HUSBAND HUNTING
(RCA Victor LSP-4346)
March/1970
Produced by Felton Jarvis
Recorded:
Oct/1969, RCA Victor Studio, Nashville
1.
HUSBAND HUNTING
(Liz Anderson)
« © '69 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
I'm lonely and I'm looking for a husband like I do every Friday at this time
A frisky thinking whiskey drinking husband I'm looking for a husband and he's mine
If there's a tavern in the town then that's where I'll look for my man
It's payday and he's nowhere to be found so I'm husband hunting again
All week long he's good as gold and then some a really sweet and family loving guy
When payday comes he's high and wide and handsome
He's high and wide and handsome mostly high
If there's a tavern in the town...
[ steel - piano ]
I'm looking for a husband who is faithful who's used to working hard for every cent
I'm looking for him and I'd sure be grateful to get to him before he drinks a rent
If there's a tavern in the town...
If there's a tavern in the town...
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2.
SHOW AND TELL
(Robbie Williams)
« © '70 Tree Publishing, BMI »
You're just like every other man you don't care a bit bout what I think or who I am
You just see the outside me and cause I'm looking well
You want me to be yours for show and tell
Just like some little kid in a nursery school that takes a pretty toy
You'd like to take me on the town and show me up to the boys
I wanted you to be above all the child like games most men play in the name of love
But I've heard from lots of girls that you once caught a hell
They all say that you love to show and tell
Just like some little kid in a nursery school that takes a pretty toy
You'd like to take me on the town and show me up to the boys
Then when the newness starts to fade
You'll be needing some new plaything to put on parade
That's why I am turning down upon them games you sell
I can't see me yours for show and tell I can't see me yours for show and tell
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3.
OKIE FROM MUSKOGEE
(Merle Haggard - Eddie Burris)
« © '69 Tree Publishing, BMI »
We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee we don't take our trips on LSD
We don't burn out draft cards down on Main Street
But we like living right and being free
We don't make a party out of loving but we like holding hands and pitching woo
We don't let our hair grow long and shaggy like the hippies out in San Francisco do
And I'm proud to be an Okie from Muskogee
A place where even squares can have a ball
We still wave Ol' Glory down at the court house
And white lightning's still the biggest thrill of all
Leather boots are still in style for manly foot wear
Beads and Roman sandals won't be seen
Football's still the roughest thing on campus
And the kids here still respect the college dean
And I'm proud to be an Okie from Muskogee...
And white lightning's still the biggest thrill of all in Muskogee Oklahoma USA
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4.
BORN TO LOSE
(Frankie Brown)
« © '43 Peer International, BMI »
Born to lose I've lived my life in vain every dream has only brought me pain
All my life I've always been so blue born to lose and now I'm losing you
Born to lose it seems so hard to bear how I long to always have you near
You've grown tired and now you say we're through born to lose and now I'm losing you
[ steel ]
Born to lose my every hope is gone it's so hard to face that empty dawn
You were all the happiness I knew born to lose and now I'm losing you
It's no use to dream of happiness all I see is only loneliness
All my life I've always been so blue born to lose and now I'm losing you
Born to lose and now I'm losing you
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5.
ONLY FOR ME
(Liz Anderson)
« © '70 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
If I were to lose your love if you ever go
The stars still would shine above for ups I know
As blue as it's always been the sky still would be
For darling the world would end only for me
Only for me the sun no more would shine if I lost you how dark the night would be
Only for you I live this life of mine you are the one love meant only for me
[ steel ]
The seasons would pass the same but I wouldn't know
The summer would bring the rain and winter the snow
In spring there'd be daffodills that others could see
For time would be standing still only for me
Only for me...
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6.
