All The Best

I wish you love and happiness I guess I wish you all the best I wish you don't do like I do And ever fall in love with someone like you 'Cause if you do like I did You'd probably run around the block like a little kid But kids don't know, they can only guess How hard it is to wish you happiness I guess love is like a Christmas card You decorate a tree you throw it in the yard And it decays and dies and the snowmen melt Well, I knew love, I knew how love felt Yeah, I knew love, love knew me And when I walked, love walked with me And I got no hate and I got no pride And I got so much love that I just can't hide Well, I got so much love that I just can't hide Say you drive a Chevy, say you drive a Ford Say you drive around the town till you just get bored And then you change your mind for something else to do Then your heart gets bored with your mind and it changes you Well, it's a doggone shame and it's an awful mess I wish you love, I wish you happiness I wish you love, I wish you happiness I guess I wish you all the best

I wish you love and happiness I guess I wish you all the best I wish you don't do like I do And go and fall in love with someone like you 'Cause if you fell, oh, like I did You'd probably walk around the block like a little kid But a kid don't know, he could only guess How hard it is to wish you happiness Well I guess love is like a Christmas card Decorate a tree and throw it in the yard It decays and dies and the snowmen melt Well, I knew love, I knew how love felt I knew love, oh, love knew me When I walked around, love walked with me But I got no hate and I got no pride But I got so much love that I cannot hide So you drive a Chevy So you drive a Ford So you drive around all night 'til you just get bored Then you change your mind for something else to do Then your heart changes your mind and it changes you I wish you love and happiness I guess I wish you all the best I wish you don't do like I do And go and fall in love with someone like you If you fell, oh, like I did Probably walk around the block like a little kid But a kid don't know, he could only guess How hard it is to wish you happiness How hard it is to wish you happiness

I was runnin' thru the summer rain, Waiting for the evenin' train To kill that old familiar pain Weavin' thru my tangled brain When I tipped my bottle back and Smacked into a cop I didn't see That policeman said "Mister Cool, If you ain't drunk, then you're a fool" I said "If that's against the law, Then tell me why I never saw No man locked in this jail of yours Who wasn't just as low down poor as me?" And that was when someone turned out the lights Yes and I wound up in jail to spend the night And dream of all the wine and lonely girls In this best of all possible worlds Next mornin' I woke up feelin' like my head was really gone And like my thick old tongue was lickin' something sick and wrong I said "I'd sell my soul for something about as wet and cold as this old cell" That kindly jailer looked at me, all eaten up with sympathy Then poured himself another beer and came and whispered in my ear "If booze was just a dime a bottle boy, you couldn't even buy the smell" I said "I knew there was something I liked about this town" Oh but it takes more than that to bring me down 'Cause there's still a lot of wine and lonely girls In this best of all possible worlds Well they finally came and told me they was a gonna set me free And I'd be leavin' town if I knew what was good for me I said "It's nice to learn that everybody's so concerned about my health" But I won't be leavin' no more quicker than I can 'Cause I've enjoyed about as much of this as I can stand And I don't need this town of yours no more than I never needed nothin' else" 'Cause there's still a lot of drinks that I ain't drunk Yes and lots of pretty thoughts that I ain't thunk Oh yes there's still a lot of wine and lonely girls In this best of all possible worlds In this best of all possible worlds In this best of all possible worlds

Leaves fall but I'm fallin' faster Created my own disaster One day I know that I'll be alright There's lessons learned in this chapter Cause they say I'm in over my head But nobody knows when our story ends How has it been 26 years Oh how did I get here (get here) All of my best years They felt like rain and now their washing away And now I can see clear Just like the colors of the trees I change Oh I really don't wanna have it all figured out Someday somewhere in some house All my best years They made me who I am today All of my best years (Oh-ah-oh-oh-oh, oh-ah-oh-oh-oh, oh-ah-oh-oh-oh) All of my best years (Oh-ah-oh-oh-oh, oh-ah-oh-oh-oh, oh-ah-oh-oh-oh) My heart belongs with the mountains Hot tea and evergreen Out there I'm screaming and shouting Telling everybody, oh won't you let me be My-my it's been 26 years Oh how did I get here All of my best years They felt like rain and now their washing away And now I can see clear Just like the colors of the trees I change Oh I really don't wanna have it all figured out Someday somewhere in some house All my best years They made me who I am today All of my best years I like it better I like it better When I don't have it all together I like it better I like it better When I don't have it all together