Альбом Willie Nelson

On a rainy Wednesday morning that's the way that I was born in
That old sharecropper's one room country shack
They said my mommie left me the day before she had me
Said she hit the road and never once looked back
And I just like to mention my grandma's old age pension
Is the reason why I'm standing here today
I got all my country learning a milking and a churning
Picking cotton raisin' hell and baling hay
I been to Georgia on a fast train honey I wouldn't born no yesterday
I got a good Christian raisin' and an eight grade education
Ain't no need in y'all a treatin' me this way

[ piano ]

Now sweet Carolina I don't think I'll ever find
Another woman put together like you are
I like your wiggle in your walking and your big city talking
And your brand new shiny Plymouth ragtop car
Well it's hurry up and wait in this land of give and take
It seems like haste it makes for waste everytime
I declare to my soul when you hear those ages roll
You better know I'm gonna get my share of mine
I been to Georgia on a fast train...

[ guitar - harmonica ]

I been to Georgia on a fast train...
There ain't no need in y'all a treatin' me this way

Forgiving you was easy,forgeting seems to take the longest time.
I just keep thinking and your memory is forever on my mind.
You know I'll aways love you and I can't forget the day when you were mine.

Forgiving you was easy but forgetting seems to take the longest time.

The bitter fruit of anger growing from the seeds of jealousy.
Oh what a heart ache but I forgive the things you said to me.
For I believe forgiving is the only way I'll find peace of mind.

Forgiving you was easy but forgeting seems to take the longest time.

The years have past so quickly,
As once again they've sealed a young man's dream of all the golden years
And growing old together you and me.

You ask me to forgive you.
You said there was another on your mind,
Forgiving you was easy but forgetting seems to take the longest time....

I let my mind wander,
And what did it do?
It just kept right on going,
Until it got back to you.
I let my mind wander.

Can't trust it one minute,
It's worse than a child.
Disobeys without conscience,
It's drivin' me wild,
When I let my mind wander.

Try to keep my mind busy,
On thoughts of today.
But invariably, memories,
Seem to lure it away.

My lonely heart wonders,
If there'll ever come a day,
When I can be happy,
But I can't see no way,
'Cause I let my mind wander.

Instrumental Break.

I try to keep my mind busy,
With thoughts of today.
But invariably, mem'ries,
Seem to lure it away.

My lonely heart wonders,
If there'll ever come a day,
When I can be happy,
But I can't see no way,
'Cause I let my mind wander.

I'm a game that you used to play
I'm a plan that you didn't lay so well
I'm a fire that burns in your mind
Close your eyes I'm a memory
I'm a love that you know from a song
I'm a voice on a green telephone
And I'm a day that lasted so long
Close your eyes I'm a memory
[ guitar ]
I'm a dream that comes with the night
And I'm a face that fades with the light
And I'm a tear that falls out of sight
Close your eyes I'm a memory

She said if I ever deceived her
She'd be gone before I could count ten
Well I guess that I didn't believe her
Cause look at the trouble I'm in
She's gone gone gone gone gone gone
Crying won't bring her back
The more that I cry
The faster the train flies
Further on down the track

I lost every right to be happy
When I lost the heaven I'd found
She warned me she'd leave
And she left me before
My first tear hit the ground
She's gone gone gone gone gone gone
Crying won't bring her back
The more that I cry
The faster the train flies
Further on down the track

[ guitar ]

And if I only knew where to find her
I'd crawl back on my hands and knees
Each tick of the clock's a reminder
She's one second further from me
She's gone gone gone gone gone gone
Crying won't bring her back
The more that I cry
The faster the train flies
Further on down the track

I've spent the lifetime making up my mind to be
More than the measure of what I thought others could see
Good luck and fast bucks they're too few and too far between
There's catalog buyers and old five and dimers like me
She stood beside me letting me know she would be
Something to lean on if everything ran out on me
Well fenced yards ain't hole cards and like is not ever will be
The reason for rhymers and old five and dimers like me

