 Genius Meanings
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Merle Haggard – Hungry Eyes
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[Verse 1] / A canvas-covered cabin in a crowded labor camp / Stand out in this memory I revive / Because my daddy raised a family there / With two hard-working hands / And tried to
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Merle Haggard (Ft. Alison Krauss) – Mama's Hungry Eyes
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A canvas-covered cabin in a crowded labor camp / Stands out in this memory I revive / My Daddy raised a family there with two hardworking hands / And tried to feed my Mama's hungry
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David Hasselhoff – Hungry Eyes
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I've been meaning to tell you / I've got this feelin' that won't subside / I look at you and I fantasize / You're mine tonight / Now I've got you in my sights / With these hungry
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Merle Haggard – There Won't Be Another Now
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[Verse 1] / The porch swing is squeaking / And the night is like it should be / The stars in the sky / Putting on a show for you and me / I've got a lot of words to say / If only I
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Lorrie Morgan – I Threw Away The Rose
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Once I lived the life of wine and roses / But you drank a lot back then for one concern / Success, for you, lay just around the corner / You thought your social friends would help
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Vince Gill – The Farmer's Daughter
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Tonight, there'll be candlelight and roses / In this little country chapel that's almost falling down / There'll be tears in this old farmer's eyes this evening / When I give my
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Pam Tillis – Silver Wings
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Silver wings shining in the sunlight / Roaring engines headed somewhere in flight / They're taking you away, and they're leaving me lonely / Silver wings slowly fading out of sight
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Radney Foster – The Running Kind
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I was born the running kind, leaving always on my mind / Home was never home to me at any time / Every front door found me hoping I would find the back door open / There just had
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Merle Haggard – Pray
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Take your eyes off yourself / Look at somebody else / And imagine how hard life could be / Count your blessings again / Kiss the lips of your friend / And pray and pray / And give
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Merle Haggard – Silver Wings
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[Chorus] / Silver wings shining in the sunlight / Roaring engines headed somewhere in flight / They're taking you away, leaving me lonely / Silver wings slowly fading out of sight
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Merle Haggard – I Die Ten Thousand Times a Day
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[Verse] / I come home and I sit down by the door / I just sit and dream my lonely life away / I just can't stand the thought that I won't see you anymore / I guess I die ten
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Merle Haggard – Montego Bay
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[Verse 1] / I showed her most of Tennessee, that's all I could afford / I even thought of stealin' so I could show her more / But she never did seem happy and I often heard her say
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Merle Haggard – Every Fool Has a Rainbow
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[Chorus] / Every fool has rainbow / But he never seems to find / The reward that should be waiting / At the end of the line / [Verse] / But he'll give up a bed of roses for / A
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Merle Haggard – She Thinks I Still Care
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[Verse 1] / Just because I asked a friend about her / Just because I spoke her name somewhere / Just because I dialed her number by mistake today / She thinks I still care / [
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Merle Haggard – Momma's Prayers
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Back when I was doing time, there was a night I can't forget / A mad man with a knife in hand tried to kill me while I slept / But somehow the knife missed its mark and I pinned
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Merle Haggard – Rainbow Stew
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[Verse 1] / There's a big brown cloud in the city / And the countryside's a sin / And the price of life is too high to give up / Got to come down again / When the world wide war is
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Merle Haggard – White Line Fever
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White line fever / A sickness born down deep within my soul / White Line Fever / The years keep flyin' by like the highline poles / The wrinkles in my forehead show the miles I've
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Merle Haggard – Runaway Momma
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She's my runaway mama / Always chasing other men / She's my runaway mama / Always somewhere, gone again / If you see this kind of lady / Thumbing a ride and showing skin / She's my
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Merle Haggard – I'll Be A Hero (When I Strike)
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All because I walk a different street / And not helloed by some I meet / That don't mean that what I do ain't right / Those that said that I was wrong / Now say thay knew it all
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Merle Haggard – What Happened?
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[Verse 1] / It used to be Andy and Barney Fife / Now it's Howard Stern and the brothel life / Too much crap can drive the world insane / Everybody's singing the jailhouse blues
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Merle Haggard – The Fugitive
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Down every road there's always one more city / I'm on the run the highway is my home / I raised a lot a cane back in my younger days / While mama used to pray my crops would fail
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Merle Haggard – Learning to Live With Myself
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[Verse 1] / I learned how to live with my darling / God took my darling away / Down through the years / He took all my peers / Left me here and pray / [Verse 2] / And it's hard to
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Merle Haggard – Workin' Man Blues
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Merle Haggard is an American country singer from California, born on April 6th, 1937. Haggard was rebellious in his youth and eventually had a criminal record for his juvenile
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Merle Haggard – Movin' On
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[Chorus] / Big wheels rolling, big wheels rolling, moving on / Big wheels rolling, gotta keep 'em going / Big wheels rolling, moving on / [Verse 1] / The white line is the lifeline
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Merle Haggard – The Way It Was In '51
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66 was still a narrow two-lane highway / Harry Truman was the man who ran the show / The bad Korean War was just beginning / And I was just three years too young to go / Country
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Willie Nelson – Today I Started Loving You Again
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[Verse 1] / Today I started loving you again / And I'm right back where I've really always been / I got over you just long enough to let my heartaches mend / And then today I
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Diamond Rio (Ft. Lee Roy Parnell & Steve Wariner) – Workin' Man's Blues
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It's a big job just getting by with nine kids and a wife / I been a working man dang near all my life / I'll be working long as my two hands are fit to use / I'll drink my beer in
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Joe South – Games People Play
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[Intro] / Mm / La-da-da, da-da-da, da-da / La-da-da, da-da-da, da-dee / La-da-da, da-da / La-da-da, da-da-da / [Verse 1] / Woah, the games people play now / Every night and every
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