Townes Van Zandt lyrics page

First album (For the sake of the song)

 
  1. For the sake of the song
  2. Tecumseh valley
  3. Many a fine a lady
  4. Quicksilver daydreams of Maria
  5. Waitin' around to die
  6. I'll be there in the morning
  7. Sad cinderella
  8. Velvet voices
  9. All Your Young Servants
  10. Talkin' karate blues
  11. Sixteen summers, fifteen falls
 

Our mother the mountain

 
  1. Be Here To Love Me
  2. Kathleen
  3. She came and she touched me
  4. Like a summer thursday
  5. Our mother the mountain
  6. Second lovers song
  7. St John the gambler
  8. Tecumseh
  9. Snake mountain blues
  10. My proud mountains
  11. Why she's acting this way
  

Townes Van Zandt

 
  1. For the sake of the song
  2. Columbine
  3. Waiting around to die
  4. Don't take it too bad
  5. Colorado girl
  6. Lungs
  7. I'll be here in the morning
  8. Fare thee well, Miss Carousel
  9. (Quicksilver daydreams of) Maria
  10. None but the rain
  

Delta momma blues

 
  1. FFV (Trad.)
  2. Delta mama blues
  3. Only him or me
  4. Turnstyled, junkpiled
  5. Tower song
  6. Come tomorrow
  7. Brand new companion
  8. Where I Lead Me
  9. Rake
  10. Nothin'
  

High, low and in between

 
  1. Two hands
  2. You are not needed now
  3. Greensboro woman
  4. Highway kind
  5. Standin'
  6. No deal
  7. To live is to fly
  8. When He offers his hand
  9. Mr Gold and Mr Mud
  10. Blue Ridge mountains
  11. High, low and in between
  

The late great Townes Van Zandt

 
  1. No lonesome tune
  2. Sad cinderella
  3. German mustard (Trad.)
  4. Don't let the sunshine fool ya' (Guy Clark)
  5. Honky tonkin' (Hank Williams)
  6. Snow don't fall
  7. Fraulein (L. Williams)
  8. Poncho & Lefty
  9. If I needed you
  10. The silver ships of Andilar
  11. Heavenly houseboat blues
  

Live at the old quarter

 
  1. Announcement
  2. Pancho & Lefty
  3. Mr Mudd & Mr Gold
  4. Don't you take it too bad
  5. Two girls
  6. Fraternity blues
  7. If I needed you
  8. Brand new companion
  9. White freight liner blues
  10. To live is to fly
  11. She came and she touched me
  12. Talking thunderbird blues
  13. Rex's blues
  14. Nine pound hammer (Merle Travis)
  15. For the sake of the song
  16. No place to fall
  17. Loretta
  18. Kathleen
  19. Tower song
  20. Waiting 'round to die
  21. Tecumseh valley
  22. Lungs
  23. Only him or me
  

Flyin' shoes

 
  1. Loretta
  2. No place to fall
  3. Flyin' shoes
  4. Who do you love (E. McDaniel)
  5. When she don't need me
  6. Dollar bill blues
  7. Rex's blues
  8. Pueblo waltz
  9. Brother flower
  10. Snake song
  

Live and obscure

 
  1. Dollar bill blues
  2. Many a fine a lady
  3. Nothin'
  4. Pueblo waltz
  5. Talking thunderbird blues
  6. Rex's blues
  7. White freight liner blues
  8. Loretta
  9. Snake mountain blues
  10. Waitin' round to die
  11. Tecumseh valley
  12. Pancho and Lefty
  13. You are not needed now
  

At my window

 
  1. Snowin on Raton
  2. Blue wind blew
  3. At my window
  4. For the sake of the song
  5. Ain't leavin' your love
  6. Buckskin stallion blues
  7. Little sundance #2
  8. Still looking for you
  9. Gone, gone blues
  10. The catfish song
  

Rain on a conga drum

 
  1. Mr Mudd and Mr Gold
  2. If I needed you
  3. Buckskin stallion blues
  4. Short-haired woman blues (Lightnin' Hopkins)
  5. Ain't leavin' your love
  6. Pancho & Lefty
  7. Dollar bill blues
  8. Fraulein (L. Williams)
  9. Shrimp song (R. Bennett & S. Tepper)
  10. Blaze's blues
  11. No place to fall
  12. To live's to fly
  13. Lungs
  14. Nothin'
  15. Tecumseh valley
  16. Dead flowers (Jagger/Richards)
  17. White freight liner blues
  18. Catfish song
  

