DAVE DUDLEY
KEEP ON TRUCKIN'
Mercury SRM1-669
March/1973
Produced by Jerry Kennedy
Jerry Kennedy - guitar/dobro/sitar
Ray Edenton, Chip Young - rh.guitar
Harold Bradley - bass guitar
Pete Drake - steel
Bob Moore - bass
Buddy Harman - drums
Hargus Pig Robbins - piano
Charlie McCoy - harmonica/vibes
George Tidwell - trumpet
Recorded:
Apr/1972, Mercury Custom Recording Studio, Nashville (5)
Dec/1972, Mercury Custom Recording Studio, Nashville
1.
KEEP ON TRUCKIN'
(Randall Rogers)
« © '72 Southern Arts Music, BMI »
In life there's many hills to climb and sometimes you'll get in a blind
But the day will come you gonna bring you luck
Don't live too fast just set your place when it's over you'll win the race
So hang on friend keep on truckin'
Keep on truckin' till you reach the top
Keep them wheels a rollin' don't ever let 'em stop
Tell old bad luck that you ain't buyin' you can't fail if you'll keep tryin'
Hang on friend keep on truckin'
[ horns ]
Life is lots of little games no one will ever takes the blame
For the bad only the the good
So be yourself no need to fake it for life's no more then what you make it
So hang on friend keep on truckin'
Keep on truckin' till you reach the top...
Keep on truckin' till you reach the top...
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2.
CANADIAN SUNSET
(Norman Gimbel - Eddie Heywood)
« © '56 Grove Park Music, BMI / Melton Corp, BMI / Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
Once I was alone so lonely and then
You came out of nowhere like the sun up from the hills
Cold cold was the wind warm warm were your lips
Out there on dusty trail where your kiss will be with fire
All weekend in Canada a change you'll see was the most I bargain for
And then I discovered you and in your eyes
I'd found the look that I couldn't ignore
Down down came the sun fast fast beat your heart
I'd do when that sun sets from that day we'd never ever part
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3.
CITY OF THE ANGELS
(Tom T. Hall - Jimmy Newman)
« © '66 Newkeys Music, BMI / Unichappell Music, BMI »
I'm going back to the City of the Angels
A memory of love controls my mind
I'll search for dreams in the City of the Angels
I left them there among the whispering palms
Los Angeles I'm coming home so many miles ago we had to part
Los Angeles how great the name City of the Angels home of my heart
[ piano ]
Sweet breeze that blows from the Isle of Cathalina
Please take this message to my love my own
I'm going back to the City of the Angels
At long and lonely last I'm coming home
Los Angeles I'm coming home...
City of the Angels home of my heart
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4.
I'M HOOKED
(Dave Dudley)
« © '73 Southern Arts Music, BMI »
Gas food and lounge and lousy detour signs
Coffee stops and concrete tired all the time
Smokin' and chokin' and closet smell like sole
But I'm hooked with my home on the road
Coming or going always moving against the clock
And thinking bout that woman who's hoping that I'll stop
But I see her in the windshield when I drop up this load
But I'm hooked with my home on the road
I'll leave and take those dead head miles if I'm goin' home
I'll get that crazy feelin' for that someone all alone
I'd like to show her how I feel and show her I will
And then enjoy a house that's standing still
But all at once I feel that certain starvin' in my bones
Gotta heat that power that makes that engine moan
Gonna put some clean close on cause I'm gonna roll
Yeah I'm hooked with my home on the road
[ harmonica ]
I'll leave and take those dead head miles...
Oh I'm hooked with my home on the road
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5.
ARMS OF A SATISFIED WOMAN
(Roy Baham)
« © '73 Southern Arts Music, BMI »
Arms that are thrilling reach out for me eager and easy to know
Arms that could hold me and tell me a lie warm arms that love then let go
Tempting inviting they're backin' and try to make me forget my someone
But arms that betray can't tarry away from the arms of a satisfied woman
My woman is satisfied with me in our love she takes so much pride
I love her that way and I'll never stray as long as she's satisfied
Arms cold and tickled could never hold me so I turn away and I run
To where I belong I'm so glad I have known the arms of a satisfied woman
The arms of a satisfied woman
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6.
