lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

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 field...
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2.

TO BE ALONE

(Billy Vaughn) « © '69 Hirt Music, ASCAP »
(To be alone) to be alone
(With just a memory) with just a memory
This is my destiny to be alone

(You left me here) you left me here
(With just these walls to see) with just these walls to see
I know you meant for me to be alone

You left me to be alone but there's one thing that you didn't count on
Something far beyond your imagination
I knelt and I prayed and I recieved a much much deeper consolation
And now I share a greater love you see it's not so bad for me to be alone
With my head bowed down on my knees I prayed and I cried
And he dried my tears and he promised me that he'd forever be at my side
He'll be my friend beyond eternity it doesn't worry me to be alone
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3.

GAMES PEOPLE PLAY

(Joe South) « © '68 ATV Songs, BMI »
Oh the games people now ev'ry night and ev'ry day now
Never meanin' what they say now never sayin' what they mean
So they wile away the hours in their ivory towers
Till they're covered up with flowers in the back of a black limousine

Lotten da la da yda da lotten da la a dee de dee
Talkin' bout you and me and the games people play

Oh we make one another cry break a heart then we say goodbye
Cross our hearts and we hope to die that the other one's to blame
But neither one will ever give in so we gaze at an eight by ten
Thinkin' bout the things that might have been and it's a dirty rotten shame

Lotten da la da da da...
[ steel ] People walkin' up to ya singing glory hallelujah
And they're tryin' to sock it to ya in the name of the Lord
They're gonna teach you how to meditate read your horoscope and cheat your fate
And furthermore to hell with hate come on and get on board

Lotten da la da da da...

Look around and tell me what you see what's happened to you and me
God grand me the serenity to just remember who I am
Cause you've given up your sanity for your pride and your vanity
Turn your back on humanity and you don't give a lot da da

Lotten da la da da da...
Lotten da la da da da...
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4.

US

(Bill Anderson) « © '68 Tree Publishing, BMI »
I can't ever go back to the little cafe with the candle light
That was our cafe and to go there without you wouldn't seem right
Besides I don't want to touch that part of life that meant so much
The days the world belonged to us just us

And I'd telephone at three in the morning just to say hello
And all sleepy eyed you breathed and sighed I love you so
And sometimes we just talked for hours dreaming dreams and building towers
All the world was filled with flowers for us
And I'm gonna miss you for a long long time
[ guitar ] I can't ever go back to the cabin there on the mountain side
Where I built a fire and held you close while it snowed outside
And remember you let me sleep all day so we could love the night away
Oh it just find yesterday and us

I've tried making new friends walking new streets and finding new thrills
But nothing new replaces you and it never will
I'll just live my life in memory grateful you once loved me
Thankful that there used to be an us
And I'm gonna miss you for a long long time
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5.

APOLOGIZE

(Michael Gordon - James Griffin) « © '69 Warner-Tamerlane Publishing, BMI »
In the fury of the moment when the words of rath rang out
When my mind was filled with questions and my head was filled with doubt
I can still see all the sadness and the sorrow in your eyes
How can flowers live in darkness how can I apologize

For the blackness I've created in the world that used to shine
I've wilted all the roses and I've spoiled all the wine
Get out your magic pencil and erase the cloudy skies
Draw a picture of me saying I apologize

Give me back the words I spoke in haste
Give 'em back or love will go to waste give 'em back
[ guitar ] See the sunlight reappearing through the shrouds of darkened gloom
As I hear your words forgiving me and watch the flowers bloom
Have your arms refused to open have you served all your ties
I'd still be on my knees saying I apologize

Give me back the words I spoke in haste
Give 'em back or love will go to waste give 'em back
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6.

HUNGRY EYES

(Merle Haggard) « © '69 Tree Publishing, BMI »
A canvas covered cabin in a crowded labor camp
stands out in this mem'ry I revive
Cause my daddy raised a family there with two hard working hands
And tried to feed my mama's hungry eyes

He dreamed of something better and my mama's faith was strong
And us kids were just too young to realize
That another class of people put us somewhere just below
One more reason for my mama's hungry eyes

Mama never had the luxuries she wanted
But it wasn't cause my daddy didn't try
She only wanted things she really needed
One more reason for my mama's hungry eyes
[ steel ] I remember daddy praying for a better way of life
But I don't recall a change of any size
Just a little loss of courage as their age began to show
And more sadness in my mama's hungry eyes

Mama never had the luxuries she wanted...
I still recall my mama's hungry eyes
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7.

