The boys are back busting on the scene
We ain't got nothing now that wasn't first in our dreams
It may have been a while since you heard us sing
We got Jesus in the front seat steering this thing
We're straight on track no matter how it stacks
'Cause the boys are back the boys are back

Well the world is changing fast and it ain't so cool
We got the politicians lobbying taking God out of school
But how can you change the game if you don't make the rules
Well I feel just like a prisoner on this ship of fools
We're gonna ride it down there won't be no white flags
'Cause the boys are back the boys are back

This train is coming and it's headed your way
We're thick as thieves and we got so much to say
The devil may come and try to get us to stray
But we all know where we stand at the end of days
Like four strong winds blowing through a ramshackle shack
The boys are back the boys are back

Well gather 'round children I got a story to tell
About ol' Wally Fowler and that dream that never fell
About those who came before us gonna guide us to the water
Where all can take the hand of our Almighty Father
But until we hit the black we've been planning this attack
And the boys are back the boys are back

The boys are back yeah
The boys are back yeah
The boys are back yeah
The boys are back yeah
Like four strong winds executing this attack

Hold me closely hold me softly
Don't let me fall on my own
Love me gently don't love me at all
I'll get back on my feet right after I fall

There is a path in this place called my life
Don't know if I can travel alone
Need someone to take me by my hand
Lead me safely to the Promised Land

Now in life's shadows we appear afraid
But there will be light shine down on us someday
Gracefully we're sighing we've nothing to hide
We'll meet again in the by and by

When you came to me with your bad dreams and your fears
It was easy to see you'd been cryin'
Seems like everywhere you turn catastrophe it reigns
But who really profits from the dying

I could hold you in my arms
I could hold you forever
I could hold you in my arms
I could hold you forever

When you kiss my lips with my mouth so full of questions
It's my worried mind you quiet
Place your hands on my face close my eyes and say
That love is a poor man's food don't prophesy

So now we see how it is this fist begets the spear
Weapons of war symptoms of madness
Don't let your eyes refuse to see don't let your hears refuse to hear
Or you ain't ever gonna shake this sense of sadness

I'm gonna fight'em off
A seven nation army couldn't hold me back
They're gonna rip it off
Taking their time right behind my back
And I'm talking to myself at night because I can't forget
Back and forth through my mind behind a cigarette
And the message coming from my eyes say leave it alone

Don't want to hear about it
Every single one's got a story to tell
Everyone knows about it
From the Queen of England to the hounds of hell
And if I catch it coming back my way I'm gonna serve it to you
And that ain't what you wanna hear but that's what I'll do
And the feeling coming from my bones says find a home

I'm going to Wichita
Far from this opera forever more
I'm gonna work the straw
Make the sweat drip out of every pore
And I'm bleedin' and I'm bleedin' and I'm bleedin' right before the Lord
All the words are gonna bleed from me and I will sing no more
And the stains coming from my blood tell me go back home

We'd pull a chair up every night
And eat and talk and joke and fight
Us kids learned wrong from right at Mama's table
Just some hickory wood and screws
It's where my daddy read the news
You didn't put your dirty shoes on Mama's table

It was the center of the best times I remember
Sometimes the only thing that brought us all together
Grandma passed it down while I was in a cradle
It's in my kitchen now but it's still my mama's table

It where my brother and I played games
I just knew he'd gone insane
The day he carved his name in Mama's table
And when we got down on our luck
It seemed like it held us up
You could always feel the love in Mama's table

It's got some faded spots and cracks
And a couple of burns from candle wax
There's memory in each scratch on Mama's table

Boom boom boom boom gonna shoot you right down
Take you in my arms I'm in love with you
Haw haw haw haw boom boom boom boom
I like the way you walk I love the way you talk
When you walk that walk and you talk that talk
You really knock me out right off of my feet

C'mon shake it baby (shake it baby)
Yeah (shake it baby)
Shake it up there baby (shake it baby)
Mmmmmmm yeah (shake it baby)
(shake it baby)
I love it like that (shake it baby)

