lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

FOX ON THE RUN

(Tony Hazzard) « © '71 Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
She walks through the corn leadin' down to the river
Her hair shone like gold in the hot mornin' sun
She took all the love that a poor boy could give her
And left me to die like a fox on the run
Like a fox on the run

Now everybody knows the reason for my fall
A woman tempted me down in Paradise Hall
This woman tempted me and she took me for a ride
I'm like a lonely fox cause I need a place to hide

She walks through the corn leadin' down to the river...
[ banjo ] Oh we'll drink a glass of wine boys to fortify our souls
We'll talk about the world and the friends we used to know
I see a string of girls who had put me on before
The game is nearly over and the hounds're at the door

She walks through the corn leadin' down to the river...
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2.

PARADISE

(John Prine) « © '71 Catillion Music, BMI »
When I was a child my family would travel
Down to western Kentucky where my parents were born
There's a backwards old town that's often remembered
So many times that all my mem'ries're worn

Daddy won't you take me back to Muglenberg County
Down by the Green River where paradise lay
I'm sorry my son but you're too late in askin'
Mr Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

Now sometimes we float on down the Green River
By the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with the rifles
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill

Daddy won't you take me back to Muglenberg County...
[ guitar ] Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovels
They tortured the timber and they stripped all the land
They dug for the coal till the land was forsaken
And wrote it all down as the progress of man

Daddy won't you take me back to Muglenberg County...

When I die let my body float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester Dam
I'll be halfway to heaven with the paradise waitin'
Five miles away from wherever I am

Daddy won't you take me back to Muglenberg County...
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3.

MAMA'S GOT THE CATFISH BLUES

(Tom T. Hall) « © '76 Hallnote Music, BMI / Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
I ain't had a bite cause the moon's too bright
I wish I had a big one or two
My crockline's set and my hooks're all wet
And mama's got the catfish blues

Don't like to see her unhappy she treats me like a water tree
I hate to see mama with the catfish blues
And the catfish're laying in the river asleep
There's a bottle of wine laying easy on my mind
I dug enough bait to catch a few
My reeling's wet but I cannot forget
Mama's got the catfish blues
[ fiddle + banjo ] There's a turtle on the stump and the toadfrog jump
And I guess I copuld gig me a few
In settlin' fog I caught a big water dog
Mama's got the catfish blues

Don't like to see her unhappy...
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4.

BLUEGRASS BREAKUP

(Charlie Williams) « © '76 ATV Songs, BMI »
Well we're finally breakin' up our bluegrass band
And the thought of it is more than I can stand
But if parting is a one chance to survive
You'll take the dobro and I'll take the five

Once our music tore the world apart
When we used to pick and sing it from the heart
But then descention came into our lives
So you'll take the dobro and I'll take the five

Once our world was harmony and fun
Wildwood Flower and 10-1 mighty run
We can't catch it up we made too many tries
So you'll take the dobro and I'll take the five
[ banjo - dobro ] Well it's time to pack it up and move along
It's too late to argue now who's right or wrong
Well it's plain the we can't keep the group alive
So you'll take the dobro and I'll take the five

Well you know how much the band once meant to me
But there's just no way to change what has to be
Well I'd rather die than to see it amplify
So you'll take the dobro and I'll take the five

Once our world was harmony and fun...
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5.

I DON'T WANT MY GOLDEN SLIPPERS

(Tom T. Hall) « © '76 Hallnote Music, BMI / Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
I don't want my golden slippers when I reach my heaven's home
I just want to see my Jesus sitting there upon his throne
I don't want no fancy mansions just a place to rest my head
Where I rest in peace eternal when I pay my earthly debt

I don't want my golden slippers when I enter heaven's door
I'll be free to sing his praises where the sun shines evermore
Just a plain and simple cottage down the street from Jesus' door
Where I'll visit with my loved ones who had journeyed on before
[ guitar ] I don't want my golden slippers just a plain and simply shoes
I don't want my golden pathways just a country road or two
Love to see the devil tremble when he sees me on my knees
I don't want my golden slippers I'm just longing to be free
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6.

MOLLY AND TENBROOKS

(Bill Monroe) « © '47 Peer International, BMI / Bill Monroe Music, BMI »
This is a Bill Monroe classic bout two great race horses
One of them named Tenbrooks from Kentucky
The other named Molly from Rhode Island
And Molly was livin' in California while the Tenbrooks was raised in Kentucky
And they heard about how fast each other was
And it was long way back in them days between Kentucky and California
So they met half way and they had a race
It's the true story

Hey run ol' Molly run run ol' Molly run
Tenbrooks gonna beat you to the bright and shinin' sun
To the bright and shinin' sun oh Lord to the bright and shinin' sun

Tenbrooks was big bad horse he had a shaggy mane
He run all round to Memphis he'd beat the Memphis train
Beat the Memphis train oh Lord beat the Memphis train

