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Tom T. Hall - Back When We Were Young
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Tom T. Hall - Faster Horses (Cowboy and the Poet)
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Tom T. Hall - I Can't Dance
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Tom T. Hall - That's How I Got to Memphis
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Tom T. Hall - Come On Back To Nashville
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Tom T. Hall - Dark Hollow
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Tom T. Hall - Deal
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Tom T. Hall - Fallen Women
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Tom T. Hall - Forget It
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Tom T. Hall - Gone to Hell in a Basket
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Tom T. Hall - Hang Them All
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Tom T. Hall - Harper Valley P.T.A.
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Tom T. Hall - Homecoming
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Tom T. Hall - I'm a Cowboy Too
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Tom T. Hall - Letters
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Tom T. Hall - Me and Jesus
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Tom T. Hall - Molly And Tenbrooks
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Tom T. Hall - Mr. Bojangles
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Tom T. Hall - Never Having You
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Tom T. Hall - Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine
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Tom T. Hall - Old Five and Dimers Like Me
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Tom T. Hall - Old Habits Die Hard
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Tom T. Hall - One More Song for Jesus
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Tom T. Hall - Over and Over Again
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Tom T. Hall - Ramona's Revenge
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Tom T. Hall - Ravishing Ruby
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Tom T. Hall - Ships Go Out
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Tom T. Hall - Sing a Little Baby to Sleep
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Tom T. Hall - That Song Is Driving Me Crazy
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Tom T. Hall - Turn It on Turn It on Turn It On
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Tom T. Hall - Watertown Tennessee
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Tom T. Hall - Week In a Country Jail
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Tom T. Hall - A Million Miles to the City
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Tom T. Hall - Ain't Got the Time
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Tom T. Hall - Another Town
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Tom T. Hall - Back When Gas Was Thirty Cents a Gallon
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Tom T. Hall - Ballad of Bill Crump
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Tom T. Hall - Beauty Is a Fading Flower
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Tom T. Hall - Beer Drinker's Waltz
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Tom T. Hall - Big Motel on the Mountain
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Tom T. Hall - Burning Bridges
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Tom T. Hall - Canadian Women Canadian Clubs
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Tom T. Hall - Carter Boys
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Tom T. Hall - Chattanooga Dog
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Tom T. Hall - Cloudy Day
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Tom T. Hall - Coming to the Party
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Tom T. Hall - Different Feeling
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Tom T. Hall - Do It to Someone You Love
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Tom T. Hall - Everybody Loves to Hear a Bird Sing
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Tom T. Hall - Famous In Missouri
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Tom T. Hall - Flat-Footin' It
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Tom T. Hall - Fox on the Run
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Tom T. Hall - From a Mansion To a Honky Tonk
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Tom T. Hall - Gimme Peace
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Tom T. Hall - Girl You Sure Know How To Say Goodbye
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Tom T. Hall - God Came Through Bellville Georgia
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Tom T. Hall - Greed Kills More People Than Whiskey
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Tom T. Hall - Harmonica Man
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Tom T. Hall - I Love
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Tom T. Hall - I Still Care What Happens To You
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Tom T. Hall - I Want to See the Parade
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Tom T. Hall - I'd Rather Die Young
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Tom T. Hall - I'll Go Somewhere And Sing My Songs Again
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Tom T. Hall - I'm Forty Now
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Tom T. Hall - I'm Not Ready Yet
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Tom T. Hall - It Sure Can Get Cold in Des Moines
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Tom T. Hall - It's All In The Game
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Tom T. Hall - Joe, Don't Let Your Music Kill You
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Tom T. Hall - Last Hard Town
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Tom T. Hall - Little Green Flower With The Yellow On Top
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Tom T. Hall - Love's Been Good to Me
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Tom T. Hall - Lovin' Arms
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Tom T. Hall - Magnificent Music Machine
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Tom T. Hall - Mama Bake a Pie (Daddy Kill a Chicken)
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Tom T. Hall - Man Who Hated Freckles
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Tom T. Hall - Mcleay Street In Sydney
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Tom T. Hall - Monkey That Became President
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Tom T. Hall - Myra
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Tom T. Hall - Nashville Is a Groovy Little Town
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Tom T. Hall - No New Friends Please
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Tom T. Hall - Old Enough to Want to (Fool Enough to Try)
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Tom T. Hall - Ole Lonesome George the Basset
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Tom T. Hall - Pisty
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Tom T. Hall - Pratt Street
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Tom T. Hall - Promise and the Dream
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Tom T. Hall - Raking Up Leaves
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Tom T. Hall - Rank Strangers
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Tom T. Hall - Running Wild
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Tom T. Hall - Sad Song For My Friend
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Tom T. Hall - Shoeshine Man