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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8.

PICTURE FROM LIFE'S OTHER SIDE

(Hank Williams) « © '51 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
In the world's mighty gallery of pictures hang the scenes that're painted from life
There hang pictures of love and of passion and there's pictures of sorrow and strife
There hang pictures of youth and of beauty of old age and a blushing young bride
But the saddest of all that hang on the wall are the pictures from life's other side

Just a picture from life's other side someone has fell by the way
A life has gone out with the tide that might have been happy some day
There's a poor old mother at home who's watching and waiting alone
Just longing to hear from a loved one so dear it's a picture from life's other side

Now the first scene is that of a gambler who's lost all his money at play
And he reaches down and takes his dead mother's ring from her finger
The one that she wore long ago on her wedding day
It's his last earthly treasure but he stakes it
Then bows his head that his shame he might hide
When they lifted his head they found he was dead
It's just a picture from life's other side

Now the last scene is that by the river of a heartbroken mother and babe
As the harbor lights shine and they shiver on an outcast whom that no one can save
And yet she was once a true woman she was somebody's darling and pride
God help her she leaps for there's no one to weep it's a picture from life's other side
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9.

WHY YOU BEEN GONE SO LONG

(Mickey Newbury) « © '69 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Every time it rains Lord I run to my window
All I do is ring my hands and moan
Listen to that thunder roll and hear that lonesome wind blow
Tell me baby why you been gone so long

Tell me baby why you been gone so long you been gone so long now
Tell me baby why you been gone so long
Wolf is scratching at my door and I can hear that lonesome wind moan
Tell me baby why you been gone so long

Someone said they thought they saw you roarin' down in Reno
With a big oil man from San Antone
They tell me I'm a fool to pine for you but what do they know
Tell me baby why you been gone so long

Tell me baby why you been...
[ guitar ] Tell me baby why you been...
Tell me baby why you been gone so long
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10.

YOURS LOVE

(Harlan Howard) « © '68 Tree Publishing, BMI »
May the fruit of my toil be yours love
May the food from my soil be yours love
And from this moment on may a love true and strong
That lives on and on be yours love

May the sons that I raise be yours love
May the comforts I praise be yours love
If I ever get weak may the love words I speak
And the arms that I seek be yours love

May the Lord's shining grace be yours love
May the happiest face be yours love
May the last fingertips that touch these two lips
As life from me slips be yours love
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11.

I AM

(Carter Howard) « © '69 Tree Publishing, BMI »
I am a soldier I'm a slave of power
Power so great that it can destroy God's world with one mighty blast
I'm a machine a computer an engine programed to reap destruction wherever I go
I'm a bad risk for my credit is only backed up by the United States Government
My reputation is that of a braggard a sex fied a cheat and rusted hero
I'm a killer paid and trained to hit first before being hit and I do
I'm a soldier so who cares how dirty the job is if it has to be done then it's done
Right but I'm also a human being I am myself good or bad
I smell the flowers in the spring I hear the birds sing in the early morning
I feel the warmth of a fire in the winter and I feel the rain as it moinstens my brow
I'm a part of family with God as my father and me the obediest child
I have wants and needs and I have the strenght and the faith to fullfill them
And I have passion the kind of passion that brings forth a love so great
That no war no tragedy or no other being could ever destroy
I'm a human being and I feel I feel the things all around me
And I'm grateful I'm so very grateful
I'm also an American and I'm proud
I'm proud because I have the right to worship God as my Master
The right to love a wife children mother and father
Without the fear of political reprisal
My country gives me the right to build to destroy
And to rebuild to better proportisions
I am an American I have the right to listen the Star Spangled Banner
The right to feel a chill throughout my entire body when I look at the flag our flag
I have the right to defend to honor to pay tribute
To the great ones who've come and gone before why
Because I'm an American and because I'm an American I can also cry
I can cry for my lost brother who died defending our way of life
I am an American and I'm proud proud because I am
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