BROOKS & DUNN
STEERS AND STRIPES
(Arista 67003)
April 24/2001
Produced by Mark Wright
Brent Mason, Brent Rowan, Kenny Greenberg, J.T. Corenflos - el.guitar
B. James Lowry - ac.guitar
Dan Dugmore - ac.guitar/steel
Paul Franklin - steel/dobro
Michael Rhodes - bass
Shannon Forrest - drums
Steve Nathan - piano/organ/keyboards
Aubrey Haynie - fiddle
Greg Davis - banjo
Eric Darken - percussion
Nashville String Machine - strings
Vocals:
Trisha Yearwood, John Wesley Ryles, Kim Fleming, Vicki Hampton, Kim Richey, Harry Stinson
1.
ONLY IN AMERICA
(Don Cook - Randall Rogers - Kix Brooks)
« © '01 Buffalo Prairie Songs, BMI »
Sun coming up over New York City school bus driver in a traffic jam
Staring at the faces in her rearview mirror
Looking at the promise of the Promised Land
One kid dreams of fame and fortune one kid helps pay the rent
One could end up going to prison one just might be president
Only in America dreaming in red white and blue
Only in America where we dream as big as we want to
We all get a chance everybody gets to dance only in America
Sun going down on an LA freeway newlyweds in the back of a limousine
A welder's son and a banker's daughter all they want is everything
She came out here to be an actress he was the singer in a band
They just might go back to Oklahoma
And talk about the stars they could have been
Only in America...
[ guitar - steel ]
Only in America...
Yeah only in America
Only in America where we dream in red white and blue
Yeah we dream as big as we want to
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2.
LAST THING I DO
(David Lee Murphy - Kim Tribble)
« © '01 ATV Songs, BMI »
I've been livin' on truckstop coffee cigarettes and vitamin C
It's a wonder that the devil ain't caught me
I guess he's tired of playin' hide and seek
I've been drivin' like I'm struck by lightin'
I think about ya and I start to speed
I might as well be playin' with matches in a truckload of gasoline
If it's the last thing I do if it takes me from Tupelo to Timbuktu
If it's the last thing I do
I'm gonna dodge every roadblock speed trap and county cop
To get my hands on you if it's the last thing I do
[ guitar ]
Box of chicken and a day old biscuit ain't nothin' left but a few old bones
I oughta stop but I'm gonna risk it caffein got me chewin' Styrofoam
Girl I'm callin' out of Kansas City from a fillin' station telephone
Just had to tell you what I've been thinkin'
First thing I wanna do when I get home
If it's the last thing I do...
[ guitar ]
Yeah I've been drivin' like...
If it's the last thing I do...
If it's the last thing I do if it's the last thing I do
I'm gonna dodge every roadblock speed trap and country cop
To get my hands on you
Dodge every roadblock speed trap and country cop
To get my hands on you
I'm gonna dodge every roadblock speed trap and country cop
To get my hands on you
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3.
LONG GOODBYE
(Paul Brady - Ronan Keating)
« © '01 Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
I know they say if you love somebody you should set them free
But it sure is hard to do it sure is hard to do
I know they say if it don't come back again then it's meant to be (so they say)
Those words don't pull me through cause I'm still in love with you
I spend each day here waitin' for a miracle
But it's just you and me goin' through the mill climbin' up a hill
This is the long goodbye somebody tell me why
Two lovers in love can't make it just what kind of love keeps breaking a heart
No matter how hard I try I always make you cry
Come on baby it's over let's face it all that's happening here's a long goodbye
Sometimes I ask my heart did we really give our love a chance (just one more chance)
But I know without a doubt we turned it inside out
And if we walked away would It make more sense
But it tears me up inside just to think we still could try
How long must we keep running on a carousel
Goin' round and round and never gettin' anywhere on a wing and prayer
This is the long goodbye...
[ guitar ]
Long goodbye (long goodbye)
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4.
GO WEST
(Bob DiPiero - Kix Brooks)
« © '01 Buffalo Prairie Songs, BMI »
That burning sunset in the sky is calling out to us tonight
I won't work for my old man anymore you fit into your mamma's plan
There's a place for people like you and me
True love's still got room to breathe
And we can drive all night into the morning light let's go west
It's our ticket out of here yeah we can disappear let's go west
And that painted sky was made for us
It's everything we ever dreamed of let's go west
[ guitar ]
It's hard to leave this place behind got mem'ries turning in my mind
Little white house with a picket fence that protected small town innocence
But it seems like an even trade to me that security for our destiny
Yeah we can drive all night till the morning light let's go west
A place that we can go where the tall dreams grow let's go west
And we'll find a place to call our own
There's somewhere out there we belong let's go west
[ guitar ]
And that painted sky was made for us
It's everything we ever dreamed of
Yeah we can drive all night...
