Texas Eagle (Key of E) My Grandaddy was a railroad man When I was young he took me by the hand Dragged me to the station at the break of dawn Said "boy I got to show you somethin' 'fore it's gone" She was blue and silver - she was right on time We rode that Texas Eagle on the Mopac line We had some sandwiches that Granma packed We rode to Palestine and hitchhiked back Home in time for supper with a tale to tell That night I dreamed I heard that lonesome whistle wail When I got old enough to take the train alone I rode that Texas Eagle down to San Antone Nowadays they don't make no trains Just the piggyback freighters and them Amtrak things They shut the Eagle down awhile ago Sold it to the railroad down in Mexico But every now and then that whistle's on my mind I ride that Texas Eagle ‘cross the borderline   Yours Forever Blue (Key of A) Since you left me baby I've been true to you I don't run around with every gal in town The way I used to do I'm startin' over new Yours forever blue I wrote you a letter and every word was true I apologized for all my lies And the way I treated you Signed it "lonely fool" Yours forever blue Lately I've been hurtin' deep inside of me My poor heart's broke and every ragged stroke Brings back your memory Keeps me wantin' you Yours forever blue But I don't need no doctor to tell me what to do ‘Bout this spell of yours ‘cause there ain't no cure Even if I wanted to Can't get over you Yours forever blue If you ever want me you know what to do Just call my name ‘cause I ain't ashamed To crawl on home to you If you want me to Yours forever blue I'm gonna buy myself a guitar Any kind'll do The only song I know play it soft and low While I moan the blues for you The whole night through Yours forever blue Carrie Brown (Key of G) The first time I saw Carrie Brown She was so young and fair A voice like spring rain fallin' down and sunlight in her hair I'd never seen her face before so I asked all around Her daddy owns a grocery store and she lives in Bristol town Carrie darlin' Carrie Carrie Brown I cry If I can't marry Carrie Brown believe I'd rather die I laid my last ten dollars down Though I didn't need a thing Just to touch sweet Carrie Brown When she handed me my change I hung around ‘till closin' time I scarce believed my eyes My darlin' walkin' arm in arm With a boy named Billy Wise I walked around in Bristol town a bitter broken man A heart that pined for Carrie Brown and a pistol in my hand We met again on State Street poor Billy Wise and me I shot him in Virginia and he died in Tennessee Now I'm down in the Bristol jail and all I do is cry ‘Cause the jury found me guilty and the judge says I must die I'm just a poor young mountain boy Ain't never been to town And I've come to ruination for the love of Carrie Brown     I'm Still In Love With You (Key of B) I didn't know You'd be in this place tonight Then again I thought you might Now I don't know what to do Does it show When my poor heart skips a beat Each and every time we meet ‘Cause I'm still in love with you There you are Right across the room from me Just the way I knew you'd be Lookin' lonesome wild and blue I'm alright so far Just as long as you don't speak That's what makes my knees go weak ‘Cause I'm still in love with you I've done everything I know To get you off my mind But sometimes I can't help but hope That you won't walk away this time Then I wouldn't have to watch you go Wouldn't have to miss you so ‘Cause I'm still in love with you If I knew what I know now I'd never let you leave I'd make it up to you somehow And darlin' you'd come back to me Then I wouldn't have to watch you go Wouldn't have to miss you so ‘Cause I'm still in love with you I wouldn't need to be so blue Wouldn't want you like I do ‘Cause I'm still in love with you The Graveyard Shift (Key of G) I work the graveyard shift - stay up all night long You'll wake up someday And find your good gal gone If you don't treat your baby right She'll come see me Some lonely night When the sun goes down And the moon is gone That's when I come around Don't you think I won't On the graveyard shift - stay up all night long You'll wake up someday And your good gal gone I drive a Cadillac - rides just like a dream All the pretty gals Wanna ride with me (‘Cause) I got what all the women want I never say I do When I really don't Harlan Man (Key of D) I'm a Harlan Man Went down in the mine when I was barely grown It was easy then ‘Cause I didn't know what I know now But I'm a family man And it's the only life that I've ever known But I'm a Harlan Man Just as long as my luck and lungs hold out I'm a mountain man Born in east Kentucky and here I'll stay And if it's the good Lord's plan I'll wake up in the mornin' and find I'm lookin' at the end Of another long week and I can draw my pay ‘Cause I'm a Harlan Man Never catch me whinin' cause I ain't that kind I'm a union man Just like my daddy and all my kin I took a union stand No matter what the company said I got me two good hands And just as long as I'm able I won't give in ‘Cause I'm a Harlan Man A coal minin' mother ‘til the day I'm dead The Mountain (Key of D) I was born on this mountain a long time ago Before they knocked down the timber and strip-mined the coal When you rose in the