Lyle Lovett Lyrics

Lyle Lovett Chord and Tabs

Cryin' Shame You got you some legs baby That just won't quit You got a pretty boy And he looks pretty hip You...

Good Intentions It's a sunny day in California But that old sun it's shining on me right here at home It's one of ...

Here I Am Hello I'm the guy who sits next to you And reads the newspaper over your shoulder Wait Don't turn th...

I Know You Know Tell me something that you mean Not just what comes to mind 'Cause I can see you're somewhere in b...

I Married Her Just Because She Looks Like You Its not the words You know I'll always love you It's not the words I wish that I could stay It's...

If You Were To Wake Up If you were to wake up And I were beside you Would you gently smile dear And whisper my name And...

Nobody Knows Me And I like cream in my coffee And I like to sleep late on Sunday And nobody knows me like my baby ...

Once Is Enough I used to be so much more open minded And I used to like to fall in love And they tell me I was so...

Stand By Your Man Sometimes it's hard to be a woman Giving all your love to just one man You'll have bad times and he'...

What Do You Do/The Glory Of Love Honey bring me the paper And pour me a beer And turn on the TV And sweep up over here You tell m...

Which Way Does That Old Pony Run When I was a very young man I was a cowboy The best in the land But then she settled me down Wit...

Babes in the Woods Babes in the woods Oh which way to go Babes in the woods No one to say no Pretty people come to me C...

Ballad of The Snow Leopard and The Tanqueray Cowboy Comfort me said she With your conversation With the cocktails And the candlelight In your eyes It's ...

Bears Some folks say there ain't no bears in Arkansas Some folks never seen a bear at all Some folks say t...

Flyin' Shoes Day's full of rain Sky's coming down again I get so tired Of these same old blues Same old song Baby...

Highway Kind My days they are the highway kind They only come to leave But the leaving I don't mind It's the comi...

I'll Come Knockin' When you want me I'll come knockin' At your door At your door One of these days now You'll be rockin...

I've Had Enough I've had enough Of words and games I don't think I know you I can't forget your name Your eyes are c...

If I Needed You If I needed you Would you come to me Would you come to me And ease my pain If you needed me I would ...

Lonely in Love I'm looking at a star Wondering where you are Lonely in love Looking at the sky Start to wonder my l...

Lungs Well won't you lend your lungs to me Mine are collapsing Plant my feet and bitterly breathe Up the t...

Memphis Midnight/Memphis Morning The sun went down like a curtain Memphis looks bigger at night All the tatooed boys in uniform Step ...

More Pretty Girls Than One Mama talked to me last night She gave to me some good advice She said Son you ought to quit This old...

Rollin' By It's a busted old town On the plains of West Texas The drugstore's closed down The river's run dry T...

Sleepwalking Last night you know I couldn't sleep I was tossing, turning, and counting sheep To tell the truth Th...

Step Inside This House (Step Inside My House) That picture hangin' on the wall Was painted by a friend He gave it to me all down and out When he o...

Teach Me About Love Darlin' don't walk out on me Tryin' to teach me a lesson Thinkin' you'll come back to a better man I...

Texas River Song We crossed the wild Pecos We forded the Nueces We swum the Guadalupe And we followed the Brazos Red ...

Texas Trilogy: Bosque County Romance Mary Martin was a schoolgirl Just seventeen or so When she married Billy Archer About fourteen years...

Texas Trilogy: Daybreak Six o'clock silence Of a new day beginning Is heard in the small Texas town Like a signal from nowhe...

Texas Trilogy: Train Ride Well, the last time I remember That train stopping at the depot Was when me and my Aunt Veta Came ri...

West Texas Highway Now I was driving down A West Texas highway I saw a hitchhiker And his thumb was pointing my way He ...
West Texas Highway Chords and Tabs

An Acceptable Level Of Ecstasy (The Wedding Song) The two-step it drug like a ball and chain While the band was playing something like Moon River or ...

Closing Time The night she is a true companion They shuffle in They hear the sound But by night's end It's ni...

Cowboy Man She wore glass slippers She held her head up high She had that sparkle at her feet And that twink...

Farther Down The Line Let's have a hand for that young cowboy And wish him better luck next time And hope we see him up ...
Farther Down The Line Chords and Tabs

God Will Who keeps on trusting you When you've been cheating And spending your nights on the town And who ...

