When I left Tulsa she was still an innocent lady
Lord only knows why she ever loved a guy like you
She called me crying and she said she was having your baby
You turned your back on her and broke her heart in two…And I swore I’d get you    

For what you're putting her through, and the only reason I ain't got you
She begged me not to, says she loves you 

CHORUS

But don't let the sun set on you in Tulsa
Don't let the sun set on you in Tulsa
Now if the sun goes down on you and if you're still here well you're going down too
Don't let the sun set on you in Tulsa

She’s the only thing I’ve ever really cared for
No she don't deserve this kind of shame
She carries a burden around that you know you're to blame for
You just laughed and said they ain’t getting your name, now you’re gonna pay

For what you're putting her through and the only reason I ain't got you
She begged me not to, says she loves you but I ain’t through with you yet

CHORUS

(Wayne Carson Thompson)
© Budde Songs Inc (BMI)

Hey now honey so what so we had us a little fight
Both said some things that we didn’t mean last night
Yeah we should have kissed and made up instead
Of giving up and getting up on the wrong side of the bed

Now Lord knows that I’m an early riser
With this new day he sent me a reminder
Just as sure as the sun keeps rising
True love is true and it knows no compromising

CHORUS

So what part of I love you don’t you understand
Maybe you should take a whiff in that big ol’ red coffee can
If you still can’t see you’re the one and only one for me and always will be
Here’s a kiss and a cup sweetheart wake up and smell the coffee 

Looking right here at the front page of this morning’s paper
Just bad news and headlines of hatred and anger
This ol’ cruel world will try to bring you to the ground
But I’ll be danged if it’s gonna keep on keeping a good love down
                                      
CHORUS

Honey ain’t that just like a woman making something out of nothing at all
Then again ain’t that just like a man acting bullet proof and ten foot tall
 
CHORUS

(Aaron Watson, Neal Lowry)
© 2008 Sonnet Publishing LLC (Aaron Watson Songs BMI)

There’s way too many lying, stealing, crying, cheating
Fool-hearted drinking songs about somebody who done somebody wrong
Honey honky tonkin’ is what I do but my true love is loving on you
So baby tonight we gonna write a love makin’ song

CHORUS

We can kick it off slow with a bottle of wine or get straight to the ol’ punch line
Either way it starts it’s gonna end with an all night long
It’s guaranteed to be off the chart, solid gold, number one in my heart
Baby tonight we gonna write a love makin’ song

Girl I get inspired by watching you the sweet things you say and do
Maybe you got a few ideas of your own
Well, kiss for kiss and note for note, shut the door and lock the deadbolt
Cause baby tonight we gonna write a love makin’ song

CHORUS

Yeah, kiss for kiss and note for note, shut the door and lock the dead bolt
Cause baby tonight we gonna write a love makin’ song
I said baby tonight we gonna write a love makin’ song
A love makin’ song

(Aaron Watson)
© 2008 Sonnet Publishing LLC (Aaron Watson Songs BMI)

Now he don’t expect her to stay true to him and she never says that she will
But he’s got a first love that just might kill him and she knows he’s hooked on the thrill

CHORUS

So she’ll wait and worry then she’ll wait some more
For the fever that drives him to just run its course
She talks to that picture they took their last night together
Says you can’t be a cowboy forever, no you can’t be a cowboy forever

Sometimes he calls her and swears that the ground hurts more than it did yesterday
But she knows his voice and he still sounds determined to do whatever it takes

CHORUS

Then one night he shows up and he says what’s for dinner with that cocky grin on his face
The way that she smiled and the way that she held him told him he wasn’t too late

Then she closed her eyes and he put that ring on her finger
And said you can’t be a cowboy forever, no you can’t be a cowboy forever
No you can’t be a cowboy forever

(Kelley Lovelace, Lee Thomas Miller, and Jacob Lyda)
© EMI April Music Inc (ASCAP) and EMI Blackwood Music/New Songs of Sea Gayle/Noah’s Little Boat Music (BMI) and Stop The Press Music (ASCAP)

Words cannot express the way you look in that white dress
I don’t believe there’s ever been such a beautiful sight
All my dreams are coming true that yellow rose ain’t got nothing on you
Hearts are breaking across Texas tonight

