Well you might think I’m way off course But you could sum up America’s political discourse And you might could believe it, or maybe you won’t, but Red states got the Waffle House, Blue states don’t Might be the bacon ‘n cheese grit diet Or the sausage that makes folks lean to the right Or Uncle Joe’s Pork Chops, big as a boat Red states got the...Learn More

With makeup on your face And a dress of gingham lace You could stand with Marilyn Monroe But the you that I love best With your hair all in a mess And overalls or nothing on at all And you've got nothing I want ‘Cept for your precious time And I would Turn On A Dime For you, you know it’s true And when the kites are in the sky And the desert air...Learn More

Your heroes all got Teleprompters I got a bucket of beer Stay out in your cornfield Mister We’ll have a good time in here I got my GPS and my Hoody And my one guitar that stays in tune And if all goes well I’ll see you on the moon Sometimes your heroin’s heroin Sometimes coffee, sometimes a girl Sometimes you gotta get away from something Far as...Learn More

Driving past Terre Haute in the rain Black coffee and triptophane Another Thanksgiving Day on the road I ain’t complaining I been home a long stretch just now Up before the sun and on my way Oklahoma-Pittsburgh in a day Conversation with an old friend who Says that lately I ain’t been such a good friend I’m just trying to stay awake on the...Learn More

Well, I left Kentucky back in '49 An' went to Detroit workin' on a 'sembly line The first year they had me puttin' wheels on Cadillacs Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by And sometimes I'd hang my head and cry 'Cause I always wanted me one that was long and black One day I devised myself a plan That should be the envy of most any man I'd...Learn More

They say I been carousing too much Drinking like a sailor, and smoking like the Dutch But I don’t mind I feel fine, and I got a long Lifeline Skeletons clattering in the breeze Got a rope around my neck and I’m hanging from the trees But I don’t mind I feel fine, and I got a long Lifeline I been talking with my old friends To come to a...Learn More

Meet me in the autumn way up in Puget Sound We can get a cabin forty miles outside of town We can do experiments of the scientific kind Try survive atomic blasts without going blind Every now and then we’ll head out to the deck Breathe a little oxygen, ‘n just to check If the World’s still there If the World’s still there If the World’s still...Learn More

On the TV, someone’s running As the helicopter cam zooms in And they superimpose green arrows Google Earth it to the head of a pin She says “There behind the police tape “Seen it all with my eyes and ears “I was talking to my friend Charlie “And then Charlie disappeared” Welcome, Welcome Come and have some fun We got every Chinese toy under the...Learn More

When I was just a kid out in the Midwest You grew your hair as long as it could go Farm boys got down in the dirt and rassled Topsoil blew as far as Ohio Got our records up at the hardware Spent every last dime on rock n roll But on the radio it was Merle and Hank and Johnny Buck Owens, Jimmy Rodgers and George Jones Well I grew up and I drifted...Learn More

If I break the party up I’m sorry If I ain’t home when I said don’t worry This is what I mean to be I see the things I need to see Better move our asses If we’re ever gonna make it to the Late Show, Late Show Na Na Na Na Na Late Show, Late Show Ooh… Maybe if I get old I will marry With one, two, three babies to carry I keep my good eye on the...Learn More