lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

WHAT AM I GONNA DO

(C. King - T. Stern) « © '71 Screen Gems Music, BMI »
What am I gonna do girl what am I gonna do
I love you so much what am I gonna do
What am I gonna do girl what am I gonna do
I love you so much what am I gonna do

Sittin' here and thinkin' bout you so far away
Wondering what you're thinkin' wondering what you'd say
If you were sittin' here beside me here alone beside me
Used to be so good with you baby baby
What am I gonna do what am I gonna do
I love you so much what am I gonna do
[ guitar ] You left me here alone said it all takes time
I should keep the place together keep everything in line
Why aren't you sittin' here beside me here alone beside me
Till you come back to me baby baby

What am I gonna do girl...
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2.

DARBY'S CASTLE

(Kris Kristofferson) « © '69 Careers Music, BMI »
See the ruins on the hill where the smoke is hanging still
Like an echo of an age long forgotten
There's a story of a home crushed beneath those blackened stones
And the roof that fell before the beams were rotten
Seems old Darby loved his wife and he labored all his life
To provide her with material possessions
And he built for her a home of the finest wood and stone
And the building soon became his sole obsession

Oh it took three hundred days for the timbers to be raised
And the silhouette was seen for miles around
And the gables reached as high as the eagles in the sky
But it only took one night to bring it down
When Darby's castle tumbled to the ground

Though they shared the common bed there was precious little said
In the moments that were set aside for sleeping
For his busy dreams were filled with the rooms he'd yet to build
And he never heard young Helen Darby weeping
Then one night he heard the sound and as he laid his pencil down
He traced it to her door and turned the handle
And the pale light of the moon through the window of her room
Split the shadows where two bodies lay in tangle

Oh it took three hundred days...
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3.

WHEN LOVE IS GONE

(Tom T. Hall) « © '72 Newkeys Music, BMI / Unichappell Music, BMI »
Spring could come you'd never show it love could come you'd never know it
Life has drawn so many tears from your eyes
You've been used then lost the user you've been branded as a loser
Where did all the sincere people go

When love is gone it will not return
The river's full of your tears the bridges have been burned
Someone took your four leaf clover all your lucky days are over
That's the way you feel when love is gone

Nights're long dawn is heartless quiet heartaches in the darkness
How could scars so deep still plainly show
All the old dreams so delicious all the news came so suspicious
Where did all the simple pleasures go

When love is gone it will not return...
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4.

LOT OF SOUL

(Curly Putman) « © '72 Tree Publishing, BMI »
I never was great at pickin' cotton
But Lord I always carried all my rows
There were those who could pick it clean or better
But didn't I pick my cotton with a lot of soul
I'd go hmm with feeling I'd go hmm with soul
I'd say hmm with meaning
Yeah I sang my songs of life with a lot of soul
[ dobro ] I never was great at words so fancy
Oh but my woman knew I loved her so
There were those who could give her more and better
But didn't I loved that woman with a lot of soul
I'd go hmm with feeling I'd go hmm with soul
I'd go hmm with meaning
But Lord I love that woman with a lot of soul
[ dobro ] When I leave this life I'll be forgotten
Cause I never made big tracks upon its roads
Things I've done will never last forever
But didn't I do it all with a lot of soul
I'd go hmm with feeling I'd go hmm with soul
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5.

JESUS CHRIST WHAT A MAN

(Bobby Bare - Billy Joe Shaver) « © '72 ATV Songs, BMI »
I've heard all the songs you're singing today
There's one thing I don't understand
That's why you don't sing more songs about Jesus my hero
Yes Jesus Christ now there was a man
So sing me some songs about Jesus cause I am a big Jesus fan
Sing me more songs about Jesus my Saviour
Jesus Christ oh what a man
[ piano ] I've heard all your songs about living and dying
I admire you deep in every word
Oh but you haven't lived till you've heard Roy Acuff
Sing about Jesus and the Great Speckled Bird
So sing me some songs about Jesus cause I am a big Jesus fan
Sing me more songs about Jesus my Saviour
Jesus Christ now there was a man
Jesus Christ oh what a man
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6.

