Old Sam, Big Sam
Sam Houston stood tall, he was true and tough That statue’s pretty big, but it ain’t big enough for Old Sam, for Big Sam Old Sam
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Prince of Peace
03:57
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10. |
One Day Closer to Rain
02:50
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Well’s drying up and the creek is gone
Dust is flying, cows are skin and bone
Drought like this could drive you from your home
But we’re one day closer to rain
Weatherman stands there waving his arms
But there’s no more bales of hay down in the barn
Corn crop’s dead on my old man’s farm
He said we’re one day closer to rain
My brother works at a bank in San Antonio
Said the Feds locked the doors two weeks ago
The numbers didn’t add up and their business was slow
One day closer to rain
Hurricane last summer from the Gulf of Mexico
Ran aground and dumped an ocean on San Angelo
It was flooding in the desert just a year ago
So we’re one day closer to rain
Won’t be water, be fire next time
But a forty day flood would suit me just fine
Be on the deck of an ark with a fishing line
If we’re one day closer to rain
Well’s drying up and the creek is gone
Dust is flying, cows are skin and bone
Drought like this could drive you from your home
But we’re one day closer to rain
One day closer to rain
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