lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

BACK HOME AGAIN IN INDIANA

(Ballard McDonald - James F. Henley)
« © '17 Quartet Music, ASCAP / Range Road Music, ASCAP / Shapiro-Bernstein Co, ASCAP »
Back home again in Indiana and it seems that I can sing
The gleaming candle light still shining bright through the Sickamores for me
A new born hay sends all its pragnance from the fields I used to roam
When I dream about the moonlight on the Wabash
Then I long for my Indiana home
[ piano ] (When I dream about the moonlight on the Wabash
Then I long for my Indiana home sweet home)

Back home again in Indiana...
(Indiana Indiana Indiana home)
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2.

OKLAHOMA HILLS

(Woody Guthrie - Jack Guthrie)
« © '45 Unichappell Music, BMI »
Many months have come and gone since I wandered from my home
In those Oklahoma hills where I was born
Though a page of life has turned then a lesson I have learned
Well I feel like in those hills I still belong

Way down yonder in the Indian nation ride my pony on reservation
In those Oklahoma hills where I was born
Way down yonder in the Indian nation a cowboy's life is my occupation
In those Oklahoma hills where I was born
[ guitar ] But as I sit here today many miles I am away
From the place I rode my pony through the drove
Where the oak and black jack trees kiss the playful prairie breeze
In those Oklahoma hills where I was born

Way down yonder in the Indian nation...
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3.

MISTER AND MISSISSIPPI

(Irving Gordon)
« © '51 Bourne Co, ASCAP »
I can't recall my mother I don't remember dad
Mister and Mississippi was all I ever had
Oh I was born to wander oh I was born to roam
And Mister and Mississippi made me feel at home

Oh I was born to wander...

My cradle was the river my school a river boat
My teacher was a gambler the slickest one afloat
He taught me not to gamble on a petticoat

My teacher was a gambler...
Oh I was born to wander...

Oh Betty Mae I love you I love you Betty Mae
I love you like a barefoot boy loves a summer day
The way a wand'ring gypsy loves the changing scenes
Just like the restless river loves old New Orleans

Oh I was born to wander...
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4.

STARS FELL ON ALABAMA

(Mitchell Parish - Frank Perkins)
« © '34 Mills Music, ASCAP »
We lived our little drama we kissed in a field of white
And stars fell on Alabama last night
I can't forget the glamor your eyes held a tender light
And stars fell on Alabama last night
I never planned in my imagination a situation so heavenly
A fairy land where on else could enter and in the centre just you and me dear
My heart beats like a hammer my arms wound around you tight
And stars fell on Alabama last night
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5.

IDAHO

(Cliffie Stone)
« © '58 Central Songs, BMI »
Away beyond the hill in Idaho where yawning canyons greet the sun
As it smiles above the trees in Idaho to say another night is done

Warm summer winds toss a waving grain calling me back to my home again
To dream sweet memories of long ago beyond the hill in Idaho

(Away beyond the hill in Idaho) where yawning canyons greet the sun
(As it smiles above the trees in Idaho) to say another night is done

Warm summer winds...
(Away beyond the hill in Idaho)
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6.

KENTUCKY BABE

(Richard Henry Buck - Adam Geibel)
« © '58 Word Music, ASCAP »
(Close your eyes close your eyes in sleep)
Skeeters am a hummin' on honeysuckle vine sleep Kentucky babe
Sandman am a comin' to this little boy of mine sleep Kentucky babe
Silvery moon am shining in the heavens up above
Bubblelink am pining for his little lady love
You is mighty lucky babe of old Kentucky close your eyes in sleep
Fly away fly away Kentucky babe fly away to rest fly away
Lay your little pearly head on your mommy's breast mhmm
Close your eyes in sleep (Kentucky sleep Kentucky babe)
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7.

MISSOURI

(Hary Slim Duncan - Hank Penny)
« © '58 Unichappell Music, BMI »
I often wish that I could see my old hometown once more
The old red school I went to with the little girl next door
I see that stopper bobbin' when the catfish start to bite
I see a blue sky framin' little clouds of snowy white

Missouri I hear you callin' me Missouri you'll never let me be
Missouri I know I can't be free my heart will yearn
Till I return Missouri's callin' me

In memory I still can see that oak tree on the lawn
And hear again the birds as sing and woke me at the dawn
And I remember mornings when I told my mother lies
So I could have a second helping of her apple pies

Missouri I hear you callin' me...
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8.

CAROLINA IN THE MORNING

(Gus Kahn - Walter Donaldson)
« © '57 Donaldson Publishing, ASCAP »
Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina in the morning
No one could be sweeter than my sweetie when I meet her in the morning
Where the morning glories twine around the door
Whispering pretty stories I long to hear once more
Strolling with my girlie where the dew is pearly early in the morning
Butterflies all flooder up and kiss each little butter cup at dawning
If I had Aladin's lantern for only a day I'd make a wish and here's what I'd say
Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina in the morning
[ ac.guitar ] (Nothing could be finer in the morning)
[ ac.guitar ] (No one could be sweeter in the morning)

Where the morning glories twine...
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9.

CARRY ME BACK TO OLD VIRGINIA

(James A. Bland)
« © '58 Songs Of Universal, BMI »
Carry me back to old Virginy
There's where the cotton and the corn and taters grow
There's where the birds warble sweet in the springtime
There's where this old fellow's heart am longed to go
There's where I labored so hard for old massa
Day after day in the fields of yellow corn
No place on earth do I love more sincerely
Than old Virginy the state where I was born
No place on earth...
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10.

ON MIAMI SHORE

(Victor Jacobi - William LeBaron)
« © '58 Chappell & Co, ASCAP »
On the golden sand of old Miami shore
There I always find a girl who might adore

Every year it seems to happen o'er and o'er
On the golden sands where love commands Miami shore
[ guitar ] Every year it seems...
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11.

BEAUTIFUL OHIO

(Ballard McDonald - Robert A. King)
« © '53 Shapiro-Bernstein Co, ASCAP »
Drifting with the girl down the moonlit stream
While above the heavens in their glory gleam
And the stars on high twinkle oin the sky

Scheming in a paradise of love divine
Dreaming of a paradise that love in mine
Beautiful Ohio in dreams again I see visions of what used to be
Drifting in the moonlight while the heavens gleam ay ay ay ay

Scheming in a paradise...
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12.

GEORGIA ON MY MIND

(Stuart Gorrell - Hoagy Carmichael)
« © '30 Peer International, BMI »
Georgia Georgia the whole day through
Just an old sweet song keeps Georgia on my mind Georgia on my mind
Georgia Georgia a song of you comes as sweet and clear as moonlight to the pines
Other arms reach out to be other eyes smile tenderly
Still in peaceful dreams I see the road leads back to you
Georgia Georgia no peace I find
Hust an old sweet song keeps Georgia on my mind
(Georgia Georgia no peace I find)
Just an old sweet song keeps Georgia on my mind
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