lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

RIDE RIDE RIDE

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

Since you got on your high horse all those fancy friends you've found
You've had a hard time seein' me you're always lookin' down

If you don't want me baby if you're not satisfied...

You talk about me honey ah you try to tear me down
Ah but while you're throwin' dirt at me you're slowly losin' ground

If you don't want me baby if you're not satisfied...
[ steel ] If you don't want me baby if you're not satisfied...

I'll have your second fiddle returned to you today
Cause baby that's one instrument I've never learned to play

If you don't want me baby if you're not satisfied...
If you don't want me baby if you're not satisfied...
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2.

TOO MUCH OF YOU

(Gene Hood)
« © '67 Gene Hood Music, BMI »
Too much of you still on my mind
Thinking of you almost all the time
Missing you since you left me behind
I've got too much of you still on my mind

When you left I thought maybe it was best
For we disagreed and quarreled all the time
Now I'm not so sure I should have let you go
For I've got too much of you still on my mind

Too much of you still on my mind...

Without thinking I let you walk away
That was a big mistake now I find
You're gone and now I know it's wrong this way
I've got too much of you still on my mind
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3.

IF I KISS YOU (WILL YOU GO AWAY)

(Liz Anderson)
« © '67 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
If I kiss you will you go away
Like in the game my mother used to play
You're so much hurt I wish you wouldn't stay
If I kiss you will you go away

My mom would come when I'd get hurt at play
She'd kiss my hurt and it would go away
But now I'm grown I don't know what to do
I've never known a bigger hurt than you

If I kiss you will you go away...

I've seen a kiss make sorrow disappear
A kiss can dry away the biggest tears
A kiss can make a heartache vanish too
I don't see why it wouldn't work on you

If I kiss you will you go away...
If I kiss you will you go away
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4.

(ALL MY FRIENDS ARE GONNA BE) STRANGERS

(Liz Anderson)
« © '64 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
All the love you promised would be mine forever
I would have bet my bottom dollar on
Well it sure turned out to be a short forever
Just once I turned my back and you were gone

From now on all my friends are gonna be strangers
I'm all through ever trusting anyone
The only thing I can count on now is my fingers
I was a fool believin' in you and now you are gone
[ harmonica - steel ] It amazes me not knowing any better
Than to think I had a love that could be true
Why I should be taken out tarred and feathered
To have let myself be taken in by you

From now on all my friends are gonna be strangers...
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5.

NO ANOTHER TIME

(Jerry Lane - Slim Williamson)
« © '67 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Two times up and three times down
Ev'rybody knows that's the way to drown
And then it's too late to swim to the shore
And this'll be the third time you've left me for her

And there ain't gonna be no another time
There ain't gonna be no another time
When you leave you'd better pack cause you ain't comin' back
There ain't gonna be no another time

A let me further explain what I'm a talkin' about
A three strikes baby and then you're out
You've already had two swings at the ball
There's just one more and I'm afraid that's all

Cause there ain't gonna be no another time...
[ steel ] I've always a heard about the third time charm
And this is trip number three you've made to her arms
I hope you'll find what you're lookin' for
Cause I'm changin' the lock on my front door

And there ain't gonna be no another time...
There ain't gonna be no another time...
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6.

SING A SAD SONG

(Wynn Stewart)
« © '63 Owen Publications, BMI »
Sing me a song of sadness and sing it as blue as I feel
If a tear should appear it's because he's not here
Sing a sad song and sing it for me

He's unhappy with me he told me so
I'm unhappy without him and I still love him so
Oh sing me a song of sadness pretend it's the end of the world
Sing it sweet and sing it low and then I'll have to go
Sing a sad song and sing it for me
[ piano ] He's unhappy with me he told me so...
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7.

PROMISES PROMISES

(Wiley Smith - Carlyle Hughey)
« © '66 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
You promised you would be true to me
A but we both know you could never be
A you've been puttin' me on since the day we met
Promises promises that's all I ever get a that's all I ever get

Then you promised me a ring
A weddin' gown and all of them things
But I ain't seen no diamond yet
Promises promises that's all I ever get a that's all I ever get
Promises promises a that's all I get

All you gave me since the day we met
A you'll break my heart in two again I'll bet
But promises promises that's all I ever get a that's all I ever get
[ steel ] And now you tell me you're goin' away
A you swear to me that this time you'll stay
But I can't believe that I'm rid of you yet
Promises promises that's all I ever get a that's all I ever get
Promises promises that's all I get

All you gave me since the day we met
A you'll break my heart in two again I'll bet
Promises promises that's all I ever get that's all I ever get
Promises promises a that's all I get

All you gave me since the day we met...
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8.

