She: Racing wheels under some great old bus
He: Children's faces sometimes smile at us
She: Miles of concrete roads that run our beat
He: Twelve o'clock I guess it's time to eat
She: Hail buddy, have you got a dime?
He: Thank you friend, we'll pay you back some time.
Candy bar and a glass of water meal
She: Can't help much to change the way we feel
Everything we are is on our backs
He: Wrapped up in these old brown gummy sacks
She: Think we'll sit us down and rest our loads
He: Then we'll get back on the road.
He: Ten more miles with all the county line
She: Where we hear the people treat you kind
He: The bummer's good, the sheriff's got a dog named Male,
She: Sometimes we just sleep the night in jail
Hey, there goes Joey, he is driving 99
He: Steady and stop and let us climb some time
I know he would but the company won't let him
She: Think old Joe was our one and only friend
He: What's that noise? It's someone call our names
She: Guess it's just some children playing games
He: Think we'll sit us down and rest our loads,
then we'll get back on the road.
She: Tell me Sir what do you call this town?
He: A pretty name Sir, and a pretty sound
She: It's funny Sir, our feet don't hurt no more
He: Our old backs ain't felt this good before
She: And something else Sir, while we think of it,
we're not hungry Sir, no not one bit!
Is that Tommy Blake and Daddy Sue
He: Thought they died way back in '62
She: Well, thank you Sir, you are so very kind
He: We'll stay a little while if you don't mind
She: We'll sit and talk Sir, and we'll rest our loads
He: Then we'll get back on the road
A soldier was sent
made to go and he went
to exist on the outskirts of hell.
And he wrote a letter to someone
wrote sometimes we fight
sometimes we run
it's just like playing football
…with a gun.
Ahhh ahhh ahhh ahhh ahhhhhh
Those Baghdad Knights!
Ahhh ahhh ahhh ahhh ahhhhhh
Those Baghdad Knights!
And the soldiers they stay
shoot to kill and then pray
they soon leave the outskirts of hell.
And they write their letters to loved ones
write somethimes we fight
sometimes we run
just like playing football
…with a gun.
Ahhh ahhh ahhh ahhh ahhhhhh
Those Baghdad Knights!
Ahhh ahhh ahhh ahhh ahhhhhh
Those Baghdad Knights!
And when the sun fades away
at the end of the day
and the sand in your mind starts to cool
the stars starts to shine
and they play tricks on your mind
`cause you brought your gun to school
Ahhh ahhh ahhh ahhh ahhhhhh
Those Baghdad Knights!
Ahhh ahhh ahhh ahhh ahhhhhh
Those Baghdad Knights!
Intro:
Sometimes a man and a woman spend 30 or 40 years together
and they don't belong together
And then one day one of them tries to leave and does
but in a most peculiar way
He: One of these days I'm leaving,
leaving you fool behind.
And on that day you'll be weeping,
little woman I don't mind.
Look out in the backyard, mama!
'cause I'm leaving you real soon.
Gonna fly me up to heaven
in my big red balloon.
She: You're noting but an old fool
that's all you'll ever be.
You're nothing but an old fool
you know you'll never beat me.
So stop your silly playing
it's time you settle down.
And hear me when I'm saying:
You'll never get that damn thing off the ground.
He: Oh, woman, are you looking
cause I'm almost 10 feet high, high, high
Woman stop your cooking
'cause I'll never eat that pie.
I'm on my way to heaven
might even touch the moon.
We've needed by my leaving
in my big red balloon.
She: You're noting but an old fool
that's all you'll ever be.
You're nothing but an old fool
you know you'll never beat me!
So stop your silly playing
it's time you settled down.
And hear me when I'm saying:
You'll never get that damn thing on the ground.
He: You never gave me nothing
you never were the kind.
You never gave me children
you never had the time.
Remember me just one
I was born this afternoon.
I've got it all together
in my big red balloon.
She: You're noting but an old fool
that's all you'll ever be.
You're nothing but an old fool
you know you'll never beat me.
So stop your silly playing
it's time you settle down.
And hear me when I'm saying:
You'll never get that damn thing on the ground.
I say, you won't get that on the ground.
What are your doing?
I say, bring that damn thing back down here!
Listen now you hear me
get back down here, all right?
When I was a young buck, I had all the good luck and I loved every woman I could
drinking and fighting was more than exciting
and loving was better than good.
Now, I'm buying back, buying back, buying back what I used to give away.
Now, I'm buying back, buying back, buying back what I used to give away.
The music was louder, we snored gunpowder
and the honky-tonks never did close.
The neon kept blinking, left no time for thinking
and we did what we did when we chose.
Now, I'm buying back, buying back, buying back what I used to give away.
Now, I'm buying back, buying back, buying back what I used to give away.
One night when she dared me, I married young Mary and I stayed drunk three years to the day.
She bossed me and crossed me, than walked out
and lost me and took all I had on the way.
Now, I'm buying back, buying back, buying back what I used to give away.
Now, I'm buying back, buying back, buying back what I used to give away.
Now I'm buying back, buying back, buying back what I used to give away.
Now I'm buying back, buying back, buying back what I used to give away.
Now I'm buying back, buying back, buying back what I used to give away.
How are you how you been funny seeing you again
I'm all right hope you are too by the way I still love you
Is he nice that's fine yes he once was a friend of mine
That's okay it was my fault too by the way I still love you
Love you more than I can say love you more each day
Every breath I take every smile I fake every hour I'm awake
Well so long do come around when you're in this part of town
Happy days good luck too by the way I still love you
Love you more than I can say...
By the way I still love you by the way I still love you
