by Townes Van Zandt on album Miscellaneous

Oh babe, don't lie lonesome after I'm gone Don't mourn your young life away Just lower me down with a prayer and a song Just 'fore the breaking of day Just 'fore the breaking of day Well, it's a life

by Townes Van Zandt on album Townes Van Zandt

Well, won't you lend your lungs to me? Mine are collapsin' Plant my feet and bitterly breathe Up the time that's passin' Breath I'll take and breath I'll give And pray the day is not poisoned Stand a

by Townes Van Zandt on album Miscellaneous

Well, it's a mighty lonesome feelin' Listenin' to the wind howlin' Watchin' raindrops come fallin' To the pavement outside your door It's a fool I am for waitin' For the sound of your returnin' For t

by Townes Van Zandt on album Miscellaneous

Well, I been up the Mississippi to the Manitoba line I've been downstream to the Gulf of Mexico Followed the sun out west to Californ And there just ain't no place left for me to go Spent a lonesome

by Townes Van Zandt on album Miscellaneous

I got a black widow spider for mama, Lord Got a diamond-backed rattler for pa Well, I got me a woman down in New Orleans Got a friend in Arkansas Got a morning full of make believe Got an evening ful

by Townes Van Zandt on album Miscellaneous

I no longer can recall all the times you made me crawl All the times you made me hang my head and cry But still the teardrops fall and lord, what's worst of all I just ain't got the nerve to say goodb

by Townes Van Zandt on album Miscellaneous

Big blond mama, Lord Apartment 213 Where she moves like a cobra snake And she treats me like a king Roll me over easy, mama Oh, roll me over slow Do your best to please me, Lord And I'm bound to take

by Townes Van Zandt on album Roadsongs

Oh, the cuckoo, she's a pretty bird, and she warbles when she flies* But she never hollers cuckoo till the fourth day of July. Said Jack o'Diamonds, well Jack o'Diamonds, well I know you of old, Hone

by Townes Van Zandt on album Miscellaneous

If a dream's enough to ease your hungry sorrows And a song's enough to blow your tears away And all you need's a rhyme to help you pass your time Well, meet me down the line on Gypsy Friday If all yo

by Townes Van Zandt on album The Late Great Townes Van Zandt

If I needed you, would you come to me? Would you come to me and ease my pain? If you needed me, I would come to you I'd swim the seas for to ease your pain Well, in the night forlorn, oh, the morning

by Townes Van Zandt on album Roadsongs

My starter won't start this mornin'* And I'm about to lose my mind My starter won't start this mornin' And I'm about to lose my mind I wanna go and see my little baby But my machine is all outa time

by Townes Van Zandt on album For The Sake Of The Song: First Album

Well, the name she gave was Caroline The daughter of a miner An' her ways were free, an' it seemed to me That sunshine walked beside her She comes from Spencer, across the hill She said her pa had se

by Townes Van Zandt on album Miscellaneous

When your sky starts to tumble and your rhymes start to lose The meaning so tenderly given When all your dreams lie down and die at your shoes You can turn to me for livin' When your sweet words begi

by Townes Van Zandt on album At My Window

Oh, why does she sing her sad songs for me, I'm not the one Tenderly bring her soft sympathy I've just begun To see my way clear And it's plain, If I stop I will fall I can lay down a tear for her pai

by Townes Van Zandt on album Roadsongs

Well, when you're sitting there in your silk upholstered chair Talkin' to some rich folks that you know Well, I hope you don't see me in my ragged company Well, you know I could never be alone Take m

by Townes Van Zandt on album Roadsongs

We crossed the wild Pecos* We forded the Nueces We swum the Guadalupe And we followed the Brazos Red River runs rusty The Wichita clear But down by the Brazos I courted my dear Singing li, li, li, le,

by Townes Van Zandt on album Roadsongs

I don't want no wom'* If her hair it ain't no longer 'an mine. I don't want no w'man, If her hair it ain't no longer 'an mine. Yeah, ya know, she ain't no good for nothin but trouble, did ya know 'at?

by Townes Van Zandt on album Miscellaneous

Living on the road my friend was gonna keep you free and clean Now you were your skin like iron and your breath's as hard as kerosene You weren't your mama's only boy but her favorite one it seems She

by Townes Van Zandt on album Delta Momma Blues

I used to wake and run with the moon I lived like a rake and a young man I covered my lovers with flowers and wounds My laughter, the Devil would frighten The sun, she would come and beat me back dow

by Townes Van Zandt on album Miscellaneous

Well, some have called me hunger's child Some have turned away Well, some said wild and a few said free Some have refused to say Ah, do you think that you know my name? Well, the songbird somehow sw