Verse 1

C									   F
Crushing round my city on a mildly heavy Tuesday
C						F
Polling stations humming
			G
But you know we can’t vote

C								F
Living in the shadows, with all the paths that we chose 
C						F.                       G
Defy the odds and try to stay afloat

C									    F
How you walk there with the broken 
C								F
Not the sitting with the great 
C								F
Thats the measure  of a man 
             G
And it just  might be your fate 



Chorus
F.   						C
And nobody loves an outlaw 
F							C
In my little group of singers
E7
We all write songs of good times 
                Am
with the fam

F						C
And nobody has a story 
F						C
Of a string of all nighters 
E7									Am
Never heard a tale of being in a jam
F					     G			      C
And Nobody loves an outlaw in this town


Verse 2

C								F
The high that we were chasing 
C									F
And the run that we were making 
C						F				    G
Crumble with the payment to be made

C					  F
We only seek redemption
C									F
From the things that we don’t mention 
C								F
It keeps a piece of our life
						G
From being sucked away 



Chorus
F.   						C
And nobody loves an outlaw 
F							C
In my little group of singers
E7												
They all write songs of good times 
                     Am
with their fam

F						C
And nobody has a story 
F						C
Of a string of all nighters 
E7									Am
Never heard a tale of being in a jam
F					     G			      C
And Nobody loves an outlaw in this town


Bridge

F					C
Inhale with aeration 
F					C
exhale our desperation 
F							   C
We bring our demons to the top
          G
And cut them to the ground

F					   C
Hearts made of gold
F							C
The stories have been told
F						C.                  G
Hear us make a rumble little sound 

Chorus
F.   						C
But nobody loves an outlaw 
F							C
In my little group of singers
E7												
They all write songs of good times 
                     Am
with their fam

F						C
And nobody has a story 
F						C
Of a string of all nighters 
E7									Am
Never heard a tale about being in a jam
F					     G			      C
And Nobody loves an outlaw in this town
F					     G			      C
No Nobody loves an outlaw in this town

Nobody Loves an Outlaw

All vocals, instruments, and production by Burke Caroll. Written by Harry Gamble.

Have a Cigar

HW Gambie - Songwriter only

Have A Cigar

Verse 1

Em.  						G                   
The thickest cream rises to the top
Am						 C
If you ain’t thick you better swap 
A
Swap your place for a better point 
           B7
of viewwww

Em							     G
There’s a poor man happy as a lark
Am										C
Says nothing really good happens after dark 
A											   B7
Start hanging out with a better kind of crewww

Chorus

Em 

Oh have a cigar 
				        G
Is what he said to me
				Am						C
Celebrate everything that you can see
A												B7
Claw and scratch til you finally find that spark
Em
Have a cigar
						G
He said it one more time 
					Am.                    C
Realize you’re always in your prime 
A											      B7
Make sure your bite is stronger than your barrrrk
                     Em.      G.      Am.    C.     A.    B7
Have a cigar

Verse 2

     Em										G
There was a man who once said to me
		        Am.           C
I’m gonna live to be 103
A											B7
He put himself in a different frame of minnndd
			      Em						     G
Break some bread with the ones you love
          Am.                                       C
Be gentle with the things that you think of
A											B7
keep yourself from being so confinnnnned

Chorus 

                Em
Have a cigar 
						      G
That’s what he said to me
				Am						C
Celebrate everything that you can see
A.         											B7
Claw and scratch til you finally find that sparrrrk
              Em
Have a cigar
						G
He said it one more time 
				    Am.                C
Realize you’re always in your prime 
A								                        B7
Make your bite much stronger than your barrrrk
                      Em    G.    Am.    C.     A.    B7
Have a cigar


Verse 3

			           Em.                                G
If you can’t get up with a smile and a grin
		Am 			         C
Jump right in to the prizes that you can win
A									             B7
He said your only hope is to go out in a Blaaaazzze

				Em.                                      G
Sitting round waiting for your luck to come 
                     Am.                                C
Blaming everything on where you came from 
A															B7
You’ll be pushing up daisies if you don’t change your waaaayys


Chorus

Em 
Ohhh have a cigar 
				        G
Is what he said to me
				Am						C
Celebrate everything that you can see
A												B7
Claw and scratch til you finally find that sparrrrk
Em
Have a cigar
						G
He said it one more time 
					Am.                    C
Realize you’re always in your prime 
A											      B7
Make sure your bite is stronger than your barrrrk
                     Em.      G.      Am.    C.     A.    B7
Have a cigar