LONELY STREET

(Carl Belew - W.S. Stevenson - Kenny Sowder) « © '56 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
I'm looking for that Lonely Street
I've got a sad sad tale to tell
I need a place to go and weep
Where's this place called Lonely Street

A place where there's just loneliness
Where dim lights bring forgetfulness
Where broken dreams and mem'ries meet
Where's this place called Lonely Street

Perhaps upon that Lonely Street there's someone such as I
Who came to bury broken dreams and watch an old love die
A place where there's just loneliness where dim lights bring forgetfulness
I need a place to go and weep where's this place called Lonely Street
Where's this place called Lonely Street
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7.

JUST IN CASE (A NIGHT LIKE THIS ONE NEVER COMES AGAIN)

(Tom Davis) « © '72 Combine Music, BMI »
I watch the sky that brightens with the dawn
And I know this night with you is almost gone
And I memorize each moment of the special thing that's been
Just in case a night like this one never comes again

A daylight call the rest I struggle through
It's changed into a magic time with you
Why once again my hands and eyes take your beauty in
Just in case a night like this one never comes again

It's true we talk of future things to be
But beyond this dawn's too far for me to see
So hold me now and love me before the night time ends
Just in case a night like this one never comes again
Just in case a night like this one never comes again
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8.

LORENA

(Charlie Williams) « © '59 Central Songs, BMI »
The years creep slowly by Lorena snow is on the grass again
The sun is sinking low Lorena frost is where the flowers have been

The music softly plays Lorena happy sounds have left today
The music's sad and low Lorena where once it rang so loud and gay

I hardly feel the snow Lorena cause I know this darkness soon will pass
We'll sing our songs again Lorena you'll be in my arms at last
Yes you'll be in my arms at last
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9.

ROSES ARE RED (MY LOVE)

(Paul Evans - Al Byron) « © '62 Music Sales, ASCAP / Port Music, ASCAP »
Roses are red my love violets are blue
Sugar is sweet my love but not as sweet as you

A long long time ago on graduation day
You handed me your book I signed this way

Roses are red my love violets are blue
Sugar is sweet my love but not as sweet as you

We dated all through school and when the big day came
I wrote into your book next to my name

Roses are red my love violets are blue
Sugar is sweet my love but not as sweet as you

Then I went far away and you found someone new
I read your letter dear and I wrote back to you

Roses are red my love violets are blue
Sugar is sweet my love good luck may God bless you

Is that your little girl she looks a lot like you
Some day some boy will write in her book too

Roses are red my love violets are blue
Sugar is sweet my love but not as sweet as you
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10.

LOVE FOREVER

(Marijohn Wilkin - Clarence R. Selman) « © '72 Buckhorn Music, BMI »
Morning comes and she's sleeping beside me
I'm not ashamed that she's lying there
Her lips are still warm from the love she just gave me
She's contented with sweet dreams we shared

Soon I know that she will awaken
With the smile that strips my soul bare
While I wait for her smile and the sunshine that follows
I offer to heaven this prayer

Please Lord let me love her forever
And keep her just the way she is now
She's tender and warm she's mine for the asking
My sweetheart my treasure my prayer

Please Lord let me love her forever...
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11.

WHEN I WANT TO LOVE A LADY

(Jerry Foster - Bill Rice) « © '72 PolyGram Int, ASCAP »
I hate to leave your party and these friendly people here
But I don't fit in with all that's goin' on
Your love's an invitation but I can't go along
Cause when I want to love a lady I go home

I go home to love a lady she's waiting up for me
A lady who has spent the night alone
No other man has touched her she saves her love for me
When I want to love a lady I go home

It would be so easy to live just for tonight
Yet I know to love you would be wrong
So I won't accept your offer although temptation's strong
When I want to love a lady I go home

I go home to love a lady...
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