THE GIRL TURNED RIPE (AND THE PICKERS CAME TODAY)
(Merle Haggard)
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Well the girl turned ripe and the pickers came »
The Girl Turned Ripe
Swinging Doors and The Bottle Let Me Down
by Merle Haggard
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think Jesus knows him 'cause he ain't the Jesus kind
He's a laid back country picker with a laid back country mind
He gave the folks a good show »
Laid Back Country Picker
The Journey: Six Strings Away
by Waylon Jennings
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Mason Williams
Them Sand Pickers:
How 'bout them sand pickers, ain't they grand? Sittin' on their haunches, pickin' in the sand.
Pickin' in »
More Poems
The Kingston Trio (Nick-Bob-John)
by The Kingston Trio
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From rap, rock n' roll and country, to the blues
Ask how this became what I do
I was a picker in a band on a sleeper coach too
A picker in a band »
Sleeper Coach Driver
Spend a Night in the Box
by The Reverend Horton Heat
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I may look like a city slicker,
Shinin' up through his shoes.
Underneath I'm just a cotton picker,
Pickin' out a mess of blues
Show me where »
Country Boy
Country Boy
by Ricky Skaggs
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I may look like a city slicker,
Shinin' up through his shoes.
Underneath I'm just a cotton picker,
Pickin' out a mess of blues
Show me where »
Country Boy
Live in London
by Ricky Skaggs
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I may look like a city slicker,
Shinin' up through his shoes.
Underneath I'm just a cotton picker,
Pickin' out a mess of blues
Show me where »
Country Boy
County Fair
by Page Cavanaugh Trio
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never rest 'til I am the very best
The best guitar picker in this whole county
I said someday I know, I'll win my fame
One day all the world will »
Best Guitar Picker
The New Favorites of George Jones
by George Jones
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Toodles Mr. Jim
You cherry picker
Toodles I say, so long
Hear that your grave's a little warm you stickler
Sing 'em all your happy song
It's »
Toodles Mr. Jim
A Piano: The Collection [Barnes & Noble Exclusive]
by Tori Amos
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till I am the very best
The best banjo picker in this whole country
[ banjo ]
I said someday I know I'll win my fame one day all the world will know my »
Best Banjo Picker
The Pride of Country Music
by Charley Pride
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'Cause Curtis Loew was the finest picker
To ever play the blues
He looked to be sixty
And maybe I was ten
Mama used to whoop me
But I'd go see him »
The Ballad of Curtis Loew
Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd/Second Helping
by Lynyrd Skynyrd
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The old guitar picker had run out of liquor
So I sat down beside him and bought him a drink
I bought him another and finally some color
Returned »
Be Careful Who You Love (Arthur's Song)
Pure Hank
by Hank Williams, Jr.
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here, right here, right here at home
'Cause I'm a picker
I'm a grinner
I'm a lover
And I'm a sinner
I play my music in the sun
I'm a joker »
The Joker
Living in the USA [Collectables]
by Steve Miller Band
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Loew was the finest picker to ever play the blues
He looked to be sixty, and maybe I was ten
Mama used to whip me but I'd go see him again
I'd clap »
The Ballad of Curtis Loew
Live from Freedom Hall
by Lynyrd Skynyrd
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the finest picker to ever play the blues
He looked to be 60 maybe I was 10
Momma used to whoop me
But I'd go see him again
I'd clap my hands, stomp my »
The Ballad of Curtis Lowe
Southern Stars Shining
by Lynyrd Skynyrd
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Nashville cats, get work before they're two
Well, there's thirteen hundred and fifty two
Guitar pickers in Nashville
And they can pick more notes than »
Nashville Cats
Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful
by The Lovin' Spoonful
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Well now Frankie and Johnny were sweethearts
They were true as a blue blue sky
He was a long-legged guitar picker with a wicked wanderin' eye
But »
Frankie's Man, Johnny
The Legend [Columbia] [Bonus CD & DVD]
by Johnny Cash
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down
He's a poet he's a picker he's a prophet he's a pusher
He's a pilgrim and a preacher and a problem when he's stoned
He's a walking contradiction »
The Pilgrim
Last Man Standing
by Jerry Lee Lewis
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of a rag picker
Got the mind of a slug
I keep sweeping problems
Under my rug
All of my fine
My fine fair weather friends, yeah
Will have no more »
Homeward Through the Haze
Wind on the Water
by Crosby & Nash
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I may look like a city slicker,
Shinin' up through his shoes.
Underneath I'm just a cotton picker,
Pickin' out a mess of blues
Show me where I »
Country Boy
Hiding
by Albert Lee
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Well now Frankie and Johnny were sweethearts
They were true as a blue blue sky
He was a long-legged guitar picker with a wicked wanderin' eye
But he »
Frankie's Man Johnny
Legend
by Johnny Cash
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claim all these garbage dumps
In the name of
SING:
(The garbage pickers of America)
(The garbage pickers of America)
(The garbage pickers »
Garbage Dump
LIE: The Love & Terror Cult
by Charles Manson
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I'd like to give it all up and leave it behind
And join a nameless bunch of pickers with an ax to grind
A nameless bunch of pickers with an ax »
Axe to Grind
Wide Open
by Sawyer Brown
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hard times
Hell on Church Street blues.
Found myself a picker friend who's read yesterday's news
Folded up page twenty-one and stuck it in my »
Church Street Blues
Church Street Blues
by Tony Rice
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He was a good time, beer bar picker until the night she came along
He gave up his women and his liquor, and she put the sad in all his songs »
She Put the Sad in All His Songs
The Closer You Get...
by Alabama
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