Those Were The Days

I reminded him of an old girlfriend
Singing at a bar called Slim's
And I recall him doing lots of things that night
But sleeping wasn't one of them

-Jerry Jeff Walker

Tracy Walls

You don't even know me
There's a 100 girls that do
Yeah, they'd all put up a fight
To be with me tonight
Somehow it don't feel right I'm missing you

-Mark David Manders

Lucky Man

She got me wrapped round her finger
And all the love I could bring her
Would not be half as much as she deserves
And I'm a lucky man 'cause I got her

-Mike McClure

Black Jack Road

Well he left behind a letter
Addressed to all his kin
Said this land is cursed and it'd take a hearse
To bring me home again

-Mark David Manders

Big Hopes

I got an old leather jacket
Would look good on you
And lots of friends, they would like you too
I've got some pull with the moon and tides
And $32 let's go somewhere tonight

-Walt Wilkins

Maria

I didn't go there looking for trouble
I singled her out earlier but now I'm seeing double
And the bartender told me that both of their names were Maria

-Phil Pritchett

Own Worst Enemey

Please tell me why, my car is in the front yard
and I'm sleeping with my clothes on
I came in through the window last night
and you're gone.... gone

-Lit

Brahma Fear

Drank a lot of whiskey
It gives me such a glow
It makes me quite immobile
But it let's my feelings show

-Jimmy Buffett

Whatever You Like

Stacks on deck
Patron on ice
and we can pop bottles all night
and baby you could have whatever you like, you like

-T.I.

Not Finished Yet

I'm not finished yet
I've got 1 song left to sing
And it won't make me rich
But it just might keep me sane

-Wade Bowen

Drive-In Movie

So I just stared though the door screen and I
watched the cars come down the pike
their lights against the sky
like a drive in movie on a country road
that I've seen before, never like the first time

-Fred Eaglesmith

Third Coast

I left California back in '76
The music died with Jimmy Hendrix
And things got crazy in San Francisco
But thumbing cross the country, man I, thought I would freeze
So I followed Buffett to the Florida Keys
Where I nearly got busted with a load of snow white cargo


-Larry Joe Taylor

Hit Somebody

The fans jumped up and the Finn jumped too
and cold-cocked buddy on his follow through
The big man crumbled but he felt alright
'Cause the last thing he saw was the flashing red light

-Warren Zevon

No Judgement Day

Sheriff Walker holds 3 local boys in jail
They confessed right down to the last detail
They beat Willy with a bat, he was 70 years old
Then they bought some beer with the $6 they stole

-Gary Allan

Ol' Milwaukee's Best

I like to drink 'em with my friends around
Suck 'em back til I hit the ground
Well the wife and the kids and the dogs are gone
I can't get Jesus on the phone
But Ol' Milwaukee's Best is my best friend

-Adam Carroll

Mandy

Oh Mandy, well you came and you gave without taking
but I sent you away, oh Mandy
well you kissesd me and stopped me from shaking
and I need you today, oh Mandy


-Barry Manilow

Everyday Angel

Dave was gonna meet his wife at a coffee shop in Brooklyn
when he heard the alarm sing out
9-1-1 he was running up stairs
that he never got back down, down, down

-Radney Foster

Anything But Mine

Mary is holding both of her shoes in her hand
Says she likes to feel the sand beneath her feet

-Kenny Chesney

Come A Little Bit Closer

In a little cafe
Just the other side of the border
She was a sitting there givin' me looks
That made my mouth water

-Jay and The Americans

Margaritaville

Old men in tanktops
cruising the gift shops
checking out chicitas down by the shore
they dream about weight loss
wish they could be their own boss
of those 3 day vacations become such a bore

-Jimmy Buffett

Tryin' To Reason With Hurricane Season

Squalls out on the Gulf stream
Big storm's comin' soon
Passed out in my hammock
And god I slept til way past noon

-Jimmy Buffett

Real Big

Push that button, microwave oven
I'm just getting started pimp, you ain't seen nuthin'
Is that a fish tank bro in the middle of the dash
yeah, pimpin' don't put yo fingers on my glass

