theres a picture that hangs in the hall
just hanging there on the wall
i gaze at that picture day after day
and you never change in anyway

then that picture always seems to smile
i sit and stare for awhile
then im left feeling blue
with that a picture of you
and you never change in anyway

then that picture preys on my mind
brings back memories of the lonesome kind
then im left feeling blue with that picture of you
and you never change in anyway

when the sun goes down casting shadows on the wall
as the darkness falls memories i recall
times i spent with you when you were here with me
and the love we shared that there used to be

how we sat together by the firelight
cuddled up together on a winters night
we would sit together in the fire glow
looking out the window at the falling snow

these things i remember when the shadows fall
good times that we shared my mind it will recall
they are there with me the memories will stay
that i look back upon now so far away

when the sun goes down casting shadows on the wall
as the darkness falls memories i recall
times i spent with you when you were here with me
and the love we shared that there used to be

daddy  had a christmas song he used to sing to me
he would pick me up sit me on his knee
family they would gather around the christmas tree
they would sing along to daddies melody

always made us happy when he began to sing
christmas to your heart daddy he would bring
words they told a story reached into your soul
made you feel happy made you feel so whole

i wont for get his song that he sang to me
that made christmas happy like its meant to be
someday when im older and christmas comes along
i will do what daddy did sing his christmas song

i was born a country girl in memphis tennesee
daddy played guitar then daddy he taught me
he loved a country music  sing a country song
when my daddy played i would sing along

daddy passed away left his legacy
left his country music in the heart of me
i travelled town to town playing every where
deep inside of me daddy he was there

how he used to strum to a country song
when i was just a kid i would sing along
i wont forget my daddy and his legacy
and his country music that he taught to me

going home to texas to the place where i belong
the place i know so well.   been away to long
back to all my roots to my family
home sweet home once more i hear it calling me

had enough of travellin time to settle down
drifting place to place every different town
i miss the special things that i used to know
that i used to do all those years ago

home again once more where i long to be
back to all my roots i hear it calling me
had enough of drifting time to settle down
home again once more to my texas town

going home to texas to the place where i belong
the place i know so well.   been away to long
back to all my roots to my family
home sweet home once more i hear it calling me

i love country music with its country beat
with its country sound puts dancing in your feet
steel guitars and banjos and a country song
make you wanna dance for whole night long

folks they get together for the jamboree
makes them feel alive sets there spirit free
dancing all night long till the break of day
to the country sound they dance the night away

i love country music with its country beat
with its country sound puts dancing in your feet
steel guitars and banjos and a country song
makes you wanna dance for whole night long

the fiddles and the banjos with there country beat
puts music your soul dancing in your feet
dancing in a line they dance the night away
dancing all night long till the break of day

high up in the mountains where the hillbillys stay
when the weekend comes they dance the night away
a little bit of moonshine puts dancing in there feet
play guitars and banjos to a country beat

hand clapping knee slapping dancing all night long
to there country beat and a country song
dancing arm in arm the hillbilly way
dance the night away till break of day

dancing all together for the whole night through
playing country music with a dance or two
a little bit of moonshine and a country beat
steel guitars and banjos puts dancing in your feet

hand clapping knee slapping dancing all night long
to there country beat and a country song
dancing arm in arm the hillbilly way
dance the night away till break of day