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Twang

Twang (2:55)
Where Have I Been All My Life (3:07)
I Gotta Get To You (3:10)
Easy As You Go (3:21)
Living For The Night (3:42)
Same Kind Of Crazy (3:33)
Out Of Sight Out Of Mind (3:07)
Arkansas Dave (3:19)
The Breath You Take (3:36)
He’s Got That Something Special (3:23)
Hot Grease And Zydeco (3:17)
Beautiful Day For Goodbye (3:09)
El Rey (2:25)

1. Twang

Written by Jim Lauderdale, Kendell Marvel and Jimmy Ritchey

When I get off of work on Friday after working like a dog all week
I go to meet the boys for a cold one at a little joint up the street
They got a jukebox in the corner full of old country tunes
Feed it five dollars worth of quarters is the first thing I always do

Chorus:
‘Cause I need a little twang
A little hillbilly bending on some guitar strings
Some peddle steel whining like a whistle of an old freight train
To get that foot stomping honkey tonkin’ feeling going through my veins
I need a little twang, twang, twang

Well, I like a lot of kinds of music
I try to keep an open mind
Depending on the mood to strike me
If I’m gonna stay till closing time
So when I wanna lift my spirits to get me feeling worth a dang
I know I’m gonna have to hear it
‘Cause I gotta have some Hank to hang

Repeat Chorus Two Times

I need a little twang, twang, twang

© 2009 Wudang Mountain Songs, admin. by Bug (SESAC); Marvel Man Music/Bug Music-Songs of Windswept Pacific, admin. by Bug Music-Songs of Windswept Pacific; Vibe Room Music/Jimbalaya Music, admin. by BPJ Administration (BMI). All rights reserved. Used by permission. International copyright secured.

2. Where Have I Been All My Life

Written by Sherrie Austin, Will Nance and Steve Williams

Been down the road to work and back
Been in what I thought was love a few times
But every once in a while I stop and ask
Where have I been all my life

These days broccoli don’t taste so bad
And neither does swallowing my pride
And I’m agreeing more and more with my old man
Where have I been all my life

Chorus:
Some years are clear and some a little blurry
Man how they fly by
Mom and dad sure got old in a hurry
Where have I been all my life

Been learning that forgiveness is as much for myself
As it is for the other guy
And I read the good book these days and believe it
Where have I been all my life

Repeat Chorus

I heard “What A Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong
It brought a tear to my eye
After all these years I finally get that song
Where have I been all my life

© 2009 Magic Mustang Music Inc.; Lil Geezer Music/Bilangray Music/Smokin’ Grapes Music Publishing, Inc., admin. by Smokin’ Grapes Music Publishing, Inc. (BMI); Songs of Green Hills/Songs of Oak Hill/Pier Three Music, c/o Green Hills Music Group LLC, admin. by Big Loud Bucks (SESAC). All rights reserved. Used by permission. International copyright secured.

3. I Gotta Get To You

Written by Jim Lauderdale, Jimmy Ritchey and Blaine Larsen

Chorus:
I gotta get to you ‘cause you sure been gettin’ to me
Gotta find a way to get to your heart to sweep you off your feet
I’ll wrap you up in my love
Cover you with kisses so sweet
I gotta get to you ‘cause you sure been gettin’ to me

I’ll win you over
Over and over again
I’m getting closer
Closer than I’ve ever been

Repeat Chorus

I’ll keep on trying
Trying and I’ll never give up
I would be lying
If I said, we were close enough

Repeat Chorus

Gotta get to you ‘cause you sure been gettin’
Gotta get to you ‘cause you sure been gettin’ to me

© 2009 Wudang Mountain Songs, admin. by Bug (SESAC); Vibe Room Music/Jimbalaya Music, admin. by BPJ Administration (BMI); FSMGI/Slay The Giant/Blaine Larsen Music, admin. by State One Copyrights America (IMRO/SESAC). All rights reserved. Used by permission. International copyright secured.