Em.  G.    Am.  C.    A.  B7. Em

Have A Cigar

When It Thunders and It Rains 

Verse 1 

C						   			 E
When the heavens rumble like a train
					      Am
That’s when I feel the pain
			  F
 That’s when she left this world

C							  E
And now it goes without saying 
					Am
It will eventually wane
			F
And the memories blur


But that thought is not enough

I feel it down in my gut 

The way things they were


Chorus
Dm			F				C
When it thunders and it rains
Dm		   F			C
Only a shell remains
F				C.  F				C
That’s when I cry that’s when I cry
F				 G				C
That’s when I feel it in my veins

Verse 2

With the clearing of the sky

I summon courage and try

Try to bring her with me


She was so so proud and strong 

I try to carry along 

Everything of her she


Everything that she had

But I’m still so sad

And no one sees

Chorus
Dm			F				C
When it thunders and it rains
Dm		   F			C
Only a shell remains
F				C.  F				C
That’s when I cry that’s when I cry
F				 G				C
That’s when I feel it in my veins


Bridge

Am.   G.   F
I will be happy once again
Am			F		E
And as for my friend 

Am.   G.   F
I know just what she’d want to see
Am			F			E
So I will push until I feel free  

C				E			Am			F

Chorus
Dm			F				C
When it thunders and it rains
Dm		   F			C
Only a shell remains
F				C.  F				C
That’s when I cry that’s when I cry
F				 G				C
That’s when I feel it in my veins

That’s when I cry, that’s when I cry

That’s when I feel it in my veins

When It Thunders and it Rains

Verse 1

This song’s  probably not about you

Unless you’re the one who turned the screw 

The screw that put a new hole in my head 


Come to think of it there’ve been a few

They’d light a match until it blew

Blew my view of humanity to shreds 

And now I’m…
 
Chorus

Venmoed and cashed-apped to death 

My bank account is choked out of breath

This woman’s reeking havoc on my health 

She’s a Lady Macbeth 

Verse 2

She could manipulate a stubborn mule 

Take the educated back to school

Do it with that devil smirk and smile

Sees every man as a fool

Tells a tale and thinks it’s cool

Walks around in impeccable style

And now I…
 
Chorus

Can’t find about half of my clothes

She’s on the phone with who the Hell knows

I’m a minor minion muddled in a mess 

And She’s a Lady Macbeth 

Verse 3

I hope she and I don’t meet our fates

Like the Bard wrote it back in the day

I really don’t want to end up on the news


But I could use a little peace these days 

Talk to my dog and see what he says 

Before I get those low down delta blues 

Now I…

Chorus 

Had to sell my horse hide shoes 

I need but can’t afford a cruise 

And my patience has just met a sudden death 

From Lady Macbeth 

She’s a Lady Macbeth

She’s a Lady Macbeth

We All Have Our Own Pair of Shoes

Verse 1
C
Smoking nasty cigarettes 
F
drinking lots of booze
C										F
She has cold black ink running down her spine
			D
Doesn’t care about the news 

C
She quit her job at the restaurant 
F
Doesn’t have too much to do
C							
      She’s worthless to the masses
		F					D 
but she never gets the blues


Chorus

F					C			  G
We all have our own pair of shoes 
We never loan or borrow cause we have too much to lose

Some have their seersucker suits
Dm.                 F			C
Others they are walking in boots
F						C		F					C
But no matter your style you just can’t walk a mile 

Dm				F					C
We all have our own pair of shoes

Verse 2

Danny was a guitar player 

when he was in school 
C					F					D
A path of which his father did not approve 
C
He said stay school and get a job 
F
a job that’s not for fools
C						F				  D
But that just made Danny want to improve 

Chorus 

Bridge
D				  F						C
And empathy sure ain’t taught in schools 
F					C					 G
Is there ever a reason for being cruel?
D					F					C
Do you struggle to see my point of view?
F				C				D
Does anyone even have a clue?


 Chorus

We All; Have Our Own Pair of Shoes

Gonna Buy Myself a Boat 

Harry Gamble

E.       A.     E
E.          B7

Verse 1

I got a breezy barefooting melting kinda vibe

Salty air and water that your doctor can’t prescribe 

South Alabama South Padre south anywhere you choose 

I’m gonna leave that muddy water town take off these cowboy boots

Chorus

I like the tiki bars and staring at stars while the sand creeps through my toes

When the sun paints the morning sky before the wind begins to blow 

I like the briny haul of the shrimper’s trawl where the saw palmetto grows

One day I’m gonna move down here gonna buy myself a boat 

Verse 2 

I’m gonna buy myself a boat I said I’m gonna make myself a breeze

Load the tank and a couple of drinks go anywhere I please

You can come along if you’re feeling strong but we might stay out all day 

Cause I know a place with plenty of space gonna melt your blues away

Chorus

Verse 3

I want to anchor up in the evening the breeze keeps the bugs away

There’s a light little chop that’s gonna make us rock but that’s perfectly okay 

And when the morning comes and we see the sun and jump into another day

We shoot out again to the pirates den just across the bay 

Chorus

Gonna Buy Myself A Boat

Welcome to My Free World

Harry Gamble

Verse 1

Sandy Britches Drinkard lived down at the marina on a 1970 Irwin Competition 

The same year that she was born, in the age of flower hippies, what they called free love, Woodstock and Nixon

