NEW SPIRIT
(Monument MG-7619)
1978
Produced by Fred Foster
1.
TAKE MY LOVE TO RITA
(Mack Vickery - Tony Mayberry)
« © '78 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Take my love to Rita tell her that much I need her
Why I couldn't meet her like we planned
Tell her that I'm sorry tell her that I'll call her
As soon as I can slip away again
A second hand relation is such a situation anytime
When the one at home is on your back
And the one you love is always on your mind
It's one or the other your wife or your lover
And you're only as safe as your last line
I know that she'd be better if I'd stay away forever
I've just got to see her one more time
Take my love to Rita tell her that much I need her...
[ trumpet ]
It's not so satisfyin' when you had to keep on lyin' all the time
And you know your chance of gettin' caught
Just keeps on gettin' greater all the time
It's one or the other your wife or your lover
And either way the price is always high
I know that she'd be better if I'd stay away forever
I've just got to see her one more time
Take my love to Rita tell her that much I need her...
(Take my love to Tommy tell him that I need him
And ask him why he didn't keep out there
Tell him that I'm sorry please ask him to call me
As soon as he can slip away again)
Take my love to Rita tell her that much I need her...
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2.
WE FINALLY GOT IT RIGHT
(Bob McDill)
« © '78 Ranger Bob Music, ASCAP / Universal PolyGram Int, ASCAP »
Looking back you and I remember all the times
We thought our love was dying
But even then breaking up we'd find just enough
To turn around and keep on trying
And this time I think we're gonna make it
This time is strong enough we can shake it
Hold me close and never let me go
Make forever always like tonight
(You and I we took a long long time)
But oh I think we finally got it right
[ dobro ]
Thinking back we both know we could have let it go
Once or twice we almost did it
But it's love in the end that makes you try again
And you keep on trying till you get it
And this time we've got it all together
This time we're gonna make it last forever
Hold me close and never let me go...
Oh I think we finally got it right
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3.
COWBOY AND THE LADY
(Peggy Jean Russell)
« © '78 Clancy Music, BMI »
She said any other time she never whould have picked me up but I looked lonely
I was standing in the pouring rain with my abeat-up guitar strapped across my back
She said she never did this kind of thing except for this time only
I told her I was glad because I'd never been inside a Cadillac
It didn't take her long to make me feel that I was more than just a cowboy
Cause looking at her moved me more than touchin' any girl I'd ever known
Said she couldn't help comparin' me to all those richer men she'd tried to care for
And Lord she had a smile that made me feel like I was fin'ly comin' home
Oh the cowboy and the lady ain't the kind of folks you usually see together
The velvet and the English lace and sort of faded jeans and leather
(I like your leather)
But once inside each other's arms the difference makes no difference anymore
Cause the cowboy and the lady found the feeling the whole world's looking for
She told me she had friends that tried to tell her what a big mistake she's making
They said I was a drifter just looking for a nice warm place to sleep
But she decided lovin' me was worth more than the chances she was taking
And when she kissed me I could feel the earth began to move beneath my feet
Oh the cowboy and the lady...
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4.
DON'T GIVE UP ON ME
(Larry McCoy)
« © '78 House Of Cash, BMI »
I heard you call my name dear Lord
Thank you for forgivin' me my shame dear Lord
But I'm still not the man that you want me to be
But please Lord just don't give up on me
Draw me closer to your side each day
Oh lead me and guide me along my way
Reveal to me the things I must see
But please Lord just don't give up on me
Oh oh oh the devil knows he knows I'm weak
And he's always in the talkin' Lord when you're trying to speak
Help me carry a word across this great land
I need the strenght and power I get from the touch of your precious hand
Help me break the devil's chains and set my wicked soul free
But please Lord just don't give up on me
Oh no no no no please Lord just don't give up on me
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5.
LADY I LOVE YOU
(Tommy Cash)
« © '78 Tomcat Music, BMI »
Lady I love you I really love you I want you to spend your life with me
Lady I love you no one's above you I need your love to make my life complete
Life's too short to live it lonely the road of life's too hard to walk alone
So take my hand and walk it with me don't look back and just be movin' on
Lady I love you I really love you...
[ steel ]
We find true love peace and happiness we wouldn't trade that for all the best
A wordly pleasures gold and treasures so stand beside me your sweet love guides me
Lady I love you I really love you...
I need your love to make my life complete
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6.
