Last Hard Town
Tom T. Hall

Woke up on a bus and heard the driver say friends fill it up with No 2
Wondered where I was and wondered what today would be demanding me to do
It's not for me the last cause I'm just goin' where life's sendin' me I guess
The thing that keeps us goin' is the good folks in the last hard town we met
I sat pickin' on my guitar till I saw the new sun comin' through the skies
Ain't it funny how the truth is sometimes written on an artificial high
Carry water from the well untill you know that all the children are refreshed
The thing that keeps us goin' is the good folks in the last hard town we met
We were drinking too much yesterday nobody's ever told us what's enough
The ones that we should've prayed for more than likely were the ones we had to cuss
They applauded as we killed ourselves but angels don't have bourbon on their breath
The thing that keeps us goin' is the good folks in the last hard town we met
[ guitar ]
They came to see the people that they thought we were and never changed their minds
They explained the way that difference caused the folks who love a picker can be blind
They misunderstood the words but understood that our intentions were the best
The thing that keeps us goin' is the good folks in the last hard town we met
What a picker does for others is the thing he's mainly doing for himself
There were friends and there were neighbors
But the good homes that we came from didn't help
If there's anything you'd like to say about us after we have gone to rest
We would like someone to mention all the good folks in the last hard town we met


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  (margie's At) The Lincoln Park Inn   (Margie's At) The Lincoln Park Inn   100 Children   A Bar With No Beer   A Million Miles to the City   A Picture Of Your Mother   A Week in a Country Jail   Adventures Of Linda Bohannon   Ain't Got The Time   Ain't Got The Time   All You Want When You Please   America The Ugly   And I Love You So   Another Town   Back When Gas Was Thirty Cents A Gallon   Back When The Old Homeplace Was New   Back When We Were Young   Ballad Of Bill Crump   Ballad of Forty Dollars   Barn Dance   Beautiful River Of Life   Beauty Is A Fading Flower   Beer Drinker's Waltz   Beer Drinker's Waltz   Before Jessie Died   Big Motel On The Mountain   Bill Monroe For Breakfast   Bourbon Man   Canadian Women Canadian Clubs   Candy in the Window   Carter Boys   Chattanooga Dog   Cloudy Day   Coot Marseilles Blues   Country Cabin Itis   Country Is   Day Drinkin'   Day Drinkin'   Deal   Different Feeling   Do It To Someone You Love   Don't Forget The Coffee Billy Joe   Don't Forget The Coffee Billy Joe   Easter Is   Everybody Loves To Hear A Bird Sing   Everything From Jesus To Jack Daniels   Everything from Jesus to Jack Daniels [*]   Fallen Women   Faster Horses   Faster Horses (cowboy And The Poet)   Faster Horses (The Cowboy And The Poet)   Flat-Footin' It   Flat-Footin' It   Forbidden Flowers   Forget It   Fox Hollow's Animal Train   Fox Hollow's Animal Train   Fox on the Run   From A Mansion To A Honky-Tonk   George (And The North Woods)   Gimme Peace   Girl Who Read The Same Book All The Time   Girl You Sure Know How To Say Goodbye   Girls In Saigon City   God Came Through Bellville Georgia   Gone To Hell In A Basket   Goodbye Cowgirl   Greed Kills More People Than Whiskey   Halloween Is   Hang Them All   Hang Them All (Get the Guilty)   Happy Groundhog Day   Harmonica Man   Harper Valley P.T.A.   Harper Valley P.T.A. 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A. Blues   L.A. 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I Love You   Pamela Brown   Pay No Attention To Alice   Piece Of The Road   Pinto The Wonder Horse Is Dead   Pisty   Promise And The Dream   Put Another Log On The Fire   Raking Up Leaves   Ramona's Revenge   Ramona's Revenge   Rattle Mouse   Ravishing Ruby   Redneck Riviera   Rolling Mills Of Middletown   Royal Annie   Running Wild   Sad Song For My Friend   Salute To A Switchblade   Saturday Morning Song   Second Handed Flower   Second Handed Flowers   Senior Citizen Star   Shame On The Rain   She Gave Her Heart To Jethro   Ships Go Out   Shoes And Dress That Alice Wore   Shoeshine Man   Sing A Little Baby To Sleep   Singer's Song   Singer's Song   Six O'clock News   Six O'clock News   Sky Blue True   Sneaky Snake   Soldier Of Fortune   Son of Clayton Delaney   Song For Uncle Curt   Song Of The One Legged Chicken   Songwriter   Souvenirs   Spokane Motel Blues   St. George Isle   St. Louis Named A Shoe After Me   Story Of Your Life Is In Your Face   Strawberry Farms   Subdivision Blues   Texas Never Fell In Love With Me   Thank You Connersville Indiana   Thanksgiving Is   That Lucky Old Sun   That Song Is Driving Me Crazy   That Song Is Driving Me Crazy [CD Only]   That'll Be All Right With Me   That's How I Got To Memphis   That's Why You Have To Be You   That'll Be All Right With Me   That's How I Got To Memphis   That's Why You Have To Be You   The Ballad of Bill Crump   The Carter Boys   The Dancing Tree   The Hitch-hiker   The Little Lady Preacher   The Man Who Shot Himself   The Monkey That Became President   The Old Side of Town   The Son of Clayton Delaney   The World The Way I Want It   The Year That Clayton Delaney Died   There Is A Miracle In You   Time Takes Care Of A Few Things   Too Many Do-Goods   Trees In Philadelphia   Trip To Hyden   Tulsa Telephone Book   Turn It On Turn It On Turn It On   Turn It On, Turn It On, Turn It On   Waiting On The Other Shoe To Fall   Water Blue   Watertown Tennessee   Way I've Always Been   Way I've Always Been   Way We Were   We're All In This Thing Alone   We're All In This Thing Alone   Week In A Country Jail   What A Song   When Nobody Wants Your Body Anymore   Whiskey Castles   Who Needs A Baby   Who's Gonna Feed Them Hogs   Whole Lot Of Love   Willy The Wandering Gypsy And Me   Windy City Anne   World According To Raymond   World The Way I Want It   Year That Clayton Delaney Died   You Are A Star   You Are My Hero   You Show Me Your Heart (and I'll Show You Mine)   Your Birthday Is   Your Man Loves You Honey

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