Yeah let's go west oh let's go west
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5.
MY HEART IS LOST TO YOU
(Brett Beavers - Connie Harrington)
« © '01 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Maybe it was the moonlight the scent of you on the breeze
Maybe it was your shadow that fell over me
Such a beautiful stranger eyes darker than coal
Your first look crossed the desert into my soul
Mi Corazon Perdido EnTi my heart is lost to you
You have captured my love completely my heart is lost to you
Oh my heart is lost to you
Maybe it was the music the way it moved with your hair
Or the heat of the moment that hung in the air
But when I saw you there dancing mesmerized by your gaze
There was some kind of magic that led me away
Mi Corazon Perdido EnTi...
[ guitar ]
Mi Corazon Perdido EnTi...
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6.
GOOD GIRLS GO TO HEAVEN
(Terry McBride - Shawn Camp - Ronnie Dunn)
« © '01 Showbilly Music, BMI »
Some girls go to church on Sunday live life by the golden rule
You got girls gonna graduate one day suma cum laude from party school
Some they walk the straight and narrow some girls they just don't care
Good girls go to heaven bad girls go everywhere
[ guitar ]
Some girls are into heavy metal dance with the devil everywhere they go
Others of 'em cut a rug to the fiddle dance to the rhythm of the Cotton Eyed Joe
Some they walk the straight and narrow...
[ guitar ]
Miss high fullutin' likes to sip fine champagne prim and proper drippin' in diamond rings
Little sister wears high heals and blue jeans a long neck drinkin' certified wild thang
Some they walk the straight and narrow...
Good girls go to heaven bad girls go everywhere
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7.
WHEN SHE'S GONE SHE'S GONE
(Wayland Holyfield - Tom Douglas)
« © '01 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Saw an old friend last night I hadn't seen in a couple of years
Stopped in Galatoire's had a couple of beers
Talked about the price of oysters the coach at LSU
Then like I knew it would the conversation turned to you
He had to go and I looked at my watch it was 1:45
I headed down canal the quarter was coming alive
A man on the corner told me that Jesus is coming soon
But I was lost in the music and the crowd and the smell of cheap perfume
It's not good for a man to be alone
But a women needs someone that she can count on
And I walked down by the river in the cold gray dawn
Love is like the Mississippi when she's gone she's gone
The line was long at Cafe DuMonde so I walked out on the pier
Thought about all the winds and turns and mistakes that got me here
Might as well try to change the course this old river takes
Than to go back in time when you were mine pretend it's not late
It's not good for a man to be alone
But a women needs someone that she can count on
And what I'd give to go back but the current's just too strong
Love is like the Mississippi when she's gone she's gone
[ strings ]
It's not good for a man to be alone...
Yeah she's gone
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8.
AIN'T NOTHING BOUT YOU
(Tom Shapiro - Rivers Rutherford)
« © '01 Blackwood Music, BMI »
Once I thought that love was something I could never do
Never knew that I could feel this much
But this yearning in the deep part of my heart for you
Is more than a reaction to your touch
It's a perfect passion and I can't get enough
The way you look the way you laugh the way you love with all you have
There ain't nothing bout you that don't do something for me
The way you kiss the way you cry the way you move when you walk by
There's ain't nothing bout you that don't do something for me
[ steel ]
In my life I've been hammered by some heavy blows
That never knocked me off my feet
All you gotta do is smile at me and down I go and baby it's no mystery
Why I surrender girl you got everything
The way you look...
I love your attitude your rose tattoo your every thought
Your smile you lips and girl the list goes on and on and on
[ guitar ]
The way you look...
The way you look the way you laugh the way you love with all you have
Your dance your drive you make me feel alive
The way you talk the way you tease right now I think you see
There ain't nothing bout you that don't do something for me
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9.
UNLOVED
(Steve Diamond - Keith Follese)
« © '01 Real Diamonds Music, ASCAP »
I know you know just how it goes when it goes
And how it feels to be lost and left alone on your own
And what it's like to give all you got and have to stand and watch it
As it walks away
So everyone deserves a chance to live and learn
From mistakes that we make and hearts that break and bridges burn
Starting now from this moment on nothing's gonna go wrong
Love is here to stay
You'll never be without you'll always have enough
When you're in my arms you'll never go unloved
As long as there is time and for all of it to come
No matter where you go I want you to know you'll never be unloved
So in this life we lead some things are guaranteed
You can count on the fact that hearts won't act responsibly
Now and then comes a love that's heaven sent and meant to be
So baby look at me
You'll never be without...
