EDDY ARNOLD
ONE MORE TIME (RCA Victor LSP-2471)
April/1962
Produced by Chet Atkins
Vocal accompaniment by The Anita Kerr Singers
Recorded at RCA Victor Studio, Nashville
Once upon a mountain top a castle stood
Carved out of rock and stone iron and wood
Then one day a grain of sand grew into an iron latch
Undermined the mountain side and the castle tumbled down
One one one grain of sand
A lover spoke an angry word that led to tears
The tears led to a quarrel love disappeared
That word was like a grain of sand
That undermined the things they've planned
It shook up the house of love and brought it tumbling down
One one one grain of sand
Just one little grain of sand can change your life and ruin your plans
Undermine your house of love bring it tumbling down
One one one grain of sand
One one one grain of sand
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When you say goodnight and you hold her tight
While you're standing at her front door
When you want to stay and she says okay
She let's you stay a couple of kisses more man you're livin'
If she doesn't care for diamonds or a lotta fancy things
Cause she understands you haven't got the price
And just being by your side keeps her more than satisfied
That do make it nice
On the night you meet her parents and her daddy shakes your hand
And her mother looks you over once or twice
Dawn and evening's just begun if they start to call you son
That do make it nice
When you wanna pop the question but you're feelin' kinda shy
Cause you wonder if she'll go for shoes or rice
While you're planning everything she goes out and buys the ring
Ha ha ha ha that do make it nice
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I told the possum in the guntree the rackoon on the ground
Told everyone bout my darling of the happiness I found
My heart would cry more than the weeping willow tree
If my darling and her heart were not for me
This is the end I guess we've said goodbye
I'll miss you I'll confess but I won't cry
How can you leave me so lonesome and blue
This is the thanks I get for loving you
How can you leave me so lonesome and blue
This is the thanks I get for loving you
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I'm so lonely as I write this note to you
Sweetheart I know that I still love you true
Now that we are far apart there's a longing in my heart
What a fool I was to ever let you go
Sweetheart I know that I was once to blame
I wonder if you love me just the same
How now worry dear am I I regret the last goodbye
What a fool I was to ever let you go
Oh won't you try to give me one more chance
My darling let's renew our old romance
It will mean the world to me if you'll let me this last plea
Oh my darling won't you give me one more chance
What a fool I was to ever let you go...
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Love that runs away from me dreams that just won't let me be
Blues that keep on bothering me chains that just won't set me free
Too far away from you and all your charms
Just out of reach of my two empty arms
Each night in dreams I see your face mem'ries time cannot erase
Then I awake and find you gone I'm so blue and all alone
So far away from lips so sweet and warm
Just out of reach of my two empty arms
That lonesome feeling all the time knowing you cannot be mine
Dreams that hurt me in my sleep vows that we could never keep
Too far away from you and all your charms
Just out of reach of my two empty arms
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I got a humpack mule a plow and a tater patch
Eggs that are gonna hatch someday
I got my Lord above and a good girl to love me
I'm the richest man in the world
Thank you thank you Lord above for smiling down on me
I'm richer now than any man has any right to be
Health and love and happiness have been my cup of tea
The richest man in all creation surely it is me
I got a humpack mule a plow and a tater patch...
I've got water in my well and heaven in my heart
I have a perfect woman I can trust when we're apart
Cash enough to see a show and eat out now and then
A roof a bed a fishing pole and folks who call me friend
I got a humpack mule a plow and a tater patch...
I don't have much bank account my cash on hand is small
But tell me what are riches but contentment after all
Other folks may think I'm poor but I know it's not so
Cause when I count my blessings I'm the richest man I know
I got a humpack mule a plow and a tater patch...
Now the rich folks talk about the grub they eat
Now I've got all those rich folks beat
Cause I've got a field of yellow yams
And a smokehouse filled with country hams
Talk to me about caviar
They ain't nothing but fish eggs packed in a jar
I got a whole pond of big round trout
Fish eggs what are they talking about
Hey I got no fancy swimming pool but the creek in the woods
Is deep and cool I'm a lucky man I'm a lucky fool
I'm wealthy I'm wealthy
I got a humpack mule a plow and a tater patch...
I got a humpack mule a plow and a tater patch...
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She was my gal he was my pal
But she loved him better somehow
I stepped aside after I kissed the bride
And I'm throwing rice at her now [ steel ]
She was my gal he was my pal...
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I watched as you smiled at your stranger
And since you seemed happy and gay
I watched through a mist in my eyes dear
Then I turned and walked slowly away
I saw you last night again darling
And I cried dear all night until dawn
A new love has come to your heart dear
And an old love has faded and gone
I hope dear that you will be happy
There's nothing more left now to say
I saw you last night again darling
Then I turned and walked slowly away
Then I turned and walked slowly away
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I climb the stairs up to my room
But no one meets me in my gloom
The silence tells me she is gone
Just call me lonesome from now on [ violin ]
These walls will hide me when I cry
And hope that heaven lets me die
What good is life when hope is gone
Just call me lonesome from now on
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Just an empty world is all I have before me
I'd give anything if you were with me now
I'd trade all of my tomorrows for just one yesterday
I don't want them without you anyhow [ piano ]
Just an empty world is all I have before me...
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