lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

PLACE IN THE COUNTRY

(Cindy Walker)
« © '69 High Harmony Music, BMI »
A place in the country that's a place for me
House in the meadow songbirds in the trees
And someone to love me as each new day starts
In a place in the country with a place in a country boy's heart

But guess I'd better stop dreaming or I'll miss my train
It's six blocks to the subway and it's starting to rain
Got a job in the city but I wasn't too smart
To leave a place in the country and my place in my countryboy's heart

Just cant' stay in this city I was meant from the start
For a place in the country and a place in my countryboy's heart
[ steel ] Just cant' stay in this city I was meant from the start
For a place in the country and a place in my countryboy's heart
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2.

GIVIN' OUT OF GIVING IN

(Ben Peters)
« © '69 Ben Peters Music, BMI »
Each time that you come draggin' in at two or three o'clock
You promise you won't stay out late again
And every time I take you back but now that's gonna stop
Cause baby I'm givin' out of giving in

There's lipstick on your shirt again and I know it ain't mine
Don't try to tell me you've been out with friends
The last time I believed you when you handed me that line
But baby I'm givin' out of giving in I'm givin' out of giving in

I'm tired of playin' games where you're the only one who wins
I've given into you so much the givin's almost gone
What happens in the future all depends
You may come walkin' in one night and find yourself alone
Cause baby I'm givin' out of giving in
[ steel ] Yeah I'm givin' out of giving in
I'm tired of playin' games where you're the only one who wins
I've given into you so much the givin's almost gone
What happens in the future all depends
You may come walkin' in one night and find yourself alone
Cause baby I'm givin' out of giving in
Yeah baby I'm givin' out of giving in
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3.

LONELY BRIDGE

(Skeeter Davis)
« © '69 Johnny Bienstock Music, BMI »
Lonely bridge standing there lonely just like me
Maybe you can help me end my misery

How many lovers used your heart for a stepping stone
When they made their plans so selfishly then left you all alone
How many people walked on ye before they left your side
Never caring that the river holds the teardrops that you cried
Lonely bridge you're reaching out and yet you cannot find
A warm sweet love to feel your arms they're empty just like mine

Lonely bridge standing there lonely just like me
Maybe you can help me end my misery

Well I guess I'm just like the others for now I'm walkin' on you too
And now just like them I'm gonna leave for the waters blue
My sorrow and my loneliness I'll leave here at your wall
Now lonely bridge please lift me up and gently let me fall
Into the peaceful waters where sadness isn't shown
There must be one more broken soul there so I won't be alone

Lonely bridge standing there lonely just like me
Thank you so for helping me end my misery
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4.

I'M A LOVER NOT A FIGHTER

(Ronny Light)
« © '69 High Harmony Music, BMI »
I only married you for love dear I didn't go for all of your dough
Now and then you say you love me but honey baby it didn't show
I never seemed to please you lately cause all you ever do is complain
I'm sick of this fussin' and fightin' so baby let your loving woman explain

I'm a lover not a fighter I kinda like it that way
If you want a fightin' partner go live with Cassius Clay
[ steel - guitar ] A woman is soft and tender and willing to love her man
So why don't you take advantage of the woman that you know I am
I don't want to fuss and fight dear for the rest of my natural life
Stop treatin' me like your enemy start treatin' me like a wife

I'm a lover not a fighter I kinda like it that way...
I'm a lover not a fighter I kinda like it that way...
I'm a lover not a fighter I kinda like it that way...
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5.

ARMS OF YOUR LOVE

(Ray Griff)
« © '69 Blue Echo Music, ASCAP / Next Decade Music, ASCAP »
It didn't take you very long to get to me
You must have seen me sittin' on the shelf
You reached for me and touched me oh so tenderly
Then you took me down and kept me for yourself

Now I'm all wrapped up in the arms of your love sweet love
All wrapped up in the arms of your love sweet love
To know the thrill of your embrace is everything that I ever dreamed heaven was
I'm all wrapped in the arms of your love

I'm all wrapped (all wrapped up) in the arms of your love sweet love
All wrapped up (all wrapped up) in the arms of your love sweet love
To know the thrill of your embrace is everything that I ever dreamed heaven was
Yes I'm all wrapped (all wrapped up) in the arms of your love
(Arms of your love)
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6.