If I Were The Man You Wanted They all sat around in a circle They were laughing and all telling lies Then the tall one he bumpe...

The Waltzing Fool The waltzing fool He's got lights in his fingers The waltzing fool He just don't never say The w...

This Old Porch This old porch is like a big old red and white Hereford bull Standing under a mesquite tree Out in...

Why I Don't Know Was it the champagne Was it the caviar Was it her airplane Was it her daddy's car Was it the new...

You Can't Resist It She was old enough To know better And she was strong enough To be true And she was hard enough ...

Big Dog Big Dog Ain’t no big dog, Coming to bite you Ain’t no bad man, Coming to find you Just rest eas...

Cute As A Bug Interstate 610 Highway 45 A sun-drunk redneck Barely left me alive That's when I saw her Singin' an...

In My Own Mind I get up in the mornin' I drink a cup of coffee I look out of the window I try to get a-started I tu...

My Baby Don't Tolerate My Baby Don’t Tolerate A friend of mine, he said to me a skinny girl is a misery I shook my head ...
My Baby Don't Tolerate Chords and Tabs

Nothing But A Good Ride He’s pulling out for Reno He hopes a tire don’t blow Up near Albuquerque He’ll fuel and get so...

On Saturday Night My honey's name is Holly Her daddy's name is Doyle Her sister's name is Amy And her mama's name is I...

Working Too Hard The whistle blows At the break of dawn Still that evening The work goes on Sixteen hours Of every da...

You Were Always There You were always there Lyle Lovett The sun comes up The world goes round and round There’s no bad...

Blue Skies I was blue, just as blue as I could be Ev'ry day was a cloudy day for me Then good luck came a-knock...

Moritat (Bertolt Brecht/Kurt Weill) As performed by Lyle Lovett for the film Quiz Show: See the shark with...

Pass Me Not Pass me not, O gentle Savior, Hear my humble cry; While on others Thou art calling, Do not pass m...

Smile (from Hope Floats) Smile, though your heart is aching. Smile, even though it's breaking. Though t...

Summer Wind (from For The Love Of The game) The summer wind, came blowin' in from across the sea It lingered th...

Walking Tall I have a dream that everywhere I go Almost everyone captures my eyes And they find me so fascinating...

What'd I Say Intro x6 (drum attack) organ x6 Hey Momma don't you treat me wrong Come and love ya daddy all night ...

You've Got A Friend In Me You've got a friend in me You've got a friend in me When the road looks rough ahead And you're miles...

Ain't It Somethin' Ain't it somethin' Ain't it somethin' Ain't it somethin' How the way things go Ain't it somethin' Ai...

Creeps Like Me I wear Grandmother's ring On my finger On my finger She had a tooth of gold And just before she died...

Fat Babies I said I don't like hippies And I don't like cornbread And I don't like much I said I don't hippies ...

Good-bye To Carolina Pack the sofa And pack the old arm chair Tell the china To ask the silverware To pray we find that T...

Hello Grandma Hello Grandma How is your granddaughter Hello Grandma How is that little girl I've been kind of out ...

I Love Everybody I love everybody Especially you I love everybody Especially you So if you feel lonesome Remember it'...

I Think You Know What I Mean I walked in his office He told me pull up a chair And he looked in my eyes With a cold steely stare ...

I've Got The Blues I ain't heard your voice In such as long time And I ain't called your number On that telephone line ...

Just The Morning Lie beside me Whisper to me that you want me Arms around me Whisper to me that you want me There's n...

La To The Left La to the left La to the right La to the middle is is falling I saw her walking off Out in the morni...

Moon On My Shoulder With the moon on my shoulder And you on my mind I will lay down I will lay down With the moon on my ...

Old Friend Old friend All the stories to tell Old friend Could you bid me farewell Old friend It might be easy ...
Old Friend Chords and Tabs

Penguins I don't go for fancy cars For diamond rings Or movie stars I go for penguins Oh Lord I go for pengui...

Skinny Legs See that boy with that guitar He's got skinny legs like I always wanted A girlfreind in his car 'cau...
Skinny Legs Chords and Tabs

Sonja I've never been lucky At picking up women But this life that I live Is not one that I choose She was...

The Fat Girl The fat girl She always stayed inside and played piano And she told her mother The children made her...

The Record Lady Rober Earl this friend of mine You know he's always looking after my best interest He told me Lyle P...
The Record Lady Chords and Tabs

They Don't Like Me They don't like me I can feel it And I don't like them It's the same old song They don't like me I j...

