Guitarists From The United States

"Yesterday's songs Don't stay around long, Not much anymore. Yesterday's words Don't make themselves heard Like they did before."

"Home, Don't it seem so far away? Oh, we're traveling light today, In the eye of the storm. In the eye of the storm.Home, To a new and a shiny place. Make our bed and we'll say our grace. Freedom's light burning warm. Freedom's light burning warm."

"Money talks, But it don't sing and dance. And it don't walk. And long as I can have you Here with me, I'd much rather be Forever in blue jeans."

"I've seen the light And I've seen the flame. And I've been this way before, And I'm sure to be this way again.For I've been refused, And I've been regained, And I've seen your eyes before, And I'm sure to see your eyes again. Once again.For I've been released, And I've been regained, And I've sung my song before, And I'm sure to sing my song again. Once again."

"Longfellow Serenade, Such were the plans I'd made. For she was a lady And I was a dreamer, With only words to trade."

"You are the sun, I am the moon. You are the words, I am the tune. Play me."

"Call the sun in the dead of the night And the sun gonna rise in the sky Touch a man who can't walk upright And that lame man, he gonna fly. And I fly, yeah, And I fly."

"I'm walkin' But I'm going nowhere at all. I'm 'bout to head any place in the world But the place that I am"

"Hitchin' on a twilight train Ain't nothing here that I care to take along. Maybe a song To sing when I want. No need to say please to no man For a happy tune."

"Two bit manchild I was Born for nothin' mostly Good time with sometime women. Nothin' ain't ever hold me. You can't change me none."

"Shilo when I was young, I used to call your name. When no one else would come, Shilo you always came and we'd play."

"It's Love, Brother Love, say Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show. Pack up the babies and grab the old ladies. And ev'ryone goes, 'cause everyone knows Brother Love's show."

"Used to slip though every girl's hand like water There never was one who could ever tie me down Straight ahead and steady as Gibraltar 'Til you brought me tumblin' to the ground You got to me You brought me to may knees"

""I am," I said To no one there An no one heard at all Not even the chair "I am," I cried "I am," said I And I am lost, and I can't even say why Leavin' me lonely still."

"Says she loves me Yes, yes she does Gonna show me tonight, yeah She got the way to move me, Cherry"

"Ah, to be so exciting Won't need bright lights No, no we won't Gonna make our own lighting She got the way to move me, Cherry"

"Song sung blue, everybody knows one. Song sung blue, every garden grows one.Me and you are subject to The blues now and then. But when you take the blues And make a song, You sing 'em out again."

"I thought love was only true in fairy tales Meant for someone else but not for me …"

"Don't you know Girl, you'll be a woman soon. Please, come take my hand. Girl, you'll be a woman soon. Soon you'll need a man."

"And here's to the songs we used to sing; And here's to the times we used to know. It's hard to hold them in our arms again, But hard to let them go."

"Then I saw her face Now I'm a believer Not a trace of doubt in my mind I'm in love I'm a believer I couldn't leave her if I tried."

"Red, red wine Go to my head. Make me forget that I Still need her so.Red, red wine, It's up to you. All I can do, I've done. But memories won't go. No, memories won't go."

"Hands, touchin' hands, Reachin' out, touchin' me, touchin' you. Sweet Caroline. Good times never seemed so good. I've been inclined To believe they never would. But now I, look at the night And it don't seem so lonely. We fill it up with only two."

"I'm a perfectionist. I like to get it right. I like to get it good. And you know, writing songs is not -- it's not the kind of thing that you can count on every day. You never know what's going to come or if it's going to come. So you -- you know, it's an uncertain kind of a thing."

"I'm a writer who performs. And I mean, I'm basically a writer. I've been doing it since I was 16. … For me, the balance between the two, the writing -- a year, two years, whatever it takes to do an album, and then you've had enough of writing and thinking and being introspective and all of that kind of stuff, and you want to get out on the road and you want to, you know, get into the physicality of performing."

"Her eyes would make an angel smile. They'd call her Sunday. She'll take a man and drive him wild. Her name is Sunday, And one day I'm gonna make her mine. It's gonna be so fine. You wait and see, It's gonna be Just Sunday and me."

"A thing called "Cherry Cherry", was my first big national hit. It was a top five record. And international, as well. And you know, that's what broke the dam. … Boom, as soon as that record hit, I was out on the road. And I've been out on the road… since then. … I didn't realize it at first, but I did want to perform. I liked it. It was fun. You know, I went through all of the growth experiences that you go through in any field. But I did like it. And you know, I've been doing it since."

