lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

QUITS

(Bill Anderson)
« © '71 Tree Publishing, BMI »
We couldn't call it love cause it really wasn't love anymore
Yet we couldn't call it hate cause there's no way to hate
Someone you've loved so much before
We couldn't call it livin' cause it wasn't still alive
We couldn't call it dead cause it refused to die
We ran out of anything to call it so we called it quits

Quits quits we called it quits
It sounds like the easy way out but oh when it hits
The longer you live with someone you can't live with the harder it gets
We called it magic then we called it tragic finally we called it quits

It's always been harder to fall out of love than fall in
I don't know where I'm goin' but I doubt if I'll ever forget where I've been
We couldn't call it happy though it was for a while
We couldn't call it sad cause it taught us both to smile
For luck for a better word to call it we called it quits

Quits quits we called it quits
It sounds like the easy way out but oh when it hits
The longer you live with someone you can't live with the harder it gets
We called it lovely then we called it lonely finally we called it quits
We called it magic then we called it tragic finally we called it quits
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2.

NO ONE'S GONNA HURT YOU ANYMORE

(Steve Karliski - Ted Cooper)
« © '67 Painted Desert Music, BMI »
You've cried the last tear you're gonna cry
You've kissed your last lips that cheat and lie
Forget him baby he's just not worth hurtin' for
Your heartache's over it's all gone I'll make you happy from now on
And no one's gonna hurt you anymore

You've been mistreated neglected and cheated
Out of the love you should've had
But give me a while and I'll make you smile
For the times he's made you sad
You've cried the last tear you're gonna cry
You've kissed your last lips that cheat and lie
Baby no one's gonna hurt you anymore

Don't be afraid darling come to me cling to me and I'll kiss away all of your tears
Here in my arms you'll be safe from harm now and for all the coming years
Your heartache's over it's all gone I'll make you happy from now on
No one's gonna hurt you anymore baby no one's gonna hurt you anymore
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3.

MY LIFE (THROW IT AWAY IF I WANT TO)

(Bill Anderson)
« © '69 Tree Publishing, BMI »
You don't understand the pattern of my life
Because my life has got no pattern
You don't see and you can't feel the wind
That's blowing at my back and saying move boy
You think this burning fever in my heart is just a folly
And I'm throwin' away my happiness by leaving you
Well it's my life throw it away if I want to

I've tried my best to plant my feet and stay with you but all I feel is roots grow
And what man wants a woman who won't satisfy his heart and soothe his ego
I sleep all day and run all night and you tell me that that ain't right
That ain't what the husbands of your friends do
But it's my life throw it away if I want to
[ harmonica ] You try to make me think my nonconforming life has colored me some evil shade
You delight and filling up my mind with a little bits of guilt you think I oughta feel
Well I'm tired of feeling guilty and I'm tired of having nothing
And I'm throwin' away this life you've had me shackled to
It's my life throw it away if I want to

I've tried my best to plant my feet ...
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4.

ALWAYS REMEMBER

(Jerry Bradley - Patsy Lawley)
« © '71 Forrest Hills Music, BMI / Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Always remember I love you I love you only you
Always remember your whole life through I love you just you

I'd give anything in this world if I could be with you right now
And hold you real tight in my arms
But since I can't I thought maybe if you knew how much I missed you
It might help you feel peaceful and warm

Always remember I love you I love you you just you
Always remember your whole life through I love you just you

And I ever thought I won't be there to lay down beside you tonight
It's not because I don't care
Darling you're in every thought that I think every dream and every prayer
So always remember I love you I love you just you
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5.

WILD WEEKEND

(Bill Anderson)
« © '68 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Got the alarm clock set for seven got the taxi called for nine
Plane takes off at eleven and I gotta be there on time
Told the boss I was going to my mother's told mama I was gonna see a friend
Don't want no one to know I'm slippin' out of town on a wild weekend

Gonna have a wild weekend gonna have a wild weekend
With the pretty little blond haired blue eyed darling
Gonna have a wild weekend
[ steel ] Well we might go up to the mountains we might go down to the sea
Somewhere off from the big wide world just my baby and me
Baby's gonna cook me breakfast baby's gonna tuck me in
Baby's gonna warm my cold cold lips with kisses on a wild weekend

Gonna have a wild weekend...
[ steel ] I guess we'll talk about the future make a lotta plans and stuff
Mostly though we're just gonna sit by the fire and make a lotta love
Every man oughta try it least one time in his life
Just get away on a wild weekend like I'm gonna do with my wife

Gonna have a wild weekend gonna have a wild weekend
With the pretty little mother of my two children
Gonna have a wild weekend
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6.

