THE LAST BLUES SONG
(Capitol ST-11211)
1973
Produced by Joe Allison
Harold Bradley - guitar/leader
Pete Wade, Ray Edenton - guitar
Weldon Myrick - steel
Bob Moore - bass
Buddy Harman - drums
Hargus Pig Robbins - piano
Buddy Spicher, Johnny Gimble - fiddle
Charlie McCoy - harmonica
Recorded: June/1973, Jack Clement Recording Studio, Nashville
1.
LAST BLUES SONG
(Cynthia Weil - Barry Mann)
« © '73 Screen Gems Music, BMI / Summer Hill Songs, BMI »
I've been cryin' and my-oh-myin' since she's been gone
But I've done some thinkin' and it's startin' to sink in that life goes on
So if you're somebody who's feelin' sorry for yourself better sing along
Cause this is gonna be the last blues song
Now a little bitty bit of self pity can really sing
But it keeps on growin' and you know woe-woe-in' don't change a thing
So if you're a person who's hooked on hurtin' on yourself better sing along
Cause this is gonna be the last blues song
Woe woe woe woe woe woe woe woe my oh my
Yea yea yea yea yea yea yea yea I'm fit to die
Baby baby baby baby please don't go
Mama I think I'm gettin' high on feelin' low woe woe woe woe woe
So all you losers and full time blues-ers get out of bed
Don't you go and give in don't you give up on livin' before you're dead
Come on now brother if you've been motherin' yourself better sing along
Cause this is gonna be this is gonna be the last blues song
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2.
GET ON BOARD MY WAGON
(Ray Griff)
« © '73 Helene Blue Musique, ASCAP »
Get on board my wagon won't you sit up here beside me
Share with me the future look tomorrow in the eye
Trust in me completely and believe in what I'm doin'
Hold on to me tightly it won't be no easy ride
There'll be dust and gravel nearly everywhere we travel
There'll be rocky roads and bridges that you'll wish you'd never seen
Face my trials with me say those things I need to live me
Get on board my wagon and I'll take you to my dreams
Get on board my wagon there's an empty place next to me
I know of no others that I'd rather have been used
Keep the wheels in motion when my fate begins to wonder
Show me where to go when I start wonderin' what to do
There'll be times of pleasure there'll be moments that we'll treasure
There'll be quiet days when life is like a meadow grassy green
Stay with me forever and we'll drive along together
Get on board my wagon and I'll take you to my dreams
Get on board my wagon and I'll take you to my dreams
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3.
ROOM FULL OF ROSES
(Tim Spencer)
« © '49 Unichappell Music, BMI »
If I sent a rose to you for every time you made me blue
You'd have a room full of roses
If I sent a rose of white for every time I cried all night
You'd have a room full of roses
And if you took the petals and you tore them all apart
You'd be tearing at the roses just the way you tore my heart
And if someday you're feeling blue and you could send some roses too
Well I don't want a room full of roses I just want my arms full of you
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4.
COUNTRY SOUL
(Robert C. Griggs)
« © '73 Daydan Music, ASCAP »
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5.
SWINGING PREACHER
(Vaughn Horton)
« © '71 Southern Music, ASCAP »
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6.
COUNTRY MUSIC MAN
(Joe Bob Barnhill)
« © '73 Daval Music, ASCAP / Song Maker, ASCAP »
I'm a hard drinkin' love givin' hardly goin' good time livin'
Girl chasin' No 1 dirty ol' man
I'm a hell raisin' shim kickin' honky tonkin' guitar pickin'
Songs singin' country music man
Guitar pickin' country music is my game
Singin' all the old favorite songs you can to name
Me and my old guitar make a one man band
Songs singin' guitar pickin' country music is my game
[ guitar ]
Guitar pickin' country music is my game...
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7.
BORN IN COUNTRY MUSIC (RAISED ON DIXIELAND)
(Dave Kirby - Glenn Martin)
« © '73 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Born in Mississippi raised in New Orleans
Cotton fields and paddle wheels is all I'vr ever seen
Mama played the banjo daddy was a trombone man
Born in country music raised on Dixieland
Born with country music in my soul
But my feet walked Bourbon Street when I was twelve years old
Now I'm meetin' dirty rice and country ham
Born in country music raised on Dixieland
[ guitar + fiddle ]
When daddy sold the farm he sold my mama's dreams
But a lot of luck and a pickup truck moved just to New Orleans
It wasn't long my dad was known as a big time trombone man
Born in country music raised on Dixieland
Born with country music in my soul...
Born in country music raised on Dixieland
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8.
LAZY BONES
(Johnny Mercer - Hoagy Carmichael)
« © '55 Johnny Mercer Foundation, ASCAP / PSO Limited, ASCAP / Song Of Peer, ASCAP »
Lazy bones sleepin' in the sun
How you spect to get your day's work done
You never get your day's work done
Sleepin' in the noon day sun
Lazy bones sleepin' in the shade
How you spect to get your cornmeal made
You never get no cornmeal made
Sleepin' in that noon day shade
When taters need sprayin' I'll bet you keep prayin'
The bugs fall off of the vine
And when you go fishin' I'll bet you keep wishin'
Them fish don't bite at your line
Yeah lazy bones loafin' through the day
How you spect to make a dime that way
You'll never make no dime that way
Well I declare you never heard a word I say
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9.
BEEN THERE PEOPLE
(Harlan Sanders - Tommy Stephens)
« © '73 House Of Cash, BMI »
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10.
OLD BOB BURTON
(Corky Bennett - Lee Solomon)
« © '73 Dimensional Songs Of The Knoll, BMI / Maverick Music, BMI »
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