lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

FAMOUS IN MISSOURI

(Robin Williams - Jerome Clark) « © '84 New Music Times, BMI / Acuff-Rose Music, BMI / Southern melody Publishing, BMI »
Hey I was famous in Missouri everybody knew my name
From Kansas City to St Louis they knew how well I played my game
Now it sure feels strange to be in South Dakota out on the range

Sometimes my heart feels heavy sometimes my head feels light
Sometimes I think back to Missouri and other times I feel all right
But it sure feels strange to be in South Dakota out on the range

Cause there ain't nobody to hear it anymore
And there ain't nobody out here keepin' score
And when I look back it seems like such a crime
To believe a woman who was lyin' all the time

Hey I was famous in Missouri I sure was fast with a deal
Long before the women and the whiskey made my heart forget to feel
And it sure feels strange to be in South Dakota out on the range
Yeah it sure feels strange to be in South Dakota out on the range
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2.

MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HIGHWAYS

(Tom T. Hall) « © '84 Hallnote Music, BMI / Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
My heroes have always been highways and that's why I'm gone all the time
Route 60 ran by my house as a kid and Lord how I loved the white lines
I know there's a warm place beside you and the kids ask about me sometimes
But my heroes have always been highways I got a lowdown highway in mind

Well I missed all the PTA meetin's I guess I'm not a PTA man
I've got a black coffee outlook and I dream with a wheel in my hand
Lord I wish there was a way I could change in anything that I do or I did
But my heroes have always been highways and they have been since I was a kid
[ guitar ] And I love you the way that I love you not the way that another man would
I know that I live by a roadmap but I don't wanna be great I wanna be good
I guess I'm a quart low on something that makes for the home loving kind
But my heroes have always been highways I got a lowdown highway mind
My heroes have always been highways I got a lowdown highway mind
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3.

BEFORE JESSIE DIED

(Tom T. Hall) « © '84 Hallnote Music, BMI / Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
She sat on the barstool she smoked and she drank
Till the past became clear and the future went blank
In the past she regains all her beauty and pride
But that was before Jessie died

Jessie her husband was small he was lean
Drove a big yellow earth movin' machine
They had a new pick-up the joy of their lives
But that was before Jessie died

She used to go shoppin' for pretty young clothes
Had her hair done on Thusdays and her nails and her toes
And on weekends they'd dance til the first mornin' light
But that was before Jessie died

On weekends they'd cook out and watch all the games
Jessie knew all of the best players names
The sun shined so bright it put tears in your eyes
But that was before Jessie died

When Jessie got sick he was thirty years old
He said it ain't nothin' but a little light cold
And he worked till the pain wouldn't ease or subside
And that was before Jessie died

Now she sits on the stool with a glass in her hand
She smiles and she talks to a travelin' man
There was a time she would turn down a ride
But that was before Jessie died

She sat on the barstool she smoked and she drank...
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4.

THEY CAPTURED THE OUTLAW LAST NIGHT

(Tom T. Hall) « © '84 Hallnote Music, BMI / Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
They captured the outlaw last night
He came out of the darkness and stood in the light
He was sane he was sober and he vowed to do right
They captured the outlaw last night

He smiled as they threw him in jail
Along with the hundreds of others who failed
The only one left who believed he was right
They captured the outlaw last night

They never explained what went wrong
The man who would not sell his soul for a song
Came in for that trophy so shiny and bright
They captured the outlaw last night

He smiled as they threw him in jail...

He looked like the outlaw we knew
Shaggy old hair and scruffy old boots
But his dream disappeared in society's light
They captured the outlaw last night

He smiled as they threw him in jail...

Well he more or less turned himself in
Half ounce of Coke and a bottle of gin
But he died on TV so I guess it's all right
They captured the outlaw last night
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5.

I ONLY THINK ABOUT YOU WHEN I'M DRUNK

(Tom T. Hall) « © '84 Hallnote Music, BMI / Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Well I don't think about you when I'm bowlin'
I don't think about you when I'm playin' golf
I don't think about you when I go out huntin'
And when I'm tryin' to catch a bass you don't cross my mind at all

I don't think about when I'm hungry
I don't think about you when my doughnut's done
I don't think about you when I'm lonely
No I only think about you when I'm drunk

When I get out of this jail I'm gonna go straight
I'll go straight back to that bar and tell my frinds they'd better not wait
Cause I ain't gonna be drinking anymore
Hey I know I've said that once or twice before
Well I'm tired of having two drinks and seeing my ship of happiness sunk
And I only think you about you when I'm drunk
[ guitar ] Well I don't think about you when I'm cookin'
I don't think about you when I'm makin' bed
And I don't think about you when I'm moppin'
And when I think to making love well you might as well be dead
I don't think about you when I'm readin'
I don't think about you when I see your junk
I don't think about you on your birthday
I only think about you when I'm drunk

So when I get out of this jail I'm gonna go straight...
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6.

