Alison Krauss Lyrics

This page contains Alison Krauss lyrics for some of her more recent songs. For older Alison Krauss lyrics please check out the archives section.

Scroll down to see the lyrics, which are sorted in this order:

1. Let Me Touch You For A While
2. Lucky One, The
3. Baby, Now That I’ve Found You
4. Bright Sunny South
5. Every Time You Say Goodbye
6. Tiny Broken Heart
7. Stay
8. Broadway
9. Ghost In This House
10. Forget About It
11. But You Know I Love You
12. New Favorite
13. Boy Who Wouldn’t Hoe Corn, The
14. Take Me For Longing
15. Maybe
16. When You Say Nothing At All
17. Oh, Atlanta
18. Down To The River To Pray
19. There Is A Reason

 

[ Alison Krauss Lyrics ]

1. Let Me Touch You For A While

it’s been a long time coming
as you shed a lonesome tear
now your in a wonderama
I wonder what your doing here

the flame no longer flickers
you’re feeling just like a fool
you keep staring into your liquor
I’m wondering what to do

I don’t hardly know you
but I’d be willing to show you
I know a way to make you smile
let me touch you for a while

I’m gonna ruin my black mascara
you’re drinking whiskey when it should be wine
you keep on looking in to that mirror
but to me your looking really fine

I don’t hardly know you
but I’d be willing to show you
I know a way to make you laugh at that cowgirl as she’s walking out your door
I know a way to make you smile
just let me whisper things
you never heard before
just let me touch you baby
just let me touch you for a while

I don’t hardly know
but I’d be willing to show you
I know a way to make you smile

It’s been a long time
just let me touch you for a while

 

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2. Lucky One, The

you’re the lucky one
so i’ve been told
as free as the wind,
blowin’ down the road
loved by many, hated by none
i’d say you’re lucky ’cause I know what you’ve done
not a care in the world
not a worry in sight
everything’s gunna be alright
cause you’re the lucky one

you’re the lucky one
always havin’ fun
a jack of all trades a master of none
you look at the world with a smilin’ eye
and laugh at the devil as his train goes by

give you a song and a one night stand
and you’ll be looking at a happy man
’cause you’re the lucky one.

well you’re blessed i guess
by never knowing which road your choosin.
to you the next best thing
to playin and winning is playin and losing

you’re the lucky one i know that now
don’t ask you why, when, where, or how
you look at the world thru your smilin’ eye
and laugh at the devil as his train goes by

give you a song and a one night stand
and you’ll be looking at a happy man
’cause you’re the lucky one

well you’re blessed i guess
by never knowing which road your choosin.
to you the next best thing
to playin and winning is playin and losing

you’re the lucky one i know that now
don’t ask you why, when, where, or how
no matter where you’re at, it’s where you’ll be
you can bet your luck won’t follow me
just give you a song and a one night stand
and you’ll be looking at a happy man
cause you’re the lucky one.

 

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3. Baby, Now That I’ve Found You

Baby,
now that I’ve found you
I won’t let you go
I built my world around you
I need you so,
baby even though
You don’t need me
now

Baby,
now that I’ve found you
I won’t let you go
I built my world around you
I need you so
Baby even though
You don’t need me,
You don’t need me oh, no

Baby, baby,
when first we met
I knew in this heart of mine

That you were someone I couldn’t forget.
I said right,
and abide my time

Spent my life looking
for that somebody
to make me feel like new
Now you tell me that you want to leave me
But darling, I just can’t let you

[guitar & fiddle solo]

Baby, baby,
when first we met
I knew in this heart of mine
That you were someone I couldn’t forget.
I said right,
and abide my time

Spent my life looking
for that somebody
to make me feel like new
Now you tell me that you want to leave me
But darling, I just can’t let you

Now that I found you
I built my world around you

I need you so, baby even though
You don’t need me now

Baby, now that I’ve found you
I won’t let you go
I built my world around you
I need you so
Baby even though
You don’t need me
You don’t need me no, no

 

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4. Bright Sunny South

From the bright sunny south to the war, I was sent,
E’er the days of my boyhood, I scarcely had spent.
From it’s cool shady forests and deep flowing streams,
Ever fond in my mem’ry and sweet in my dreams.

Oh, my dear little sister, I still see her tears.
When I had to leave home in our tender years.
And my sweet gentle mother, so dear to my heart,
It grieved me sincerely when we had to part.

Said my kind-hearted father as he took my hand:
“As you go in defence of our dear native land,
“Son, be brave but show mercy whenever you can.
“Our hearts will be with you, ’til you ‘turn again.”

In my bag there’s a bible to show me the way,
Through my twelfth year on earth and to Heaven some day.
I will shoulder my musket and brandish my sword,
In defence of this land and the word of the Lord.

