Tim McGraw and The Dancehall Doctors

Written By Craig Wiseman/Don Poythress

Wake me my lady don't let me sleep
Open my eyes to the wonders you keep
Let me look at you see how you shine
I'll fall in love like I've done every time

CHORUS 1
Lay me in soft green grass
Down where the river runs
Under the mountain caps
Gold with the setting sun

Walk me along the bay
Beyond the verdant trees
Carry me with your grace
Forever comfort me

You walk on water searching for the east
the souls of the masses pass at your feet
Looking up at you with tears in their eyes
Fathers of fathers of fathers gone by

CHORUS 2
Walk me down old main streets
Ride me down rusty rails
Fields full of summer wheat
Peppered with rounded bails

Steeples where church bells ring
Lighthouses by the sea
Reach out through gathered storms
Faithfully comfort me

I am your tired I am your poor in spirit
yearning to breathe, breathe free, breathe free

CHORUS 1

CHORUS 2

Comfort me

Written By Lore Orion

The clock above the bar
Is telling me it's 12:15
It's not such a gentle reminder
That I'm where I shouldn't be

I just keep waitin' for somethin' to happen
Waitin' for somebody to come walkin' in
Somebody as perfect as you were
So I can try it again

(But) chances are so hard to come by
And the second one is impossible to find
The clock keeps runnin' and the odds keep getting higher
That it's all just a fantasy of mine

But I shouldn't be thinkin' about it
I shouldn't be worried about it
It's just a clock on the wall
But it's tickin' away
It's tickin' away
It's tickin' away
It's tickin' away

I suppose I should cut all my losses
Go home with a six-pack of beer
There ain't nobody in the world like you, baby
If there was she wouldn't be coming in here

But I shouldn't be thinking about
I shouldn't be worried about it
It's just a clock on the wall
But it's tickin' away
It's tickin' away
It's just a clock on the wall
It's tickin' away
It's tickin' away
It's tickin' away
It's just a clock on the wall
It's tickin' away

I suppose I should cut all my losses
Go home with a six-pack of beer

Written By Craig Wiseman/Tony Mullins

Momma's got her apron on
Standin' in the kitchen
Cookin' up my favorite dish
Whatever she is fixin'
Daddy's in a picture in a frame that's
Always sittin' by the phone

Daffodils are poppin' up out behind the clothesline
Underneath that tree I planted when I was just a boy of nine
Man, I never can believe just how much it's grown
When I go

Home, back home
To the gentle place that held me close as
I became a man
Where the streets are all familiar and an
Old friend shakes my hand
And I feel fine, so fine
Yeah knowin' that this road I'm wanderin' on
From time to time always leads me home

Brother he'll be waitin' with the latest
From the grapevine
Sayin' man you won't believe them
Stories 'bout
Those crazy friends of mine
And all them little scandals that a small
Town just can't seem to leave alone

Later on we'll sit around, bellies tight
From supper
Tellin' all them stories that we just can't
Get enough of
And somewhere in an honest laugh it'll
Finally hit me that I'm

Home, back home
Where the memories all have gathered up and
Slowly turn to gold
And I carry them along with me wherever
I may go
And I feel fine, so fine
In knowin' that this road I'm wanderin' on
From time to time always leads me home
Back home

And when I go put some flowers down at
Daddy's stone
I see that empty space beside him
It always makes me glad that I came

Home, back home
Where the Bible and the angels
Get their wings
And the circle is unbroken when I hear those
Church bells ring
And I feel fine, you know I feel so fine
Yea knowin' that this road I'm wanderin' on
From time to time unwinds across the rivers,
Through the pines
And leads me home, back home

Yeah I'm going back home,
Back home

Written By Jason White

I was 20 and she was 18
we were just about as wild
as we were green
in the ways of the world

She picked me up in that Red Ragtop
We were free of the folks
and hiding from the cops
on a summer night
running all the red lights

We parked way out in a clearing in a grove
and the night was as hot
as a coal burning stove
we were cooking with gas
Ooh it had to last

Chorus
In the back of that Red Ragtop
She said please don't stop

Well the very first time her mother met me
her green eyed girl had been a mother to be
for two weeks

I was out of a job and she was in school
and life was fast and the world was cruel
we were young and wild
we decided not to have a child

So we did what we did and we tried to forget
and we swore up and down there would be no regrets
In the morning light
But on the way home that night

Chorus
On the back of that Red Ragtop
She said please don't stop
Lovin' me

Bridge
We took one more trip around the sun
but it was all make believe in the end
No I can't say where she is today
I can't remember who I was back then

Well you do what you do
and you pay for your sins
and there's no such thing as
what might have been
That's a waste of time
drive you outta your mind

I was stopped at a red light just yesterday
beside a young girl in a Cabriole
and her eyes were green and I was in an old scene

