EMMYLOU HARRIS
ELITE HOTEL
(Reprise MS-2236) '75
December/1975
Produced by Brian Ahern
James Burton, Amos Garrett - el.guitar
Brian Ahern, Bernie Leadon, Rick Cunha - ac.guitar
Rodney Crowell - rh.guitar
Hank DeVito, Ben Keith - steel
Mike Auldridge - dobro
Emory Gordy - bass
John Ware, Ron Tutt - drums
Herb Pedersen - banjo/ac.guitar
Byron Berline - mandolin/fiddle
Glenn D. Hardin, Bill Payne - piano
Mickey Raphael - harmonica
Vocals:
Linda Ronstadt, Herb Pedersen, Dianne Brooks, Bernie Leadon, Fayssoux Starling,
Jonathan Edwards, Rodney Crowell, Emory Gordy, Joe Starling
Arrangements by Glenn D. Hardin & Nick DeCaro
Recorded:
June-Sept/1975, Enactron Truck, Nashville
1.
AMARILLO
(Rodney Crowell - Emmylou Harris)
« © '67 Tessa Publishing, BMI / Songs Of The Knoll, BMI / Sixteen Stars Music, BMI »
My baby never was the cheatin' kind but it wasn't cause the ladies didn't try
Now everywhere we go they're walkin' 'round him slow givin' him a flutter and a sigh
Now I got him past that redhead in Atlanta
Lord I walked all over that black-eyed cajun queen
But outside of Amarillo, he found his thrill I'll tell you
Oh I lost him to a jukebox and a pinball machine
Oh Amarillo what'd you want my baby for
Oh Amarillo now he won't come home no more
You done played a trick on me hooked him in the first degree
While he put another quarter push Dolly and then Porter
While he racks up fifty thousand on the pinball machine
[ steel ]
If we only hadn't stopped in there for coffee
If someone hadn't played the Window Up Above
He'd still be mine today but he heard those fiddles play
One look and then I knew this must be love
Oh that pinball machine was in the corner
Well he saw the lights and he had to hear 'em ring
And he never was the same after he won his first free game
Oh I lost him to a jukebox and a pinball machine
Oh Amarillo...
Oh Amarillo...
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2.
TOGETHER AGAIN
(Buck Owens)
« © '63 Central Songs, BMI »
Together again my tears have stopped falling
The long lonely nights are now at an end
The key to my heart you hold in your hand
And nothing else matters cause we're together again
Together again the grey skies are gone
You're back in my arms right where you belong
The love that we knew is living again
And nothing else matters cause we're together again
[ piano - steel ]
Together again my tears have stopped falling
The long lonely nights are now at an end
The love that we knew is living again
And nothing else matters cause we're together again
No nothing else matters cause we're together again
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3.
FEELIN' SINGLE SEEIN' DOUBLE
(Wayne Kemp)
« © '75 Glad Music, BMI / Pappy Daily Music, BMI »
Well I really had a ball last night I held all the pretty boys tight
I was feelin' single seein' double wound up in a whole lot of trouble
But today I'll face the big fight but I really had a ball last night
Well I came home from work this mornin' my baby was feelin' low
And he told me what was on his mind then he told me where I could go
Well I didn't want to go where he told me to cause the water was cold in the lake
Now there's somethin' fishy bout this whole deal I don't see where I made my mistake
But I really had a ball last night...
[ guitar - piano ]
When I woke up this mornin' like me the sun was high
Well I started walkin' the long way home just to think of an alibi
Well I couldn't think of a doggone thing that hadn't already been said
So I guess I better just play it by ear for I'm already dead
But I really had a ball last night...
Today I'll face the big fight but I really had a ball last night
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4.
SIN CITY
(Chris Hillman - Gram Parsons)
« © '67 Irving Music, BMI »
This old town's filled with sin it swallow you in if you've got some money to burn
Take it home right away you've got three years to pay and Satan is waiting his turn
The scientist say it will all wash away but we don't believe anymore
Cause we've got our recruits in their green mohair suits
So please show your ID at the door
This old earthquaker's gonna leave me in the poorhouse
It seems like this whole town's insane
On the 33rd floor your gold plated door won't keep out the Lord's burning rain
[ mandolin ]
A fool came around tried to clean up this town his ideas made some people mad
But he trusted in his crowd so he spoke out right loud
And they lost the best friend they had
This old earthquaker's...
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5.
ONE OF THESE DAYS
(Earl Montgomery)
« © '72 Songs Of Universal, BMI »
Well I won't have to chop no wood I can be bad or I can be good
I can be any way that I feel one of these days
Might be a woman that's dressed in black be a hobo by the railroad track
I'll be gone like the wayward wind one of these days
One of these days it will soon be all over cut and dry
And I won't have this urge to go all bottled up inside
One of these days I'll look back and I'll say I left in time
Cause somewhere for me I know there's peace of mind
[ guitar - mandolin ]
I might someday walk across this land carrying the Lord's book in my hand
Goin' cross the country singing loud as I can one of these days
But I won't have trouble on my back cuttin' like the devil with a choppin' axe
Got to shake it off my back one of these days
One of these days...
