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Sing your heart out, country boy

Call Number

  • R 784.8 H819C (CEN)

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Edition

Rev. ed.

Publication Information

Nashville, Tenn. : Country Music Foundation, c1986.

Physical Description

xxi, 432 p. ; 21 cm.

Notes

Includes index.

Contents

  • Address unknown
  • Alabama
  • All the time
  • Amanda
  • Am I that easy to forget?
  • Amazing grace
  • Amelia Earhart's last flight
  • Are you sure Hank done it this way
  • A-sleepin' at the foot of the bed
  • Auctioneer
  • Back in the saddle again
  • Back street affair
  • Ballad of forty dollars
  • Ballad of the green Berets
  • The battle of New Orleans
  • Before I met you
  • Beyond the sunset
  • Big bad John
  • Blackboard of my heart
  • Black land farmer
  • The blizzard
  • Blood on the saddle
  • Blue moon of Kentucky
  • Blues stay away from me
  • Born to lose
  • Bouquet of roses
  • Brakeman's blues.
  • (cont.) Bright lights and country music
  • Bubbles in my beer
  • Bumming around
  • Bury me beneath the willow
  • Busted
  • Cabin on the hill
  • Candy kisses
  • Can the circle be unbroken
  • Carroll country accident
  • Carry me back to the lone prairie
  • Carry me back to the mountains
  • Cattle call
  • Cigareetes, whusky and wild, wild women
  • Cimarron (roll on)
  • City lights
  • City of New Orleans
  • Coal miner's daughter
  • Coat of many colors
  • Cold, cold heart
  • Company's comin
  • The convict and the rose
  • Cool water
  • Cotton mill colic
  • Crazy arms
  • Crystal chandeliers
  • Daddy and home
  • Daddy sang bass
  • Dark as a dungeon
  • The day the Clayton Delaney died.
  • (cont.) A dear John letter
  • Dear Uncle Sam
  • The death of Floyd Collins
  • The death of Hank Williams
  • The death of Little Kathy Fiscus
  • Detroit city
  • The devil went down to Georgia
  • Dim lights, thick smoke (and loud, loud music)
  • Doin' my time
  • Don't come home a-drinkin
  • Don't let me cross over
  • Don't make me go to bed and I'll be good
  • A drunkard's child
  • Dust of the bible
  • Dusty skies
  • Each night at nine
  • Eight more miles to Louisville
  • El Paso
  • Ellen Smith
  • Faded love
  • Farther along
  • Fifteen miles to Birmingham
  • Filipino baby
  • Fire ball mail
  • Floyd Frazier
  • Folsom prison blues
  • For the good times
  • Four walls
  • Fraulein
  • Freight train blues.
  • (cont.) From graceland to the promised land
  • (I'm a lonesome) fugitive
  • Funny how time slips away
  • The gambler
  • Gentle on my mind
  • God put a rainbow in the cloud
  • God walks these hills with me
  • The golden rocket
  • Good hearted woman
  • Good ole boys like me
  • Gret speckled bird
  • Green, green grass of home
  • Half as much
  • Harper Valley PTA
  • Have I stayed away too long?
  • Have I told you lately that I love you
  • Have you evere been lonely (have you every been blue)?
  • Headin' down the wrong highway
  • He stopped loving her today
  • Heartaches by the number
  • He'll have to go
  • Hobo Bill's last ride
  • Hobo's meditation
  • Homecoming
  • Honky tonk heroes
  • Honky tonk man
  • How great thou art.
  • (cont.) How to catch a man
  • I am a pilgrim
  • I believe in you
  • I can't stop loving you
  • I dreamed of a hillbilly heaven
  • I forgot more than you'll ever know
  • I love you because
  • I lov eyou so much it hurts
  • I really don't want to know
  • I saw the light
  • I take the chance
  • I walk the line
  • I want to be a cowboy's sweetheart
  • I washed my hand in muddy water
  • I wonder where you are tonight
  • I won't go huntin' with you Jake (but I'll go chasin' women)
  • If I could hear my mother pray again
  • If you've got the money, I've got the time
  • If we make it through Decmber
  • I'll be with you when the roses bloom again
  • I'll fly away.
  • (con't.) I'll hold you in my heart
  • I'll never slip around again
  • I'll twine mid the ringlets
  • I'm a fool to care
  • I'm free (fromthe chain gang now)
  • I'm here to get my baby out of jail
  • I'm just an old hunk of coal (but I'm gonna be a diamond someday)
  • I'm movin' on
  • I'm my own grandpaw
  • I'm so lonesome I could cry
  • (Remember me) I'm the one who loves you
  • I'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes
  • Inthe baggage coach ahead
  • In the good old days (when times were bad)
  • In the jailhouse now no. 2
  • It is no secret
  • It makes no difference now
  • It wasn't God who made honky tonk angels
  • I've got tears in my ears (from lyin' on my back in my bed while I cry over you)
  • Jambalaya.
  • (cont.) Johnson's old grey mule
  • Jolie Blonde
  • Just a closer walk with thee
  • Kaw-liga
  • Keep on the sunny side of life
  • Kentucky
  • Kentucky waltz