WHAT A LITTLE GIRL DON'T KNOW

(Carolyn Penick - Skeeter Davis)
« © '69 High Harmony Music, BMI »
First tear I remember cryin' was when my puppy lay a dyin'
And mama sayin' there is nothing we can do
And when mama tucked me in I'd say my prayers and cry again
Little puppy I'm sure gonna miss you

Mama said now child don't cry you'll forget it by and by
And there'll be other things in life to hurt you so
She said after all you're ten so I said I wouldn't cry again
That just shows you what a little girl don't know

Cause I'm still cryin' cryin' cryin' for a love I miss so
Cryin' cryin' shows you what a little girl don't know
[ steel - guitar ] Don't know how my mama knew some day I'd fall in love with you
And you'd be the one in life to hurt me so
Well I guess I told a lie when I said I wouldn't cry
That just shows you what a little girl don't know

Now I am a grown up girl living in a cruel world
Remembering every word my mama said
I'm cryin' now like I cried then and I know I'll cry again
Cause now I know your love for me is dead

And I'm still cryin' cryin' cryin' for a love I miss so
Cryin' cryin' shows you what a little girl don't know
Cryin' cryin' cryin' for a love I miss so cryin'
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7.

LET'S GET TOGETHER

(Chet Powers)
« © '63 Irving Music, BMI »
[ with George Hamilton IV ]
Love is but the song we sing fear's the way to die
You can make the mountains ring or make the angels cry
Know the dove is on the wing you need not know why
C'mon people let's get together
Smile on your brother and love one another right now

Some may come and some may go this will surely pass
When the one who left us here returns for us at last
We are but a moments sunlight fading on the grass
C'mon people let's get together
Smile on your brother and love one another right now
[ guitar - steel ] When you'll hear the song we're singing you will understand
You hold the key to love and fear in your tembling hand
Just one key unlocks them both it's there at your command
C'mon people let's get together
Smile on your brother and love one another right now

C'mon people let's get together
C'mon people let's get together
C'mon people let's get together
C'mon people let's get together
Smile on your brother and love one another right now
C'mon people let's get together
Smile on your brother and love one another right now
C'mon people let's sing with us
C'mon people let's get together
Smile on your brother and love one another right now
C'mon people let's get together
Smile on your brother and love one another right now
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8.

I'M SO LONESOME I COULD CRY

(Hank Williams)
« © '49 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Hear that lonesome whippoorwill he sounds too blue to fly
The midnight train is whining low I'm so lonesome I could cry

I've never seen a night so long when time goes crawling by
The moon just went behind a cloud to hide its face and cry
[ steel ] Did you ever see a robin weep when leaves began to die
That means he's lost the will to live I'm so lonesome I could cry

The silence of a falling star lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder where you are I'm so lonesome I could cry
I'm so lonesome I could cry
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9.

I CAN STAND IT (AS LONG AS YOU CAN)

(Mitchell Torok - Ramona Redd)
« © '64 Big D Music, BMI »
I can stand it as long as you can
Cause I just don't need you anymore

You got it in your mind your leavin's hurt me
That I sit and cry while you paint the town
And all this time you's thinking that I need you
Well really it's the other way around

I can stand it as long as you can...
[ piano - strings ] I'll wait here by the phone a few nights longer
I'll give you every chance to save your heart
You're only out dancing with a new love
Just to keep from falling all apart

I can stand it as long as you can...
I just don't need you anymore
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10.

BUT YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU

(Mike Settle - Pierre Delanoe)
« © '68 Devon Music, BMI »
When the morning sun streaks across my room
And I'm wakened up from another dream of you
Yes I'm on the road once again it seems
All I've left behind is a chain of broken dreams
But you know I love you yes I love you oh I love you

How I wish that love was all we'd need to live
What a life we'd have cause I've got so much to give
And it seems so wrong deep inside my heart
That that dollar sign could be keeping us apart
But you know I love you yes I love you oh I love you

And if only I could find my way back to the time
When the problems of this life had not yet crossed our minds
All the answer could be found in children's nursery rhymes
I'd come running back to you I'd come running back to you

But you know we can't live on dreams alone
And to sing my songs I must leave you all alone
But I made this choice many years ago
Now the traveling life is the only life I know
But you know I love you yes I love you oh I love you
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11.

TODAY I STARTED LOVING YOU AGAIN

(Merle Haggard - Bonnie Owens)
« © '67 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Today I started loving you again
I'm right back where I've really always been
I got over you just long enough to let my heartaches mend
Then today I started loving you again

What a fool I was to think I could get by
With only these few million tears I've cried
I should have known the worst was yet to come
And that crying time for me had just begun
[ steel ] Today I started loving you again...
Yes today I started loving you again
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12.

PLACE IN THE COUNTRY (Reprise)

(Cindy Walker)
« © '69 High Harmony Music, BMI »
Just can't stay in this city I was meant from the start
For a place in the country and a place in my country boy's heart
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