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READ THE STORY OF TOUCHE HERE
CUT RUN DON’T FREEZE B.Williams 1990
Don’t worry I heard you loud and clear
Don’t worry I heard you and I’m already outta here
One of us is crazy and your screamin in my ear
Shatters like a crashing mirror
Solumn shadows of the beauty and the balladeer
(Chorus)
It’s time to cut run go and disappear
It’s time to cut cut run don’t freeze
It’s time to cut run go on disappear
It’s time to cut run don’t freeze
Work like a river pullin’ you along
Then 8 years bittered by your belief that I was wrong
You feel like the heroine in some sacred Haggard song
Where noone gives a dog a bone
And lonely victims volunteer too long (Chorus)
Go into your shell girl your fairytales begun
Say you been through hell, maybe you just married one (Chorus)
CUT RUN DON’T FREEZE – Live Performance with David Snider
THE LAST ONE TO KNOW B.Williams 1978
You are a cowboy yea you rope them cows and ya ride the range
You sure love those horses & you love your freedom just the same
I watch you workin’ in the cool of the mornin’, throw that hay
and I laugh as you run yelling’ out the backgate
all those horses tryin’ to get away
(Chorus)
I might be in love with you
Darlin’ you’ll be the last one to know
You could be the one to make my dreams come true
Lord or make me wanna let them go
I been a dreamin’, tall dark handsome man just like you
And it’s been a dream of mine seems like forever
You could be the one to make them come true
But now I’m leavin’ for Texas coz honey
you got your life here and there I’ve got mine
Sweet cowboy take care of you and those horses
While I dream on of love I never seem to find. (Chorus)
KICKIN UP DUST B. Williams (Video Below)
Hey buddy do you wanna kick some dust with me
Bands playin I’m swayin footloose and fancy free
Aint no place else this gal would rather be no no
Than underneath these stars, you kickin up dust with me
Forget about all those nights out on the trail
Silent moon above the coyotes longing wail
Think instead about the sweet perfume you smell.
Come on and dance with me I’ll be your nightingale.
YODEL
Hey buddy do you wanna kick some dust with me
Bands playin I’m swayin footloose and fancy free
Aint no place else this gal would rather be no no
Than underneath these stars, you kickin up dust with me
Forget about Charlene, she was untrue
Only broke your heart and make a fool of you
Think istread about the sweet perfume you smell
Come on dance with me, I’ll be your nightingale
LIVE PERFORMANCE WITH DAVID SNIDER
THE BOAT JOKE B. Williams
What do you mean I don’t float your boat
What do you mean I don’t move you
What’s the deal here, I can’t cope
With your unsolicited, unwelcome truth
(Chorus)
It was a dry spell when I fell
Into the dry well I fell (I fell)
Olly Olly in come, in come free
Thought I heard you callin’ me
Olly Olly in come, in come free
Guess the float your boat jokes on me
How am I gonna look you in the eye
Without letting my hurt feelings show
Or be a big girl who don’t cry
When I turn and watch you go
(Chorus) (Bridge)
As I fell, you never tried to catch , help
hold me or lift me up
You set sail in search of a much better deal
Yeah that’s my luck
MEXICO SONG B. Williams Dec. 13, 1983
She packed up her bags and said I’m moving away
I got to find me a sunnier day
My feet are itchin’ and my mind is on edge
I got to find another place for my head
Maybe I’ll head onto Mexico where noone knows my name
Hang out in the bars where noone knows who you are
The whiskey pours like rain…Maybe I’ll just go home
She looked at me with those tears in her eyes
She say somehow I got tangled up in these lies
I gotta get out of this little town
There ain’t nobody here to keep me around
Maybe I’ll take to the highway, take things as they come
Hang out on the road till a pot full of gold
Comes streamin’ in like the sun…Maybe I’ll just go home
I looked in the mirror and saw tears in my eyes
Didn’t I once say time does not fly
Was that old woman lookin’ back at me
Really the young girl I used to be
Yes I made it to Mexico, I took the highway too
And that pot of gold was never within my hold
The whiskey made me blue…maybe I’ll just go home
She packed up her bags and said I’m movin away
I got to find me a sunnier day
SHE CRIES B. Williams July 29, 1988
There she goes again, walkin’ up that mountain
Wishin’ like an eagle she had wings to fly
I hear tell on the top there is a fountain
Where she cries and cries, cries and cries
into a fountain of sorrow she cries
Won’t be long now till that fountains overflowing
What will she do with the sadness she can’t hide
Guess those tears are gonna roll right down the mountain
As she cries and cries, cries and cries
Into a fountain of sorrow she cries
(Bridge)
She hears the night wind calling, it whispers her name
saying let this flowing river ease your pain
Still she knows in her heart, she’ll never be the same
