lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

STAY THERE 'TIL I GET THERE

(Glenn Sutton)
« © '69 Al Gallico Music, BMI »
The telephone's ringin' and it's three a.m. and I know just who's callin'
From the same ole spot and you're about half shot almost to the point of crawlin'

Why is it ev'rytime we have a little fuss you take your wounded pride
And you head right straight for a bar and a bottle and try your best to crawl inside

Please stay there till I get there and we'll work it out together
We'll take a little walk and have a little talk and you'll feel a whole lot better
[ harmonica - steel ] Just when I wonder if you're really worth the trouble that you put me through
Then you roll them baby blue eyes at me and I jump like a kangaroo

Stay there till I get there and we'll work it out together...
[ banjo ] Well I thought about leavin' you many times and I've even packed my bags a few
Then the telephone rings and I can't do a thing but run right straight to you

Baby stay there till I get there and we'll work it out together...
Please stay there till I get there and we'll work it out together...
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2.

WORDS

(Barry Gibb - Maurice Gibb - Robin Gibb)
« © '68 Crompton Songs, BMI / Gibb Brothers Music, BMI »
Smile an everlasting smile a smile can bring you near to me
Don't ever let me find you gone cause that would bring a tear to me
This world has lost its glory let's start a brand new story now my love
Right now there'll be no other time and I can show you how my love

Talk in everlasting words and dedicate them all to me
And I will give you all my love I'm here if you should call to me
You think that I don't mean a single word I say
It's only words and words are all I have to take your heart away

Na na na na na na...

You think that I don't even mean a single word I say
It's only words and words are all I have to take your heart away
It's only words and words are all I have to take your heart away

Na na na na na na...
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3.

COUNTRY GIRL

(Myra Smith - Margaret Lewis)
« © '69 Ragged Island Music, BMI »
New York is a long way from Texas
Vegas is a long way from Abilene
I spend lots of my time flyin' out to LA
And if you've never been there
You don't know how lonesome big towns can be

Oh what I'd give to be a country girl again
To be with my people my man and my kids
To live in a house about a mile down the road from mama's
Oh Lord what I'd give to be a country girl again

I'd go walkin' down a country road at sunset
And see colors I could almost touch over head
I'd hear gentle breeze is blowin' in the treetops
No out in the country there is no talk that God is dead

Oh what I'd give to be a country girl again...
Oh what I'd give to be a country girl again
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4.

WHEN YOU HURT ME MORE THAN I LOVE YOU

(Jerry Foster - Bill Rice)
« © '69 PolyGram Int, ASCAP »
The time will come when I'll be free from this hold you have on me
When you hurt me more than I love you
You'll pay for ev'ry time I've cried just as soon as I decide
That you've hurt me more than I love you

Maybe my next heartache will be the final one
Cause maybe I won't love you when it's done
It may not take but one more pain just one more might make the change
If you hurt me more than I love you
[ steel ] Maybe my next heartache will be the final one
Cause maybe I won't love you when it's done
This love that's kept me yours so long will die someday if I'll be gone
When you've hurt me more than I love you
When you've hurt me more than I love you
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5.

DON'T LEAVE THE LEAVING UP TO ME

(Liz Anderson)
« © '69 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
I didn't fail I gave up tryin' tryin' to hold you to me
I let you go we'll say goodbye but don't leave the leavin' up to me

Our great love we had is over all we cherished is gone
Nothin' ever lasts forever it's time for movin' 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'll let go of one another but don't leave the leavin' up to me
[ steel ] Why do I hate so much to lose you why this hurting inside
Is it you I'm holding on to or is it only my pride

Don't stay long let doubts enfold you
I'll make me a chain of tears and hold you
Don't wait around or you may never be free

One goodbye deserves another so now goodbye it would be
We'll let go of one another but don't leave the leavin' up to me
Don't leave the leavin' up to me don't leave the leavin' up to me
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6.

GOOD

(Billy Sherrill - Glenn Sutton)
« © '68 Al Gallico Music, BMI »
I was a waitress in a barroom no future in sight
And he was just lonely when he came there that night
Then someone played the jukebox and he asked me to dance
And when he softly held me I thought here's my chance

To be good like I wanna be that's what he saw in me
Not just a girl from the wrong side of town
Good like I used to be he brought it out in me
And that's when I promised that I'd never let him down
[ steel ] Now I'm back here in a barroom a waitress again
The good world I lived in just came to an end
For temptation comes easy to a woman like me
And regardless of my chances I know that I'll never be

Good like I used to be I guess it's just not in me
With all my heart how I wish I could have been
Good like he wanted me but good is what I'll never be
And now I know that he's gone for good
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7.

