BR5-49
(Arista 18818)
September 17/1996
Produced by Jozef Nuyens
Gary Bennett - guitar/vocals
Don Herron - guitar/steel/dobro/fiddle/mandolin
Mike Janas - guitar/bass/percussion
Smilin' Jay McDowell - bass
Chuck Mead - guitar/vocals
Shaw Wilson - drums/vocals
1.
EVEN IF IT'S WRONG
(Gary Bennett)
« © '96 Bobbex Music, BMI »
I roll out every mornin' I drink my coffee on the run
Working for the man just the way my daddy done
Well the money I'm makin' ain't buyin' much bacon but when payday comes along
Sometimes I gotta do somethin' even if it's wrong
The telephone keeps ringin' and it gets under my skin
They all call to ask me when I'll send the money in
But AT & T does a favor for me and takes a message at the tone
Sometimes I gotta do somethin' even if it's wrong
Seems the road is gettin' rougher as I roll on up the hill
High times passin' by me just like I was standin' still
But I'm almost to the top and I'll go until I drop
Some fall by the wayside but I've gone too far to stop
The woman of my dreams she was like a livin' doll
I sent her far away when she set me for a fall
She was a digger and the bills got bigger and I was up against the wall
Sometimes you gotta do somethin' even if it's wrong
Now I hear those wolves a howlin' I can't get no sleep at all
The good Lord knows I'm tired of robbin' Peter to pay Paul
From the grind stone to the gravestone is it really worth it all
Sometimes you gotta do somethin' even if it's wrong
Seems the road is gettin' rougher...
[ guitar - steel ]
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2.
CHEROKEE BOOGIE
(Moon Mullican - William C. Redbird)
« © '51 Fort Knox Music, BMI / Trio Music, BMI »
Well a Cherokee chief as he dances along
He does an Indian boogie to a white man's song
Singin' hey-ho-a-lina (hey-ho-a-lina) hey-ho-a-lina (hey-ho-a-lina)
A well a hey-ho-a-lina wup-wup a-wittena-yea
Well he dances over here and he dances over there
And he keeps on a dancin' everywhere
Singin' hey-ho-a-lina...
[ guitar ]
Well he dances on the hill and he dances on the rock
But he keeps on shakin' that tomohawk
Singin' hey-ho-a-lina...
Well he sings to the hills and he sings to the clouds
And he keeps on singin' so big and proud
A now hey-ho-a-lina...
Well he's a Cherokee cheif as a you might know
And he keeps on sittin' singing nuven-yo
A now hey-ho-a-lina...
Well a Cherokee chief as he dances along
He does an Indian boogie to a white man's song
Singin' hey-ho-a-lina...
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3.
HONKY TONK SONG
(Mel Tillis - Buck Peddy)
« © '56 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
I got me a room in a cheap hotel
My head was a spinning and I didn't feel well
I laid right down tried to go to sleep
But the band was playing in the joint underneath
I picked up my pillow when I covered up my head
But the band kept a playing and a shaking my bed
Honky tonk all night long honky tonk same old song
Honky tonk my money's all gone honky tonk she done me wrong
I turned and I tossed and I couldn't go to sleep
The band kept a playing with a honky tonk beat
[ guitar - steel ]
Well I'm so blue when my baby's gone
She took all my money and she left me all alone
I'm trying to forget her but I don't know what to do
Cause the honky tonk song keeps a leaking through
I picked up my pillow when I covered up my head
But the band kept a playing and a shaking my bed
Honky tonk all night long...
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4.
LIFETIME TO PROVE
(Chuck Mead)
« © '96 Bobbex Music, BMI »
My pockets are empty though my wife has sent me
To the store for some cigarettes and bread
I started walking there got as far as the square
Then the smell of beer went to my head
The thing about beer it can make a man hear
Voices from days long since past
And with every third drink it'll make you think
That your youth will always last
No matter which way you move it takes a lifetime to prove
To yourself I could have been more
I got one foot in the door I just want one more
I thought of a time when my future was mine
It didn't matter what anyone said
I was handsome and strong and when I walked along
I stood erect and looked straight ahead
But then I lost my fight goin' to turned to might
Somewhere along the line I lost my will
And now I'm sittin' here my life full of beer
And I try to pretend it's not real
No matter which way you move it takes a lifetime to prove
To yourself I have been before
I got one foot in the door I just want one more
[ guitar ]
These days I barely survive on lot number five
In the mobile acres on the eastside of town
I swore this kind of life I'd never lead
I guess I let too many things get me down
If my pappy could see what they done to me
I swear he'd march down there and make it all right
But he's long since gone and I'm old enough now
I should be able to fight my own fight
No matter which way you move it takes a lifetime to prove
To yourself I could have been more
I got one foot in the door I just want one more
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5.