 

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5. Every Time You Say Goodbye

Look at the sky baby
What do you see?
Looks like the tears I cry
Fallin’ down like rain on the ground
Every time you say goodbye

Take a look around now
Why don’t you feel
The way that cold wind stings and drives
And your words just are like arrows through my heart
Every time you say goodbye

There’s a restless feeling knocking at my door today
There’s a shadow hanging ’round my garden gate
I read between the lines of words you can’t disguise
Love has gone away, and put these tears in my eyes

Look at the sky baby, see how it cries?
Ain’t it just like my tears
Fallin’ down like rain on the ground
Every time you say goodbye

There’s a restless feeling knocking at my door today
There’s a shadow hanging ’round my garden gate
I read between the lines of words you can’t disguise
Love has gone away, and put these tears in my eyes

There’s a restless feeling knocking at my door today
There’s a shadow hanging ’round my garden gate
I read between the lines of words you can’t disguise
Love has gone away, and put these tears in my eyes

 

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6. Tiny Broken Heart

He was just a little farm lad so busy at play
In his little play house down by the gate
He stopped to watch a truck that was parking next door
At the home of his tiny playmate

Then he saw his Daddy watching too
As the man swiftly walked to the cottage door
He knew they were strangers that come from the town
Men he had never seen before

They soon were at their work and he heard his Daddy say
Our neighbors are moving today
Oh no he cried dear God don’t let it be
They can’t take my sweetheart away

I know Dad that you don’t understand
How a heart so young can conceive a plan
I’m only seven now but it’s just like you said
Dad someday I’ll be a man

The man who runs the farm where your playmate now lives
He told me it’d have to be this way
For winter time has come and their work is all done
So now they are moving away

Let us buy the farm so they can stay
Give them all my toys that dear Santa gave
And give him the pennies in my little bank
Pennies that my darling helped me save

 

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7. Stay

Where have you been,
My long lost friend?
It’s good to see you again.
Come and sit for a while
I’ve missed your smile
Today the past is goodbye.
Time can’t erase
A lover’s embrace.
Can’t you hear it calling?
A new day dawning
You were longing to find.

Love’s taken you far
Away from my heart,
And I’ve been here all alone.
Have your eyes failed to find
What took you from mine,
A vision that’s faded through time?
But you sailed away,
A fine summer’s day,
Cause you heard it calling,
A new day dawning,
You were longing to find.

There is a way to make you stay.
Darlin don’t turn away
Don’t doubt your heart
and keep us apart
I’m right where you are
Stay

There is a way to make you stay.
Darlin don’t turn away.
Don’t doubt your heart
and keep us apart
I’m right where you are
Stay.

 

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8. Broadway

I stood on faith and the corner of ambition
I came here to sink or swim
And to show them all that they were wrong
And though I never thought I’d make it this far

So the curtains are down
For the moment I’m someone
There were those in the wings who waited, who came this way
Now there gone
But there’s always someone at home who never forgets who you are

When I’m down and I’m growing old
I won’t be along no railroad track
I won’t be bound to a life out in the cold
It’s been a steady pace to keep my steps between these cracks on Broadway
And my stride in rhythm to the beat of home, sweet home

When I’m down and I’m growing old
I won’t be along no railroad track
I won’t be bound to a life out in the cold
It’s been a steady pace to keep my steps between these cracks on Broadway
And my stride in rhythm to the beat of home, sweet home

Can’t go on, I’m on the top of my better years
I’m going home, it’s too lonesome on the bottom rung here

It’s been a steady pace to keep my steps between these cracks on Broadway
And my stride in rhythm to the beat of home, sweet home

 

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9. Ghost In This House

I don’t pick up the mail,
I don’t pick up the phone,
I don’t answer the door,
I just soon be alone
I don’t keep this place up,
I just keep the lights down,
I don’t live in these rooms,
I just rattled around

I’m just a ghost in this house,
I’m shadow upon these walls,
As quietly as a mouse,
I haunt these halls,
I’m just a whisper of smoke,
I’m all that’s left of two hearts on fire,
That once burned out of control,
You took my body and soul,
I’m just a ghost in this house

I don’t care if it rains,
I don’t care if it’s clear,
I don’t mind stayin near,
There’s another ghost here,
He sits down in your chair,
And he shines with your light,
And he lays down his head,
On your pillow at night

I’m just a ghost in this house,
I’m just a shadow upon these walls,
I’m living proof of the damage heartbreak does,
I’m just a whisper of smoke,
I’m all that’s left of two hearts on fire,
That once burned out of control,
You took my body and soul,
I’m just a ghost in this house

That once burned out of control,
You took my body and soul,
I’m just a ghost in this house

 

