1.

Tell Me Why

Karla Bonoff

© Seagrape Music, BMI

Everywhere I look the sun is shining
But it's always raining here inside
I can see you really had a hold on me
It's a mean old love with a flame that never dies
Won't you tell me why I can't say goodbye

Everywhere I go you're in my shadow
When I turn around there's no one there
It's a real bad sign I'm walking on a real thin line
The fool in love the fool that never cared

So won't you tell me why I can't say goodbye
Won't you tell me why

Ask anyone you know and they'll say love fades away
But this heart's crying just like yesterday
[ guitar ]
And it's a real bad sign I'm walking on a real thin line
The fool in love the fool that never cared

So won't you tell me why I can't say goodbye
Won't you tell me why I can't say goodbye

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2.

Rock Bottom

James Cobb - Buddy Blue

© BLC Music, BM

When you hit rock bottom you got two ways to go
Straight up or sideways
I have seen my share of hard times and I'm lettin' you know
Straight up is my way

Things are tough all over but I've got good news
When you get down to nothing you've got nothing to lose
I was born naked but I'm glory bound
And a deadend street is just a place to turn around

Well the sky is the limit up on easy street
Rock bottom ain't no place to be
Rock bottom ain't no place for me no no

The law of the jungle is the law of the land
Good luck staying alive
I think they plan to keep us under with this hat in my hand
Cause only the strong survive

Things are tough all over but I've got good news
When you get down to nothing you've got nothing to lose
Anyway rock bottom is good solid ground
And a dead end street is just a place to turn around

Well the sky is the limit up on easy street...

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3.

Only Love

Roger Murrah - Marcus Hummon

© Murrah Music, BMI / Careers Music, BMI / Acuff-Rose Music, BMI

I have sailed a boat or two out on the wild blue
Yonder to dreams that rarely come true
As far as I can see from this island of green
I can put my trust in just one thing

Only love sails straight from the harbor
And only love will lead us to the other shore
And out of all the flags I've flown one flies high and stands alone
Only love

Peaceful waters raging sea and it's all the same to me
I can close my eyes and still be free
When the waves come crashing down and thunder rolls around
I can feel my feet on solid ground

Only love sails straight from the harbor...
Only love sails straight from the harbor...

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4.

Let's Make A Baby King

Jesse Winchester

© Musique Chanteclair, ASCAP

Once upon a Christmas morn there was a pretty little baby boy
It seems like I remember sadness mingling in the joy
For Mary saw the future and the sadness it would bring
And that's when Mary started crying when she heard the angels sing

Let's make a baby king let's make him Lord of all
Let's give him everything let's make a baby king

Now you remember little king David he's the little baby's kin
He's cousin to the man named John and I know you all remember him
And John said let's get ready the herald angels sing
Cause this old world needs to know the good news that I bring

Let's make a baby king...
[ guitar ]
Let's make a baby king...

Now we could use a revolution the world is turned upside down
We need a new direction we've got to turn this whole thing around
We need a Lord to guide us to teach us the wrong and right
And we need a lamb to lead us into the land of light

Let's make a baby king...

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5.

Is It Over Yet

Billy Kirsch

© Careers Music, BMI

Tell me when I can open my eyes
I don't want to watch you walk out that door
There's no easy way to get through goodbye
I'd probably try and talk you into staying once more

Or I'd lie and say it's all for the best
Wish you luck and say I have no regrets
But I'm not up to being strong so I'll wait until you're gone
Is it over yet is it over yet

A taxi's waiting in the driveway for you
You call my name I guess your ready to leave
I'd like to help you with a suitcase or two
But I'm afraid I'm gonna wind up down on my knees

I should tell you that I want you to go
I really need to spend some time on my own
Smile and say goodbye so you don't see me dying inside
Is it over yet is it over yet
[ piano ]
I should lie and say it's all for the best...

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6.

Father Sun

Sheryl Crow - Janis Gill

© Old Crow Music, BMI / Warner-Tamerlane Publ, BMI

Strange imaginations children hide your secrets well
Is it not temptation makes you kiss and makes you tell
There's a traveller on the airwaves and he's pleading for my heart
Light up all the candles I'm still in the dark

Hurry operator get redemption on the line
Pull back the curtains I think I recognize those eyes
If love is so criminal then my penance due
Cause I'm still holdin' on to letters written straight to you

Oh won't you save me father sun father sun
I need to tell you father sun father sun
And now you know that you're the only one
Oh please forgive me father sun father sun

I said I needed you in the back of my mind
Laid the beads up on the table right besides the wine
It seems that we say forever but forever's just a word
And I we'll be coming back for you is all I heard

Oh won't you save me father sun father sun...
Please don't forget me father sun father sun

I think I hear him whispering
Put your hand in mine and you won't feel a thing

Oh won't you save me father sun father sun...
Oh won't you save me father sun father sun...
Oh won't you save me father sun father sun
Oh won't you save me save me save me save me father sun

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7.

