"The Pride Of Country Music" (1967)

• In The Middle Of Nowhere lyrics - Charley Pride
• Last Thing On My Mind lyrics - Charley Pride
• Just Between You And Me lyrics - Charley Pride
• Apartment No.9 lyrics - Charley Pride
• Spell Of The Freight Train lyrics - Charley Pride
• I Know One lyrics - Charley Pride
• I'm Not The Boy I Used To Be lyrics - Charley Pride
• Good Woman's Love lyrics - Charley Pride
• Take Me Home lyrics - Charley Pride
• Touch My Heart lyrics - Charley Pride
• Best Banjo Picker lyrics - Charley Pride

In The Middle Of Nowhere lyrics - Charley Pride

They had meant for me one last time to see my hometown again

Once again go there see the places where as a child I've been

As I journeyed now it was so far out it was almost in

In the middle in the middle of nowhere

Sadness talked with me as I walked the streets of my memory

Streets that seemed somehow so much smaller now than they used to be

Talked of other days when this tiny place had been home to me

In the middle in the middle of nowhere

People stared at me in silence as I walked around

Time had passed till I was just a stranger there

Folks had changed so much that no one even knew me now

In the middle in the middle of nowhere

I went once again to the schoolyard where I used to play

Passed the church of mom and daddy where they used to pray

Down the dusty road to the churchyard where they both now lay

In the middle in the middle of nowhere

As I placed my blue forgetmenots there on the ground

One last time I knelt by mom and dad in prayer

Then I said goodbye forever to that little town in the middle in the middle of nowhere

Last Thing On My Mind lyrics - Charley Pride

A lesson too late for the learning made of sand made of sand

In the wink of an eye my soul is turning in your hand in your hand

Are you going away with no word of farewell

Will there be not a trace left behind

Well I could've loved you better didn't mean to be unkind

You know that was the last thing on my mind

As I walk alone my thoughts're tumbling round and round round and round

Underneath our feet a subway's rumbling underground underground

Are you going away...

You got reasons of plenty for going this I know this I know

The weeds have been steadily growing please don't go please don't go

Are you going away...

You know that was the last thing on my mind

Just Between You And Me lyrics - Charley Pride

So I feel so blue sometimes I wanna die and so I've got a broken heart so what

They say that time will heal all wounds in mice and men

And I know that someday I'll forget and love again

But just between you and me I've got my doubts about it

But just between you and me you're too much to forget

So I've lost the only girl I ever loved and so I've never felt so low so what

I'll just tell myself each time I wanna cry

That someday time will dry the teardrops from my eyes

But just between I'm not so sure about it

Cause just between you and me you're too much to forget you're too much to forget

Apartment No.9 lyrics - Charley Pride

Just follow the stairway to this lonely world of mine

You'll find me waiting here in Apartment No 9

Not so very long ago you walked away from me

And after all the plans we made you decided to be free

Loneliness surrounds me without your arms around me

And the sun will never shine in Apartment No 9

I'll keep waiting in this lonely room just in case you change your mind

You'll find me waiting here in apartment No 9

Loneliness surrounds me...

And the sun will never shine in Apartment No 9

Spell Of The Freight Train lyrics - Charley Pride

The wild birds are flying high wild and free

Whatever calls the wild birds is calling to me

The spell of the freight train got in my blood one day

I'm always going never get nowhere I'm just on my way

My baby she loves me but she don't understand

The spell of the freight train that's calling her man

My daddy is a preacher my mother teaches school

My brother is a doctor and me I'm a fool

The spell of the freight train is stronger than wine

That same lonesome whistle that chills my darling's heart is calling mine

My baby she loves me...

I Know One lyrics - Charley Pride

When all your loves have ended when all your friends have flown

Who'll be around to want you when all your loves have gone

Only a fool would do it after the way you've done

But how many fools would have you I know one

This fool keeps wondering why he fell in love at all

But you might need this fool around in case you fall

After the party's over and you've had your fill of fun

If you need a fool to forgive you I know one

You never know you might be lonely when all your loves have missed

It wouldn't hurt to keep an extra fool on your list

After your heart's been broken and it needs a place to run

If you'll take a fool who loves you I know one hmm yes I know one hmm I know one

I'm Not The Boy I Used To Be lyrics - Charley Pride

Dear mama I'm coming home tomorrow

If you don't mind would you meet me at the train

Dear mama my wandering days're over and it's so good to be coming home again

Dear mama we'll walk the fields together

And through the valley we will stroll hand in hand

I just can't wait to see you and touch the soil of home so clean

But mama I'm not the boy I used to be

For I've been gone away too long and I've done everything that's wrong

But I think I've finally found myself at last

And just you wait and see another chance is all I need

But mama I'm not the boy I used to be

You see mama I've spent time in prison for a crime that I'm too ashamed to tell

And when you meet me there tomorrow don't be surprised at what you'll see

Cause mama I'm not the boy I used to be

For I've been gone away too long...

