ALREADY IT'S HEAVEN
(Epic BN-26391)
June/1968
Produced by Billy Sherrill
1.
HAVE A LITTLE FAITH
(Billy Sherrill - Glenn Sutton)
« © '68 Al Gallico Music, BMI »
Your best friend your best girl just made a big messy world
Cause arm in arm they left you feelin' blue
She set a trap you got caught you should've took her with a grain of salt
So have a little faith and love will come to you
So she's leavin' for somebody new
She's even got you believin' there's nothin' you can do
So brush that teardrop off your face and put a smile back in its place
Have a little faith and love will come to you
[ trumpet ]
Beyond the clouds the sky is always blue
[ trumpet ]
Have a little faith and love will come to you
So don't be lonely and don't be blue
Your one and only is somewhere waiting just for you
With two lovin' arms to hug your neck
It's right around the corner where your least expect
She'll be there with love to pull you through
Just have a little faith and love will come to you
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2.
GENTLE ON MY MIND
(John Hartford)
« © '67 Ensign Music, BMI »
It's knowing that your door is always open and your path is free to walk
That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag rolled up
And stashed behind your couch
And it's knowing I'm not shacked by forgotten words and bons
And the ink stains that have dried upon some line
That keeps you in the back roads by the rivers of my mem'ry
That keeps you ever gentle on my mind
It's not clinging to the rocks and I'd be planted on their columns now that bind me
Or something that somebody said because they thought we fit together walking
It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing or forgiving
When I walk along some railroad track and find
That you're movin' on the back roads by the rivers of my mem'ry
For hours you're just gentle on my mind
Though the wheet fields and the clothes lines
And the junk yards and the highways come between us
And some other woman cryin' to her mother cause she turned and I was gone
I still might run in silence tears of joy might stain my face
And a summer sun might burn me till I'm blind
But not to where I cannot see you walking on the back roads
By the rivers flowin' gentle on my mind
I dipped my cup of soap back from a gurglin' cracklin' caltron in some train yard
My beard a roughen coal pile and a dirty hat pulled low across my face
Through cupped hands round a tin can I pretend I hold you to my breast and find
That you're wavin' from the back roads by the rivers of my mem'ry
Ever smiling ever gentle on my mind
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3.
RELEASE ME (AND LET ME LOVE AGAIN)
(Eddie Miller - W.S. Stevenson - Robert Yount)
« © '54 Roschelle Publishing, BMI »
Please release me let me go for I don't love you anymore
To waste our lives would be a sin release and let me love again
I have found a new love dear and I'll always want her near
Her lips are warm while yours are cold release me my darling let me go
Please release me can't you see you'd be a fool to cling to me
To live a lie would bring us shame release me and let me love again
Release me and let me love again
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4.
I LOVE YOU SO MUCH (IT HURTS)
(Floyd Tillman)
« © '56 Peer International, BMI »
I love you so much it hurts me darling that's why I'm so blue
I'm so afraid to go to bed at night afraid of losing you
I love you so much it hurts me and there's nothing I can do
I wanna hold you my dear forever and ever I love you so much it hurts me so
(I love you so much it hurts...
I love you so much it hurts me so
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5.
JUST A LITTLE LOVIN' (WILL GO A LONG WAY)
(Eddy Arnold - Zeke Clements)
« © '47 Unichappell Music, BMI »
Just a little lovin' will go a long way
And you'll make me happy the rest of my days
Put your arms around me then I'll be your slave
Cause just a little lovin' will go a long way
Ever since that time began love has ruled the world
Even Adam set the pace and started it a whirl
I met you and now I know that you're the one for me
Come on back and you will plainly see
Just a little lovin'...
[ steel ]
Put your arms around me...
Just a little lovin' will go a long way
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6.
