A song of the day

[fireball43]

My song of the day today;

Dust on The Bible
By: Hank Williams

I went into a home one day just to see some friends of mine
Of all their books and magazines, not a Bible could I find.
I asked them for the Bible. When they brought it, what a shame!
For the dust was covered o'er it, not a fingerprint was plain.

Dust on the Bible, dust on the Holy Word
The words of all the prophets, and the sayings of our Lord.
Of all the other books you'll find, there's none salvation holds
Get the dust off the Bible and redeem your poor soul.
Oh, you can read your magazines of love and tragic things
But not one word of Bible verse, not a scripture do you know.
When it is the very truth, and it's contents good for you.
But it's dust is covered o'er it
And it's sure to doom your poor soul.

Dust on the Bible, dust on the Holy Word;
The word of all the prophets, and the sayings of our Lord.
Of all the other books you'll find, there's none salvation holds
Get the dust off the Bible and redeem your poor soul.

Oh, if you have a friend you'd like to help along life's way
Just tell him that the Good Book shows a mortal how to pray
The best advice to give him that will make his burdens light
Is to dust the family bible trades the wrong way for the right.

Dust on the Bible, dust on the Holy Word
The word of all the prophets, and the sayings of our Lord.
Of all the other books you'll find, there's none salvation holds.
Get the dust off the Bible and redeem your poor soul.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=59hWl7I81fc (Dust on the bible, Hank Williams.)

[chilipepper]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FkRRL2t7lA

A Cindy Walker song by Jim Reeves: Oh Gentle Shepherd

My soul is lost so lonely and so cold
Just like a lamb that has strayed from the fold
Across the barren waste of sin I roam
Oh gentle shepherd hear my cry and lead me home
The hours go by on frightened wings of flight
While wolves of hell are waiting for the night
To claim the soul that wandered from the fold
Oh gentle shepherd hear my cry and save my soul
Oh gentle shepherd hear my lonely cry
And in Thy cool green pastures let me lie
Beside the still clear waters lead Thou me
Oh gentle shepherd safe forevermore with Thee

(Floyd Cramer on the piano, Chet Atkins on the guitar)

[songsmith1950]

Such beautiful and meaningful songs both are. Old Rugged Cross is and will always be my favorite. Singing or listening it will always be.

[fireball43]

This song is a very nice and touching song by Bobby Bare about a homesick hobo or traveller:

500 Miles (Live from Olso, Norway- 1964.)

I'm five hundred miles away from home

Teardrops fell on mama's note
When I read the things she wrote
She said "We miss you, son. We love you, come on home."
Well I didn't have to pack
I had it all right on my back
Now I'm five hundred miles away from home

(chorus)
Away from home away from home
Cold and tired and all alone
Yes I'm five hundred miles away from home

(spoken)
I know this is the same road I took the day I left home.
But it sure looks different now.
Well I guess I look different, too cause time changes everything.
I wonder what they'll say when they see their boy looking this way?

(sung)
Oh I wonder what they'll say when I get home
Can't remember when I ate
It's just thumb and walk and wait
And I'm still five hundred miles away from home
If my luck had been just right
I'd be with them all tonight
But I'm still five hundred miles away from home

(chorus)

Oh, I'm still 500 miles away from home

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgnaavPxSmk&feature=related
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[songsmith1950]

I remember 500 miles. I believe I was 15 or so? An all time favorite.

[chilipepper]

The 1964 Norway tour was one Bobby Bare did with Jim Reeves and Stonewall Jackson. There's some great video clips on You Tube of those performances and some great video clips done some years after Jim Reeves was killed with Bobby Bare and Stonewall Jackson telling stories about their tours together. I keep the video clip of Jim Reeves singing "I Love You Because" in my "favorites" on my computer and play it often from that tour. I suspect Jim Reeves was probably drunk as he messed up the lines pretty badly from the way the original record release was.

This link is one of the youtube ones that's pretty comical:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIByJyl993Y

[fireball43]

A song from 1962, live on the Grand Ole Opry sung by no other than Possum himself, George Jones.

Just because I ask a friend about her
Just because I spoke her name somewhere
Just because I rang her number by mistake today
She thinks I still care

Just because I haunt the same old places
Where the mem'ry of her lingers ev'rywhere
Just because I'm not the happy guy I used to be
She thinks I still care

But if she's happy thinkin' I still need her
Then let that silly notion bring her cheer
But how could she ever be so foolish
Oh where would she get such an idea

Just because I ask a friend about her
And just because I spoke her name somewhere
Just because I saw her then went all to pieces
She thinks I still care
She thinks I still care


www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM8S983GlrQ

Enjoy!

[fireball43]

This song is probably one of the most connective songs to my family history, as my great-granddad Herman and Uncle Lescister ran moonshine in the forties, Great-Granddad died three months after my Granddad was born (1942) and Uncle Lescister died the year my dad was born (1967)

White Lightning
George Jones

Well in North Carolina, way back in the hills
Me and my old pappy had a hand in a still
We brewed white lightnin' 'til the sun went down
Then he'd fill him a jug and he'd pass it around
Mighty, mighty pleasin, pappy's corn squeezin'
Whshhhoooh . . . white lightnin'

Chorus:
Well the "G" men, "T" men, revenuers, too
Searchin' for the place where he made his brew
They were looking, tryin to book him,
But my pappy kept a-cookin'
Whshhhoooh . . . white lightnin'

--- Instrumental ---

Well I asked my old pappy why he called his brew
White lightnin' 'stead of mountain dew
I took a little sip and right away I knew
As my eyes bugged out and my face turned blue
Lightnin' started flashin' and thunder started crashin'
Shhhoooh . . . white lightnin'

Chorus:
Well the "G" men, "T" men, revenuers, too
Searchin' for the place where he made his brew
They were looking, tryin to book him,
but my pappy kept a-cookin'
Whshhhoooh . . . white lightnin'

--- Instrumental ---

Well a city slicker came and he said "I'm tough"
I think I wanna taste that powerful stuff
He took one g-g-glug and drank it right down
And I heard him a moaning as he hit the ground
Mighty, mighty pleasin, pappy's corn squeezin'
Whshhhoooh . . . white lightnin'

Chorus:
Well the "G" men, "T" men, revenuers, too
Searchin' for the place where he made his brew
They were looking, tryin to book him,
but my pappy kept a-cookin'
Whshhhoooh . . . white lightnin'...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Onfce-UNmmE

[chilipepper]

I love George Jones and White Lightning!

