lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

TIP OF MY FINGERS

(Bill Anderson)
« © '60 Tree Publishing, BMI »
I reached out my arms and I touched you
With soft words I whispered your name
I held you right on the tip of my fingers
But that was as close as I came

My eyes had vision of sweet lips
Yeelding beneath my command
I had your love on the tips of my fingers
But I let it slip right through my hands
But I let it slip right through my hands

Somebody took you when I wasn't looking
And I should have known from the start
It's a long long way from the tip of my fingers
To the love hidden deep in your heart
To the love hidden deep in your heart

I had your love on the tips of my fingers
But I let it slip right through my hands
Yes I let it slip right through my hands
**********

2.

YOU GAVE ME A MOUNTAIN

(Marty Robbins)
« © '66 Mariposa Music, BMI / Unichappell Music, BMI »
Born in the heat of the desert my mother died giving me life
Deprived of the love of a father blamed for the loss of his wife
You know Lord I've been in a prison for something that I've never done
It's been one hill after another but I've climbed them all one by one

But this time Lord you gave me a mountain a mountain I may never climb
And it isn't a hill any longer you gave me a mountain this time

My woman got tired of the hardships tired of the grief and the strife
So tired of working for nothing tired of being my wife
She took my one ray of sunshine she took my pride and my joy
She took my reason for living she took my small baby boy

So this time Lord you gave me a mountain...
**********

3.

RELEASE ME (AND LET ME LOVE AGAIN)

(Eddie Miller - W. S. Stevenson)
« © '54 Roschelle Publishing, BMI »
(Please release me let me love again)

Please release me let me go for I don't love you anymore
To waste our lives would be a sin release me and let me love again
(Please release me let me love again)

I have found a new love dear and I will always want her near
Her lips are warm while yours are cold release me my darling let me go
Please release me let can't you see you'd be a fool to cling to me
To live a lie would bring us pain so release me and let me love again
**********

4.

TURN THE WORLD AROUND

(Ben Peters)
« © '67 Shelby Singleton Music, BMI »
Turn the world around the other way
Back it up and stop on yesterday
Back to before that silly fight
And give me a chance to make things right
I said some things I didn't mean to say
Things that I am sorry for today
Down on my knees I beg you please
To turn the world around the other way

I never really wanted us to break up
And I'm sorry for each teardrop that you cried
We need to give our hearts a chance to make up
And darling will you stand in by my side

We'll turn the world around the other way
Back to where it started yesterday
Just take my hand together we can
Turn the world around the other way

Yes we'll turn the world around the other way
Back it up and stop on yesterday
Just take my hand together we can
Turn the world around the other way
**********

5.

IT'S SUCH A PRETTY WORLD TODAY

(Dale Noe)
« © '66 Freeway Music, BMI »
It's such a pretty world today look at the sunshine
And every day's the same since I met you
It's such a pretty world today knowing that you're mine
And happinsess is being close to you

And though the rain may fall our skies will all be blue
And if I look close enough the sun will come shining through
It's such a pretty world today look at the sunshine
Today and every day since I met you

(It's such a pretty world today look at the sunshine)
And every day's the same since I met you
(It's such a pretty world today knowing that you're mine)
And happinsess is being close to you

And though the rain may fall...
(Look at the sunshine) today and every day since I met you
**********

6.

LONELY AGAIN

(Jean Chapel)
« © '66 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
(Lonely again no arms around me)

You told me that others before you
Were foolish to cause me to cry
And just when I learned to adore you
You kissed one more dream goodbye

And left me lonely again just like you found me
Lonely again no arms around me
Just when I'm sure that my heart is secure
And my teardrops are dried with the warm blow inside
And this love of mine till the end of the line
That's always the time that I'm lonely again

You told me you wanted me only
That this time and this love would last
You told me I'd never be lonely
And now you belong to the past

And left me lonely again...
**********

7.

MISTY BLUE

(Bob Montgomery)
« © '65 Songs Of The Knoll, BMI / Talmont Music, BMI »
Oh it's been such a long long time looks like I get you off my mind
Oh but I can't just the thought of you turns my world a misty blue
Just the mention of your name turns the flicker to a flame
I think of things we used to do then my whole world turns misty blue

I should forget you heaven knows I've tried
But when I said I'm glad we're through my heart knows I've lied
Oh it's been such a long long time looks like I get you off my mind
Oh but I can't just the thought of you turns my world a misty blue
Oh but I can't just the thought of you turns my world a misty blue
**********

8.

