lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

EVERY TIME I TURN THE RADIO ON

(Bill Anderson)
« © '75 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Every time I turn the radio on some cat's singin' a happy song
About a woman who wakes him up every morning and loves him
Scrambles his eggs and unscrambles his life butters his toast with a golden knife
Bears his kids and nearly bout all of his burdens
And I just sit there starin' at the wall wonderin' how I missed it all
I've been out half of the night and I'm hung over
Nobody woke me rubbin' my feet just the sound of a jackhammer out in the street
And this ole room ain't exactly a field of clover

Am I the only tavern-hoppin' beer-can-poppin' fool left in the world
Am I the only sad-and-lonely meek-weak-freak without a girl
No one to love and make me happy call me baby or call me pappy
Am I the only low-and-lonely woman-needin' jukebox-feedin'
Sufferin' son of a gun left in the world
[ guitar - steel ] Every time I turn the radio on some cat's singin' a happy song
About the woman who serves him love on a silver platter
Makes his coffee sweet and warm holds him in her lovin' arms
I look in the mirror and I wonder what's the matter

Am I the only tavern-hoppin'...
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2.

GONNA FIND ME A BLUEBIRD

(Marvin Rainwater)
« © '61 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Gonna find me a bluebird let him sing me a song
Cause my heart's been broken much too long
Gonna chase me a rainbow through a heaven of blue
Cause I'm all through crying over you

There was a time my love was needed my life completed my dreams come true
Then came the time my life was haunted my love unwanted all for you

Gonna find me a bluebird...
[ steel ] Cause I'm all through crying over you
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3.

I STILL FEEL THE SAME ABOUT YOU

(Bill Anderson)
« © '75 Tree Publishing, BMI »
The leaves have changed from green to golden at least one time and maybe two
All I know is I feel a hundred years older and I still feel the same about you
Time hasn't been the great physician and healed my hurt like it's supposed to do
Lord I feel like a fool by my own admission cause I still feel the same about you
[ steel ] I've given everything a man can give it
With a mem'ry there's just three things you can do
You can outrun it outgrow it or try to just outlive it
I still feel the same about you yes I still feel the same about you
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4.

COUNTRY D. J.

(Bill Anderson)
« © '75 Tree Publishing, BMI »
I'm gettin' up when my next door neighbor's
Turnin' off the late show and hittin' the hay
I've got to sign on the radio station
I'm what's known as a country DJ
Nothin' in the house but some instant coffee
Doughnuts left from early yesterday
Ain't exactly what you call a gourmet breakfast
But rich boys don't play country DJ

Earphones microphones telephones backbones
Just about to break now any day
Phonographs photographs autographs belly laughs
Epitaphs sure gettin' wtitten this way
Lord have mercy on a country DJ

Two fan letters in my box this mornin'
One from the boss says cut down the gab
Woman wrote in and asked for a song
For another woman's husband drivin' a cab
News machine must've run out of paper
Last thing I have is the midnight report
Weather forecast says warm and sunny
Funny it was snowin' when I came in the door

Earphones microphones...

Another discjockey taught me the business
Showed me how to talk and the things to do
Poor ol' boy passed away last Monday
Old age got him at the age of twenty-two
Thirty more seconds and the fiddles start playin'
Turntable's ready got my records at hand
I still get a thrill every mornin' when I tell 'em
Howdy there friends out in the radio land

Earphones microphones...

Are you sure that Ralph Emery and Charlie Douglas got started this way
I tell you I have to do everything around here
Sign on sign off pick up records pick up trash cut commercials
Cut the grass carry out orders carry out garbage answer to the boss
Answer the phone good mornin' radio station
No ma'm Porter Wagoner is not married to Dolly Parton thank you for calling
I tell you what I'm gonna get a real job
I'm gonna pump gas that's where my money is anyway radio boo on radio
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5.

PERFECT ANGEL

(Ben Peters)
« © '75 Ben Peters Music, BMI »
She's still the angel that I knew before
The only difference now is she's mine
In an apron or a nightgown or the wedding dress she wore
She's a perfect angel all the time

You know it's funny how when you first meet a girl
And start likin' her you always see her at her best
All made up her hair just right dressed nicely
And you just assume she's like that 24 hours a day
Then when you get married it's face-cream
And body-pins and hair-rollers at night
Makeup eyelashes hairspray in the mornin'
Soapsuds floorwax and bacon grease through the day
And then you stop and think about it
And she's really goin' through all the stuff just for you
And knowin' that makes her all the more beautiful

She's still the angel...
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6.