  • King of the road
  • The last letter
  • The last roundup
  • A legend in my time (I'd be)
  • Leona
  • Leven cent cotton, forty cent meat
  • Life gits tee-jus, don't it?
  • Life's railway to heaven
  • The little old cabin in the land
  • The living proof
  • Long black limousine
  • The long black veil
  • Lost highway
  • Louisiana man
  • Lovesick blues
  • Lucille
  • Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
  • A mansion on the hill
  • Margie's at the Lincoln Park Inn
  • Married by the bible, divorced by the law
  • May I sleep in your barn tonight, Mister?
  • (cont.) May the bird of Paradise fly up your nose
  • Me and Bobby McGee
  • Mississippi Delta land
  • Mockin' bird hill
  • Molly
  • Molly darling
  • Mom and dad's waltz
  • Mommy, please stay home with me
  • Mother, the queen of my heart
  • Mother was a lady (or, if Jack were only here)
  • Mountain dew
  • Mule skinner blues
  • My Mary
  • My woman, my woman, my wife
  • Night train to Memphis
  • Nine pound hammer
  • Nobody's darlin' but mine
  • No one will every know
  • No vacancy
  • Ode to Billy Joe
  • Ode to the little brown shack out back
  • Oh, lonesome me
  • Okie from Muskogee
  • Oklahoma hills
  • The old age pension check
  • Old five and dimers like me
  • The old rugged cross
  • Old shep.
  • (cont.) One has my name, the other has my heart
  • Oney
  • Only one step more
  • Orange blossom special
  • Original talking blues
  • The other woman
  • The other woman (in my life)
  • Our baby's book
  • Out behind the barn
  • (There'll be) peace in the valley (for me)
  • Peach pickin' time in Georgia
  • Philadephia lawyer
  • Pick me up on your way down
  • Pistol packin' mama
  • Please help me, I'm falling (in love with you)
  • Po' folks
  • The poor tramp has to live
  • Preachin' prayin', singin'
  • The precious jewel
  • Precious memories
  • The prisoner's dream
  • The prisoner's song
  • Put my little shoes away
  • The race is on
  • Release me.
  • (con't.) Remember me (when the candle lights are gleaming)
  • Rockin' alone in an old rockin' chair
  • Rocky top
  • Roughneck blues
  • Ruby, don't take your love to town
  • Saginaw, Michigan
  • San Antonio Rose
  • Satin sheets
  • A satisfied mind
  • Shackles and chains
  • Shenandoah waltz
  • She thinsk I still care
  • Silver dew on the blue grass tonight
  • The sinking of the Titanic
  • Six days on the road
  • Six pack to go
  • Sixteen tons
  • Skip a rope
  • Slipping around
  • Smoke on the water
  • Smoke, smoke, smoke (that cigarette)
  • Soldier's last letter
  • The soldier's sweetheart
  • The son of hickory holler's tramp
  • Stand by your man
  • Still in Saigon
  • The strawberry roan.
  • (cont.) Streamlined cannon ball
  • Streets of Baltimore
  • Stuck up blues
  • Sunday morning christian
  • Supper time
  • Sweet memories
  • Sweeter than the flowers
  • T for Texas (blue yodel)
  • Take an old cold tater (and wait)
  • Take me back to my boots and saddle
  • Take me back to Renfo Valley
  • Take me back to Tulsa
  • Take me home, country roads
  • Take my hand, precious Lord
  • Take these chains form my heart
  • Take this job and shove it
  • Tennessee central (unber 9)
  • Tennessee stud
  • Tennessee waltz
  • Texas plains
  • That crazy war
  • That silver-haired daddy of mine.
  • (cont.) There goes my everything
  • There's a star-spangled banner waving somewhere
  • There stands the glass
  • These hands
  • They'll never take her love from me
  • This ole house
  • This world is not my home
  • Tobacco road
  • The tolliver song
  • Too late
  • Too old to cut the mustard
  • The touch of God's hand
  • Train whistle blues
  • Tumbling tumbleweeds
  • Turn your radio on
  • Twenty one years
  • Uncle Pen
  • Wabash cannon ball
  • Wait a little longer, please Jesus
  • Waiting for a train
  • Walking the floor over you
  • Warm red wine
  • Way out there
  • Weaveroom blues
  • We could
  • Welfare Cadilac
  • We sat beneath the maple on the hill
  • When it's prayer meetin' time in the hollow
  • When Jimmie Rodgers said goodbye
  • When my blue moon turns to gold again
  • When the bloom is on the sage.
  • (cont.) When the wagon was new
  • When the work is done next fall
  • Where could I go?
  • Where have all our heroes gone?
  • Where the old red river flows
  • Why don't you haul off and love me?
  • Why me
  • The wild side of life
  • Wildwood flower
  • Willie Roy, the crippled boy
  • Wings of a dove
  • Wonder could I live there anymore
  • Worried mind
  • The wreck of number nine
  • Wreck of the old 97
  • The wreck on the highway
  • Y'all come
  • The year that Clayton Delaney died
  • You ain't woman enough
  • You are my flower
  • You are my sunshine
  • You don't know me
  • Your cheatin' heart
  • Yours love.