Roger Miller - The Best Of All Possible Worlds Lyrics

Lyrics The Best Of All Possible Worlds - Roger Miller



I was runnin' through the summer rain tryin' to catch that evenin' train
And kill that old familiar pain weevin' through my tangled brain
But when I tipped my bottle back I smacked into a cop I didn't see
That policeman said Mr Cool if you're ain't drunk then you're a fool
I said well if that's against the law then tell me why I never saw
A man locked in that jail of yours who wadn't just as lowdown poor as me
Well that was when someone turned out the lights
And I wound up in jail to spend the nights
And dream of all the wine and lonely girls in this best of all possible worlds
Well I woke up next morning feelin' like my head was gone
And like my thick old tongue was lickin' somethin' sick and wrong
And I told that man I'd sell my soul if somethin' wet and cold is that old cell
That kindly jailer just grinned at me all eaten up with sympathy
Then he bought himself another beer and came and whispered in my ear
That booze was just a dime a bottle boy you couldn't even buy the smell
I said I knew there was somethin' I liked about this town
But it takes more than that to bring me down down down down
But there's still a lot of wine and lonely girls in this best of all possible worlds
Well they finally came and they 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
I said I won't be leavin' no more quicker than I fastly can
Cause I've enjoyed about this much of this as I can stand
And I don't need this town of yours more than I never needed nothin' else
Ha ha cause there's still a lotta drinks that I ain't drunk
Lots of pretty thoughts that I ain't never thought oh yeah
Lord there's still so many lonely girls in this best of all possible worlds



Writer(s): Kris Kristofferson


Roger Miller - King of the Road - The Genius of Roger Miller
Album King of the Road - The Genius of Roger Miller
date of release
22-08-1995

1 My Pillow
2 Poor Little John
3 A Man Like Me
4 The Wrong Kind of Girl
5 Jason Fleming
6 A World So Full Of Love - Original Demo Version
7 When a House Is Not a Home
8 You Don't Want My Love
9 When Two Worlds Collide
10 Sorry Willie
11 So Saith He the Lord (Original Demo Version)
12 Lock, Stock and Teardrops
13 Ain't That Fine
14 Less and Less (1991 Compilation Version)
15 Chug-a-Lug
16 Lou's Got The Flu
17 The Moon Is High (And So Am I)
18 Dang Me
19 It Takes All Kinds To Make A World
20 Reincarnation
21 Hard Headed Me
22 Do-Wacka-Do
23 Atta Boy Girl
24 Our Hearts Will Play The Music
25 King of the Road
26 As Long As There's A Shadow
27 You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd
28 Heartbreak Hotel
29 Big Harlan Taylor
30 One Dyin' and a Buryin'
31 The Last Word In Lonesome Is Me
32 It Happened Just That Way
33 Engine, Engine # 9
34 Kansas City Star
35 England Swings
36 I've Been A Long Time Leavin' (But I'll Be A Long Time Gone) - Single Version
37 Husbands and Wives
38 Train of Life
39 Dad Blame Anything A Man Can't Quit
40 You're My Kingdom
41 My Uncle Used To Love Me But She Died
42 Home
43 Absence
44 Ruby (Don't Take Your Love To Town)
45 Walkin' In the Sunshine
46 A Million Years Or So
47 Pardon This Coffin/Bonus Track: Session Soundbite (1995 Box Set Version)
48 The Ballad of Waterhole #3 (Code of the West) [Single Version]
49 Old Toy Trains
50 Little Green Apples
51 What I'd Give to Be the Wind
52 Boeing Boeing 707
53 Treat Me Like a Human
54 What Are Those Things (With Big Black Wings)
55 Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line
56 Swiss Cottage Place
57 Me And Bobbie McGee
58 Where Have All the Average People Gone
59 The Best Of All Possible Worlds
60 Invitation To The Blues
61 Tall Tall Trees
62 Don't We All Have The Right
63 That's The Way I Feel
64 Half A Mind
65 Hoppy's Gone
66 What Would My Mama Say
67 Orange Blossom Special (Live, Reno 1978)
68 Old Friends
69 Guv'Ment
70 River In The Rain - 1995 Box Set Version




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