There's gonna be peace of mind for me one of these days
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6.
TILL I GAIN CONTROL AGAIN
(Rodney Crowell)
« © '76 Tessa Publishing, BMI »
Just like the sun over the mountain top you know I'll always come again
You know I love to spend my morning time like sunlight dancing on your skin
I never gone so long as far telling lies to you oh what you've seen is what I've been
And there is nothing I can hide from you you see me better than I can
Out on the road that lies before me now there are some turns where I will spin
I only hope that you can hold me now till I gain control again
[ guitar ]
Like a light house you must stand alone and mark the sailors journey's end
No matter what seas I have been sailing on I'll always roll this way again
Out on the road that lies...
I only hope that you can hold me now till I gain control again
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7.
HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE
(John Lennon - Paul McCartney)
« © '68 ATV Tunes, ASCAP »
Here making each day of the year changing my life with one wave of his hand
Nobody can deny that there's something there
There running my hands through his hair
Both of us thinking how good it can be
Someone is speaking but he doesn't know she's there
I want him everywhere and if he's beside me I know I need never care
But to love him is to meet him everywhere knowing that love is to share
Each one believing that love never dies watching his eyes and hoping I'm always there
To be here and everywhere here there and everywhere
[ guitar - harmonica ]
I want him everywhere...
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8.
OOH LAS VEGAS
(Gram Parsons - Rick Grech)
« © '74 Songs Of The Knoll, BMI / Hot Burrito Music, BMI / Spirit One Music, BMI »
Ooh Las Vegas ain't no place for a poor boy like me
Ooh Las Vegas ain't no place for a poor boy like me
Every time I hit your crystal city you know you're gonna make a wreck out of me
Well the first time I lose I drink whiskey second time I lose I drink gin
Third time I lose I drink anything cause I think I'm gonna win
Ooh Las Vegas...
Well the Queen of Spades is a friend of mine the Queen of Hearts is a bitch
Someday when I clean up my mind I'll find out which is a which
Ooh Las Vegas...
[ steel ]
Well I spend all night with the dealer tryin' to get ahead
Spend all day at the Holiday Inn tryin' to get out of bed
Ooh Las Vegas...
[ guitar ]
Every time I hit your crystal city you know you're gonna make a wreck out of me
Every time I hit your crystal city you know you're gonna make a wreck out of me
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9.
SWEET DREAMS
(Don Gibson)
« © '55 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Sweet dreams of you every night I go through
Why can't I forget you and start my life anew
Instead of having sweet dreams about you
You don't love me it's plain
I should have known you'll never wear my name
I know I should hate you the whole night through
Instead of having sweet dreams about you
[ guitar - ac.guitar ]
Sweet dreams of you...
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10.
JAMBALAYA (ON THE BAYOU)
(Hank Williams)
« © '52 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Goodbye Joe me gotta go me oh my oh
Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou
My Yvonne the sweetest one me oh my oh
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou
Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and fillet gumbo
Cause tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher amio
Pick guitar fill fruit jar and be gay-o
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou
[ fiddle - piano ]
Well Thibodaux Fontaineaux the place is buzzin'
Kinfolk come to see Yvonne by the dozen
Well dress in style and go hog wild me oh my oh
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou
Jambalaya and a crawfish pie...
[ guitar ]
Well Jambalaya and a crawfish pie...
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou
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11.
SATAN'S JEWELLED CROWN
(Edgar L. Edens)
« © '58 Zap Publishing, BMI »
Now if I were a queen and a ruler of nations with diamonds and jewels profound
Well I'd rather know that I had salvation
Than to know my reward would be Satan's jewel crown
Satan's jewel crown I've worn it so long but God for my soul has reached down
His love set me free he made me his own and helped me cast off Satan's jewel crown
[ dobro ]
Oh, the life that I live so sinful and needless drinking and running around
All the things that I do for the love of the devil
I know my reward will be Satan's jewel crown
Satan's jewel crown...
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12.
WHEELS
(Chris Hillman - Gram Parsons)
« © '69 Irving Music, BMI »
We've all got wheels to take ourselves away
We've got the telephone to say what we can't say
We all got higher and higher every day
So come on wheels and take this boy away
We're not afraid to ride we're not afraid to die
So come on wheels take me home today
So come on wheels and take this boy away
[ guitar - steel ]
And when I feel my time is almost up and desitiny is in my right hand
I'll turn to him who made my faith so strong
Come on wheels make this boy a man
We're not afraid to ride...
Come on wheels and take this boy away away away
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