LOVE TAKES CARE OF ME
(Decca DL-75053)
September/1968
Produced by Owen Bradley
1.
CHAINED TO A MEMORY
(Jenny Lou Carson)
« © '59 Unichappell Music, BMI »
Makes no difference if we two are far apart dear
I could never ever love somebody new
For there isn't any room inside my heart dear
Cause I'm chained to a memory of you
I could never tell another that I long for them
All those whispered words of love would not be true
I could never tell another I belong to them
Cause I'm chained to a memory of you
[ piano - steel ]
Maybe time will wear the links away and then dear
They will break and set me free to love anew
But I could never care for someone else again dear
While I'm chained to a memory of you
If the world should end tomorrow I'd be satisfied
Cause you're gone and there is nothing I can do without you
All my dreams and precious hopes of yesterday they have died
Still I'm chained to a memory of you
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2.
WITH PEN IN HAND
(Bobby Goldsboro)
« © '68 Detail Music, BMI »
With pen in hand you signed your name
Today at five I'll be on that train
And you'll be free and I will be alone so alone
If you think we can't find the love we once knew
If you think I can make everything up to you
Then I'll be gone and you'll be on your own you'll be on your own
Can you take good care of Johnny
Can you take him to school everyday
Can you teach him how to catch a fish
And keep all those bullys away hear what I say
Can you teach him how to whisle a tune
Can you tell him about a Man in the Moon
If you can do these things then maybe he won't miss me
Maybe he won't miss me
And tonight as you lay in our big lonely bed
And you gaze at the pillow where I laid my head
And with your heart on fire will you have no desire
To kiss me and to hold me
If you can forget the good times we had
If you think that the good times don't outweigh the bad
Then sign your name and I'll be on my way
I'll just be on my way mhmm
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3.
LAST LETTER
(Rex Griffin)
« © '39 Anne Rachel Music, ASCAP »
Why do you treat me as if I were only a friend
What have I done that's made you so different and cold
Sometimes I wonder if you'll be contented again
Or will you be happy when you are withered and old
I cannot offer you diamonds and mansions so fine
And I cannot offer you clothes that your young body craves
But if you'll say that you long to forever be mine
Just take off the heartaches the tears and this sorrow you'll save
When you are weary and tired of another man's gold
And when you get lonely remember this letter my own
But don't try to answer though I've suffered anguish untold
If you don't love me then why don't you leave me alone
As I am writing this letter I think of the past
And of the promises that you are breaking so free
But to this old world I'll soon say my farewell at last
I will be gone when you read this last letter from me
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4.
HONEY
(Bobby Russell)
« © '68 PolyGram Int, ASCAP »
See the tree how big it's grown but friend it hasn't been too long it wasn't big
I laughed at her and she got mad the first day that she planted it was just a twig
Then the first snow came and she ran out to brush the snow away so it wouldn't die
Came runnin' in all excited slipped and almost hurt herself and I laughed till I cried
She was always young at heart kinda dumb and kinda smart and I loved her so
I surprised her with a puppy kept me up all Christmas Eve two years ago
And it would sure embarrass her
When I came home from working late cause I would know
That she'd been sittin' there and cryin' over some sad and silly late late show
And honey I miss you and I'm being good and I'd love to be with you if only I could
She wrecked the car and she was sad and so afraid that I'd be mad
But what the heck
Though I pretended hard to be guess you could say she saw through me
And hugged my neck
I came home unexpectedly and found her crying needlessly in the middle of the day
And it was in the early spring when flowers bloom and robins sing she went away
And honey I miss you and I'm being good and I'd love to be with you if only I could
Yes one day while I wasn't home while she was there and all alone the angels came
Now all I have are memories of honey and I wake up nights and I call her name
And now my life's an empty stage where honey lived and honey played and love grew up
And a small cloud passes overhead and cries down in the flower bed that honey loved
And honey I miss you and I'm being good and I'd love to be with you if only I could
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5.
