1.

That's The Way Love Goes

Lefty Frizzell - Sanger D. Shafer

© Peer InternationaL, BMI / Acuff-Rose Music, BMI

Sometimes I start cryin' no matter how you're tryin'
To make ends meet from day to day sometimes I feel I'm in your way
Then you come to me and wrap your arms around me
Honey I love you too that's the way love goes

That's the way love goes babe that's the music God made
For all the world to sing it never gets old it grows
When I say I'm sorry you say honey don't you worry
Sweetheart I love you too that's the way love goes

That's the way love goes babe that's the music God made
For all the world to sing it never gets old it grows
That's the way love goes babe that's the music God made
Sweetheart I love you too that's the way love goes

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2.

Dallas

Leona Williams

© Acuff-Rose Music, BMI

Dallas I'll be comin' home it won't be very long
Don't let them close your roads till I get back
My daddy thinks I'm gone for good but mama she knows better
Dallas I'll be comin' home to you

You couldn't understand that night why I packed up and left you
You knew I wouldn't find it way out here
These city lights of Tulsa make me lonesome for you Dallas
Dallas I'll be comin' home to you

Please take care of my baby now you know I love him Dallas
I wouldn't leave him with anyone but you
The plane leaves in the mornin' and it's hadin' straight to Dallas
Dallas I'll be coming home to you

take care of my baby now you know I love him Dallas
I wouldn't leave him with anyone but you
The plane leaves in the mornin' and it's hadin' straight to Dallas
Dallas I'll be comin' home to you

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3.

Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree

Irwin Levine - Russell Brown

© Irwin Levine Music, BMI / Peer Music, BMI

I'm comin' home it's been a long long time
Now I got to know what is and isn't mine
If you received my letter tellin' you that I'm still free
Then you'll know just what to do if you still want me
If you still want me

Oh tie a yellow ribbon round the ole oak tree
It's been three long years do you still want me
If I don't see a ribbon round the ole oak tree
I'll stay on the bus forget about us put the blame on me
If I don't see a yellow ribbon round the ole oak tree

Bus driver please look for me
Cause I couldn't bear to see what I might see
My heart is in a prison and my love he holds the key
A simple yellow ribbon's all I need to set me free
I wrote and told him please

Oh tie a yellow ribbon round the ole oak tree...

I can hear the whole bus cheerin' and I can't believe I see
A hundred yellow ribbons round the ole oak tree
La la la la la la la

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4.

Be All Right In Arkansas

Gery House - Billy Burns

© Sawgrass Music, BMI

Born in Arkansas Mississippi river at my backdoor
If that blackland was so doggone rich how come we were so poor
Pick that cotton in daytime pick guitar at night
Daddy said hon keep on pickin' everthing gonna be all right

A be all right in Arkansas
We'll have shoes for to school new clothes too
And go to the fair next fall
Be all right in Arkansas
Everthing's gonna be all right in Arkansas

Seemed like ev'ry year somethin' happened to the cotton crop
If draught didn' wipe us out there were rains that never stopped
Clouds came up that mornin' river came up that night
Daddy said pack up the pickup hon everthing gonna be all right

Be all right in Arkansas...

Stayed away till the river went down and then we went back home
That blackland was just black mud and all our cotton was gone
Can't forget how daddy looked the day I saw him cry
But through his tears he said next year everthing gonna be all right

A be all right in Arkansas...

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5.

Thanks A Lot For Trying Anyway

Jim Glaser

© Ensign Music, BMI

What a shock to hear you say you're gonna leave me
Though you tried to let me down the easy way
You can't say you're gonna leave without it hurtin'
But thanks a lot for tryin' anyway

You were careful with the words you chose to tell me
You couldn't break my heart in any nicer way
And you've done all that you could do to stop my teardrops
Well thanks a lot for tryin' anyway

I'm so sorry that I didn't take it better
I'd give a lot if you had not seen me this way
It's not your fault you couldn't keep your love from dyin'
But thanks a lot for tryin' anyway
[ piano ]
I don't blame you you couldn't keep your love from dyin'
But thanks a lot for tryin' anyway

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6.

Baptism Of Jesse Taylor

Dallas Frazier - Sanger D. Shafer

© Acuff-Rose Music, BMI

Among the local taverns there'll be a slack in business
Cause Jesse's drinkin' came before the groceries and the rent
Among the local women there'll be a slack in cheatin'
Cause Jesse won't be steppin' out again

They baptized Jesse Taylor in Cedar Creek last Sunday
Jesus gained a soul and Satan lost a good right arm
They all cried hallelujah when Jesse's head went under
Cause this time he went under for the Lord

The scars on Jesse's knuckles were more than just respected
The county courthouse records tells all there is to tell
The pockets of the gamblers will soon miss Jesse's money
And the black eye of the law will soon be well

They baptized Jesse Taylor in Cedar Creek last Sunday...

From now on Nancy Taylor can proudly speak to neighbors
And tell them how much Jesse took up with little Jim
Now Jimmy's got a daddy and Jesse's got a family
And Franklin County's got a lot more man

They baptized Jesse Taylor in Cedar Creek last Sunday...
They baptized Jesse Taylor in Cedar Creek last Sunday...

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7.

