(RCA Victor LSP-3890)
January/1968
Produced by Chet Atkins & Felton Jarvis
Recorded:
Sept/1967, Harrah's Club, Reno
1.
ARE YOU FROM DIXIE
(George L. Cobb - Jack Yellen)
« © '57 Edwin H Morris Co, ASCAP / WB Music, ASCAP »
Hello there neighbor how do you do
There's something I'd like to say of you
You're from my own land my sunny homeland tell me is it true
Are you from Dixie I said from Dixie
Where the fields of cotton beckon to me
Hello how do you feel I'm glad to see you
Here's the friends I waited to see
If you're from Alabama Tennessee or Caroline
Anyplace below that Mason Dixon line
Then you're from Dixie hurray for Dixie cause I'm from Dixie too
Are you from Dixie I said from Dixie...
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2.
THAT'S LIFE
(Kelly Gordon - Dean Thompson)
« © '67 Universal PolyGram Int, ASCAP »
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3.
TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS
(Harry Woods - Jimmy Campbell - Red Connelly)
« © '66 Campbell-Connelly Inc, ASCAP / Robbins Catalog, ASCAP »
She may be weary women do get weary
Wearing that same old shabby dress
But when she's weary try a little tenderness
She may be waiting just anticipating
Things that she may never posses
While she's without them try a little tenderness
Now it's not just sentimental she has her grief and her care
The words they're soft and gentle makes it easier to bear
You won't regret it women don't forget it
Love is their whole happiness
And it's all so easy try a little tenderness
Yes it's all so easy try a little tenderness
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4.
NINE POUND HAMMER
(Merle Travis)
« © '47 Unichappell Music, BMI »
Well that nine pound hammer is a little too heavy
For my size honey for my size
Roll on buddy pull a load o'coal
Now how you gonna roll roll roll when the wheels won't roll
Well it's a long way to Harlem it's a long way to Hazzard
Just to get a little brew my friend get a little brew
And that nine pound hammer it done killed John Henry
It ain't a gonna kill me no siree it ain't gonna kill me
Roll on buddy pull a load o'coal
Now how you gonna roll roll roll when the wheels won't roll
I'm goin' on that mountain I'm gonna see my baby
And I ain't comin' back no siree I ain't comin' back
And when I'm long gone well you can make my tombstone
Out of number nine coal my friend number nine coal
Roll on buddy pull a load o'coal
Now how you gonna roll roll roll when the wheels won't go
Yeah roll on buddy pull a load o'coal
Now how you gonna roll roll roll when them wheels won't go
When them wheels won't go roll on buddy
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5.
WHAT CAN I DO FOR MY COUNTRY
(Stuart Hamblen)
« © '67 Hamblen Music, ASCAP »
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6.
BIG BAD JOHN
(Jimmy Dean)
« © '61 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
(Big John Big John) Big Bad John (Big John)
Every mornin' at the mine you could see him arrive
He stood six foot six and weighed 2-45
Kinda broad at the shoulder and narrow at the hip
And everybody knew you didn't give no lip to Big John
(Big John Big John) Big Bad John (Big John)
Nobody seemed to know where John called home
He just drifted into town and stayed all alone
He didn't say much he kinda quiet and shy
And if you spoke at all you just said hi to Big John
Somebody said he came from New Orleans
Where he got in a fight over a Cajun Queen
And a crashin' blow from a huge right hand
Sent a Louisiana fellow to the Promised Land Big John
(Big John Big John) Big Bad John (Big John)
Then came the day at the bottom of the mine
When a timber cracked and men started cryin'
Miners were prayin' and hearts beat fast
And everybody thought that they'd breathed their last cept John
Through the dust and the smoke of this man made hell
Walked a giant of a man that the miners knew well
Grabbed a saggin' timber and gave out with a groan
And like a giant oak tree he just stood there alone Big John
(Big John Big John) Big Bad John (Big John)
And with all of his strenght he have a mighty shove
Then a miner yelled out there's a light up above
And twenty men screamed from a would be grave
Now there's only one left down there to save Big John
With jacks and timbers they started back down
Then came that rumble way down in the ground
And the smoke and gas belched out of the mine
Everybody knew it way the end of the line for Big John
(Big John Big John) Big Bad John (Big John)
Now they never reopened that worthless pit
They just placed a marbled stand in front of it
These few words're written on that stand
At the bottom of this mine lies a big big man Big John
(Big John Big John) Big Bad John (Big John Big John) Big Bad John
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7.
