lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

IF YOU AIN'T GOT NOTHIN' (YOU AIN'T GOT NOTHIN' TO LOSE)

(Red Lane - Dan Wilson) « © '81 Tree Publishing, BMI »
If you ain't got nothin' you ain't got nothin' to lose
There ain't no pressure when you're singin' these low down blues
Smokin' that git down bummin' them red men chews
If you ain't got nothin' you ain't got nothin' to lose

Daddy was a free loader workin' for the railroad line
I grew up listenin' to buddy can you spare a dime
Oh situation and the world's inflation and the bomb could be bad news
But when you ain't got nothin' you ain't got nothin' to lose

If you ain't got nothin' you ain't got nothin' to lose...
[ guitar ] I used to work my fingers to the bone
I had everything that me and the bank could own
But a sweaty blue collar and a deflated dollar ain't no way to pay your dues
Well if you ain't got nothin' you ain't got nothin' to lose

If you ain't got nothin' you ain't got nothin' to lose...
If you ain't got nothin' you ain't got nothin' to lose
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2.

I'M NOT A CANDLE IN THE WIND

(Bill Rice - Sharon Vaugn) « © '81 BMG Songs, ASCAP »
Neath your feet you feel your world is shaking
And your dreams slowly sifting through your hands
But there's a place you'll never be forsaken
I'm a warm fire a burning not a candle in the wind

Life can be a silver river winding
With a dark side a waiting round the bend
But for you a light is always shining
Cause I'm a warm fire a burning not a candle in the wind

And I'll be waiting here with arms that ache to hold you
Till forever turns around and starts again
Should you need someone who'll never harm you
I'm a warm fire a burning not a candle in the wind

Yes I'll be waiting here with arms that ache to hold you...
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3.

THEY COVERED UP THE OLD SWIMMIN' HOLE

(Jack Clement) « © '67 Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
How I'm wishing these days I could strip to my soul
And go for a dip in the old swimmin' hole

Boring through the mountains by-passing the towns
Interstate 90 is a sight to behold
But that monument to progress and engineering skill
Has covered up the old swimmin' hole

Thirty feet straight up from where the old hole stood
They sell twenty-eight kinds of icecream and the food is good
But it never can compare with the food for the soul
You could get from a dip in the old swimmin' hole

Oh the old swimmin' hole her cool waters ran deep
Felt good to a boy with mud on his feet
How I'm wishing these days I could strip to my soul
And go for a dip in the old swimmin' hole

A symbol of our great and affluent society
Interstate 90 fulfillment of our goals
But that masterpiece of human ingenuity
Has covered up the old swimmin' hole

Gone the wooden schoolhouse the old country store
The winding dirt road that's winding no more
And the old swimmin' hole hears the sound of speeding wheels
Entombed beneath a blanket of concrete and steel

Oh the old swimmin' hole her cool waters ran deep...

Wishing these days I could strip to my soul
And go for a dip in the old swimmin' hole

The old swimmin' hole her cool waters ran deep...
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4.

ISN'T THAT JUST LIKE LOVE

(Richard Leigh) « © '81 U Catalog, ASCAP »
It seems so easy to just fall in love with you
Never intending to idn't that just like love

And we two that once were friends may never talk again
It seems so sad but then idn't that just like love

Friends stop me every day and ask me why you went away
I just shake my head and say idn't that just like love
[ guitar ] To leave me with nights to fill knowing I love you still
Knowing I always will idn't that just like love

And sure as my old heart will mend someone will smile at me and then
I may just do it all again now idn't that just like love
Idn't that just like love idn't that just like love
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5.

GOODNIGHT IRENE

(Huddie Ledbetter - John A. Lomax) « © '50 Ludlow Music, BMI »
Goodnight Irene goodnight Irene I'll see you in my dreams


Sometimes I live in the country sometimes I live in town
Sometimes I take a big notion to jump in the ole river and drown

And say Irene goodnight Irene Irene goodnight
Goodnight Irene goodnight Irene I'll see you in my dreams

I love Irene God knows I do love her till sea runs dry
And if Irene turns her back on me I'll lay right down and I'll die

And say Irene goodnight Irene...
[ guitar ] Last Saturday night I got married me and my wife settled down
Now me and my wife just parted guess I'll take another stroll around town

Yeah Irene goodnight Irene...

Hey rambler stop your ramblin' stop your stayin' out late at night
Go on home to your wife and your family stay by the fireside bright

Yeah Irene goodnight...
[ guitar ] Irene goodnight Irene...
Irene goodnight Irene...
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6.

