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Charlie Daniels – The Devil Went Down to Georgia
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The song’s verses are closer to being spoken rather than sung, and tell the story of a boy named Johnny, in a variant on the classic deal with the Devil. The performances of Satan
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Charlie Daniels – In America
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[Verse 1] / Well the eagle's been flying slow / And the flag's been flying low / And a lot of people saying that America's fixing to fall / Well speaking just for me / And some
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Charlie Daniels – Midnight Wind
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[Verse 1] / He blew in town at midnight / And he didn't mean to stay / And then he found her / Just at closing time at the Alamo Cafe / And the way he smiled and carried on / He
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Charlie Daniels – Old Rock 'N Roller
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[Verse 1] / He's just an old rock 'n' roller playing music in a backstreet bar / And he sings a little flat and he never learned to play the guitar / But he keeps on belting out
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Charlie Daniels – Reflections
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[Verse 1] / I remember you back in 1956 / You had all the moves and you knew all the tricks / You left all the ladies in a hell of a fix / When your voice took wing / Then you'd
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Charlie Daniels – Mississippi
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[Verse 1] / Mississippi / You've been on my mind / Like a mist in the morning / From some dream I've left behind / Mississippi / I've been kinda down / 'Cause it's been such a long
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Charlie Daniels – It's My Life
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[Verse 1] / It's my life, God was the one to give it / And I ain't going to let nobody tell me how to live it / It's my song, right or wrong / You can tag along or you can stay
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Charlie Daniels – Still in Saigon
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Off Charlie Daniels album, Windows, released in 1982. Charlie a major supporter of veterans, wanted a song about living with PTSD as a soldier.
If this song strikes a chord with
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Charlie Daniels – Dixie on My Mind
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[Verse] / It rained all night in Frisco and my sleeping bag got soaked / I woke up this morning, I was cold and wet and broke / I lit up my last cigarette at the California line
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Charlie Daniels – Evil
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[Verse 1] / I was born way back in the woods & swamp / On the Hickory River shore / In a dirty old one-room pine-log shack / With sawdust on the floor / Was a graveyard out in the
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Charlie Daniels – Blue Star
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[Verse 1] / Blue star over my shoulder / Blue star, can't you see? / Blue star, it's a little colder / She's gone away from me / [Chorus] / And I wish I'd never seen her with the
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Charlie Daniels – High Lonesome
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[Verse 1] / Just you and me and a little white pup / Sitting here waiting for the sun to come up / To keep the chill away / Drinking our coffee at the first crack of dawn
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Charlie Daniels – Georgia
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[Verse 1] / Lamps in the windows burning bright, over in Santa Fe tonight / Full moon shining down along the border / But the ground is hard and the night is black / Over here by
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Charlie Daniels – Whiskey
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[Verse 1] / Tennessee bootleg moonshine whiskey / Sure do make a man feel / Mighty frisky / And I love my whiskey / (love my whiskey) / I drink it all the time / (drink it all the
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Charlie Daniels – Trudy
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[Chorus] / Call up Trudy on the telephone / Send her a letter in the mail / Tell her I'm hung up here in Dallas / They won't let me out of this jail / And if she asks you how I'm
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Charlie Daniels – Mister DJ
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[Verse 1] / Mister DJ, won't you please play me a song? / Play it for an old boy who's a long, long way from home / With a thousand miles ahead, and a thousand miles behind / A
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Charlie Daniels – Was It 26
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[Verse 1] / Living hard was easy when I was young and bullet proof / I had no chains to bind me, just a guitar and a roof / Emptied every bottle, when I poured I never missed / I
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Charlie Daniels – Long Haired Country Boy
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The ideals that are prominent in “Long Haired Country Boy” are freedom and self made prosperity, two highly regarded principles of the American society. As well a suggestion is
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Charlie Daniels – Big Man
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[Verse] / Big Man you got your hands on some money / A Cadillac and a hundred pretty girls / Stop. Look around you / Don't you think it's funny? / There's something missing from
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Charlie Daniels – Midnight Train
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[Chorus] / Midnight train, roll on / Midnight train, roll on / [Verse 1] / Clear them tracks and keep that whistle blowin / Take this stranger on to Santa Fe / It seems like
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Charlie Daniels – Passing Lane
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[Verse 1] / Well, I was born in Carolina, way back in the swamp / I was a happy country boy 'til television came along / It kept showin' them far away places and it sure was a
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Charlie Daniels – The Legend Of Wooley Swamp
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One of The Charlie Daniels Band’s most popular songs, “The Legend of Wooley Swamp” tells a fictional ghost story that takes place in the Wooley Swamp, in the back area named Booger
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Charlie Daniels – Saddle Tramp
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[Verse] / Well you pass around the pipe / And you all get high / You never even stop and wonder why / Maybe it's because you want to die / Maybe it's just the way things have to be
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Charlie Daniels – Rainbow Ride