And ole Sandy still embraced wandering ‘round from place to place, and the freedom of not keeping anchor down 

When asked why she never married and did she not regret it she smiled and offered everyone a round 

And said…

Chorus 
E							         G		A				E
I wake up to my own sunrise every single morn 

I rarely have to compromise I  can weather any storm

The dreams with every breath I take help keep my sails unfurled 

I’m a dance ‘til I levitate off the sand…kind of girl….

Welcome to my free world 

Verse 2

When Sandy was much younger they would call her Peaches she broke those hearts like a shark breaks a fishing line

The only man that almost got her off the beaches was a rawhide Texan tall dark and fine

He had riches from the oilfields a back as strong as oxen she knew that he could probably take her far

Well he almost had ole Sandy until one restless evening she took right off after a shooting star

Singing…

Chorus 

I wake up to my own sunrise every single morn 

I rarely have to compromise I  can weather any storm

The dreams with every breath I take help keep my sails unfurled 

I’m a dance ‘til I levitate off the sand…kind of girl….

Welcome to my free world 

Bridge 
D					F						G			D
You know she had her ups and downs but she was always real

Sandy never claimed her life was best way or ideal

A heart a big as the ocean she had country mile grin
														B7
They all just said some people have to sail… in the wind

Chorus 

I wake up to my own sunrise every single morn 

I rarely have to compromise I  can solo any storm

The dreams with every breath I take help keep my sails unfurled 

I’m a dance ‘til I levitate off the sand…kind of girl….

Welcome to my free world

My Free World

Simple Ways 
G
In the misty morning 
                      F.                   C
This old body feeling sore

Somebody brewed some coffee 
Think I need a little more 

These guitar strings sound better 
On a creaky southern porch 

Down here in the country
Feel the summers scorch 

Chorus

There’s low down blues in the forecast 

The roads run slow for days

But there’s a peace we find with living

Come feel our simple ways

Verse 2

I can hear Mrs classie complaining You know shes never had a thing

Lived in a field in a run down shack Where cotton pickers used to sing

And when classie died and they laid her down in that chapel grave

I thought about her ways of life and I knew that she’d be saved

Chorus 

Bridge 
E						         F
The days down here are heavy 
					G
The nights are easy
			F.       C.    G
Always easy

Yeah

And when the morning comes the sounds
They’re pleasing 
I said they’re pleasing 
Yeah 

Chorus

Simple Ways

Verse 1

E G A E

I live down on the river pretty far down

Still single don’t mingle there ain’t much in the this town 

But I had me a woman in my digs for a year 

Now she put the see ya later right in my ear  

Chorus 
D F G D
She moving out of my house 
It’s gonna be boring and dead as a mouse
I’ve gotta crank up the stereo get me a dog
Start a new hobby, leave the TV on
I can’t sit around and pout
Cause like I just told you she’s moving out
 
Verse 2

E G A E
Plenty good times were had around here
That girl was mighty pretty and could kill a few beers
We had a few laughs had a few tears too
Now that she’s leaving I won’t know what to do 


Bridge
G
I hear cries from these lonely 
D
rooms
G.                                               D
One time I thought it was you 
G
And I don’t believe in ghostly 
D
things 
C
But you’ve gotten in my brain
G
You’re in my brain


Verse 3

She said she was leaving when she finished her hair 
Well good God a mighty that could be in a year
When she finally got out I wasn’t crying at the time 
But then the night got lonely and look the whole thing rhymed

She’s Moving Out

If I were a burlesque artist And if I could sing

And were a little bit younger Lord I would make it ring 

Two side braided tassels Of my rich brown hair

The smell of jealous dancers Muddling up the air 


Chorus
G						D
If I were someone else 

In tight pants and wearing bells

Ooh I could make the ice cream melt

In the circus of stars 

If I could take the stage at night 

Do something underneath the lights 

Wouldn’t that be outta sight?

