The wind is blowing to the west
I’d like to go out there one day
but I’ll have to hang around
hold a job and stretch my pay

Wish I could call a lot more mine
Then again I’m better off
‘cause we always want for more
Only liars say they don’t

Some people’s pride is just a thing
seldom earned but often bought
Get away with anything
If you’ve got the money you’re not caught

But a man could live out there
where the mountains reach the sky
No need to want what I don’t have
No reason left to live a lie

The wind is blowing to the west
I’d like to go out there one day
but I’ll have to hang around
hold a job and stretch my pay

1) The wind through the trees is a cold, lonesome sound
It sounds like it must be alive
I wonder if it feels all the pain in its heart
The way I’m feelin’ it in mine

2) For many long years our home was so complete
Our children were so happy then
I was tempted and torn, my heart knew deceit
Please hear me--how wrong could I have been?

3) No warm fire to keep my light from growin’ dim
No food, no shelter from the cold
How will I survive in the darkness all alone
I’m lost like a lamb cut from the fold

4) Tonight was the night our hears were bound as one
So many happy years ago
But now the bonds are torn, my world is in despair
And the howling wind’s the only friend I know

5) So just call me gone, I’ll not live this life alone
Away from the comforts of my home
I’d rather be laid down in a box beneath the ground
and listen to that lonesome, howling song

V1) In silence now you’re staring out our window
A picture’s worth a thousand words, it’s said
I wish you’d find the strength to say it’s over
But you’d rather play this hurting game instead

CH) We could stay here all night talkin’
But it wouldn’t change a thing
All that’s holding us together are these two golden rings
that now lay upon the table
Lord it’s sad to see the proof
that our love is all but over
Tell me, I can stand the truth

V2) You lay the blame on everyone around us
Tell me it’s not your fault we’re both so blue
But I don’t see nobody else here at this table
After all is said and done
it just comes down to me and you

tag) Look straight into my eyes now
You can’t argue with the proof
Just admit it’s nearly over
Honey, I can stand the truth

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Two coats lay before me, the old and the new
I could have either--which one will I choose?
One looks so ragged--it looks so worn
The other a new coat that's never been worn

I'll tell you the best thing I ever did do
Was pull off the old coat and put on the new

Well the first man was earthly, he was raised from the ground
We bore his image the whole world around
And the next man was Jesus, he treats me so fair
He gave me this new coat you now see me wear
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This new coat it fits me, it keeps me so warm
It's good in the shelter and good in the storm
This new coat's my Jesus, he treats me so fair
He gave me this new coat you now see me wear
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V1) Beneath a western sky on the way to Santa Fe
I met up with a rounder
claimed he rode with Jesse James
They robbed the Glendale Train

V2) As we crossed the Texas plains
not a blessed word was said
Till we reached Amarillo, then he raised his weary head
He said, “Son, I’ll soon be dead”

V3) I have so much to tell you, but I’m left so little time
There’s a place out in the Badlands
about a three day ride
It’s not so hard to find

Br) Frank and Jesse holed up in a cave for forty days
Took all that they could carry, then hid the rest away
Frank grew tired of living like a dog out on the run
and Jesse soon fell victim to a blast from Bob Ford’s gun
Now I’m the only one

V4) His voice it faltered there and he soon passed away
I laid him six feet under that hard West Texas clay
And then I rode away

V5) I found everything he told me near the place they call Red Cloud
With the gold I found a letter
when I read I cried out loud
It said, “Your momma would be proud”

alt V) Some men are born to freedom
While others come to fame
And some will leave with nothing but a marker and their name
In the end it’s all the same

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V1) Way back in the mountains on the High Knob by the ridge
Grandpa built our cabin where he lived for forty years
I spent my happy childhood beneath the hardwood trees
I didn’t know what I had then was all I’d ever need

V2) Mountain laurels blooming it was early in the spring
Looking out my window on a sea of endless green
Rich man from the city came to buy our land today
It took two hundred years to grow, but it’s gone in thirty days

Ch) Mud slides down the mountain, there’s no way to stop the flood
Hills without their timber’s like a man without his blood
Scars upon the land, those wounds will never heal
But a greedy man will never get his fill

tag) I can’t go back and I know I never will
I hope someday they know the way I feel

1) God sent Jonah to the Ninevah land,
to preach the gospel to the wicked men
Tell them to repent of their wicked ways
or I’ll overthrow the city in forty days

Ch) God moves in a windstorm
He rode in a wind storm
And he troubled everybody in their mind

2) Jonah went down to the seashore,
to make up his mind which way to go
He boarded the ship and paid his fare
and God got angry with Jonah down there

3) Jonah went down from the side of man
and he called on Jesus to be his friend,
Disobeyed God and he had to pray
The Lord sent a storm on the water that day

4) They cast poor Jonah overboard,
God sent a whale and swallowed him whole,
He made his way to the Ninevah land
And they poured poor Jonah on a bed of sand

5) Jonah rose up from the sand,
and went on walking to the Ninevah land
He preached the gospel at his command,
Repent, repent you wicked men

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I remember my Dad sayin' "Get up this morning, son"
Get your brother too, we've got to get some work done."
We'd dread the next 10 hours then to the fields we go
I'd cuss the mules as Dad was sayin', "son, stay between the rows."

Back when times were good and times were bad
Daylight would fade and we'd always be glad
To get back to our pillows and dream of where we'd go
to find a better way, a little brighter day
Just to find the best times we'd ever had
were out with Dad between the rows.

My Dad worked the farm for sixty years before he died
And even before that day, I'd look at him and cry
Cause I knew he never had that much and probably never would
But now I see he had more than a man now ever could
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