Christmas Morning The girl at the grocery she's pretty and seems nice But she looks right through me with eyes cold as...

Don't Touch My Hat Man you better let go You can't hold on to What belongs to me And don't belong to you I caught you ...

Fiona Way down yonder on the bayou There lives a little girl-o Skin so pale Six feet high Skinny as a rail...
Fiona Chords and Tabs

Her First Mistake Once upon a time ago Way up in the land of sleet and snow How this fairy tale would go I could not h...

I Can't Love You Anymore This Georgia road is red The Georgia sky is blue And it looks just like the sky That carried me to y...

It Ought To Be Easier Tell your mama I love her Tell your daddy I tried Tell them I wish that I could explain The way that...

Long Tall Texan Well I'm a long tall Texan I wear a ten-gallon hat (He rides from Texas wearing a ten-gallon hat) Ye...

Private Conversation And his hand it fell behind her As his arm it reached around And she looked at the window And she wa...

Promises Promises given And promises broken Words stain my lips Just like blood on my hands And words are li...

That's Right (You're Not From Texas) You say you're not from Texas Man as if I couldn't tell You think you pull your boots on right And w...

The Girl in the Corner I said howdy there lady This sure is some party I've never seen anything Like this before She said h...
The Girl in the Corner Chords and Tabs

The Road To Ensenada As I lay sick and broken Viva Mexico My eyes just won't stay open And I dream a dream of home I drea...
The Road To Ensenada Chords and Tabs

Who Loves You Better Late nights in musty motel rooms Stale lives left by someone else White lies I wish I could tell you...
Who Loves You Better Chords and Tabs

All My Love is Gone I've got some birds outside What sit on my window sill Some birds won't you know But some birds will...

Baltimore I know I've seen this place before Lord can't you hear me screaming As a young man long ago When I w...
Baltimore Chords and Tabs

Church I went to church last Sunday So I could sing and pray But something quite unusual Happened on that d...

Family Reserve When I saw the ambulance Screaming down Main Street I didn't give it a thought But it was my Uncle E...
Family Reserve Chords and Tabs

Flyswatter/Ice Water Blues (Monte Trenckmann's Blues) Honey put down that flyswatter And pour me some ice water And would you bring me my hammer And could...

I've Been to Memphis The sun comes up In a coffee cup Waitress please I've had enough Lord I can't believe what I see Ho...

North Dakota The boys from North Dakota They drink whisky for their fun And the cowboys down in Texas They polish...

She Makes Me Feel Good She's got big red lips She's got big brown eyes When she treats me right It's a big surprise She won...

She's Already Made Up Her Mind She said something about going home She said something about needing to spend some time alone And sh...

She's Leaving Me Because She Really Wants To Thank you my friend I sincerely appreciate the words you say About how she'll cry And how she'll gri...

Since the Last Time I went to a funeral Lord it made me happy Seeing all those people I ain't seen Since the last time S...

You've Been So Good Up to Now You don't have to live a life of sin You don't have to break the law And break the law again You can...

Black and Blue It's Saturday night You check the TV guide And pray the black and white Can keep you satisfied She ...

Give Back My Heart I'm a traveling man don't tie me down There's just too much living going all around A man he's got t...

I Loved You Yesterday Can you tell me What you see in him He looks just like All of the others did And can you tell me If ...

If I Had a Boat If I had a boat I'd go out on the ocean And if I had a pony I'd ride him on my boat And we could all...
If I Had a Boat Chords and Tabs

L.A. County She left Dallas for California With an old fri...

M-O-N-E-Y If you want that girl Listen son Don't you sit around and cry Because love In this world Ain't nothi...

Pontiac I park my pontiac Down the hill out in back Late every afternoon With a coke and a cigarette And all...

She's Hot to Go Now to find a man good loving Ain't an easy thing to do You've got to know just what you're looking ...

She's No Lady She hates my mama She hates my daddy too She loves to tell me She hates the things I do She loves to...
She's No Lady Chords and Tabs

Simple Song It's a simple song for simple feeling You see the moon and watch it rise Across the continent the ni...
Simple Song Chords and Tabs

Walk Through the Bottomland A New Jersey lady I knew long ago And she was a lady I say But she met a cowboy who rode on the rode...
Walk Through the Bottomland Chords and Tabs