lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

HELP STAMP OUT LONELINESS

(Carl Belew - Van Givens) « © '67 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Help help help stamp out loneliness
Bring back the happy that we had before

Let's all get together tonight and begin
By lining the ladies up next to the men
Then two by two let's march day and night
Till loneliness leaves us and goes out of sight

Help help help stamp out loneliness
Help help help bring back the happiness
Help help help stamp out loneliness
Bring back the happy that we had before

Go search every tavern and nightspot in town
Cause that's where the most of the lonely are found
Tell them the lonely are meeting tonight
Come join in the start of the world's favorite fight

Help help help stamp out loneliness...

Now somewhere in your town this very night
There's broken hearts wishing with all of their might
That someone might lead them back to love's door
So they can be happy like they were before

Help help help stamp out loneliness...
Help help help stamp out loneliness...
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2.

SHE'LL STILL BE GONE

(Harlan Howard - Don Bowman) « © '67 Tree Publishing, BMI »
That face in the mirror across the bar from me
Keeps staring back as if to say is this where you should be
But drinking helps forget her though I won't forget her long
And tomorrow when I'm sober she'll still be gone

All around me are the losers I guess that's why I'm here
They don't mind my loneliness no they're all used to tears
What hurts me most of all is I could cry from now on
And she won't even know it she'll still be gone

I could say forgive me with each breath I take but in vain
When you take love and kill it you can't bring it to life again
I can sit here on this barstool until my body turns to stone
But she won't even know it she'll still be gone
No she won't even know it she'll still be gone
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3.

YOU CAN CHECK ON ME

(Gene Crysler) « © '67 Southtown Music, BMI »
My show signs on the air at six and I get off at night
But I sit there each evening with more than records on my mind
You know that there's three hours when you're sure that you're free
You only need your radio and you can check on me

You can check on me fourteen thirty on your dial
No matter where you park with him I'm there to make you smile
You smile because you realize these records I might be
You can check on me and know how long it's safe to cheat
[ steel ] I called your name and played our song so often on the air
I play each request for you and someone else to hear
Out there somewhere you'll hear these words and know I've seen the light
I'll be at home when you come in I take the show tonight
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4.

WINE FLOWED FREELY

(Joe Babcock) « © '62 Mariposa Music, BMI »
All the days of my youth I remember so well I lived in a world on my own
Nobody cared where my money came from when I had it I wasn't alone

Oh the wine flowed freely and friendship was mine how they all loved me back then
But here in this prison I sit all alone and now where are all of my friends

So drink and be marry if this is your wish of wastin' your life out in sin
But remember someday you may be as I am with nothing not even a friend

Oh the wine flowed freely...

So here's to the freedom I never shall have I know it's not long till the end
But I'd rather be dead than to spend ninety years
With the cold prison walls for a friend
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5.

ROAD TO RECOVERY

(Stonewall Jackson) « © '67 Turp Tunes, BMI »
Tonight there's a fire burning brightly
In my chimney though the weather's far from cold
It's your picture and the letters you send me
You're gone so your mem'ry must go

I have cry until I'm too weak to cry
I have drink until the drinks won't go down
I must start on the road to recovery
Before there's no turning around
[ piano - steel ] I realize there's little hope for me
If I'll keep your sweet mem'ries this way
But just knowing that I've lost you forever
Life's a long way from here to my grave

Just tonight I'll rely on the wine
To dim your mem'ry as the last drop goes down
Then I'll start on the road to recovery
There'll soon be no turning around

I must start on the road to recovery
Before there's no turning around
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6.

WE COULD

(Felice Bryant) « © '55 House Of Bryant, BMI »
If anyone could find the joy that true love brings a girl and boy
We could we could you and I
If anyone could ever say that their true love was here to stay
We could we could you and I

When you're in my arms I know you're happy to be there
And just as long as I'm with you I'm happy anywhere
If anyone could ever say that their true love was here to stay
We could we could you and I
[ steel - guitar ] When you're in my arms I know you're happy to be there
And just as long as I'm with you I'm happy anywhere
If anyone could pray each night and thank the Lord that all is right
We could we could you and I
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7.