IT WON'T HURT AS MUCH TOMORROW
(Dave Dudley)
« © '73 Southern Arts Music, BMI »
This time I've really thought you this time it's goodbye
By the time you read this I'll be high up in the sky
Oh yes I'm gonna feel you in my arms for quite a while
I thought it over it won't hurt as much tomorrow
Two thousand miles away is much too far
But it's better I'll be gone because I've gone to bar
I knew we wouldn't make it a long long time ago
I know that I'll keep wanting you how much you'd never know
For you it's love be easier but for me I don't want to go
I thought it over it won't hurt as much tomorrow
Oh I thought it over it won't hurt as much tomorrow
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7.
YOU'VE GOT ANOTHER THOUGHT COMIN'
(Billy Arr)
« © '73 Southern Arts Music, BMI »
What makes you think that you can turn your back and walk away
After I have tasted the sweetness of your world
If you think I'll take it all you've left layin' down
You've got another thought comin' to you girl
You've got another thought comin' if you'll think that I'll stand by
And let the best thing in my life walk out of my world
If you think that I won't find the way of keepin' us together
You've got another thought comin' to you girl
[ guitar - harmonica ]
I'd never find another that could keep me satisfied
I can't replace a diamond with an imitation pearl
So if you think that I won't mind then I'll just let you go
You've got another thought comin' to you girl
You've got another thought comin'...
If you think that I won't find the way of keepin' us together
You've got another thought comin' to you girl
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8.
PATIENT MAN
(Dave Dudley)
« © '73 Southern Arts Music, BMI »
You always go away and do the things you wanna do
I think you're tryin' to hurt me all you can
You'll be working on that problem for a long long time
You'll find that I'm a very patient man
There are times I think you want me just to say goodbye
With you I think it's some kind of a plan
To see how long it takes me to let my patience go
But you'll find that I'm a very patient man
I can see that you can't see how much that I love you
You know that I'll keep hangin' in till all your love is through
So go ahead and do the things that satisfy your mind
But I'll tell you exactly where you stand
Your passing friends will use you up then they won't have the time
Then you'll find that I'm a very patient man
You're gonna find that I'm a very patient man
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9.
I FLY EVERYWHERE
(Dave Dudley - Bill Rigsby)
« © '73 Southern Arts Music, BMI »
Well I don't guess you'd know it but I really have a home
But that I've got another place the Jet seat on my own
I know all the slogans cause I fly the friendly skies
They're always ready where I am that's the only way to fly
I fly Eastern Ozark Mohawk and the Delta Way
United Granada Western and TWA
Cottonnelly Southern North Central and Sue
I'll take back that last one that's a truck line that I knew
American Alligheny Trans Texas and Pan Am
North Western Air France Sam and Dutch and Ben
Air Japan Air Canada and Scandinavian Air
You've been in North I fly everywhere
Now the airlines girls all know me cause I'm flyin' day and night
There's one I'd like fly with now but she's on a different flight
Sometimes I'm scared of what I am I just fly a little higher
I guess I'm just a double brandy the white nuggle flyer
I fly Eastern Ozark Mohawk...
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10.
I ALMOST DIDN'T MAKE IT THROUGH THE DOOR
(Jimmy Key - Danny Morrison)
« © '73 Southern Arts Music, BMI »
Early morning clear my head I can't remember what we said
All that I remember is the pain
Your actions made your feelings know the feeling that you had was gone
No use to try to build in all again
Funny when you think about it love comes unseen
But Lord you sure can see it go
I watch it leave with me behind then I've thought I heard you cry
And I almost didn't make it through the door
[ piano ]
Mem'rie's blowing through my soul leave me feeling cold and hollowed
Something that I've never known before
But I gathered up my tears and pain turned to say goodbye and then
I almost didn't make it through the door
Funny when you think about it...
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11.
I'M PUTTIN' IT TOGETHER
(Dave Dudley - Roy Baham)
« © '73 Southern Arts Music, BMI »
I'm puttin' it together I'm gonna make it right
I'm gettin' it all together but it's been a fight
How come you have to treat me the way that you do
I can put it all together how bout you
Are you looking at tomorrow can you see like I do
Lonly you without me and me without you
I finally have the courage to let you know
How much I love and need you I don't wanna let you go
Can we do a little better someway somehow
We gotta put it all together I mean now
We gotta put it all together I mean now
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