NEVER HAVING YOU 

I guess I'll go through life never having you
I guess I'll go out of this world never having you

There's no way for me to love you at this late day it wouldn't be the same
There's no way for me to win you I'm so far behind it's so late in the game
I know I'll go through life...
[ fiddle ]
I know I'll go through life...

I must believe in reincarnation I got to have another chance with you
You're wrapped up in your situation you are music and I'm so far out of the tune
I guess I'll go through life...

I get mad when I think about it I know I'm a free thinking fool
This hunger is eatin' my heart out I'm a lunatic and you are so super cool
I know I'll go through life...

NEW MAN IN TOWN 

I'd like to introduce myself
Though you've seen me 'round
Well, I'm a new man in town.

You won't recognize my smile
It's upside down
Well, I'm a new man in town.

When my baby left me
I even lost my pride
I changed over night
From Dr. Jekyl to Mr. Hyde.

I don't walk and talk the same
Since she put me down
Well, I'm a new man in town.

--- Instrumental ---

I always had a great big smile
Wore my heart like a crown
Look how things have turned around.

She walked right out the door
Left Brown the clown
Well, I'm a new man in town.

There's somethings about me
You won't recognize
Like the way these bitter tears
Turn the color of my eyes.

I'm a-helpless self
I'm right to left
Bottom up to down
Well, I'm a new man in town.

Well, I'm a new man in town...

NEW PATCHES 

Now and then an old friend tries to help me
By telling me there's someone I should meet
But I don't have the heart to start all over
'Cause my heart is laying at anothers feet.

And you just don't put new patches on old garments
I don't want no one else on my mind
I just don't need nobody new to cling too
I still love someone I've know a long, long time.

--- Instrumental ---

I have built my world around a memory
And she's the only one that I let in
And everytime I try to love somebody
In my mind I'm loving her again.

No, you just don't put new patches on old garments
I don't want no one else on my mind
I just don't need nobody new to cling too
I still love someone I've know a long, long time.

I still love someone I've know a long, long time...

NIGHT LIFE 

When the evenin' sun goes down
You will find me hangin' 'round
Oh, the night life, it ain't no good life
But it's my life

Many people just like me
Dreamin' of old used-to-be's
Oh, the night life, it ain't no good life
Ah, but it's my life

Listen to the blues that they're playin'
Listen what the blues are sayin'

Life is just another scene
In this old world of broken dreams
Oh, the night life, it ain't no good life
But it's my life

Oh, the night life ain't no good life
Oh, but it's my life

Yeah, it's my life

NIGHTTIME AND MY BABY 

Well I work like a dog eight hours a day you know I'm nearly dead
When I stop by a bar on my way home and loosen up my head
Lord knows this is a hard life sometimes it'll drive a man crazy
And there ain't no pleasure in this life for me but the nighttime and my baby
Well I'd love to ride all over town in a brand new Cadillac
But on the money that I'm makin' it'll never be like that
But money don't buy everything
Like tender love that I always got at home just a waitin'
And the only pleasure in this life for me is the nighttime and my baby
When I get home she's always got good lovin' saved up for me
Her warm sweet lips will make me forget all of my misery
With her arms wrapped around me all through the long long night
I wake up in the morning feeling right mighty right
Start back to that old job again with the boss standin' over me
Sayin' hurry up you gotta do your work that's the way it's gonna be
Ten hours just keep on draggin' Lord don't you know that this life of mine ain't easy
But I wanna thank you for sendin' me the nighttime and my baby
Yeah I wanna thank you very much for sendin' me the nighttime and my baby
Oh I don't know bout makin' a nap if it wadn't for the nighttime and my baby
I believe I'd lose my mind if I didn't have the nighttime and my baby

NO CHARGE 

My little girl came up to me in the kitchen this
evenin'
While I was fixin' supper. And she handed me
A piece of paper she'd been writing on, and
After wiping my hands on my apron I read it
And this is what she said.

For mowing the yard - five dollars
For making my own bed this week - one dollar
Going to the store - fifty cents
Playing with my sister while you went to the store
Twenty-five cents
Taking out the trash one dollar
Getting a good report card - five dollards
And for raking the yard - two dollars
Total of fourteen dollas and seventy-five cents.