-Big Tymers

Amanda

It's a measure of people that don't understand
The pleasures of life in a hillbilly band
I got my first guitar when I was 14
Now I'm over 30 and still wearing jeans

-Waylon Jennings

Errol's Song

Mr. Errol's a good friend, he's never a stranger
When I come back it seems like I've always been here
There's a sign in his kicthen it's written in french
When you've run out of Schlitz, you've run out of beer

-Adam Carroll

You're Not The Best

So sit down here beside me girl
and I will tell you what we will do
We're gonna twist them lids and hope our kids
look more like me than you

-Charlie Robison

Low Income

I don't feel like cooking you
no breakfast this morning
Well you don't have to cook me breakfast
'cause your girlfriend will after you leave

-Wyclef Jean

Thats What Livin' Is To Me

Be good and you will be lonesome
Be lonesome and you will be free
Live a lie and you will live to regret it
That's what livin' is to me

-Jimmy Buffett

New Orleans

Take me back to New Orleans
And don't call me anymore
'cause I might love you, yeah
But I love me more

-Cowboy Mouth

The Cape

He’s one of those who knows that life
Is just a leap of faith
Spread your arms and hold you breath
Always trust your cape

-Guy Clark

Banditos

Everybody knows that the world is full of stupid people
So meet me at the mission at midnight, we'll divvy up there
Everybody knows that the world is full of stupid people
Well I got the pistol, so I'll keep the pesos

-Refreshments

Love of The Loveless

Don’t got a lot of time
Don’t really care
Not selling anything
Buyer beware

-The Eels

Dirty Mouth

I like a girl with a dirty mouth
Someone that I can believe
We had a window not open too long
But that time is good and gone

-The Eels

Indian Cowboy

Up stepped some Indian Cowboy
His lasso went whirlin' through the air
In the full dead middle of danger
He roped that runaway mare

-Joe Ely

Fire On The Pontchartrain

So cheating men and cheating women
Don't deserve half of what they tore away
Just a brief float in my old johnboat
And blow them up upon the Pontchartrain

-Lost Trailers

Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner

His comrades fought beside him, Van Owen and the rest
but of all the Thompson gunners Roland was the best
So the CIA decided they wanted Roland dead
That son-of-a-bitch Van Owen blew off Roland's head

-Warren Zevon

Carney Man

I'll sit and work the gate or I can guess your weight
I'll even sell the corndogs, I don't care as long as I am there
I'll hand out baseballs at the dunk tank
I'll ride my funny car, laughing all the way to the bank

-Cross Canadian Ragweed

Sonora's Death Row

And the mezcal's still free in Amanda's saloon
For the boys from the old Broken "O"
I'd pay a ransom to drink there today
And be free of Sonora's Death Row

-Robert Earl Keen

Tension

Violent problems need violent solutions
'Cause in America we like our bad guys dead
It's called box office, baby
It's bigger than the damn Stones

-Todd Snyder

Alison

Sometimes I wish that I could stop you from talking
when I hear the silly things that you say
I think somebody better put out the big light,
'cause I can't stand to see you this way

-Elvis Costello

You Be Illin'

Dinner, you ate it, there is none left
it was salty, with butter and it was death
you proceded to it, 'cause you was in the mood
but holmes you did not read, it was a can of dogfood
You be Illin'

-Run DMC

Love At The Five and Dime

Eddie traveled with the barroom band
'til arthritis took his hands
now he sells insurance on the side
Rita's got her house to keep
she writes dime store novels of a love so sweet
they dance to the radio late at night

-Nancy Griffith

Stay

I can't waste another minute
after that all that I've put in it
I've given you my best
why does she get the best of you?