Good Woman's Love lyrics - Charley Pride

I was a rover on land and on sea till a good woman's love made a new man of me

Life had no meaning it was so incomplete

Till a good woman's love put me back on my feet

Stead of roamin' I go home in the evening she's waiting there

And no matter what happens I know she'll always care

And when the night falls and the moon shines above

I go home to a dream and a good woman's love

Stead of roamin'...

I go home to a dream and a good woman's love

Take Me Home lyrics - Charley Pride

Well I've been from Boston to LA seen Boulder Dam and Frisco Bay

Into New York City and Washington

Seen Montreal and Saskatchewan and Rhode Island

And I've worked in three all night service stations and drove a truck

Take me home my heart is heavy and my feet are sore

Take me home I don't wanna roam no more

Well I slept all night in a water trough

Had the flu and the croup and the whoopin' cough

Had the mumps and the measles and the seven years itch

And I can't count the times that I've had a cold and sore throat

Not to mention all the times that I've cut my fingers on a sardine can

Take me home...

Well I can just see 'em all now just a gatherin' round

Mama's supper table when the sun goes down

And my good old pappy when the blessing is said

Fillin' up his plate with black eyed peas and side meat

And a great big hunk of my dear sweet mama's hot buttered cornbread

Take me home...

Take me home...

Touch My Heart lyrics - Charley Pride

Touch my heart feel the hurt the pain and misery

Then tell me again what love can do for me

If you lived in my world awhile you'd soon forget how to smile

In my world there's a million ways to cry

If you had my eyes you could see how woman changed my destiny

I'm a man who can't live and yet can't die

See these hands of mine and how they shake all because I can't break

The habit of remembering yesterday

Another love couldn't help this ache I know I'd make the same mistakes

Her mem'ry's always standing in my way

Touch my heart feel the hurt it's destroying me

I've tried but can't seem to shake her memory

Touch my heart feel the hurt the pain and misery

Then tell me again what love can do for me

Best Banjo Picker lyrics - Charley Pride

I didn't think too much about books and schoolin'

Cause there are more important things to do

I'd just sit out in the yard and pick my ol' banjo

Tryin' to do what the big hillbillies do

I would sit there by the hour pickin' Wildwood Flower

Wore my little fingers to the bone

I said I'll never rest till I am the very best

The best banjo picker in this whole country

I said someday I know I'll win my fame one day all the world will know my name

I'll work so very hard with that ol' banjo tryin' to do what the big hillbillies do

I would sit there all alone tryin' to pick out Home Sweet Home

While evrybody played out in the yard

I said I'll never stop till I've reached the very top

When I'm the best banjo picker in this whole country

Well the years have passed I haven't change my mind I still pick the banjo all the time

Because I know someday I'm bound to learn to play all the things the big hillbillies do

I just sit here in my shop pickin' Foggy Mountain Top tellin' everybody help theirselves

Cause before I go to rest I'm gonna be the very best

The best banjo picker in this whole country

(I'm gonna learn how to play this thing

I'm gonna play the banjo just like Sonny Osborne yes sir Sonny I'm gonna learn)

"Country" (1966)

• Busted lyrics - Charley Pride
• Distant Drums lyrics - Charley Pride
• Detroit City lyrics - Charley Pride
• Yonder Comes A Sucker lyrics - Charley Pride
• Green, Green Grass Of Home lyrics - Charley Pride
• That's The Chance I'll Have To Take lyrics - Charley Pride
• Before I Met You lyrics - Charley Pride
• Folsom Prison Blues lyrics - Charley Pride
• Snakes Crawl At Night lyrics - Charley Pride
• Miller's Cave lyrics - Charley Pride
• Atlantic Coastal Line lyrics - Charley Pride
• Got Leavin' On Her Mind lyrics - Charley Pride