4. Easy As You Go

Written by Steve Bogard and Rick Giles

He saw her after school sippin’ on a coke
Acted like a fool, crackin’ crazy jokes
She turned his motor on, man his heart was gone
Fire down below
Easy as you go

Chorus:
Easy as you go, steady as you fly
Keep it in the road, keep an eagle eye
Turn it on a dime, man you never know
Take a little time, whoo, whoo, oo
Easy as you go

Graduation night out behind the stands
In the fading light he became a man
She discovered love better be enough
‘Cause baby’s gonna grow
Easy as you go

Repeat Chorus

Judgmental frowns, teachers looking down
Parents all ashamed passing out the blame
They got a little room, service station view
The rent’s too high, the pay’s too low, whoo
Easy as you go

Ain’t nothing like a daughter or a son
To make a mama old and keep a daddy young
Make a body dream and give a life a theme
Take the highs and lows, whoo
Easy as you go
Easy as you go

© 2009 Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC/Rancho Papa Music, admin. by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC; 1808 Music/Music of Green Hills, c/o Green Hills Music Group, LLC, admin. by Big Loud Bucks (BMI). All rights reserved. Used by permission. International copyright secured.

5. Living For The Night

Written by George Strait, Bubba Strait and Dean Dillon

Everyday’s a lifetime without you
Hard to get through
Since you’ve gone
So I do the only thing I know how to
To get by
I’m living for the night

I’ve drawn all the curtains in this old house
To keep the sun out
And off of my face
Friends stop by to check in ‘cause I checked out
I tell ‘em I’m fine
I’m just living for the night

Chorus:
Daylight can’t hide the tears I cry
The pain that came with your goodbye
The memories that keep me out of sight
Every night I venture out into those neon arms that hold me tight
I’m living for the night

I’m a whole lot easier to talk to
When I’ve had a few
I settle down
The whiskey kills the man you turned me into
And I come alive
I’m living for the night

Repeat Chorus

I’m living for the night
Everyday’s a lifetime without you

© 2009 Day Money Music, admin. by HoriPro Entertainment Group, Inc. (ASCAP); Living For The Night Music, admin. by HoriPro Entertainment Group, Inc.; Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC/Unwound Music, admin. by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC (BMI). All rights reserved. Used by permission. International copyright secured.

6. Same Kind Of Crazy

Written by Delbert McClinton and Gary Nicholson

Did you ever meet somebody
That likes all the same things you do
Somebody who can make you
Or break you anytime they want to
I met her at a red light love at first sight
Can this be true
She’s good for me and she told me
I was good for her too
Now I don’t wanna jump into anything
I’ve been trying to use some self restraint
Man its amazing she’s the same kind of crazy as me

It’s getting hard to use a ladder
‘Cause I keep climbing down just to kiss her
And if she’s out of my sight for a minute or two
I start to miss her
We stay all tangled up in each other’s arms
And it’s so nice
She talks in her sleep but she always gets my name right
If there’s anything at all that’s wrong with her
It’s something I just can’t see
Ain’t no doubt about it
She’s the same kind of crazy as me

Chorus:
Wild, wild nights chasing each other through the moonlight
My, my, my I finally got something right
‘Cause every little off beat move she makes
Just suits me to a tee
Ain’t no doubt about it
She’s the same kind of crazy as me

Repeat Chorus

You know what I’m sayin’
She’s the same kind of crazy as me

Uh, huh
Tear it up boys

© 2002 Nasty Cat Music, admin. by Carol Vincent and Associates, LLC (BMI); Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC/Gary Nicholson Music LLC, admin. by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC (ASCAP). All rights reserved. Used by permission. International copyright secured.