-Sugarland

Starz In Their Eyes

Now why'd you want to go and put starz in their eyes
its the same old story, well they just didn't realize
and it's a long way to come from the Dog and Duck karaoke machine
and Saturday night's drunken dreams

-Just Jack

D.B. Cooper

He told me that the hardest part
Wasn't really jumping out of that plane
It was spending the night watching those lights
Shine down through the pouring rain

-Todd Snyder

He Stopped Loving Her Today

He stopped loving her today
They placed a wreath upon his door
And soon they'll carry him away
He stopped loving her today

-George Jones

Boat Drinks

Lately, newspaper mentioned cheap airfare
I gotta fly to St. Somewhere
I'm close to bodily harm

-Jimmy Buffett

Drivin' All Night Long

I got to tell her that I'm sorry
I got to tell her I was wrong
I gotta show her I still love her
And I've been driving' all night long

-Jack Ingram

Resurrection

I died a thousand times since you left me
Stared down the barrel of a thousand loaded guns
There's a midnight ride on a fast train headed somewhere
I'll be born again with the rising of the sun... resurrection

-Wade Bowen

Always

Believe me when I tell you
That this old world is flat
'cause I can always see you
No matter where I'm at

-Charlie Robison

Everybody's Talkin'

I like to go where the weather suits my clothes

-Jimmy Buffett

Jaded Lover

The only kind of man that you ever wanted
was one you knew you'd never hold very long
sitting there crying, like I'm the first one to go

-Jerry Jeff Walker

Lawyers, Guns and Money

I went home with a waitress
Like I always do
How was I to know
She was with the Russians too

-Warren Zevon

Scars and Souvenirs

He swears he'll live forever, just to spite his health
but it takes Christian Brother's brandy, to reassure himself

-Max Stalling

Dirty Life and Times

Somedays I feel like my shadow's casting me
Somedays the sun don't shine
Sometimes I wonder what tomorrow's gonna bring
When I think about my dirty life and times

-Warren Zevon

Furnace Fan

I understand why lizards live in sunny Arizona
Why people do and call it home I'll never understand

-Robert Earl Keen

Don't You Say Anything

I might just make it out there into another world tonight
Maybe somebody ain't watching the gate
Maybe there's some angel out there and she is just like me
And she showed up to work a little late

-Mike McClure

Captain Kirk

I want to be like Captain Kirk
get up every day and love to go to work
don't want to be like Mr. Spock
I want to kick out the jams and rock the block

-Bob Schneider

I Can't Hang On

Molly Jane is finding out, that life all alone, is highly overrated
Every guy she goes out with, she compares to him
She knows that that's not fair
She wants so bad to call him, she's staring at the phone
But she's afraid to find out that he's already gone

-Brandon Rhyder

Driftin'

I ain't tasted nothing finer, than a chicken fried steak At J and M's diner
it's down on Selmon Street in Eufala, and I eat there every chance I get
Sometimes I think about Pauline, she had the best poster I ever had seen
said sometimes I sits and thinks and sometimes I just sits

-Mike McClure

Me and Billy The Kid

Now my baby sings harmony with me, to "La Cucaracha"
She winds her silver pocket watch and pets her new Chihuahua

-Joe Ely

Who I Am

I love it that you’re my girl
I love that I’m your man
Now that you’re in my life, baby, I know
Exactly who I am

-Wade Bowen

I Chose This Road

And if God sheds some more grace
and the creek stays in its place
I might stay in the race long enough
to meet my little boy's little boy

-Walt Wilkins

Heat of The Wide Afternoon

I've been here forever, my whole life at least
Trapped between morning's optimism and night's fleeting dreams

-Max Stalling

Biloxi

Well I guess the girls, they're pretty and nobody says it's late
And you can stay out all night long and never have hell to pay
Down in Biloxi, even when you're 41, down in Biloxi

-Jack Ingram

The Other Side

I have reason to believe
that if I got it right just one time
I'd be.... Satisfied!

-Bob Schneider

Amarillo Highway

Well, I don't wear a Stetson
But I'm willing to bet, son
That I'm a bigger Texan
Than you are

-Terry Allen

Row of Dominoes

Carmen must've been the devil's daughter
at least he taught her how to wear her clothes

-Joe Ely

Where to begin

I've been slowly adding my favorite snippets from songs onto my MySpace page for a year or so now but I figure it's better to put them into a blog. So I came up with a name and of course that one was already taken. 4-5 tries later and TinyLyrics was born!

I'm gonna transition my MySpace lyrics over to this blog now and then continue to add as I hear them and like them.