DEAN'S LIST
(Columbia CS-9677)
July/1968
Produced by Don Law & Frank Jones
Recorded at Columbia Studio, Nashville
1.
MONEY MARBLES AND CHALK
(Pop Eckler)
« © '49 Fort Knox Music, BMI / Trio Music, BMI »
Money marbles and chalk sweetheart
But I still feel like I'm poor
Cause my money won't spend and my marbles won't roll
And my chalk it don't ride anymore
Now there's an old saying that's been all around I heard it before I could walk
How some's got health and some's got wealth others money marbles and chalk
Money marbles and chalk sweetheart...
While you were near me I was happy and gay your presence made me feel so proud
But now that you left me it's a lonely old world and I feel I'm alone in a crowd
Money marbles and chalk sweetheart...
Now the money and marbles and chalk are just fine for a miser who loves only gold
But just give me a chance to say our romance cause I love you with all of my soul
Money marbles and chalk sweetheart...
(Now everybody) money marbles...
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2.
MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS
(Hank Williams)
« © '49 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
If the wife and I are fussin' brother that's our right
Cause me and that sweet woman's got a licence to fight
Why don't you mind your own business (mind your own business)
I said mind your own business (mind your own business)
If you mind your own business then you won't be mindin' mine
Now the woman on our party line's a nosey thing
She picks up her receiver when she knows it's my ring
Why don't you mind your own business (mind your own business)
Hey mind your own business (mind your own business)
I said if you mind your own business then you won't be mindin' mine
[ harmonica ]
Well I got a little gal that wears her hair up high
The fellers all whistle when she walks by
Why don't you mind your own business (mind your own business)
Yeah mind your own business (mind your own business)
Oh if you mind your own business then you won't be mindin' mine
If I wanna honky tonkin' round till two or three
Brother that's my headache don't you worry bout me
Why don't you mind your own business (mind your own business)
Hey mind your own business (mind your own business)
I said if you mind your own business then you won't be mindin' mine
[ organ ]
Well I tell a lot of stories that may not be true
But I can get to heaven just as quick as you
So mind your own business (mind your own business)
Hey mind your own business (mind your own business)
Cause if you mind your own business then you won't be mindin' mine
Mindin' other people's business seems to be hightone
But I got all that I can do just midin' my own
Why don't you mind your own business (mind your own business)
Hey mind your own business (mind your own business)
If you mind your own business then you won't be mindin' mine
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3.
TALK TO ME BABY
(Paul Anka)
« © '58 Chrysalis Standards, BMI »
Talk to me baby tell me what's on your mind
Please tell me baby if you'd be so kind
To tell me your problems and what I can do
To show you baby that I'm so in love with you
Are yesterday's kisses still on your mind of a love that used to be
I know that my lips they're not his lips but they can be your lips
If you just hold to me
Just talk to me baby tell me what I can do
To show you baby that I'm so in love with you
(Tell me you love tell you care)
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4.
ABILENE
(John D. Loudermilk)
« © '63 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Abilene Abilene prettiest town that I've ever seen
The women there don't treat you mean in Abilene my Abilene
Old empty boxcars standin' all alone
The wheels're all rusted boys so we'd home
But what I have to do till I get back to Abilene
(Abilene) that's my home (Abilene) my home sweet home
(Prettiest town that I've ever seen
The women there won't treat you mean in Abilene my Abilene)
I've been to Chicago San Francisco too
Old New York City none of them will do
I'm just a waitin' till I get to Abilene (my Abilene)
Abilene Abilene...
No women there won't treat you mean in Abilene (my Abilene)
The women there won't treat you mean in Abilene (my Abilene)
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5.
BACK HOME AGAIN IN INDIANA
(Ballard McDonald - James F. Hanley)
« © '17 Quartet Music, ASCAP / Range Road Music, ASCAP / Shapiro-Bernstein Co, ASCAP »
Back home again in Indiana oh it seems that I can see
That gleaming candlelight still burning bright
Through the sycamores for me
That new mown hay sends all its fragrance
From the fields I used to roam
Oh I dream about the moonlight on the Wabash
Then I long for my Indiana home
Back home again in Indiana oh it seems that I can see
That gleaming candlelight still flickering bright
Through the sycamores for me
Lotsa mown hay sends all its fragrance
From the fields I used to roam
When I dream about the moonlight on the Wabash
And I long for my Indiana home
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6.
DAY THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
(Wayne P. Walker - Irene Stanton - Jimmy Dean)
« © '62 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
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7.
THUMB PICK PETE
(Jimmy Dean)
« © '68 Plainview Diner Music, BMI »
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8.
