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Old Enough To Know Better

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Don't Make Me Come To Tulsa
I'm Still Dancin' With You
Old Enough To Know Better
Kentucky Blue Bird
Don't Stop
What I Meant To Say
Steady As She Goes
Family Reunion
Someone Had To Teach You
It's Gonna Take A Miracle

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Don't Make Me Come To Tulsa


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Don't make me come to Tulsa
You know I hate the flight
I ain't been back to Oklahoma baby
Since you said goodbye
I heard a rumor you missed me
I hope to God it's a lie
You know how much I love you
Don't make me come to Tulsa

You had me eatin' right out of your hand
I was your genuine cowboy man
You threw me over for another guy
I ran Dallas on a one way flight
Now I'm accustomed to the shape I'm in
Don't take me down again 

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I'd love to hold you in my arms tonight
I'd like to think that you'd treat me right
If I believed you'd really wanted me
I'd crawl to Tulsa on my achin' knees
But you'd just hurt me like you did before
Can't take them blues no more

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You know how much I love you
Don't make me come to Tulsa

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I'm Still Dancin' With You

I'm sittin' here surrounded by 
People I know
The beer is cold and the music's
Good and loud
That used to be enough to put
A smile on my face
But tonight I just feel lost in this crowd

There's a brunette on the dance floor
That's smiled a time or two
So I got up and asked her for a dance
But when she put her arms around me
And I held her I knew
It was just too soon to take another chance

Chorus
Cause I'm still dancin' with you
I know we said we were through
But I keep holding on
Letting go is just too hard to do
Even when I'm holdin' someone new
I'm still dancin' with you

When the song was over
I held on a little longer
Deep inside I knew that it was wrong
I could hold her in my arms
For the rest of the night
But I'd just be leading her on

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Old Enough To Know Better

Neon lights draw me like a moth to a flame
Mama raised me right
That just leaves me to blame
When I get a little sideways on a honky tonk tear
I'm old enough to know better
But I'm still too young to care

Cowgirls with an attitude
Boots and tight blue jeans
Take my mind off doin' right and doin' other things
When the weekend's gone
I won't have a dime to spare
I'm old enough to know better
But I'm still too young to care

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Monday morning I wake up
With a hammer in my hand
The bossman yellin' something at me
That I don't understand
I don't know how I got to work
But I sure don't know I'm there
I'm old enough to know better
But I'm still too young to care

When the eagle flies on Friday
He barely leaves the ground
I've got just enough left to get dressed up
And head back to town
Boss says son having all that fun
Won't get you anywhere
I'm old enough to know better
But I'm still too young to care

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Kentucky Bluebird

Blown down the highway
By two different winds
Lord only knows
When I'll see you again
You're 'bout as close
As the moon up above
You're my long distance love

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Kentucky Bluebird
I heard your song today
But when I try to touch you
You fly away

Blue is a feeling I'm learning so well
Turn on the TV
In another hotel
Turn down the volume
And stare at the wall
God I wish you would call

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Bridge
How I hate the miles between us
They get longer each day
I had this dream
And you should have seen us
Holding each other
And drifting away

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Don't Stop

Girl, you've got me so confused
I don't know what I'm gonna do
Part of me says take it slow
And part of me says let it go

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Don't--Stop
Don't--Stop
Don't stop doing what you're
doing to me

I think we're moving way too fast
We need to take it slow to make
it last
I can't keep holding back
When you keep doing things
like that

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Inst. Verse

You start a spark of love, no doubt
But I've watched the flame of 
love go out
Burning love takes a toll
I don't want to lose control

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What I Meant To Say

Last night I told a lie
When I told you I could say goodbye
Here in the light of day
What a crazy thing for me to say

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What I meant to say was I love you
What's been killin' me is I hurt you
What I didn't do was hold you
When I saw the teardrops fall
What I should have said was I'm sorry
What I should have said was
forgive me
What I meant to say was
What I didn't say at all

Last night I had a dream
You were really walkin' out on me
I woke up scared to death
Please forget about the things I said

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Steady As She Goes

Tonight I came home late again
She didn't ask me where I've been
Her bags were packed and sitting by
the door
She looked at me and said goodbye
I did my best to change her mind
But she don't want to hear it anymore

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She's steady as she goes
Now she's not crying
If I said it didn't hurt
I'd be lying
Where she got the strength to leave
Heaven only knows
But she's a rock steady as she goes

It tears me up to watch her go
But deep inside my heart I know
Leaving is the only choice she has
I guess she finally got the nerve
To give me just what I deserve
She's had enough and she ain't
looking back

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Family Reunion

It won't make the papers
Like some reunions do
There won't be many people
Just me and him and you
I made a childhood promise
You laughed and dried your tears
I swore that I'd bring Daddy home
Tomorrow he'll be here

I tracked him down in Denver
Where he'd lived all alone
He was just another drifter
With a number on his stone
In his things I found a picture
Where his hands had worn it thin
A smiling bride was by his side
Now you'll be this way again

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We'll have that family reunion
The one you dreamed of 
Until the day you died
This time Mama he's gonna stay
Forever by your side

I never really knew him
I was no more than a kid
He must have been worth something
If someone loved him like you did
It was hard without a 
man there
You did his part too
I watched your dreams fade
Through the years
But Mama--this one
Is coming true

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Someone Had To Teach You

Yes I'll take you back again you
knew I would
For I go loving you that's
understood
But it's the first time you've 
come back
With tears in your eyes
Lately someone's taught you how
to cry

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Someone had to teach you I didn't
have the heart
To hurt you just like you've been
hurtin' me
Someone had to teach you things its
time that you knew
Now maybe you'll be satisfied with me

Someone took your heart and rubbed
it in the dirt
And you look just like a puppy when
it's hurt
But you've had this lesson coming for
so very long
Our sins have a way of coming home

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It's Gonna Take A Miracle

Rainbows and falling stars
couldn't change
The way things are
Or I'd be in your arms tonight
Wishing don't make dreams
come true
Or I'd be holding you
I could change the past and make
it right

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It's gonna take a miracle
To bring you back
I've got to face the fact
I broke your heart so bad this time
Nothing else is gonna change
your mind
You're gone for good I believe
It's gonna take a miracle to bring you
Back to me

So I'll climb up the stairs--get down
And say a prayer
That's the only thing I haven't tried
Lord knows I was wrong & if my faith
Is strong
I just might wake up by your side

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