lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

CAN I COME HOME TO YOU

(Jan Crutchfield - Buddy Killen)
« © '74 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Honey if I'll be a good boy and always say please
If I promise to do all the right things like get down on my knees
And do everything you want me to do
Eu-eu-eu-eu can I come home to you

Baby I know I acted ugly oh how dumb can I be
But I'm sorry really I'm sorry just look at me see
And I'm so lonesome are you lonesome too
Eu-eu-eu-eu can I come home to you

If I cross my heart and I hope to die
To never never hurt you or tell you a lie
Then will you forgive me I'm begging you to
Eu-eu-eu-eu can I come home to you
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2.

GETTIN' TO KNOW YOU

(Bill Anderson)
« © '74 Tree Publishing, BMI »
How do you like your eggs in the mornin' how do you like your toast
When you first wake to the silvery dawnin' what do you want the most
Do you want your man to be tender do you want your man to be wild
Do you wanna be treated like a woman or maybe baby like a child

I wanna spend the rest of my life gettin' to know you
I wanna spend the rest of my life gettin' to know you
[ guitar ] Had you rather go for a day to the mountains or strolling by the rolling sea
Do you want to raise a house full of children or just live alone with me
Do you want your man to be gentle do you want your man to be rough
Do you want my arms all around you or just a quiet kinda love

I wanna spend the rest of my life...
Do you want your man to be tender...
I wanna spend the rest of my life...
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3.

COUNTRY SONG

(Jack Clement)
« © '73 Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
I didn't know that losing her would be so hard to take
I never thought her memory would be so hard to shake
Or that just one little flash of her could make my day go wrong
Kinda makes me wanna sing a country song

A country song loud and clear with lots of crying in the beer
A country song loud and clear with lots of crying in the beer
[ steel ] It's hard to know the story line of a book that's halfway read
And it's hard to leave a love undone and things all left unsaid
But it's not so hard to hate yourself when you've been up all night long
Kinda makes you wanna sing a country song

A country song loud and clear...
A country song loud and clear...
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4.

AS MUCH AS I LOVE YOU

(Bill Anderson)
« © '74 Tree Publishing, BMI »
As much as I love you I don't understand you oh girl
It's almost as though you prefer me to them just on the fringe of your world
As much as I love you you're costing me part of my mind
What am I supposed to do with the part of me that you
Don't want but part of the time

As much as I love you why do you lock me outside
And only let me in every now and then what are you trying to hide
As much as I love you I don't understand how you think
Don't you know that it's wrong turnin' me off and on
Like water you pour down to sink

As much as I love you it's cold on my side of the bed
It's been another day of bein' pushed away
And I don't know what I've done or said
As much as I love you I'm lying here wondering why
I don't take off my ring
Pack up my things leave and don't even say goodbye mhm mhm
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5.

I'M HAPPILLY MARRIED (AND PLAN ON STAYING THAT WAY)

(Bill Anderson)
« © '74 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Appreciate ye callin' me Charlie invitin' me to go out tonight with you and the boys
Drink one for me won't ye Charlie flirt with all the girls and make lotsa noise
Live it up like we used to do we sure had fun together in the good ol' days
But I'm happilly married and plan on staying that way

I'm happilly married Charlie you remember the good lookin' girl from Lewieville
We've got a place in the country green grass fresh clean air and the rolling hills
I don't go out much anymore only place is back and forth to work every day
I'm happilly married and plan on staying that way

I'm happilly married and plan on staying that way
I found what I want and I ain't gonna let it get away
I appreciate you invitin' me to come out and play
But I'm happilly married and plan on staying that way
[ steel ] Drop around some time Charlie you know how much we both like to see you again
Give my best to all of the guys and tell 'em I'll be there tonight in spirit with them
They might laugh and call me square
But ain't a one of them that wouldn't trade places with me
Cause I'm happilly married and plan on staying that way

I'm happilly married...
I'm happilly married and plan on staying that way
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6.

PROOF

(Buzz Rabin - Jimmy Sadd)
« © '73 Tree Publishing, BMI »
I know what you do and it drives me insane
No matter what I do you never will change
You just keep denying this thing that you do
But someday someway I'll have proof that it's true

I know it's been goin' on now for quite a few years
And many's the time that it's nearly driven me to tears
I can't sleep at night but you don't seem to care
I'm growin' old young you've put grey in my hair
I've tried talkin' to ye but you just turned away
You won't even listen to what I've got to say
I've known for a long time now that I had to find me a way
To catch you in action so I schemed night and day
I thought and I thought and I devised me a plan
I knew I had to confront you with the proof in my hand
So I took a recorder and I placed it under your bed
And then I placed the microphone right at your head
And then I recorded every sound that you made that night
Sit down cause I'm gonna play it for ye as proof that I was right
When you hear this there'll never be any doubt anymore
When you hear this recording you'll have proof that you snore
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7.

