lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

ODE TO A CRITTER

(Red Lane - Larry Henley) « © '72 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Today I met a fish who was standin' on my front porch
Clappin' his clipper on my door
And he said do you mind if I live a while at your house
Cause I can't live in the waters anymore

Now I also met a bird who was chockin' through my window
And he darn near passed out on the floor
And he said do you mind if I'd stay a while at your house
Cause I can't stay in the air anymore

I dedicate this song to the folks who brought us dark and dirty waters
And to the ones who keep on throwin' all that filty black smoke in the air
And I also dedicate it to the bird and fish who now live here at my house
Cause they can't live out there anymore

Now I also met a cow who was standin' in my kitchen
Opening my refrigerator door
And she said do you mind if I fix myself a sandwich
Cause I can't live on the grass anymore

I dedicate this song to the folks who brough us dark and dirty waters
And to the ones who keep on throwin' all that filty black smoke in the air
And I also dedicate it to me and all the critters here at my house
Cause we can't live out there anymore
No we can't live out there anymore
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2.

KISS AN ANGEL GOOD MORNIN'

(Ben Peters) « © '71 Ben Peters Music, BMI »
Whenever I chance to meet some old friends on the street
They wonder how does a man get to be this a way
I've always got a smilin' face any time and any place
And everytime they ask me why I just smile and say

You've got to kiss an angel good mornin'
And let her know you think about her when you're gone
Kiss an angel good mornin'
And love her like a devil when you get back home

Well people may try to guess the secret of a happiness
But some of them never learn it's a simple thing
The secret I'm a speaking of is a woman and a man in love
And the answer is in this song that I always sing

You've got to kiss an angel good mornin'...
You've got to kiss an angel good mornin'...
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3.

CAROLYN

(Tommy Collins) « © '71 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Carolyn let me tell you what I heard bout a man today
He didn't come home from work and he went away
Till he came to a city bright in a night time like day
There they say he met up with some women dressed in yellow and scarlet
Their warm lips like a honeycomb dripped with honey
And something about the smell of strange perfume
Made him feel warm and not alone

Yes Carolyn a man will do that sometimes on his own
And sometimes when he's lonely
And I believe a man might do that sometimes out of spite
But Carolyn a man will do that always
When he's treated bad at home
[ guitar ] Yes Carolyn a man will do that sometimes on his own...
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4.

FAMILY MAN

(Shirl Milete) « © '72 Unichappell Music, BMI / Last Straw Music, BMI »
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5.

HE'LL HAVE TO GO

(Joe Allison - Audrey Allison) « © '59 Central Songs, BMI »
Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone
Let's pretend that we're together all alone
I'll tell the man to turn the jukebox way down low
And you can tell your friend there with you he'll have to go

Whisper to me tell me do you love me true
Or is he holding you the way I do
Though love is blind make up your mind I've gotta know
Should I hang up or will you tell him he'll have to go

You can't say the words I wanna hear while you're with another man
If you want me answer yes or no darling I will understand

Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone...
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6.

SHE'S ALL I GOT

(Gary Bonds - Jerry Williams) « © '71 Embassy Music, BMI / Jerry Williams Music, BMI / Music Force, BMI »
Friend don't take her she's all I got
Please don't take her love away from me
I'm a beggin' you friend don't take her she's all I got
She's everything in life I'll ever need

She is life when I wanna live
She's everything to me in life that life can give
She's my water when I need to drink
She's the first thought in my mind each time I try to think

I'm asking you friend don't take her she's all I got...

She's my fingers when I wanna feel
The only thing in life to me that's really real
She is love she's all the love I know
She can kiss the ground in the wintertime
And make the flowers grow

Yes I'm asking you friend don't take her she's all I got...

Listen to me now friend don't take her she's all I got
Friend don't take her she's all I got
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7.

DARBY'S CASTLE

(Kris Kristofferson) « © '69 Careers Music, BMI »
See the ruin 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 blacken stones
And the roof that fell before the beans 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 soul obsession

Oh it took three hundred days for the timbers to be raised
And the siluet 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 as he laid his pencil down
And 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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8.

LORD LET IT RAIN

(Jay Ramsey) « © '72 Surety Songs, BMI »
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9.

WHEN THE WIND BLOWS IN CHICAGO

(Scott Turner - Audie Murphy) « © '64 Irving Music, BMI »
Well here I am in Chicago
All alone near the place where we met
As I walk through the rain the wind whispers your name
Oh why won't it let me forget

Cause when the wind blows I get lonely
And one this for sure you will behind
That the wind always blows in Chicago
And I'm lonely most all of the time

Folks look so happy here on State Street
They don't know that our love's not the same
I'm alone in the crowd with my hopes in the clouds
Cause the wind just whispers your name

When the wind blows I get lonely...
[ steel ] So I'm saying goodbye to Chicago
I'm gonna catch me a lonely old train
And I hope I hope it'll go where the wind doesn't blow
Or at least in don't whisper your name

Cause when the wind blows I get lonely...
Why must that wind always blow
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10.

I'LL TAKE THE TIME

(Hank Cochran) « © '72 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Sometime when all the time in the world is mine
I'll take the time to forget you
When I've run course and took my toll
In a minute the life have made me old
I'll take the time to forget you

But right now I wanna sit down and remember how things used to be
When your heart and your eyes were so full of me
Sometime when all the time in the world is mine
I'll take the time to forget you

But right now I wanna sit down...
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11.

DOZEN PAIRS OF BOOTS

(Red Steagall) « © '71 Texas Red Songs, BMI »
Looks everywhere I go always get myself in trouble
Cause the girls I pick on ain't the saintest kind
And I wind up running barefoot through everything but clover
Cause the neck I value most of all is mine

That's why I left the blue shirt hanging on the bed post in Seattle
My Levi's float on San Francisco Bay
And I left the Stetson hanging in the hallway down in Dallas
And a dozen pairs of boots along the way

Now Betty was a sweet thing I was courtin' in Seattle
She swore to me she was nobody's wife
So how was I to know she had a friend big as Dallas
And I traded one good shirt for one good life

That's why I left the blue shirt hanging...
[ guitar ] Now Susie had a big yacht we anchored in the harbor
She swore she was alone at least today
But when he climbed aboard I swam for shore praying I could get there
Lost the Levi's while I made my get-a-way

That's why I left the blue shirt hanging...
That's why I left the blue shirt hanging...
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