Busted lyrics - Charley Pride

The bills are all due and my baby need shoes but I'm busted

Cotton is down to a quarter a pound but I'm busted

I got a cow that's gone dry and a hen that won't lay

A big stack of bills that gets bigger each day

The county will haul my belongings away I'm busted

I called brother Bill to get me a loan I was busted

For I hate to beg like a dog for a bone but I'm busted

But Bill said that there ain't a thing I can do

My wife and my kids're all down with the flu

And I was just thinking of calling on you I'm busted

Now Lord I'm no thief but a man can go wrong when he's busted

The food that we canned last summer is gone I'm busted

The fields're all bare and the cotton won't grow

Me and my family's got to pack up and go

But I'll make a living the Lord only knows I'm busted

Distant Drums lyrics - Charley Pride

I hear the sound of distand drums far away far away

And if they call for me to come then I must go and you must stay

So Mary marry me let's not wait let's share all the time we can before it's too late

And love me now for now is all the time there may be

If you love me Mary Mary marry me

I hear the sound of bugles blow far away far away

And if they call then I must go across the sea so wild and free

So Mary marry me let's not wait

For those distant drums might change our wedding day

And love me now for now is all the time there may be

If you love me Mary Mary marry me

Detroit City lyrics - Charley Pride

I wanna go home I wanna go home oh Lord I wanna go home

Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City

And I dreamed about those cottonfields and home

I dreamed about my mother dear old papa sister and brother

I dreamed about that girl who's been waiting for so long

I wanna go home I wanna go home oh Lord I wanna go home

Homefolks think I'm big in Detroit City

From the letters that I write they think I'm fine

But by day I make the cars by night I make the bars

If only they could read between the lines

Cause you know I rode a freight train north to Detroit City

And after all these years I find I've just been wasting my time

So I just think I'll take ol' Charley Pride put him on a Southbound freight and ride

And go on back to the loved ones the ones that I left waiting so far behind

I wanna go home I wanna go home oh Lord I wanna go home

I wanna go home I wanna go home I wanna go gome

Yonder Comes A Sucker lyrics - Charley Pride

Railroad steamboat river and canal yonder comes a sucker and he's got my girl

And she's gone gone gone gone and she's gone gone gone

And I'll bid her my last farewell

I fell in love with a pretty little thing I thought that wedding bells would ring

She was as sweet as sweet could be till I found out what she did to me

Railroad steamboat...

I asked her mother to let her go she whispered mother please tell him no

Though he may think that I am true there's plenty more who think so too

Railroad steamboat...

I won't cry my life away some other sucker will have to pay

And when he finds that she is gone I guess I'll hear him sing this song

Railroad steamboat...

And I'll bid her my last farewell

Green, Green Grass Of Home lyrics - Charley Pride

(It's so good to touch the green green grass of home)

The old hometown looks the same as I step down from the train

And there to meet me is my mama and papa

And down the road I look and there runs Mary hair of gold and lips like cherries

It's good to touch the green green grass of home

Yes they'll all come to meet me arms are aching smiling sweetly

It's good to touch the green green grass of home

The old house is still standing though the paint is cracked and dry

And there's that old oak tree that I used to play on

And down the lane I walk with my sweet Mary hair of gold and lips like cherries

It's good to touch the green green grass of home

Yes they'll all come to meet me arms are aching smiling sweetly

It's good to touch the green green grass of home

Then I awake and look around me at the cold grey walls that surround me

And I realize that I was only dreaming

For there's a guard and there's a sad old padre arm in arm we'll walk at daybreak

Again I'll touch the green green grass of home

Yes they'll all come to see me in the shade of that old oak tree

As they lay me neath the green green grass of home

That's The Chance I'll Have To Take lyrics - Charley Pride

Troubles and a worried mind it seems that's all I've ever known

But now I'll leave it all behind if you'll just leave me alone

And if I go on loving you if to leave is a mistake

If I'm wrong in what I do that's the chance I'll have to take

Don't bother now to waste the time saying things you've said before

I've heard it all a hundred times but I won't listen anymore

And if I go on loving you...

Before I Met You lyrics - Charley Pride

I thought I had seen pretty girls in my time but that was before I met you

I never saw one that I wanted for mine but that was before I met you

I thought I was swinging the world by the tail I thought I could never be blue

I thought I'd been kissed and I thought I'd been loved but that was before I met you

I wanted to ramble and always be free but that was before I met you

I said that no woman could ever hold me but that was before I met you

I thought I was swinging...

They tell me I must reap just what I have sown but darling I hope it's not true

For once I made plans about living alone but that was before I met you

I thought I was swinging...

