 Genius Lyrics
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George Jones – She's Mine
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I won't say that I'm the only one, who loves her / And I won't say I make her happy all the time / There's someone she can't forget / I know she never will, and yet / But as far as
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George Jones & Tammy Wynette – One
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T: If you want to hear a love song I could sing one / T: If you wanna feel the fire we could build one / G: If you need to catch a rainbow we could chase one / B: If you want to be
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Merle Haggard & George Jones – Footlights
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I live a kind of life / Most men only dream of / I make my living writing songs / And singin' them / I'm a whole lot older now / And there's still no place to go when it's over
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George Jones – The Grand Tour
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[Verse 1] / Step right up, come on in / If you'd like to take the grand tour / Of a lonely house that once was home sweet home / I have nothing here to sell you / Just some things
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George Jones (Ft. Garth Brooks) – Beer Run
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[Verse 1] / Twenty-five minutes past quitting time / Seven of us crammed into that truck of mine / Paying no attention to them highway signs / Ninety mile an hour toward the county
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George Jones – The Door
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I've heard the sound of my dear old mama crying / And the sound of the train that took me off to war / The awful sound of a thousand bombs exploding / And I wondered if I could
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George Jones & Tammy Wynette – We Go Together
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The places where we used to meet, we go together / Step by step like shoes on the feet, we go together / Just like the sand out in the sea, what good is sugar if you have no tea
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George Jones – We Can Make It
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We can make it / The world is rough but we can make it / 'Cause you're my shelter from the storm now / I don't need wine to keep me warm now / No temptation can ever shake our
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George Jones – The Race Is On
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This is an extended metaphor that compares the protagonist’s love life with horse racing.
Jones recorded the song in in June 1963 but it wasn’t released until November 1964 with
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George Jones – Still Doin' Time
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Released in 1981 as the first single off of Still the Same Ole Me, “Still Doin' Time” is the legendary artist’s eighth number one single.
While The Possum’s life was plagued by
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George Jones – Her Name Is...
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[Verse 1] / Oh, I love her and just can't live without her / And I've got the urge to tell the world about her / But our love's a secret and can't see the light of day / But I went
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George Jones – One of These Days
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[Verse 1] / I won't have to chop no wood, I can be bad or I can be good / I can be any way that I feel one of these days / Won't have to answer to anyone, I'll get up with the
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George Jones & Tammy Wynette – Southern California
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G: You always said someday you'd go to live / B: In Southern California / G: And me I'd stay right here in Tennessee / G:You always talked about the better days / B: In Southern
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George Jones – She Thinks I Still Care
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[Verse 1] / Just because I ask a friend about her / Just because I spoke her name somewhere / Just because I rang her number by mistake today / She thinks I still care / [Verse 2
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George Jones – A Picture of Me (Without You)
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[Verse 1] / Imagine a world where no music was playing / Then think of a church with nobody praying / If you've ever looked up at a sky with no blue / Then you've seen a picture of
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Merle Haggard & George Jones – No Show Jones
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[Verse 1: Merle Haggard] / Waylon and Willie are the outlaws / Roger is the king of the road / [Verse 2: George Jones & Merle Haggard] / Everyone knows Hag's been in prison / I
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George Jones – Almost Persuaded
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[Verse 1] / Last night all alone in a barroom / Met a girl with a drink in her hand / She had ruby red lips and coal-black hair / And eyes that would tempt any man / [Verse 2
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George Jones – I'm Not Ready Yet
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[Verse] / I've always said someday I was gonna leave you / Some April when all the land is wet / Some spring, summer, fall or maybe winter / I'll leave someday, but I'm not ready
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George Jones – A Good Year for the Roses
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Jerry Chesnut wrote this, originally for George Jones in 1970. Several singers have since made excellent covers, including Elvis Costello, Alan Jackson (with George Jones), and
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George Jones & Tammy Wynette – Golden Ring
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In a pawn shop in Chicago / On a sunny summer day / A couple gazes at the / Wedding rings there on display / She smiles and nods her head / As he says Honey that's for you / It's
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George Jones – I Should’ve Called
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[Verse 1] / Spent a week in Houston and watched it rain / Spent a day in Dallas missing missin' planes / Lord, it sure was cold up in Montreal / I thought of you, I should've
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George Jones & Tammy Wynette – (We're Not) The Jet Set
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[Tammy Wynette] / By a fountain back in Rome I fell in love with you / In a small café in Athens you said you loved me too / [George Jones] / And it was April in Paris, when I
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George Jones (Ft. Connie Smith, Jessi Colter, Jessie Colter, Marty Stuart, Ricky Skaggs, Travis Tritt & Waylon Jennings) – Great Judgement Morning
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I dreamed that the great judgment morning / Had dawned, and the trumpet had blown; / I dreamed that the nations had gathered / To judgment before the white throne; / From the
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George Jones – I’m A One Woman Man
