High Mileage
High Mileage Tracks
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(Charlie Black, Phil Vassar)
Let\'s begin with the day I met her
And how fast this good ole boy\'s world got better
The sky got bluer, the grass got greener
Just the first few seconds after
I\'d first seen her
Like my favorite song on a new set of speakers
My best old jeans and my broke in sneakers
A home run pitch floatin\' right down the middle
The sweet music made when the bow hits the fiddle
(Chorus)
v She\'s right on the money
She goes directly to my heart
And when it comes to lovin\' me
She\'s everything I need, bull\'s-eye perfect
Oh, She\'s right on the money
She\'s no red lights
When I\'ve overslept
She\'s a three point jump shot
That\'s nothing but net
A hand full of aces, the dealer\'s done dealin\'
And I\'m forever on a roll, that\'s how she\'s got me feeling
(Chorus)
She\'s the best cook that\'s ever melted cheese
I ain\'t much around the house, but I aim to please
There\'s absolutely no reason to doubt her
When she says I wouldn\'t last ten minutes without her She\'s
(Chorus)
©1998 EMI Blackwood Music Inc., Flybridge Tunes (BMI) / EMI April Music Inc., Phil Vassar Music (ASCAP) -
(Alan Jackson)
Here I am all alone again tonight
In this old empty house
It\'s hard to learn what you don\'t think you need
You can\'t live without
Never leave the sound of the telephone
But, ever since you left, I\'ve been gone
(Chorus)
Gone carzy, goin\' out of my mind
I\'ve asked myself the reasons, At least least thousand times
Goin\' up and down this hallway
Tryin\' to leave the pain behind
Ever since you left, I\'ve been gone
I never saw your face this many times
When you were really here
The things you said I never understood
Are now crystal clear
I never spent this much time at home
But, ever since you left, I\'ve been gone
(Chorus)
©1998 WB Music Corp./Yee Haw Music (ASCAP) All rights adm. by WB Music Corp. -
(Alan Jackson)
I remember walkin\' round the court square sidewalks
Lookin\' in windows at things I couldn\'t want
There\'s Johnson\'s hardware and Morgan\'s jewelry
And the ol\' Lee King\'s Apothecary
They ware the little man
The little man
I go back now and the stores are all empty
Except for an old coke sign from 1950
Boarded up like they never existed
Or renovated and called historic districts
There goes the little man
There goes the little man
(Chorus)
Now the court square\'s just a set of streets
That the people go round but they seldom think
\'Bout the little man that built this town
Before the big money shut\'em down
And killed the little man
Oh, the little man
He pumped your gas and he cleaned your glass
And one cold rainy night, he fixed your flat
The new store came where you do it yourself
You buy a lotto ticket and food off the shelf
Forget the little man
Forget about that little man
He hung on there for a few more years
But he couldn\'t sell slurpees and he wouldn\'t sell beer
Now the bank rents the station to a man down the road
And sell velvet Elvis and second-hand clothes
There goes little man
There goes another little man
(Chorus)
It wasn\'t long when I was a child
An old black man came with his mule and his plow
He broke the ground where we grew our garden
Back before we\'d all forgotten
About the little man
The little man
Long live the little man
God bless the little man
©1998 WM Music Corp./Yee Haw Music (ASCAP) All rights adm. by WB Music Corp. -
(Mel Besher, Charlie Craig)
Looking through these old photographs
Don\'t they bring some good memories back
Some of them make us laugh
And some make us cry
I\'m glad we\'ve kept all of these souvenirs
To prove that our love was here
Look at how happy we were,
Pictures don\'t lie
(Chorus)
If forever should end today
And there\'s no tomorrow for us
What a day yesterday was
Here\'s one of us with you calm and cool
But look at me acting a fool
And here\'s one of us on the ferris wheel at the fair
Hey, haven\'t we had some fun
The best may be yet to come
We may have a hundred years still left to share
But...
(Chorus)
Let\'s close this book of photographs
And let\'s turn out the lights
And love for the moment
As if it were the last
(Chorus)
©1998 Heart of Hearts Music, LLC - A Division of McLachlan-Scruggs International/EMI Blackwood Music, Inc. (BMI) -
(Alan Jackson )
I\'ve spent a lifetime lookin\' for love
Just when I find it, it comes undone
I\'ve tried so hard to make love happen
Like some never endin\' pattern
I end up on the sad side of the fun
(Chorus)
Hurtin\' Comes easy
Hurtin\' Comes easy
Hurtin\' Comes easy
For me
Well, I\'ve seen people that got it made
They\'ve got someone and love looks great
But me, I\'ve been to every doctor
I\'ve tried it wild and I tried it proper
And I always end up watchin\' love walk away
That\'s okay
(Chorus)
I\'ve gotten used to getting over
And hopefully as I grow older
Love won\'t be so difficult to see
But now for me
(Chorus)
©1998 WB Music Corp., Yee Haw Music (ASCAP) -
(Kieran Kane)
When I look into your soft green eyes
And when I see your delicate body
Revealed to me as you slip off your dress
I\'m reminded what I feel for you
Will remain strong and true
Long after the pleasures of the flesh
and...