SIX WHITE HORSES
(Larry Murray)
« © '59 Prodigal Son Music, BMI »
Mhm some folks drink and some folks smoke
And some folks love and some folks don't
Some folks laugh and some folks frown
Folks heal then they gun you down
Goodbye John six white horses come to take you home
Goodbye John they took you away before you sang your song hmm
Some preach wrong and some preach right
And some preach love and some preach fight
Takes every kind to make this world go round takes one to gun you down
Goodbye Martin six white horses come to take you home
Goodbye Reverend they took you away before you sang your song hmm
Some people stick pretty close to home
Others are born with that urge to roam
Welcome welcome to our town hope nobody tries to gun you down
Goodbye Bobby six white horses come to take you home
Goodbye Robert they took you away before you sang your song hmm
Goodbye John and goodbye Martin and goodbye Bobby
Well they took you away before you sang your song
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7.
TAKE ME IN
(Michael Garvin - Blake Mevis)
« © '78 Songs Of Universal, BMI »
Well it's all been said and done she made her choice and he's the one
And like the blues I'm back again I need a friend take me in
Take me in your arms sweet lady hold me tight make it right
Only your sweet love can save me take me in take me in
So many times you've been a comfort to my soul
Time after time I took the love you gave for granted but now I know
You're the one who always cared I'll make it up to you I swear
If you can only try again oh say you can take me in
Take me in your arms sweet lady...
Take me in your arms sweet lady...
Take me in please take me in
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8.
LOT OF CATCHING UP TO DO
(Ben Peters)
« © '78 Ben Peters Music, BMI »
Put a do not disturbs sign outside the door
Take the phone off the hook dim the lights
Let your thin nylon night gown fall to the floor
We got a lot of catching up to do tonight
That old cold lonesome hard line was so far away
But you've been on my mind though out of sight
And this moment is all I have thought of each day
We got a lot of catching up to do tonight
If there's one memory burning so warm in my mind
It's the mem'ry of holding you tight
There's the one thing we never should left get behind
We got a lot of catching up to do tonight
If there's one memory burning...
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9.
IN-CROWD
(Jerry McBee - Fred Lehner)
« © '77 Royal Oak Music, ASCAP »
It's five o'clock and one more working day is finally at an end
I hurry from my job and start my car light the traffic once again
And drivin' down the interstate my tension eases as the traffic fence
Now I lay my worries far behind and wonder what the in-crowd might be doin'
Farther down the road a pretty woman's waitin' with a drink for me
And there's a lotta woman there and pretty soon that's where I'm gonna be
I'm the only one that's missin' I'm the only one the in-crowd's waitin' for
As I drive around the back I leave my car and open up the door
And there stands the in-crowd and they're not a sin-crowd
There's a part of my life-crowd my kids-and-my-wife-crowd
She hands me my coffee and the kids gather round me
And it makes me so proud to be in with the in-crowd
Oh I love the in-crowd and they're not a sin-crowd
They're the light of my life-crowd my kids-and-my-wife-crowd
She hands me my coffee the kids gather round me
And it makes me so proud to be in with the in-crowd
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10.
LITTLE MORE TIME
(Harlan Howard)
« © '70 Tree Publishing, BMI »
(With only a little more time a little more time)
Every once in a while there's someone whose life is like a comet
Flashin' across the sky
Men with great talent with things to tell us
And it seems like all too soon those kinds seem to die
Now Stephen Foster was one of these gifted people
He's down to earth songs turned the whole world on
But then like most people who are sent here on a mission
All too soon young Stephen was gone
A little more time a little more time
Oh the songs he might have wrote pretty words and pretty notes
With only a little more time
Another man I feel was sent here on a mission was John F Kennedy
A man loved and respected I guess by just about everybody
And I suppose we were all guilty of takin' him for granted
His love for humanity and the fine things that he done
Now he wanted this to be a better world
But all too soon this great man died
And as we gathered around our radios that afternoon
The whole world stopped a little while and it cried
A little more time a little more time
So much to do so little done but the victory's he might have won
With only a little more time
And looking back down the pages of hist'ry
The greatest influence for good there ever was was Jesus
And his spite of all the obstacles in his way
Look at the legacy of hope that you gave us
And as I look around me at those who live by his teachings
And bless the day of his birth
I can't help but feel this woRld be a whole lot better world
If he could have spent a little more time here on this earth
A little more time a little more time
Peace on earth might really be today if only he
Had just spent a little more time
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