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[Verse 1] / If you told me that you loved me, I would feel so proud / If you'd let me hold you, honey, I'd holler out loud / I'll never love another, even if I can / Well, come to
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George Jones – Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes
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In this somewhat maudlin tune, Jones sings about the great country stars of the 50s, 60s, and 70s, and laments that the current crop of country acts may not be ready to step up to
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George Jones – Radio Lover
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(Spoken) / He kisses her goodbye / And heads for the radio station / Oh, he hates to leave her / But he's got another show to do / He knows she gets lonely / So he lets her know
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George Jones – What My Woman Can’t Do
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[Intro] / What my woman can't do can't be done / [Verse 1] / It amazes me how she can change my mind / When it seems to be impossible, she can do it every time / And the way she
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George Jones – Root Beer
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Well, I sent my pretty baby to the neighborhood store / My head was vibrating from the night before / I said: "You'd better hurry", as she went out the gate / My system needs a
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George Jones – Four-O-Thirty-Three
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We're the two new people that moved to the middle of the block / An' we're the talk of the town, an' don't you think we're not / For we've got love an' happiness; people envy us
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George Jones (Ft. Georgette Jones) – Daddy Come Home
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A year and a half did not seem like much time / But its almost forever when you're only nine / Yes, she still adores him and tears fill her eyes / As she clings to her pillow and
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George Jones – Take Me
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Take me, take me to your darkest room / Close every window and bolt every door / The very first moment I heard your voice / I'd be in darkness no more / Take me to your most barren
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George Jones – Wandering Soul
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Oh, lend me a hand, please Lord, and guide me / And help lead me down the road that is right / Oh, carry me through these hours of darkness / And show me the path of shining light
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George Jones – Sinners & Saints
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Young ones in the jailhouse sleeping it off / Church folks saying that his soul is lost / Man you shoulda seen him, all the faces turned red / Yep, when the preacher stood up and
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George Jones – Trouble In Mind
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Trouble in mind / I'm blue / But I won't be blue always / Because the sun's gonna shine / In my back door someday / I'm gonna lay my head / On some lonesome railroad line / And let
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George Jones – Things Have Gone to Pieces
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[Verse 1] / Oh, the faucet started drippin' in the kitchen / And last night, your picture fell down from the wall / Today the boss said, "Sorry, I can't use you anymore" / And
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George Jones – Our Private Life
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[Verse 1] / Well you just picked up the latest issue / Hot out of Nashville / And you can't wait to read the latest news / All about the big stars and their reckless way of living
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George Jones (Ft. Patti Page) – Precious Memories
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(B.F. Wright) / George Jones & Patti Page / (George) / Precious mem'ries, unseen angel / Sent from somewhere to my soul / How they linger ever near me / And the sacred past unfolds
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George Jones – If Drinkin' Don’t Kill Me (Her Memory Will)
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Released as the third single from I Am What I Am, “If Drinking Don’t Kill Me (Her Memory Will)” peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in January 1981.
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George Jones – Shine On (Shine All Your Sweet Love On Me)
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[Verse 1] / She'll never grace the centerfold of Playboy magazine / And chances are you'll never see her on the silver screen / She's by far the biggest star the world will never
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George Jones – The King Is Gone (So Are You)
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This is a heart breaker with a sense of humor. Call it a novelty song if you like, but the mental image of drinking a bottle of Jim Beam from a Fred Flintstone jelly bean jar just
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George Jones – White Lightning
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[Verse 1] / Well, in North Carolina, way back in the hills / Me and my old pappy, and he had him a still / He brewed white lightnin' till the sun went down / And then he'd fill him
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George Jones – Lonely Christmas Call
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This song is about a husband’s wish that his wife (and mother of their children) would come back to them in time for Christmas – assuming the wife has either left or divorced her
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George Jones – Hello Darlin’
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Hello Darlin' / Nice to see you / It's been a long time / You're just as lovely / As you used to be / How's your new love / Are you happy / Hope your doin' fine / Just to know it
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George Jones – Just One More
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[Verse 1] / Put the bottle on the table / Let it stay there 'til I'm not able / To see your face in every place / That I go / I've been sitting here so long / Just remembering that
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George Jones & Tammy Wynette – We Loved It Away
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All my friends told me, we'd never make it / That love to you was just a game you played / And I'll admit at times we had rough goin' / But in each other's arms, we loved it away
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George Jones – Mem'ryville
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[Verse 1] / There's a name that my lips cannot deny / There's a dream that I know will never die / There's a time that will stand forever still / There's a place in my mind called
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George Jones – Tender Years
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You keep saying you love him / I believe that it's true / And it just doesn't matter / How much I love you / But in time you'll understand, dear / When you shed a tear / Then you'
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