[ harmonica - guitar ]

It's taking me so long now that I know I believe
All that I do or say is all I ever will be
Too much ain't enough for old five and dimers like me
Too far and too high and too deep ain't too much to see
An old five and dimer is all I intended to be

Oh my heart is crying in the night for you
Oh, my God, oh don't you feel like a fool
You're fooling yourself with a millionaire
You think it's love but he don't care
And one of these days
You're gonna be surprised

Diamonds never made a lady, lover or a friend
I know it
Diamonds never made a lady, all your dreams will end
I know it

Your Californian nights
Warm body held you tight
Was just a dream
But all the diamond lights
Can't give you peacefull lives or sweet dreams

Oh my God, you really think you have it made
Your heart is won, with first class expenses paid
You drink champaign, eat caviar
A colour TV in the back of your car
But one of these days
You're gonna be surpised

Today, I stood across the street an' watched you leave with him,
Right before my disbelieving eyes.
And when you saw me standing there, you turned away from me.
And you wouldn't even cross the street to say goodbye.

Once you said you'd do most anything to keep our love.
You'd tear out your tongue before you'd tell me lies.
Once you said you'd go to any lengths to be with me.
Today, you wouldn't even cross the street to say goodbye.

Instrumental break.

Once you said you'd do most anything to keep our love.
You'd tear out your tongue before you'd tell me lies.
Once you said you'd crawl on hands and knees to be with me.
Today, you wouldn't even cross the street to say goodbye.

It's been rough and rocky travelin',
But I'm finally standin' upright on the ground.
After takin' several readings,
I'm surprised to find my mind`s still fairly sound.

I guess Nashville was the roughest,
But I know I said the same about them all.
We received our education
In the cities of the nation, me and Paul.

Almost busted in Laredo,
But for reasons that I'd rather not disclose,
But if you're stayin' in a motel there and leave,
Just don't leave nothin' in your clothes.

And at the airport in Milwaukee,
They refused to let us board the plane at all,
They said we looked suspicious,
But I believe they like to pick on me and Paul.

I guess Nashville was the roughest,
But I know I said the same about them all.
We received our education
In the cities of the nation, me and Paul.

I live one day at a time I dream one dream at a time
Yeasterday's dead and tomorrow is blind and I live one day at a time

Guess that's your surprise to see me back at home
But you know how much I miss you when I'm gone
Don't ask how long I planned to stay it never crossed my mind I live one day at a time
See that sparrow fly across the cloudy sky searching for a hatch of sunlight so am I
Wish I didn't have to follow and perhaps I want in time I live one day at a time
I live one day at a time...
I live one day at a time

Pretend I never happened
Erase me from your mind
You will not want to remember
Any love as cold as mine

I'll be leaving in the morning
For a place that I hope I find
All the places must be better
Than the ones I leave behind

But I don't suppose you'll be unhappy
You'll find ways to spend your time
And if you ever think about me
And if I ever cross your mind
Just pretend I never happened
Erase me from your mind
You will not want to remember
Any love as cold as mine

[ guitar ]

But I don't suppose you'll be unhappy
You'll find ways to spend your time
And if you ever think about me
And if I ever cross your mind
Just pretend I never happened
Erase me from your mind
You will not want to remember
Any love as cold as mine
Any love as cold as mine

Way down in Louisiana amongst the tall grown sugar canes
Lived a simple man and a domineerin' hen and a rose of a different name
The first time I fell lightly I was standing in the drizzlin' rain
With a trembling hand and a bottle of gin and a rose of a different name
The devil made me do it the first time the second time I done it on my own
Lord put a handle on a simple handed man and help me leave that black rose alone
[ harmonica ]
When the devil made that woman Lord she threw the pattern away
She was built for speed with the tools you need to make a new fool every day
Way down deep and dirty on the darker side of shame
You caught a cane cuttin' man with a bottle of gin with a rose of a different name
The devil made me do it the first time...
The devil made me do it the first time...
[ guitar - harmonica ]