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"Annie's Song"
Let me drwn in your bathtub
let me dry in your arms
let me drown in your laughter
let me die in your arms
"Annie's Song"
You build up my fences.
You fill up my senses.
"Annie's Song"
You fill up my bathtub
You fill up my senses
"Annie's Song"
You filled out my census
With a blue or black ink pen.
You fill up my senses
Like the night in a forest.
"Annie's Song"
You filled out my census
You fill up my senses
"Annie's Song"
You filled up my senses, come kill me again.
You filled up my senses, come fill me again.
"Annie's Song"
You filled up my senses, like a fight with a tourist
You filled up my senses, like a night in a forest
"Annie's Song"
You said to my dentist
'Like a mouthful of foreheads'.
You fill up my senses
Like a night in a forest.
"Autograph"
Here I am enclosing my eyes again.
Here I am and closing my eyes again.
"Back Home Again"
Hey, Cook, be back home again
Hey, it's good to be back home again
"Back Home Again"
It tastes good to be back home again.
Hey, it's good to be back home again.
"Calypso"
Adios
Ah-dee-ay
"Calypso"
High Cliffs! The places you wind to
Aye Calypso, the places you've been to
"Country Roads"
Country Roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, Mountain my mind
Take me home, Country Roads.
Country Roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, Mountain mama
Take me home, Country Roads.
"Country Roads"
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, Mount Madonna
Take me home, country roads.
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain momma
Take me home, country roads.
"Country Roads"
Take me home, f*** me hard,
'Cause you know I've been bad
Lost virginity, mountainous mammaries
Take me home, f*** me hard.
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain momma
Take me home, country roads.
"Country Road"
Whispered Ginger
West Virginia
"Goodbye Again"
I'm sorry to believe in you.
I'm sorry to be leaving you.
"Grandma's Feather Bed"
After supper we'd s*** around the fire
The old folks s*** and chew.
After supper we'd sit around the fire
The old folks spit and chew.
"Grandma's Feather Bed"
It was made from the feathers of forty-'leven geese
Took a whole rope across for the tick
It was made from the feathers of forty-'leven geese
Took a whole bolt of cloth for the tick
"Grandma's Feather Bed"
Made from the feathers of forty-'leven geese
Took a whole boat to row it across the crick [creek].
Made from the feathers of forty-leven geese
Took a whole bolt of cloth for the tick
"Grandma's Feather Bed"
Made from the feathers of forty-leven geese
Took a hobo 'til cock's crow to pick
Made from the feathers of forty-leven geese
Took a whole bolt of cloth for the tick
"It Makes Me Giggle"
Sometimes I wake up feeling crappy
Sometimes I wake up feeling crabby
"Leavin' On A Jet Plane"
I believe in all the jet planes.
I'm leavin' on a jet plane.
"Leavin' On A Jet Plane"
I'm leavin' Arnott's jet plane.
I'm leavin' on a jet plane.
"Leavin' On A Jet Plane"
Leapin' off a jet plane
I'm leavin' on a jet plane.
"Leaving On A Jet Plane"
Leavin' on a jet train
I'm leavin' on a jet plane.
"Me And My Uncle"
Three days in the saddle, my butt it hurt.
Three days in the saddle, my body hurt.
"Perhaps Love"
Perhaps love is like an ocean
Full of codfish, full of plaice.
Perhaps love is like an ocean
Full of conflict, full of pain.
"Rocky Mountain High?"
Rocky Mountain high, from a bottle
Rocky Mountain high, Colorado
"Rocky Mountain High"
And he lost a friend in Captain Emory
And he lost a friend, but kept a memory
"Rocky Mountain High"
Call her out on Rocky Mountain High.
Colorado Rocky Mountain High
"Rocky Mountain High"
He climbed the fever mountains.
He climbed cathedral mountains.
"Rocky Mountain High"
He climbs to see the mountains.
He climbed cathedral mountains.
"Rocky Mountain High"
His sinus turned inside himself to try and understand
The serenity of a clear blue mountain lake.
His sight has turned inside himself to try and understand
The serenity of a clear blue mountain lake.
"Rocky Mountain High"
I seen it reign with ire in the sky
or
I'd see it rain if I were in disguise
I’ve seen it rainin’ fire in the sky
"Rocky Mountain High"
I've seen it reign with ire in disguise
I've seen it rainin' fire in the sky
"Rocky Mountain High"
Now his mind is full of wonder
But his heart, still loathsome fear.
Now his mind is full of wonder
But his heart still knows some fear.
"Rocky Mountain High"
Rocky Mountain High, Norman Rockwell
Rocky Mountain High, In Colorado
"Rocky Mountain High"
Rocky mountain pie, with portabelloes.
