lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

HOW TO CATCH AN AFRICAN SKEETER ALIVE

(Dallas Frazier) « © '68 Husky Music, BMI / Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Friends Romans country men lend your ears to my jive
I'm a gonna tell you how to catch an African skeeter alive
You go down to the wilds of Afriki where a jack rabbit packs his lunch
And you'll find him up in a coconut tree goin' munch munch munch munch

Your skeeter catching stuff in clues a cigar ten years old
A great big sack full of hand grenades and a hundred feet of rope
Your gonna need a twelve pound hammer and a helmet made of steel
And a rabbits foot to bring you luck so you won't come home killed

That's what you do and I sure ain't talking no jive
That's what you do if you wanna learn how to catch an African skeeter alive

And now you take your hand grenades and you creep on your tippy tippy toes
And you sling 'em up and you run for cover and you watch them coconuts flow
When the vegetation quits a flyin' it's time for you to move in
And now you can see the whiskers on that skeeters chinny chin chin

And now you take the striperd match and light your cigar up
And you huff and puff and blow that smoke till you get the hiccy hiccy cups
That cigar smoke will make that skeeter's brain start spinning round
Finally he gets real drunk and groggy and he flip flops to the ground

That's what you do and I sure ain't talking no jive
That's what you do if you wanna learn how to catch an African skeeter alive

And now you take your twelve pound hammer and bounce up on his back
And you bash in between his shoulder blades till he turns blue and black
Don't worry about that twelve pound hammer beating that skeeter to death
This just gets his attention and makes him hunt for his breath

And now you've got him all set up to tie up with your rope
You tie a granny knot a hoose knot a navy knot a wing ding a what knot
Be cautious with that skeeter that skeeter ain't no fool
Work hard and save your money and join the skeeter catching school

That's what you do and I sure ain't talking no jive
That's what you do if you wanna learn how to catch an African skeeter alive
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2.

SOMEDAY YOU'LL CALL MY NAME

(Jean Branch - Eddie Hill) « © '53 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Someday you'll call my name and I won't answer
Someday you'll reach for me I won't be there
For you've grown tired of all the love I gave you
But someday you'll wish that I still care

All through the years oh how I've loved you
And you know I claimed you for my own
Someday you'll call my name and I won't answer
For someday you'll find yourself alone
[ steel ] There'll come a time within your life dear
When you'll need somebody who will care
Someday you'll call my name and I won't answer
For someday you'll find I won't be there
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3.

RELEASE ME (AND LET ME LOVE AGAIN)

(Eddie Miller - W.S. Stevenson - Robert Yount) « © '54 Roschelle Publishing, BMI / Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Please release me let me go I don't love you anymore
To live together is a sin release and let me love again

For I have found a new love dear
And I'll always want her near
Her lips are warm while yours are cold
Release me darling let me go
[ fiddle - steel ] Please release me let me go...
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4.

MAKING BELIEVE

(Jimmy Work) « © '54 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Making believe that you still love me
It's leaving me alone and so blue
I'll always dream still I'll never own you
Making believe that's all I can do

I can't hold you close darlin' when you're not with me
You're somebody's love you'll never be mine
I'm making believe I'll spend my lifetime
Loving you and making believe
[ steel ] I can't hold you close...
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5.

WABASH CANNONBALL

(A.P. Carter - William Kindt) « © '46 Peer International »
From the great Atlantic ocean to the wide Pacific shore
She glides along the woodland and the hills and by the shore
From the green and flowery mountains where the wrippling waters fall
She's a regular combination called the Wabash Cannonball

Listen to the jingle the rumble and the roar
As she glides along the woodland the hills and by the shore
From the green and flowery mountains where the wrippling waters fall
No changes can be taken on the Wabash Cannonball
[ steel ] She came down from Birmingham one cold December day
As she rolled into the station you could hear the people say
Yeah she's the gal from Tennessee she's long and she's tall
And she came into the Birmingham on the Wabash Cannonball

Listen to the jingle the rumble and the roar
As she glides along the woodland the hills and by the shore
Hear the mighty rush of the engine hear the lonesome hobo call
She's a travelin' through the jungle on the Wabash Cannonball
[ guitar ] Our eastern states are dandy so all the western people say
From New York to St Louis and Chicago by the way
From the hills of Minnesotta where the wrippling waters fall
She's a regular combination called the Wabash Cannonball

Listen to the jingle the rumble and the roar
As she glides along the woodland the hills and by the shore
Hear the mighty rush of the engine hear the lonesome hobo call
She's a travein' through the jungle on the Wabash Cannonball
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6.

