Biography:
Bobby Bare (born Robert Joseph Bare on April 7, 1935 in Ironton, Ohio) is an American country music singer and songwriter.
In the fifties after many failed attempts to sell his songs, he finally was signed up with Capitol Records and recorded a few rock and roll songs without much chart success. Just before he was drafted into the Army, he wrote a song called 'The All American Boy' and did a demo for his friend, Bill Parsons, to learn and record it.
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Other songs:
- Tequila Sheila
- 500 Miles Away From Home
- A Little Bit Later On Down The Line
- Alimony
- All American Boy
- All The Good Times Are Past And Gone
- Amarillo Highway
- Baby Dont Believe Him
- Big Dupree
- Book Of Love
- Brian Hennessey
- Calgary Snow
- Candy Coated Kisses
- Charleston Railroad
- Chester
- Christmas Time At Grandmas House
- Coal River
- Come Kiss Me Love
- Come On Home And Sing The Blues To Daddy
- Come Sundown
- Cowboy And The Poet Faster Horses
- Cowboys And Daddys
- Daddy What If
- Dear Wastebasket
- Detroit City
- Dont It Make You Wanna Go Home
- Dont Think Twice Its Alright
- Down In Mexico
- Down To My Last Come And Get Me
- Drinking From The Bottle
- Drop Kick Me Jesus
- Dropping Out Of Sight
- Find Out Whats Happening
- Five Hundred Miles
- Game Of Triangles
- Gods Were Angry With Me
- Greasy Grit Gravy
- Hard Time Hungrys
- Have I Stayed Away Too Long
- Heaven Help My Soul
- Hes A Cowboy
- High Plains Jamboree
- Hillbilly Hell
- Homecoming
- How About You
- I Dont Believe Ill Fall In Love Today
- I Hate Goodbyes
- I Love An Old Fashioned Christmas
- I Never Went To Bed With An Ugly Woman
- I Took A Memory For Lunch
- I Took A Memory To Lunch
- I Wonder Where You Are Tonight
- Id Fight The World
- If You Aint Got Nothing
- Im A Long Way From Home
- Im Gettin Lonely
- Im Not A Candle In The Wind
- In The Hills Of Shiloh
- It All Depends On Linda
- Last Dance At The Old Texas Moon
- Lemon Tree
- Little Bit Later On Down The Line
- Long Way To Tennessee
- Lost In Millers Cave
- Margies At The Lincoln Park Inn
- Marie Laveau
- Mrs Jones Your Daughter Cried All Night
- Numbers
- Ode To The Little Brown Shack Out Back
- Passin Through
- Please Dont Tell Me How The Story Ends
- Please Dont Tell Me Till The Story Ends
- Pretty Painted Ladies
- Rosalies Good Eats Cafe
- Rough On The Living
- Shame On Me
- She My Ever Lovin Machine
- Song Of The South
- Speckled Pony
- Thats How I Got To Memphis
- The Jogger
- The Mermaid
- The Mermaid Song
- The Stranger
- The Winner
- Things Change
- To Whom It May Concern
- Try To Remember
- Up Against The Wall Redneck Mother
- What Am I Gonna Do Girl
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[Verse]
E A
Brian Hennessey sat back and let the gypsy read his palm
B E
When he saw her eyes grow wide and wild and dark
A
And she whispered through her toothless gums and clutched him by the arm
B E
She said, ''Boy, I fear I see the devil's mark.''
E B E
Brian Hennessey just laughed and pealed the ten-spot from his roll
B
'Cause he'd never ever known the taste of fear
E A
But he wondered why the summer nights should suddenly turn cold
B E
As the gypsy's words come ringing in his ear.
[Chorus]
E A E
''You can run, you can hide, Brian Hennessey.'', she cried
B
''But you can't escape the fate that's in your hand.
E A
And say how does it feel to have dealt your final deal?
B E
Go on lay down Brian you're a dying man.''
[Verse]
E A
Brian Hennessey walked through the doors of the Dining Dog Saloon
B E
Where he stopped to have his nightly glass of gin
A
And the one-eyed scar-faced stranger a dealing blackjack in the gloom
B E
Winked his ghastly grey glass eye and dealt him in.
E B E
Brian watched in fascination as the stranger's fingers flew
B
Why he'd never seen such cheatin' done before
E A
And his hand closed round a handle of his snub-nose 32
B E
When the gypsy's warning come to him once more.
[Chorus]
E A E
''You can run, you can hide, Brian Hennessey.'', she cried
B
''But you can't escape the fate that's in your hand.
