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What A Day Yesterday WasAlan Jackson lyrics Album: High Mileage [1998] Tracks 10 01 Right on the Money 02 Gone Crazy 03 Little Man 04 What a Day Yesterday Was 05 Hurtin' Comes Easy 06 I'll Go on Loving You 07 Another Good Reason 08 A Woman's Love 09 Dancin' All Around It 10 Amarillo all Alan Jackson lyrics Right on the Money Let's begin with the day I met her How fast this good old boy's world got better Sky got bluer, the grass got greener Just the first few seconds after I first seen her Like my favorite song on a new set of speakers My best old jeans and my broke in sneakers A home run pitch floating right down the middle The sweet music made when the bow hits the fiddle She's Right on the money She goes directly to my heart And when it comes to loving me She's everything, I mean bulls eye perfect She's right on the money She's no red lights when I've overslept She's a three point jump shot that's nothing but net A hand full of aces, the dealer's done dealing I'm forever on a roll, that's how she's got me feeling She's Right on the money She goes direct to my heart And when it comes to loving me, she's everything, I mean bulls eye perfect She's Right on the money She's the best cook that's ever melted cheese I ain't much around the house, but I aim to please There's absolutely no reason to doubt her When she says I wouldn't last ten minutes without her She's Right on the money She goes directly to my heart And when it comes to loving me She's everything, I mean bulls eye perfect She's Right on the moneyback to top Gone Crazy Here I am alone again tonight In this old empty house It's hard to learn what you don't Think you need You can't live without Never leave the sound Of the telephone But ever since you left, I've been gone Gone crazy, goinout of my mind I've asked myself the reasons, at Least a thousand times Goinup and down this hallway Tryinto leave the pain behind Ever since you left, I've been gone I never saw your face this many times When you were really here The things you said I never Understood Are now crystal clear I never spent this much time At home But ever since you left, I've been gone Chorusback to top Little Man Alan jackson I remember walk'in round the court square sidewalk Lookin' in windows at things I couldn't want There's johnson's hardware and morgans jewelry And the ol' lee king's apothecary They ware the little man The little man I go back now and the stores are all empty Except for an old coke sign from 1950 Boarded up like they never existed Or renovated and called historic districts There goes the little man There goes the little man Chorus: Now the court square's just a set of streets That the people go round but they seldom think Bout the little man that built this town Before the big money shut em down And killed the little man Oh the little man He pumped your gas and he cleaned your glass And one cold rainy night he fixed your flat The new stores came where you do it yourself You buy a lotto ticket and food off the shelf Forget about the little man Forget about that little man He hung on there for a few more years But he couldn't sell slurpees And he wouldn't sell beer Now the bank rents the station To a down the road And sell velvet elvis and Second-hand clothes There goes little man There goes another little man Now the are lined up in a concrete strip You can buy the world with just one trip And save a penny cause it's jumbo size They don't even realize They'er killin' the little man Oh the little man It wasn't long when I was a child An old black man came with his plow He broke the ground where we grew our garden Back before we'd all forgot About the little man The little man Long live the little man God bless the little manback to top What a Day Yesterday Was Looking through these old photographs Don't they bring some good memories back Some of them make us laugh And some make us cry I'm glad we've kept all of these souvenirs To prove that our love was here Look at how happy we were Pictures don't lie (chorus) If forever should end today And there's no tomorrow for us What a day yesterday was Here's one of us with you calm and cool But look at me acting a fool And here's one of us on the ferris wheel At the fair Hey, haven't we had some fun The best may be yet to come We may have a hundred years Still left to share But... (chorus) Let's close this book of photographs And let's turn out the lights And love for the moment As if it were the last (chorus) |