LITTLE RAMONA (GONE HILLBILLY NUTS)
(Chuck Mead)
« © '96 Bobbex Music, BMI »
Remember when we hung in the low places in 1979
We used to think that it mattered to the man with the money
Where we spent our time
Well I knew a little gal with a mohawk hairdo
And a chain around her neck
But you'd never recognize her if you saw her now
She done something that you'd never expect
She done traded in her Doc's for kicker boots
Safety-pinned T-shirts for Manuel Suits
Her hair's grown out and it's piled up high
She only shows her tattoos one at a time
She ain't ashamed of the way she was
She hears old Hank she can't get enough
Her punk rock records are gathering dust
Cause little Ramona's gone hillbilly nuts
[ guitar ]
Thrashing dancing still out there the bodies piled up high
She used to mosh in pit with the best of them
You could see those elbows fly
Well now she's drinking Blue Ribbon and jitterbugging
To the honky tonking' beat
Get that line dance outta here man give her room to move her feet
She done traded in her Doc's...
[ steel ]
You see her in thrift stores everywhere
Hardly ever at a shopping mall
She acts just as tough as she always did
She just looks a little country that's all
She's got Emmylou Patty Smity on a 90-minute cassette
Cause where do you go after the end of the world
When you still ain't been there yet
She done traded in her Doc's...
Little Ramona's gone hillbilly nuts little Ramona's gone hillbilly nuts
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6.
CRAZY ARMS
(Ralph Mooney - Chuck Seals)
« © '56 Tree Publishing, BMI / Songs Of Universal, BMI »
Now blue ain't the word for the way that I feel
And the storm's a brewing in this heart of mine
This ain't no crazy dream I know that it's real
You're someone else's love now you're not mine
Crazy arms that reach to hold somebody new
For my yearning heart keeps saying you're not mine
My troubled mind knows soon to another you'll be wed
And that's why I'm lonely all the time
[ fiddle ]
So please take the treasured dreams I had for you and me
And take all the love I thought was mine
Someday my crazy arms may hold somebody new
But now I'm so lonesome all the time
Crazy arms that reach...
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7.
I AIN'T NEVER
(Mel Tillis - Webb Pierce)
« © '59 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
Well I ain't never I ain't never
Seen nobody like you no no no never have I ever seen nobody like you
Oh you call me up and say to meet me at nine
I have to hurry hurry but I'm there on time
I walk a right up and knock on your door
The landlord says she ain't a here no more
I ain't never oh darling seen nobody like you
Hoo hoo but I love you yes I love you girl I love you just the same
[ steel - guitar ]
Well you said sweet things that you don't mean
You've got me a livin' in a hunted dream
You make me do things I don't wanna do
My friends ask me what's wrong with you
I ain't never oh darling seen nobody like you
Hoo hoo but I love you yes I love you girl I love you just the same
I love you just the same I love you just the same
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8.
CHAINS OF THIS TOWN
(Chuck Mead)
« © '96 Bobbex Music, BMI »
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9.
BABY ARE YOU GETTIN' TIRED OF ME
(Gary Bennett)
« © '96 Bobbex Music, BMI »
Baby are you gettin' tired of me
I can see the blossoms fallin' from the trees
Like a love that used to be baby are you gettin' tired of me
It was early in the Springtime I remember that our love was growing strong
I guess Spring can't hold its promise any longer than the fall that's sure to come
Tell me is the season done
Baby are you gettin'...
[ fiddle - guitar ]
Last night when we said goodbye just like a fool I lingered at your door
Can you tell me why your goodnight kisses ain't like goodnight kisses were before
Cause you don't want me anymore
Baby are you gettin'...
Like a love that used to be baby are you gettin' tired of me
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10.
HICKORY WIND
(Gram Parsons - Bob Buchanon)
« © '69 Sixteen Stars Music, BMI »
In South Carolina there are many tall pines
I remember the oak tree that we used to climb
But now when I'm lonesome I always pretend
That I'm gettin' the feel of Hickory wind
But I started out younger at most everything
Without the riches and pleasures what else could life bring
But it makes me feel better each time it begins
Calling me home Hickory wind
[ guitar ]
Well it's a hard place to find out that trouble is real
In a far away city with a far away feel
But I'm feeling better better every time it begins
Calling me home Hickory wind
It keeps calling me home Hickory wind
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11.
ONE LONG SATURDAY NIGHT
(Chuck Mead)
« © '96 Bobbex Music, BMI »
Down in the valley of the fever in the hills of Tennessee
Well we're siftin' through that asphalt barnyard
Just a looking for that be-bop beat
Cause we sleep all day play all night man that ain't no lie
We can't tell what day it is it just seems like one long Saturday night
Well it's something in the water or something in the air
Something to them effigies on that street down there
Cause we sleep all day...
You know I ain't got nothing that thirteen bucks won't buy
But when I get me a little money baby I'm a gonna take me a little ride
Six more months of nighttime I'll take six months more
I'll keep taking whatever it takes till I can't take no more
Because that lonesome ghost is calling me one day I'll have to fight
Till then I'll just keep running through my one long Saturday night
[ guitar - fiddle ]
You know I ain't got nothing...
Down in the valley of the fever...
Yeah it seems like one long Saturday night
It seems like one long Saturday night
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