[fireball43]

I first heard this on WGCR or WNCW's Bluegrass Program back in 2009 and I thought it was a very pretty song.

John and Mary
IIIryd Tyme Out

Down in south Alabama
Where the cypress trees grow
There lived a man named John looking for a wife
So to town he did go
It was there he found sweet Mary
And they made their wedding plans
The next Sunday morning when the church bells rang
They were standing hand in hand

And the preacher said
John do you take Mary for your wife
And he said
Oh yes Lord for the rest of my life
And the preacher said
Mary do you love this man in front of you
And she said
Oh yes Lord forever I'll be true

Now when the sun comes up in the morning
They look into each other's eyes
And the love and the faith that they see in each other
No one can deny
And the little baby boy she holds in her arms
With the power when you pray
And every night on their knees they thank the Lord above
For giving them that day

When the preacher said
John do you take Mary for your wife
And he said
Oh yes Lord for the rest of my life
And the preacher said
Mary do you love this man in front of you
And she said
Oh yes Lord forever I'll be true

Down in south Alabama
Where the cypress trees grow
There lived a man named John looking for a wife
So to town he did go
It was there he found sweet Mary
And they made their wedding plans
The next Sunday morning when the church bells rang
They were standing hand in hand

And the preacher said
John do you take Mary for your wife
And he said
Oh yes Lord for the rest of my life
And the preacher said
Mary do you love this man in front of you
And she said
Oh yes Lord forever I'll be true


www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjBIb-rtlvU

[fireball43]

Sorry I haven't posted a new song but i'll post one tomarrow

[fireball43]

This song is what got me hooked on Country and Classic Country music. I was five years old when about the second month of school, my grandpa picked me up from school and put in a Hank Williams cd. I was hooked by the song "Howlin at the moon" and have listened ever since than, from "The Singing Brakeman" to current day country singers such as Billy Currington. So here it is, the first ever Classic Country song I heard. Enjoy.

Howlin' at the moon
Hank Williams
I know there's never been a man in the awful shape I'm in
I can't even spell my name, my heads in such a spin
Today I tried to eat a steak with a big old tablespoon
You got me chasin' Rabbits, walkin' on my hands
...And Howlin' At The Moon.

Well, Sug, I took one look at you and it almost drove me mad
And then I even went and lost what little sense I had
Now I can't tell the day from night, I'm crazy as a loon
You got me chasin' Rabbits, pullin' out my hair and Howlin' At The Moon.

Some friends of mine asked me to go out on a huntin' spree
'Cause there ain't a hound dog in this state that can hold a light to me
I eat three bones for dinner today, then tried to tree a 'Coon
You got me chasin' Rabbits, scratchin' fleas and Howlin' At The Moon.

I rode my horse to town to day and a gas pump we did pass
I pulled 'im up and I hollered WHOA!, said fill 'im up with gas
The man picked up a monkey wrench and WHAM!, he changed my tune
You got me chasin' Rabbits, spittin' out teeth and Howlin' At The Moon.

I never thought in this old world a fool could fall so hard
But honey baby, when I fell the whole world must have jarred
I think I'd quit my doggish ways if you'd take me for your groom
You got me chasin Rabbits, pickin' out rings and Howlin' At The Moon

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvsqlTGgKeg

[fireball43]

This has to be the most hickish song i've ever heard, but I love it.

Prop me up beside the Jukebox (If I Die)
Joe Diffie

Well I ain't afraid of dyin', it's the thought of being dead
I wanna go on being me once my eulogy's been read
Don't spread my ashes out to sea, don't lay me down to rest
You can put my mind at ease if you fulfill my last request

Prop me up beside the jukebox if I die
Lord, I wanna go to heaven but I don't wanna go tonight
Fill my boots up with sand, put a stiff drink in my hand
Prop me up beside the jukebox if I die

Just let my headstone be a neon sign
Let it burn in mem'ry of all of my good times
Fix me up with a manequin, just remember I like blondes
I'll be the life of the party even when I'm dead and gone

Prop me up beside the jukebox if I die
Lord, I wanna go to heaven but I don't wanna go tonight
Fill my boots up with sand, put a stiff drink in my hand
Prop me up beside the jukebox if I die

Just make your next selection and while your still in line
You can pay you last respects one quarter at a time

Prop me up beside the jukebox if I die
Lord, I wanna go to heaven but I don't wanna go tonight
Fill my boots up with sand, put a stiff drink in my hand
Prop me up beside the jukebox if I die

Oh, prop me up beside the jukebox if I die
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjjrnNuZuPk

[revilo]

That is one funny video. I've already told my wife and kids that the first three letters of funeral are F-U-N. Tap a half barrel in the corner of the funeral home and celebrate my life instead of mourning my death. We'll only be apart for a little while until we get to spend eternity together with God. I really feel sorry for atheists. They have nothing to look forward to.

[chilipepper]

That IS funny! Loved it!