On a warm summer's evenin' on a train bound for nowhere I met up with the gambler, we were both too tired to sleep So we took turns a starin' out the
While she lays sleeping I stay out late at night and play my songs And sometimes, all the nights can be so long And it's good when I finally make it home
Everyone considered him the coward of the county He'd never stood one single time to prove the county wrong His mama named him Tommy, but folks just called
In a bar in Toledo across from the depot On a barstool she took off her ring I thought I'd get closer so I walked on over I sat down and asked her, her
You want things your way and I want them mine And now we don't know just where you draw the line How can love survive if we keep cheers and sights? And
Lady, I'm your knight in shining armor and I love you You have made me what I am and I am yours My love, there's so many ways I want to say I love you
You've painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair Ruby are you contemplating, going out somewhere The shadow on the wall, tells me the
Every now and then When the world steps in Stealin' all our time away It soon takes so much We forget to touch That's when I know It's time for me to
In Cumberland, Kentucky on a cool autumn evening Billy lay in love with Marianne She was a rich judge's daughter, he was a son of a miner But that night
Just look at you sitting there You never looked better than tonight And it'd be so easy to tell you I'd stay Like I've done so many times I was so sure
All my life was a paper, once plain, pure and white Till you moved with your pen, changing moods now and then Till the balance was right Then you added
my mind The faded skirt the weathered brow The calloused hand up on the plow I loved you then and I love you now Ruben James Flora James, Ruben James