Chorus
I was back in that Red Ragtop
on the day she stopped lovin' me

I was back in that Red Ragtop
on the day she stopped lovin' me

Written By James T Slater

Margie said Roy you ain't listening to me
And I got a whole lot more to say
Roy just crossed the floor and picked up his car keys
She ain't seen nor heard from him to this day

And that's why God made Mexico
A place where we can lay low
Where the Cuervo goes down nice and slow
And the warm winds blow
That's why God made Mexico

And Betty fixed Joe dinner every night half past six
'Cause that's when he'd roll through that door
Sixteen years and not a thank you from his lips
She don't fix him dinner no more

And that's why God made Mexico
A place where we can lay low
Where the Cuervo goes down nice and slow
And the warm winds blow
That's why God made Mexico

Life is sweet in a border town
You learn to let your hair down
And you don't make trouble
You learn to dance the fandango

You change your name and you change your face
Get used to beans and chilli paste
And learn to live and love life in the slow lane

And that's why God made Mexico
A place where we can lay low
Maybe Monterey or Acapulco
Anywhere the warm winds blow
Don't you know
That's why God made Mexico
That's why God made Mexico

Written By Anders Osborne/Dylan Altman

The creek goes ripplin' by
I been barefootin' all day with my baby
Brown leaves have started fallin'
Leadin' the way
I like it best just like this
Doin' nothin' all the way
So let's lay down in the tall grass
Dreamin' away

And all I wanna do is let it be
And be with you and watch the wind blow by
And all I wanna see is you and me
Go on forever like the clear blue sky
Slowly, there's only you and I
And all I wanna do is watch the wind blow by

Girl, you know you told me not so long ago
To let it come, then let it pass
And all your troubles and your sorrows
They won't last
So let me kiss you now little darlin'
Beneath this autumn moon
Cold winds, another season
Will be here soon

And all I wanna do is let it be
And be with you and watch the wind blow by
And all I wanna see is you and me
Go on forever like the clear blue sky
Slowly, there's only you and I
And all I wanna do is watch the wind blow by

All I wanna do is watch the wind blow by
All I wanna do is watch the wind blow by

Written By Lore Orion

I put my money on love again
At a hundred to one
I don't mind losin' I'll just try 'til I win
Or see how close I can come

Oh it should be illegal
It gets me so high
I can fly like an eagle
Night after night

I know people who have thrown in the towel
Just ?cause they've lost once or twice
But it takes a believer to put all this faith
In the toss of the dice

Oh it should be illegal
It gets me so high
I can fly like an eagle
Night after night

Oh it should be illegal
It gets me so high
I can fly like an eagle
Night after night

Night after night after night....

Written By Hillary Lindsey/Angelo/Troy Verges

Hey Darkness don't you try
To steal the moment or close my eyes
I won't let you in

'Cause this feels too damn good to me
All I want and all I need
Is her touch again and again and again

I don't wanna go to sleep tonight
I don't want anything to change
I don't wanna wake up and find a different day
Yeah, she makes me free
Here between the day and the twilight
I don't wanna go to sleep tonight

Time stop dead in your tracks
Turn around and don't look back
And just let us be

I'm gonna take this time and soak it up
Forever wouldn't be long enough
If you knew her you'd agree, agree with me

I don't wanna go to sleep tonight
I don't want anything to change
I don't wanna wake up and find a different day
Yeah, she makes me free
Here between the day and the twilight
I don't wanna go to sleep tonight

I wish the sun would just forget to come up
And just leave us wrapped up in this love

I don't wanna go to sleep tonight
I don't want anything to change
I don't wanna wake up and find a different day
Yeah, she makes me free
Here between the day and the twilight
I don't wanna go to sleep tonight

Written By Kristian Ottestad/Arne Hovda

It's been a long time
Since we walked that aisle together
And you became my wife
And who would've thought
You would fall for someone just like me
For the best days of my life

I may not be a poet
'Cause I ain't so good on words
I may not stand before you like a night
In shining armor
I may not be the best of singers
There's better guys I've heard
But I know how to love, I know how to
Love you well

You go your faults
And I don't need to tell you I've got mine
But I guess they all even out
Wherever I ride
The thought of you turns water into wine
And somehow I lose a crowd

I may not drive a fancy car
I don't know what it's for
I may not the be one who gets to
Shower you with diamonds
I may not be a rich man but you can't
Call me poor
'Cause I know how to love, I know
How to love you well

And as we skip the light fandango
From that ole jukebox by the bar
Now honey don't it make you wonder
How we ever got this far

I may not be a poet
'Cause I ain't got much to say
I may not stand before you like that
Knight in shining armor
I may not be the best of singers
Honey that's o.k.
'Cause I know how to love
I know how to love you well

Written By Wayne Kirkpatrick/Gordon Kennedy

Tim McGraw lyrics
I fell by the wayside
I fell on my knees
Cryin' "why was I so hard to please"
I stood at the crossroads
Took a long look at me
Sometimes you don't know where
you're from 'til you leave

