American Junkyard
Brian Burns

Welcome, my friend, won’t you step through the gate?

I’ll be happy to show you around.

Anything in particular you’re lookin’ for,

well, you’ll find it on this sacred ground.

We only deal in the finest used merchandise,

quality worth every dime,

and all that you see here in every direction

is on sale for a limited time.


We got runners of races who came in last…

old folks with nothin’ left but the past…

kids who aren’t popular in their class…

hey, try tellin’ them times ain’t hard.

We got automobiles and pinball machines…

skeletons of old drive-in movie screens…

miles of unread books and magazines…

and we’ve got it all here for sale in the American Junkyard.


When people want somethin’ they don’t have already,

no price is too high to pay.

But as soon as they get it, they want something different,

and so they just throw it away.

So feel free to browse ‘til you’ve made your selection,

then come on in out of the rain.

Most people nowadays don’t care much for history;


this mornin' their loss is your gain.


We got outlaws who outran their restlessness…

poets and preachers who did their best…

teachers with courage and selflessness…

just try tellin’ them times ain’t hard.

Department store dummies with missin’ hands…

songbooks from Salvation Army bands…

old dogs whose owners made other plans…

and we’ve got it all here for sale in the American Junkyard.

We got dreamers and dark angels on the lam…

old downcast veterans from Vietnam…

who came home and nobody gave a damn…

try tellin’ them times ain’t hard.

We got records and eight tracks and old guitars…

posters of rock bands and movie stars…

mood rings and marbles in Mason jars…

and we’ve got it all here for sale in the American Junkyard.


Welcome, my friend, won’t you step through the gate?

I’ll be happy to show you around.


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Lyrics by Brian Burns

  A Cowboy's Prayer   Along Old Fence Lines   Angels & Outlaws   Angels & Outlaws (Reprise)   Believe In You   Bicycling In A Border Town   Borders To Cross, Bridges To Burn   Broke Down In Tulsa   Commerce & Pearl   Crying On the Shoulder of the Road   Dallas After Midnight   Dark Spanish Eyes   Don't Tell Mama   Down the Rio Grande   Drink the Drivin' Rain   East India Company (We Be Sailin')   El Llano Estacado   Fisherman's Blues   Gallo Del Cielo   Get Together   Gimme A Ride To Heaven   Good Night Angelina   He Never Came Back From Mexico   Highways, Heartaches, & Honky-Tonks   I Couldn't Lay This Guitar Down   I Don't Live Here Anymore   I've Been Everywhere (In Texas)   If You Don't Believe I Love You (Ask My Wife)   Intro To Bonus Track   Little Angel Comes A-Walkin'   Man Walks Among Us   Mexico In Mind   Montgomery Street (Where Did The Good Ones Go?)   Never Goin' Back To Mexico   Nothin' To Say (Austin Vs. Nashville)   Painted By Memory   Picasso's Last Words (Drink To Me)   Pico De Gallo (Bonus Track)   Rainin' In Juarez   Rattlesnake Tequila   Rose of the San Joaquin   Sagebrush Symphony   Send Me A Honky-Tonk Angel   Storm On the Ring of Kerry   Storm on the Ring of Kerry [Instrumental]   The Angel Of Goliad   The Crash At Crush   The End Is Not In Sight   The Haunted Jukebox (At The Lost Highway Saloon)   The King Is In His Castle   The Mistress of Storms   The Prettiest Girls In Texas   The Train Wreck At Kiowa Creek   Third Coast   Thunderstorms & Tyler Roses   Upside Down   Walker Behind the Wheel   Welcome To Texas   Well of the Blues   Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

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