[ guitar ]
You'll never be without...
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10.
DENY DENY DENY
(Bob DiPiero - Kix Brooks)
« © '01 Buffalo Prairie Songs, BMI »
That wadn't me at a quarter to three back in our backyard
Tearin' up the roses and the home grown tomatoes in my new car
Those bottles in the driveway and the bottles in the hall
Well I don't know where they came from
It must be burglars in the neighborhood I sure hope they catch those bums
I know you've got your own version of the truth
There's only three things left now I can do Deny Deny Deny
Well I was allegedly dropped by a truck stop waitress at our front door
Now who you gonna believe Your sweet lovin' daddy or those lying eyes of yours
That lipstick on my collar that you found this morning well that's not lipstick at all
I was just in a hurry to get back to you honey had myself a little fall
Oh yeah you've got your own version of the truth
There's only three things left now I can do Deny Deny Deny
[ guitar - steel ]
Oh please don't answer the phone hey ain't it great being home and alone like this
That cigarette voice asking for her big boy why should I know who that is
Yeah I know it looks bad but you're lookin' at a victim of a circumstance or two
Oh what is it now seems like nothing I do ever pleases you
Oh yeah you've got your own version of the truth
There's only three things left now I can do Deny Deny Deny
Oh Deny Deny Deny
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11.
LUCKY ME LONELY YOU
(Terry McBride - Shawn Camp - Ronnie Dunn)
« © '01 Showbilly Music, BMI »
Girl you've got lonely written all over you
I can read the writing from across this crowded room
All by yourself there in your world of blue lucky me lonely you
Must be in the cards fate played a part brought us here tonight
Heaven must have lined the stars up in the sky just right
Girl you've got lonely...
Who knows the right song a slow dance might heal your heartache
Something tells me I don't know I just might be here to save the day
Girl you've got lonely...
[ steel - fiddle ]
Girl you've got oh you've got lonely written all over you
I can read the writing from across this crowded room
All by yourself there in your world of blue
Lucky me lucky me lucky me lonely you
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12.
I FALL
(Don Cook - Kix Brooks)
« © '01 Buffalo Prairie Songs, BMI »
I breeze through the day and nothing much seems to get in my way
I don't have a care at all
You walk in the room it's always the same you call out my name
I turn you smile I fall
I'm at home at night just me and the moon but doin' all right
When out of the blue you call
I hang up the phone I lay down in bed your still in my head
I dream you smile I fall
Oh what could this feeling be
Could it really be love that's happening to me oh yeah yeah
The closer you get the harder it is to keep it together
I don't have a chance at all
It's out of my hands oh but what can I do I'm crazy for you
We touch you smile I fall
Oh yeah we touch you smile I fall
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13.
EVERY RIVER
(Kim Richey - Tom Littlefield - Angelo Petraglia)
« © '97 Door Number One Music, BMI »
Once upon a time somewhere in your past
Someone said forever but that promise didn't last
Now you don't believe love is ever true
You steel yourself against the day when I stop loving you
When the day comes that I don't love you every star will fall out of the sky
Every mountain will tumble down every river run dry
For every drop of rain that ever touched the ground
For every tear that ever fell and never made a sound
I'll be there to hear you call
And I'll be there to catch you baby should you ever fall
When the day comes...
[ steel ]
When the day comes...
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14.
SEE JANE DANCE
(Charlie Crowe)
« © '01 Casey Donovan Music, BMI »
It started with a dare at a bar in Sarasota
A spring break party miles from Minnesota
Jane was with her friends to mark a celebration
Phi Beta Kappa for her college graduation
A little pomp and circumstance see Jane dance
The bouncer led the ladies to an open-air cabana
A sea of Coppertone's and Hawaiian Tropicana's
A slew of southern beauties were causin' a commotion
Oilin' up their skin to win a trip across the ocean
Jane had never been to France see Jane dance
[ guitar ]
Yeah she jumped up on the stage and after many margaritas
She took her place in line amongst the tanned senioritis
She tore into a groove and lost her inhibition
Stirrin' up the crowd she blew away the competition
In her leopard underpants see Jane dance
[ guitar ]
Now she drives a Beamer that was bartered for a gig in Barcelona
A Harley that was payment from the bikers in Daytona
She's heavily invested her stock is on the run
Be worth a couple million by the time she's thirty-one
So before you miss your chance see Jane dance
Yeah she'll put ya in a trance see Jane dance
[ guitar ]
Dance dance dance
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