Lyrics:
Just a cup
The sails are up and the bets are down
Let's lighten up this harbor town
By hook or crook or new design
We're streakin' for that
I met a liitle girl in Knoxville, a town we all know well
And every Sunday evening, out in her home, I'd dwell
We went to take an evening walk about
can't get a word in edgewise
Now an old country boy just
Can't sit on the porch
And watch while the world passed by
No, he's got to be part
Of some
soul
Rocks my soul
Twenty years go by
They built a home and a happy life
They're just as in love as the day
She caught his eye
I want a love like David
here, I'd be home by now
From my living room, I could paint this town
With the money I'd save, I could buy us all a round
Yeah, if I lived here, I'd be
I met a liitle girl in Knoxville, a town we all know well,
And every Sunday evening, out in her home I'd dwell,
We went to take an evening walk
Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee
Half way home, we'll be there by morning
Through the Mississippi darkness
Rolling down to the sea
But all the towns
numbered, my old friend
We're sure gonna miss you, girl
You were the best that's ever been
Happy birthday America
All the broken-down cities
By
Well, she seemed all right by dawn's early light
Though she looked a little worried and weak
She tried to pretend he wasn't drinkin' again
But
dreams
Consumed by his ambition he soon left her at home
With a promise and an empty house and too much time alone
Her boredom turned to drinking
Like david with his stone
Knocked goliath of his throne
There's nothing i can't do
Cause i believe in you
And this world of stress, obstacles
Their homes all smell of time of old photographs
And an old fashioned song
Though you may live in town
You live so far away when you've lived too long
Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee
Half way home, we'll be there by morning
Through the Mississippi darkness
Rolling down to the sea
But all the towns
by and beat up my son
So I went out and bought myself a big old German dog
The man behind me saw me and he started raisin' hogs
A nineteen year old
alive
So I bought an old house-trailer out on the countryside
You can't write country songs in town they say
We packed up and moved out there
There's tombstone in a snowy field
Close by an old ghost town
The epitaph's been weather-blown away
There's a belltower where petitions peeled
of the rails is all they feel
[Chorus]
Night time on the City of New Orleans
Changin' cars in Memphis, Tennessee
Halfway home, we'll be there by mornin'
there were reviews in
Billboard and Cash Box
But they were by professional critics
And they rarely reflect
The opinions of the public the critics were
it away
It's just another day in this old town
So get down
Home shopping channel's got us by the eyes
Scrambling to the phones ordering porcelain
And every night she would say
Help my boy began
Take the lord by the hand
Let the little boy sing
Got a feeling that takes you home
Got a melody of his
I own this horse and saddle
And that old Cadillac
This broken down horse trailer
And the clothes that are on my back
Well I know that it ain't
warrior no real fight
Pixels flash neon light
Think he's tough but he's just a clown
Can't handle life in this town
Shogun David in his mind
Lost in screens
Out on the town kicking around feeling bluesy
It's getting late I can't afford to be choosy
Should be home and dry by now
Tried every trick in
"Of David.Annotate Do not compete with the wicked; do not envy those who commit injustice. For like grass they will soon wither, like green
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