ALREADY IT'S HEAVEN
(Billy Sherrill - Glenn Sutton)
« © '68 Al Gallico Music, BMI »
Tonight I told all my friends goodbye and I walked away so they wouldn't see me cry
And hit for swinging doors as fast as I can
For what love had done to me shouldn't happen to a man
And now I find myself sittin' here with you
And you make me wonder why I ever felt blue
You show understanding a few people know
And now that I found you I'll never let you go
Already it's heaven and we've barely met
And you've not even started loving me yet
Cause you've made it sweeter than it's ever been
And if you should love me what would it be then
Already it's heaven the long search is through
And it's so good to know now that heaven is you
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7.
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 running 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 in from working late
Cause I would know
That she'd been sittin' there and crying 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
One day while I was not at home and she was there and all alone the angels came
Now all I have is memories of honey and I wake up nights and call her name
Now my life's an empty stage where honey lived and honey played and love grew up
A small cloud passes overhead and cries down on the flower bed where honey loved
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
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8.
MENTAL JOURNEY
(Leon Ashley - Margie Singleton)
« © '68 Al Gallico Music, BMI »
If I've ever planted flowers in your garden
Or my feet walked across your bedroom floor
Don't be surprised if I'd break the silence of the night with a knock upon your door
I'm just taking a mental journey
And my thoughts may wander back from time to time
Don't be alarmed cause I mean you no harm
I'm just walking with the mem'ries of my mind
[ steel ]
When loneliness surrounds me and my future is my past I escape into my dreams
I carefully choose in mem'ries from the medals of my past
That once were dreams and once again
I'm just taking a mental journey...
I'm just taking a mental journey...
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9.
I LOVE A RAINBOW
(Billy Sherrill - Glenn Sutton)
« © '68 Al Gallico Music, BMI »
When this busy topsy terrible world begins to get me down and make me blue
Guess who makes it all worthwhile when she looks up and with a smile
Says daddy I love you
All of a sudden my world is led up when I se you in that getup
Your mama's heels and a ribbon in your hair
Cherry lips and big blue eyes and a dress that's twice your size
You look like a dream standing there
I love a rainbow and you're my rainbow you keep my skies baby blue
I love a rainbow so stay my rainbow and I'll make all your dreams come true
Everytime I look you over I'm rollin' in four leaf clover
Just to know your mind to have and hold
I knoiw that heaven sent you and heaven surely made you to be my little pot of gold
I love a rainbow...
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10.
LAURA (WHAT HE'S GOT THAT I AIN'T GOT)
(Leon Ashley - Margie Singleton)
« © '67 Al Gallico Music, BMI »
Laura hold these hands and count my fingers
Laura touch these lips you once desired
Lay your head upon my chest feel my heart beat
Gently run your fingers through my hair
Touch these ears that listened to your wishes most of them fullfilled and that's a lot
Let your soft gentle hands caress my body then tell me what he's got that I ain't got
Tell me what he's got that I can't give you must be something I was born without
You took an awful chance to be with another man
So tell me what he's got that I ain't got
Laura see these walls that I built for you Laura see this carpet that I layed
See those fancy curtains on the windows touch those satin pillows on your bed
Laura count the dresses in your closet
Note the name upon the checkbook in your bag
And if there's time before I pull this trigger
Then tell me what he's got that I ain't got
Tell me what he's got that I can't give you must be something I was born without
And if there's time before I pull this trigger
Then tell me what he's got that I ain't got
Then tell me what he's got that I ain't got
Then tell me what he's got that I ain't got
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11.
BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX
(Jim Webb)
« © '67 Sosaha Music, BMI / Jonathan Three Music, BMI »
By the time I get to Phoenix she'll be rising
She'll find the note I left hanging on her door
She'll laugh when she reads the part that says I'm leaving
Cause I've left that girl so many times before
By the time I make Albuquerque she'll be working
She'll probably stop at lounch and give me a call
But she'll just hear that phone keep on ringing off the wall that's all
By the time I make Oklahoma she'll be sleeping
She'll turn softly call my name out low
And she'll cry just to think I'd really leave her
Though time and time I've tried to tell her so she just didn't know I would really go
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