THAT'S A NO NO
(Ben Peters)
« © '69 Shelby Singleton Music, BMI »
You had a quite good thing goin' with the girls you used to knowin'
You went up and down your list just like a yo-yo
Though it may be hard to stop it I'm afraid you'll have to drop it
Cause if you want me to love you that's a no no
I know you're used to goin' places where's there lights and painted faces
Where the dancing girls do something they call go-go
I don't want to spoil your fun now but if I'm the only one now
And if you want me to love you that's a no no
You know a no no means baby shouldn't touch if baby really loves his mama so much
So if you can't resist 'em if they're not out of your system
And if there's some more wild oats you've got to sow
Just remember while you're sowin' I'll be packin' up and goin'
Cause I've told you many times that that's a no no
[ steel ]
You know a no no means baby shouldn't touch if baby really loves his mama so much
So if some old flame starts burnin' or if you should get to yearnin'
To go back to where those women that you know go
Don't come home expecting mama's waitin' here in her pajamas
Cause I've told you many times that that's a no no
Oh you should know by now that's a no no
Yeah you should know by now that that's a no no
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7.
DON'T LEAVE THE LEAVING UP TO ME
(Liz Anderson)
« © '70 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
I didn't fail I gave a tryin' tryin' to hold you to me
I let you go we'll say goodbye but don't leave the leaving up to me
Our great love we had is over all we cherished is gone
Nothing ever last forever it's time for moving along
But I can't go my feet won't take me I can't go so please don't make me
Be the one to make the move to be free
One goodbye deserves another so now goodbye it would be
We'd let go of one another but don't leave the leaving up to me
[ guitar ]
Why do I hate so much to lose you why this hurting inside
Is it you I'm holding onto or is it only my pride
So don't wait around the doubts unfold you I make me a chain of tears and hold you
Don't wait around for you may never be free
One goodbye deserves another so now goodbye it will be
We'd let go of one another but don't leave the leaving up to me
Don't leave the leaving up to me don't leave the leaving up to me
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8.
DOWN IN THE BOONDOCKS
(Joe South)
« © '65 Sony ATV Songs, BMI »
Down in the boondocks down in the boondocks
People put me down cause that's the side of town I was born in
I love him he loves me but I don't fit in his society
Lord have mercy on the girl from down in the boondocks
Every night I watch the lights from the house up on the hill
I love a boy who lives up there and I know I always will
But I don't dare go near his door cause his folks won't let me in
So I have to try to be content just to see him whenever I can
Down in the boondocks...
[ rh.guitar ]
One find day I'll find a way to move from this old shack
I'll hold my head up like a queen and I never never will look back
Until that day I'll save my love for the boy I'll soon call mine
But tonight he'll have to steal away to see me one more time
Down in the boondocks...
Lord have mercy on the girl from down in the boondocks
Lord have mercy on the girl from down in the boondocks
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9.
ALL YOU ADD IS LOVE
(Liz Anderson)
« © '69 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
(All you add is love)
Take the cottage (take the cottage) any cottage by the side of the road
And you like it (yes you like it) so you buy it it's the house that you own
You can change it (rearrange it) you can change it from a house to a home
All you add is love
For love makes the difference from better to best (right sadder or less)
Yes love makes the difference some philosopher wrote and I quote
Take a baby (take a baby) any baby with the button down nose
Just a baby (stranger baby) any baby tiny fingers and toes
You can change it (you can change it) from a baby to a child of your own
All you add is love
(Take a neighbor) take a neighbor (any neighbor you see now and again
Any someone) smart or damn one (can he come on and he bother all land
You'll be neighbors) only neighbors (yes be neighbors if we got to be friends
All you add is love)
For love makes the difference from better to best (right sadder or less)
Yes love makes the difference (yes love makes the difference)
Love makes the difference all you add is love
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10.
WEE LITTLE KITTENS
(Liz Anderson)
« © '70 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Wee little kittens has gotta wear mittens and puppies gotta howl at the moon above
Stars gotta glitter and birds gotta twiddle and I gotta have your love
Loving you comes naturally natural and easy
Love me too and if you do your love will surely please me
I can't love just anyone Tom or Dick or Harry
They're not for me for me you see your love is necessarry
Wee little kittens...
[ steel ]
I just have to hold you near have your love to guide me
I can do most anything as long as you're beside me
I don't care to take the chance hurt you or to doubt you
I can't think of losin' you cause I can't live without you
Wee little kittens...
[ steel ]
Some folks don't and some folks do some folks hardly ever
Some will have no love at all and some will love forever
That's the way it is with me with your love to cheer me
I can hold up all the world as long as you are near me
Wee little kittens...
Wee little kittens has gotta wear mittens and I gotta have your love
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