(# 10 country hit)

Ain't Love A Good Thing

Dallas Frazier

© Acuff-Rose Music, BMI

Blues go ahead and knock upon my door
You can't hurt me anymore
Um-hmm ain't love a good thing
Rain go ahead and let it rain all night
In the mornin' I'll be dry
Um-hmm ain't love a good thing

Well ain't it good to know that love can take away the rain
And make the sun shine again
And ain't it good to know love can take a lonely dream
And turn it into a real thing
Um-hmm ain't love a good thing
Um-hmm ain't love a good thing

Pain find yourself another heart to ache
And another mind to break
Um-hmm ain't love a good thing
Time find yourself another fool to waste
And another place to stay
Um-hmm ain't love a good thing

Well ain't it good to know that love can take away the rain...
Um-hmm ain't love a good thing

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8.

Teddy Bear Song

Nick Nixon - Don Earl

© Songs Of Universal, BMI / Champion Music, BMI

I wish I had button eyes and red felt nose
Shaggy cotton skin and just one set of clothes
Sittin' on a shelf in a local department store
With no dreams to dream and nothin' to be sorry for

I wish I was a Teddy Bear
Not livin' or lovin' or goin' nowhere
I wish I was a Teddy Bear
And I'm wishin' that I hadn't fallen in love with you

I wish I had a wooden heart and a sawdust mind
Then your mem'ry wouldn't come around hurtin' all the time
I'd have a sewed on smile and a painted twinkle in my eye
And I never would've ever had to learn how to cry

I wish I was a Teddy Bear...

I wish I had a string you could pull to make me say
Hi I'm Teddy ain't it a lovely day
Then I'd know tha ev'rytime I spoke the words were right
No one would ever know the mess I've made of my life

I wish I was a Teddy Bear...
Oh I'm wishin' that I hadn't fallen in love with you

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9.

My Uncle Abel

Billy Ed Wheeler

© Quartet Music, ASCAP

Seven years old when his pappy died
And he was my Uncle on my daddy's side
He was only tall as the kitchen table
And he would answer to the name of Abel

When mama gave birth to my brother Ed
He was right there by the side of her bed
Took care of mama the best way he knew
And fed mom and papa on catfish stew

Yes papa catch the catfish mama had the kids
And my Uncle Abel was there when they did
Mama had Nelson when Ed was three
And five years later gave birth to me

Well I was the apple of my Uncle's eye
And nobody better ever make me cry
Cause now he was big and they understood
That he would wup anybody that would

My Uncle Abel took an ol' oaktree
And he made a little rockin' chair for me
Back and forth a rockin' all day long
And he made ev'rybody leave me alone

Now papa said I was to be the last kid
But two years later guess what mama did
She presented papa with a bundle of joy
A right fore me another bouncin' boy

Papa catch the catfish mama had the kids
And my Uncle Abel was there when they did
He was helpin' mama with the work she had
Or either out catchin' alligators with dad

Well I'll bet a dollar you had an uncle too
Who wouldn't let anybody pick on you
Oh I'm so proud that I'm a niece of his
Yes he's my uncle and I'm glad he is

Oh papa catch the catfish mama had the kids
And my Uncle Abel was there when they did
He was helpin' mama with the work she had
Or either out catchin' alligators with dad

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10.

Wonders You Perform

Jerry Chesnut

© Tree Publishing, BMI

Oh Lord you know that I'm not one to bother you with little things
And you and I have never been too close
But we've always been on speakin' terms I've watched your way of doin' things
And tried to understand you more than most

No I haven't gone to church the way I ought to
But I've always thought you knew in my own way I worship you
While even your own children doubt and fail to understand
The simple way you go about the things you do

I've seen the doubt upon the face of loved ones
As they sadly placed a wreath of flowers on a tiny grave
And wondered why a child is brought into the world to only live
A little while then die you could have saved

But I believe that in your eyes this little child was somethin' special
And you wanted it to be with you no doubt
So with outstretched arms you beckoned it's so simple that I reckon
They can't understand the way you worked it out

Once I saw a young man growin' till he neared the age of knowin'
Then I watched as somethin' happened to his mind
No doctor could correct it and it was just as suspected
And I marveled at your way of bein' kind

They tried ev'rything in vain and I was there when they explained
To the family how he slipped into a trance
Guessed you looked into the future watched him turn his back upon you
Lovin' him so much you couldn't take the chance

Oh it took a lot of love to die for sinners such as I
And I guess that's why you've never given up on me
You understood when some denied you even when they crucified you
Knowin' all these things were meant to be

Lord a stable's such a simple thing no wonder there were few who came
To see a king the night that you were born
And Lord I ask one favor if I can help me to better understand
The mystery of the wonders you perform
The mystery of the wonders you perform

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11.

We're Gonna Hold On

Earl Montgomery - George Jones

© Songs Of Universal, BMI

We're gonna hold on we're gonna hold on
We're gonna hold on to each other

Life can be rough sometimes it's kind
A real good life is hard to find
But the best love is the one we know
And the faith we have between us makes it grow

Some love lives and some love don't
We've got the kind of love we want
It brings us happiness all through the day
And nothin' can ever make it go away

We're gonna hold on we're gonna hold on...

A time will tell if you're right or wrong
We know we're right by holdin' on
And the future is set for you and me
Filled with love the way we both want it to be

We're gonna hold on we're gonna hold on...
We're gonna hold on we're gonna hold on...

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