E A
And say how does it feel to have dealt your final deal?
B E
Go on lay down Brian you're a dying man.''
[Verse]
E A
Brian Hennessey just folded up his cards and walked away
B E
Holding back the rage that burned his soul
A
And he stopped to have some coffee at the Mockingbird Cafe
B E
But that slender blue eyed waitress was his goal.
B E
And a few words from his silver tongue soon turned her flighty head
B
She said, ''My husband's out of town, you need not fear.''
E A
But as he pressed her to the softness of her flutty-feathered bed
B E
On her pillows he saw written bright and clear.
[Chorus]
E A E
Oh, you can run, you can hide, daring letters clear and wide
B
Said you can't escape the fate that's in your hand
E A
And say how does it feel to have dealt your final deal
B E
Go on lay down Brian you're a dying man.
[Verse]
E A
Brian Hennessey he stumbled down the stairs into the street
B E
And from that day on he changed his wicked life
A
And he never drunk or gambled and he never dealt no doop
B E
And he never touched another fellow's wife.
B E
And years later he met the gypsy when his days were almost done
B
He said, ''Ha, ha, I beat your curse don't you know.''
E A
But when she saw the frightened, trembling, withered wretch that he'd become
B E
She said, ''Brian, you died twenty years ago.''
[Chorus/Outro]
A E
''Because you ran and you hid that's exactly what you did
B
But you didn't escape the fate that's in your hand.
A
And say how did it feel to have dealt your final deal?
B E
Go on lay down Brian you're a dying man...''
E A
Brian Hennessey sat back and let the gypsy read his palm
B E
When he saw her eyes grow wide and wild and dark
A
And she whispered through her toothless gums and clutched him by the arm
B E
She said, ''Boy, I fear I see the devil's mark.''
E B E
Brian Hennessey just laughed and pealed the ten-spot from his roll
B
'Cause he'd never ever known the taste of fear
E A
But he wondered why the summer nights should suddenly turn cold
B E
As the gypsy's words come ringing in his ear.
[Chorus]
E A E
''You can run, you can hide, Brian Hennessey.'', she cried
B
''But you can't escape the fate that's in your hand.
E A
And say how does it feel to have dealt your final deal?
B E
Go on lay down Brian you're a dying man.''
[Verse]
E A
Brian Hennessey walked through the doors of the Dining Dog Saloon
B E
Where he stopped to have his nightly glass of gin
A
And the one-eyed scar-faced stranger a dealing blackjack in the gloom
B E
Winked his ghastly grey glass eye and dealt him in.
E B E
Brian watched in fascination as the stranger's fingers flew
B
Why he'd never seen such cheatin' done before
E A
And his hand closed round a handle of his snub-nose 32
B E
When the gypsy's warning come to him once more.
[Chorus]
E A E
''You can run, you can hide, Brian Hennessey.'', she cried
B
''But you can't escape the fate that's in your hand.
E A
And say how does it feel to have dealt your final deal?
B E
Go on lay down Brian you're a dying man.''
[Verse]
E A
Brian Hennessey just folded up his cards and walked away
B E
Holding back the rage that burned his soul
A
And he stopped to have some coffee at the Mockingbird Cafe
B E
But that slender blue eyed waitress was his goal.
B E
And a few words from his silver tongue soon turned her flighty head
B
She said, ''My husband's out of town, you need not fear.''
E A
But as he pressed her to the softness of her flutty-feathered bed
B E
On her pillows he saw written bright and clear.
[Chorus]
E A E
Oh, you can run, you can hide, daring letters clear and wide
B
Said you can't escape the fate that's in your hand
E A
And say how does it feel to have dealt your final deal
B E
Go on lay down Brian you're a dying man.
[Verse]
E A
Brian Hennessey he stumbled down the stairs into the street
B E
And from that day on he changed his wicked life
A
And he never drunk or gambled and he never dealt no doop
B E
And he never touched another fellow's wife.
B E
And years later he met the gypsy when his days were almost done
B
He said, ''Ha, ha, I beat your curse don't you know.''
E A
But when she saw the frightened, trembling, withered wretch that he'd become
B E
She said, ''Brian, you died twenty years ago.''
[Chorus/Outro]
A E
''Because you ran and you hid that's exactly what you did
B
But you didn't escape the fate that's in your hand.
A
And say how did it feel to have dealt your final deal?
B E
Go on lay down Brian you're a dying man...''
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