The Cold Hard Facts of Life

Compilation by Porter Wagoner

Released 2008

Tracklist

  • CD 1: Confessions of a Broken Man / Soul of a Convict
  • 1
    Men With Broken Hearts
    2:43
  • 2
    I Just Came to Smell the Flowers
    2:37
  • 3
    May You Never Be Alone
    2:21
  • 4
    Skid Row Joe
    3:02
  • 5
    Take Me Back and Try Me One More Time
    2:34
  • 6
    How Far Can I Go?
    2:40
  • 7
    I’m a Long Way From Home
    2:14
  • 8
    Confessions of a Broken Man
    2:59
  • 9
    My Tears Are Overdue
    2:41
  • 10
    I’ve Been Down That Road Before
    2:51
  • 11
    Thy Burdens Are Greater Than Mine
    2:58
  • 12
    My Last Two Tens
    2:52
  • 13
    Boston Jail
    2:14
  • 14
    The Convict and the Rose
    2:30
  • 15
    I Relived My Life Today
    3:05
  • 16
    I’m Just Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail
    2:13
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  • 17
    Let Me In
    2:46
  • 18
    The Big River Train
    2:52
  • 19
    The Snakes Crawl at Night
    2:36
  • 20
    They’re All Going Home but One
    2:56
  • 21
    Folsom Prison
    2:17
  • 22
    Soul of a Convict
    3:28
  • 23
    Green Green Grass of Home
    2:25
  • 24
    (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle
    2:22
  • CD 2: The Cold Hard Facts of Life / The Bottom of the Bottle
  • 1
    The First Mrs. Jones
    2:47
  • 2
    Words and Music
    2:33
  • 3
    The Cold Hard Facts of Life
    3:14
  • 4
    Sleep
    2:24
  • 5
    Hundred Dollar Funeral
    2:50
  • 6
    If I Could Only Start Over
    2:01
  • 7
    Tragic Romance
    2:38
  • 8
    Try Being Lonely
    1:45
  • 9
    I’ll Get Ahead Some Day
    2:05
  • 10
    I Just Can’t Let You Say Goodbye
    2:35
  • 11
    Shopworn
    2:17
  • 12
    Julie
    2:36
  • 13
    Wino
    2:27
  • 14
    Daddy and the Wine
    2:35
  • 15
    Swinging Doors
    2:29
  • 16
    The Bottom of the Bottle
    2:23
  • 17
    In the Shadows of the Wine
    2:10
  • 18
    She Burnt the Little Roadside Tavern Down
    2:04
  • 19
    The Bottle Let Me Down
    2:25
  • 20
    One Dime for the Wine
    2:10
  • 21
    Wine
    2:12
  • 22
    Turn the Juke Box Up Louder
    2:32
  • 23
    I Threw Away the Rose
    2:42
  • 24
    Bottle, Bottle
    2:25
  • CD 3: The Carroll County Accident / Down in the Alley
  • 1
    The World Needs a Washin’
    1:54
  • 2
    Banks of the Ohio
    2:22
  • 3
    Sing Me Back Home
    2:23
  • 4
    Barefoot Nellie
    2:15
  • 5
    Sorrow Overtakes the Wine
    2:18
  • 6
    Black Jack’s Bar
    2:20
  • 7
    The Carroll County Accident
    2:50
  • 8
    Rocky Top
    2:35
  • 9
    Your Mother’s Eyes
    2:23
  • 10
    King of the Cannon County Hills
    2:41
  • 11
    I Lived So Fast and Hard
    2:20
  • 12
    Fallen Leaves
    2:05
  • 13
    Here’s a Toast to Mama
    2:35
  • 14
    Sidewalks of Chicago
    3:06
  • 15
    The Silent Kind
    2:07
  • 16
    The Alley
    2:23
  • 17
    The Town Drunk
    2:12
  • 18
    Mama
    3:18
  • 19
    Bottle of Wine
    2:03
  • 20
    One More Dime
    2:05
  • 21
    I Judged a Man
    2:55
  • 22
    When I Drink My Wine
    2:33

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