lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

COUNTRY MUSIC ALL AROUND THE WORLD

« © '65 Plainspoken Music, ASCAP »
Country music's all around the world
I've heard it play in every foreign land
The universal language of the universe
Something everybody understands

I never let no sand get in the shoes of mine
I spent my life just rambling all around
But I always felt at home no matter where I went
Cause everybody plays a country sound
One springtime in Alaska just a few years back
As I mushed my team of huskys through the snow
Another dogsled passed me doing ninety five
He was headin' for a country music show
Country music's all around the world...

I was over in old Moskow when I heard about
These men you know they're recently retired
They caught him in the henhouse with an old guitar
Playing country music idem fired
Across the sea in Germany one sunny day
I watch the man a paddling down the Rhine
Poor old man he never saw that waterfall
He was singing something bout a sweet Fraulein

Country music's all around the world...
Something everybody understands
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2.

DANNY BOY

« © '53 Boosey&Hawkes Music, ASCAP »
Oh Danny Boy the pipes the pipes are calling
From glen to glen and down the mountain side
The summer's gone and all the roses falling
It's you it's you must go and I must bide

But come ye back when summer's in the meadow
Oh when the valleys hushed and white with snow
Yes I'll be here in sunshine or in shadows
Oh Danny Boy oh Danny Boy I love you so
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3.

BLUE CANADIAN ROCKIES

« © '50 Golden West Melodies, BMI »
In the Blue Canadian Rockies spring is sighing through the trees
And the golden pupies are blooming round the banks of Lake Luise

Across the way they call me and I'm lonesome and so blue
For the Blue Canadian Rockies and the one I love so true

(In the Blue Canadian Rockies) spring is sighing through the trees
(And the golden pupies are blooming) round the banks of Lake Luise
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4.

CHINA DOLL

« © '52 Bro'n Sis Music, BMI »
Sometimes I go down to old China town
And just walk around just wander around
Where amber lights gleam and blue shadows fall
Just dreaming a dream of my China doll

A silk Chinese coat a little blue pants
Coral pink lips and tiny pale hands
Oh my China doll my lonely tears fall
I'll never forget you never forget you my China doll

Sometimes I go down to old China town
And just hang around a boat China bound
And I'd give the word to just leave it all
And sail on that boat to my China doll
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5.

HAWAIIAN WEDDING SONG

« © '58 Al Hoffman Songs, ASCAP / Universal MCA Music, ASCAP »
This is the moment I've waited for
I can hear my heart singing soon bells will be ringing
This is the moment of sweet Aloha
I will love you longer than forever
Promise me that you will leave me never
Here and now dear all my love I vow dear
Promise me that you will leave me never
I will love you longer than forever
Now that we are one clouds won't hide the sun
Blue sky of Hawaiian smile on this our wedding day
I do love you with all my heart
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6.

AUF WIEDERSEH'N SWEETHEART

« © '60 Unichappell Music, BMI »
Auf wiederseh'n auf wiederseh'n we'll meet again sweetheart
This lovely day has flown away the time has come to part

We'll kiss again like this again don't let a teardrop start
With love that's true I'll wait for you auf wiederseh'n sweetheart
[ guitar ] We'll kiss again...
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7.

FRAULEIN

« © '56 Unart Catalog, BMI »
Far across deep blue waters lives an old German's daughter
On the banks of the old River Rhine
Where I loved her and left her
But I can't forget her I miss my pretty Fraulein

Fraulein Fraulein look up toward the heavens
Each night when the stars start to shine
By the same stars above you I swear that I love you
You are my pretty Fraulein
[ steel ] When my memories wander away over yonder
To the sweetheart that I left behind
In a moment of glory a face comes before me
The face of my pretty Fraulein

Fraulein Fraulein...
I miss my pretty Fraulein
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8.

WHEN IT'S SPRINGTIME IN ALASKA (IT'S FORTY BELOW)

« © '58 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
I mushed from Port Barren through a blizzard of snow
Been out prospecting for two years or so
Pulled into Fairbanks the city was a boon
So I took a little stroll to the Red Dog Saloon

As I walked in the door the music was clear
The prettiest voice I had heard in two years
The song she was singing made a man's blood run cold
When it's springtime in Alaska it's forty below
[ guitar ] It was red headed Luie who was singin' so sweet
I reached down and took the snowpacks off my feet
I reached for the girl who was singin' the tune
We did the Escimo hop all around the saloon

Where the cariboo crawl and the grizzly bear hug
We did our dance on a Kodiac rug
The song she kept singing made a man's blood run cold
When it's springtime in Alaska it's forty below
[ guitar ] I was as innocent as I could be
I didn't know Luie was big Ed's wife to be
He took out his knife and he gave it a throw
When it's springtime in Alaska it's forty below
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9.

FRENCH SONG

« © '65 Shapiro-Bernstein Co, ASCAP »
When the sun says goodday to the mountain
And the night says hello to the dawn
I'm alone with my dreams on the hilltop
I can still hear her voice though she's gone

I hear from my door the love songs through the wind
They bring back sweet memories of you
Now when the sun says goodday to the mountain
I'm alone thinking only of you
[ guitar + piano ] I hear from my door...
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10.

GEISHA GIRL

« © '57 Unart Catalog, BMI »
Have you ever heard a love song that you didn't understand
For you've met her in a teahouse on the Island of Japan
And have you ever traveled over many thousand miles
To see a pretty Geisha girl dressed in Oriental style

They read it in the Tealeaves and it's written in the sand
I found love by the heartful in a foreign distant land
Tell the homefolks that I'm happy with someone that's true I know
I love a pretty Geisha girl where the ocean breezes blow

I have stood and watched the sunrise from the waters of the sea
And wondered how much beauty in this whole world can that be
My dreams are all worth dreaming and it makes my life worth while
To see my pretty Geisha girl dressed in Oriental style

They read it in the Tealeaves...
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11.

FAR AWAY PLACES

« © '65 Bourne Co, ASCAP »
Far away places with strange sound and names far away over the sea
Those far away places with the strange sound and names are calling calling me
Go into China or maybe Siam I wanna see for myself
Those far away places I've been readin' about in a book that I took from a shelf

I start gettin' restless whenever I hear the whistle of a train
I pray for the day I can get under way and look for those castles in Spain
They call me a dreamer well maybe I am but I know that I'm yearning to see
Those far away places with the strange sound and names calling calling me
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12.

CARIBBEAN

« © '55 Unichappell Music, BMI »
Oh have you ever been down to Haiti
When the summer sun was sinkin' low
There's nothin' but romance just everwhere you glance
And the native hearts are all aglow
But when the Cuban Queen comes upon the scene
They all stare like a statue out of stone
And when they realize what's before their eyes
The other girls are left all alone

Down in the Caribbean it's not a dream you're seein'
When you get a glimpse of the lady with the charm
But from miles away you can see her sway
To the beat of the Cuban Conga line that forms
[ guitar ] Up in a tree so high way up in the sky sits a wide eyed monkey on a limb
He wonders why the people go to so much trouble just to try and be like him
He doesn't understand that it's a lady's hand that makes a heart feel so sublime
But before too long he starts to sing the song and then he gets in the Conga line

Down in the Caribbean...
[ guitar ] Now down in the Caribbean...
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