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Artist: Riley Green
Suggested Track: I Wish Grandpas Never Died

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I wish girls you loved never gave back diamond rings
I wish every porch had a swing
Wish kids still learned to say "sir" and "ma'am"
How to shake a hand
I wish every state had a Birmingham

I wish everybody knew all the words to Mama Tried
I wish Monday mornings felt just like Friday nights

And I wish even cars had truck beds
And every road was named Copperhead
And coolers never run out of cold Bud Light
And I wish high school home teams never lost
And back road drinkin' kids never got caught
And I wish the price of gas was low and cotton was high
I wish honky tonks didn't have no closing time
And I wish grandpas never died

I wish Sundays on a creek bank would never end
Wish I could learn to drive again
Wish the first time, seventeen
She was my everything
Kiss in a Chevrolet could happen every day

I wish everybody overseas was gonna make it home
I wish Country music still got played on Country radio

And I wish even cars had truck beds
And every road was named Copperhead
And coolers never run out of cold Bud Light
And I wish high school home teams never lost
And back road drinkin' kids never got caught
And I wish the price of gas was low and cotton was high
I wish honky tonks didn't have no closing time
And I wish grandpas never died
Never died

And I wish good dogs never got grey and old
I wish farms never got sold

And I wish even cars had truck beds
And every road was named Copperhead
And coolers never run out of cold Bud Light
I wish high school home teams never lost
And back road drinkin' kids never got caught
And I wish the price of gas was low and cotton was high
I wish honky tonks didn't have no closing time
And I wish grandpas never died
I wish grandpas never died
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Riley Green Lyrics
Riley Green lyrics - 76 song lyrics sorted by album, including "My Last Rodeo", "Ain't My Damn To Give", "I Wish Grandpas Never Died".
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Riley Green – That's What I've Been Told
[Verse 1] / A Chevy grille ain't no match for a mailbox / BB guns are good for breakin' glass / You can buy beer at seventeen / You don't have to lie if they don't ask / And girls
Riley Green – Taillights
Yes sir this truck's still for sale / Got an aftermarket radio, just changed out all the belts / Here's the key, she cranks up every time / Put a brand new set of Bridgestone's on
Riley Green – Damn Country Music
[Verse 1] / I packed it all on a whim / Threw an old Hank cassette tape in / Dad's '84 rusty Ford / Swore we'd never make it / I quit my job, let my mama down / Broke an angel's
Riley Green – Raised Up Right
[Verse 1] / When Momma used my full name, I knew she meant business / I learned to say, "Yes sir" from the first time that I didn't / I've felt that bible belt and I know what soap
Riley Green – Atlantic City
Well, they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night / And they blew up his house, too / Down on the boardwalk they're ready for a fight / Gonna see what them racket boys can do
Riley Green (Ft. Jelly Roll) – Copenhagen In A Cadillac
[Verse 1: Riley Green] / Some people 'round here don't know what to think about / A down-home boy with some uptown stuff / Got some big bullhorns strapped on an El Dorado / So they
Justin Moore & Riley Green – Everybody Get Along
[Verse 1: Justin Moore, Riley Green] / I like a Chevy / And I like a Ford / Waylon was a man / No, it was Hank in '84 / Now you can't beat Dale Earnhardt / No, Petty was the king
Riley Green – County Line
My old man's word, it never really hurt / Then it hit me like stone, it was too late / A young girl's heart, nearly tore it apart / So easy to walk, out of this place / Well I've
Riley Green – Bettin' Man
[Verse 1] / If I was a race car driver, well, I'd be right behind her / I'd be doin' 90 in a 55 tryna change her mind / And if I was an airplane pilot, I wouldn't need 35 thousand