"I actually wanted to go to medical school. I actually wanted to be a laboratory biologist. I wanted to study. And I really wanted to find a cure for cancer. My grandmother had died of cancer. And I was always very good at the sciences. And I thought I would go and try and discover the cure for cancer."

"Girl, I don't want to fight, I'm a little bit wrong, And you're a little bit right. I said, girl, you know that it's true, It's a little bit me, And it's a little bit you too."

"Kentucky woman She shines with her own kind of light. She'd look at you once And a day that's all wrong looks all right. And I love her, God knows, I love her.Kentucky woman, If she get to know you, She goin' to own you. Kentucky woman."

"Don't know that I will, But until I can find me The girl who'll stay And won't play games behind me, I'll be what I am: A solitary man, solitary man."

"Dry your eyes and take your song out. It's a newborn afternoon. And if you can't recall the singer, You can still recall the tune.Dry your eyes and play it slowly, Like you're marching off to war. Sing it like you know he'd want it, Like we sang it once before."

"Desiree, Oh, Desiree. There I was found By the sweet passion sound Of your loving song. Time was right, the night was long.Remember Desiree, Oh, Desiree. And though somehow I knew I could only have you 'til the morning light, The night was long, the time was right."

"You don't bring me flowers. You don't sing me love songs. You hardly talk to me anymore. When you come through the door At the end of the day."

"Stirrup to stirrup and side by side We crossed the mountains and the valleys wide. We came to Big Muddy and we forded the flood On the Tennessee mare and the Tennessee stud."

"Pretty little baby on the cabin floor Little hoss colt playin' 'round the door I love the girl with golden hair And the Tennessee stud loves the Tennessee mare."

"We fired our cannon 'til the barrel melted down, So we grabbed an alligator an' we fought another round. We filled his head with cannon balls an' powdered his behind, An' when they touched the powder off, the 'gator lost his mind."

"Along about eighteen and twenty-five I left Tennessee very much alive I never would have got through the Arkansas mud If I hadn't been a-ridin on the Tennessee stud."

"The Tennessee stud was long and lean The color of the sun and his eyes were green. He had the nerve and he had the blood And there never was a hoss like the Tennessee stud."

"Ole Hickory said we could take 'em by surprise, If we didn't fire our muskets 'til we looked 'em in the eyes. We held our fire 'til we seed their faces well, Then we opened up our squirrel guns an' really gave 'em ...well! Yeah, they ran through the briars an' they ran through the brambles An' they ran through the bushes where the rabbits couldn't go. They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico."

"Looking back now toward the start You said you thought I'd lost my path And I asked if you still considered love an art And you said "No, I think it's more a craft" And I just turned and laughed I just had to turn and laugh."

"Venturing further than the length of your sight Out past the reach of your beginnings There is a gamble in each proud act of flight But the losses pale before the winnings Circling and diving with this freedom you’ve found Illusion blows apart and scatters There is no darkness in this place that we're bound Love is the only thing that matters"

"In 1814 we took a little trip Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip. We took a little bacon an' we took a little beans And we caught the bloody British at the town of New Orleans. We fired our guns an' the British kept a'comin'. There wasn't nigh as many as there was awhile ago. We fired once more an' they begin to runnin' Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico."

"I found that girl with the golden hair And she was ridin' on a Tennessee mare."

"The leader of the band is tired And his eyes are growing old But his blood runs through my instrument And his song is in my soul -- My life has been a poor attempt To imitate the man. I'm just a living legacy To the leader of the band."

"We drank a toast to innocence We drank a toast to now. And tried to reach beyond the emptiness But neither one knew how."

"The beer was empty and our tongues were tired And running out of things to say. She gave a kiss to me as I got out And I watched her drive away.Just for a moment I was back at school And felt that old familiar pain And as I turned to make my way back home The snow turned into rain."

"An only child alone and wild A cabinet maker's son. His hands were meant for different work And his heart was known to none -- He left his home and went his lone and solitary way And he gave to me a gift I know I never can repay."

"She says no When she means yes And what she wants You know that I can't guess. When we want more You know we ask for less Such is the language of love..."

"There's a place in the world For a gambler There's a burden that only he can bear... And he sees. Oh, yes he sees... There's a light in the depths Of your darkness There's a calm at the eye Of every storm There's a light in the depths Of your [[blindness|darkness}} Let it shine Oh, let it shine"