She lost love…now theres nothing left to gain
It’s been years now since she went up on that mountain
Wonder if she ever found the wings to fly
I hear tell she dove right into the fountain
Where she cries and cries, cries and cries
Now she’s the fountain of sorrow she cries
Where she cries and cries, cries and cries
Now she’s the fountain of sorrow, she cries
TOUCHE’ B. Williams 1990
Hey she’s a little troubled waitin’ on Mae West
A hayseed in the rubble, vacillating at best
While romantically weeping “One wish from the well”
She cries, frantically sweeping the heartbreak no tell
CHORUS
Singing…Hey hey hey touche’ Hey touche’ stay away
Hey Touche’ Stay and sway
Hey she’s out of season a fettered borderline
Half crazy in deceiving a red letter dark design
Feeling a little fragile by the sea where shes left
Reelin’ in the agile spirit of Mae West
(CHORUS)
The worn weathered through and through passage of time
Cannot mountains of mem’ries erase from her mind
“Whisper to me,” she said, “run with the wind
Give me one reason Miss Mae to love you again”
TIMES NOT HEALING B. Williams Nov. 27, 1993
Red lipstick on white cigarettes remind me of you
Yellow roses in the backyard are left alone
Cause you’re not home to bring them to
(Chorus)
Times not healing…someone said it would
Times not healing the fact you’re gone for good
Times not healing, whoa times not healing
Times not healing losing you
Quiet footsteps in the kitchen
Whisper softly to me of days gone by
The lonely beating of a heart so needing
to hear you say it’s okay, now don’t you cry
(Bridge)
In the back roads of my mind I know this was meant to be
But the highway to my heart leads straight back to your memory
TIMES NOT HEALING – Teaching myself to play banjo for this song…
KEEP AN EYE ON YOUR GOOD MAN B. Williams Dec. 11, 1983
Girls you better keep an eye on your good man
There’s somebody waiting to catch him if she can
She waits in the shadows like a china doll
Steal your man from you, then she’ll watch you fall
Girls you better keep an eye on your good man – –
Girls you better show your man the way you feel
There’s somebody waiting around this town who will
She’s just like a cat sneakin’ in the dark
Waits for a chance to steal your good mans heart
Girls you better show your man the way you feel.
(Bridge)
Everybody knows what I’m talking about.
It’s the gal with no guy of her own
I been watching her watching your man
Just waiting to catch him alone.
So girls you better keep an eye on your good man.
NO RADIO PLAYIN’ B. Williams
She’s so happy she feels like the star in a picture show
caught up in a fairy tale
The kind where the boy gets the girl, the girl gets the boy
Two lucky pennies in a wishing well
Happy ever after says the street sign on the hill
She’s singing love songs, hanging clothes
while she watches him plow the field.
When he comes down off the tractor,
She got dinner waiting there for him
Dogs howling at their laughter, and
she’s thankful to be living in
(Chorus)
The middle of a hit love song though no radio’s playing
He’s humming as she strums along and
their bodies are swaying
On 1 back porch with 1 guitar
where he’s in heaven and she’s the star
in the middle of a hit love song, no radio playin’. – –
Forty years later she’s watching the garden grow
still singing sweet and low, sheets hanging out on the line
Moo moo says the cow to the kittens meow
chickens peck the ground right in time
to the hum of the distant tractor, she looks up in time to see
horses thunder, beatin’ like a drummer
cross the field running wild and free.
Wind chimes play in harmony, it’s such a beautiful thing
as she starts to dance to the rhythm of the ranch
and her heart strings as they swing. (Chorus)
Nothing like the sight of a gray haired woman spinning round like she’s 14
The old man watching her from the field
thanks the Lord for his country queen. (Chorus)
LIVE PERFORMANCE WITH STEPHEN PAUL WALLACE
TWO BONUS TRACKS!!!
YOU HAVE MY HEART B. Williams 2014
and
I LIKE DOGS B. Williams 1999 (Video Below)
I like dogs and dogs like me
but I don’t get along with most people I see
I’m sure the whole problem is I’m just ornery
I don’t play well with others
so glad I discovered
that I like dogs and dogs like me
No matter what I say. No matter what I do.
Can’t get people to act like they should
or should I say like I want them to
I guess I’m just destined to live life almost alone
I don’t worry, I’ve got a bunch of furry
friendly fluffy dogs at home. (Chorus)
If God has a dog it’s an English Mastiff and her name is Grace
She weighs 200 pounds and has a big soft face
He knows she would never ever sin against him
When he created the dog, that wise ole God
made a picture perfect friend.
(Chorus) (Bridge)
My husband says he wants to come back as one of my dogs
in his next life. I treat them better than kings and queens and
it’s the only time I’m really nice.
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