ROLLER COASTER RIDE

(Bill Anderson)
« © '75 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Ever since I met you you run me like a flag up and down the pole
You taught me into choppin' all the wood for your fire
Then kicked me out to sleep in the cold
I gave all the love that I knew how to give I stood faithfully by your side
I thought that you were takin' me straight up to heaven
But Lord it's been a roller coaster ride

And the preacher should've said did you wanna take a roller coaster ride
Cause that's all it's been since the day that you became my blushin' bride
Happiness becomes and then goes like the changin' of the tide
In and out up and down around and around lovin' you's a roller coaster ride

I no sooner think that I've got things the way they oughta be then wham there you go
Puttin' down what you we puttin' up with yesterday shiftin' from high gear to low
I'm lookin' kinda gizzy cause you've got me kinda dizzy
And just about to lose my crazy mind
I knew love was often a merry-go-round but with you it's like a roller coaster ride

And the preacher should've said...
Lovin' you's a roller coaster ride
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7.

TALK TO ME OHIO

(Bill Anderson)
« © '75 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Hmm-hmm-hmm talk to me Ohio
Hmm-hmm-hmm can't you hear my song

Down your city streets somewhere a country girl is runnin'
Seekin' peace and comfort in the midnight of your soul
She thinks she saw a rainbow reachin' down to touch you
And within your arms she thinks she'll find the pot of gold

Hmm-hmm-hmm talk to me Ohio
Hmm-hmm-hmm tell me where she's gone
Talk to me Ohio can't you hear my song

A Greyhound bus in Macon took her to Atlanta
The Silver Bird to Cleveland then I lost her track
I've looked in every honky tonk from Akron to Columbus
From Dayton to Toledo Ohio give her back

Hmm-hmm-hmm talk to me Ohio...

If she wakes up tomorrow and bathes among your flowers
Walk beside your waters and feels your gentle breeze
She'll want to stay and sleep inside your loving arms forever
And if she does Ohio who's to sleep with me

Hmm-hmm-hmm talk to me Ohio...
Hmm-hmm-hmm hmm-hmm-hmm
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8.

LET ME BE THE ONE

(W.S. Stevenson - Paul V. Blevins - Joseph H. Hobson)
« © '53 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Let me be the one to walk with you when you want somebody to talk with you
Anything that makes you happy I want to do darling let me be the one

Let me be the one who means the most the one you want to love and call your own
And when you choose a partner I wanna be the choice please let me be the one

Let me be the one to take you out to your favorite places you have no doubt
And when the evening's gone put a kiss goodnight you gotta let me be the one

Let me be the one to share with you all your little pleasures and sorrows too
In all kinds of weather I just wanna be with you darling let me be the one

Let me be the one to hold your hand when the preacher says do you take this man
All these happy thoughts will mean so much fun please let me be the one
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9.

CONCRETE

(Bill Anderson)
« © '75 Tree Publishing, BMI »
To a boy who grew up walking in the woods and the fields of South Carolina
This big ole city feels hard underneath my feet
And to a kid who ain't never heard a noise a whole lot louder than a freight train
I get scared sometimes just standing here along the street

Concrete conrete everywhere I turn there's concrete
Found in the pavement day after day I wanna go home
Where the sun shines and the tall pines and the earth and the heavens meet
I'd rather starve on a poor dirt farm than to stay here surrounded by the conrete
Cause it's turnin' me into concrete

My kids ain't never gone wadin' in a creek or cuttin' down cane for fishing
They've never seen a blackberry growin' wild
Sometimes I get to missin' it so I almost take to crying
I'm cursed with the body of a man and the heart of a child

Concrete conrete...
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10.

YOU ARE MY STORY (YOU ARE MY SONG)

(Bill Anderson)
« © '75 Tree Publishing, BMI »
They asked me to write a story describing the loveliest sight I've ever seen
And I wrote your name
They asked me to write a song and set all my dreams to music
And I did I wrote it again

For you are my story you are my song loving you baby all night long
You are my story you are my song loving you baby all night long all night long
[ steel ] No story or no song could ever do justice to you and what you do for me
Every day of my life

You are my story...
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11.

ONLY WAY TO TRAVEL

(Bill Anderson)
« © '75 Tree Publishing, BMI »
When I started out to write this song
You and I were walkin' down the highway holdin' hands
I was gonna write about how much a woman's love can help a man
But somethin' kinda restless started stirrin' in my body
Before I even got my guitar out
And I'm glad I didn't waste my time writin' all these lovin' lines
I don't feel that way about it now

The only way to travel is to hit that big ole road by yourself
A man don't need his back or his brain loaded down with someone else
And when it starts to raining he don't have to find a shelter
For anybody's body but his own uh huh the only way to travel is alone
[ dobro ] I guess I just felt sorry for you walkin' down the highway
In the morning in the cold
Or else why would I let you tag along and start to searchin' out my soul
But thank the Lord the wind came up and blew a little common sense
Across the sandy deserts of my mind
Now I can leave you standing here and never shed a tear
And live like I should have all the time

The only way to travel is...
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