MOE BANDY
ONE OF A KIND
Columbia JC-36228December/1979
Produced by Ray Baker
Recorded:1979, Columbia Recording Studio, Nashville
1.
I CHEATED ME RIGHT OUT OF YOU
(Bobby P. Barker)« © '79 Screen Gems Music, BMI »
After hundreds of lies fake alibis
After too many times of playing out all night
After too many women too many times of actin' free
After all this time of cheatin' I've been cheatin' me
Yes I cheated me right out of you
By holding the wrong ends I had to lose
I lost out at my own game cause look who cheated who
And I cheated me right out of you
[ fiddle ]
Now I'm here alone cause I was all wrong
Too many times I two-timed this time you're gone
I gambled that you'd never walk out and leave
I cheated you now I'm cheatin' me
Yes I cheated me right out of you...
I cheated me right out of you
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2.
ONE OF A KIND
(Sonny Throckmorton - Bobby Fisher)« © '79 Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP / Colgems Music, ASCAP »
It don't matter who does the callin'
We both find it easy to lie
We both got a needin' in common
And the two of us are one of a kind
Like all cheaters we've tried doing better
We've sworn off more than one time
But there's always more wine and sweet laughter
Cause the two of us are one of a kind
It's hell once you've tasted heaven
And the want to is all over your mind
So I guess we'll just go on needin' and cheatin'
Cause the two of us are one of a kind
Yes the two of us are one of a kind
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3.
GONNA HONKY TONK RIGHT OUT ON YOU
(Harlan Howard)« © '79 Screen Gems Music, BMI »
Lately I've been through some heavy thinkin'
I've about decided what to do
You're doin' things to make me think of drinkin'
Gonna honky tonk right out on you
I guess I'll go back there to where you found me
Cause girl you've turned so cold I'm turnin' blue
I'll find someone who wants their arms around me
Gonna honky tonk right out on you
Now if you ever want to know the reason why I'm gone
The days have been gettin' shorter and the nights are much too long
Guess you must have been playgirl slummin'
Maybe I was only somethin' new
There'll be someone glad to see me comin'
When I honk tonk right out on you
When I honk tonk right out on you
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4.
BITTER WITH THE SWEET
(Jim Mundy)« © '79 Colgems Music, ASCAP »
There comes a time in every love when some rain must fall
But our love is strong enough to with stand it all
We're not two kids anymore we know how life can be
We've learned to take the bitter with the sweet
You know I'd love to see you smile ever single day
And I know how much you tried to love my hurts away
But we both know that we don't live in a world of make believe
We've learned to take the bitter with the sweet
Sometimes we're up sometimes we're down sometimes in between
But I know that I can lean on you and you can lean on me
So as long as I love you and you love me
We can take the bitter with the sweet
Sometimes we're up sometimes we're down...
We can take the bitter with the sweet
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5.
WE START THE FIRE (BUT SOMEBODY ELSE PUTS IT OUT)
(Jim Mundy)« © '79 Colgems Music, ASCAP »
Six nights a week the band and me
We keep singin' our songs
The girls come in alone and we turn 'em on
We start the fire but somebody else takes 'em home
They like our music and they all dance to it
But somehow it all turns out wrong
Cause when we closer her down they can't be found
We start the fire but somebody else takes 'em home
While we're singin' our hearts out somebody else is makin' out
They like the things we sing about
We start the fire but somebody else put's it out
So all of you boys I hope you enjoy
All the love that we turn down
And every time you touch think about us
We start the fire but somebody else takes 'em home
While we're singin' our hearts out...
We start the fire but somebody else put's it out
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6.