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Tom T. Hall - Singer's Song
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Tom T. Hall - Six O'clock News
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Tom T. Hall - Soldier Of Fortune
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Tom T. Hall - Song for Uncle Curt
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Tom T. Hall - Song of the One Legged Chicken
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Tom T. Hall - Souvenirs
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Tom T. Hall - St. Louis Named a Shoe After Me
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Tom T. Hall - Subdivision Blues
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Tom T. Hall - That Lucky Old Sun
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Tom T. Hall - That'll Be All Right With Me
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Tom T. Hall - Time Takes Care Of a Few Things
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Tom T. Hall - Trees In Philadelphia
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Tom T. Hall - Trip to Hyden
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Tom T. Hall - Tulsa Telephone Book
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Tom T. Hall - We're All In This Thing Alone
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Tom T. Hall - Whiskey
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Tom T. Hall - Who's Gonna Feed Them Hogs
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Tom T. Hall - World According To Raymond
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Tom T. Hall - Year That Clayton Delaney Died
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Tom T. Hall - A Bar With No Beer
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Tom T. Hall - A Picture of Your Mother
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Tom T. Hall - A Week in a Country Jail
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Tom T. Hall - Adventures Of Linda Bohannon
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Tom T. Hall - All You Want When You Please
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Tom T. Hall - America the Ugly
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Tom T. Hall - And I Love You So
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Tom T. Hall - Back When The Old Homeplace Was New
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Tom T. Hall - Ballad of Forty Dollars
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Tom T. Hall - Barn Dance
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Tom T. Hall - Beautiful River Of Life
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Tom T. Hall - Bill Monroe For Breakfast
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Tom T. Hall - Bluegrass Festival in the Sky
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Tom T. Hall - Bourbon Man
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Tom T. Hall - Candy in the Window
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Tom T. Hall - Christmas Is
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Tom T. Hall - Coot Marseilles Blues
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Tom T. Hall - Country Cabin-Itis
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Tom T. Hall - Country Is
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Tom T. Hall - Don't Forget the Coffee Billy Joe
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Tom T. Hall - Easter Is
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Tom T. Hall - Everything From Jesus To Jack Daniels
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Tom T. Hall - Faster Horses (The Cowboy And The Poet)
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Tom T. Hall - Forbidden Flowers
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Tom T. Hall - From A Mansion To A Honky-Tonk
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Tom T. Hall - George (And The North Woods)
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Tom T. Hall - George and the North Woods
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Tom T. Hall - Girl Who Read The Same Book All The Time
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Tom T. Hall - Girls in Saigon City
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Tom T. Hall - God Came Through Bellville, Georgia
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Tom T. Hall - Goodbye Cowgirl
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Tom T. Hall - Grandma Whistled
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Tom T. Hall - Halloween Is
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Tom T. Hall - Happy Groundhog Day
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Tom T. Hall - High Steppin' Proud
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Tom T. Hall - Highways
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Tom T. Hall - Hitchhiker
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Tom T. Hall - How to Talk to a Little Baby Goat
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Tom T. Hall - I Care
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Tom T. Hall - I Couldn't Live In Southern California
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Tom T. Hall - I Don't Want My Golden Slippers
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Tom T. Hall - I Feel Like Flying Away
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Tom T. Hall - I Flew Over Our House Last Night
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Tom T. Hall - I Hope It Rains At My Funeral
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Tom T. Hall - I Know Who I'll Be Seeing in New Zeland
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Tom T. Hall - I Left You Some Kisses On The Door
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Tom T. Hall - I Like Beer
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Tom T. Hall - I Like to Feel Pretty Inside
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Tom T. Hall - I Miss a Lot of Trains
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Tom T. Hall - I Only Think About You When I'm Drunk
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Tom T. Hall - I See
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Tom T. Hall - I Took a Memory to Lunch
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Tom T. Hall - I Washed My Face in the Morning Dew
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Tom T. Hall - I Wish I Had a Million Friends
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Tom T. Hall - I Wish I Loved Somebody Else
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Tom T. Hall - It Feels Better Now
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Tom T. Hall - It Rained In Every Town Except Paducah
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Tom T. Hall - It's Got to Be Kentucky for Me
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Tom T. Hall - Jesus On The Radio (daddy On The Phone)
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Tom T. Hall - Joe Don't Let Your Music Kill You
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Tom T. Hall - Kentucky Feb 27.'71
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Tom T. Hall - Kentucky in the Morning
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Tom T. Hall - L.A. Blues
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Tom T. Hall - Last Country Song
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Tom T. Hall - Legend Of The Lady Bear
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Tom T. Hall - Life Don't Have To Mean Nothing At All
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Tom T. Hall - Little Bitty
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Tom T. Hall - Little Brown Suitcase
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Tom T. Hall - Little Lady Preacher
