lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

BRIGHT LIGHTS AND COUNTRY MUSIC

(Bill Anderson - Jimmy Gateley)
« © '65 Johnny Bienstock Music, BMI »
I love those bright lights and country music

I won't stay home and cry tonight like all the nights before
I've just learned that I don't really need you anymore
I found a little place downtown where guys like me can go
And they've got bright lights and country music

Bright lights and country music a bottle and a glass
Soon I'll be forgetting that there ever was a past
And when everybody asks me what helped me forget so fast
I'll say bright lights and country music
[ fiddle - steel ] A table by the bandstand a bottle filled with wine
Honky tonks were made for men with women on their minds
Nothing else can take away this loneliness of mine
Quite like bright lights and country music

Bright lights and country music...
I love those bright lights and country music
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2.

WILD SIDE OF LIFE

(William Warren - Arlie Carter)
« © '51 Unart Catalog, BMI »
You wouldn't read my letters if I wrote you
You asked me not to call you on the phone
But there's something I'm wanting to tell you
So I wrote it in the words of this song

I didn't know God made honky tonk angels
I might have known you'd never make a wife
You gave up the only one who'll ever love you
And went back to the wild side of life
[ fiddle - steel ] The glamor of the gay night life has lured you
To the places where the wine and liquor flow
Where you wait to be anybody's baby
And forget the truest love you'll ever know

I didn't know God made...
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3.

GOLDEN GUITAR

(Curtis Leach - Betty Gary)
« © '65 Saran Music, BMI »
I happened to walk into a honky tonk one night down in New Orleans
Up above the bar hung a big guitar like none I'd ever seen
The neck was set with diamonds and though the strings were old
Like Kings of Sound they wound around six keys of solid gold
A man stepped up beside me his breath was strong with wine
He said you know that guitar once belonged to a mighty close pal of mine
He used to play it right here I forget the year around '45 I think
Ha I could tell you quite a story friend if you'd care to buy me a drink
[ guitar ] Well I possessed by every weakness that takes a man a fool
I bought a round he drank it down and then he rocked back on his stool
He said yeah I remember now it was '45 alright
He just returned from the Great War that's where he lost his sight
His buddies gave him that guitar at the time it was simple and plain
He added the gold and the diamonds as he played his way to fame
He was doing a show in Shreveport the night he received a call
To come appear on the Grand Ole Opry the greatest show at all
[ guitar ] I was driving him to Nashville it was cold and misting rain
The signals flashed and the whistle screamed I swear Mr I never saw that train
I heard the doctor tell him just after he used his knife
You're lucky son it was just your arm it could have been your life
But he died that night life just demanded more than he could give
I think he couldn've made it he just lost his will to live
But this world's loss is heaven's gain and tonight he's still a star
He plays with a band of angels that's my son's golden guitar
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4.

WINE

(Mel Tillis)
« © '64 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
Wine pretty red wine pretty red wine pretty red wine pretty red wine
It cost me my family it cost me my home gave me a dark dirty street to roam
Made me a drifter made me a bum looking for a hand out looking for a chum
To get me wine pretty red wine pretty red wine pretty red wine

Wine pretty red wine pretty red wine
Pretty red wine pretty red wine
[ steel ] Wine pretty red wine pretty red wine
Pretty red wine pretty red wine

It's cold in the country cold in the town
Cold anywhere when you sleep on the ground
I lost all my courage I lost all my pride where oh Lordy can a wine hide
From wine pretty red wine pretty red wine pretty red wine

Wine pretty red wine...
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5.

HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES

(Wynn Stewart - Fuzzy Owen)
« © '62 Jat Music, BMI »
I'll just sit back and watch you leave
It seems you want more that I can give
You don't care how much my heart will grieve
You've got to see how the other half lives

Dim lights and smoke filled crowded bars
Loud music that plays until all hours
My todays and tomorrows I would give
If you'd give up the way the other half lives
[ fiddle - steel ] Dim lights and smoke...
If you'd give up the way the other half lives
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6.

MOUNTAIN DEW

(Scott Wiseman - Bascomb L.Lunsford)
« © '45 Tree Publishing, BMI / Tannen Music, BMI »
(They call it that ole mountain dew and them that refuse it are few)
I'll hush up my mug if you'll just fill up my jug
With that good ole mountain dew

There's an old holler tree down the road away from me
Where you lay down a dollar or two
Go around the bend then you come back again
There's a jug full of good ole mountain dew

Well they call it that ole mountain dew...
[ guitar ] My uncle Mort was sawed off and short
He measured about four foot two
But he thinks he's a giant when you give him a pint
Of the good ole mountain dew

Well they call it that ole mountain dew...
[ guitar ] My brother Bill ran a still on the hill
He'd run off a gallon or two
And the buzzards in the sky'd get so drunk they couldn't fly
From smellin' that good ole mountain dew

Well they call it that ole mountain dew...
[ guitar ] Well the preacher rode by had his head hasted high
Said his wife had been down with the flu
And he thought that I o'rt to sell him a quart
Of my good ole mountain dew

Well they call it that ole mountain dew...
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7.