See that train a comin' it's comin' round the curb
See ol' Tenbrooks runnin' he's strainin' every nerve
Strainin' every nerve oh Lord strainin' every nerve
[ mandolin ] Out in California well Molly done as she pleased
Come back to ol' Kentucky got beat with all ease
Beat with all ease oh Lord beat with all ease

Kiper Kiper you're not ridin' as right
Molly's beatin' ol' Tenbrooks clear her out of sight
Clear her out of sight oh Lord clear her out of sight

Kiper Kiper Kiper my son
Your ol' Tenbrooks provide her let ol' Tenbrooks run
Let ol' Tenbrooks run oh Lord let ol' Tenbrooks run
[ fiddle ] The women all're laughin' the children all're cryin'
Men're a hollerin' ol' Tenbrooks is flyin'
Ol' Tenbrooks is flyin' oh Lord ol' Tenbrooks is flyin'

Well goin' catch ol' Tenbrooks and hitch him in the shade
We gonna bury ol' Molly in coffin ready made
Coffin ready made oh Lord coffin ready made
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7.

FASTEST RABBIT DOG IN CARTER COUNTY TODAY

(Tom T. Hall) « © '76 Hallnote Music, BMI / Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Get out the skillet boys some flour and some grease
We're gonna have us a rabbit to eat
Blues got a big un and he's headed this way
He's the fastest rabbit dog in Carter County today

Run Blue run Billie get your gun
And listen to what I say
Run Blue run Billie get your gun
He's the fastest rabbit dog in Carter County today
[ banjo - dobro ] Dogs from Roan County boys they can’t hold a light
Blue run that rabbit all day and night
Redbone, Blue tick and part class they say
The fastest rabbit dog in Carter County today

Run Blue run, Billie get your gun...
Donna
[ banjo - dobro ] Get all them dogs out from under that porch
Old Red and Junior and Big Wheel and Sport
Get those bloods out, I’ll prove what I say
He's the fastest rabbit dog in Carter County today

Run Blue run Billie get your gun...
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8.

I'LL NEVER DO BETTER THAN YOU

(Tom T. Hall) « © '76 Hallnote Music, BMI / Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
No matter where in this big world I roam
With all of its wonders to see
There'll always be one I can never forget
Precious and special to me

I'll never do better than you you were the light of my life
Some other girl might be faithful and true
But I'll never do better than you
[ fiddle ] Well I know you don't care if I live or I die
You live in a mansion so fine
Someday sweetheart if you ever get blue
Remember this letter of mine

I'll never do better than you...
[ fiddle ] There's fish in the ocean and birds in the trees
They've all got a partner for life
But I will be lonely as long as I live
I wanted you for my wife

And I'll never do better than you...
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9.

MAGNIFICENT MUSIC MACHINE

(Hillman Hall) « © '76 Hallnote Music, BMI / Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
He's got nothin' but talent and time on his hands
He loves his music hangs out with his band
He's got a big hit ambitions and No 1 dreams
He's a high rollin' a magnificent music machine
[ fiddle - banjo ] He hit town with nothin' but his old guitar
With visions of grandeur and bein' a star
He writes them and sings them like you'd never seen
He's a high rollin' a magnificent music machine
[ fiddle - banjo ] Well sometimes he's dejected sometimes he's afraid
But he knows what he's in for till his dues are paid
Sometimes they're fat girls and sometimes they're lean
He's a high rollin' a magnificent music machine
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10.

RANK STRANGERS

(arr. Tom T. Hall) « © '76 Hallnote Music, BMI / Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
I wandered again to my home in the mountains
Where in dawn's early light I was happy and free
I looked for my friends but I never could find them
I found they were all rank strangers to me

(Everybody I met seemed to be a rank stranger)

No mother no dad not a friend could I see
They knew not my name and I knew not their faces
I found they were all rank strangers to me
[ fiddle ] They've all moved away said the voice of a stranger
To the beautiful home by the bright crystal sea
Some beautiful day I'll meet them in heaven
Where no one will be a stranger to me

(Everybody I met seemed to be a rank stranger...)
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11.

BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL IN THE SKY

(Tom T. Hall) « © '76 Hallnote Music, BMI / Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
In the sweet by and by at that Bluegrass Festival in the sky

There'll be Monroe Flatt Scruggs and the Stanleys
The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers and the whole McGranner's Family
Molly and the Stonemans and Martin and Crow
Dillard and Thompson and Smiley and Reno

(And we will sing)
In the sweet by and by at that Bluegrass Festival in the sky
[ banjo - fiddle ] There'll be old Tige and Baker and Clements and Warren
Richmond and Harold Carl Story and Dorrin
Acker McMagaha Wiseman and Gray
The Osbornes Bill Clifton Sprung and Uncle Day

(And we will sing)
In the sweet by and by at that Bluegrass Festival in the sky
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