7. Out Of Sight Out Of Mind

Written by George Strait and Bubba Strait

I always heard people say it
But I guess I never fully understood it
I thought that they meant
You’d be easy to forget
But it’s driving me crazy

Chorus:
Outta sight outta mind
You opened my eyes
And now I can see
What you mean to me
I was so blind
Outta sight outta mind

You know it hurt when you left me
But I thought life would go on without you
That was easier said
Can’t get you out of my head
I don’t know if I’ll make it

Repeat Chorus

I was so blind
Outta sight outta mind

© 2009 Day Money Music, admin. by HoriPro Entertainment Group, Inc. (ASCAP); Living For The Night Music, admin. by HoriPro Entertainment Group, Inc. (BMI). All rights reserved. Used by permission. International copyright secured.

8. Arkansas Dave

Written by Bubba Strait

He rode up on a winter day
Steam rising off a streak-faced bay
He said, “You probably know my name.”
If you don’t, it’s Arkansas Dave
He talked of fifteen years ago
And how he got the bay he rode
Said, he killed a man in Ohio
First man he killed, first horse he stole

It was a long road for Arkansas Dave
He shot and left him where he lay
Said, he’d never forget that winter day
He rode off on a streak-faced bay

I stood up and I shook his hand
Told no one that I knew this man
Started thinking up a plan
‘Bout how I’d deal him his last hand
Didn’t take him long to come unwound
He jumped up and gunned two men down
Ran outside to leave the town
But ‘ol bay was nowhere to be found
I hid out with my .44
And when he walked back through the door
I shot till I could shoot no more
And Dave Rudabaugh fell to the floor

It was the end of the road for Arkansas Dave
I shot and left him where he lay
I’ll never forget that winter day
I rode off on the streak-faced bay
No, I’ll never forget that winter day
I rode home on daddy’s streak-faced bay

9. The Breath You Take

Written by Dean Dillon, Jessie Jo Dillon and Casey Beathard

He looks up from second base
Dad’s up in the stands
He saw the hit, the run, the slide
There ain’t no bigger fan
In the parking lot after the game
He said, “Dad I thought you had a plane to catch?”
He smiled and said, “Yeah, son I did,

Chorus:
But life’s not the breath you take
The breathing in and out
That gets you through the day
Ain’t what it’s all about
You just might miss the point
Trying to win the race
Life’s not the breaths you take
But the moments that take your breath away.”

Fast-forward fifteen years
And a thousand miles away
Boy’s built a life, he’s got a wife
And a baby due today

He hears a voice saying, “I’ve made it son.”
Says, “I told you dad
You didn’t have to come.”
He smiles and says,
“Yeah, I know you did.”

Repeat Chorus

Just like it took my breath when she was born
Just like it took my breath away
When dad took his last that morn’

Repeat Chorus

© 2009 Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC/Unwound Music, admin. by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC; Immokalee Music/Bluebird In My Heart Music, admin. by Immokalee Music; Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC/Six Ring Circus, admin. by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC (BMI). All rights reserved. Used by permission. International copyright secured.

10. He’s Got That Something Special

Written by George Strait, Bubba Strait and Dean Dillon

I used to be the one who
She was always holding onto
Like a fool I told her way too tight
He was glad to see me let go
He’s all I see now in her eyes
He’s got that something special
But that something special used to be mine

Chorus:
She sees
More in him than she ever saw in me
She thinks
He’s got everything she’ll ever need
He’s got that something special
But that something special used to be mine

Never knew how good I had it
Never do till you don’t have it
I’d give anything to have her back
It hurts me to admit that
He’s got what I never knew I had
He’s got that something special
But that something special used to be mine

Repeat Chorus

He’s got that something special
But that something special used to be mine

© 2009 Day Money Music, admin. by HoriPro Entertainment Group, Inc. (ASCAP); Living For The Night Music, admin. by HoriPro Entertainment Group, Inc.; Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC/Unwound Music, admin by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC (BMI). All rights reserved. Used by permission. International copyright secured.

