lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

GET WHILE THE GETTIN'S GOOD

(Bill Anderson)
« © '67 Tree Publishing, BMI »
I gotta get while the gettin's good baby get while the gettin's good
Out of your life into a life where I'll be understood
I need a lots of tender love and your heart's made out of wood
If I'm never gonna find a peace of mind
I gotta get while the gettin's good

You told me that love is one big bubble
We played the game by your rules and you won
And just today I figured out the trouble
I learned to crawl before I learned to run

But I'm gonna get while the gettin's good...
[ steel ] I noticed I've quit singing in the shower
I rarely ever laugh and I can tell
I'm willting like the petals on the flowers
And there's nothing left to say now but farewell

And I'm gonna get while the gettin's good...
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2.

WHEEL OF HURT

(Charles Singleton - Eddie Snyder)
« © '66 Screen Gems Music, BMI »
You're gonna know what it means to be lonely
You're gonna know what it meants to be blue
You're gonna know how it feels to feel your heart breaking in two
When the wheel of hurt comes wheeling round to you

You're gonna cry little tears someday maybe
I'll hear you say you're sorry we're through
But I'll be the first one to help you cause you need someone that's true
When the wheel of hurt comes wheeling round to you

You're gonna learn the truth the hard way and when you do you'll always know
It's bad luck to hurt somebody when that somebody loves you so
It may be today or it may be tomorrow you'll have to pay when you're payment is due
And maybe then you'll realize how much pain you've put me through
When the wheel of hurt comes wheeling round to you
When the wheel of hurt comes wheeling round to you
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3.

SATISFIED MIND

(Red Hayes - Jack Rhodes)
« © '54 Fort Knox Music, BMI / Trio Music, BMI »
How many times have you heard someone say
If I had his money I could do things my way
But little they know it's so hard to find
One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind

Well once I was waiting in fortune and fame
Everything that I dreamed for turned to start in life's game
Then suddenly it happened I lost every dime
But I'm richer by far with a satisfied mind
[ steel ] Money won't buy back your youth when you're old
Or a friend when you're lonely or a love that's grown cold
The wealthiest person's a proper at times
Compared to the man with a satisfied mind

When my life has ended my time has run out
My friends and my loved ones I'll leave there's no doubt
But one thing for certain when it comes my time
I'll leave this old world with a satisfied mind
I'm gonna leave this old world with a satisfied mind
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4.

FIRST MRS JONES

(Bill Anderson)
« © '66 Johnny Bienstock Music, BMI »
(Mrs Jones Mrs Jones)

Her real first name was Betty but I'd rather just forget it
So I'll call her the first Mrs Jones
We were married in September and it lasted till November
When one day she just took out on her own

I followed her to Savannah then Mobile and then Atlanta
Every day I begged her please come home
Pretty soon I started drinking tryin' hard to keep from thinking
Just how much I loved the first Mrs Jones

It was cold and dark one morning just before the day was dawning
When I staggered from a tavern to a phone
When she picked up her receiver I said you're gonna come back or either
They're gonna be calling you the late Mrs Jones

I put a pistol in my jacket stumbled out and hailed a taxi
Told taxidriver to take me to her home
I remember walkin' proudly and everybody said that I yelled out loudly
Come on out or I'm gonna come in Mrs Jones

Then next thing I recall was walking through the forest
Lookin' for a place to hide her bones
I dug and dug for hours and then I planted flowers
Right on top of the first Mrs Jones

Did my little story scare you I can see cause I'm so near you
Little beads of persperation dot your clothes
Aren't you sorry now that you left me
Ha really now don't you wanna come go with me
After all you are the second Mrs Jones
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5.

BAD SEED

(Bill Anderson)
« © '66 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Ain't been in Little Rock but two weeks and here I am now
Packing up and disappearing into thin air
Girls in Little Rock are cute but I can't make my heart take roots
Cause bad seed won't grow just anywhere

I need a lots of sunshine I need a lots of raindrops
I need to breathe the open air
I hope to beg your pardon your town just ain't my garden
Bad seed won't grow just anywhere

So honey kiss goodbye to your bad seed
My love is not the kind of love that you need
I could stay here with you but I wouldn't play fair
Cause bad seed won't grow just anywhere
And you're looking at the baddest of the bad seed
[ guitar ] Next stop Jacksonville now I don't know but I got the feeling
I might just kinda like it somewhere round there
Hear tell there's fertile land white pearly silver sand
And bad seed won't grow just anywhere

I need a lots of sunshine I need a lots of raindrops...
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6.

SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN

(Bill Anderson)
« © '67 Tree Publishing, BMI »
I need a post I can lean on without it falling
A rock I can stand on without it rolling
I need a road I can walk down without it turning
A fire I can feel the glow but not the burning
I don't need love just something to believe in

Where are the lips that told me they'd love me forever
The arms that promised me eternal shelter
Where is the wind that lied to me you'll never be empty
For love is a cherry tree in the land of plenty
But I don't want love just something to believe in

I believed in the sunshine and I saw it turned to rain
I believed in the one I loved but I loved her in vain
Is there no post I can lean on without it falling
No rock I can stand on without it rolling
Is there no road I can walk down without it turning
No fire I can feel the glow but not the burning
I don't want love just something to believe in
Oh Lord give me something to believe in
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7.

RIDE RIDE RIDE

(Liz Anderson)
« © '63 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
If you don't want me baby if you ain't satisfied
If you don't care get on your horse and ride ride ride

Since you got on your high horse new fancy friends you've found
You don't even notice me you don't look that for down

If you don't want me baby...
[ steel ] You talked about me honey you tried to tear me down
But while you're throwin' dirt at me you're only losin' ground

If you don't want me baby...
[ piano ] I'll have your second fiddle returned to you today
Cause baby that's one instrument I never learned to play

If you don't want me baby...
If you don't want me baby...
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8.

DADDY AND MY MAMA AND ME

(Jimmy Gateley)
« © '67 Tree Publishing, BMI »
My daddy and my mama and me walkin' on this old burnt ground
Must be a hundred and three travelin' from town to town

Maybe we can find work today sweatin' in this old hot sun
Then we can buy something to eat before another day is done
The harvest has sure been slow the drought hit us hard this year
But daddy said we'd have to go winter mustn't find us here
So my daddy and my mama and me packed everything we owned
Put it in this old suitcase and left the place that we called home
Now daddy isn't gettin' any younger and mama bless her heart looked so sad
But we've always been a family with lots of pride
And thankful for everything that we've had
So I know that somehow we're gonna make it
It's gonna take me than this old drought to stop us you'll see
I've got a feeling the grass is gonna be greener for my daddy and my mama and me

My daddy and my mama and me...
My daddy and my mama and me just my daddy and my mama and me
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9.

OPEN UP YOUR HEART

(Buck Owens)
« © '66 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Open up your heart and let my love come in
Open up your heart and let my life begin
The sun's gonna shine there'll be blue skies again
When you open up your heart and let my love come in

I know you've been hurt by an old love affair
But darling don't blame me I wasn't even there
Your long lonely nights I will bring to an end
If you'll open up your heart and let my love come in

Open up your heart...
[ steel ] Someone before me has treated you like dirt
Someonbe before me has made your heart hurt
Your long lonely nights I will bring to an end
When you open up your heart and let my love come in

Open up your heart...
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10.

HOMESICK

(Billy Cole)
« © '60 Central Songs, BMI »
Oh I'm so homesick all I do is roam the street
Can't sleep at night can't eat a bite homesick to be with you

I'm so homesick I'm going crazy and I don't know what to do
Too ashamed to cry too sick to die I'm homesick to be with you

Little by little I guess I'm just losin' my mind
And I know why it's cause I haven't been home in too long a time

But I'm gonna be home soon I'll be home if I have to come in a box
Cause I'm homesick just plain homesick for you

I'm so homesick I'm going crazy and I don't know what to do
Can't sleep can't eat just roam the street homesick to be with you
Yes I'm homesick to be with you
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11.

BORN

(Bill Anderson)
« © '67 Johnny Bienstock Music, BMI »
(Born born)
On the day I was born everyone laughed but I cried
They say I was born with a silver tear in my eye
Must have been I felt the wind that cold November morn
And I knew it would blow me no good from the day I was born

I was born at an early age and that's when I'll die
You've seen to that by loving then saying goodbye
You held me near then left me here forsaken and forlorn
And I'm sittin' here now wishin' I'd never been born

For I was born to love one woman born to be with you
You were born to hurt me born to be untrue
Some loves come up roses but my love came up thorns
And I'm sittin' here now wishin' I'd never been born
[ guitar ] Born to love one woman...
Yes I'm sittin' here now wishin' I'd never been born
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12.

REMEMBER ME (WHEN THE CANDLE LIGHTS ARE GLEAMING)

(Scott Wiseman)
« © '46 Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
Remember me when the candle lights are gleaming
I want to know you still remember me
The sweetest songs belong to lovers in the gloaming
The sweetest days are the days that used to be
The saddest words I've ever heard were words of parting
When you said sweetheart remember me

Remember me when the candle lights are gleaming
Remember me at the close of a long long day
It would be so sweet when all alone I'm dreaming
Just to know you still remember me
[ steel ] You told me once that you'd be mine alone forever
And I was yours till the end of eternity
But all those vows are broken now and we will never be
The same except in memory

Remember me when the candle lights are gleaming...
Just to know you still remember me
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