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(# 10 country hit)

Where The Blue And Lonely Go

Jimmy Warren - Alvaro Verissimo - Bill Silva - Charles Sagle

© Sands Music, ASCAP

Where the blue and lonely go
Where the music's loud and clear
It's the only place I know
Where the blue and lonely go

The street lights serve to light my way as I make my way downtown
To one of many nightspots I know where they're all found
Yes I'm back again to the lonely life a life that many know
Soon I'll be there with a glass of wine where the blue and lonely go

Where the blue and lonely go...

There was a time when I had love and I tried so to be free
From the life that I was used to it was just too hard for me
Now as I try to keep my heart from letting mem'ries show
I pretend that I'm so happy here where the blue and lonely go

Where the blue and lonely go...

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2.

Little Green Apples

Bobby Russell

© PolyGram Int, ASCAP

And I wake up in the mornin' with my hair down in my eyes and she says hi
And I stumble to the breakfast table while the kids are runnin' off to school goodbye
She reaches out and takes my hand squeezes it and says how you feelin' hon
And I look across at smilin' lips that warm my heart and see my morning sun
And if that's not lovin' me then all I've got to say

God didn't make little green apples
And it don't rain in Indianapolis in the summertime
There's no such thing as Doctor Suess
Disneyland and Mother Goose is no nursery rhyme
God didn't make little green apples
And it don't rain in Indianapolis in the summertime
And when myself is feelin' low I think about her face aglow
And ease my mind

Sometimes I call her up at home knowin' she's busy
And ask if she could get away and meet me and maybe grab a bite to eat
And she drops what she's doin' and hurries down to meet me and I'm always late
But she sits waiting patiently
And smiles when she first sees me cause she's made that way
And if that ain't lovin' me then all I've got to say

God didn't make little green apples...

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3.

Dreams Of The Everyday Housewife

Chris Gantry

© Combine Music, BMI

She looks in the mirror and stares at the wrinkles
That weren't there yesterday
And thinks of the young man that she almost married
What would he think if he saw her this way
She holds up her apron in little girl fashion

As something comes into her mind
Then slowly starts dancin' remembering her girlhood
And all of the boys she had waiting in line

Oh such are the dreams of the ev'ryday housewife
You see ev'rywhere anytime of the day
Like the ev'ryday housewife that gave up the good life for me

[ guitar ]
The photograph album she takes from the closet

And slowly turns the first page
And carefully picks up the crumbling flower
The first one he gave her now withered with age
She closes her eyes and touches the housedress

That suddenly disappears
And just for a moment she's wearing the gown
That broke all their minds back so many years

Oh such are the dreams of the ev'ryday housewife...

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4.

I'm Gonna Get You Off My Mind

Roy Drusky

© Johnny Bienstock Music, BMI

I'm gonna get you off my mind
It may take longer than I thought it would
But I'm gonna get you off my mind

Too many long nights with nothin' to do
Too many bright lights all shinin' on you
But when my heart settles down you're gonna find
That I'm gonna get you off my mind

I'm gonna get you off my mind
It may take longer than I thought it would
But I'm gonna get you off my mind

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5.

Today I Started Loving You Again

Merle Haggard - Bonnie Owens

© Tree Publishing, BMI

Today I started lovin' you again
I'm right back where I've really always been
I got over you just long enough to let my heartaches mend
Then today I started lovin' you again

What a fool I was to think I could get by
With only these few million tears I've cried
I should have known the worst was yet to come
And that cryin' time for me had just begun

Cause today I started lovin' you again...

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6.

Memphis Morning

Roland Pike - Johnny Wilson

© Combine Music, BMI

They announced the train was right on time
Baby stepped aboard and left the both of us behind
Well you've gotta make your day and I've gotta make my way
Somehow someway from here and you
Memphis mornin'

She's to me what sunshine is to you
Her train crossed the river flyin' now what will I do
Like sunshine helps make your day she helped in her own way
Without sunshine flowers waste away
Memphis mornin'

Oh Memphis mornin' you're not so pretty anymore
Raise your bridges start your whistles blowin'
I don't know what I'm hangin' round for
Memphis mornin'

Now you hold too many memories
Best thing I can do is leave you with 'em without me
Well if I come back this way now I'll try to plan my day
So you won't see me passin' through
Memphis mornin'

Oh Memphis mornin' oh Memphis mornin'
Oh Memphis mornin'

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7.

Portrait Of Me

Glenn Sutton

© Al Gallico Music, BMI

Picture two arms as empty as trees without leaves
And two lips much colder than winter's first breeze
Fill two eyes with teardrops until they can't see
Then you'll have a portrait of me

Then fashion a frame from a heart that can't be freeze
Cause it's completely surrounded by ole memories
Then hang it up high so the whole world can see
And you'll have a portrait of me
[ strings ]
Then fashion a frame from a heart that can't be freeze...
Then you'll have a portrait of me

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8.

I Wouldn't Be Alone

Tom Lee - Roy Drusky

© Johnny Bienstock Music, BMI

Eyes that have seen too many barroom walls
Lips that have kissed too many times
Arms that reach to one and all hands
That have held too many glasses of wine

I can't help but think what might have been
If I had stayed at home
She wouldn't have the right to sin
And I wouldn't be alone

Did I make her walk down that well known street
Or was it a choice of her own
Are those tears of sadness on her cheek
Or tears of joy because ol' mem'ries are gone

I can't help but think what might have been...

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9.

Set Me Free

Curly Putman

© Tree Publishing, BMI

If you think you've had enough
If you think our life's been rough
Why not take your love line off of me
And set me free

And if you think our love's all wrong
If you feel the fire is gone
If I'm not what you'd like for me to be
Then set me free

Set me free and let me fly
Like a bluebird flyin' high
Release the chains that bind me to Thee
And set me free

You just keep on holdin' on
Even after the love is gone
And you've held on much too long to me
So set me free

Set me free and let me fly...

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10.

Country's Gone

Sanger D. Shafer - William Ellis

© Acuff-Rose Music, BMI

There's no more common people with no more fields to sow
City ways have swallowed country days and in concrete seeds won't grow
The bubbling brook that used to yield it's treasures just for me
As long since dried but will stay alive on my page of memories
City lights change the nights country's gone

The trees that children climb today are made of iron and steel
Golden grain knows no summer rain when it falls on asphalt fields
Thr girl next door went to Baltimore and waits with empty arms
While big machines cut through hills of green run by boys who've left the farm
Traffic signs store bought rhymes country's gone

Fishin' poles and mixin' bowls hang dusty by the door
And that load of hay from a by gone day doesn't pass here anymore
Trees for sale through the mail country's gone

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11.

True And Lasting Kind

Ted Harris

© Milene Music, ASCAP

(Our love is the true and lasting kind)

I walk the line because you make me want to
Because you're mine there's a lot of things that I don't do
And it makes me proud to tell someone you're mine
For our love is the true and lasting kind

I search for ways to tell you that I love you
And make you know that no one stands above you
It's the thought of you that gets me home on time
For our love is the true and lasting kind

It scares me sometimes when I stop to wonder
What would I do without you by my side
I could never fill the space you'd leave behind
For our love is the true and lasting kind
For our love is the true and lasting kind

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