(CHORUS)
And I've been out there searching
For a place where I belong
And on my way I heard my song
Let it sing me home

The sun on my shoulders
And the wind at my back
I'm bound and determined
To get back on track
To where the heart is
Where it's been all along
Sometimes you don't know you've
got 'til it's gone
Gone, gone, gone

(Repeat Chorus)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (3x)

Written By Tommy Lee James/Robin Lerner

She's my kind of rain
Like love in a drunken sky
She's confetti falling down all night
She sits quietly there
Like water in a jar

Says baby why you trembling like you are
So I wait and I try
I confess like a child

CHORUS:
She's my kind of rain
Like love from a drunken sky
Confetti falling down all night
She's my kind of rain

She's the sunset shadows
She's like Rembrandt's light
She's the history that's made at night
She's my lost companion
She's my dreaming tree
Together in this brief eternity
Summer days winter snow
She's all things to behold

CHORUS:
She's my kind of rain
Like love from a drunken sky
Confetti falling down all night
She's my kind of rain

So I wait and I try
I confess all my crimes

(Repeat Chorus Twice)

FADE OUT:
She's my kind of rain
Ohhh, rain on me
She's my kind of rain

Written By Brad Warren/Brett Warren/Danny Tate

They say not to have too much fun
They say not to get too much sun
Democrat, Republican
I guess I'm screwed I'm neither one
Don't say hell, say what the heck
Do what's politically correct
Don't pray in school, but have safe sex
Isn't that what they expect

Who are they
Yeah you know what they say
Who are they
Someone I gotta pay
Who are they
They're probably living in L.A.
And I don't care anyway
Who are they

They probably own the Village Boys, the Nashville scene, the People's Choice
To me it's all a bunch of noise
Decided on by the funny boys
They say who does and don't belong
They say our hair's too short or long
They say who's right and who is wrong
They say for all to just come along

Who are they
Yeah you know what they say
Who are they
Someone I gotta pay
Who are they
They're probably living in L.A.
And I don't care anyway
Who are they

I wonder if they've got a life
A broken car and two ex-wives
do they drink beer on Friday night
I wonder if they'd like to fight

I wonder if they've got a soul
Or if they like their rock and roll
Where do they live I gotta know
So I can tell 'em all where to go

Who are they
Yeah you know what they say
Who are they
Someone I gotta pay
Who are they
They're probably living in L.A.
And I don't care anyway
Who are they

No I dont care anyway
Who are they
They're probably living out in L.A.
Who are they
Oh you know what they say
Who are they
Who are they

Written By Rivers Rutherford/George Teren

Girl, you've never known no one like me
Up there in your high society
They might tell you I'm no good
Girl they just need to understand
Just who I am

I may be a real bad boy
But baby I'm a real good man

I may drink too much and play too loud
Hang out with a rough and rowdy crowd
That don't mean I don't respect
My mama or my Uncle Sam
Yes sir, yes ma'am

I may be a real bad boy
But baby I'm a real good man

Might have a reckless streak
At least a country mile wide
If you're gonna run with me
It's gonna be a wild ride
When it comes to lovin' you
I've got velvet hands
I'll show you how a real bad boy
Can be a real good man

I'll take all the good times I can get
I'm too young for growing up just yet
Ain't much I can promise you
Except to do the best I can
I'll be damned

I may be a real bad boy
But baby I'm a real good man

I may be a real bad boy
But baby I'm a real good man

Written By Kim Patton-Johnston/ Liz Rose

Say Exactly how you feel
Right now you're free to say it all
There is no one here to judge you I only love you
You're free to close you eyes and fall
You can trust me this is real
Say exactly how you feel

Chorus
Tell me all your dreams
What you think love means
We'll lock the world outside
Embrace the gift of time
Promising forever
Knowing that this moment might be
All we ever find

Every breath of who you are
Tells a story that I love
I have finally found the truth in what I see in you
And what I feel with every touch
The simple beauty of your heart
In every breath of who you are
Promising forever
Knowing that this moment might be
All we ever find

Repeat Chorus 2 times

Written By Elton John/Bernie Taupin

Blue jean baby, L.A. lady
She was the seamstress for the band
Pretty eyed, pirate smile, she'll marry a music man
Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand
And now she's in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand

Jesus freaks, out in the street
Handing tickets out for God
Turning back she just laughs
The boulevard is not that bad

Piano man he makes his stand
In the auditorium
Looking on she sang the song
The words she knows, the tune she hums

But oh how it feels so real
Lying here with no one near
Only you & you can hear me
When I sing softly, slowly

C H O R U S
Hold me closer tiny dancer,
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today

Blue jean baby, L.A. lady
She was a seamstress for the band
Pretty eyed, pirate smile, hear she married a music man
Ballerina, you must have seen her, she was dancing in the sand
And now she's in me, always with me,
Tiny dancer, in my hand

Repeat chorus (2x)