CHORUS

Tears will be falling everywhere as you’re letting down your hair
From cowboys wishing that it was them holding you tight
But that’s the harsh reality and I’d feel the same if you hadn’t chose me
Hearts are breaking across Texas tonight                  

The Lonestar is shining bright above
And there’s magic in the air
And looking deep into your eyes I can’t help but sympathize
With those who will never know the kind of love we share

CHORUS

Yes hearts are breaking across Texas

(Aaron Watson)
© 2008 Sonnet Publishing LLC (Aaron Watson Songs BMI)

She’s as pure as a Sunday morning
Just as fun as a Saturday night
She’s as pretty as a stained glass window
Always shining like a neon light

When I’m holding her here in my arms
I feel as if there’s nothing I can’t do
But just the thought of her leaving me
Leaves me helpless and broken in two

CHORUS

My sweet contradiction
Those velvet chains that bind me
My cure and my addiction
Is her love and only her love can set me free 
  
And no I don’t understand
What did I do to deserve to be her man
She’s such an angel so why is she 
Flying so low so she can love someone like me

CHORUS

She’s as pure as a Sunday morning
Just as fun as a Saturday night
She’s as pretty as a stained glass window
Always shining like a neon light

Yeah she’s my sweet, she’s so sweet, she’s my sweet contradiction
That girl is sweet, she’s so sweet, she’s my sweet contradiction

(Aaron Watson/Neal Lowry)
© 2008 Sonnet Publishing LLC (Aaron Watson Songs BMI)

God bless Texas and Deacon Shackleford
He read the bible seven times and he believed every word
That ol’ beat up leather book had been through it all
He sat on the back pew so he could chew him a chaw singing
                 
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me

He carried candy for the kids in his Sunday dress coat
He’d take me fishing after church, he taught me things I needed to know
No Deacon didn’t have a family, Lord knows he wished he did
He told the whole congregation that I was his grandkid

CHORUS

And today he joined up with Jesus wearing shiny pearl snaps
We sang a few gospel hymns and then the soldier played taps
I bet he’s walking with Pete down a street paved with gold
Showing off his brand spanking new wings and his barbed wire halo

He married sweet Emma Grace before the war was through
She held his right arm next to his anchor tattoo
He was on a ship off at sea, when she died in child birth
He lost his whole world from the far side of the earth

He lost the will to love, he lost the will to live
Until he met a man who taught him to forgive
Yeah life took him to hell and back, to hell and back a time or two
But in the end he beat the devil until he was black and blue

Singing I once was lost, but now I’m found, was blind but now I see…

CHORUS

Before he went he made me promise him that I wouldn’t cry
And though I told him that I wouldn’t you know I couldn’t help but lie

Cause today he joined up with Jesus wearing shiny pearl snaps
We sang a few gospel hymns and then the soldier played taps
I bet he’s walking with Pete down a street paved with gold
As sure as the old church bell still rings
He always said he had country in his soul
He’s showing off his brand spanking new wings and barbed wire halo

Sweet chariot coming forth to carry me home
Swing low sweet chariot coming forth to carry me home

(Aaron Watson/Neal Lowry)
© 2008 Sonnet Publishing LLC (Aaron Watson Songs BMI)

I heard someone out poking fun
At this ol’ country boy and the songs that he sung
Still cracking jokes he sarcastically implied
Let me guess your girls gone and your dog just died, and I said hey

CHORUS

That’s what I like about a country song, where somebody done somebody wrong
Not just something that is understood, by those high rollers out in Hollywood 
It’s about real folks living a real life with real problems like an old ex wife
If you agree with the boys and me then sing along, that’s what I like about a country song

Some like to rock, some like to roll
Some like it fast and some like it slow 
If you’re left or right or right down the middle
Everybody stops to listen when that bow hits the fiddle

It’s music for the rich or poor, hot mommas driving to the grocery store
All the farmers, the doctors, the truckers and the teachers
The young punks, the old drunks, even church of Christ preachers PRAISE THE LORD

CHORUS

(Aaron Watson/Billy Yates)
© 2008 Sonnet Publishing LLC (Aaron Watson Songs BMI)/Smokin’ Grapes Music Publishing/Bilangray Music (BMI)