AMERICA I BELIEVE IN YOU
(Liberry 80477) '93
April/1993
Produced by Jimmy Bowen
Charlie Daniels - vocal/guitar
Bruce Ray Brown - guitar/vocals
Charlie Hayward - bass
Jack Gavin - drums/percussion
Joel Taz DiGregorio - piano/keyboards
Carolyn Corlew - vocals
1.
ALL NIGHT LONG
(Charlie Daniels - Jack Gavin - Charlie Hayward - Taz DiGregorio - Bruce Brown)
« © '93 Songs Of Universal, BMI / Miss Hazel Music, BMI »
Well the party started early bout a quarter till three
Just a few close friends and my baby and me
We just got started when somebody asked
How long you think this party's goin' to last
We said all night long all night long
We'll be rockin' we'll be rollin' goin' to boogie woogie all night long
Well the next door neighbors started raisin' a fuss
Said you had a party and didn't call us
I said put on your dancin' shoes and come along
We'll be here till the cows come home
And that's all night long said all night long
We'll be rockin' we'll be rollin' goin' to boogie woogie all night long
[ keyboards ]
Well they're jumpin' through the windows sneaking down the halls
Dancing on the ceilin' dancin' on the wall
The last thing I remember before the lights went out
I jumped up on the table and I started to shout
I said all night long all night long
We'll be rockin' we'll be rollin' goin' to boogie woogie all night long
[ guitar ]
I said all night long all night long I said all night long all night long
I said all night long all night long I mean all night long all night long
We'll be rocking we'll be rolling going to boogie woogie all night
Yeah I said all night long honey all night long
Dancing all night long I said all night long
We'll be rockin' we'll be rollin' goin' to boogie woogie all night long
I said all night long I said all night long
I said all night long rockin' all night long
We'll be rockin' we'll be rollin' goin' to boogie woogie all night long
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2.
TROUBLES OF MY OWN
(Charlie Daniels - Jack Gavin - Charlie Hayward - Taz DiGregorio - Bruce Brown)
« © '93 Songs Of Universal, BMI / Miss Hazel Music, BMI »
I was mindin' my business the other day just jukin' on down the street
When I seen this perfect stranger and he come slidin' up next to me
He said friend my old lady just threw me out and why I just don't know
But it ain't no joke cause I'm hungry and broke I got no place to go
I gave him my last twenty dollar bill and told him to go on home
And leave me alone
I don't want nobody whinin' at me I don't need nobody moanin' to me
I don't want nobody cryin' on me I've got troubles of my own
Well I went on down to this joint in town and found somethin' I didn't expect
I was having a ball when the door flew open and who walked in but my ex
She said your alimony payments' way behind it's six months over due
And if you don't straighten this out right now I'm gonna call the law to you
I said baby you'd better remember every dog's gonna have his day
And I just want to say
I don't want nobody whinin' at me...
[ keyboards ]
The cops came through the front door and I went out the back
And I caught me a ride on a west bound freight train rollin' down the railroad track
I went on out to east St Louis and looked up this old friend of mine
I said I need a place to lay my head and brother I ain't got a dime
He said you'd better get on outta here hoy and he pulled out a gun
And I started to run
I don't want nobody whinin' at me...
[ guitar ]
I don't want nobody whinin' at me...
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3.
