People say I’m the lonely kind
If you look at me you just might find
A man who’s given all there is to give
From all his struggle... No will to live
And you can talk about me and put me down
Laugh and joke about my shaky ground
That’s ok, I’ll just move on
In my lonely world, I can’t go wrong
For I’m just a traveler in this lonely land
Someday I’ll find a heart like mine and it will understand
And we will break the shackles of our great despair
And memories are all we’ll have of this lonely land
From this lonely world… where I come from
People say I’m the lonely kind
I’m just waitin’ for a heart like mine
If you laugh at me the jokes on you
You don’t know what this lonely world can do
Love can walk right in and out your door
I’ve been up and down that road before
That’s ok I’ll just move on
In my lonely world, I can’t go wrong
For I’m just a traveler in this lonely land
Someday I’ll find a heart like mine and it will understand
And we will break the shackles of our great despair
And memories are all we’ll have of this lonely land
From this lonely world… where I come from
For I’m just a traveler in this lonely land
Someday I’ll find a heart like mine and it will understand
And we will break the shackles of our great despair
And memories are all we’ll have of this lonely land
From this lonely world… where I come from
Where I come from
Where I come from
Where I come from
Me and Jenny headed out to the ocean
She said she had never seen the sea
We drove out to California
First the desert, then the mountains, then the sea
Jenny got lost in San Francisco
And I headed back to San Antone
The drive was long and lonely
It was years before she ever came back home
I’m not angry that we parted
That our time together ended oh, so, soon
Happiness was bound to find me
Someday, I’d lose those West Coast Blues
Seems the times had been hard on my sweet angel
She’d seen the stars fall from the sky
And when she walked back in my doorway
She swept away those West Coast Blues
I’m not angry that she left me
I’m just glad my darlin’s back at home
Happiness has finally found me
I’m done with those West Coast Blues
I’m done with those West Coast Blues
I’m done with those West Coast Blues
I threw my ring off the bridge at the border
As I crossed into Mexico
Left a love behind that was no longer mine
But, I had to let go
Every man has his reasons for leaving
Reasons can be filled with regret
I was caught on a line with no way to find
The things that I once found so clear
Cactus blooms so bright in the desert
Where you think no life could live
I plan to settle down for one last round
Where the rules will be mine to live
Gonna find me a sweet senorita
Gonna buy me a parcel of land
Let the days all drift together
Start life once again if I can
Cactus blooms so bright in the desert
Where you think no life could live
I plan to settle down for one last round
Where the rules will be mine to live
I plan to settle down for one last round
Where the rules will be mine to live
Well, I'm lying here wide awake
and I cannot get to sleep
My head is hurtin' my legs both ache
and I'm trying to grow new feet
My body cries you need some rest
but I can't shut down my brain
And I ain't really thinkin' 'bout nuthin' at all
cause I'm thinkin' bout everything
because I chew the fat I'm a blubberball
I pickle my liver in alcohol
Smoke in my lungs, powder my nose
Watch my body decompose
There's a little bird singing at the top of his lungs
And he's perched inside my brain
I'm thanking God I ain’t got a gun
'cause I know we'd both be dead
My hair is steadily falling out
By the handfuls everyday
And I feel like it, and I look like it
and the smell is here to stay
because I chew the fat I'm a blubberball
I pickle my liver in alcohol
Smoke in my lungs, powder my nose
Watch my body decompose
And, when I die
Don't bury me at all
Just pickle my bones
In alcohol
Put a bottle of booze
At my head and feet
And, then I know
My bones will keep
because I chew the fat I'm a blubberball
I pickle my liver in alcohol
Smoke in my lungs, powder my nose
Watch my body decompose
Dance a Cachuca, Fandango, Bolero
Xeres will do Manzanilla, Montero
Wine when it runs in abundance enhances
The reckless delight of that wildest of dances