P.S. I LOVE YOU

(Johnny Mercer - Gordon Jenkins) « © '65 MCA Music, ASCAP / Johnny Mercer Foundation, ASCAP »
Dear I've thought I've drop a line the weather's cool the folks're fine
I'm in bed each night at nine PS I love you
Yesterday we had some rain but all in all I can't complain
Was it dusty on the train PS I love you

Write to the Brown's just as soon as you're able
They came around to call
I burned the hole in the dining room table
And lemme see I guess that's all

Nothing else for me to say and so I'll close but by the way
Everybody's thinking of you PS I love you
[ guitar ] Nothing else for me to say...
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7.

BLACKBERRY DREAMS

(Tom T. Hall) « © '84 Hallnote Music, BMI / Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Blackberry jelly and blackberry jam
Blackberry's cobbler and blackberrys canned
We used to pick 'em and sell 'em
And was that a dollar a gallon

Sun filled days and the moon filled nights
Cowboy movies and funnybook fights
Old ked sneakers and ragged ole jeans
But we had our blackberry dreams

Hey up in the mornin' and out to the vines
June and July that was blackberry time
Sure did taste good on a biscuit
And we'd steal some wine if they fixed it

Saturday mornin's we'd go into town
Spend all our money on kids who were around
Flat broke on Sunday fish in the streams
And we had our blackberry dreams
[ guitar ] Girls didn't care about blackberry boys
They didn't like us but they sure liked our toys
And we used to trick 'em and tease 'em
Lord we never thought we would need 'em

We gave Mrs Walker a gallon one day
Cause she couldn't pick 'em and she couldn't pay
And we thought it worthy of Roy and Gene
And those were our blackberry dreams

And I was just thinking about it today
Blackberry summers blackberry ways
We kept the sun on the right side
May we always look at the bright side

You know it seems funny but as I look back
We've always been in a blackberry patch
Still got my sneakers and my ragged ole jeans
And I still got my blackberry dreams
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8.

BRAND NEW BARTENDER

(Tom T. Hall) « © '84 Hallnote Music, BMI / Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Boys we got us a brand new bartender
She's as innocent as a fly in the ole beer
Why I'm just killin' the blues with the happy hour twos
And she don't know how often we come in here

Oh it's easy to mix for the hungover sick
Boy the same ole sorry lot
We got us a brand new bartender boys
And she don't know a saint from a sot

She fits good in her little black britches
Lard she ain't heard no trouble till now
She ain't heard no lines of the down and out kind
And she got big innocent eyes like a cow

She'll be sorry she came when the halls and the lame
And the crazy drift into this place
We got us a brand new bartender boys
And she's still got a smile on her face
[ piano - guitar ] She's from somewhere way out in the country
She came in on a big Trailways Bus
Aw she ain't got a clue bout the boys and the blues
She's thinking that she's ready for us

Well Lard there ain't no excuse for the folks they turn loose
And send them all down to this place
Aw we got us a brand new bartender boys
And she's still got a smile on her face

So let's drink to the last bartender boys
Or we buried her with a smile on her face
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9.

WHITTLER

(Tom T. Hall) « © '84 Hallnote Music, BMI / Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
At an old country store on the outskirts of town
He sat on the porch with his feet on the ground
With a stick of red cedar and a sharp Barlow's knife
He whittled and talked of a whittler's life

He said when you whittle you don't make a thing
A whittle can't dance and a whittle can't sing
A whittle don't hurt and a whittle don't help
A whittle ain't nothin' but whittlin' itself

One whittle's a whitt and two whitts a whittle
It's the same on both ends as it is in the middle
The same to the wood as it is to the knife
A whittle's a riddle it's a little like life

Well a whittle don't care about heaven or hell
Don't care how it looks and don't care how it smells
It's a thing you can't do if you think it's a thing
It's the end of a circle and the start of a ring

Well he sits there and whittles and the shavins' pile up
Back to the earth and then back to the dust
He said what have I done if I've whittled all day
Time would have whittled itself anyway

One whittle's a whitt and two whitts a whittle...

He said here watch me whittle and he whittled a whitt
He reared back and laughed and leaned over and spit
He said let me say one more thing fore you go
I don't even know what it is I don't know

One whittle's a whitt and two whitts a whittle...
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10.

I SEE

(Tom T. Hall) « © '84 Hallnote Music, BMI / Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
I see a boy and a girl in a pickup truck
Snuggle together and so much in love
Smiles on their faces they sure look pleased I see
I see an old man cuttin' fireplace wood
Big red jacket and big red hood
Here on the highway the smoke smells good I see

I see a little dog on the side of the road
Long been dead and long been cold
I see a little boy bout five years old I see
I see a young man his shoes full of holes
Working in a carwash and his hands are cold
And that was me sometime ago I see
[ guitar ] I see a mobile home on the side of the hill
Surrounded by what it looks like daffodils
Some that survive the wintry chill I see
I see an eighteen wheeler turned upon the side
They said fire broke out and the driver died
Ambulance took him for his last ride I see
I look at the sky nothing to see
I want to know and I want to believe
I feel the heart beat inside of me and I see
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