The lights In the harbor Don't shine for me I'm like a lost ship adrift on the sea Sea of heartbreak Lost love and loneliness Memories of your caress So divine I wish you were mine Again my dear I am on this sea of tears Sea of heartbreak How did I lose you Oh where did I fail Why did you leave me Always to sail Oh what I'd give to sail back to...Learn More

I am a moonshiner For seventeen long years And I spent all my money On whiskey and beer And I go to some hollow And set up my still If whiskey don't kill me Lord, I don't know what will And I go to some barroom To drink with my friends Where the women they can't follow To see what I spend God bless them pretty women I wish they was mine With breath...Learn More

Jack of diamonds, jack of diamonds I've known you to hold To rob my poor pocket Of silver and gold Whiskey like rye Tree don't fall on me I'll live till I die If the ocean was whiskey And I was a duck I'd dive to the bottom And never come up Now the ocean ain't whiskey And I ain't a duck I play jack a diamonds And trust to...Learn More

On the trestles, over the james No pictures just memories, they stick the same Walking tracks through, December rain Hands were froze, knees were stiff But damn sure worth the pain Four trains since passed now I felt them shake I laid my head against the ties and over me they raged Then i saw heaven and i saw hell And i wanted to visit both It's...Learn More

When I woke up I cannot lie I could not walk a straight line Still hell bent on whiskey high Once again asking myself why I had to stay up till we were dry Before I closed my eyes I'm glad that God wasn't out last night He would've struck me down on sight I'm tired of devils night out I'm tired of kissing the ground It's high time to turn around On...Learn More

Kicked me off Made my wheels turn Rolled on way back to Where I'm from and what I've done Remembering them angels Through hard times They helped me walk them lines I watched that moon glow And felt the signs of changing times I won't ever scratch what we said Times like this I wish would never end You got me all lit up and crying out the same My...Learn More

I remember when innocence was the same word as sin And I can recall bein' wrong time and time again Then it was a grain of salt and nothin' to contend Just another Chattanooga bend The creek was always runnin' in my back yard Just a few fish, some ol' beer cans, and remnants of some cars That was all I needed to keep a young pure heart Away from...Learn More