IN THE MIDDLE OF LOSING YOU
(Glenn Martin - Terry Henry)« © '79 Tree Publishing, BMI / Screen Gems Music, BMI »
You no longer turn to me when you need turnin' on
You've got a lotta love to give but you don't give at home
You don't touch me with your eyes the way you used to do
I could be half blind and see that I'm in the middle of a losing you
And I'm just one step ahead of a heartache
One jump in front of the blues
And I'm way behind on your sweet love
And I'm right in the middle of losing you
[ guitar - steel ]
Every time I pull you close you just pull away
Holding on to someone who's gone gets harder everyday
You say everything's all right I know that that's not true
Deep inside I know that I'm in the middle of a losing you
And I'm just one step ahead of a heartache...
I'm just one step ahead of a heartache...
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7.
TELL HER IT'S OVER
(Glenn Martin)« © '79 Tree Publishing, BMI / Screen Gems Music, BMI »
Hey friend you don't know me and you don't owe me a thing
But you have somethin' that once belonged to me and to you she's just a fling
Now I can't make you give her up but I had to call anyway
And I hope you'll agree with me when I say
You don't love her like I do you don't want her
But still you keep sayin' what she wants to hear
You don't need her like I do you won't treat her like I do
So tell her it's over and let her come home
Tell her it's over find you another
Let her come home to the one that loves her
You don't want her like I do you won't love her like I do
So tell her it's over and let her come home
[ piano ]
Tell her it's over find you another...
So tell her it's over and let her come home
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8.
SWEET KENTUCKY WOMAN
(Harlan Howard)« © '79 Screen Gems Music, BMI »
Sweet Kentucky woman
I said the whistle of a train is doin' strange things to my brain
Though you cried I said goodbye to you
I'm a fool woman I shoulda stayed with you
Sweet Kentucky woman
I've walked the beach at Wakiki seen Boulder Dam and Gay Paree
Done all the things I said I had to do
And it's true woman I shoulda stayed with you
I'm older and I'm wiser now if you could just forgive somehow I know yes I know
This time we'd really make it go
Sweet Kentucky woman
If I came back could you forgive or do you still prefer to live alone all alone
But then again perhaps you're not alone
Sweet Kentucky woman
I've walked the beach at Wakiki seen Boulder Dam and Gay Paree
Done all the things I said I had to do
And it's true woman I shoulda stayed with you
I'm older and I'm wiser now if you could just forgive somehow I know yes I know
This time we'd really make it go
Sweet Kentucky woman
I said the whistle of a train is doin' strange things to my brain
Though you cried I said goodbye to you
I'm a fool woman I shoulda stayed with you
Sweet Kentucky woman
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9.
HONKY TONK MERRY-GO-ROUND
(Pat Bunch - Pearly Mitchell)« © '79 Screen Gems Music, BMI »
She stood there with tears in her beautiful eyes
Said the closest she'd be was around
And now she was leaving cause she couldn't fight
My honky tonk merry go round
If it was a woman she'd know what to do
But she couldn't take being put down
By bottles and barrooms night after night
On my honky tonk merry go round
Cause my paycheck still buys tickets that come in flip top cans
My silver dimes still strike up that old jukebox band
Where once rode a king now a sad lonely clown
Is ridin' a honky tonk merry go round
[ piano ]
So she left me and I thought well maybe that's good
I won't feel so guilty tonight
But somehow some where something went wrong
With my complete honky tonk life
Cause my paycheck still buys tickets...
Is ridin' a honky tonk merry go round
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10.
MAN OF MEANS
(Herb McCullough)« © '79 Colgems Music, ASCAP »
You can be believin' I'm a man of means
Don't let yourself be fooled by these boots and western jeans
I'll wear what I like to just like kings and queens do
I might be broke but it don't take green to be a man of means
I'm a man of means I mean what I say
And I only say exactly what I mean
I've got all I need to get me through the squeeze
I'm here to say I'm mean enough to stay a man of means
If you see me smilin' when the times get lean
It's cause I'm recallin' the good times I have seen
I'll do what I have to with what I've got I'll make do
I always have I know what it means to be a man of means
I'm a man of means I mean what I say...
I'm here to say I'm mean enough to stay a man of means
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