1.

(# 1 country hit)

To Make Love Sweeter For You

Glenn Sutton - Jerry Kennedy

© Al Gallico Music, BMI

Well I'd like to send an orchid at the start of every day
For flowers show more beauty than words could ever say
You've done so much for my world till all I want to do
Is try my best in every way to make love sweeter for you

A thousand special compliments I'd pay to you each day
Your ears would never be tire of all the sweet things I would say
You never would be lonely honey you never would be blue
Cause my one aim in life would be to make love sweeter for you

You given me the faith it took to make my dreams come true
That's why I want to live and breathe my every breath for you
You've cleared the windows of my life and now that I see through
I'll do my best in every way to make love sweeter for you
I'll do my best in every way to make love sweeter for you

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2.

Let's Talk About Us

Otis Blackwell

© Screen Gems Music, BMI

Come on let's talk about us

We talked about the birdies that all fly up in the trees
And we talked about the moon and stars we couldn't see
You keep on pretending you don't know what's wrong with me
Come on let's talk about us

We talked about the good times that made us laugh and sigh
And we talked about the bad times that brought tears to our eyes
I think it's just about the time for you to realize
Come on let's talk about us

Oh dear I swear I'm gonna love you baby until the very end
I ain't gonna stick around if it's just to be your friend
We've talked and talked and talked and talked but there's been nothin' said
Things baby that you've been talking about just don't stick to my head
Sometimes little girl I think your heart is filled with lead
Come on let's talk about us

Oh dear I swear I'll love you honey till the very end...

Come on let's talk about us
Come on baby let's talk about us

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3.

I Can't Get Over You

Ben Peters

© Shelby Singleton Music, BMI

I try to find some way to ease my mind
But no matter no matter what I do
I feel a part of you still in my heart
And I can't get over you

Just when I think I can win there's that old feeling back again
Guess I'll be this way until my life is through
You set me free but you left your chains on me
And I can't get over you
[ piano ]
Just when I think I can win whoa I get that old feeling back again
Guess I'll be this way until my life is through
Oh yeah oh you set me free but you left them old chains hangin' on me
And I can't get over you

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4.

Out Of My Mind

Kenneth Lovelace

© Decapo Music, BMI

I'm sitting here drinking thinking of you
Wondering where you are and the love we once knew
This old town ain't much for a man all alone
But it's better than nothing when I want to get stoned

Out of my mind
When I leave this old bar I don't know where I'm going
Because of the bottle there's no way of knowing
That I'm out of my mind
[ piano ]
It all goes back to the good times we had
The glad times and sad times oh they were both good and bad
But honey if you'll ever need me well I'll be around
Yeah right on that old corner in that same old bar downtown

Out of my mind...

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5.

Today I Started Loving You Again

Merle Haggard - Bonnie Owens

© Tree Publishing, BMI

Well today I started loving you again
And I'm right back where I've really always been
I got over you just long enough to let my heartaches mend
And then today I started loving you again

Now 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 crying time for me had just begun

And today I started loving you again...
And then today I started loving you again

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6.

(# 2 country hit)

She Still Comes Around (To Love What's Left Of Me)

Glenn Sutton

© Al Gallico Music, BMI

I know I'm not a model husband although I'd like to be
But payday nights and painted women they do strange things to me
But when the party's over and the good is all she sees
Though I let her down she still comes around to love what's left of me

Six days out of seven I work hard at doing right
But believe me you could set your watch by me on Friday night
I'm lucky that she understands the fool that lives in me
Though I let her down she still comes around to love what's left of me

The way that I'm living now it's a wonder she can take it
That woman's got a heart of gold and it's killing me to break it
I know I don't deserve her but I'm thankful as can be
Though I let her down she still comes around to love what's left of me
Though I let her down she still comes around to love what's left of me

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7.

Louisiana Man

Doug Kershaw

© Acuff-Rose Music, BMI

At birth mom and papa called their little boy Ned
Raised him on the banks of the river bed
A houseboat tied to a big tall tree
A home for my mama and papa and me
The clock strikes three papa jumps to his feet
Already mama's cookin' papa somethin' to eat
At half past papa he's ready to go
He jumps in his pirogue headin' down the bayou

He's got fishin' lines strung across the Louisiana River
Gotta catch a big fish for us to eat
Settin' traps in the swamp catchin' everythin' he can
Tryin' to make a livin' he's a Louisiana man
Gotta make a livin' he's a Louisiana man
[ piano - fiddle ]
Muskrat hide is a hangin' by the dozen
Even got a lady make a muskrat's cousin
Got 'em dryin' out in the hot hot sun
Tomorrow papa's gonna turn them into mon

He's got fishin' lines strung across the Louisiana River...

Gonna make a livin' he's a Louisiana man
Gotta make a livin' he's a Louisiana man

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8.

Release Me (And Let Me Love Again)

Eddie Miller - W.S. Stevenson

© Roschelle Publ, BMI

Please release me let me go
I don't love you anymore
To live together is a sin
Release me and let me love again

I have found a new love dear
And I'll always want her near
Her lips are warm while yours are cold
Release me oh darling let me go
[ piano ]
Please release me let me go...

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9.

Listen They're Playing My Song

Charlie Williams - Glen Garrison

© Central Songs, BMI

Down the street a baby just cried when he woke up all alone
A train's leavin' town oh that lonesome sound it's chilling me right to the bone
A song is playing I can barely hear about a love that's gone wrong
The freezing rain on my window pane listen they're playing my song

Taps being played by a soldier's grave so sad it torments your soul
Listen to that old north wind blow tonight it's dark and cold
Somewhere a siren cuts through the night it sounds like the whole world's gone wrong
Thunder just warned but it's coming a storm listen they're playing my song
Listen they're playing my song

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10.

There Stands The Glass

Russ Hull - Mary Jean Shurtz - Audrey Greisham

© Jamie Music, BMI / Unichappell Music, BMI

There stands the glass that will ease all my pain
That will settle my brain it's my first one today
There stands the glass that will hide all my tears
That will drown all my fears brother I'm on my way

I'm wondering where you are tonight wondering if you are all right
Wondering if you think of me in my misery
Well there stands the glass fill it up to the brim
Oh let my troubles grow dim it's my first one today
[ piano ]
I'm wondering where you are tonight wondering honey if you are all right...

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11.

Echoes

Cecil Harrelson - Linda Gail Lewis

© Decapo Music, BMI

(Echoes of your love will they ever let me be)

Mem'ries and bitter tears all my dreams down through the years
All gone at last with chimes of the past
This echo in my heart that calls from deep within
And I know that I'm payin' for love's unforgiven sin

Echoes echoes of your love keep calling me
Echoes of your love will they ever let me be
A feeling I can feel of things I just can't see
An unseen voice keeps calling me

There's a pain in my heart that I know I can't fill
A shattered set of dreams that can never never be real
Echoes echoes they shrill in my ears
Through my troubled mind year after year

And to a lonely heart that is paying the price
The price for love's unforgivable sins
Echoes of your love will they ever let me be

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