It don’t seem that bizarre 
D						F			  C
I don’t mean to take away from myself 
NC									DFC
But if I were someone else…

Verse 2

I don’t wanna be nobody’s right hand man 

Maybe a queen or one of those princes we’ve had

Maybe the king of the carnival time

Drinking too much whiskey down there ain’t no crime

Chorus

Bridge 
Em						G
None of us can truly fight
Am							       C
The dreams that we have at night
Em										G
Tucked away where they can’t been seen
Am									C						   D
And pushed aside because we don’t know what they mean

Chorus

D.  F. C D

Ooh someone else…

D.  F. C D

If I Were Someone Else

If I were a burlesque artist And if I could sing
  
And were a little bit younger Lord I would make it ring 

Two side braided tassels Of my rich brown hair

The smell of jealous dancers Muddling up the air 


Chorus
G						D
If I were someone else 

In tight pants and wearing bells

Ooh I could make the ice cream melt

In the circus of stars 

If I could take the stage at night 

Do something underneath the lights 

Wouldn’t that be outta sight?

It don’t seem that bizarre 
D						F			  C
I don’t mean to take away from myself 
NC									DFC
But if I were someone else…

Verse 2

I don’t wanna be nobody’s right hand man 

Maybe a queen or one of those princes we’ve had

Maybe the king of the carnival time

Drinking too much whiskey down there ain’t no crime

Chorus

Bridge 
Em						G
None of us can truly fight
Am							       C
The dreams that we have at night
Em										G
Tucked away where they can’t been seen
Am									C						   D
And pushed aside because we don’t know what they mean

Chorus

D.  F. C D

Ooh someone else…

D.  F. C D

Verse 1
C.                                        G
Sweeter than a birthday cake 
F.                                         C
Dances like a rattlesnake 

C G F C.
That’s to say she can really shake, really shake it loose
C								G
She don’t go with just any bloke
F								  C
Sticks with me even when I’m broke 
C. G. F. C
She’s on my mind I’m walking blind it ain’t no use 

Chorus 
D F C  D
I wake up to Wonder Woman every single morn

It’s an I gotta have her with me all the time kind of yearn

The tiny things add up to a big old honking world 
									  G
Of little miss can’t hardly do no wrong….. super girl 

Verse 2
C.                                        G
She will have a martini drink
F.                                             C
But not so much that she can’t see

C. G. F. C
Always hands over the keys, when I need to drive
C.                                 G
There was a time in 93
F.                                                  C
When she didn’t get the best of me
C. G. F. C 
But that is such a rarity, as long as we’ve been alive 
Chorus 
Bridge

She may not be the queen but she’s a princess in my universe 

And a super hero too, Lord I couldn’t stand the thought of losing her

Got my head going around like I been spinning on a tilt a whirl  
																	A.  B7
Dont ask me her real name I told ya she’s my super girl 


Chorus 

D F C  D
I wake up to Wonder Woman every single morn

It’s an I gotta have her with me all the time kind of yearn

The tiny things add up to a big old honking world 
									  G
Of little miss can’t hardly do no wrong….. super girl 

Ahh Super Girl…

Super Girl

D
Living in an extended stay 
A
How you pay for it you won’t say
G
And I’m pretty sure anyway 
D							A
You’re gonna turn it around 

You find plenty of time to play 
When your sugar people are away 
Only been six hours since your last stray but

You’re gonna turn it around 

Chorus 
G												D
Hell, Hell Holly, no thats not where you are going 
Em																A
We’re gonna make it into that church there when your river stops flowing  

So read your Bible verses and let’s bury all the clues

Cause Hell, Hell Holly, it ain’t ready for you

Verse 2
D
You lived with me for a week 
A
You did things of which I will not speak
G
Aww girl you made the devil weak
D				A
Look at what all you stole

With the prospects looking bleak 
C’mon let’s start you a winning streak 
Meet me down there by the creek 
Let’s baptise your soul

Chorus

Bridge 
D
Hey will you let me hope and dream 
C
That things are not as they seem? That the
D
promised land is within your view
C														A
And Holly that all these good things will soon ring true?

Chorus

Hell, Hell Holly

Some people are just easy on eyes

She Brings The Heat

Some people are just easy on eyes

Some can keep you laughing just about til that sun does rise 

Others got all the money but maybe not much else 

But this woman’s got me sizzling like the burning fires of Hell 

Chorus 
D.   F					
I’m hot around the collar
G
I’m sweating like Nicaragua
D		F		C		G
Oh I keep falling farther down into the flame 
D			F			A		
Yeah she fires me up and that strut don’t miss a beat 
D			F			G
She brings the heat 

