TODAY'S COUNTRY SOUND
(Decca DL-75023)
1968
Produced by Owen Bradley
Grady Martin - lead guitar
Ray Edenton - rh.guitar
Harold Bradley - bass guitar
Lloyd Green - steel
Bob Moore, Henry Strzelecki - bass
Buddy Harman, Willie Ackerman - drums
Floyd Cramer, Hargus Pig Robbins - piano
Bill McElhiney - trumpet
The Jordanaires - vocals
1.
GATHERIN' DUST
(Ray Griff)
« © '68 Helene Blue Musique, ASCAP »
Gatherin' gatherin' my love's gatherin' dust
My poor heart is fallin' apart it's gatherin' dust
You never should put my love upon the shelf
But you were thinkin' of no one but your own sweet self
Well you've been up there havin' a ball and laughin' ut up
I've been sittin' at home alone gatherin' dust
Gatherin' gatherin' my love's gatherin' dust
Pickin' up bits and pieces of hurt and draggin' my heart around in the dirt
Worryin' wonderin' if you're gonna give me the brush
My poor heart is fallin' apart it's gatherin' dust
[ trumpet - steel ]
I figured out I've had my fill of waitin' around
Now I'm gonna find these shoes of mine some solid ground
You've taken my love for you for granted long enough
I'm through sittin' at home alone gatherin' dust
Gatherin' gatherin'...
My poor heart is fallin' apart it's gatherin' dust
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2.
REMEMBERING
(Jerry Reed Hubbard)
« © '67 Vector Music, BMI / Sixteen Stars Music, BMI »
Every night I go down to this same little joint
Fill up my glass till I've reached the point past remembering
Where the music is loud the conversation is free
A dance or two with someone to keep me from remembering
The fool I've been the hurt I've caused the good man that I loved and lost
For he's constantly with me in memory
I go home but I couldn't sleep and after hours I'd be walking the streets remembering
A good man's love is hard to find my man's love was just that kind
I'm the reason that he's gone today
I miss him so and the price I pay is remembering
I take him to sleep in my dreams every night
And start all over in the morning light remebering
The way it was when he loved me
And like a fool how I carelessly broke his heart watched my world fall apart
I'd give the world for yesterday just to have him love me the way I remember
Just to have him love me the way I remember
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3.
BABY'S BACK AGAIN
(Betty Jean Robinson)
« © '67 Marchar Music, BMI »
This must be my lucky day baby's back again
Said he'd never go away baby's back again
Throw my troubles to the wind happiness come right on in
Cause baby's back again
Eyes there'll never be another teardrop lips he's waiting just a kiss away
The future looks so bright everything's alright since my baby's home again to stay
This must be my lucky day...
[ steel ]
I never saw the moon shine so brightly all the stars came out to shine for me
He said he still loved me that's all I need to know
Cause that's the way real love has to be
This must be my lucky day...
My baby's back again
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4.
YOU OUGHT TO HEAR ME CRY
(Willie Nelson)
« © '67 Tree Publishing, BMI »
If you think I laugh louder than anyone here
If you think that my volume's too high
If you think I laugh louder you ain't heard nothing yet
You ought to hear me cry
If you think I talk louder than maybe I should
Well I guess I'm just that kind of girl
But if I talk loud and laugh loud you ain't heard it all
You ought to hear me cry
I go home to a home where love's almost gone
Not enough to fill one needle's eye
Then I sat down in the corner and I turn on the tears
And you ought to hear me cry
[ steel ]
I go home to a home...
You ought to hear me cry
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5.
BREAK MY MIND
(John D. Loudermilk)
« © '66 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Baby oh baby tell the man at the ticket stand that you've changed your mind
Let me run on out and tell the cab to keep his meter flyin'
Cause if you say goodbye to me babe you're gonna break my mind
Break my mind break my mind
Oh I just can't stand to hear them big jet engines whine
Break my mind break my mind oh Lord
If you leave you're gonna leave a babbling fool behind
Baby oh baby let me take your suitcases off of them scales in time
Tell the man that you've suddenly developed a thing about flyin'
Cause if you say goodbye to me baby you're gonna break my mind
Break my mind break my mind...
If you leave you're gonna leave a babbling fool behind
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6.
WHY DO YOU DO ME LIKE YOU DO
(John Hartford)
« © '67 Ensign Music, BMI »
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7.
BROKEN HEARTED TOO
(Cindy Walker)
« © '68 Forrest Hills Music, BMI / Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Some day some way you'll pay for my broken heart
Some time you'll find your pretty dreams torn apart
So go ahead and laugh at my tears that's alright
But when you notice some might hear you some night
You'll be lonely remembering me and so blue and broken hearted too
[ guitar ]
Fly high and lie about the things that you do
Don't care just tear my hopes and dreams right in two
And go ahead and make a big fool out of me
You'll be surprised at who fool will be
You'll be lonely remembering me and so blue and broken hearted too
And broken hearted too
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8.
LONESOME WOMAN
(Lola Jean Dillon)
« © '68 Tree Publishing, BMI »
I'm a lonesome woman and that's the weakest kind
I'm a lonesome woman that just got left behind
And if you'll ever kiss my lips I know what I might do
Cause I'm a lonesome woman afraid of man like you
When you look at me so tenderly I long to be held tight
But I know what kind words do to me and that's why I must fight
You seem so warm and gentle and perhaps you mean no farm
But I know I'm too lonesome to just nestle in your arms
I'm a lonesome woman...
I'm a lonesome woman afraid of man like you
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9.
MRS. COOPER'S TEA PARTY
(Tom T. Hall)
« © '68 Newkeys Music, BMI / Unichappell Music, BMI »
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10.
D-I-V-O-R-C-E
(Bobby Braddock - Curly Putman)
« © '68 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Our little boy is four years old and quite a little man
So we spell out the words we don't want him to understand
Like T-O-Y or maybe S-U-R-P-R-I-S-E
But the words we're hiding from him now tear the heart right out of me
Our D-I-V-O-R-C-E becomes final today
Me and little J-O-E will be going away
I love you both and this will be pure H-E double L for me
Oh I wish that we could stop this D-I-V-O-R-C-E
Watch him smile he thinks it's Christmas or his fifth birthday
And he thinks C-U-S-T-O-D-Y spells fun or play
I spell out all the hurtin' words and I turn my head when I speak
Cause I can't spell away this hurt that's dripping down my cheeks
Our D-I-V-O-R-C-E...
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11.
BILLY CHRISTIAN
(Tom T. Hall)
« © '65 Newkeys Music, BMI / Unichappell Music, BMI »
Are you listening Billy Christian if you are then come on home
Everything is like you left that I spent all my time alone
Every minute here without you passes like a hundred years
Come on home if you're listening Billy dear
Billy Christian now I know that you're the wild and wandering kind
I promise I'll stick by you if you ever change your mind
I still love you and I want you dear no matter where you go
I need you Billy Christian heaven knows
No one seems to understand me and I always ask 'em why
Don't they know I love you up until the day I die
Will you Billy Christian do you ever hear this song
Billy Christian don't you know you're welcome home
Are you listening Billy Christian...
Come on home if you're listening Billy dear
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