Family Album
David Allen Coe

On Sunday after church there'd always be a picnic
There'd be kinfolks callin' until dawn
Me I'd play the guitar and my Uncle Merle would sing
And grandpa he'd play that fiddle all night long
Now the women folk they would work out in the kitchen
You could smell that food for miles and miles around
Paw he was prayin' my brother Jack would bring him down some moonshine
Just so's that he could warsh those viddle down
As soon as all the kids got tired of playin' horseshoes
Mama she'd call me over to her side
You know she'd say I'd like to take some pictures
You could see her face light up with pride
And then she'd bring out that worn out family album
Its faded pictures some with corners torn
She'd laugh and poin and tell me funny stories
And look she'd say why that's the day that you were born
And I'd sit and reminisce each picture with her
And I'd listen to her laughter and her sighs
But underneath I knew how much I'd hurt her
For I'd put teardrops in my mama's eyes

In my mama's eyes I've never done a wrong thing
I was still a baby in my mama's eyes
That old family album she'll keep on her night stand
Right next to the Bible until the day she dies

Through all those years in prison she stuck by me
And she came to visit anytime she could
Well I remember at my trial when she testified she loved me
And she told the judge I'd always been so good
Then later through the fame she watched me blossom
From just a local country singer to a great big star
She listened to all my records for the hidden meanings
And she came to hear me sing in all those dim lit bars
And she read all the things they wrote about me
But she knew deep in her heart that it was lies
No she don't hide her head in shame when someone says my name
You'll find no teardrops in my mama's eyes
In my mama's eyes...
Right next to the Bible until the day she dies


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Lyrics by David Allen Coe

  A Sad Country Song   A Satisfied Mind   Another Pretty Country Song   As Far as This Feeling Will Take Us   Atlanta Song   Back to Atlanta   Ball and Chain   Ballad of a Teenage Queen   Blue Grass Morning   Call Me the Breeze   Cheap Thrills   Child of God   Cum Stains On The Pillow   Desperados Waiting for a Train   Divers Do It Deeper   Face to Face   Family Reunion   Folsom Prison Blues   For Your Precious Love   Fraulein   Free Born Rambling Man   Free My Mind   Fuck Anita Bryant   Fuckin in the Butt   Fuzzy Was an Outlaw   Get a Little Dirt on Your Hands   Give My Love to Rose   Greener Than the Grass (We Laid On)   Hank Williams Junior   Hank Williams Junior-Junior   He Will Break Your Heart   Heads or Tails   Heavenly Father, Holy Mother   Hey Gypsy   Hey Porter   Home on the Range   Hot Wet Tight Bald Pussy   House of the Rising Sun   I Could Never Give You Up (For Someone Else)   I Still Sing the Old Songs   If I Knew   If This Is Just a Game   If You Ever Think of Me at All   Jody Like a Melody   Juanita   Just Divorced   Just in Time (To Watch Love Die)   Just to Prove My Love for You   Little Orphan Annie   Little Sussie Shallow Throat   Living on the Run   Long Haired Country Boy   Long Haired Redneck   Longhaired Redneck   Looking in the Mirror   Lost   Love Is a Never Ending War   Love Is a Never Ending War   Maria Is a Mystery   Me and Bobby McGee   Merle and Me   Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile   My Girl   Nigger Fucker   Now I Lay Me Down to Cheat   Now I Lay Me Down to Cheat [1981]   Old Man Tell Me   On the Road Again   One More Time   Play Me a Sad Song   Please Come to Boston   Please Come to Boston [1976]   Pledging My Love   Rails   Revenge   Ride   Ride 'Em Cowboy   Ring of Fire   Rock & Roll Holiday   Room Full of Roses   Rose Knows   San Francisco Mabel Joy   She Used to Love Me a Lot   Shenandoah   Shine It On   Skip to My Lou   Snowblind Friend   Someone to Give My Love To   Someplace to Come When It Rains   Son of the South   Spotlight   Stand by Your Man   Storms Never Last   Suicide   Sunday Morning Coming Down   Sweet Angeline   Sweet Vibrations (Some Folks Call It Love)   Take It Easy Rider   Take This Job and Shove It Too   Take Time to Know Her   Tanya Montana   Tennessee Waltz   Tennessee Whiskey   The Punkin Center Barn Dance   The Ride [C]   Thief in My Bedroom   Three Time Loser   Whiskey And Woman   Whiskey, Whiskey (Take My Mind)   Whole Lot of Lonesome   Why Me   Would You Be My Lady [*]   Yellow Rose of Texas   You Never Even Call Me by My Name

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