Jones made his debut for Epic with We Go Together, his first duet album with his wife Tammy Wynette. Recorded only three years into their marriage, the album focuses on the joys of their love and has an optimistic eye toward the future — chapter one of the soap opera the two would commit to vinyl over the next several years. The two redo three songs from George's catalog — "Take Me" (a Top 10 hit both times), "Never Grow Cold," and "A Girl I Used to Know" (this time titled "Someone I Used to Know").

TAMMY WYNETTE & GEORGE JONES
WE GO TOGETHER
(Epic E-30802)
September/1971
Produced by Billy Sherrill


1.
WE GO TOGETHER
(Norro Wilson - Danny Walls - Sammy Lyons)
« © '71 Algee Music, BMI »

The places where we used to meet we go togehter
Step by step like shoes on the feet we go together
Just like the sand out in the sea what good is sugar if you have no tea
What good're you if you don't have me we go together

That old feeling we used to get even feels better
There was a girl you made me forget the day I met her
Just like the tears in a baby's eyes just like the stars up in the sky
Like icecream and an apple pie we go together
We go together like the storm and rain just like the fire that needs the flame
Just like the picture needs the frame we go together
We go together like the moon and June just like the fork needs the spoon
Just like the song that needs the tune we go together
[ guitar ] We go together
[ guitar ] We go together
Yeah the places where we used to meet...
We go together like the storm and rain...
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2.

IT'S SO SWEET
(George Jones - Tammy Wynette)
« © '71 Glad Music, BMI / Pappy Daily Music, BMI »

It's so sweet to love you darling love we thought we'd never find
All the happiness you give me just to know your love is mine

Love is such a happy feeling one can feel love through and through
When together there is nothing that can bother me and you
It's so sweet...
Nothing tempts our love to woman for we love too much to stray
Hold my hand if you should weaken love grows stronger day by day
It's so sweet...
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3.

SOMETHING TO BRAG ABOUT
(Bobby Braddock)
« © '70 Tree Publishing, BMI »

I've got a real important job in a large office building riding people in an elevator
I drive a '57 Chevrolet with busted tail lights burnt out valves and leaky radiator
I wear a twenty dollar suit I bought from JC Penny's back in 1962
But I've got something to brag about something to brag about
Something to brag about in you
I'm a short order cook at an all night cafe down on 18th Avenue and 12th Street
I wear a swinging mini dress that I made for myself
From mama's kitchen curtains and old bed sheets
I've got seventeen pages of top value stamps and one old pair of shoes
But I've got something to brag about something to brag about
Something to brag about in you
When you're with the fellas I know you start to bragging
Bout my hour glass figure and my big brown eyes
Well you tell your girlfriends bout my sweet sweet lovin'
And that's one pleasure that money can't buy
[ guitar ] So let's get married in the not too distant future
We'll rent a little flat on 29th Street
You know we'll hang our washing on a clothesline from the window
We'll feast on cornbread butter beans and lunchmeat
We won't have a thermostat or a big long Cadillac but we'll have a love that's true
And I'll have something to brag about and I'll have something to brag about
Something to brag about in you
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4.

NEVER GROW COLD
(George Jones - Tammy Wynette)
« © '71 Glad Music, BMI / Pappy Daily Music, BMI »

Some folks live like a king think they have everything
With great riches and treasures untold
Well we don't tell what they do but when our day is through
We've got love that would never grow cold
Never grow cold never grow cold our love will never grow cold
Never grow cold it will never grow cold our love will never grow cold

When my life here is through when they take me from you
When our earthly possessions are sold
They can have what we own still for me things are gone
We've got love that would never grow cold
Never grow cold...
Our love will never grow cold
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5.

YOU'RE EVERYTHING
(Tammy Wynette)
« © '71 Songs Of Universal, BMI »

You're everything my heart has cried for everything I've heard and tried for
You're the only thing I glide for you belong to me
You're the only one I dream for only one I cheat and scheme for
No one else I'd fight and scream for you belong to me
You're the one thing I can't do without and you're the only one I'd never doubt
You're exactly what I knew you'd be you're the reason I'm completely me
You're the only one who wants me only one some day will haunt me
You're everything I wanted it to be
Yes you're everything that means everything to me
Yes you're everything that means everything to me
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6.

TAKE ME
(Leon Payne - George Jones)
« © '64 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »

Take me take me to your darkest room close every window and bolt every door
The very first moment I heard your voice I'd be in darkness no more
Take me to your most barren desert a thousand miles from the nearest sea
The very moment I saw your smile it would be like heaven to me
There's not any mountain too rocky to climb no desert too barren to cross
Darling if you could just show a sign of love I could bear any loss
Take me to Siberia and to coldest weather of the wintertime
And it would be just like spring in California as long as I knew you were mine
Yes it would be just like spring in California as long as I knew you were mine
Take me take me
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7.

JUST SOMEONE I USED TO KNOW
(Jack Clement)
« © '62 Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »

There's a picture that I carry one we made some time ago
When they ask who's in the picture with me I say just someone I used to know
Just someone I used to spend some time with just a flame that lost its glow
I don't tell them how lost I am without you I say just someone I used to know
[ steel ] Just someone I used to run around with just a friend from long ago
I don't tell them how lost I am without you I say just someone I used to know
I say just someone I used to know
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8.

LIVING ON EASY STREET
(Melba Montgomery - Earl Montgomery)
« © '67 Glad Music, BMI / Pappy Daily Music, BMI »

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9.

LIFETIME LEFT TOGETHER
(Tammy Wynette)
« © '71 Glad Music, BMI / Pappy Daily Music, BMI »

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10.

WHEN TRUE LOVE STEPS IN
(Carmol Taylor - Shirley Tackitt)
« © '71 Algee Music, BMI »

When I met him he was lonely from a love that went wrong
And I helped him to forgive about the life he have known
And I gave him the courage to start over again
Yes it's funny how people change when true love steps in
And when I met her she was looking for a true and good time
And when she found out someone cared it changed her ways in her mind
And then I asked her to go with me I didn't care where she'd been
Ain't it funny how people change when true love steps in
True love stepped in and I know it will last
If we live for tomorrow and forget about the past
For the first time in a long time we're happy again
Yes it's funny how people change when true love steps in
Yes it's funny how people change when true love steps in
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11.

AFTER CLOSING TIME
(Billy Sherrill - Norro Wilson - Danny Walls)
« © '71 Algee Music, BMI »

Well you can find me servin' drinks inside a honky tonk
And I'll even play the jukebox on your dime
And sometimes I will dance with you to your favorite song
Yeah but she'll be mine after closin' time
She will smile at all the men and shake her pretty hips
And you can yell and say she look so fine
But I'm not looking for a man I'm looking for their tips
And then she'll be mine after closin' time
When they turn the lights out that's when I'll turn him on
Oh she can serve me love much better than wine
So when they close the doors I guess who takes me home
And she'll be mine after closin' time
[ guitar ] Tomorrow night I'll still be there inside the honky tonk
And I'll still play the jukebox on your dime
Yeah as long as you keep buyin' drinks she'll smile and lead you on
But she'll be mine after closin' time
When they turn the lights out...
And she'll be mine after closin' time
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George Jones Discography