I like the way you walk I love the way you talk
When you're walking that walk and talking that talk
I need you right now I mean right now
I don't mean tomorrow I mean right now
Haw haw haw haw haw haw haw haw
Boom boom boom boom

C'mon and shake it up baby (shake it baby)
You know what I like (shake it baby)
I like it like that (shake it baby)
Mmmmmmm (shake it baby)
C'mon now baby (shake it baby)
Haw haw haw haw (shake it baby)
You know what I like (shake it baby)
Ha ha ha ha yeah (shake it baby)
Mmmmmmm yeah (shake it baby)
You know what I like (shake it baby)
(shake it baby)
Do it like that (shake it baby)

Boom boom boom boom oom pah pah mau mau mau
Boom boom boom boom oom pah pah mau mau mau
Haw haw haw haw oom pah pah mau mau mau

Shake it baby (shake it baby)
Shake it baby (shake it baby)
C'mon come on (shake it baby)
Yeah shake it baby woooo (shake it baby)
He likes it like that (shake it baby)
Aaaahhhhhh (shake it baby)
Shake it now (shake it baby)
You know he likes it like that now I like it like that(shake it baby)
He loves it I loves it like that (shake it baby)
Shake it for the man oooooo (shake it baby)
Shake it for the man (shake it baby)
Shake it for Richard shake it(shake it shake it baby)
Give that man some lovin'

You can huff you can puff
And you can trash my name all around
But you ain't gonna blow my house down
You ain't gonna blow my house down
You can howl you can prowl
And you can romp and stomp on the ground
But you ain't gonna blow my house down
You ain't gonna blow my house down

Open up the Good Book take yourself a good look
Ever since the start of time
Devil you've been lyin' and killin' and robbin' us blind
Spittin' out a big talk struttin' with a big walk
Yeah you wanna clean my clock
But devil you can't because I'm standing on the Solid Rock yeah

Yeah you wanna break me so that you make me
Knuckle underneath your bluff
Aiming at my throat charging like a big bad wolf
Yeah you got a big bite but you lost the big fight
Jesus won the victory
So devil back off 'cause the Winner is livin' in me

One mornin' when I was ridin' in my old pickup truck
A beautiful bluebird came flyin' down
My eyes caught the color as it led me down the road
Dippin' and bobbin' in the sun

Beautiful bluebird see how she flies
Looks like she's always going home
If Heaven had a window where the sun came shinin' through
Like a beautiful bluebird I'd come flyin' back to you
Beautiful bluebird see how she flies
Looks like she's always going home

I've never seen that blue before except in one place
And she's not here with me right now
And just like a lover I watched her fly away
And that's what I remember now

Beautiful bluebird see how she flies
Looks like she's always going home
If Heaven had a window where the sun came shinin' through
Like a beautiful bluebird I'd come flyin' back to you
Beautiful bluebird see how she flies
Looks like she's always going home
If Heaven had a window where the sun came shinin' through
Like a beautiful bluebird I'd come flyin' back to you

Like a beautiful bluebird I'd come flying home to you

Troublin' Mind (Troublin' Mind)
Troublin' Mind (Troublin' Mind)
Troublin' Mind (Troublin' Mind)
Troublin' Mind (Troublin' Mind)
Troublin' Mind (Troublin' Mind)
Troublin' Mind (Troublin' Mind)
God's a-gonna ease my troublin' mind

Mary and Martha, Peter and John
Mary and Martha, Peter and John
Mary and Martha, Peter and John
They had trouble all night long

Down by the graveyards stood and tall
Down by the graveyards stood and tall
Down by the graveyards stood and tall
They laid the long rail as well as the short

If you get there before I do
If you get there before I do
If you get there before I do
You tell my friends I'm comin' to

Seen a lot of trouble at my door
Never known a day when I ain't been cold
But I'm gonna live with Jesus in the end

Hard times is all I've seen
I've lost the ones that were dear to me
But I'm gonna live with Jesus in the end

I'm gonna live I'm gonna live
I'm gonna live with Jesus in the end

When these poor bones are tired and old
I'll meet my Savior redeem my soul
'Cause I'm gonna live with Jesus in the end