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Tom T. Hall - Local Flowers
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Tom T. Hall - Loneliest Girl in the Crowd
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Tom T. Hall - Looking Forward to Seeing You Again
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Tom T. Hall - Lost In Florida
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Tom T. Hall - Lying Jim
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Tom T. Hall - Mabel You Have Been a Friend To Me
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Tom T. Hall - Mama's Got The Catfish Blues
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Tom T. Hall - Man Who Shot Himself
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Tom T. Hall - Margie's At The Lincoln Park Inn
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Tom T. Hall - Mc Leay Street In Sydney
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Tom T. Hall - Me And Jimmie Rodgers
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Tom T. Hall - More About John Henry
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Tom T. Hall - My Heroes Have Always Been Highways
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Tom T. Hall - Mysterious Fox of Fox Hollow
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Tom T. Hall - Negatory Romance
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Tom T. Hall - No One Feels My Hurt
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Tom T. Hall - Ode to a Half a Pound of Ground Round
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Tom T. Hall - Old Side Of Town
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Tom T. Hall - One Hundred Children
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Tom T. Hall - One Of The Mysteries Of Life
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Tom T. Hall - Over the Rainbow
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Tom T. Hall - P.S. I Love You
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Tom T. Hall - Pamela Brown
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Tom T. Hall - Pay No Attention to Alice
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Tom T. Hall - People As Crazy As Me
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Tom T. Hall - Picture of Your Mother
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Tom T. Hall - Piece of the Road
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Tom T. Hall - Pinto the Wonder Horse Is Dead
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Tom T. Hall - Rattle Mouse
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Tom T. Hall - Redneck Riviera
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Tom T. Hall - Rolling Mills of Middletown
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Tom T. Hall - Royal Annie
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Tom T. Hall - Salute to a Switchblade
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Tom T. Hall - Saturday Morning Song
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Tom T. Hall - Second Handed Flower
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Tom T. Hall - Secondhanded Flowers
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Tom T. Hall - Senior Citizen Star
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Tom T. Hall - Shame on the Rain
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Tom T. Hall - She Gave Her Heart to Jethro
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Tom T. Hall - Shoes And Dress That Alice Wore
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Tom T. Hall - Sky Blue True
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Tom T. Hall - Sneaky Snake
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Tom T. Hall - Son Of Clayton Delaney
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Tom T. Hall - Songwriter
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Tom T. Hall - Spokane Motel Blues
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Tom T. Hall - St. George Isle
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Tom T. Hall - Story of Your Life Is in Your Face
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Tom T. Hall - Strawberry Farms
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Tom T. Hall - Texas Never Fell In Love With Me
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Tom T. Hall - Thank You Connersville Indiana
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Tom T. Hall - Thanks Giiving Is
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Tom T. Hall - That's Why You Have To Be You
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Tom T. Hall - The Son of Clayton Delaney
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Tom T. Hall - The Year That Clayton Delaney Died
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Tom T. Hall - There Is a Miracle In You
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Tom T. Hall - They Captured The Outlaw Last Night
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Tom T. Hall - Three Sofa Story
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Tom T. Hall - Too Many Do Goods
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Tom T. Hall - Too Many Do-Goods
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Tom T. Hall - Waiting On The Other Shoe To Fall
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Tom T. Hall - Water Blue
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Tom T. Hall - Way I've Always Been
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Tom T. Hall - Way We Were
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Tom T. Hall - What A Song
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Tom T. Hall - What do You Mean When You Say Goodbye
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Tom T. Hall - When Nobody Wants Your Body Anymore
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Tom T. Hall - Whiskey Castles
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Tom T. Hall - Who Needs a Baby
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Tom T. Hall - Whole Lot Of Love
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Tom T. Hall - Willy the Wandering Gypsy and Me
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Tom T. Hall - Windy City Anne
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Tom T. Hall - World the Way I Want It
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Tom T. Hall - You Are My Hero
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Tom T. Hall - You Love Everybody But You
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Tom T. Hall - You Show Me Your Heart (and I'll Show You Mine)
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Tom T. Hall - Your Birthday Is
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Tom T. Hall - Your Man Loves You Honey
It Sure Can Get Cold in Des Moines
Tom T. Hall
I had come to Des Moines for a radio show
I awoke in the evening from a traveler's sleep
With notions of something to eat.
The old elevator slipped down past the floors
My head and my eyes said you should have slept more
The man at the desk said the restaurant was closed
Outside it was fourteen below.
The lounge was still open so I walked in
In place of my food I had two double gins
I looked round the room as a tourist would do
That's when I saw a girl in the booth.
She sat there and cried in the smoky half dark
The silent type crying that tears out your heart
Her clothes were not cut in the new modern way
And her suitcase had seen better days.
Nobody asked her what caused her such pain
Nobody spoke up yet no one complained
Without even asking I knew why she cried
Life is just like that sometimes.
The man at the desk said it's fifteen below
The bellhop said yeah man that's cold that's cold
I went back to my room and I wrote down this song
Oh it sure can get cold in Des Moines...