11. Hot Grease And Zydeco

Written by Gordon Bradberry and Tony Ramey

I hear the music, Big Daddy’s place
Smell that gumbo coming through that old screen door
Fans are blowing, flies are buzzing
People jitterbugging on that hardwood floor
Work my fingers down to the bone
Make the money and spend it on

Chorus:
Hot grease and zydeco
Feed my belly, feed my hungry soul
It’s Friday night, let the good times roll
Hot grease and zydeco
My baby’s loving, it’s deep fried
Golden brown legs and then long black hair
We start cooking when we kiss
No time at all, Lord she takes me there
Down on the Bayou they’re stirring it up
Tastes so good I can’t get enough

Repeat Chorus Twice

Feed my belly, feed my hungry soul
Turn it up, burn it up, say sure
Hot grease, hot grease and zydeco
Hot grease and zydeco

12. Beautiful Day For Goodbye

Written by Doug Johnson and Pat Bunch

Isn’t it like her to look so pretty
Like everything is all right
Like nobody cried all last night
Look at the sun, oh how it’s shinin’
Almost a picture perfect day
Like nobody’s going away

Chorus:
If it were just a little colder
She might need me to hold her
But wouldn’t you know it the weather is perfect
There’s not a cloud in the sky
It ain’t rainin’ or snowin’, there’s no cold wind blowin’
It’s a beautiful day for goodbye

Isn’t it like me to wait ‘til she’s leaving
To know how I feel
I love her and I always will
In a second or a moment, forever can change
So I’m standing here praying for rain

Repeat Chorus

Wouldn’t you know it the weather is perfect
There’s not a cloud in the sky
It’s a beautiful day for goodbye

13. El Rey

Written by Jose Alfredo Jimenez

Yo se bien que estoy afuera
Pero el dia que yo me muera
Se que tendras que llorar
Llorar y lloyar, lloyar y lloyar

Diras que no me quisiste
Pero vas a estar muy triste
Y asi te vas a quedar

Coro:
Con dinero y sin dinero
Hago siempre lo quiero
Y mi palabra es la ley
No tengo trono ni reina
Ni madie que me comprenda
Pero sigo siendo el rey

Una piedra en el camino
Me enseno que mi destino
Era rodar y rodar
Rodar y rodar, rodar y rodar

Despues me dijo un arriero
Que no hay que llegar primero
Pero hay que saber le llegar

Repeticion Coro

Produced by Tony Brown for TBE and George Strait for George Strait Productions

Recorded by Chuck Ainlay at Shrimpboat Sound Studio (Key West, FL) Assistant Engineer: Jim Cooley
Mixed by Chuck Ainlay at Backstage at Sound Stage (Nashville, TN)
Additional Assistant Engineers: Todd Tidwell and Joe Martino and Jim Cooley

Strings Recorded by Kyle Lehning at Starstruck Studios (Nashville, TN) Assistant Engineers: Casey Wood and Todd Tidwell and at Oceanway Studio (Nashville, TN) Assistant Engineers: Casey Wood and Rob Clark

Production Coordinator: Erin McAnally

Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering Studios (Portland, ME)

Musicians:

Eddie Bayers – Drums
Glenn Worf – Bass and Upright Bass
John Jarvis – Piano, Wurlitzer and B-3
Steve Nathan – Synthesizer, Piano, Wurlitzer and B-3
Randy Scruggs – Acoustic Guitar
Steve Gibson – Acoustic, Electric and Gut String Guitars
Brent Mason – Electric and Gut String Guitars
Paul Franklin – Steel Guitar
Stuart Duncan – Fiddle and Mandolin
Eric Darken – Percussion
Mike Haynes – Trumpet
Background Vocals – Tom Flora and Marty Slayton
Background Vocals on “El Rey” – Eddie Perez, Chris Rodriguez and George Strait
Strings – The Nashville String Machine

Management: Erv Woolsey, The Erv Woolsey Co., 1000 18th Avenue S., Nashville TN, 37212
Booking: Danny O’Brian, The Erv Woolsey Co., 1000 18th Avenue S., Nashville TN, 37212

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