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10. Forget About It

Forget about it
I’m admittin’ I was wrong
And I’ll just take what’s mine
And walk right out the door
Forget about it
I’ll split and I’ll be gone
And you’ll have memories
You’ll find hard to ignore
‘Cause after all
I see you sometime
Maybe when I can’t recall
How you drove me crazier
Forget about it
When forever’s over
I won’t remember how much
I loved you anymore
Forget about it
Put me out of your head
Now that you’re free and easy
Out there on the town
Forget about it
When you’re lying in bed just wishing
I was there to lay you down

‘Cause after all
I see you sometime maybe
When you will recall
How I drove you crazier
Forget about those stars in your eyes
Laying by the fireside
Holding you tight
I can’t remember when I felt so right
So just forget about it

Forget about it
When you see me on the street
Don’t wink, don’t wave
Don’t try to tease me with your smile
Forget about it
If we chance to meet somewhere
Don’t think it’s cause I’m trying to reconcile

‘Cause after all
I see you sometime maybe
When I can’t recall
How you drove me crazier
Forget about those stars in your eyes
Laying by the fireside
Holding you tight
I can’t remember when I felt so right
So just forget about it

 

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11. But You Know I Love You

When The Morning Sun Streaks Across My Room
And I’ve Waken Up From Another Dream Of You
Yes I’m On The Road, Once Again It Seems
All I’ve Left Behind, Is A Chain Of Broken Dreams

But You Know I Love You
Yes I Love You, Oh…. I Love You….

How I Wish That Love, Is All We Need To Live

What A Life We’d Live, Cause I’ve Got So Much To Give
And It Seems So Wrong, Deep Inside My Heart
That The Dollar Sign Could Be Keeping Us Apart

When You Know I Love

Yes I Love You…..

And If I Could Only Find My Way Back To The Time
When The Problems Of This Life Of Mine Didn’t Cross Our Minds
All The Answers Were Found In Children’s Nursery Rhymes
I’d Come Running Back To You, I’d Come Running Back To You

But You Know We Can’t Live On Dreams Alone
Just To Pay The Rent, I Must Leave You All Alone
But You Know I Made My Choice Many Years Ago
And This Traveling Life Is The Only One I Know

But You Know I Love You
Yes I Love You, Oh I Love You
But You Know I Love You
Yes I Love You, Oh I Love You

But You Know I Love You
Yes I Love You, Oh I Love You
But You Know I Love You
Yes I Love You, Oh I Love You

But You Know I Love You
Yes I Love You, Oh I Love You
But You Know I Love You
Yes I Love You, Oh I Love You….

 

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12. New Favorite

New Favorite
They all say it
I’ll say it too
You’ve got a new favorite

You’re old standby
your right hand guy
is nothing new
you’ve got a new favorite

Why do you lie about love?
I saw the light go out

(interlude)

And should I go
you won’t say so
I know its true
I know you’ve got a new favorite
I know you’ve got a new favorite

You’ve got a new favorite

 

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13. Boy Who Wouldn’t Hoe Corn, The

Tell You a little story and it won’t take long,
‘Bout a lazy farmer who wouldn’t hoe his corn.
The reason why I never could tell,
That young man was always well.

He planted his corn in the month of June.
By July it was up to his eyes.
Come September, came a big frost.
And all the young man’s corn was lost.

His story, kith, had just begun.
Said: “Young man, have you hoed some corn?”
“Well I tried and I tried, and I tried in vain.
“But I don’t believe I raised no grain.”

He went down town to his neighbour’s door.
Where he had often been before.
Sayin’: “Pretty little miss, will you marry me?”
“Little miss what do you say?”

“Why do you come for me to wed?
“You, can’t even make your own corn grain.
“Single I am, and will remain.
“A lazy man, I won’t maintain.”

He turned his back and walked away.
Sayin: “Little miss, you’ll rue the day.
“You’ll rue the day that you were born.
“For givin’ me the devil ‘cos I wouldn’t hoe corn.”

 

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14. Take Me For Longing

Don’t choose me because I am faithful.
Don’t choose me because I am kind.
If your heart settles on me, I’m for the taking.
Take me for longing or leave me behind.

I would be, for you, a fire in a rainbow,
I would be, for you, an opening door.
Time and hard lessons are one kind of wisdom.
Try to forget them or love me no more.

Instrumental.

I’m not asking your heart to believe me.
I’m not asking for promise or pledge.
Whatever the answer, it’s yes that’s the question.
I am the fool dancin’ over the edge.

Instrumental.

Don’t choose me because I am faithful.
Don’t choose me because I am kind.
If your heart settles on me, I’m for the taking.
Take me for longing or leave me behind.

