TIP OF MY FINGERS
(Capitol ST-1972)
August/1963
Produced by Ken Nelson
Recorded:
March/1963, Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood
1.
TIP OF MY FINGERS
(Bill Anderson)
« © '60 Tree Publishing, BMI »
(I had you right on the tip of my fingers)
I reached out my arms and I touched you
With soft words I whispered your name
I had you right on the tips of my fingers
Oh but that was as close as I came
My eyes had a vision of sweet lips
Yeelding beneath my command
I had your love on the tips of my fingers
But I let it slip right through my hands
But I let it slip right through my hands
Somebody took you when I wasn't looking
And I should have known from the start
That it's a long long way from the tips of my fingers
To the love hidden deep in your heart
To the love hidden deep in your heart
I had you right on the tips of my fingers
But I let you slip right through my hands
Yes I let you slip right through my hands
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2.
LET ME TALK TO YOU
(Danny Dill - Don Davis)
« © '55 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
Just one more dance just one more chance so I can talk to you
Don't live too fast forget the past and I will try to prove
I would do anything you ask me to
Don't run around don't turn me down let me talk to you
Don't go too fast with that crowd from your past
That's not the way to win please fall in love again
Give me your heart so I can start to build our life anew
I know you paid so if you're afraid let me talk to you
Don't go too fast with that crowd from your past...
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3.
JOHNNY GOOFED
(Joe Allison)
« © '63 Cental Songs, BMI »
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4.
WE COULD
(Felice Bryant)
« © '55 House Of Bryant, BMI »
(We could we could we could we could you and I)
If anyone could find the joy that true love brings a girl and boy
(We could we could) you and I
If anyone could ever say that their true love was here to stay
(We could we could) you and I
When you're in my arms I know you're happy to be there
And just as long as I'm with you I'm happy anywhere
If anyone could pray each night and thank the Lord that all is right
(We could we could) you and I
When you're in my arms I know...
(We could we could we could we could you and I)
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5.
HE'LL HAVE TO GO
(Joe Allison - Audrey Allison)
« © '59 Central Songs, BMI »
(You'll have to go you'll have to go)
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 got to 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
Do you want me answer yes or no darling I will understand
One more you put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone...
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6.
SILVER THREADS AND GOLDEN NEEDLES
(Jack Rhodes - Dick Reynolds)
« © '56 Central Songs, BMI / Fort Knox Music, BMI / Trio Music, BMI »
I don't want this lonely mansion with a tear in every room
I just want the love you promised beneath the halo'd moon
But you thought you could be happy with my money and my fame
And pretend I wadn't noticed but you played your cheating games
Silver threads and golden needles will not tie your heart to mine
And I'll never drown my sorrows in the warm glow of the wine
I won't buy your love with money for I never was that kind
Silver threads and golden needles cannot tie your heart to mine
[ guitar ]
Silver threads and golden needles...
Silver threads and golden needles cannot tie your heart to mine
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7.
YOU TOOK HER OFF MY HANDS
(Harlan Howard - Wynn Stewart - Skeets McDonald)
« © '56 Cental Songs, BMI »
You took her off my hands when you've stepped in
You changed everything we're not even friends
Don't leave the job half done leave nothing behind
You took her off my hands now please take her off my mind
Please take her photograph ingreat my heart's so blue
And take all her memories she now belongs to you
Don't leave the job half done leave nothing behind
You took her off my hands now please take her off my mind
[ strings ]
Please take her photograph...
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8.
FADED LOVE
(Bob Wills - John Wills)
« © '51 Anne Rachel Music, ASCAP »
(I remember our faded love)
As I look at the letter that you wrote to me
It's you it's you I'm thinking of
As I read the lines that to me were so sweet
I remember our faded love
I miss you darling more and more every day
As heaven would miss the stars above
And with every heartbeat I still think of you
And remember our faded love
I think of the past and all the pleasures we've had
As I watch the mating of the dove
It was in the springtime that you said goodbye
I remember our faded love
I miss you darling more and more every day...
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9.
SALLY WAS A GOOD OLE GIRL
(Harlan Howard)
« © '63 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Sally used to carry my books to school
Sally was a good ole girl
She helped me with my homework for I was a fool
Sally was a good ole girl
And if I wanted a kiss or a little bitty squeeze
She was always willing to do her best to please
Girls were made to love and not made to tease
Sally was a good ole girl
Sally was a good ole girl Sally was a good ole girl
No matter what the request she gave it her best
Sally was a good ole girl
Now her folks were poor but she helped all she could
Sally was a good ole girl
She was the hardest working girl in the whole neighborhood
Sally was a good ole girl
As she walked up and down the streets all day
Sellin' neck ties to the one's who'd pay
But if you couldn't pay for them then she would give 'em away
Sally was a good ole girl
Sally was a good ole girl Sally was a good ole girl...
[ piano ]
Sally was a favorite with all of the men
Sally was a good ole girl
And all the other girls despised her then
But Sally was a good ole girl
All the women worried bout her but Sally didn't care
She kept on a workin' and a doin' her share
She wound up married to a millionare
Sally was a good ole girl
Well Sally was a good ole girl Sally was a good ole girl...
Well Sally was a good ole girl Sally was a good ole girl...
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10.
THINGS I MIGHT HAVE BEEN
(Robert B. Sherman - Richard M. Sherman)
« © '52 Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
I might have been a hopeless soul with nothing much in store
I might have been without a gold just dreams and nothing more
I might have known a life alone but that's where you came in
Your loving arms have saved me from the things I might have been
I might have been a kind who roams a stranger everywhere
Or one of those for stay at homes with no one's lips to share
Oh but your sweet kiss has changed all this and made my life begin
Keep loving me don't ever let me be the things I might have been
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11.
IF THAT'S THE FASHION
(Tommy Collins)
« © '54 Cental Songs, BMI »
Each day there's someone who pays for another's mistake
The guilty go free while the heart of the innocent break
You brag that you cheat or I'd never believe it was so
But if that's the fashion then leave me to sorrow and go
I vowed to my heart I'd be true dear when we came one
You took the same vow and shame those who cheated for fun
Now you see no glamor in love that is faithful and true
And if that's the fashion it's the kind of love I never knew
(I thought your young heart would settle and wanted just one
I was so wrong but it's hard to undo what is done)
I guess as time changes the cycle of life changes too
So if that's the fashion be gay for life owes it to you
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12.
SPOOKY MOVIES
(Steve Stone)
« © '63 Cental Songs, BMI »
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