Summer sun’s a’setting on the autumn leaves tonight/ Northern wind rustles in beneath the last days light/ Har-vest moon’s a’rising making diamonds out of dew/ Star-light’s casting shadows that makes me think of you/ I know there’s no music/ But I don’t need a ballroom/ To go Shadow Dancing With The Moon 

Lightning bugs are chasing while the crickets sing their song/ And the whippoorwill’s been asking me “What in the world is wrong?”/ Evening breeze comforts me with its gentle embrace/ And the grass growing stirrup high dances in your place/ I know there’s no music/ But I don’t need a ballroom/ To go Shadow Dancing With The Moon 

Bridge: Now I know it must sound crazy to be here all alone/ But it’s in memories and shadows that I feel most at home/ So until I feel you close to me, and I hope that will be soon/ I’ll be shadow dancing with the moon 

I’m going to jump in my truck/ Going to pick her up/ Goi-ing a’ cruise all over town/ Then we’ll take it to the coun-try/ And well get real snuggly/ When we roll those win-dows down/ If she’s got to see the levy/ In my 4×4 Chevy/  We can take it out through the field/ Run it through the Cool Clover/ And up the hill and over/ To the place that we both know. 

Chorus: Now when it’s me and you/ There’s nothing we can’t do/ When the moon is shining bright/ You know-there’s nothin’ better than you and me together/ So baby just hold on tight/ I got a full tank of gas and I think it will last/ For whatever you got in mind/ No need for hesitation cause there ain’t no reservations/ Oh baby I’m yours to-night. 

Ah give me a little kiss honey’s all I wish/ I’ll take you any where you want to go/ They say that life is a stage well I’m here to say/ That baby you can run my show/ Just give me your directions/ There won’t be any questions/ We’ll just hit that open road/ Run it through the Cool Clo-ver/ And up the hill and over/ To the place that we both know. 

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Bridge: Baby, I’m yours, baby I’m yours/ Like a guitar string/ You pick me and I’ll sing/ Honey for you all night long. 

Now if you gotta move your feet/ To that country beat/ We can take it out to the barn/ We’ll stomp in the hay/ While the music plays/ Honey baby all night long/ We’ll walk that floor/ Till it can’t take no more/ Then we’ll hit that open road/ Run it through the Cool Clover/ And up the hill and over/ To the place that we both know. 

Mama told me boy when you grow older/ Remember the love your Mom and Daddy had/ And if it comes your way hold on forever/ It’s the greatest gift that you will ever have/ Now there are those who’ve taken it for granted/ For fame or fortune they have made a trade/ But a life without love’s not worth the living/ And a dying love’s the hardest thing to save 

Chorus: Yes a life without love’s not worth the living/ A dying love’s the hardest thing to save/ A mans wealth is not measured by possessions/ But measured by the good love he gave/ And what matters in the end/ Is family and friends/ Well, that’s what Mama told me way back when 

Now some will run from home to find their freedom/ Believing all the while they’re on their way/ That this life they left behind was to confining/ And that love can come without the price to pay/ But son you don’t be fooled life’s never easy/ The better  things in life they never are/ And you can search this whole world for what your need-ing/ And return to find it in your own back yard 

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Bridge: Now the years have changed this young boy from Momma’s child to a man/ And as I stand here before you her words I understand/ See love’s the greatest treasure two hearts could ever hold/ And I’ll be holding you dear long after we’ve grown old 

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The fiddle’s pumping so I get out on the floor/ My cowboy boots are shuffling till they can’t take no more/ This coun-try rhythms rocking to the backwoods beat/ The steel gui-tar breaks in to turn up the heat 

Build: Well you take a little rhythm and you throw in the blues/ And add a lot of country for that two stepping groove/ You got your tush push, double step, touch and go/ Moving to the rhythm with it hillbilly soul/ It’s a heel clicking, high stepping, hand clapping country groove  

Chorus: It’s Country Rhythm/ It’s Country Rhythm/ It’s Country Rhythm/ It’s Country Rhythm/ Well it’s heel click-ing/ High stepping/ Hand clapping country groove 

Over in the corner with her records stacked high/ Shannon plays the tunes while the moon goes by/ The people in the barn they don’t seem to care/ Let the world go by just as long as they’re here 

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Now the rhythm’s hot and simple the words are short and sweet/ There is no philosophizing it is just all about the beat/ So forget about your worries, forget about your cares/ Get out on the floor and let down your hair 

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I was just a boy of fourteen/ Living on the family farm/ Watching and helping my Daddy and Granddad make some repairs on the barn/ We worked all day till the work was done/ Then Granddad stood beside his son and in his loving way/ I heard my Granddad say 