But that was before I met you

Folsom Prison Blues lyrics - Charley Pride

(originally by Johnny Cash)

I hear the train a comin' it's rollin' round the bend

And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when

I'm stuck in Folsom Prison and time keeps draggin' on

But that train keeps a rollin' on down to San Antone

When I was just a baby my mama told me son

Always be a good boy don't ever play with guns

But I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die

When I hear that whistle blowin' I hang my head and cry

I bet there's rich folks eatin' in a fancy dining car

They're prob'ly drinking coffee and smoking big cigars

But I know I had it comin' I know I can't be free

But those people keep a movin' and that's what tortures me

But if they freed me from this prison if that railroad train was mine

I bet I'd move it on a little farther down the line

Far from Folsom Prison that's where I want to stay

And I'll let that lonesome whistle blow my blues away

Snakes Crawl At Night lyrics - Charley Pride

All te snakes crawl at night that's what they say

When the sun goes down then the sneaks will play

I watched that car pull right up into my driveway

Saw a shadow slip away from my house

So I hurried straight and looked in her room

And I found out that it was my loving spouse

All te snakes crawl at night...

So I waited in the shadows until morning and the gun I held was trembling in my hand

No I did not plan to give them any warning

Cause the devil on my shoulder had command

All te snakes crawl at night...

Oh the trial in a little while was over and they sentenced me to die right away

But before I leave this courtroom please Your Honor

There's something more that I would like to say

All te snakes crawl at night...

All te snakes crawl at night...

Miller's Cave lyrics - Charley Pride

Way down in the state of Georgia through the swamps and the everglades

There's a big ol' hole in Tiger Mountain

God help the man who gets lost in Miller's Cave

I had me a girl in waycross Georgia but she had unfaithful way

She made me feel I was unwanted like the birds and the bears in Miller's Cave

I couldn't stand the way she did me couldn't take her lowdown ways

Before I'll stay with the cheatin' woman I'll go and live with the bears in Miller's Cave

Caught her out one Sunday morning with some guy they call Big Dave

The meanest man in waycross Georgia I'd rather fight a mountain lion in Miller's Cave

I said you'll pay both you and Davy I'm a gonna see you in your grave

They laughed at me and then I shot 'em

I took their cheatin' schemin' bones to Miller's Cave

That woman made me feel unwanted but I guess I showed her I was brave

The most wanted man in the state of Georgia

But they'll never gonna find me cause I'm lost in Miller's Cave

Atlantic Coastal Line lyrics - Charley Pride

Everybody calls me Bo I got no money but I hold my row

Some folks say I'm just a no good kind

But I can ride for miles in old boxcar smoke cigarettes butts and used cigars

Ridin' the Atlantic Coastal Line

Hear that lonesome whistle whine smell that perfume of Georgia pines

See that big moon roll above hobo's life is a life I love

Ridin' the Atlantic Coastal Line ridin' the Atlantic Coastal Line

Well I had me a woman in Albany but a rowdy way's made a wreck of me

I had to get away before I lost my mind

But as long as this rattler takes me around there ain't one woman gonna tie me down

Ridin' the Atlantic Coastal Line

Hear that lonesome whistle whine Alabama and Caroline

Florida Georgia Tennessee hobo's life is a life for me

Ridin' the Atlantic Coastal Line ridin' the Atlantic Coastal Line

I make my coffee in a can this hobo ain't worried man

Morning sun greets me with the shine

I go south when the trade winds blow and I go north where there ain't no snow

Ridin' the Atlantic Coastal Line

Hear that lonesome whistle whine smell that perfume of Georgia pines

See that great big moon above this hobo's life is a life I love

Ridin' the Atlantic Coastal Line ridin' the Atlantic Coastal Line

Ridin' the Atlantic Coastal Line ridin' the Atlantic Coastal Line

Got Leavin' On Her Mind lyrics - Charley Pride

She don't hold and kiss me like she did one time

I think my sweet baby's got leavin' on her mind

The longer I know her the more I can tell my darling's not happy with me

The longer I know that I know her too well the less love in her eyes I see

She don't hold and kiss me...

The stronger I hold her the farther apart my darling is growing from me

The danger of my darling breaking my heart it's fast moving in on me

Cause she don't hold and kiss me...

The deeper I love her the farther away my darling slips out of my hands

The longer the future the longer I'll stay out of my darling's plans

Cause she don't hold and kiss me...

I think my sweet baby's got leavin' on her mind