GOLDEN MEMORIES

(Lacy J. Dalton - John Fitzgerald) « © '81 Algee Music, BMI »
I've got golden memories
I've got silver threads a windin' though my hair
Oh baby but I got good times enough to share

I ain't young but I ain't old
I will keep you warm tonight against the cold
Oh baby don't that bitter wind honey don't you blow

Oh but I know old Father Time he got a mean side on him
He gonna make me drink that wine
He gonna steal my life he'll do it in time
You can't beat the devil but you can rob that sucker blind
[ guitar ] Oh my daddy was a gypsy
My mama was a honky tonker's dream
But me I just showed up to spoil their scene
Yeah I did

Well I drink corn liquor from a paper sack
I've had so much to smoke my lungs are black
Oh baby don't that bitter wind honey don't you blow

Oh but I know old Father Time he got a mean side on him...

We get older we get better like a fine ole Bordeaux
We get older we get better ever day

I've got golden memories
I've got silver threads a windin' though my hair
Oh baby but I got good times enough to share
Oh baby but I got good times enough to share
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7.

I'VE BEEN RAINED ON TOO

(Jonathan Philbert) « © '81 Pulleybone Music, ASCAP »
If you're afraid to touch my hand it's all right I understand
All the changes you've been through I've been rained on too
You don't know you can't be sure believe me I've been there before
Trusting me that's all you do but I've been rained on too

Like you I've really loved someone only to be walked upon
And by your lonely look I see you'd been rained on just like me
But I have made it through the storm so I know where you're coming from
I'll take special care of you I've been rained on too
I've been rained on too
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8.

COLD DAY IN HELL

(Shel Silverstein - Billy Ray Reynolds) « © '81 Evil Eye Music, BMI »
It'll be cold day in hell when I fall the way I fell for that woman
Ain't gonna fall that way no more
Gonna be snow in July when I take the time to cry for that woman
Ain't gonna cry that way no more

Cause she's a kinda witch who can cast a spell on you make you follow her anywhere
She took me by the hand led me through the darkness and she left me there
Alone and cold and prayin' for her
Cold day in hell ah the stories I could tell about that woman
Ain't gonna fall that way no more
[ guitar ] Gonna be scorcher in October the day that I get over lovin' that woman
Ain't gonna love like that no more
Gonna be snow in July when I take the time to cry for that woman
Ain't gonna cry that way no more

It'll be cold day in hell when I fall the way I fell for that woman
Ain't gonna fall that way no more
[ steel ] Ain't gonna fall that way no more
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9.

SO GOOD TO SO BAD

(Shel Silverstein - Robb Goldstein) « © '80 Evil Eye Music, BMI »
It goes from so good to so bad so soon
From so good to so bad so soon
Nobody told me so I never knew
It goes from so good to so bad so soon

It goes from sunshine to shadows to rain
Goes from passion to pleasure to pain
From singing sweet love songs to crying the blues
From so good to so bad so soon

It's started with words like forever
Went from always to sometime to never
From give me some lovin' to give me some room
From so good to so bad so soon

It goes from so good to so bad so soon
From so good to so bad so soon
If nobody told you then it's time that you knew
It goes from so good to so bad so soon
From so good to so bad so soon so soon
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10.

PRAISE THE LORD AND SEND ME THE MONEY

(Hugh Moffatt) « © '81 Atlantic Music, BMI / Boquilas Canyon Music, BMI »
Praise the Lord and send me the money
I'm happy you can be happy too
If you praise the Lord and send me the money
That's what Jesus wants you to do

Late one night while watchin' Columbo
I fell asleep till quarter past three
When just like a vision I thought I was dreamin'
I heard the voice of a man on TV

He said praise the Lord and send me the money...

I sat straight up and reached for my checkbook
Trembling with guilt took my bic pen in hand
I wrote out the figures a one and four zeros
Went out and mailed it with a note to that man

I said praise the Lord I'm sendin' the money
I surely wanna be happy like you
Praise the Lord I'm sendin' the money
If that's what Jesus wants me to do

I woke up late for work the next morning
I could not believe what I'd done
Wrote a hot check to Jesus for ten thousand dollars
And my bank account only held thirty-one

I got a second job at a gasoline station
I'm savin' me money to pay what I owe
I don't get much sleep cause I stay up late watchin'
All of the folks on the Lord's TV show

Sayin' praise the Lord and send me the money...
Praise the Lord I'm sendin' the money
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