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Ain't Gotta Go Home/Now That I'm Happy/Cheatham Co. Line/Amy/Mary Please/
Victim and the Fool/Black Cadillac/You Don't Call Me Honey/Dirty Hot/Smoky Mountain Rain

Ain't Gotta Go Home
- Johnny Mark Miller

I been workin' all night long
Answering the telephone
Servin' two day old keg beer
You ain't gotta go home but you can't stay here

You ain't gotta go home
(go home, go home)
You ain't gotta go home
(go home, go home)
I ain't servin' no more keg beer
You ain't gotta go home
but you can't stay here

Marty called me kinda late
Said, "Can you cover my shift, I got a date?"
"She's a hot little ticket from across the way."
Now what the hell was I supposed to say?

I swear that I can barely see
This smoky room is killin' me
I'll take an aspirin for my head
I just wanna take my ass to bed

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Cheatham Co. Line
- Johnny Mark Miller

Well I shot a man in Waco
for a fifty dollar bill
Had to pack my bags and get out fast
'cause the sheriff is on my tail
It's a long, long way to Texarkana
'bout as far to San Antone
So I'll stop for a bottle of cheap tequila
and make my way back home

I got a shotgun in the backseat
I got a body in the trunk
I got a thousand miles between here and there
So I may as well get drunk
I got a stateman on my taillights
But my Continental is fine
And I know I gotta make it
To that Cheatham County Line

Oooooh Weee
Ain't no goddamn fuzz
gonna catch up to me
Oooooh My
I got the pedal down
and I'm makin' real good time
Gas hand's a-looking fine
to that Cheatham County Line

Well, I pray dear God forgive
for this thing that I have done
I shot a man in cold blood
And now I'm on the run
Jesus won't you help me
Just get me back alive
And I'll never leave the borders
of that Cheatham County Line

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Now That I'm Happy
- Johnny Mark Miller

my feelings are hurt
my pride is gone
since you walked out and left me crying all alone
my brain's as numb as a wall
my heart is ripped in two
how could I've been so stupid to go and fall in love with you

what the hell was I thinking
what kinda trip was I on
started thinking that something that seemed so right
got to be so wrong
if you're out there somewhere
I hope hear this song
so you know how it feels
now that I'm happy now that you're gone

I sit around all day
there's nothing on that TV
so I lie to myself
and say hey I'm happy since you set me free
who do you think you're fooling
does anyone really care
does it make you feel good
to see me crying in despair

what the hell was I thinking
what kinda trip was I on
started thinking that something that seemed to right
got to be so wrong
if you're out there somewhere
I hope hear this song
so you know how it feels
now that I'm happy now that you're gone

now that I'm happy
now that you're gone
everything's alright, alright, alright
I'll never be alone

so I called up my friends
they said nobody's at home
said what are friends for
they leave me crying all alone
a smile's the sweetest revenge
to forget your enemies
so I burned all your pictures
in honor of your memory

what the hell was I thinking
what kinda trip was I on
started thinking that something that seems so right
got to be so wrong
if you're out there somewhere
I hope hear this song
so you know how it feels
now that I'm happy now that you're gone
so you know how it feels
now that I'm happy now that you're gone

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Amy
- Johnny Mark Miller

Amy I'd love to love you so
But I wish you'd learn to let me go away now
You wasted all your love on me
And you've got nothin' left, ya see, but pain now
I would give my life and then
to take you back to where and when
I felt the same
But the only thing I've got say
is there will never come that day
again love

Amy why can't you see
that you don't mean a thing to me no more
sorry it turned out this way
But now there's nothing left to say I'm sure
Yes, I'm sure

I just spent the last three years
sortin' through these lonely tears around you
And the only thing that I could find
to keep your heart away from mine was bound to
And it's true that everything we see
reminds us both of you and me alone then
But pretty soon that hurtin' fades
And you'll find someone else to make you happy
again 

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Mary Please
- Johnny Mark Miller