TENNESSEE TWO STEP
(Charlie Daniels - Jack Gavin - Charlie Hayward - Taz DiGregorio - Bruce Brown)
« © '93 Songs Of Universal, BMI / Miss Hazel Music, BMI »
There's a dance they do down in Tennessee
It's just as simple as one two three
The old folks do it and the young folks too
Your little brother Billy and your old Aunt Sue
It's just a hillbilly rhythm with a touch of the blues
It ain't nothin' but a simple little country song
Keep movin' to the music and you can't go wrong
Do the Tennessee two step all night long
They do it down in Memphis on a Saturday night
And them folks in Chattanooga think it's outta sight
Down in Music City it's all the rage
They do it on the Grand Old Opry stage
Even heard them talkin' bout it on Crook and Chase
They say it even makes the Smoky Mountains smoke
Like wildfire spreadin' everywhere you go
And it's a Tennessee two step they do it on a hardwood floor
I said the Tennessee two step one time you're gonna holler for more
You put your right foot forward and your left foot back
Start a little wiggle in your sacroiliac
And that's a Tennessee two step they do it on a hardwood floor
From the Mississippi River to the Cumberland Gap
They don't want to hear no rock any they don't want to hear no rap
Tennessee people like to do it up proud
They turn the lights down low the music up loud
Grab yourself a partner and follow the crowd
Everybody's smilin' cause they're feeling fine
Get yoursell together in a big long line
To a Tennessee two step they do it on a hardwood floor
I said the Tennessee two step one time you're gonna holler for more
You put your right foot forward...
[ guitar ]
They say it even makes the Smoky Mountains smoke...
You put your right foot forward...
I said a Tennessee two step they do it on a hardwood floor
I said do it on a hardwood floor
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4.
GIRL NEXT DOOR
(Charlie Daniels - Jack Gavin - Charlie Hayward - Taz DiGregorio - Bruce Brown)
« © '93 Songs Of Universal, BMI / Miss Hazel Music, BMI »
Almost all of my life every day and every night
The only thing that I could think of
Was doing all I could do to find me a true blue
A foxy little lady to love
I looked uptown downtown looking all around town
Searching and trying so hard
Looking for the right face but looking in the wrong place
I should have looked in my back yard
Cause I found everything I was a looking for
When I fell in love with the pretty little girl next door
She went away to cellege to get herself some knowledge
She just got back a month ago
She had changed a whole lot I found out she was not
That little girl I used to know
As little freckled faced tomboy who used to make a lot of noise
Running around the neighborhood
Was sitting on the front porch in a pair of short shorts
And buddy she was looking good
I got what I want I'll never ask for more
When I fell in love with the pretty little girl next door
We're gonna move way out to a little biddy town
Where the living is nice and slow
Where they ain't got nothing but a general store
One street and a picture show
I hope we have a little boy gonna be my pride and joy
Raise him by the golden rule
Watch him while he grows tall fishing poles and football
Apple pie and Sunday school
So goodbye bright lights single bars and wild nights
Goodbye all you partying girls
You can't find what I've got in honky tonks and night spots
And I wouldn't trade it for the world
Tell the boys at the hideaway I hope they had a nice day
Tell them all I said goodbye
I would've dropped around but I'm going out of town
And besides I've got a ring to buy
So long old friend I'm headed out the door
With my blue eyed ever loving pretty little girl next door the girl next door
I got all I want I'll never ask for more
When I fell in love with the pretty little girl next door I said the girl next door
I'm talking bout the girl that foxy little girl that pretty little girl next door
I'm talking bout the girl that foxy little girl that pretty little girl next door
I'm talking bout the girl that foxy little girl that pretty little girl next door
I'm talking bout the girl that foxy little girl that pretty little girl next door
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5.
AMERICA I BELIEVE IN YOU
(Charlie Daniels - Jack Gavin - Charlie Hayward - Taz DiGregorio - Bruce Brown)
« © '93 Songs Of Universal, BMI / Miss Hazel Music, BMI »
We got some trouble in our own backyard
Things are kinda tough things are kinda hard
Got a lot of people living out in the street
And people going hungry without nothing to eat
And in this land of plenty this shouldn't be going on
We've got enough for everybody we're just gonna pass it along
Well I'm glad about to fall the comunism I'm glad about to the Berlin Wall
And I love to see the tyrants bitin' the dust in fact I'm glad about it all
And I believe in helping everybody but when it comes to all them foreign loans
I thing we ought to remember that charity begins at home yes it starts right here
In America America hey I know the sun is rising on a better day
America America yeah yeah we got the power and we know the way
America America well let me say a few words about the red white and blue
America America well I know you're gonna do it I believe in you
[ guitar ]
Now I've been tryin' to figure this out
But there's somethin' that I just don't know
How can you make things better when you take our jobs
And send them down to Mexico
And then there was a big shot from the land of the risin' sun
He said the workin' people in America were lazy and dumb
Let me tell you something Jack
The next time I go on a shopping trip and take somethin' off the rack
If it don't say made in USA I'm just gonna put it back
We can't leave it to the politicians cause they don't do nothing but talk
And it's we the people that's goin' to have to walk the walk
And we can do it right now
In America America...