 

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15. Maybe

Yesterday the odds were stacked
In favor of my expectations
Flyin’ above the rest
Never fallin’ from the nest
Tuesday came and went and now
I’m in a little situation
Maybe it’s for the best
I can live alone, I guess

Maybe I can stand alone
Maybe I’m strong as stone
Even though the bird has flown
Maybe he’ll fly on home

Forgive me if I’m keeping you
Apart from better conversation
Hung up on all my doubt
Trying to sort the whole thing out
Tell me that I’m smart enough
To deal with all the information
Spinning inside my head
Every word he ever said

Maybe I can stand alone
Maybe I’m strong as stone
Even though the bird has flown
Maybe he’ll fly on home

Maybe I can stand alone
Maybe I’m strong as stone
Even though the bird has flown
Maybe he’ll fly on home

 

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16. When You Say Nothing At All

It’s amazing how you can speak right to my heart
Without saying a word you can light up the dark
Try as I may I could never explain
What I hear when you don’t say a thing

The smile on your face lets me know that you need me
There’s a truth in your eyes saying you’ll never leave me
A touch of your hand says you’ll catch me if ever I fall
Now you say it best, when you say nothing at all

All day long I can hear people talking out loud
But when you hold me near you drown out the crowd
Old Mister Webster could never define
What’s being said between your heart and mine

The smile on your face lets me know that you need me
There’s a truth in your eyes saying you’ll never leave me
A touch of your hand says you’ll catch me if ever I fall
Now you say it best, when you say nothing at all

The smile on your face lets me know that you need me
There’s a truth in your eyes saying you’ll never leave me
A touch of your hand says you’ll catch me if ever I fall
Now you say it best, when you say nothing at all

 

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17. Oh, Atlanta

Same old place
Same old city
What can I do?
I’m falling in love

I’m just an old hound dog
Roaming around, oh Lord
I’ve got all this and Heaven above

Oh, Atlanta
I hear you calling
I’m coming back to you one fine day
No need to worry
There ain’t no hurry cause I’m
On my way back to Georgia
On my way back to Georgia

I get a feeling in me
When I remember all those crazy days and crazier nights
Can’t you hear the music playing?
You must have heard them saying
We’re gonna rip ‘em up and light up the night

Oh, Atlanta
I hear you calling
I’m coming back to you one fine day
No need to worry
There ain’t no hurry cause I’m
On my way back to Georgia
On my way back to Georgia

Same old place
It’s the same old city
What can I do?
I’m falling in love

I’m just an old hound dog
Roaming around, Lord, Lord
I’ve got all this and Heaven above

Oh, Atlanta
I hear you calling
I’m coming back to you one fine day
No need to worry
There ain’t no hurry cause I’m
On my way back to Georgia
On my way back to Georgia

Oh, Atlanta
Hear me calling
I’m coming back to you one fine day, hey
No need to worry
There ain’t no hurry cause I’m
On my way back to Georgia
On my way back to Georgia

 

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18. Down To The River To Pray

As i went down to the river to pray
Studyin about that good ol’ way and who shall wear the starry crown?
Good Lord show me the way!

O sisters let’s go down
Lets go down, Come on down
O sisters lets go down
Down in the river to pray

As I went down in the river to pray
Studyin about that good ol way
And who shall wear the robe & crown
Good Lord show me the way

O brothers lets go down
Let’s go down, Come on down
O brothers lets go down
Down in the river to pray

As I went down in the river to pray
Studyin about that good ol way
And who shall wear the star and crown?
Good lord show me the way

O fathers lets go down
Let’s go down, Come on down
O fathers lets go down
Down in the river to pray

As I went down in the river to pray studying about that good ol way
And who shall wear th robe and crown
Good Lord show me the way

O mothers lets go down
Come on down, don’t you wanna go down?
O Mothers lets go down
Down in the river to pray

As I went down in the river to pray
Studin about that good ol’ way
And who shall wear the star and crown?
Good Lord show me the way

O sinners lets go down
Lets go down, come on down
O sinners lets go down
Down in the river to pray

As I went down in the river to pray
Studyin about that good ol way
And who shall wear the Robe and crown?
Good Lord show me the way

 

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19. There Is A Reason

I’ve seen hard times and I’ve been told
There isn’t any wonder that I fall
Why do we suffer, crossing off the years
There must be a reason for it all

I’ve trusted in You, Jesus, to save me from my sin
Heaven is the place I call my home
But I keep on getting caught up in this world I’m living in
And Your voice it sometimes fades before I know

Hurtin’ brings my heart to You, crying with my need
Depending on Your love to carry me
The love that shed His blood for all the world to see
This must be the reason for it all

Hurtin’ brings my heart to You, a fortress in the storm
When what I wrap my heart around is gone
I give my heart so easily to the ruler of this world
When the one who loves me most will give me all

In all the things that cause me pain You give me eyes to see
I do believe but help my unbelief
I’ve seen hard times and I’ve been told
There is a reason for it all

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