RODNEY CROWELL
JEWEL OF THE SOUTH
(MCA 11223)
1995
Produced by Tony Brown & Rodney Crowell
Kenny Vaughan, Billy Joe Walker, John Jorgenson, Albert Lee - el.guitar
Steuart Smith, Richard Bennett, Hank DeVito
Tommy Spurlock - steel
Michael Rhodes, Alison Prestwood, Willie Weeks - bass
Eddie Bayers, Kenny Aronoff, Mike Clarke - drums
Matt Rollings, Steve Nathan, Barry Beckett, Tim Lauer, Michael Utley - piano/keyboards
Bela Fleck - banjo
Charlie McCoy - harmonica
Mike Haynes - trumpet
Jim Horn - sax
Vocals:
Rosemary Butler, Max Carl, Claudia Church, Kim Fleming, Vince Gill, Mark Luna,
Raul Malo, Bill Owsley, Carmella Ramsey, Kim Richey, Chris Rodriguez
1.
SAY YOU LOVE ME
(Rodney Crowell)
« © '95 Sony Tunes, ASCAP »
I've been up all night and the night before my teeth are dirty my eyes are sore
There was good time had by all accounts we've been drinking to you in tall amounts
I guess we had a little trouble in the hotel bar
Some hometown bubba went a little too far
He said he don't like Catholics he don't like Jews
He don't like me and he don't like you
Say you love me say you need me say you want me don't disappoint me
(Say it say it say it say it)
I've got ten good years left in my legs some day baby I won't have to beg
The first thing to go is not your mind you have known that for a long long time
You've got the Irish eyes and the Irish lips from your head down to your fingertips
Poetry in your kiss and your hand poetry anywhere that you stand
Come on and say you love me say you need me say you want me don't disappoint me
(Say it say it say it say it)
[ guitar ]
Speak your mind darlin' state your case baby
Lay it on the line sugar cut to the chase maybe
Say it in your own words don't be proud
If it's something that you want to get heard
You've got to say it to me right out loud
(Say it say it say it say it)
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2.
CANDY MAN
(Baverly Ross - Frederick Neil)
« © '62 Unihappell Music, BMI / Little A Music, BMI »
Come on baby let me take you by the hand
Come on sugar let me take you by the hand
You're for me let me be all your own candy candy your candy man
Well come on baby I love your honey lovin' ways
Hey there sweet thing I love your honey lovin' honey lovin' ways
Oh come to me let me be all your own candy candy your candy man
[ harmonica ]
Come on woman I'm gonna treat you right I'll give you candy kisses every single night
(Candy man your candy man your candy man your candy man)
Oh come to me let me be all your own candy candy your candy man
Yeah candy candy candy I got the sweet sweet things for you
Yeah candy candy candy I got the sweet sweet things for you
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3.
PLEASE REMEMBER ME
(Rodney Crowell - Will Jennings)
« © '89 Sony Tunes, ASCAP / Blue Sky Rider Songs, BMI / Irving Music, BMI »
When all our tears have reached the sea a part of you will live in me
Way down inside my heart
The days keep coming without fail a new wind's gonna find your sail
And that's where your journeys start
You'll find better love strong as it ever was
Deep as a river runs warm as the morning sun
Please remember me
Just like the waves down by the shore we're gonna keep on coming back for more
Cause we don't ever want to stop
Out in this brave new world you seek oh the valleys and the peaks
I can see you on the top
You'll find better love strong as it ever was
Deep as a river runs warm as the morning sun
Please remember me
Remember me when you're out walking when snow falls high outside your door
Late at night when you're not sleeping and moonlight falls across your floor
When I can't hurt you anymore
You'll find better love...
Please remember me
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4.
BALLAD OF POSSUM POTEZ
(Rodney Crowell)
« © '95 Sony Tunes, ASCAP »
Dayton Texas rodeo Possum Potez stole the show
Way back in 1968 the night he rode ol' Pearly Gates
It was a spinning bucking ton of death and everybody held their breath
Possum rode him to a draw it was the best bull ride I ever saw
Possum Possum where are you no one rides bulls like you used to
They haul you off in the ambulance and you show up later at the victory dance
Possun Possum get back home we ain't had no fun since you've been gone
With your two pack habit and a six pack buzz you're the best that there ever was
You're the best that there ever was
Two lone black top highway flyin' that's ol' possum I ain't lyin'
Eight track tape deck Blasting Jones Ernest Tubb and The Rolling Stones
In the beer joints and down by the bucking shoots
The cowgirls swore that he was so cute
They just love the way that he cocked his hat Possum had it all down pat
Possum Possum where are you...
You're the best that there ever was
[ guitar ]
Ah rainbow cafe all jokes aside the day ol' Possum like to died
Some sweet thing flashed him a blue eyed grin made ol' Possum's style kick in
A jealous cowboy all drunk and wired pulled a pistol and a bullet fired
Blood was shed out in the parking lot but it was not Possum wound up shot
Possum Possum where are you...
You're the best that there ever was you're the best that there ever was
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5.
THINKING ABOUT LEAVING
(Rodney Crowell)
« © '95 Sony Tunes, ASCAP »
I use to think that love was something meant to tie me down
All I ever wanted was a guitar and another town
Ten years disappear so fast when you're strung out on the highwire lines
I've been thinking about leaving long enough to change my mind
I lie here in your bed watching raindrops on your window pane
Sometimes I get to feeling like ain't nothing ever gonna change
Ramona you've been good to me you're a woman very hard to find
I've been thinking about leaving long enough to change my mind
Sometimes I miss the bright lights sometimes I miss the crowd
Sometimes I miss the women sometimes the music loud
Sometimes I miss that world out there so cold hard and unkind
I've been thinking about leaving long enough to change my mind
[ guitar - steel ]
Sometimes I miss the bright lights sometimes I miss the noise
Sometimes I miss the women sometimes the good old boys
Sometimes I miss that world out there so cold hard and unkind
And I've been thinking about leaving long enough to change my mind
Yeah I've been thinking about leaving long enough to change my mind
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6.