TRUCK DRIVIN' MAN

(Terry Fell)
« © '62 Unichappell Music, BMI »
I stopped at a road house in Texas
A little place called Hamburger Dan's
Heard that old jukebox a playin'
Song about a truck drivin' man

The waitress then brought me up some coffee
I thanked her then called her back again
I said that old song sure does fit me
Cause I'm a truck drivin' man

Pour me another cup of coffee for it is the best in the land
Put a nickel in the jukebox and play the Truck Drivin' Man
[ steel - fiddle ] I climbed back aboard my old semi
And then like a flash I was gone
I got them old truck wheels a rolling
Now I'm on my way to San Antone

When I get my call up to glory
They'll take me away from this land
I'll head this old truck up to heaven
Cause I'm a truck drivin' man

Pour me another cup of coffee...
And play the Truck Drivin' Man
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8.

I'LL GO DOWN SWINGING

(Bill Anderson)
« © '65 Johnny Bienstock Music, BMI »
The one I love don't want me hanging round
All she does is put me on and put me down
Tonight she's with a stranger at a party in her home
And I'm here at a tavern gettin' stoned

Cause if I gotta go I'll go down swinging
Where there's lights and laughter booze and blonds
And a lots of sad sad singing
I'll sober up tomorrow and cry all day I know
At least I'll go down swinging what a swinging way to go
[ steel ] I'll dance with all the girls and buy the wine
Play the jukebox till I'm down to my last dime
She thinks she made a fool of me by loving someone else
She should see me make a fool out of myself

Cause if I gotta go I'll go down swinging...
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9.

STRANGER'S STORY

(Pete Stamper)
« © '65 Warden Music, BMI »
Oh come hear a story a stranger just told me
Of a woman who meant everything
So proud he once owned her but he has her no longer
For she wears another man's ring

He talked of the good time they'd had in the springtime
Before she was stolen away
He blamed her oh no none he said she was too young
And that's why she wanted to stray

We drank to her new love that it might be true love
Her future both happy and bright
With his eyes growing misty he drank down the whiskey
That was telling his story that night

And though he didn't even know me he told me all of his story
And not one single word did he say without pride
And then he asked me if I blamed her but oh when he named her
I wanted to run out and hide

How could I tell him the man that had dealt him
His sadness and sorrow was me
I ran from the table while I was still able
To hold back my own misery

And now a wonder comes to me that maybe he knew me
And he told me just so I'd cry
But without his knowing my teardrops were flowing
For she had just told me goodbye
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10.

SITTIN' IN AN ALL NITE CAFE

(Jim Glaser)
« © '65 Ensign Music, BMI »
Sittin' in an all nite cafe in a booth back in the corner
Making paper wads from napkins throwing toothpicks on the floor
Got a problem I can't solve it gonna sit here till I figure out
The reason why my baby doesn't love me anymore

Well it can't be another woman cause I never looked at any one
Not since I've been knowing her and that's a long long time
Drank so many cups of coffee bet you that I'll get an ulcer
Sittin' in this all nite cafe with my baby on my mind
[ steel ] Sittin' in an all nite cafe listening to the jukebox playing
Overhead the waitress saying I wonder why he don't go home
Guess my baby's out with someone laughing dancing and romancing
And I'll bet she never thinks about me sittin' here alone

Well it can't be another woman...
Sittin' in this all nite cafe with my baby on my mind
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11.

COCTAILS

(Bill Anderson)
« © '65 Johnny Bienstock Music, BMI »
Coctails tore up my family coctails tore down my home

One to wake me up every morning one with a buddy at noon
One for the road every evening till I found out pretty soon
It took two to wake me up every morning two with my buddy at noon
Two for the road every evening till I guess what happened pretty soon

Coctails tore up my family coctails tore down my home
I cheated and I lied swallowed my pride (and then)
Washed it down with coctails
[ piano ] I had a house on a hillside the car I was driving was new
I had money in my pockets look what liquor led me to
I started running round with a woman turned my back on my wife and my kids
Wonder how mom was gonna tell 'em the awful thing that daddy did

Coctails tore up my family...
Coctails tore up my family...
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12.

I'M WALKING THE DOG

(Cliff Grimsley - Tex Grimsley)
« © '53 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
I'm a walkin' the dog and I'm never blue
I'm a walkin' the dog ain't thinkin' bout you
I don't need no one to tie me down I'm a walkin' the dog and paintin' town
Such an easy life I never knew since the day that I left you
I'm a carefree lad and I've seen the light
And I'm a walkin' the dog all day and all night
[ fiddle - steel ] Such an easy life...
And I'm a walkin' the dog all day and all night
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