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Americana Lyrics Game!

 
  • Americana Lyrics Game!

    If you guess one, leave one for the next person to guess.



  • She said she was leaving
    So I went to follow
    Blind love and I-55 got me here



  • "georgia hard" - robbie fulks

    Cigarattes and whiskey calm my shaking hands. I just lost a lover to a one-night stand.



  • Headed down south to the land of the pines
    And I'm thumbin' my way into North Caroline
    Starin' up the road
    Prayin' to God I see headlights



  • "Wagon Wheel" - a Bob Dylan unreleased track performed by Old Crow Medicine Show

    Fingers walk the darkness down
    Mind is on the midnight
    Gather up the gold you've found
    You fool, it's only moonlight.
    If you try to take it home
    Your hands will turn to butter
    You better leave this dream alone
    Try to find another.

  • TwangNation said:
    "Wagon Wheel" - a Bob Dylan unreleased track performed by Old Crow Medicine Show

    Fingers walk the darkness down
    Mind is on the midnight
    Gather up the gold you've found
    You fool, it's only moonlight.
    If you try to take it home
    Your hands will turn to butter
    You better leave this dream alone
    Try to find another.


    Lungs by Townes Van Zandt



  • Won't you scratch my itch sweet annie rich
    And welcome me back to town
    Come out on your porch or I'll step into your parlor
    And I'll show you how it all went down



  • Come on RandyB1961, kind of obvious given your avatar. Gram Parsons - Return of the Grievous Angel.

    My Daddy played poker on a stump in the woods back in his younger days
    Prohibition was the talk, but the rich folks walked to the woods where my Daddy stayed
    Jugs and jars from shiners, these old boys here, they ain't miners
    They came from the twenty-niners
    It didn't take a hole in the ground to put the bottom in their face

  • TwangNation said:
    Come on RandyB1961, kind of obvious given your avatar. Gram Parsons - Return of the Grievous Angel.

    My Daddy played poker on a stump in the woods back in his younger days
    Prohibition was the talk, but the rich folks walked to the woods where my Daddy stayed
    Jugs and jars from shiners, these old boys here, they ain't miners
    They came from the twenty-niners
    It didn't take a hole in the ground to put the bottom in their face


    That's a good one, TwangNation!

    Where the Devil Don't Stay by Drive-By Truckers



  • Going back a ways for this one. This song may be the most beautiful words ever put to music. Pure poetry:

    I have seen the morning burning golden on the mountains in the skies.
    Achin' with the feelin' of the freedom of an eagle when she flies.



  • Loving Her Was Easier by Kris Kristofferson. Covered by Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Perry Como (!)

    I went down to Houston
    And I stopped in San Antone
    I passed up the station for the bus
    I was trying to find me something
    But I wasn't sure just what
    Man I ended up with pockets full of dust
    So I went on to Cleveland and I ended up insane
    I bought a borrowed suit and learned to dance
    I was spending money like the way it likes to rain

  • TwangNation said:
    Loving Her Was Easier by Kris Kristofferson. Covered by Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Perry Como (!)

    I went down to Houston
    And I stopped in San Antone
    I passed up the station for the bus
    I was trying to find me something
    But I wasn't sure just what
    Man I ended up with pockets full of dust
    So I went on to Cleveland and I ended up insane
    I bought a borrowed suit and learned to dance
    I was spending money like the way it likes to rain


    Oh My Sweet Carolina by Ryan Adams



  • Switching it over to AM
    Searching for a truer sound
    Can't recall the call letters
    Steel guitar and settle down
    Catching an all-night station somewhere in Louisiana
    It sounds like 1963, but for now it sounds like heaven



  • cool one! Jay Farrar - Windfall

    I'm drinkin' some George Jones,
    and a little bit of Coe
    Haggard's easin' my misery
    and Waylon's keepin' me from home
    Hank's givin' me those high times -
    Cash is gonna sing it low
    I'm here gettin' wasted -
    here with my country heroes

  • TwangNation said:
    cool one! Jay Farrar - Windfall

    I'm drinkin' some George Jones,
    and a little bit of Coe
    Haggard's easin' my misery
    and Waylon's keepin' me from home
    Hank's givin' me those high times -
    Cash is gonna sing it low
    I'm here gettin' wasted -
    here with my country heroes


    Country Heroes by Hank Williams III



  • She left a lipstick letter on the mirror
    shattered on the bathroom floor.
    All I could put back together was
    '...never see me no more.'



  • Delbert McClinton - When Rita Leaves. Awesome song!

    “I was baptized by the spittoon and the chamber pot at three/and I never saw the faces of the ones who conceived me”

  • TwangNation said:
    Delbert McClinton - When Rita Leaves. Awesome song!

    “I was baptized by the spittoon and the chamber pot at three/and I never saw the faces of the ones who conceived me”


    Well, Twang, you stumped me; I had to Google this one!

    You Can't Go back To Where You've Never Been by Lindsay Fuller & The Cheap Dates



  • In nineteen and double-aught
    A harlot who was hot to trot
    Gave a fine little bijou to the world
    With a blacksmith for a makeshift doc
    In a cathouse far from Camelot
    Her gold mine brought to bear a baby girl



  • Allison Moorer - Ruby Jewel Was Here

    Love is a very funny thing
    It catches the young and old
    Like a plate of boarding-house hash
    A many a man has sold
    It makes you feel like a freshwater eel
    It'll cause your head to swell
    You'll lose your mind, for love is blind
    It takes all your money as well

  • TwangNation said:
    Allison Moorer - Ruby Jewel Was Here

    Love is a very funny thing
    It catches the young and old
    Like a plate of boarding-house hash
    A many a man has sold
    It makes you feel like a freshwater eel
    It'll cause your head to swell
    You'll lose your mind, for love is blind
    It takes all your money as well



    Now that's Amreicana!

    Bald-Headed End of a Broom by Grandpa Jones



  • When Daddy told me what happened
    I couldn't believe what he just said
    Sonny shot himself with a .44
    And they found him lyin' on his bed

    I could not speak a single word
    No tears streamed down my face
    I just sat there on the living room couch
    Starin' off into space



  • RandyB1961 , have to throw a flag on that last one. I was looking for Charlie Poole - Look Before You Leap

    Lucinda Williams - Pineola

  • TwangNation said:
    RandyB1961 , have to throw a flag on that last one. I was looking for Charlie Poole - Look Before You Leap



    Oops. My mistake.



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