MERCY

(Bill Anderson)
« © '74 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Your pillow don't get wet when I go to bed and weep
Your eyes don't turn red when I don't get my sleep
Your world don't fall apart when my phone don't ring
You say you feel for me but you don't feel a thing

Mercy have mercy on me mercy have mercy on me
A little bit of understanding and a little bit of sympathy
And a little bit of mercy on me (eu-eu-eu eu-eu-eu)

You don't like the clothes I wear and you don't like my friends
You don't like my job or the town we're livin' in
You don't like my mama and you don't like my dog
I bet if the truth was known you don't like this song

Mercy have mercy on me...
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8.

WE MADE LOVE (BUT WHERE'S THE LOVE WE MADE)

(Bill Anderson - Becki Anderson)
« © '74 Tree Publishing, BMI »
We made love but where's the love we made
We made love but you couldn't prove it now
Suddenly I feel alone and so afraid
We made love but where's the love we made

It's not in the house anywhere that's for sure
We've looked everywhere that we know
By the fireplace even in our room that's where I remember it last
And I hate to say it but I don't even see it in your eyes anymore
The hardest thing for me to believe is that you just wake up one day
And the future's part of the past

We made love but where's the love we made

It's not in this little cafe where we met
We went there and couldn't even find it in the wine
I thought we might find it up in the mountains
Remember the little cabin we rented that time
But it's just disappeared like it never was there
But it was there cause I felt it so strong
It's a little bit crazy and a little bit sad
But it's more than just a little bit gone

We made love but where's the love we made...
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9.

IT'S JUST GONNA TAKE SOME GETTING USED TO

(Bill Anderson)
« © '74 Tree Publishing, BMI »
It's not that I can't get up in the morning and go fry myself an egg
It's not that I can't reach and put a bandaid on the scratch on my leg
It's not that I can't iron a shirt and sweep up dirt and feed the bird
All the little things you used to do but it's just gonna take some gettin' used to

It's not that I can't organize the checkbook and make sure the bills're paid
It's not that I might sleeping in the house all by myself I'm not afraid
And I can water all the plants and made my pants and spray for ants
All the things I never had to do it's just gonna take some gettin' used to

I'm just gonna have to take my life and do a little rearranging
But I don't mean that something's bad necessarily just cause it's changing
I've heard it said a man can adjust to anything except to have a rock down in his shoe
It's just gonna take some gettin' used to
[ guitar ] I may be the only man on this whole block who's the lady of the house
But someone's gotta stay and float a ship when the captain's bailing out
So you go on and have your fun and worry none and listen hon
I won't be here grievin' over you it's just gonna take some gettin' used to

I'm just gonna have to take my life...
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10.

BEST IT'S EVER BEEN

(Bill Anderson)
« © '74 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Let's close the door and pull the shades
And listen to the winter rain grow quiet as it's turning into snow
Share a cigarette and take it easy take it slow
Let's pull out some records that we haven't played in much too long
The misty moods would sure sound good again
I almost forgot how much I love you let's make it the best it's ever been

Throw another log on the fire don't let the flame die again
I know we could make it it's ours so let's take it
Let's make it the best it's ever been let's make it the best it's ever been

We haven't been as close to one another as we used to be
Instead of making love we make believe
Unless we work at keepin' love from leaving it's gonna leave
But I'll go back to working at it if you'll help me do it
We found it once I know we can again
Come down on the floor and lie beside me let's make it the best it's ever been

Throw another log on the fire...
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11.

MAMA'S FACE

(Glenn Martin)
« © '74 Tree Publishing, BMI »
My mama loved my dad for fifty years
She worked along beside him in the fields
He never gave her much but he gave her all he had
Dad's the only reason my mama lived
Mama's face would light up like a diamond
Each time my daddy just walked in the room
She'd stop what she was doing and put her arms around him
Dad's the only world my mama knew
Mama never saw her roses bloom
That year the angels came before the robin's song
Mama said she didn't mind goin' on ahead
But heaven won't be heaven till dad is home
When mama left she left dad a lonely man
But he talked to mama like she was still here
Oh he'd talk about the hard times and the good times that they'd had
As his old mind slipped back across the years
Daddy never plowed his fields again
He just sat down to wait his time to come
And then one day he said I think I hear a choir sing
And he closed his eyes and went to live with mom
Lord I want to thank you for the years that they were here for me to love
Though it's hard to let 'em go Lord you know I'd let 'em go again
If I could have just bein' there and seen my mama's face when my dad walked in
If I could have only seen my mama's face when my daddy walked in
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