(Chorus)
I\'ll go on loving you
I\'ll go on loving you
I\'ll go on loving you
And be it the rain or the wind
Or the moon up in the sky
The spin of the earth
Or the change of the tides
I don\'t know what brought us together
What strange forces of nature
Conspire to construct the present from the past
but...
(Chorus)
When I look into your soft green eyes
And when I see your delicate body
Revealed to me as you slip off your dress
I\'m reminded that what I feel for you
Will remain strong and true
Long after the pleasures of the flesh
and...
(Chorus)
©1998 Family Style Publishing.Glacier Park Music, a division of Moraine Music Group and Little Duck Publishing (SESAC) -
(Harley Allen, Carson Chamberlain)
I woke up the other night lyin\' on the floor
Right beside someone I\'d never seen before
She said my name\'s Juliet
But Romeo you ain\'t
That\'s another good reason not to drink
(Chorus)
That\'s another good reason not to drink
When I\'m sober, I\'m almost a saint
If I keep going on like this, I\'ll end up like ole Hank
That\'s another good reason not to drink
I cant go see my best friend, he said stay away
Just because of what I said on his wedding day
You oughta call her Sherman \'cause she looks just like a tank
That\'s another good reason not to drink
(Chorus)
I\'m gonna sue to city about that policeman
Last night as I left the bar, he stepped right on my hand
He said \'Are you drunk or blind?, I said \'Let me think\'
And that\'s another good reason not to drink
(Chorus)
Baby let me in, I\'m freezin\'
Another good reason not to drink
©1998 EMI Blackwood Music Inc., Song Island Publishing (All rights for Song Island Publishing controlled and administered by EMI Blackwood Music, Inc.) / Songs of PolyGram International, Inc. Colt-N-Twins Music (BMI) -
(Alan Jackson)
I have felt it and I have held it
I have known a woman’s love
And I have tasted and I have wasted
A woman’s love
(Chorus)
And I know I’ll never understand
All the little things that make it grand
A woman’s love
And I know I’ll never come face to face
With anything that takes the place
Of A woman’s love
Well I have kissed it, tried to resist it
I have missed a woman’s love
And I have hated, taken for granted
A woman’s love
(Chorus)
Well I have needed and I have pleaded
And I have lost a woman’s love
I have worshiped and I have cursed it
A woman’s love
(Chorus)
And I know I\'ll never come face to face
With anything that takes the place
of a women\'s love
©1998 WM Music Corp./Yee Haw Music (ASCAP) -
(Carson Chamberlain, Brian Tabor, Michael White)
She said, I don\'t usually dance this close to strangers
You know a girl can\'t be too careful with her heart
But I saw you and thought that you looked harmless
But when you smile that way I\'m not so sure you are
I said, I don\'t usually come here for the dancin\'
You can tell that by the way I move
When I saw you I thought that it was hopeless
But I just had to ask you for a dance or two
(Chorus)
Somewhere in the stars it must be written
Girl we\'ve got to take this chance that we\'ve been given
If there\'s a heaven here on Earth
I think we found it
If this ain\'t love, we\'re dancin\' all around it
Music stopped and we\'re still holdin\' each other
This feels like the beginning of forever
(Chorus)
If this ain\'t love we\'re dancin\' all around it
She said I don\'t usually dance this close to strangers
©1997 Songs of PolyGram International, Inc., Colt-N-Twins Music (BMI) / Caribbean Stud Music, A Division of Big Picture Entertainment (ASCAP) -
(Alan Jackson)
The time has come, you\'re really leavin\'
You always told me that you wanted to
I guess I never thought it would happen
I guess I never really wanted it to
The world is callin\' you and you must answer
But you can take me with you in your dreams
(Chorus)
If you ever get back to Amarillo
In a shiny new car or worn out shoes
If you ever get back to Amarillo
I\'ll be waiting for you
Your sister told me you were workin\'
At some office out in Tinsel town
Don\'t forget about those who love you
They\'ll be there for you if you get down
I believe in you in all you after
I hope you end up where you wanna be
(Chorus)
Thirty years now have gone by quickly
I still think of you from time to time
My wife died early, I\'ve got children
I\'m happy and my health is fine
I often wondered if you found your freedom
I sometimes wonder if I should have gone
(Chorus)
©1998 WB Music Corp., Yee Haw Music (ASCAP) (All rights adm. by WB Music Corp.)