TRUE LOVE'S A BLESSING

(Sonny James - Carole Smith)
« © '66 Mike Curb Music, BMI »
True love's a blessing true love's a wonderful blessing
True love's a blessing wait and see
When you've got a good man the world is in your hands
True love's a blessing yes siree

Some men love for money some make love a game
Some men use their love as steppin' stones to fame
There are many kinds of love in this great big land
But there's no love like a love of a real good man

True love's a blessing true love's a wonderful blessing...
[ banjo ] Some men take their love too casually they flirt
Some men use their love to break a heart to hurt
There are many kinds of love to be found it's true
But there's no love like the love I found when I found you

True love's a blessing true love's a wonderful blessing...
True love's a blessing true love's a wonderful blessing...
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8.

I'D RUN A MILE TO YOU

(Glenn Sutton - Mac Curtis)
« © '69 Al Gallico Music, BMI »
I don't know exactly where our love went wrong
There's so many things we both could blame it on
I only know these arms of mine don't want somebody new
And if you'd take a step toward me I'd run a mile to you

Your lips are telling me to go away
While your eyes are sayin' you want me to stay
If your heart could read my mind you'd know exactly what to do
You take a step toward me I'd run a mile to you

It seems a shame to throw so many happy years away
When just one simple I love you would cause us both to say
Let's don't let pride destroy the dreams we both know could come true
If you'd take a step toward me I'd run a mile to you
If you'd take a step toward me I'd run a mile to you
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9.

HONEY COME BACK

(Jim Webb)
« © '69 Audio Arts Publishing, ASCAP / Jobete Music, ASCAP / Seventh Son Music, ASCAP »
Well honey I know I've said it many times before and I said I'd never say it again
I guess I really shouldn't say anything at all since you're supposed to belong to her
But I just can't let you go at least not without tellin' you just how much I love you
So that is why I'm gonna say it one more time

Honey come back I just can't stand it each lonely day's a little bit longer
Then the last time I held you seems like a hundred years ago
Back to her arms and never know the joy of love that used to taste like
Honey come back where you belong to only me

Well I guess that's about all I've got to say
So I'm just gonna pack my bags and I'm gonna walk away
I know those bright lights're callin' you honey the fine cars and the pretty girls
But if you ever need someone to just love you and some day you just may
Well you know where I'll be and here's what I'll say

Honey come back I just can't stand it each lonely day's a little bit longer...
Honey come back where you belong to only me
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10.

FANCY

(Bobbie Gentry)
« © '69 Northridge Music, ASCAP »
I remember it all very well lookin' back it was the summer I turned eighteen
We lived in a oneroom rundown shack on the outskirts of New Orleans
We didn't have money for food or rent to say the least we were hard pressed
Then my mama spent ev'ry last penny we had to buy me a satin dancin' dress
Mama washed and combed and curled my hair and she painted up my eyes and lips
Then I stepped into my satin dancin' dress it was slit on the sides clean up to my hips
It was red velvet trimmed and it fit me good
And starin' back from the lookin' glass was a woman where a half growd kid had stood

Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down
Here's your one chance Fancy don't let me down

Mama dabbed a little bit of perfume on my neck and she kissed my cheek
And I saw the tears well up in her troubled eyes as she started to speak
She looked at our pitful shack and then she looked at me and took a ragged breath
Your pa's run off and I'm real sick and the baby's gonna starve to death
She handed me a heart shaped locket that said to thine owenself be true
And I shivered as I watched a roach crawl across the toe of my high heeled shoe
It sounded like somebody else that was talkin' sayin' mama what should I do
Just be nice to the gentlemen Fancy and they'll be nice to you

Here's your one chance don't let me down...

Lord forgive me for what I do but if you want out child it's up to you
Get on out girl you better start movin' uptown
Well that was the last time I saw my ma the night I left that rickety shack
Cause the welfare people came and took the baby mama died and I ain't been back
But the wheels of fate had started to turn and for me there was no way out
And it wasn't very long till I knew exactly what my mama'd been a talkin' about
I did what I had to do but I made myself this solemn vow
That I was gonna be a lady someday though I didn't know when or how
I couldn't see spendin' the rest of my life with my head hung down in shame
I may have been born just plain white trash but Fancy was my name

Here's your one chance don't let me down...

It wasn't long after a benevolent man took me off of the street
And one week later I was pourin' his tea in a five room hotel suite
I charmed a king a congressman and an occasional aristocrat
Then I got me a Georgia mansion in an elegant New York townhouse flat
I ain't done bad
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11.

SOMEDAY SOON

(Ian Tyson)
« © '63 WB Music, ASCAP »
There's a young man that I know his age is twenty one
He came from down in southern Colorado
Just out of the service and he's lookin' for his fun
But someday soon I'm goin' with him someday soon

My mom and dad can't stand him cause he rides the rodeo
My father says that he will leave me cryin'
But I'd follow him right down the roughest road I know
Someday soon goin' with him someday soon

And when he comes to call my pa ain't got a good word to say
Guess it's because he was just as wild in his younger days
So blow you ol' blue northern blow my love to me
He's drivin' in tonight from California
He loves that darned ol' rodeo as much as he loves me
But someday soon goin' with him someday soon
Someday soon goin' with him someday soon
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