We got the best dang farmers in the whole wide world
The fastest horses and the prettiest girls
Got the Army and the Navy Air Force and Marines
The mightiest fighting force the world's ever seen
We're the kinda people that can get things done
We're serving notice that we're still No 1
We got the nerve we got the will
We'll all get it together cause you know that we are still
In America America...
In America America...
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6.
OH JUANITA
(Charlie Daniels - Jack Gavin - Charlie Hayward - Taz DiGregorio - Bruce Brown)
« © '93 Songs Of Universal, BMI / Miss Hazel Music, BMI »
Oh Juanita you sure do make a country boy feel fine
Oh Juanita I think about you almost all the time
I'm gonna keep on buzzing around you girl
Like a king bee around a honeysucle vine
Oh Juanita I just can't stand to let you outta my sight
Oh Juanita I dream about you near bout every night
When you put your arms around my neck
You make me know everything's gonna be alright
It's gonna be alright
Your mama thinks I'm lazy and no good
She sure don't like me hanging around
Your daddy thinks I'm crazy and if he could
He'd run me right on outta town
But he can't cause I'm gonna stay here with my
Oh Juanita you know I ain't gonna ever let you down
Oh Juanita I can't believe this happiness I've found
You keep me bout half crazy girl
Well you're enough to make a bulldog hug a hound
[ guitar ]
But he can't cause I'm gonna stay here with my
Oh Juanita you sure do make a country boy feel fine...
Well you keep me about half crazy girl
You're enough to make a bulldog hug a hound
Oh Juanita oh Juanita oh Juanita
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7.
SWEET LITTLE COUNTRY GIRL
(Charlie Daniels - Jack Gavin - Charlie Hayward - Taz DiGregorio - Bruce Brown)
« © '93 Songs Of Universal, BMI / Miss Hazel Music, BMI »
Well I've got me a sweet little country girl
She's across between a diamond and a pearl
There ain't nobody like my sweet little country girl
She's a little bitty booger she just stands about five feet tall
She hails from Dixie and she talks with a southern drawl
I just love to hear her when she says good morning y'all
Sweet little country girl the apple of my eye
Sweet little country girl I'll love her till the day I die
She's got country in her soul but she loves to rock and roll
Well she's sure double tough and I can't get enough
Of my sweet little country girl
[ piano ]
Now don't think she's slow cause she lives out on the rural route
She's a hip little lady and she knows what it's all about
And if there's somethin' happenin' she don't mind checking it out
Sweet little country girl the apple of my eye...
[ guitar ]
Sweet little country girl the apple of my eye...
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8.
ALLEY CAT
(Charlie Daniels - Jack Gavin - Charlie Hayward - Taz DiGregorio - Bruce Brown)
« © '93 Songs Of Universal, BMI / Miss Hazel Music, BMI »
Every night downtown on the streets of the city
When the midnight hour is comin' on
You'll see her come slinkin' down the alley in a tight dress
She'll walk them streets till the break of dawn
Well she'll slip away fore the sun starts rising
When the daylight comes she's gonna be long gone
Don't you ever come down here looking for trouble
Cause trouble is the ladies' middle name
You may think you're bad but let me tell you somethin'
There ain't no way you're gonna play her game
She'll make you feel like a fool with a hole in your pocket
Like you've been run over by a choo choo train
She purrs and she growls and she rambles and she prowls
And she's evil and she's mean like a misery machine
She's a little bit of this and a whole lot of that like an alley cat
Better stay away from the midnight lady
She'll leave you standing on the corner with a mess of the blues
She's an accident looking for a place to happen
She'll make you an offer that you can't refuse
If she ever gets them claws into you
She'll turn you every which a way but loose
And she purrs and she growls...