IMAGE OF ME
(Red Lane)
« © '68 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Yes I know she's the life of the party
And without her things here would die
Oh but don't be fooled by her laugter
She has her sad times she knows how to cry
She drinks and she talks just a little too loud
And with her pride gone she tags along with any old crowd
Yes I know I'm to blame and I feel so ashamed
That I made her the image of me
[ piano - steel ]
I met her in a little country town
She was simple and all fashioned in some way
But she loved me till I dragged her down
Then she just gave up and drifted away
She drinks and she talks...
That I made her the image of me
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6.
ANOTHER PLACE ANOTHER TIME
(Jerry Chesnut)
« © '68 Tree Publishing, BMI »
One by one they're turning out the lights
I've been feedin' that old jukebox just to hold you tight
I guess it's for the best I just put in my last dime
Heard you whisper we'd meet again another place another time
There I sat all over the table and it's closing time they say
But I could wait my dear forever if they'd only let me stay
Anywhere would be much better than that lonely room of mine
And the sleepless nights are waitin' for another place another time
Won't that room of mine be a lonely place to be
After I've been holdin' you oh so close to me
And won't that old stairway be a little hard to climb
To a lonely room to wait for another place another time
[ steel ]
Won't that room of mine...
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7.
NEXT IN LINE
(Wayne Kemp - Curtis Wayne)
« © '68 Tree Publishing, BMI »
See her there at the table watch her tare at the label
From the bottle that she's just drank dry
In her mind there's a burning it took a long time that she's learning
I just look at the teardrops she's cried
Everybody knows I love her but her mind is on another
And just look what he's done to her pride
And if she should change her mind give up the music and the wine
I'll be standing by to be the next in line
I know her favorite song so well and she's happy I can tell
Just as long as she can hear the jukebox play
So I'll keep playin' it loud I'll spend every dime have
To keep her happy in my own kind of way
Everybody knows I love her...
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8.
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 heartache mend
And today I started loving you again
Oh what a fool I was to think I could get by
With only these few million tears I've cried
Well I should have known that the worst was yet to come
And that crying time for me had just begun
Cause today I started loving you again...
I got over you just long enough...
Yes today I started loving you again
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9.
BORN TO BE WITH YOU
(Don Robertson)
« © '62 Don Robertson Music, ASCAP »
By your side satisfied
Through and through cause I was born to be with you
Wonderously love can see
So I knew that I was born to be with you
Do I find peace of mind
Yes I do cause I was born to be with you
All life through yes I was born to be with you
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10.
LIKE A BIRD (SPREAD MY WINGS AND FLY)
(Larry Kingston)
« © '68 Careers Music, BMI »
You look so lovely lying there with dreamland's grin up on your face
Your golden curls in disarray upon your starched white pillow case
The soft blue satin covers pulled up tight around your lovely throat
It almost makes me want to go destroy the message on the note
The note I wrote upon your perfumed stationary by the phone
I hate to think about you waking up at dawn to find me gone
It's hard for me to get up in the middle of the night and go
But thinking back I do remember faintly that I told you so
I told you I was like a bird a free and wild and restless thing
And even though I take a mate and build a nest in early spring
When summer winds have had their day and winter clouds're flyin' high
Instinctively I spread my wings and fly
I only know why but I must go and nothing here must hold me back
I like the love you gave me and the tender way you scratched my back
I like your warm sweet kisses and the way you cook your ham and eggs
I like the way the suntan lotion softened up your lovely legs
I like the static noise I heard when you would sit and brush your hair
The way you gave yourself to me and never asked to go nowhere
But most of all I like the way you always smiled and never frowned
The way you took this chance for love and took me just for what I am
I told you I was like a bird...
And now my darling as I leave I fight the yearning in my blood
To wake you up and love you just once more before I go for good
But somehow I am fighting back my passion for I cannot stay
And someday you'll look back and know best it ended up this way
I told you I was like a bird...
I fly I fly
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11.
LOVE TAKES CARE OF ME
(Jimmy Peppers)
« © '68 Husky Music, BMI »
Cause your love takes good care of me
Yes your love takes good care of me
And when the rain falls and the wind blows and the storm is on the sea
I'll be safe your love takes good care of me
When life for me gets weary and the sun refuses to shine
I run to the arms of the one I love and there I'll hide
You know just what to do and say you make my life worth while
And when I look into your face I see heaven in your smile
And your love takes good care of me...
I'll be safe your love takes good care of me
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