lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

OUT BEHIND THE BARN

(Boudleaux Bryant)
« © '54 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
My pappy used to tan my hide out behind the barn
He taught me to be dignified out behind the barn
When he took his strap to me turned me down across his knee
He sure did hurt my dignity out behind the barn

I smoked my first cigarette out behind the barn
Now that's one day I won't forget out behind the barn
I got sick you should have seen how that tobacco turned me green
I almost died from nicotine out behind the barn

I got my education out behind the barn
I ain't foolin' no siree
Passed each examination out behind the barn
And it almost made a wreck out of me
[ steel ] I met a pretty girl one day out behind the barn
She wanted me to stay and play out behind the barn
She taught me to kiss and pet that's a game I won't forget
We still play the same game yet out behind the barn

I sure would like to go again out behind the barn
And do some things that I did then out behind the barn
You may think it ain't no fun to be a poor old farmer's son
You just don't know what all I've done out behind the barn

I got my education out behind the barn...
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2.

IT'S ME THAT HURTS THE MOST

(Kent Westberry)
« © '61 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
The cup on the table was the last to feel your lips
The telephone was the last thing to touch your fingertips
But I was the last one that your arms held so close
Of all the things you left here it's me that hurts the most
[ steel ] The curtains in the window were the last to wave goodbye
The old clock on the mental it knows it's time to cry
The walls echo your footsteps in the night just like a ghost
Of all the things you left here it's me that hurts the most
[ piano ] The mirror in the parlor had the last look in your eyes
The flowers were the last to wether up and die
But I'm still the last one that your arms held so close
Of all the things you left here it's me that hurts the most
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3.

NIGHT TRAIN TO MEMPHIS

(Beasley Smith - Marvin Hughes - Owen Bradley)
« © '42 Peer International, BMI »
Take that night train to Memphis take that night train to Memphis
And when you arrive at the station
I'll be right there to meet you I'll be right there to greet you
So don't turn down my invitation

Hallelujah hallelujah
I'll be shoutin' hallelujah all the day
Oh we'll have a jubilee down in Memphis Tennessee
And we'll shout hallelujah all the day
[ steel ] Take that night train to Memphis take that night train to Memphis
You know how I'm longing to see you
Leave that 3-50-7 and arive at eleven
And then I'll be shoutin' hallelujah

Hallelujah hallelujah...
[ fiddle ] Take that night train to Memphis take that night train to Memphis
Tell engineer to pull a trottle open
Keep that engine stack a smokin' I'm not kiddin' I'm not jokin'
I'll soon be with my gal I'm hopin'

Hallelujah hallelujah...
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4.

I'M MAKING LOVE TO A STRANGER

(Boudleaux Bryant)
« © '53 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
I'm making love to a stranger
Everytime I hold you close to me
I'm making love to a stranger
You're not the same ole you you used to be

Although you pretend you still love me
Your tale tell eyes admit you've been untrue
So I'm making love to a stranger
Everytime that I make love to you
[ fiddle ] You still caress me and kiss me
But you don't have that old familiar fire
When I'm away if you miss me
I know it's more from habit than desire

You're giving your heart to another
And though you let me hold you tenderly
I'm making love to a stranger
A stranger to a love that used to be
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5.

SLOWLY

(Webb Pierce - Tommy Hill)
« © '52 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
Slowly I'm falling more in love with you
Slowly you're winning a heart that can be true
Now I can't hide my feelings for it's so plain and true
Slowly I'm falling more in love with you
[ fiddle - steel ] More and more I need you and want you by my side
More and more I love you as each day passes by
No need to hide my feelings for it's so plain and true
Slowly I'm falling more in love with you
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6.

WHOLE WORLD SEEMS DIFFERENT

(Jimmy Dickens - Donald Trobridge)
« © '61 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
It's the same old street in the same old town
The same old places where we hung around
The same old corner that I once lingered on
The whole world seems different to me since you're gone

It's the same old crowd that we used to know
The same old Mary and the same old Joe
The same old places where we danced until dawn
The whole world seems different to me since you're gone

Lonesome old house by the railroad track
That's me startin' wonder why I ever came back
The house is so dark and filled with gloom
Your faded old picture still hangs in my room
Memories haunt me they go on and on
The whole world seems different to me since you're gone
[ steel ] Lonesome old house by the railroad track...
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7.