Well, I looked at her standing there expectantly
And a found memory flashed through my mind
And so I picked up the pen and turning the paper
Over this is what I wrote.

For the 9 months I carried you
Growin' inside of me no charge
For the nights I sat up with you
Doctored and prayed for you no chrage
For the toys that you chose
And for wiping you nose there's no charge
When you add it all up the full cost of my love
Is no charge.

Well, when she finished reading she had
Great big old tears in her eyes and she looked
Up at me and said mommy I sure do love you
Then she took the pen and in great big letters
She wrote - PAID IN FULL.

When you add it all up the cost of real love
Is no charge...

NO FUTURE FOR ME IN OUR PAST 

Word is around he walked out on you
And your world, it shattered like glass
I just found out that you're back in town
And searching for parts of your past.

You loved and lost, I lost and found
A new love I know will last
If you're hoping to find what you've left behind
There's no future for me in our past.

--- Instrumental ---

I know you're hurt and what you're going through
I want what's hurting for you
But there's not one thing in my past I can change
Even if I wanted to.

You loved and lost, I lost and found
A new love I know will last
But you're hoping to find what you've left behind
And there's no future for me in our past.

There's no future for me in our past...

NO MONEY IN THIS DEAL 

Well, I can meet you on the street
And I'll stop and talk to you
You can walk around the block
And I will walk around it too.

But you can sit down in the park
Do some lovin' in the dark
But to me you don't appeal
'Cause there ain't no money in this deal.

--- Instrumental ---

Now you might say to me let's eat
I might say my name is Pete
And you say that yours is Joy
But I know it could be Loy.

We can go ahead and fill
A life that isn't real
Later I might say I'm Bill
'Cause there ain't no money in this deal.

--- Instrumental ---

Well, if you want me dear
Come and get me I'll be here
And I will marry you
If you say that you will do.

Anything I say until
You buy me an automobile
But I won't stay with you still
There's some money in this deal.

--- Instrumental ---

Well, then she turned around and said
She'd rather be dead
Than to see me spend her money
When I ain't never called her honey.

And then for her thrill
She already got her fill
Told me to go find another
'Cause there ain't no money in this deal.

I mean it baby there's no money in this deal...

NO NO NEVER 

Sweetheart, did you think I'd be untrue
Did you think I'd ever cheat on you
No, no, no, no never.

Sweetheart, did you think that I'm the kind
Or that I'd ever change my mind
No, no, no, no never.

Oh, won't you be my little wife
Let me love you all my life
'Cause don't you know I'm inclined
I want your lovin' all time.

Sweetheart, did you think I'd be untrue
Did you think I'd ever cheat on you
No, no, no, no never.

--- Instrumental ---

Sweetheart, did you think the sun would shine
If I couldn't have you all the time
No, no, no, no never.

Sweetheart, did you think I'd ever try
Do you think I'd ever make you cry
No, no, no, no never.

Well, won't you be my little wife
And let me love you all my life
'Cause you know that I'm inclined
I want your lovin' all the time.

Sweetheart did you think it would make you blue
To treat me as sweetly as you do
No, no, no, no never.

--- Instrumental ---

Sweetheart, did you think it would make you blue
To treat me as sweetly you do
No, no, no, no never...

NO SHOW JONES 

Hey George. did you know Waylon and Willie?
They were the outlaws, I didn't know that at all son.
Did you roger was king of the road?
Uh Huh, you got it Possum.

Everyone knows Hanks been in prison
We didn't know that.
Dolly's got two big reasons she's well known.

Look out, they call me no show Jones
Instead of just singin' my songs
My whereabouts are unknown.

Loretta is closed my daughter
Ah, she's mighty pretty son.
Johnny wears back his tans all along.

Everyone knows about Kenny, he's a gambler.
Now I didn't know that.
Tell everyone about Tammy, George
Tammy had some kind excuse she divorced George Jones.

They call me no show Jones
He said I'm better off instead of just singin' my songs
My whereabouts are unknown.

They call me no show Jones
I'm still never on, on what? the stage.

They call me no show Jones
They call me no show Jones
They call me no show Jones...