SWEET MISERY
(Jan Crutchfield - Wayne P. Walker)
« © '66 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
When I'm lonely I think of someone someone I call sweet misery
In her arms I I was in heaven but heaven wasn't meant for me
Oh I still love her oh but I've lost her when she walked out the hurt walked in
Now our love's gone just like an old song that no one ever wants to hear again
I count heartaches that a big fool makes and I think about my sweet misery
To my sorrow each new tomorrow proves there's never been a bigger fool than me
Ah in her arms I I was in heaven but heaven wasn't meant for me
Yeah when I'm lonely I think about someone someone I call sweet misery
Yeah of someone I call sweet misery someone I call sweet misery
Pretty baby of someone I call sweet misery someone I call sweet misery
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8.
Medley:
RAMBLIN' ROSE
(Noel Sherman - Joe Sherman)
« © '62 Erasmus Music, ASCAP »
Ramblin' rose ramblin' rose why you ramble heaven knows
Wild and wind blown that's how you've grown
Who can cling to a ramblin' rose
YOUR CHEATIN' HEART
(Hank Williams)
« © '52 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Your cheatin' heart will make you weep
You'll cry and cry you'll try to sleep
But sleep won't come the whole night through
Your cheatin' heart will tell on you
JAMBALAYA (ON THE BAYOU)
(Hank Williams)
« © '52 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Goodbye Joe me gotta go me oh my oh
Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou
My Yvonne the sweetest one me oh my oh
Son of a gun we're gonna have big fun on the bayou
Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and fillet gumbo
Cause tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher amio
Pick guitar fill fruit jar and be gay-o
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou
I'M SO LONESOME I COULD CRY
(Hank Williams)
« © '49 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Hear the lonesome whippoorwill he sounds too blue to fly
And as I wonder where you are I'm so lonesome I could cry
KING OF THE ROAD
(Roger Miller)
« © '64 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Trailer for sale or rent rooms to left fifty cents
No phone no pool no pets I ain't got no cigarettes
Ah but two hours of pushing broom gets a eight by twelve four bit room
Well I'm a man of means by no means king of the road
King of the road king of the road
TUMBLING TUMBLEWEEDS
(Bob Nolan)
« © '34 Music Of The West, BMI / Unichappell Music, BMI »
See them tumbling down pledging their love to the ground
Lonely but free I'll be found
Drifting along with a tumbling tumbleweeds
Cares of the past are behind nowhere to go but I'll find
Just where the trail will wind
Drifitng along with a tumbling tumbleweeds
I CAN'T STOP LOVING YOU
(Don Gibson)
« © '58 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
I can't stop loving you I've made up my mind
To live in memories of the lonesome times
I can't stop wanting you oh it's useless to say
So I'll just spend my life in dreams of yesterday
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9.
THIS OLE HOUSE
(Stuart Hamblen)
« © '54 Hamblen Music, ASCAP »
This ole house once I knew my children this house once I knew my wife
This ole house was joy and comfort as we fought the storms of life
This ole house once rang with laughter this ole house heard many a shout
Now she trembles in the darkness oh when the lightnin' walks about
I ain't a gonna need this house no longer ain't a gonna need this house no more
Ain't got time to fix the shingles ain't got time to fix the door
Ain't got time to oil the hinges nor to mingle the window panes
Ain't gonna need this house no longer gettin' ready to meet the saints
This ole house is a gettin' shaky this ole house is a gettin' old
This ole house stands in the rain this ole house stands in the cold
Oh my knees are gettin' chilly but I feel no fear or pain
Cause I can see an angel peekin' through a broken window pane
But I ain't a gonna need this house no longer...
Now my old hound dog lies a sleepin' he don't know I'm gonna leave
Else he'd wake up by the fireplace and he'd sit there and gowl and grieve
But my huntin' days are over ain't gonna hunt the coon no more
Gabriel done brought in my chariot when the wind blew down the door
I ain't a gonna need this house no longer...
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10.
OLD TIME RELIGION
(Arthur Q. Smith)
« © '56 Clay Music, BMI »
Give me that old time religion give me that old time religion
Give me that old time religion it's good enough for me
Makes me love everybody makes me love everybody
Makes me love everybody and it's good enough for me
I said give me that old time religion...
It was good for our fathers it was good for our fathers
It was good for our fathers it's good enough for me
I said give me that old time religion...
Makes me love everybody makes me love everybody
Makes me love everybody and it's good enough for me
I said give me that old time religion...
I said give me that old time religion...
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