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DID YOU EVER HAVE A NICKEL
AND WISH YOU HAD A DIME?
DID YOU EVER TRY TO SEARCH YOUR SOUL
BUT COULD NOT FIND YOUR MIND?
DID YOU EVER LAY YOUR BODY DOWN
WITH SOMEONE THAT DONâT LOVE YOU?
THE COUNTRY BOY HAS BEEN THERE
THATâS WHAT MAKES HIM SING THE BLUES
ITâS NOT THE DRINKS YOU BOUGHT HIM
ITâS NOT THE TIPS YOU GAVE
FROM THE ROCKING OF HIS CRADLE
TO THE COVERING OF HIS GRAVE
YOUâLL NEVER KNOW THE LONELINESS AND SORROW HE GOES THROUGH
THE COUNTRY BOY HAS BEEN THERE
THATâS WHAT MAKES HIM SING THE BLUES
WHEN HE SINGS ABOUT A LOVE GONE WRONG
THEREâS NO TEARS IN HIS EYES
BUT THE LONELY KNOWS HEâS CRYING OUT
ALL THE HURT HE FEELS INSIDE
HE âS SINGING TO THEIR BROKEN HEARTS
THATâS ALL THATâS LEFT TO DO
THE COUNTRY BOY HAS BEEN THERE
THATâS WHAT MAKES HIM SING THE BLUES
ITâS NOT THE DRINKS YOU BOUGHT HIM
ITâS NOT THE TIPS YOU GAVE
FROM THE ROCKING OF HIS CRADLE
TO THE COVERING OF HIS GRAVE
YOUâLL NEVER KNOW THE LONELINESS AND SORROW HE GOES THROUGH
THE COUNTRY BOY HAS BEEN THERE
THATâS WHAT MAKES HIM SING THE BLUES
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- TEN: SONGS OF BEN BULLINGTON
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- Long Ride Home
- Theatre Of The Unheard
- Family Tree
- Aloha From Nashville
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- A Crooked Road
- Modern Hymns
- Transatlantic Sessions 3
- Promo Only: Country Radio, March 2012
- Music City Roots: SongRoots
- Coal Country Music (Deluxe)
- Live in NC
- No Song No Supper: Sugar Hill Singer-Songwriters Dish It Up
- Music of Coal: Mining Songs From the Applachian Coalfields
- Sugar Hill Records: A Retrospective
- Transatlantic Sessions - Series 3: Volume Two
- Take Me Back