Roadsongs

 
  1. Ira Hayes (Peter LaFarge)
  2. Dead flowers (Jagger/Richards)
  3. Automobile blues (Lightnin' Hopkins)
  4. Coo coo (T.C. Ashley)
  5. Fraulein (L. Williams)
  6. Hello central (Lightnin' Hopkins)
  7. Indian cowboy (Joe Ely)
  8. Racing in the streets (Bruce Springsteen)
  9. My starter won't start (Lightnin' Hopkins)
  10. Texas river song (Trad.)
  11. Wabash cannonball (A.P. Carter)
  12. Short-haired woman blues (Lightnin' Hopkins)
  13. Man gave names to all the animals (Bob Dylan)
  14. Little Willie the gambler (Bob Dylan)
  15. Cocaine blues (Trad.)
  

Rear view mirror

 
  1. Pancho & Lefty
  2. If I needed you
  3. For the sake of the song
  4. Our mother the mountain
  5. To live is to fly
  6. Lungs
  7. Flying shoes
  8. No place to fall
  9. Dollar bill blues
  10. White freight liner blues
  11. Tecumseh valley
  12. Don't you take it too bad
  13. Tower song
  14. Rex's blues
  15. Brother flower
  16. Waitin 'round to die
  17. Colorado girl
  

The Nashville sessions

 
  1. At my window
  2. Rex's blues
  3. No place to fall
  4. Buckskin stallion blues
  5. White freight liner blues
  6. Snake song
  7. Loretta
  8. Two girls
  9. The spider song
  10. When she don't need me
  11. Pueblo waltz
  12. Upon my soul
  

No deeper blue

 
  1. A song for
  2. Blaze's blues
  3. The hole
  4. Marie
  5. Goin' down to Memphis
  6. Hey Willie boy
  7. Niles river blues
  8. Billy, Boney and Ma
  9. Katie Belle Blue
  10. If I was Washington
  11. Lover's lullaby
  12. Cowboy junkies lament
  13. BW railroad blues
  14. Gone too long
  

In pain

 
  1. Katie Belle Blue
  2. Buckskin stallion blues
  3. Loretta
  4. Snowin on Raton
  5. Nothin'
  6. Gone too long
  7. To live is to fly
  8. Highway kind
  9. Mr Mudd & Mr Gold
  10. Lover's lullaby
  11. White freight liner blues
  12. You are not needed now
  13. Rex's blues
  14. Stopping off place (Eckman)
  15. Alone & forsaken (Williams)
  16. You gotta move (McDowell)
  

The masters

 
  1. Poncho and Lefty
  2. Loretta
  3. No place to fall
  4. Flyin' shoes
  5. When she don't need me
  6. Rex's blues
  7. Waiting around to die
  8. Don't take it too bad
  9. Colorado girl
  10. For the sake of the song
  11. (Quick silver daydreams of) Maria
  12. I'll be here in the morning
  13. Delta Momma blues
  14. Saint John the gambler
  15. Honky tonkin'
  16. If I needed you
  17. White freighliner blues
  18. Nine pound hammer
  19. Why she's acting this way
  20. Who do you love
  

Abnormal

 
  1. Coo-Coo
  2. Shrimp song
  3. Dollar bill blues
  4. Two girls
  5. Kathleen
  6. Waiting around to die
  7. Tecumseh valley
  8. Dead flowers
  9. Catfish song
  10. Flying shoes
  11. Blazes blues
  12. Marie
  13. A song for
  14. Lungs
  15. Old Shep
  

Documentary

 
  1. Introduction Larry Monroe
  2. Early years / Influences
  3. Waiting around to die
  4. Tecumseh valley story
  5. Tecumseh valley
  6. If I needed you story
  7. If I needed you
  8. Pancho & Lefty story
  9. Pancho & Lefty
  10. Blaze story
  11. Blaze's blues
  12. Marie story
  13. Marie
  14. The hole story
  15. The hole
  16. Cowboy junkies story
  17. Cowboy junkies lament
  18. Lighnin' Hopkins
  19. Brand new companion
  20. Comments Larry Monroe
  21. I'll be here in the morning
  22. Closing Larry Monroe
  

A far cry from dead

 
  1. Dollar bill blues
  2. To live's to fly
  3. Rex's blues
  4. Sanitarium blues
  5. Ain't leavin' your love
  6. Greensboro woman
  7. Snake Mountain blues
  8. Pancho and Lefty
  9. For the sake of the song
  10. Waitin' 'round to die
  11. Many a fine lady
  12. Tower song
  13. Squash