Middle Child I was left alone, A long time ago By my mother who I never got to know Faded memories of my life Have been washed in whiskey nights And I’m living at the bottom of the bottle I’ve spent my life on a bar stool all alone Never knowing why she sent me from my home Was there something wrong with me? That no one else could see What’s the reason Only I got turned away [Chorus] Mama please tell me why You would leave just me behind You sent me off and then you went and have my brothers Before me, a little girl And they’re the center of your world Mama tell me why’d you leave the middle child? I should’ve gone back home And ask her to her face But my lines become due much of a disgrace And I got the news today Saying mama passed away So I’ll never know the reason I’m alone [Chorus] Mama please tell me why You would leave just me behind You sent me off and then you went and have my brothers Before me, a little girl And they’re the center of your world Mama tell me why’d you leave the middle child? Mama tell me why’d you leave the middle child? ----------------- Two Pillow Sleeper This morning when I woke up it was just like the last. That lonely old hard day that hearts from the past the memories of my old life when we knew it would last but to forgive what I did is just too much to ask. 'Cause I'm a two pillow sleeper, and everyone's knows. It's one for my soul head and one where you used to go on and catches the tear drops that fall from my face. And one right beside me, to lie in your place. Well I try my very hard is as I coast through the days I step out in the town and I go home our way but when I come home to the bed, where we both used to lay I know I'll never ask Jizzy till I sleep in my grape. 'Cause I'm a two pillow sleeper, and everyone's knows. It's one for my soul head and one where you used to go on and catches the tear drops that fall from my face. And one right beside me, to lie in your place. Yes there's one right beside you to lie in your place. ---------------------------- Just Between You And Me You said let’s go away And leave our worries behind us You took me from my sorrow And you treat me with kindness Because I wanna be the one Always by your side And I’ll pray the truth won’t stay But I’m always reminded This problem just between you and me There is the man who gave you that ... Just between you and me There’s a house and a ... And I need The love you’ve been giving to me Yes all that’s just between you and me Today we took the train And left our worries behind us We held each other close And our true love sweet lioness Cause I wanna be the one Always by your side I pray that you stay away But I know they’re gonna find out Cause darling just between me and you There’s the woman you gave your into Just between me and you There’s a man in soul blue And he needs The love I’ve been giving to you But all that’s just between Yes all that’s just between me and you. ----------------------------- I'm Not Crying Over You When she laugh me, she thought that I was hurting she heard that I've been crying to her friends. but the truth I just got a new job acting so any tear that rolls my cheek is just pretend. I gotta roll some romantic movie a broken heart and man I'm like myself well it's hard for me to relate so I practice night and day and that's why I've been crying oh so well. I'm not crying over you, I'm not crying over you, you might think so, but you're wrong know that feeling's dead and gone there's crying, but is just a role I'm working on. Well she said she saw me whipping in the bar room she said she saw me ..all alone but if she knew the truth about my crying she'd pack her things hand come back to our home Because I got her roll in some romantic movie, a broken heart and man I act myself now she'll see me on the screen and take back.. she'll come back to the man that treats her well. I'm not crying over you, I'm not crying over you, you might think so, but you're wrong know that feeling's dead and gone there's crying, but is just a role I'm working on. Yes there's crying, is just a role I'm working on. ----------------------- He Lets Her Memory Go (Wild) Em There are times, Am when I almost catch him smiling C There are times G Em When the pain will cease to show Em There are times When days go by C G And he doesn’t even cry Am And then again Em He lets her memory go [Chorus] C G He lets her memory go, C G Am G Wild with the thoughts of her kisses Em G C And her beautiful smile G From the sounds in the kitchen Am G To the tears of a child C G C Em He lets her memory go, wild There are days When he’ll go out with the children There are days When you think it wasn’t so There are days when moments pass Like they’ve got some chance to last And then again He lets her memory go [Chorus] He lets her memory go, Wild with the thoughts of her kisses And her beautiful smile From the sounds in the kitchen To the tears of a child He lets her memory go, He lets her memory go, He lets her memory go, He lets her memory go, wild [Guitar solo] ------------------ Chicken Bill Well I was born in a small border town And I left home at a young age and headed on down And I started walking Following a white line I was on the side of a wild rush end freeway With one pair of clothes and nothing else to my name When a lorry would pass I would pick myself up with A new coat of grit and a fresh layer of dust I was dirty, fully covered And just when the dirt started stinging my eyes And I couldn’t decide the ground from the sky A man pulled over and offered a ride So I took it, I ran right over And I got in his truck and sat perfectly still And he said ‘I just gotta stop off at the mill’ I said ‘You can take me wherever you will’ And I asked him ‘What do they call you?’ And he answered ‘Chicken Bill, they call me Chicken Bill’ Well, on account of the dirt he thought I was a man And he reached out his mint and he shook my filthy hand He said ‘Boy, I got me a farm ‘round the bend And I could sure use the help if you got time to land, Catching chickens, chopping their head off, locking them up’ All right, run around So I worked for old Bill and his beautiful wife Who would cook up a chicken for us every night And just when I thought everything was alright He sat me down, he said ‘I’m skipping town, Going …around’ And I said ‘How could you live such a woman behind?’ Then the look on his face helped me open my eyes And for the first time I saw Chicken Bill’s other side He sat down beside me, all nervous and shy And he told me the real story of Chicken Bill -------------- When I Was Abroad Things were much better back then when I was abroad I had no trouble find in her friend when I was her bro I'd wonder for miles and miles and every face gave me a smile from a grand cooly damn to the Nile when I was abroad. Mhmm Well I never had trouble with love when I was abroad though it seem to fall from above when I was abroad. And no matter when we were engaged and soon enough everything changed I was held back and kept in caged from being abroad. When I was abroad I saw everything there was to see since I've been home with you, well I just don't feel like me,. My days just seem to hang low when every day used to be stand so I'm telling my wife that I miss my old life and I'm working on change it back. ---------------- Where No One Else Will Find It Please put my heart Where no one else will find it I don’t want it in my chest If you don’t want it in your hands And please sell my ring To the pawnshop on the corner Spend the money On a love that you can stand Or you could find a place Where it never can be traced It can’t see the light or day Or get in anybody’s way So please put my heart Where no one else will find it I got no use for it Now that you’re gone And please tell the sun Not to shine over my shoulder I don’t wanna see the light If it isn’t in your eyes And please tell the rain It can pour on me for hours And cover up all the tears that I’ve cried If you ever change your mind And try me one more time There’ll be nothing left of me But a faded memory So please put my heart Where no one else will find it Not even you, or the love we once knew. ------------------- Just Before The Moment I got up with a full and happy hearty another sunny day I couldn't wait to start I call my hair walk down the stairs to await from the fountain in just before the moment, that I lost everything. You didn't call so I thought I'd go to you thought I'd surprise you with some flowers that I've tied all up in blue I skip and hop for seven blogs and with every step I seem just before the moment that I lost everything I couldn't wait to see your face when I arrived for your sweet love the only reason I' alive and I swear I said inside my head I know I'd rather die, meant to be without that woman in my life. I walked up your stairs and knocked it here from door and I heard the crick of footsteps walking on the floor you didn't come to answer it so I gave the balerine, just before the moment, that I lost everything. Still no answer so I crapped up to the window. I looked in and there I saw a man I didn't know. and by his side his..smiling as he held your tender lean And that's the very moment that I lost everything. Yes that's the very moment that I lost everything. ------------------- A New Love (Can Be Found) Some stranger is with her For the first time tonight What’s a man to do When he just can’t win And all the voices in my head Are saying, cry your days away, Why can’t somebody come to me and say [Chorus] Hey mister, don’t let it bring you down A new love can be found Just open up your eyes It wasn’t meant to be No not this time around A new love can be found Are they lovers, more than we were I can’t keep it off my mind Why’s the one I love always With someone new Did she ever really loved me Or did she always take it wrong Just for better or for worse But not for long [Chorus] Hey mister, don’t let it bring you down A new love can be found Just open up your eyes It wasn’t meant to be No not this time around A new love can be found It wasn’t meant to be No not this time around A new love can be found. ---------------------