WE COULD

(Felice Bryant) « © '55 House Of Bryant, BMI »
If anyone could find the joy that true love brings a girl and boy
We could we could you and I
If anyone could ever say their true love was here to stay
We could we could you and I

When you're in my arms I know you're happy to be there
And just as long as I'm with you I'm happy anywhere
If anyone could pray each night to thank the Lord that all is right
We could we could you and I
[ guitar - steel ] When you're in my arms...
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7.

THEY'VE STOLE MY STEEL GUITAR

(Larry Kingston) « © '68 Careers Music, BMI »
Now I'm a guitar picker musician is my trade
A full fledged union member Lord knows where all I've played
The other day I left my things in the trunk of my old car
Would you believe some dirty dog stole my steel guitar

It's just an old used show bud for which I've saved and scraped
I bought it second handed from a cat who's name was Drake
I loved it like a woman and I cherished every war
I'd have killed a man whose sticky hands lept on my steel guitar

I babied every peddle and polished them each day
For I had the only show bud in Poat Oak out away
I was king of all the women they wrote from near and far
But the mail has sure been dropping off since they stole my steel guitar

It's just an old used show bud for which I've saved and scraped
I bought it second handed from a cat who's name was Drake
I loved it like a woman and I cherished every war
I'd have killed a man whose sticky hands lept on my steel guitar

I can sound like Roy Wiggins Don Helms and Jerry Byrd
I can make it sing forever and never slur a word
And when I played like Emmons it nearly caught on fire
And I can't play know hot licks now they stole my steel guitar

It's just an old used show bud for which I've saved and scraped
I bought it second handed from a cat who's name was Drake
I loved it like a woman and I cherished every war
And I'd have killed a man whos sticky hands lept on my steel guitar
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8.

WHEN A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME

(Roger Miller) « © '60 Tree Publishing, BMI »
I walk up to my door and hate to turn the key
Emptiness is all that waits inside for me
That's how it is when the one you love is gone
That's how it is when your house is not a home
[ guitar ] I look around and see things marked his and hers
Little things like this just make things that much worse
That's how it is when you live your life alone
That's how it is when your house is not a home
[ guitar ] Is there a way up for soul so torn as mine
Each day I live I'm like a prisoner passin' time
That's how it is ask any man who lives alone
That's how it is when your house is not a home
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9.

WALKING THE FLOOR OVER YOU

(Ernest Tubb) « © '41 Unichappell Music, BMI »
You left me and you went away
You said that you'd be back in just a day
You've broken your promise and you left me here alone
I don't know why you did dear but I do know that you're gone

I'm walking the floor over you
I can't sleep a wink that is true
I'm hoping and I'm praying as my heart breaks right in two
I'm walking the floor over you
[ steel - fiddle ] Now someday you may be lonesome too
Walking the floor is good for you
Keep right on a walking and it won't hurt your pride
Remember that I love you and I will until I die

I'm walking the floor over you...
[ piano - guitar ] I'm walking the floor over you...
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10.

LONELY PEOPLE

(Dee Moeller) « © '68 Tree Publishing, BMI »
I could see it in your eyes when you look at me
I could feel it across the room
You'd fight for heaven and just didn't make it
I understand it I miss it too

Lonely people find lonely people
Misery needs company
Lonely people find lonely people
I can't give much but it you want me
You can have what's left of me
[ steel ] Lonely people find lonely people...
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11.

CAN YOU BUILD YOUR HOUSE (ON ANOTHER MAN'S GRAVE)

(Mel Tillis) « © '68 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
I know you can take her if you want her
For she's always been temptation's slave
But will you be happy when you won her
When you build your house on another man's grave

So if you have a good sight I'm appealing
In your hands you've got my life to take or save
Your victory maybe sweet for the moment
Can you you build your house on another man's grave
[ fiddle - steel ] There's been so many others just like you
Who didn't want a girl just what she gave
So before you take her be sure your conscience
Will let you build your house on another man's grave

So if you have a good sight...
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