[ guitar ]
Well she purrs and she growls...
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9.
WHAT YOU GONNA DO ABOUT ME
(Charlie Daniels - Jack Gavin - Charlie Hayward - Taz DiGregorio - Bruce Brown)
« © '93 Songs Of Universal, BMI / Miss Hazel Music, BMI »
You told me that your honky tonking days were through
But you came in this morning at a quarter till two
Oh baby what you gonna do about me
You said that fling with Johnny was a one night stand
How come I seen him sitting with you holding your hand
Oh baby what you gonna do about me
What you gonna do about me
How come you treat me like an old hound dog
I feel as helpless as a knot on a log
And you ain't got no sympathy for me
I ain't telling no lie
You sure know how to make a grown man cry
Oh oh baby what you gonna do about me
I let you use my car you said it's just for a day
But you stayed gone a month and turned up out in LA
Oh baby what you gonna do about me
I said I've had enough I'm gonna take back my ring
Then I found out that you'd done gone and pawned the thing
Oh baby what you gonna do about me
What you gonna do about me
That's something that you'd better think about
One of these days you're gonna wear me out
And you'll be sorry wait and see wait and see
There's gonna come a time
You'll realize a good man's hard to find
Oh oh baby what you gonna do about me
[ guitar ]
Oh oh baby what you gonna do about me
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10.
SAN MIGUEL
(Charlie Daniels - Jack Gavin - Charlie Hayward - Taz DiGregorio - Bruce Brown)
« © '93 Songs Of Universal, BMI / Miss Hazel Music, BMI »
Down near the village of old San Miguel
In a far away place by the sea
Lived Maria Consuela Manuel
A lady of high born degree
And she was sixteen a proud woman child
And I was a cowboy rambunctious and wild
But we fell in love by the tall mission bell
That stands in the village of old San Miguel
Her father was master of all he surveyed
As rich as a king on his throne
When he found out about us he flew into a rage
And told me to leave her alone
He threatened my life and told all his man
This gringo must never see Maria again
But I found a way and I sent her a note
And I still remember all the words that I wrote
Meet me Maria in the cool of the evening
We'll slip away into the night
We'll cross the border at Nuevo Laredo
And together we'll start a new life
There's nothing here but heartaches and tears
And I don't even feel like a man
I'll saddle the horses and wait by the old Spanish trail
We'll leave our troubles behind us in old San Miguel
She slipped out of the shadows and into my arms
As the clock in the village struck ten
We crept through the alleys to the north side of town
And rode into the night like the wind
A full moon was shinin' the desert was still
Then I saw the vacaros ridin' over the hill
The rifle shots rang out the horses went down
And I saw Maria lyin' still on the ground
I knew the bullets had been meant for me
And the riders were comin' on fast
As I held her I knew by the look in her eyes
That she'd soon be breathin' her last
I whispered a prayer to heaven above
Cause the good Lord has mercy on people in love
Then she closed her eyes forever more
Via condios adios mi amore
Meet me Maria in the cool of the evening
We'll fly away into the night
We'll drift through the sky to sweet by and by
And together we'll find a new life
There's nothing here but heartaches and tears
And I don't even feel like a man
Wait in the moon light just over the old Spanish trail
We'll leave our troubles below us in old San Miguel
[ keyboards - guitar ]
Meet me Maria in the cool of the evening...
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