PROMISES AND HEARTS (WERE MADE TO BREAK)

(Larry Lee - Bobby Dyson) « © '67 Barmour Music, BMI »
I made myself a promise I knew I couldn't keep
I promised me I wouldn't cry tonight before I sleep
But to think of how you've hurt me and it's more than I can take
Now I know that promises and hearts were made to break and break and break
Oh promises and hearts were made to break

Promises and hearts were made to be broken
But surely not mine at least I was a hopin'
But a hurtin' heart is something I can't learn to face
Now I see that promises and hearts were made to break and break and break
Oh promises and hearts were made to break
[ ac.guitar ] I promised all of my neighbors no more crying late at night
I promised them I'd go to sleep things are gonna be alright
Then once again it's mem'ry time and my heart begins to ache
Now they know that promises and hearts were made to break and break and break
Oh promises and hearts were made to break
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8.

IF TEARDROPS WERE PENNIES

(Carl Butler) « © '51 Peer International, BMI »
An acre of diamonds I'd offered to you
A solid gold mansion an airplane or two
This world would be yours dear to have and to hold
If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold

If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold
I'd have all the treasures my pockets to hold
I'd be oh so wealthy with treasures untold
If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold
[ steel - guitar ] The tears that you've caused me won't buy you one thing
The heartaches you've brought me won't pay for a ring
The love that I wanted my God have grown cold
If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold
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9.

FALL THAT PRIDE GOES BEFORE

(Neal Merritt) « © '67 Central Songs, BMI »
It's dark and it's cold on the street where I stand
And the pawnshop is closing its door
In the window's the ring you once wore on your hand
So this is the fall that pride goes before

How sad that I'd see you come beg for it back
But you just threw your ring on the floor
It's the last thing I had but the clothes on my back
So this is the fall that pride goes before

I stumble and fell without your hand to hold like a blind man that loses his cane
I must have a bottle to keep off the cold and pretend I'm not going insane
Tomorrow somebody will give me a dime then I'll keep it till I get three more
And I'll buy me a bottle of forty cent wine so this is the fall that pride goes before
So this is the fall that pride goes before
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10.

MAN MUST HIDE TO CRY

(Stonewall Jackson - Juanita Jackson) « © '67 Turp Tunes, BMI »
I walked by your house last night saw you through your window
In the arms of someone else now my heart's hurtin' so
I'll just call to send my last goodbye
I'll drop by to say goodbye but a man must hide to cry

There's no need left for hoping that our love could ever be
So why come by and let you see how much you're hurting me
I love you I'd forgive you I guess that's one reason why
I can't come by to say goodbye cause a man must hide to cry
[ steel ] I'll turn the lights down low tonight cover up my window
I'll try to lock the world outside no one must ever know
Until I'm feeling better they mustn't see my tear dimmed eyes
I'll drop by to say goodbye but a man must hide to cry
Yes I'll drop by to say goodbye but a man must hide to cry
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11.

ALMOST HEAR THE BLUES

(Stonewall Jackson) « © '67 Turp Tunes, BMI »
The night wind whispers softly why did you do her wrong
In the distance there's a coyote hound sounds like his love is gone
My heart is chilled by whipporwill as the train pulls out with you
Listen close and you can almost hear the blues

You can almost hear the blues in the rain that's pouring down
That lovely crackle to the fire seems to have a lonesome sound
As I walk the time away just listen to my shoes
Listen close and you can almost hear the blues
[ guitar ] The rumble of the river flowing by my cabin door
I could swear I heard it tell me son she won't be back no more
As the night wind whines a coyote pines my heart cries out for you
Listen close and you can almost hear the blues

You can almost hear the blues...
Listen close and you can almost hear the blues
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