lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

YOU'RE MY MAN

(Glenn Sutton)
« © '71 Peer Music, BMI »
For once in my life I know the meaning of happiness
And what it means to have a dream come true
Cause every day I wake up singing
Livin' on the sunshine love is bringing
And it's wonderful knowin' that I owe it all to you

At last I've got a reason to be a living
I'm at the end of the rainbow and the gold is in my hands
Your love is so sweet I can't refuse it
Heaven help me if I ever lose it
Cause my whole world's just knowing you're my man

I don't understand you but God knows I love you you're my man
I feel so safe when I'm in your arms cause you're all man
You're heaven on earth and so dependable
Together we're a team that's just unbendable
I want the whole wide world to know you're my man
[ strings ] At last I've got a reason to be a living...
Oh my whole world's just knowing you're my man my man my man
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2.

I CAN SPOT A CHEATER

(Glenn Sutton - Paul Tanner)
« © '68 Al Gallico Music, BMI »
See the way he smiles and flirts behind him he's left miles of hurt
I wonder just how many hearts he's told he would stay
He wants a thrill and nothing more I know I've seen his kind before
I can spot a cheater a mile away

The things he says are so polite he chooses every word just right
He doesn't seem to care about what's happened yesterday
He'll hold your hand and kiss your lips your mind will take exotic trips
I can spot a cheater a mile away

Don't get me wrong I used to be in love with him
I can't begin to tell you just how happy we were then
I found out and you will too his kind of love just can't be true
Here today and gone tomorrow that's the game he plays
So friend that's why I'm warning you so you'll know what you're getting into
I can spot a cheater a mile away
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3.

I'M GONNA WRITE A SONG

(Glenn Sutton)
« © '71 Peer Music, BMI »
Folks sit around with their face in a frown and gape about the way things they are
They're happy to recieve but they hardly ever want to give
I'm so tired of complaining and so in the time remaining
I'm gonna do my best to make the world a better place to live

I'm gonna write a song that the whole wide world can sing
It's gonna be about sunshine and praise every living thing
It's gonna be about love the one thing the world needs a lot more of
I'm gonna write a song that the whole wide world can sing
[ piano - steel ] Our fourfathers had only faith in God and they willed to make the nation strong
So the old time religion could help 'em find a better way
We need more soul saving and a lot more people flag waving
And there's no better time for us to start than today

I'm gonna write a song...
I'm gonna write a song...
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4.

CRY CRY AGAIN

(Liz Anderson - Dick Land)
« © '68 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
I put my little girl to bed with teardrops in her eyes
All day I've tried to comfort her and louder were her cries
I left her there to say her prayers and stepped outside the door
The prayer I heard was one I knew I'd never heard before

Please have my mommy ask my daddy to come home
Sometimes I'll cry and get my way and mommy's so alone
She told me once that when I'm right I never should give in
So if at first I don't succeed I'll cry cry again
[ steel ] I know our little girl is right and we're both in the wrong
And so I've called you up tonight to ask you please come home
I can't go on or stand for long the way she cries today
And I can't go to sleep at night because I heard her pray

Please have my mommy...
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5.

KNOCK THREE TIMES

(Irwin Levine - Russell L. Brown)
« © '71 Sosaha Music, BMI »
Hey now what you're doing down there
Sitting alone every night while I live right above you
I can hear your music playing all along my body's swaying
One floor below me you don't even know me but I love you

Oh my darling knock three times on the ceiling if you want me
Hmm twice on the pipe if the answer is no
Oh my sweetness means you meet me in the hallway
Hmm twice on the pipe means you ain't gonna show

If you look at your window tonight
Pulling the string with the note that's attached to my heart
Read how many times I saw you how in my silence I adored you
But only in my dreams did that wall between us come apart

Oh my darling knock three times...
[ vibes ] Oh I can hear your music playing all along my body swaying
One floor below me you don't even know me but I love you

Oh my darling knock three times...
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6.

FLYING MACHINE

(Robert Jenkins)
« © '71 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
Patti Johnny Suzie and me we're gonna take a ride on the flying machine
The flying machine it flies so high oh my love we can't pass it by
Up in the clouds where the air is so clean that's gotta be the place for me

We can make a love on the flying machine we're gonna have some fun
We can reach out and catch a cloud and then we're gonna touch the sun we're flying
[ guitar ] Patti Johnny Suzie and me we're gonna take a ride on the flying machine
We'd travel in life we got nothing to lose come on along on the jet playin' fools
We'll get the thrill when we make our dive
There's nothing quite like the ocean blue sky

We can make a love...
(Flying flying flying flying)
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7.