Rocky mountain high, in Colorado
"Rocky Mountain High"
The Colorado Rocky Mountain high,
Of cement, rain, and fire in the sky.
The Colorado Rocky Mountain high,
I've seen it rain and fire in the sky.
"Rocky Mountain High"
Why they try to tear the mountains down
To bring in a tug-of-war?
Why they try to tear the mountains down
To bring in a couple more?
"Some Days Are Diamonds"
Some days are diamonds
Some days are pearls.
Some days are diamonds
Some days are stones.
"Spirit"
And legalize my weed
And Vega lights my way
"Sunshine On My Shoulders"
Sunshine almost always makes me hide.
Sunshine almost always makes me high.
"Sunshine On My Shoulders"
Sunshine on my shoulders gives me sunburn
Sunshine in my eyes can make me blind.
Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy
Sunshine in my eyes can make me cry.
"Take Me Home, Country Roads"
007, West Virginia.
Almost Heaven, West Virginia.
"Take Me Home, Country Roads"
Almost Heaven, I wet my finger.
Almost Heaven, West Virginia
"Take Me Home, Country Roads"
Almost Heaven
West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains
Shannon Doherty River.
Almost Heaven
West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains
Shenandoah River.
Shannon Doherty may not even have been born when this song was written, but who cares?
"Take Me Home, Country Roads"
Country Roads, take me home
To the place I belong,
West Virginia, Mountain mummer,
Take me home, Country Roads
Country Roads, take me home
To the place I belong,
West Virginia, Mountain Mama,
Take me home, Country Roads
"Take Me Home, Country Roads"
Country Roads, take me home
To the place I belong, West Virginia,
Mountain llamas, take me home
To the country roads
Country Roads, take me home
To the place I belong, West Virginia,
Mountain momma, take me home
To the country roads
"Take Me Home, Country Roads"
Country Rose, take me home
To the place, I belong
West Virginia
Corona Mountain,br> Take me home, Country Rose.
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia
Mountain my mind
Take me home, country roads.
"Take Me Home, Country Roads"
Country rose take me home
Country Roads
"Take Me Home, Country Roads"
Country rose
Country roads
"Take Me Home, Country Roads"
Take me home Kentucky Roads
Take me home Country Roads
"Take Me Home, Country Roads"
Take me home, country Rose
Take me home, country roads
"Take Me Home, Country Roads"
West Virginia mountain farmer
Take me home, country roads.
West Virginia, mountain momma
Take me home, country roads.
"Take Me Home, Country Roads"
West Virginia, mountain laurel
West Virginia, mountain momma
"Take Me Home, Country Roads"
West Virginia, mountain my mind
West Virginia, mountain mama
"Take Me Home, Country Roads"
Younger than the mountains,
blowin' like a breeze
Younger than the mountains,
growing like a breeze
"Take Me Home, Country Roads"
Younger than the mountains, growin' lima beans
Younger than the mountains, blowin' like a breeze
"Take Me Home, Country Road"
West Virginia, come to Mama.
West Virginia, Mountain Momma.
"Take Me Home, Country Road"
What's for dinner, mountain mama?
West Virginia, mountain mama.
"Thank God I'm A Country Boy"
Guitar's sweet so I keep it kind of low.
Kids are asleep so I keep it kind of low.
"Thank God I'm A Country Boy"
Life ain't nothin' but a farting-flying fiddle
Life ain't nothin' but a funny, funny riddle
"Thank God I'm A Country Boy"
Life ain't nothin' but a funny-money riddle.
Life ain't nothin' but a funny, funny riddle.
"Thank God I'm A Country Boy"
My days are all filled when I'm easy cutting cars.
My days are all filled with an easy country charm.
"Thank God I'm A Country Boy"
Silly folk drivin' in a black limousine
Cityfolk drivin' in a black limousine
"Thank God I'm A Country Boy"
Thank god I'm a crunchy boy
Thank god I'm a country boy
"Thank God I'm A Country Boy"
Well I fiddled with my daddy 'till the day he died.
Well, my fiddle was my daddy’s 'till the day he died.
"Thank God I'm A Country Boy"
Well I got me a fife and I got me a fiddle
Well I got me a fine wife, I got me a fiddle
"Thank God I'm A Country Boy"
Well I got me a five and I got me old fiddle
When the sun's comin' up I got cakes on the brittle
Well I got me a fine wife I got me old fiddle
When the sun's comin' up I got cakes on the griddle
"Thank God I'm A Country Boy"
Well, I work all day and I piddle in a can
Well, I work all day and I fiddle when I can
"Thank God I'm A Country Boy"
When the sun's coming up,
I got kegs on the brittle
When the sun's coming up,
I got cakes on the griddle
"Thank God I'm A Country Boy"
When the sun's coming up,
I just can't solve the riddle
When the sun's coming up,
I got cakes on the griddle