Riley Green – In Love By Now
[Verse 1] / Bet she's got them windows rolled down / Tom Petty's on, she's singin' along / Bet she's all tanned up from that summer sun / And she might be dancin' to a long haired
Riley Green – Mississippi Or Me
[Verse 1] / I ain't gonna lie, when those headlights / Pulled into my drive tonight / It was a sight for sore eyes, last thing I thought I'd see / And is somethin' wrong? What
Riley Green – All Along
65-South, the quickest way from Nashville to my house / And I-20 is, the quickest way to get you back to me / I've sang in every bar that this town has to play / With all this
Riley Green – God Made A Good Ol' Boy
[Verse 1] / Chevy made a short-bed pick-up truck and Martin made a D-18 / Hank made a song that I could turn up and Zebco made a thirty-three / And that’s why God made a good ol
Riley Green (Ft. Randy Owen) – Better Than Me
[Verse 1: Riley Green] / This world on fire / Feels like a bad dream / Did the hammer come down? / It feels like a kick in the teeth / All this down on my luck / Has been gettin
Riley Green – Ain’t Like I Can Hide It
[Verse 1] / If you've met me, then you've met my old man / He'll look you in your eyes and shake your hand / Where I'm from, what I believe / Might as well be on my sleeve / And
Riley Green – Workin' On Me
[Verse 1] / Did you already know / That "Curtis Loew" was my favorite song before you tipped the band? / Girl did you mean / To run into me when you ordered your drink or did it
Riley Green – Same Old Song
[Verse 1] / If I found me somebody who could pay me cash money / A dollar for every beer I ever drank / A 10 for every Camel Light, give me 50 for a fist fight / I'd have a million
Riley Green – Damn Good Day To Leave
[Verse 1] / Girl I always pictured it'd be pourin' down rain / With Old Hank singin' some song about trains / And midnight taillights tearin' down a highway / Or some other
Riley Green – Run Out of Tears
Too many nights cryin' / Waitin' up for my call / I can't say that I blame you, you finally run off / Drinkin' alone now / Down to my last case / Some reason thought it was a good
Riley Green – Behind the Times
[Verse 1] / The bill on his old ball cap / Was bent like an A-frame house / We're sittin' on a park bench / With some Beech-Nut in his mouth / Said, "No one reads the paper / These
Riley Green – Ain't My Damn To Give
[Verse 1] / If the sky was mine and I owned the stars / I'd shoot one over wherever you are / Just to make you think of me tonight / If I had control of the radio / I'd play this
Riley Green – Run Out of Tears
Too many nights cryin' / Waitin' up for my call / I can't say that I blame you, you finally run off / Drinkin' alone now / Down to my last case / Some reason thought it was a good
Riley Green – Ain't My Damn To Give
[Verse 1] / If the sky was mine and I owned the stars / I'd shoot one over wherever you are / Just to make you think of me tonight / If I had control of the radio / I'd play this
Riley Green – If It Wasn't For Trucks
[Verse 1] / Why would any teenage boy cut grass? / Sweat all summer, savin' cash / Dream about turnin' heads downtown / Straight pipes on a hand-me-down / And how would anybody's
Riley Green – I Wish Grandpas Never Died
[Verse 1] / I wish girls you loved never gave back diamond rings / I wish every porch had a swing / Wish kids still learned to say "sir" and "ma'am", and how to shake a hand / I
Riley Green – Almost
Slipped out of town without a handshake or goodbye / Just this old guitar, I had stars in my eyes / I was playing bars and I was getting girls / I wasn't living right but I was
Riley Green – Georgia Time
[Verse 1] / Spring break down in Panama City, it was two thousand and somethin' / I don't remember a single bar, that we didn't show up drunk in / So when I first kissed her lips
Riley Green – Little Hank
I was raised in the Bible Belt, strictly by the Book / Mom and Daddy kept a real close eye on every step I took / I was told right from wrong, in the eyes of society / One day I
Riley Green – Behind The Bar