She brings the heat

Verse 2

Girl you’re the fire on the trail of some gasoline 

A screaming locomotive with a head chocked full of steam 

I’m a bucking bronco cooped up in a stall

Im burning in your presence and I’m hot enough to scald

Chorus 
D.   F					
I’m hot around the collar
G
I’m sweating like Nicaragua
D		F		C		G
Oh I keep falling farther down into the flame 
D			F			A		
Yeah she fires me up and that strut don’t miss a beat 
D			F			G
She brings the heat 

She brings the heat


 Verse 3 (or Bridge)

My cousin used to make the bricks to build them big nice homes

He took me on a tour one time and the kiln that that was really going

He said this thing heats up to a contrillion degrees

Just like my red mama she will bring you to your knees

Chorus 
D.   F					
I’m hot around the collar
G
I’m sweating like Nicaragua 
D		F		C		G
Oh I keep falling farther down into the flame 
D			F			A		
Yeah she fires me up and that strut don’t miss a beat 
D			F			G
She brings the heat 

She brings the heat

Yeah she fires me up and that strut don’t miss a beat 

She brings the heat 

She brings the heat

Some can keep you laughing just about til that sun does rise 

Others got all the money but maybe not much else 

But this woman’s got me sizzling like the burning fires of Hell 

Chorus 
D.   F					
I’m hot around the collar
G
I’m sweating like Nicaragua
D		F		C		G
Oh I keep falling farther down into the flame 
D			F			A		
Yeah she fires me up and that strut don’t miss a beat 
D			F			G
She brings the heat 

She brings the heat

Verse 2

Girl you’re the fire on the trail of some gasoline 

A screaming locomotive with a head chocked full of steam 

I’m a bucking bronco cooped up in a stall

Im burning in your presence and I’m hot enough to scald

Chorus 
D.   F					
I’m hot around the collar
G
I’m sweating like Nicaragua
D		F		C		G
Oh I keep falling farther down into the flame 
D			F			A		
Yeah she fires me up and that strut don’t miss a beat 
D			F			G
She brings the heat 

She brings the heat


 Verse 3 (or Bridge)

My cousin used to make the bricks to build them big nice homes

He took me on a tour one time and the kiln that that was really going

He said this thing heats up to a contrillion degrees

Just like my red mama she will bring you to your knees

Chorus 
D.   F					
I’m hot around the collar
G
I’m sweating like Nicaragua 
D		F		C		G
Oh I keep falling farther down into the flame 
D			F			A		
Yeah she fires me up and that strut don’t miss a beat 
D			F			G
She brings the heat 

She brings the heat

Yeah she fires me up and that strut don’t miss a beat 

She brings the heat 

She brings the heat

She Brings the Heat

Almost every night deep down in my dreams

I see it come around with that sunflower beam

But in the daytime when sometimes you are gone

You can’t even guess how much I do long I do long


Pre chorus 
D										F							C
Yeah you glow like the snow when it grows when you’re in my space 

Chorus 
						G. D. F. C
Aw I need to see your face
			D
Baby See your face

   D					F             
Lord we can feel it 
C					                                    
wanna steal it …when you 
                          G
walk into the place 

						D
With that face
			D
See your face
D. F. C. 														D												     
I can’t stand it I demand it Lord I’m begging for you to grace 

I gotta see your face 

Verse 2

Now babe you know you look good but that ain’t all 

It all started with the day I tripped and fell into your thrall 

And your charm and wit I checked those off too

I’m still not sure how you do what you do what you do

Pre chorus 
D										F							C
Yeah you glow like the snow when it grows when you’re in my space 

Chorus 
						G. D. F. C
Aw I need to see your face
			D
Baby See your face

   D					F             
Lord we can feel it 
C					                                    
wanna steal it …when you 
                          G
walk into the place 

						D
With that face
			D
See your face
D. F. C. 														     
I can’t stand it I demand it Lord I’m begging for you to grace 

I gotta see your face 

Verse 3

D.   			F				G			D
eyes as Blue as the Kentucky skies

There ain’t nothing like them dimples when you give em a big ole smile

D					F				G
And the lines, i said the lines lord they make me wanna cry

put together all so perfectly just to captivate my eyes

Pre chorus 
D										F							C
Yeah you glow like the snow when it grows when you’re in my space 

Chorus 
						G. D. F. C
Aw I need to see your face
			D
Baby See your face

   D					F             
Lord we can feel it 
C					                                    
wanna steal it …when you 
                          G
walk into the place 

						D
With that face
			D
See your face
D. F. C. 														     
I can’t stand it I demand it Lord I’m begging for you to grace 

I gotta see your face

See Your Face

Recognized as “One to Watch” by the Nashville Songwriters Association International, February, 2024. Lyrics to songs are under “behind the track.”

HW Gamble

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