HONKY TONK TROUBLES

(Wayne P. Walker - Irene Stanton)
« © '62 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI / Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
I got honky tonk troubles every payday
Money's gone I don't know where it went
I got honky tonk troubles every payday
I can't get home with more than fifty cents

I work all week and take my lunch tryin' to save a dime
I don't know why I bother anymore
Friday finally rolls around and I get my takehome pay
But I just can't get by that tavern door

I got honky tonk troubles every payday...

Groceries due the kids need shoes they ain't had none since June
And they wear hand me downs at Christmas time
The wife I took's the wife I got but she's still good and true
Though I nearly make her lose her mind

With my honky tonk troubles every payday...
[ fiddle ] Grandpa died and how I cried until they read the will
And I found out just what he left to me
The only all night place in town that never closes down
I found out he owned it secretly

I got honky tonk troubles every payday
Wish I'd took the wife and kids and headed south
I got honky tonk troubles every payday
All my buddies want a drink upon the house
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8.

VIOLET AND A ROSE

(Mel Tillis - Bud Auge - John Reinfield)
« © '58 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
A violet fell in love with a rose
And started it flashing from its head to its toe
Then one day the rose was kissed by the dew
A new love was born and the violet turned blue

Roses are red violets are blue
I'm sending red red roses to you
If you care to send some flowers to me
Then send me some violets I'm blue as can be
[ fiddle ] I wanted my love to bouquet with you
But just like the rose you've proven untrue
A flower that's wild they say has no home
And just like the violet I'm left all alone

Roses are red violets are blue...
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9.

TWENTY CIGARETTES

(Mel Tillis - Buck Peddy)
« © '61 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
Now when I was a young boy I remember back
I stole twenty cigarettes I just hadn't to have a pack
But they caught me done in Georgia and they put me on the gang
All for a pack of cigarettes I've got a number for my name

Twenty cigarettes was my ruin
I guess that I was too young to see
Stealin' cigarettes was my wrong doin'
One little pack of weeds made a jailbird out of me
[ fiddle - steel ] I figured it all out I got a hundred days a puff
If I'd've known my destiny I'd a started dippin' snuff
Cause here I am in Georgia in my prison cell I sit
I ain't got a cigarette and I'm about to have a fit

Twenty cigarettes was my ruin...
[ guitar ] Twenty cigarettes was my ruin...
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10.

STRING ERASER AND BLOTTER

(Shorty Long - John Speca)
« © '61 Mamy Music, BMI »
Send me string to tie up my broken heart
My broken heart it's all apart
And eraser to help me erase all the years
And a blotter to soak up my tears

Send me my pictures my letters my ring
And a note saying that we are through
You don't want no more that's all that you wrote
Now I need something else from you

Send me string to tie up my broken heart...
[ steel ] The pictures you sent me are faded and torn
Like our love they are things of the past
All the letters I burn them and as far as the ring
I would trade it and here's all I ask

Send me string to tie up my broken heart...
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11.

BEFORE I MET YOU

(Charles L. Seitz - Joe Lewis - Elmar Rader)
« © '55 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
I thought I had seen pretty girls in my time
But that was before I met you
I never saw one that I wanted for mine
But that was before I met you

I thought I was swinging the world by the tail
I thought I could never be blue
I thought I'd been kissed and I thought I'd been loved
But that was before I met you
[ fiddle ] I wanted to ramble and always be free
But that was before I met you
I said that no woman could ever hold me
But that was before I met you

I thought I was swinging the world by the tail...
[ steel ] They tell me I must reap just what I have sown
But darling I hope it's not true
For once I made plans about living alone
But that was before I met you

I thought I was swinging the world by the tail...
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12.

BEST YEARS OF YOUR LIFE

(Keith Lloyd)
« © '58 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
You say your heart is broken that my love was just a token
You say this parting cut you like a knife
But if you let it grieve you your youth would surely leave you
Cause these should be the best years of your life

I know it won't be easy cause your memories are busy
And yet you're still too young for all this strife
So let me tell you like a brother go on out and find another
And these will be the best years of your life
[ steel ] You say the taste is bitter because you love a quitter
But I'm not free to take you for my wife
You're lucky that it's over how somehow you recover
And these will be the best years of your life

I know it won't be easy...
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