Now Mary please
Don't you cry for me
I've come to far for drivin'
And the whole damn world I've seen
I'm sure the when
the sun will rise again
that Smoky Mountain mist
will make a memory out of me

Went out to mountain
to see what I could find
Some poor trace of Mary
whispered in the pine
I was sure while pickin' daisies
she had lost her way
despite the rumors
that she'd left
in another's arms that day

Daddy always told me son,
don't tread those alone
The snakes, they have no mercy
And the bears, they have no home
If ever you should leave the path
lost then you shall be
forever left to wander
in the hills of Tennessee

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Victim and the Fool
- Johnny Mark Miller

I always took the things you put me through
Tell me, what's a boy to do
You'd play the victim and I'd play the fool
And that's the way it would be
You made me drink and I made you sick
I was as weak as your head was thick
You took advantage and you took it quick
And now I finally see

But I can't forget ya
After all that we've been through
Don't know how that I can
fall in love again
when I'm still in love with you

I still carry your picture around
in that faded leather wallet you bought downtown
You just smile back without a sound
That's so typical of you
I know that I'm as much to blame
I played a hand in this losin' game
But I just can't get you outta my brain
no matter what I do

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Black Cadillac
- Johnny Mark Miller

Well, I filled that bored engine with high grade gas
And enough fire power to get through Turner Pass
Trunk weighed down with a load of fine
first class, PGA, sour mash wine
If a smoky pulls me over I'm a going to jail
But Daddy got the money just to front my bail

Well, I know these back roads better than
I know the other side of my hand
And I've never not made a run on time
And I've never ever lost one drop of shine
Jesus don't love me and the Devil don't care
If the mountains don't get me
then the moonshine will

Revenuer, Revenuer, can't catch me
I'm way too fast for your Cutlass Capri
You can give 'er hell but I'm tellin' you Jack
that you ain't no match for my Black Cadillac

Daddy told me once, "Let me give you some advice."
He said, "Listen real close, I won't say it twice."
He said, "Never trust a woman, no matter how she try.
I'll tell you right son: all women lie.
And if you wanna be happy, let me put you on track.
Keep a quart of white lightning in your Black Cadillac."

Bristol, Knoxville, Saturday night
Crossville, Cookeville, by headlight
Nashville, Clarksville, Memphis too
Then back to Johnson City for a fresh batch of brew
I'll have a pocket full of money if the smoky don't bother
come Monday mornin', Hell or high-water

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You Don't Call Me Honey
- Joie Todd Kerns

Don't call me sweetie, darlin', or dear
That time is over now
You're feelings aren't so clear
Once loved you woman
But now I can see
what the hell you're tryin' to do to me

You don't call me honey anymore
You don't call me honey anymore

I took a week off hopin' to find
some kind of answers
'stead I blew out my mind
You tore my heart out
and ripped it in two
Now I don't know what the hell to do with you 'cause

I'll be crashin' out your windows
I'll be breakin' out down your door
But won't be just because you don't call me honey anymore
All this avoidance and confusion
it brings me down each day
If you would only just admit
you never loved me anyway

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Dirty Hot
- Johnny Mark Miller,
Joie Todd Kerns
 Logan Rogers

Blonde bombshell, legs from Hell
Ruby-red lips and a sad, sad tale
Skin-tight leather like you never seen
Too much of a woman for seventeen

She works hard for what she's got
She don't care if you like it or not
She's dirty...
Dirty Hot

Her heart's as black as her roots
Crushin' her smoke with her high heeled boots
Smells like sin, I'm telling you friend
You're fightin' a battle that you'll never win

You know that girl is poison
But the poison is oh so sweet
Tastes good on the tongue
You think you're having fun
till she knocks you off your feet
I see all you guys standing in line
hoping she'll flash her painted eyes
But she's gonna turn
And you're gonna learn
you play with fire you're gonna get burned
So burn, baby, burn....

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