NORTH SOUTH EAST OR WEST
(Harlan Howard)
« © '68 Tree Publishing, BMI »
North south east or west where can I forget her best
North south east or west which way should I go
Lord I just don't know
They say that Maine is beautiful and so is old Vermount
But beauty makes me think of her and that's not what I want
I've heard that California sun makes living seem worthwhile
But sunshine makes me think about the way she used to smile
North south east or west...
[ ac.uitar ]
They tell me Pennsicola Bay has sand that's snowy white
But I think about your soft white skin and yearn to hold you tight
I've heard that northern Canada gets forty five below
But cold would make me think about the love I wanted so
North south east or west...
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9.
GIVE ME BACK MY HEART
(Paul Anka)
« © '61 Chrysalis Standards, BMI »
Give me back my heart my love it's the only thing I own
Without it deep inside of me I'm lost and so alone
I understand just how you feel why we've had to part
Understand me like I do you give me back my heart
Now that all is over and you'd found somebody new
There is just one favor I would ask of you
Just as once be good to me before the teardrops start
I beg of you my darling give me back my heart
Give me back my heart my love...
I remember how we loved and all the plans we made
But like the evening sunset all my dreams must fade
I remember oh so well it seems like yesterday
But now that all is over there's something I must say
Just give me back my heart my love...
Give me back my heart
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10.
BACK IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD
(Al Johnson - Billy Rose - Dave Dreyer)
« © '27 Bourne Co, ASCAP / Larry Spier Inc, ASCAP »
That bird with feathers of blue is waiting for you
Back in your own backyard
You'll see your castles in Spain through your window pane
Back in your own backyard
Oh you can go to the East or go to the West
But someday you'll come
Weary at heart back where you started from
You'll find your happiness lies right under your eyes
Back in your own backyard
That bird with feathers of blue...
Yeah you can go to the East or go to the West...
Go to the West
But someday you'll come
Weary at heart
Back where you started from
You'll find your happiness lies
Right under your eyes
Back in your own backyard
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11.
TO A SLEEPING BEAUTY
(Larry Markes)
« © '61 Songsmiths Co, ASCAP »
Dear daughter I tiptoed to your room tonight
And I looked down at you smiling in your sleep
You were so lovely my heart nearly broke
And I thought how very much like sleeping beauty a little girl is
When I tuck you in at night I never know how old you'll be when you wake
One evening you crawl on your dad's lap and throw your arms around his neck
The next morning you might be much too grownup for that sort of thing
You're so quickly approachin' my awkward age
Too young to drive a car and yet too old to be carried
Into the house half asleep on daddy's shoulder
I have a secret that I've never told you Sleeping Beauty
You're going on a very exciting trip
You'll travel from yesterday all the way to tomorrow
It's a rapid journey and you'll travel light
Leavin' behind your measles mumps freckles bumps bubblegum and me
I promise not to feel too hurt when you discover
That the world is more important than your daddy's lap
Yesterday you were blue-jeaned and pig-tailed the neighborhood's best tree-climber
Tomorrow you'll be blue-organdie and ponny-tailed
And you'll view the world from a loftier perch a pair of high-heel shoes
Yesterday you could mend a doll's broken leg with a hug
Tomorrow you'll be able to break a young man's heart with a kiss
Ha ha yesterday you could get lost one aisle away from me in a supermarket
Now I have to worry about losin' you down another aisle to some strange young man
You see just at the point where your growing pains stop mine begin
Yesterday you were kind of a pain in the neck when you were around
Tomorrow you'll be an ache in my heart when you're not
Tomorrow you'll lay aside your jumprope and tie up the telephone lines
And that little boy that used to push you in the mud
Well he'll fight to set out a dance with you
The clock upstairs is countin' the minutes for you
And the sky upstairs is savin' its brightest stars
And the sun is waitin' with its shinest day
Oh I can't expect you to live in a dollhouse forever
Sooner or later the butterfly sheds its cocoon and the smallest bird must try its wings
But when you grow up and out of my arms when you finally get too big for my shirts
I'll still recall how you used to scatter dust and dolls
And partially through every room in the house but you spread sunshine too
The dust is settled your mom picked up the dolls
But the sunshine will always fill the corners of our hearts
So here I am talkin' in your sleep
Because well if you saw this look on my face you'd laugh
And if I spoke with this lump in my throat I'd cry
Yeah honey when I looked at you tonight you were a Sleeping Beauty
So I tiptoed over and I kissed you you didn't wake up I knew you wouldn't
According to the legend only the handsome young prince can open your eyes
And I'm just the father of a future bride
So you sleep on pretty thing tomorrow you'll awake and you'll be a young lady
And you won't even realize that you've changed courses in the middle of a dream
But you might notice this little change in me
I look a little different somehow a little sadder a little wiser but a whole lot richer
Tonight I kissed a princess and I feel like a king
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