WHERE HAVE ALL OUR HEROES GONE

(Bill Anderson - Bob Talbert)
« © '70 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Where have all our heroes gone what's come over our great land
America is still my home sweet home but where have all our heroes gone

I saw a group of boys the other day standing in the corner of a playground
Looking and laughin' at a magazine
And I overheard one of the boys said man is he ever cool
And he pointed to the man who's picture was on the magazine cover
And everybody kinda said under their breath yeah he's cool alright
And I got sick to my stomach
Because I'd seen the cover and the man that they were talking about
Had instigated a riot in one of our major cities last summer
And the magazine was writing about how the police were unkind to him
The judges were not fair with him
And how he talked back and slung his long hair about and cussed
And did his things and they made him into a regular hero
And inside this magazine was the story of a baseball player
Who got involted with the gamblers
Of the football player who said that football was not the end
Just a mean to an end meanin' the girls and the good times
And a story of a folk singer who proudly claims
To be both a member of a party ailen to our government and a nontax payin' citizen
These young boys read with open eyes and open minds
And I thought to myself my God
Are these the people that these young boys look up to
Are these their idols are these the heroes of the now generation

(America is still my home sweet home but where have all our heroes gone)

I had heroes when I was a kid we all did and our heroes did their thing too
Like General Douglas McArthur who returned like he said he would
Like Gene Autry and Roy Rogers who chased the bad guys right off the screen
Like Lindberg who flew the ocean and Jesse Owens who showed Hitler
And John Wayne and Gerry Cooper after all didn't they really win the war
And General Ike bless your soul cause he made us feel safe
We've killed some of our recent heroes the Kennedys and Kings
And even as great as their space feats are
How many of the astronauts can you name huh how many
My heroes were people like Joe DiMaggio who proved that nice guys can finish first
And Stan Musian who never had an unkind word for anybody
And Winston Churchill who's two fingers raised together meant victory
Not just a let-your-enemy-have-it-all kind of artificial peace
This country needs a lotta things today friends
But it doesn't need any one thing anymore than it needs some real heroes
Men who know what it means to be looked up to by a griny faced kid
Men who wanna sign autograph books and not deal under the table
Men who are willing to play the game with the people who made them heroes
Men who don't mind putting on a white hat and saying thank you and please
I wish I knew more men that I'd be proud of for my son to look up to and say
Daddy when I grow up I want to be just-like-him
(Where have all our heroes gone)
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7.

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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8.

ME

(Alex Zanetis)
« © '64 Tree Publishing, BMI »
(Me) that's all I ever thought about
(Me) that's all I ever cared about
(Me) I turned my back on the love that I now cry for
(Me) I pushed aside what some men die for

(You) you wanted so little for yourself
(You) you wanted my love and nothing else
(You) you gave me my chance I just waited too long
(You) I never realized how much I loved you untill you've gone

(We) that's much a small and simple word
(We) you wanted to hear it but you never heard
(We) it would have meant so much to you then
(We) you might still be in love if it hadn't been for

(Me) what kind of a man would close the door
(Me) on the very thing that he searches for
(Me) I've been around but I've failed to see
(Me) anywhere in this world a bigger fool than (me)
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9.

BUT YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU

(Mike Settle)
« © '68 Devon Music, BMI »
Now the morning sun streaks across my room
And I'm wakened up from another dream of you
Yes I'm on the road once again it seems
All I've left behind is a chain of broken dreams
But you know I love you yes I love you oh I love you

How I wish this love was all we'd need to live
What a life we'd have cause I've got so much to give
And it seems so wrong deep inside my heart
That the dollar sign should be keeping us apart
But you know I love you yes I love you oh I love you

If only I could find my way back to the time
When the problems of this life had not yet crossed our minds
For the answers could be found in children's nursery rhymes
I'd come running back to you

But you know we can't live on dreams alone
Got to pay the rent got to leave you all alone
But you know I made my choice many years ago
Now this traveling life is the only life I know
But you know I love you yes I love you oh I love you
But you know I love you yes I love you oh I love you
But you know I love you yes I love you oh I love you
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10.

LOVE IS A SOMETIMES THING

(Jan Howard)
« © '70 Tree Publishing, BMI »
(And now here's Bill Anderson)

Love is a sometimes thing your love is a sometimes thing
It comes and goes like winter and spring
Yes your love is a sometimes thing

You told me you would always care
In time of need you'd always be there
But lately I've seen so little of you
Makes me wonder what you been up to

Love is a sometimes thing...
Love is a sometimes thing...
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11.

HAPPY STATE OF MIND

(Bill Anderson)
« © '68 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Maybe I don't love you quite as much as I believe I love you baby
But don't tell me cause lovin' you's a happy state of mind
Maybe I don't need you quite as much as I profess to need you baby
But don't leave me needin' you's a happy state of mind

And who's to say anyway that love is not a game we play
Why it's always gotta be considered a condition of the heart hmm hmm
As long as I feel warm inside wanted filled and satisfied
Who am I to be denied this feelin' be it love or be it just a happy state of mind

Maybe it's just something I've imagined in the hours when I'm sleepin'
But don't wake me cause dreamin's a happy state of mind
Mabe I just gotta have somebody and you're close and you're somebody
But don't leave me you've put me in a happy state of mind

And who's to say anyway...
You've put me in a happy state of mind lovin' you's a happy state of mind
Havin' you's a happy state of mind don't take away my happy state of mind
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