SONNY JAMES
HEAVEN SAYS HELLO
(Capitol ST-2937)
June/1968
Produced by Kelso Herston
1.
HEAVEN SAYS HELLO
(Cindy Walker)
« © '68 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Heaven says hello every morning when the sun says hi I've come to spend the day
Heaven says hello with the songbirds and the little flowers that nod along my way
And when the day is through and I hurry home to you
As the twilight steals across the golden skies
Heaven says hello when you kiss me and I look into the blue of your eyes
[ choir ]
Heaven says hello when you kiss me and I look into the blue of your eyes
And I look into the blue of your eyes
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2.
LOVE ME LIKE THERE'S NO TOMORROW
(Arlie Duff)
« © '68 Mike Curb Music, BMI »
Love me like there's no tomorrow kiss me like it's goin' out of style
Hold me like you're afraid I might get away
Love like I've been gone for quite a while
Take and wrap me in the package my future my presence and my past
And love me like there's no tomorrow and each day might be our last
[ ac.guitar ]
Love me like there's no tomorrow...
Make each night one more remembered we will let the heaven be our guide
Just love me like there's no tomorrow and keep me right by your side
Keep me right by your side
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3.
MISERY AND AGONY
(Sonny James - Richard Hollingsworth)
« © '68 Mike Curb Music, BMI »
Well I live up on a mountain top in unended misery
Cause my love lives upon the other mountain and she named that agony
The folks up there don't marry us but we know our love is true
So every night we slip to the valley and love till one or two
Then I climb climb climb up misery she climbs agony
Goodnight love we'll meet again tomorrow down by the old oak tree
Climb up here and she's up there and they're keepin' us worlds apart
I'm in misery she's in agony and it nearly breaks my heart
The days are long every minute is longer than before
The sun goes down and the moon goes a climbin' and I leave my love once more
Then I climb climb climb...
Now there ain't no future and hide and love and I can't go on this way
I can't live on nighttime love and I want her everyday
There ain't no man and there ain't no mountain that can ever make me stop
I'm gonna bring her down from agony and overcome a mountain top
Till then I'll climb climb climb...
Till then I'll climb climb climb...
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4.
MIDNIGHT MOOD
(Sonny James - Carole Smith)
« © '68 Mike Curb Music, BMI »
Why has the sun lost its light since you're gone ain't nothin' right
I'm in a midnight mood
Coal can't no fire light in my soul when I ain't got ain't got no love to hold
I'm in a midnight mood
Together we keep the weather so sunny and warm every day
You leave me and and you grieve me you take you take the sunshine away
Rain will fall steady on my heart just as long as we are far apart
I'm in a midnight mood
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5.
CRAZY ARMS
(Ralph Mooney - Chuck Seals)
« © '56 Tree Publishing, BMI / Songs Of Universal, BMI »
Crazy arms that reach to hold somebody new
For my yearning heart keeps saying you're not mine
My troubled mind knows soon to another you'll be wed
And that's why I'm lonely all the time
Now blue ain't the word for the way that I feel
And the storm's brewing in this heart of mine
This ain't no crazy dream I know that it's real
You're someone else's love now you're not mine
Crazy arms that reach to...
So please take the treasured dreams I had for you and me
And take all the love I thought was mine
Someday my crazy arms may hold somebody new but now I'm so lonely all the time
Crazy arms that reach to...
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6.
IT'S OVER
(Jimmie Rodgers)
« © '33 Peer International, BMI »
If time were not a moving thing and I could make it stay
This hour of love we share would always be there'd be no coming day
To shine a morning light and make us realize our night is over
When you walk away from me there is no place to put my hand
Except to shade my eyes against the sun that rises o'er the land
I watch you walk away somehow I have to let you go cause it's over
If you knew just how I really feel you might return and yet
There are so many times people have to love and then forget
Oh though there might have been a way I have to force myself to say it's over
So I turn my back and turn my colar to the wind
Move along in silence trying not to think at all
I send my feet before me walk the silence street before me it's over
[ ac.guitar ]
If time were not a moving thing...
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7.
FAIRY TALES
(Sonny James - Jerry Smith)
« © '68 Mike Curb Music, BMI »
I told all the stars up above that I'd never lose your precious love
And I told them how true you would be now they laugh back at me
At my old fairy tales fairy tales and make believe
And I wonder who I deceive with my fairy tales
You're gone but I say I don't care I pretend that you never would dare
I keep telling our friends I'm all right I don't miss you each night
But it's just fairy tales...
Tomorrow the hurt will have cease and I won't think of you and the least
I'll be too busy thinking of when I will find love again
But it's just fairy tales...
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8.
SHE THINKS I STILL CARE
(Dickey Lee - Steve Duffy)
« © '62 Glad Music, BMI / Pappy Daily Music, BMI / Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
Just because I asked a friend about her just because I spoke her name somewhere
Just because I rang her number by mistake today she thinks I still care
Just because I haunt the same old places
Where the mem'ry of her lingers everywhere
Just because I'm not the happy guy I used to be she thinks I still care
Oh if she's happy thinking I still need her then let that silly notion bring her cheer
But how could she ever be so foolish where would she get such an idea
Just because I asked a friend about her just because I spoke her name somewhere
Just bacause I saw her then went all to pieces she thinks I still care
She thinks I still care
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9.
BLUES CAN'T KEEP A GOOD MAN DOWN
(Sonny James - Carole Smith)
« © '68 Mike Curb Music, BMI »
When your true love says the time has come to part
And the blues make a homestead of your heart
You may cry you may suffer but I'd found the blues can't keep a good man down
With the blues living in you'll walk the floor with each day bluer than the day before
It may help to go out paint the town the blues can't keep a good man down
[ harmonica - ac.guitar ]
One time more and the sun will shine again
You'll know then that the blues can never win
Soon your heart will begin to look around
The blues can't keep a good man down mhm
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10.
I'M HAVING A HARD TIME (GETTING OVER YOU)
(Ted Riedel)
« © '68 Mike Curb Music, BMI »
I'm having a hard time getting over you
And telling my friends that we're really through
I cry my eyes out but bygone what it do I'm having a hard time getting over you
A hard time getting over you
I go on pretending you'll come back again though I know I'm pretending in vain
But I'll keep on hoping tomorrow will bring our hearts back together again
I'm having a hard time...
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11.
DON'T BE ANGRY
(Wade Jackson)
« © '58 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Don't be angry with me darling if I fail to understand
All your little whims and wishes all the time
Just remember that I'm dumb I guess like any foolish man
And my head stays sorta foggy cause you're mine
Well I recall the first time that I flirted with you dear
When I jokingly said come and be my bride
Now that time has turned the pages it's the sweetest joke on earth
That I have you here forever by my side
Maybe someday you're gonna hurt me I've been hurting of before
Only God can know and time alone will tell
In the mean time I'll keep loving you with all my heart and soul
And pray God to let it last if it's his will
So don't be angry with me darling...
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12.
LOVE IS A HAPPY SONG
(Sonny James - Richard Hollingsworth)
« © '68 Mike Curb Music, BMI »
Love love love is a happy love is a happy song
Love love love love love is a happy song
Clap your hands snap your fingers find you a love don't you linger
Put that ring on her finger love is a happy song
Love love love is a happy...
Hold your best girl arms around her you'll be so glad glad you found her
Lovin' just makes a world go round her love is happy song
Love love love is a happy...
[ ac.guitar ]
Clap ypur hands...
Love love love is a happy...
Love love love is a happy...
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