LADDER OF LOVE
(Rodney Crowell - Lee Roy Parnell)
« © '95 Songs Of PolyGram, BMI / Lee Roy Parnell, Music, BMI »
I'm tired of running I'm tired of hiding
I'm sick of keeping this thing inside
I'm gonna let it all go on the ladder of love
I'm going up ain't coming down
I'm gettin' off of this merry-go-round
I'm giving up the battle on the ladder of love
Well I ain't gonna worry bout tomorrow right now
I'm climbing that ladder of love somehow
I'm gonna find my way it's gonna be okay
I don't need a doctor tellin' me how I feel
Don't need a lawyer to get a better deal
There ain't nobody out to get you on the ladder of love
[ guitar - steel ]
Well I ain't gonna worry bout tomorrow no more
I'm climbing that ladder up to heaven's door
I'm gonna walk right in and tell 'em how I've been
I'm tired of running I'm tired of hiding
I'm sick of keeping this thing inside
I'm gonna let it unravel on the ladder of love
I'm giving up the battle on the ladder of love
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7.
JUST SAY YES
(Rodney Crowell - Keith Sykes)
« © '95 Bro'n Sis Music, BMI / Keith Sykes Music, BMI »
I'm not in some corner tonight wasting my time
I'm not at the end of the bar out of my mind
I've been down on my luck for sure
But I'm not down on myself no more
If you'll open up the door I'll do all the rest
I'm not gonna tell you I've changed what would that change
I'm not gonna try to explain what I can't explain
I can't change the past it's true the future now depends on you
Sot open up and I'll come through I swear I'll pass the test
Just say yes just say yes
Just say yes and I'll show you what I'm made of
Every strength and weakness I possess
Take a chance on me you have my guarantee
I'll build my world around your happiness
I'm not gonna offer excuses I treated you badly
Giving up would only be useles cause I love you madly
I'm sorry for the things I did the way I ran away and hid
And if you open up the lid I can get it off my chest
Just say yes just say yes
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8.
STORM OF LOVE
(Harlan Howard - Buck Owens)
« © '63 Tree Publishing, BMI »
There's a storm of a love a brewin' now I'm losin' you
And nothin' that I do can make you stay
When you love me too my skies were always blue
But now the storm of love is on its way
Everybody thought that we were perfect you and me
We'd always be together for eternity
But the forecast wasn't quite the way it seemed to be
And the cloudy sky is all that I can see
There's a storm of a love...
[ steel ]
Like a leaf in the wind that's my destiny without you I see only misery
Yesterday the weather changed now you brew cold to me
And now a cloudy sky is all that I can see
There's a storm of a love...
[ steel ]
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9.
LOVE TO BURN
(Rodney Crowell - Will Jennings - Hank DeVito)
« © '95 Blue Sky Rider Songs, BMI / Warner-Tamerlane Publishing, BMI »
You know I love you baby you know I need you too
The life I lead is all I need to make my dreams come true
It was a July night in Houston when first I felt your heat
Girl you look so fine in that jukebox line that I forgot I had two left feet
You know I want you baby you know I need you so
The love you make gives me the shakes from my head down to my toes
Your love is something smoking your love is something hot
When I feel the storm rolling in your arms I'm gonna give you everything I've got
Every beat of your heart is like a bolt of blue lightning
You heat up the night like a hot summer wind
The taste of your lips just sets me on fire
Everywhere I turn got love to burn again
[ guitar ]
I love to please you baby and smell your sweet perfume
The way you walk and the way you talk just keeps me on the moon
Your love is high explosive there's dynamite in blue jeans
Anytime you choose to light that fuse you're gonna blow us all to smithereens
Every beat of your heart...
Everywhere I turn got love to burn again
Everywhere I turn got love to burn again
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10.
JEWEL OF THE SOUTH
(Rodney Crowell)
« © '95 Sony Tunes, ASCAP »
One fine morning when the wild geese fly
I'm taking my chances on the sunny side
I'm headed down south where the grass grows tall
Where the mockingbirds singing and the whippoorwill calls
Spanish moss on the Natchez Trace gulf wind blowing wide across my face
French girls dancing to a big bang drum back down south where I come from
Where the river flows like warm molases rain fogs up my reading glasses
Honey suckle strong enough to curl your hair back down there
One fine morning gonna pull up stakes
I'm gonna chalk it all up as just a baf mistake
Gonna hit the decks runnin' bid a fond farewell
By the time I get to Memphis I'll be outta my shell
Cottonfields just as white as snow sweet magnolia blossoms grow
Big moon shinin' like an ice cream cone back down south where I belong
Where the river flows like milk and honey
The nights are slow and the eggs are runny
I wouldn't mind sittin' in a rocking chair back down there
Jewel of the south cross my heart shut my mouth
Come the morning I'll be home in the sweet Delta dawn
[ guitar ]
One fine morning and it won't be long
I'm leaving put early with my glad rags on
I'm gonna pull a load of wool off of my own two eyes
And sharpen my senses countin' railroad ties
When the mile long trestle makes a clickity-clack
The whole dang town is gonna welcome me back
Ticket to the land of the sugar cane back down on the Ponchartrain
Where the river flows like a grand marinier
Sweet olive takes my breath away
Sunday morning walkin' on the Jackson Square back down there
Jewel of the south cross my heart shut my mouth
Come the morning I'll be home in the sweet Delta dawn
Come the morning I'll be home in the sweet Delta dawn
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