Chorus: You’re a good boy Jack/ You made your father proud/ Now where others might have given in/ You saw your job to the end/ Your father loves you so/ Don’t you know you’re a good boy Jack 

Now those days we spent with Granddad they seem so long ago/ For the Lord has had him as His guest for sev-eral years or so/ It hurt so much to see him leave for with him went my childhood dreams/ Of growing old one day just to hear my Granddad say 

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Now when my time on earth is done/ The Lord and I will journey on/ And with Him on that day/ I hope to hear my Heavenly Father say 

My engines cooling on a summer evening/ The country’s quite tonight/ My old Ford radio has been keeping me company/ I’ve been driving a while/ Up and down these old country roads/ I almost did stop by/ But every time I passed your door my heart it just ran wild/ 

Sun is setting behind the hills before me/ I guess it’s time to go home/ Supper is waiting and my chores need tend-ing/ I’m so lonely and cold/ Now tomorrow I’m stopping going to lay it on the line/ Tell her that I love her and I want her for mine/ No city slicker is going to keep me from getting her/ Going to tell her I love her this time. 

Chorus: Cause this Country Boy’s In Love/ And he likes what he found/ She can tell her city bo’ to pack his fancy clothes and head it on out of town/ Cause this Country Boy’s In Love/ I might have over stepped my bounds/ I know my pickup truck well it just don’t match up to the sports car he drives around/ But this Country Boy’s in Love with the country girl he found/ No maybe I can’t compete with those city streets/ But you can betcha I’ll stand my ground. 

No my mind is racing faster/ But I’m driving slow/ And I’m trying to figure whether to stop or let her go/ But who is kidding who/ I know I’m in love/ So stop and tell her what your thinking of.

Now those Northern nights are cool and crisp/ And its Autumn charm is often missed/ But don’t go thinking the South don’t  have its days/ Cause the summer heat of a Dixie night/ It still does this cowboy right/ And the Southern sun is turning this white neck red/ Those Northern girls, well they sure are pretty but these Southern girls got charm/ I guess a little of both kinds can’t do this soldier harm/ Yes, maybe I can play both sides when it comes to the loving game/ But when it comes to North and South it just don’t seem the same 

Chorus: Cause I was born a Yank and raised a Rebel/ Started on steak and grown on grits/ This Civil War in-side of me has been giving this cowboy fits/ I got Northern blood with a Southern heart/ And that Mason-Dixie tears me apart/ The battles putting history to shame/ And if my Northern conscience don’t watch its behind/ I got a funny feeling the South’s gonna win this time   

Now Grant and Lee they had it easy/ They didn’t have to fight themselves/ Cause the battle lines crossed fields and pines/ And left their minds alone/ But I got this raging battle being fought within my soul/ Casualties stand to be my sanity as a whole 

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Now in between the battle I got a chance to rest/ And I realized that both the Rebs and Yanks are Americans at best/ And this Southern heart would be no good without its Northern blood/ So I’ll forget about my differences and thank the Lord above/ That I was born a Yank and raised a Rebel/ Started on steak and grown on grits/ This Civil War inside of me has been giving this cowboy fits/ I got Northern blood with a Southern heart/ And that Mason-Dixie tears me apart/ Outsiders had best leave us alone/ See they got this misconception that our differences make us weak/ Well that’s what the Japs thought in ’42 and just look at who got beat/ Yea these outsiders they had best wake up and watch their own behinds/ Cause there ain’t no doubt that the Rebs and Yanks would win it again this time 

What I held for but a moment has been hold of me for days/ I know its just a memory that I must put away/ But it was some kind of special when I held you so near/ I felt a warmth I’d never known when I whispered in your ear/ Oh how we laughed together, you would have thought there was no end/ But tomorrow found no lovers it only found best friends 

Chorus: And they say that’s the way it should be/ But I won’t forget the moment I felt so free/ And every now and then in my memory I’ll spend/ One Moment with You 

As I stare at this crumpled paper at the sweet words you once penned/ The silent words they speak to me causing me to remember when/ When it was I said I love you/ When it was you said good-bye/ It hurts to see how quickly time can change our love and lives/ Now I’m supposed to face tomorrow without a thought of yesterday/ I guess I’m not alone dear it’s a game that we all play 

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Bridge: No matter where I go tomorrow/ No matter what I do/ No matter what it seems to be/ I’ll still remember you/ You don’t judge a book by its cover/ So don’t go judging me by the smile I wear as I’m leaving here/ It just hides your memory 

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