To the pitter, pitter, patter
To the clitter, clitter, clatter
To the pitter, pitter, patter we'll dance
To the pitter, pitter, patter
To the clitter, clitter, clatter
To the pitter, pitter, patter we'll dance
Aha, Aha, Aha that wildest of dances
Aha, Aha, Aha that wildest of dances
The reckless delight
Once more
Gondoliere, both skillful and wary
free from this quandary contented are we
Once more Gondoliere, Gondoliere, Gondoliere
contented are we
So, goodbye Cachuca, Fandango, Bolero
We'll dance a farewell to that measure
Old Xeres will do Manzanilla, Montero
We leave you with feelings of pleasure
With feelings of pleasure
With feelings of pleasure
I was born about 10,000 years ago
Not a thing in history I don't know
I saw Peter, Paul, and Moses
Playing Ring Around The Roses
And I'll lick the guy that says it isn't so
I saw Eve and Adam driven from the door
I'm the guy that picked the fig leaves that they wore
When the apple they were eatin'
I was around the corner peepin’
And I can prove that it was I that ate the core
I saw Jonah when he sailed within the whale
And I thought I’d never live to tell the tale
But, old Jonah he‘d eaten garlic
And he gave the whale a colic
And he coughed him up and let him out of jail
I saw Absalom hanging by the hair
When they built the wall of China, I was there
I saved King Salomon's life
And he offered me a wife
I said, "Now you're talkin' business, have a chair"
Well, the Queen of Sheeba she fell in love with me
We were married in Milwaukee, secretly
In Washington I shook her
Just to join with General Hooker
Chasin’ skeeters out of sunny Tennessee
Well, I was born about 10,000 years ago
Love has held me from the start
Dreams seem so real, tell me
How does it feel
To be trapped in this thing called the heart
She said love is everywhere
Hold on to your senses
She said love is everywhere
Hold on to your senses
You've been drinkin', again
Yeah, again
Lovers cry out in the night
Looking for something so right
God only knows they've got
No place to go
They are trapped in this thing called the heart
She said love is everywhere
Hold on to your senses
She said love is everywhere
Hold on to your senses
You've been drinkin', again
Yes, again
Now, I know you were wrong from the start
We stayed together and played the parts
I should have known better, love would never begin
As you set there waiting for my heart to cave in
Now, all my friends thought it was wrong
For us to get together didn't take to long
My mom and papa told me,"Son, you better look again!"
"’Cause, we think that she's waitin' for your heart to cave in"
When I was holdin' on strong
You seemed to slip away
Every time that we kissed
You'd say you couldn't stay
I wished we were together more
But I's the only one
I think I'd gone crazy if I'd stuck to my guns
Love is just a mystery, a mystery to me
I'm not the Sherlock Holmes of love, you see
But if Matlock and McGiver tried to figure you out
They'd say, "We think she's waitin' for your heart to give out!"
When I was holdin' on strong
You seemed to slip away
Every time that we kissed
You'd say you couldn't stay
I wished we were together more
But I's the only one
I think I'd gone crazy if I'd stuck to my guns
I think I'd gone crazy if I'd stuck to my guns
I think I'd gone crazy if I'd stuck to my guns
A man can cry
Our love can't surely die
They're not here to stay
The sunshine or the rain
But, let me, oh, let me tell you baby
I'm still in love with you
Blue skies above
The towering mountain high
Is to prove my love
All this love have I
But, let me, oh, let me tell you baby
I'm still in love with you
The rules of the game
We both know
I know that you love me, love me so
But someday little darlin'
I know you're gonna want me
You're gonna want me, gonna want me, want me so
A man can cry
Our love can't surely die
They're not here to stay
The sunshine or the rain
But, let me, oh, let me tell you baby
I'm still in love with you
The rules of the game
We both know
I know that you want me, want me so
But someday little darlin'
I know you're gonna love me
You're gonna love me, gonna love me, love me so
A man can cry
Our love can't surely die
They're not here to stay
The sunshine or the rain
But let me, oh, let me tell you baby
I'm still in love with you