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[Verse 1] / I traced my footprints through the sands of yesterday / Back the way I came, I was returning / And then I saw me standing just across a river / Just across a bridge
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Charlie Daniels – Southern Boy
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[Verse 1] / Well it's easy for a country boy / To be misunderstood / When the honky tonks are jumping / And the girls are looking good / Yeah, I get excited / And some people think
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Charlie Daniels – Oh Atlanta
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[Verse] / Oh Atlanta, you're the only home I ever knew / Oh Atlanta, I can't wait to get back home to you / You got money in your pocket, you got roses in the lane / You got pure
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Charlie Daniels – Alligator
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Well, ol' Catahoula Brown lived back in the swamp / With his dogs and a bunch of sons / One teenage daughter, her name was Sally Sue / She was as pretty as a newborn fawn / And he
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Charlie Daniels – Me and the Boys
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[Verse 1] / Remember back when we were young / And all the crazy things that we have done / Me and the Boys out skipping school / Back on the hill acting a fool / Yes its so easy
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Charlie Daniels – Uneasy Rider '88
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[Verse] / Me and my buddy got us a wild hair / And figured we wanted to go somewhere / So we loaded up in my ragtop Chevrolet / We had a little bit of money and a whole lot of show
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Charlie Daniels – Tennessee
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[Verse 1] / Sunset on the mountain / A half moon in the sky / North Star was a rising slowly / Shining in my eye / Tennessee was glowing / Misty brown and green / We were all
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Charlie Daniels – Sweet Louisiana
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[Verse 1] / Well, I thought I'd go out to Tulsa / And ride in a rodeo / Red beans and rice sure would be nice / Back where the Mississippi River flows / [Chorus] / And it's a long
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Charlie Daniels – Texas
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[Verse] / There's a place not too far away from here / Out with the cows and the Lone Star beer / Where the living and loving is quite all right with me / Well they call it Texas
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Charlie Daniels – Birmingham Blues
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[Verse 1] / Sitting here in L.A., looking down at my shoes / Drowning my troubles on small talk & blues / Sitting here wondering if I could have been born to lose / I think moving
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Charlie Daniels – Uneasy Rider
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[Verse] / I was taking a trip out to L.A. / Tooling along in my Chevrolet / Tokin’ on a number and diggin' on the radio / Just as I crossed the Mississippi line / I heard that
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Charlie Daniels – You Can't Pick Cotton
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[Verse 1] / I never will forget the day the law come take my grandpa away / The family lived on Sugar Hill making bootleg liquor in a moonshine still / Uncle Bill said, "Grandpa
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Charlie Daniels – Stroker's Theme
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Stroker Ace was born to race / He had a mean streak ten feet wide / A son of a gun with a taste for fun and / More than his share of pride / Take a dirt road curve with the devils
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Charlie Daniels – Big Bad John
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[Verse] / Every morning at the mine you could see him arrive / He stood six foot six and weighed two forty five / Kinda broad at the shoulder and narrow at the hip / And everybody
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Charlie Daniels – Behind Your Eyes
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[Verse 1] / Here you are again, and here I go / Down that same old street I already know / That same sweet voice and those same old lies / I'm drawn into the world behind your eyes
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Charlie Daniels – A Few More Rednecks
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What this world needs is a few more rednecks / Some people ain't afraid to take a stand / What this world needs is a little more respect / For the Lord and the law and the workin
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Charlie Daniels – Caballo Diablo
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[Verse 1] / Wild as a coastal boranca, swift as the wind blowing free / With two eyes like fire brands that glow in the night / Somewhere up there he's waiting for me / And he
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Charlie Daniels – New Pharisees
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They go walking into church every Sunday morning / They the self-appointed sin patrol / Well they whisper and they gossip behind the back / Of anybody that they can't control / See
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Charlie Daniels – Falling in Love for the Night
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Well, her name was Maria / She came from [unverified] / She had a passion for diamonds and gold / She done broke every heart / In Flueto bi Arta / By the time she was eighteen
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Charlie Daniels – Jitterbug
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[Verse 1] / He wears a zoot suit / With a reet pleat / Drives a '36 Cord / With a rumble seat / [Chorus] / Now he's a, Lord, he's Jitterbug / Scare the letters off a highway sign
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Charlie Daniels – Simple Man
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[Verse 1] / I ain't nothin' but a simple man / They call me a redneck I reckon that I am / But there's things goin' on that make me mad down to the core / I have to work like a dog
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Charlie Daniels – Looking for My Mary Jane
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> / I've been down in Texas looking for my Mary Jane / She took off for Amarillo on the midnight train / I still got a long way to go / I've been searching high / I've been
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Charlie Daniels – Damn Good Cowboy
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[Verse 1] / He's the loosest dude I've ever been exposed to / He loves the bottle and a dirty joke / He likes to hang out on the street / And he'd rather fight than eat / And his
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