ALL THE TIME

(Mel Tillis - Wayne P. Walker)
« © '58 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI / Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
All the time yes darling all the time tenderly constantly I'll love you
Every day I'll prove it every day in happiness or loneliness I'll love you
Other arms may tempt me don't let that worry you
For even when they tempt me I'll never be untrue
All the time yes darling all the time
Through the years through smiles or tears I'll love you

All the time yes darling all the time...
**********

9.

SOMEBODY LIKE ME

(Wayne Carson Thompson)
« © '67 Budde Songs, BMI »
Your baby loves you now so don't make her blue now
You'd better start bein' true now I'm telling you why

Because if you break her heart somebody's gonna come along
And he'll steal her away from you somebody like me

Let me tell you friend I'm not botherin'
But I think it's such a sin if you don't treat her right

Because if you break her heart...

She wants to be held tight now each and every night now
You'd better treat her right now I'm telling you why

Because if you break her heart...

I hope you listen to now each word that I've told you now
These things you'd better do now or you will live alone

Because if you break her heart...
Will steal her away somebody like me
**********

10.

IT'S OVER

(Jimmie Rodgers)
« © '33 Peer International, BMI »
If time were not a moving thing and I could make it stay
This hour of love we share will always be there'd be no coming day
To shine a morning light and make us realize our night is over

When you walk away from me there is no place to put my hand
Except to shade my eyes against the sun that rises o'er the land
I watch you walk away somehow I have to let you go now it's over

If you knew just how I really feel you might return and yet
There are so many times that people have to love and then forget
Though there might have been a way I have to force myself to say it's over

So I turn my back and turn my colar to the wind
Move along in silence trying not to think at all
I send my feet before me walk the silence street before me it's over
[ strings + horns ] If time were not a moving thing...
**********

11.

THEN YOU CAN TELL ME GOODBYE

(John D. Loudermilk)
« © '62 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Kiss me each morning for a million years
Hold me each evening by your side
Tell me you love me for a million years
If it don't work out if it don't work out
Then you can tell me goodbye

Sweeten my coffee with a morning kiss
Soften my dreams with your sigh
After you've loved me for a million years
If it don't work out if it don't work out
Then you can tell me goodbye

If you must go I won't grieve
If you'll just wait a lifetime before you leave

But if you must go I won't say no
Just so we can say that we try
Tell me you love me for a million years
If it don't work out if it don't work out
Then you can tell me goodbye
Then you can tell me goodbye
**********

12.

TENNESSEE STUD

(Jimmie Driftwood)
« © '59 Warden Music, BMI »
Well there never was a horse like Tennessee Stud
Along about 1825 I left Tennessee very much alive
I never would've got through the Arkansas mud
If I hadn't been a ridin' on the Tennessee Stud

I had some trouble with my sweetheart's pa
One of her brothers was a bad outlaw
I send her a letter by my Uncle Fudd
And I rode away on the Tennessee Stud

The Tennesee Stud was long and lean
The color of the sun and his eyes were green
He had the nerve and he had the blood
And there never was a horse like the Tennessee Stud
[ guitar ] We drifted on down onto no man's land
We crossed the river called the Rio Grande
I raced my horse with a Spaiard foal
Till I got me a skin full of silver and gold

Me and a gambler we couldn't agree
We got in a fight over Tennessee
We jerked our guns he fell with a thud
And I got away on the Tennessee Stud
[ guitar ] Well I got just as lonesome as a man could be
Dreamin' of my girl in Tennessee
The Tennessee Stud's green eyes turned blue
Cause he was a dreamin' of his sweetheart too

We loped right back across Arkansas
I whoopped her brother and whopped her pa
I found that girl with the golden hair
As she was a ridin' on the Tennessee Mare

The Tennesee Stud was long and lean...
[ guitar ] Stirrup to stirrup and side by side
We crossed the mountains and the valleys wide
We came to Big Muddy and we forded the flood
And the Tennessee Mare and the Tennessee Stud

A pretty little babyy and the cabin floor
A little horse cold playin' round the door
I love the girl with the golden hair
And the Tennessee Stud loves the Tennessee Mare

The Tennesee Stud was long and lean...
**********