PROUD MARY

(John C. Fogerty)
« © '68 Jondora Music, BMI »
I left a good job in the city workin' for the man every night and day
But I never lost a minute of sleepin'
Worryin' bout the way things might have been
Big wheels keep on turnin' Proud Mary keeps on burnin'
Rollin' rollin' rollin' on the river rollin' rollin' rollin' on the river

I cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis chopped a lotta cane down in New Orleans
But I never saw the good side of the city till I hitched a ride on a river boat queen
Big wheels keep on turnin' Proud Mary keeps on burnin'
Rollin' rollin' rollin' on the river rollin' rollin' rollin' on the river
[ strings ] Now if you come down to the river I bet you gonna find some people who live
You don't have to worry and if you got no money people on the river are happy to give
Big Wheels keep on turnin' Proud Mary keeps on burnin'
Rollin' rollin' rollin' on the river rollin' rollin' rollin' on the river
Rollin' rollin' rollin' on the river rollin' rollin' rollin' on the river
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8.

HELP ME MAKE IT THROUGH THE NIGHT

(Kris Kristofferson)
« © '70 Combine Music, BMI »
Take the ribbon from my hair shake it loose and let it fall
Laying soft against your skin like the shadows on the wall

Come and lay down by my side till the early morning light
All I'm taking is your time help me make it through the night

I don't care what's right or wrong I won't try to understand
Let the devil take tomorrow but tonight I need a friend

Yesterday is dead and gone and tomorrow's out of sight
And it's sad to be alone help me make it through the night mhm mhm
[ steel ] And it's sad to be alone help me make it through the night
Oh I don't want to be alone help me make it through the night
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9.

PUT YOUR HAND IN THE HAND

(Gene McLellan)
« © '70 Blackwood Music, BMI »
Put your hand in the hand of the man who stilled the water
Put your hand in the hand of the man who calmed the sea
Take a look at yourself then you can look at others differently
By puttin' your hand in the hand of the man from Galilee

Every time I look into the Holy Book I wanna tremble
When I read about the part where a carpenter cleared the temple
For the buyers and the sellers were no different fellers than what I profess to be
And it causes me a shame to know I'm not the girl that I should be

Put your hand in the hand...

Mama taught me how to pray before I reached the age of seven
And when I'm down on my knees that's when I'm close to heaven
Daddy lived his life two kids and wife but you do what you must do
But he showed me enough of what it takes to get me through

Put your hand in the hand...
Put your hand in the hand...
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10.

JOY TO THE WORLD

(Hoyt Axton)
« © '71 Irving Music, BMI »
Jeremiah was a bullfrog a very good friend of mine
I never understood a word he's said but I helped him drink his wine
You know we always had some mighty fine wine
Singin' joy to the world all the boys and girls
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea joy to you and me

If I was the queen of the world I tell you what I would do
I'd throw away the cars and the bars and the wars and make sweet love to you
Singin' joy to the world all the boys and girls
Joy to the fishes in the big blue sea joy to you and me
[ steel ] You know I love you baby I love to have my fun
I'm a high night flyer and a rainbow rider a strait shootin' son of a gun
I said a straight shootin' son of a gun
Singin' joy to the world all the boys and girls
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea joy to you and me

Joy to the world all the boys and girls joy to the world joy to you and me
Joy to the world all the boys and girls
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea joy to you and me
Joy to the world all the boys and girls
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea joy to you and me
Joy to the world all the boys and girls
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea joy to you and me
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11.

I MIGHT AS WELL BE HERE ALONE

(Glenn Sutton - Faron Young)
« © '67 Al Gallico Music, BMI »
You're watching the clock that hangs on the wall
Your hand is on the telephone
And it seems that you're waiting for a knock on the door
And I might as well be here alone

We agreed to try again you promised that you would
Even moved away from all our neighborhood
But you're watching the clock that hangs on the wall
You're thinking of nights that are gone
I can tell by the way hey you're treatin' mean
But I might as well be here alone
[ steel ] We agreed to try again...
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