mornin' before it was light To go down in that dark hole and come back up at night I was born on this mountain, this mountain's my home She holds me and keeps me from worry and woe Well, they took everything that she gave, now they're gone But I'll die on this mountain, this mountain's my home I was young on this mountain but now I am old And I knew every holler, every cool swimmin' hole ‘Til one night I lay down and woke up to find That my childhood was over and I went down in the mine There's a hole in this mountain and it's dark and it's deep And God only knows all the secrets it keeps There's a chill in the air only miners can feel There're ghosts in the tunnels that the company sealed     Outlaw's Honeymoon (Key of F) Come on pretty baby won't you take me by the hand I thought maybe that I could be your man And for a while — we could go in style Come on we're goin' on an outlaw's honeymoon I gotta keep movin' ‘cause baby I'm a travelin' man And there ain't a lotta women out there that understand But if you do — I'll be good to you Come on we're goin' on an outlaw's honeymoon Goin' up the country — honey, don't you wanna go? Gotta little money all you gotta do is let me know I know a place we could disappear without a trace Come on we're goin' on an outlaw's honeymoon     Connemara Breakdown (Key of D) instrumental       Leroy's Dustbowl Blues (Key of G) Leroy was a farmer and an honest man Would have lived in Oklahoma all his days He just wanted left alone to work a piece of land But a hard wind come and blew his dreams away So he headed for the West Coast thought he could not lose Rollin' down the highway with the dustbowl blues It's a thousand miles from Broken Bow to Bakersfield And the highway's paved with heartaches all the way Leroy drove on lookin' for a better deal A place a man could settle down and stay But the police at the state line beat him black and blue Left him lyin' by the roadside with the dustbowl blues They say California is a paradise Hollywood turns night time into day But up along the San Joaquin those city lights Might as well be a million miles away When your kids are cold and hungry wearin' worn out shoes Standin' in the garden with the dustbowl blues     Dixieland (Key of D) I am Kilrain and I'm a fightin' man and I come from County Clare And the Brits would hang me for a Fenian so I took me leave of there And I crossed the ocean in the "Arrianne" the vilest tub afloat And the captain's brother was a railroad man and he met us the boat So I joined up with the 20th Maine like I said my friend I'm a fighting man And we're marchin' south in the pouring rain and we're all goin' down to Dixieland I am Kilrain of the 20th Maine and we fight for Chamberlain ‘Cause he stood right with us when the Johnnies came like a banshee on the wind When the smoke cleared out of Gettysburg many a mother wept For many a good boy died there, sure, and the air smelted just like death I am Kilrain of the 20th Maine and I'd march to hell and back again For Colonel Joshua Chamberlain - we're all goin' down to Dixieland I am Kilrain of the 20th Maine and I damn all gentlemen Whose only worth is their father's name and the sweat of a workin' man Well we come from the farms and the city streets and a hundred foreign lands And we spilled our blood in the battle's heat Now we're all Americans I am Kilrain of the 20th Maine and did I tell you friend I'm a fightin' man And I'll not be back this way again, ‘cause we're all goin' down to Dixieland   Paddy On The Beat (Key of G) instrumental Long, Lonesome Highway Blues (Key of G) Bound down that long, lonesome highway just as far as I can go ‘Til I outrun your memory I can't go home ‘cause I can't face another day alone Now that you're gone this ain't no place for me I want to start all over new But I can't lose these lonesome highway blues Down that long, lonesome highway just as far as I can go ‘Til I outrun your memory Bound down that long, lonesome highway just as fast as I can fly Just wanna go to someplace you won't be I'm movin' on to a new place and hold my head up high Where no one knows what you done to me A thousand miles between us now And still some how These blues'll track me down Down that long, lonesome highway just as far as I can go ‘Til I outrun your memory I'm bound down that long lonesome highway ‘cause it's the only place I know Where there ain't no clouds hangin' over me Leave me alone ‘cause it's a long way no matter where I go Nothin' but blues as far as I can see I wish I had you back again But I know I can't So here I go again Down that long, lonesome highway just as far as I can go ‘Til I outrun your memory     Pilgrim (Key of  G) I am just a pilgrim on this road, boys This ain't never been my home Sometimes the road was rocky ‘long the way, boys But I was never travelin' alone We'll meet again on some bright highway Songs to sing and tales to tell But I am just a pilgrim on this road, boys Until I see you fare thee well Ain't no need to cry for me, boys Somewhere down the road you'll understand ‘Cause I expect to touch his hand, boys Put a word in for you if I can   dedicated to the memory of the best doghouse bass player that ever lived. Roy Husky Jr.   copyright 1999 E-Squared copyright 1999 Glitterhouse Records