I LIVE TO LOVE YOU

(Glenn Sutton)
« © '68 Al Gallico Music, BMI »
(I live to love you)

Can't you tell by the look in these eyes of mine
Can't you feel a sweet warmth when your hand touches mine
And when you kiss my lips you can find it there too
So if there's any doubt then it's time you found out that I live to love you

Just to know that you're near makes life seem so sweet
Things that once were just dreams are now so complete
You took my grey skies and you painted them blue
And I'll want you forever so don't leave me ever cause I live to love you

Yes I live to love you and there's nobody who
Could ever ever take the place of you
And it's so good to know that you love me too
So as long as I live I'll give all I can give cause I live to love you
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9.

I'VE BEEN EVERYWHERE

(Geoff Mack)
« © '62 Rightsong Music, BMI »
I've been everywhere man I've been everywhere man
Cross the deserts bare man I've breathed the mountain air man
Of travel I've had my share man I've been everywhere

I've been to Reno Chicago Fargo Minnesota Buffalo Toronto Winslow Sarasota
Wichita Tulsa Ottawa Oklahoma Tampa Panama Mattawa La Paloma
Bangor Baltimore Salvador Amarillo Tocopilla Barranquilla and Padilla I'm a killer

I've been everywhere man I've been everywhere man...

Boston Charleston Dayton Louisiana Washington Houston Kingston Texarkana
Monterey Ferriday Santa Fe Tallapoosa Glen Rock Black Rock Little Rock Oskaloosa
Tennessee Hennessey Chicopee Spirit Lake
Grand Lake Devil's Lake Crater Lake for Pete's sake

I've been everywhere man I've been everywhere man...
[ harmonica ] Louisville Nashville Knoxville Ombabika Shefferville Jacksonville Waterville Costa Rica
Pittfield Springfield Bakersfield Shreveport Hackensack Cadillac Fond Du Lac Davenport
Idaho Jellicoe Argentina diamontina Pasadena Catalina see what I mean sir

I've been everywhere man I've been everywhere man...

Pittsburgh Parkersburg Gravellburg Colorado Ellensburg Rexburg Vicksburg Eldorado
Larrimore Atmore Haverstraw Chattanooga Chaska Nebraska Alaska Opelika
Baraboo Waterloo Kalamazoo Kansas City Sioux City Cedar City Dodge City what a pity

I've been everywhere man I've been everywhere man...
(I know some place you haven't been)
I've been everywhere
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10.

BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY

(Liz Anderson)
« © '68 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Oh mama mama who told you that lie
Whoever told you that big girls don't cry

When I was a baby on my mama's knee
She would kiss all my teardrops away so tenderly
I'd get hurt and a tear would well up in my eye
Then she hold me and tell me that big girls don't cry

Oh mama mama who told you that lie
Whoever told you that big girls don't cry

Then out of nowhere like an angel he came
I fell for his kisses and he promised me a ring
He held me caressed me then told me goodbye
Mama don't let them tell you that big girls don't cry

Oh mama mama he told me goodbye
Don't let them tell you that big girls don't cry
Oh mama mama who told you that lie
Whoever told you that big girls don't cry
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11.

BEGGARS CAN'T BE CHOOSERS

(Liz Anderson)
« © '65 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Beggars can't be choosers anyhow

Here I am I'm waiting at your feet again
Hoping that a crumb of love might fall
Wishing you'd give all your love to me
But then beggars can't be choosers after all

Hand me down your hand-me-downs I don't care
Ole left-over kisses I'm not proud
I'll take any love you think you can spare
Beggars can't be choosers anyhow
[ steel - guitar ] Why can't our love be the way it used to be
That would take a miracle I guess
A maybe you've forgotten a baby this is me beggin'
One more chance for happiness

Hand me down your hand-me-downs...
I'll take any love you think you can spare
Beggars can't be choosers anyhow
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12.

THERE OUGHTA BE A LAW

(Betty Jo Gibson)
« © '67 Yonah Music, BMI »
Well there oughta be a law against what he's done
Stole my heart and away he run
Didn't leave me a thing but misery
And there oughta be a law against the way he's hurtin' me

The world keeps turnin' round and round but I'm just sittin' still
Since my baby left me I've just lost my will
All my ol' get up and go has done got up and gone
I guess it when to find the place where happiness has flown

Well there oughta be a law against what he's done...
[ steel ] He used to say he'd be my friend as long as I should please
If all my friends are like him well who needs enemies
They oughta pass a law some way to lock him up for life
To make him honor and obey and take me for his wife

Well there oughta be a law against what he's done...
And there oughta be a law against the way he's hurtin' me
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