Girls With Guitars

Mary Chapin Carpenter

© April Music, ASCAP / Get A Real Job Music, ASCAP

She turned fifteen with great expectations
Her older brother knew that something was up
He caught her going through his record collection
Looking at Hendrix like a lovesick pup
She begged and she pleaded till dad finally listened
He drove her in the car down to Sears Roebuck
He bought her that guitar and that was the beginning
Now she's down on the cellar with the amp turned up

Girls with guitars daddy's little angel
Girls with guitars what's the world coming to
Girls with guitars mothers tend to worry about girls with guitars

Well Saturday nights she followed her brother
It was socks and stockings on the old gym floor
While everybody danced to garage band covers
She was checking out riffs and memorizing chords
She didn't care at all for the football heroes
She didn't even notice basketball stars
Boys as a species were all a bunch of zeroes
Expect for the ones that played that guitar

Girls with guitars she wasn't any debutante
Girls with guitars she didn't go out for cheerleading
Girls with guitars boys are kind of nervous round girls with guitars

She went off to college she got her degree
Her parents breathed a sigh of great relief
Daddy's thinking law school mother's thinking medicine
Daughter's thinking how she's gonna break the news to them
[ guitar ]
Now there's an old Chevy van just sittin' on the driveway
Filled to the gills with all of her stuff
She cut a deal with her brother to drive it up the highway
Figures New York City is close enough
She gets the audition through a friend of a friend
Who's checking out her legs saying this will never work
She flips on her boogie and turns to the band
Gives a little grin and blows away the jerk

Girls with guitars now everybody's rockin'
Girls with guitars there ought to be a song about
Girls with guitars there's just no stopping those girls with guitars
Get your money for nothin' and your guys for free

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8.

Just Like New

Jesse Winchester

© Musique Chanteclair, ASCAP

There's the same engine under the hood carrying young Elvis to Hollywood
Been cross country a time or two and look at it now it's just like new
He had a weakness for Cadillacs a girl in the front and his friends in the back
That's the original paint job too and look at it now it's just like new

Elvis was happy he felt pretty good here he was drivin' to Hollywood
Gassin' it up and pushin' it through and look at it now it's just like new
According to one of Elvis' friends he took it up to a hundred and ten
He just wanted to see what his Caddy would do and look at it now it's just like new

And my my what a beautiful machine oh boy it rides just like a dream
Just think of all that it's been through and look at it now it's just like new

He drove it to Memphis come Christmas time the weather so fair the future so fine
Say mama them girls ain't as pretty as you look at her daddy she's just like new
Elvis was always a dutiful child and here everybody was thinkin' he's wild
He bought his folks a Cadillac too and look at it now it's just like new
Look at it now it's just like new look at it now it's just like new

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9.

I Just Drove By

Kimmie Rhodes

© Irving Music, BMI / Gracey Rhodes Publications, BMI

I always go the other way but my car drove me down today
To a little house on the older side of town
Back when things were never hard I used to play there in that yard
And I just drove by to see if things have changed

Cokes were just a nickel then and across the street at the five and ten
A lot of things were cheap and square and strange
The life that we had might have been but it was one we loved believin' in
And I just drove by to see if things have changed

I wondered now if love is still the way it was back then
I need to know that life is still a place worth living in
There it is just like it was a place where there was always love
And I just drove by to see if things have changed
[ steel - harmonica ]
In a world that seen it's better days
It's good to know some things remain the same
Though standing still is not times way
Take to heart while in it's spring but love is just a fragile thing
I just drove by to see if things have changed
Oh I just drove by to see if things have changed

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10.

That Was Yesterday

Naomi Judd

© Mike Curb Music, BMI

It's finally over but I can't even cry
So don't you give me no sweet talk you done told your last lie
I was your puppet just a dancin' dancin' on a string
But when the sun went down last night Lord it changed everything

Today I feel different cause now I can see
That you care more bout yourself than mistreatin' me
It took me a long time to figure you out
But misery and pain ain't what loves all about

I was your woman but you threw me away
I used to be your very own
Custom made love slave do anything for you little fool
But that was yesterday that was yesterday
[ guitar ]
And so it goes another lesson gets learned
In the big book of experience another page gets turned
Now you say you need me well honey you've got some nerve
I hope some sweet tomorrow we'll get what we deserve

I was your woman but you threw it away...
[ guitar ]
I'm packing up and moving on your real good thing is good and gone

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