[Verse 1] / They're closin' it down, kickin' us out / Sayin', "You ain't gotta go home now / But you can't stay here" / But if you wanna dance, I got a plan / And a short-bed Chevy
Riley Green – Hard To Leave
[Verse 1] / Damn we left a beautiful mess on the hardwood floor / Your dress, my jeans made a hell of a scene from the night before / The last thing I wanna do is get in my truck
Riley Green – Dixieland Delight (Live)
[Verse 1] / Rollin' down a backwoods, Tennessee by-way / One arm on the wheel / Holdin' my lover with the other / A sweet, soft, southern thrill / Worked hard all week, got a
Riley Green – Numbers on the Cars
[Verse 1] / Stopped by that house on Nesbitt Lake / He's sittin' in his easy chair, watchin' a Sunday evenin' race / Tells me my grandma's in the other room / Guess he forgot we
Riley Green – My First Everything
[Verse 1] / You were in that two-piece in the bucket seat / Of my old man's red Camaro / Rolling down to Port Saint Joe / That FM dial cranked up to ten had Mellencamp / And I was
Riley Green (Ft. Luke Combs) – Different ’Round Here (Remix)
[Verse 1] / Around here, fast is how the grass grows / Lost is what you find on a back road / Proof's in the whiskey, red's in the dirt / And hard work stops at the fence row / We
Riley Green – Chasin' This Drunk
Well its started it out, like any other love / And we spent a lot of nights, laid out under the stars above / But i lost it all, i couldn't quit my ramblin' ways / But i just wrote
Riley Green – That's My Dixie
[Verse 1] / There's folks out there that'll judge a man by the color of his skin / There's still a fight over wrong and right that no one ever wins / I know somewhere there's hate
Riley Green – Trouble With You
Got the boys saddled up, and it looks like we're going out / Nobody goes to jail was the last words from my mouth / See, yeah, I've been a time or two / I swore I'd never do that
Riley Green – Runnin' with an Angel
No one could ever say we lacked in passion / Truth is we were burning like a flame / Looking back, I couldn't tell you when it happened / Has it been 20 years, or 20 days / Should'
Riley Green – Different 'Round Here
[Verse 1] / 'Round here fast is how the grass grows / Lost is what you find on a back road / Proof's in the whiskey, red's in the dirt / And hard work stops at the fence row / We
Riley Green (Ft. Jessi Alexander) – That Was Us
[Verse 1: Riley Green] / There's a dive bar in Daytona / With a couple names on a wall / Right between "Go Gators" and an old phone number / "For a good time, call" / There's a
Riley Green – I Hope She's Drinkin' Tonight
[Verse 1] / She hadn't called, she ain't been around / Just got a text, somebody saw her out downtown / In that little bar where we used to go / If she's still the same girl I used
Riley Green – In A Truck Right Now
[Verse 1] / His little feet can't reach the pedal so daddy works the gas and brakes / Nine years old, "10 and 2," tryin' everything to keep it straight / Dreamin' he's Dale
Riley Green – When She Comes Home Tonight
[Verse 1] / 5 AM out the door / Eight hour, maybe more / Starin' me down / Hatin' work, haulin' dirt / Man this shit's just been wearin' me out / Off at two, nothin' to do / Calls
Riley Green – North on 21
Third night this week / Playing this old bar again / Young newly wed couple showed up / Spotted them as soon as they walked in / They looked so in love / Young man looked up at me
Riley Green – Whiskey Wears Off
[Verse 1] / Honey, you give a whole new meaning to a honky-tonk special / I knew you'd kill a memory just as soon as you walked in this bar / And if you wanna go with me, let me
Riley Green – Put ‘Em On Mine
[Verse 1] / If your bluebird blue eyes / Need a place to land tonight / Baby, pull that barstool up real close to me / Your pretty red wine lips / Need a place to put a midnight
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Riley Green - EP by Riley Green
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Ain’t My Last Rodeo by Riley Green
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Raised Up Right by Riley Green
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