A smile relieves a heart that grieves, remember what I said.
I'm not waiting on a lady, I'm just waiting on a friend.
I'm just waiting on a friend, just waiting on a friend.
I'm just waiting on a friend, I'm just waiting on a friend,
just waiting on a friend.

Got two reasons why I cry away each lonely night,
The first one's named Sweet Anne Marie, and she's my hearts delight.
The second one is prison, babe, the sheriff's on my trail,
And if he catches up with me, I'll spend my life in jail.

Got a wife in Chino, babe, and one in Cherokee
The first one says she's got my child, but it don't look like me.

Set out runnin' but I take my time,
A friend of the devil is a friend of mine,
If I get home before daylight, I just might get some sleep tonight.

They took the whole Cherokee nation
Put us on this reservation
Took away our ways of life
The tomahawk and the bow and knife
Took away our native tongue
And taught their English to our young
And all the beads we made by hand
Are nowadays made in Japan

Then she gives me that look
Like she'd lay down her life
No doubt she would in a minute, man
She'd face the bullet
Oh she'd face the knife
Just to keep my butt from the fryin' pan

On a sidewalk, blue Sunday mornin'
Lies a body just oozin' life
Some, someone's sneakin' 'round a corner
could that someone be Old Mack the Knife?

It's amazing how fast our lives go by
Like the flash of the lightning or the blink of an eye
We all fall in love & we fall into life
We look for the truth on the edge of a KNIFE

Gonna tell the truth about it,
Honey that's the hardest part.
When we get through it, Baby
You're gonna give up your heart.

You can't stop us on the road to freedom
You can't stop us 'cause our eyes can see
Men with insight, men in granite
Knights in armor intent on chivalry
She's as sweet as tupelo honey
She's an angel of the first degree
She's as sweet as tupelo honey
Just like honey from the bee

So tonight I'll ask the stars above
How did I ever win your love?
What did I do, what did I say
To turn your angel eyes my way?

Angel came down from heaven yesterday
She stayed with me just long enough to rescue me
And she told me a story yesterday
About the sweet love between the moon and the deep blue sea

I been all around the world
Don't nothin' bother me
I been all around the world
Don't nothin' bother me
You know I've seen everything baby
Everything but the bottom of the sea

This city a mean old world
Try to live it all by yourself
This city a mean old world
Try to live it all by yourself
Can't find the one you love
Have to use somebody else

You might be a rock 'n' roll addict prancing on the stage,
You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage,
You may be a business man or some high degree thief,
They may call you Doctor or they may call you Chief
But you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed
You're gonna have to serve somebody,
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you're have to serve somebody

The big Chief railed on and spun his tales of brave conquest
About the moving of his little band up to Alaska
Where the caribou run free
See he had been there putting in telephone lines for the army during World War II
Even brought back a picture of a frozen mastodon for the little Indians to see

Shoot a few, knock 'em down, cost you half a buck now
(Guns, guns, guns)
Babe give you kisses if you hit a rubber duck now
(Guns, guns, guns)
You be the red king, I'll be the yellow pawn
(Guns, guns, guns)
Eagle all gone, and no more caribou
(Guns, guns, guns)

Get on a TWA to the promised land.
Every woman, child and man
Gets a Cadillac and a great big diamond ring.
Don't you know you're riding with the King?

People, when things go wrong
As they sometimes will
And the road you travel
It stays all uphill

Let's work together
Come on, come on
Let's work together, ah
You know together we will stand
Every boy, girl, woman and man

Got her doors locked doin' seventy five
don't care to be caught now or dead or alive
Seen enough to kill anyone's soul
keepin' her eyes on the open road

Rollin' down highway 95
Sailin' through her hometown countryside
Move on over stand astride
My cruise control's in overdrive
Need to take my baby for a ride

Two lane HIGHWAY
Going my way
Moving fast
Two lane highway
Taking me home
Home at last

Take the highway
Lord knows I've been gone too long
Lot of sad days, yeah
One day you'll turn around
and I'll be gone
And the time has finally come
for me to pack my bags and walk away
Hear me say...

I had a lady...I thought was so fine
I knew she loved me...she stayed on my mind
And then one morning...I woke up
And she was gone
There was a note...layin' by the bedside
Tellin' me she's gone
And now she's gone gone gone just gone

When Rita leaves, Rita's gone
She gave me every chance a man could want
I've never known a love so strong
Or so crazy when she's been done wrong
When Rita leaves, Rita's gone

Lovely Rita meter maid
Nothing can come between us
When it gets dark I tow your heart away

Standing by a parking meter
When I caught a glimpse of Rita
Filling in the ticket in her little white book
In a cap she looked much older
And the bag across her shoulder
Made her look a little like a military man

Lovely Rita meter maid
May I inquire discreetly
When are you free to take some tea with me?

Take it,to the limit.

One more time.

Well I'm a runnin' down the road try'n to loosen my load
I've got seven women on my mind
Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me
One says she's a friend of mine
Take it easy, take it easy
Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy
Lighten up while you still can
Don't even try to understand
Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy

If I was a junk man
Selling you cars,
Washing you windows
And shining your stars,
Thinking your mind
Was my own in a dream
What would you wonder
And how does it seem?
Living in Castles
A bit at a time
The King started laughing
And talking in rhyme.

Singing words,words
Between the lines of age.
Singing words,words
Between the lines of age.

On the seventh hours
On the seventh day
On the seventh month
The seven doctors say
You was born for good luck
And that you'll see
I got seven hundred dollars
And don't you mess with me

Now on the day I was born
All the nurss gathered 'round
They gazed in wide wonder
At the joy they had found
THe head nurse stepped up,
Said you leave this one alone
She could tell right away
I was bad to the bone........

My father was a gambler down in Georgia
He wound up on the wrong end of a gun
And I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus
Rolling down highway forty-one