lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

TAKE A LETTER MARIA

(R.B. Greaves) « © '69 Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
Last night as I got home about a half past ten
There was a woman I thought I knew in the arms of another man
I kept my cool I ain't no fool lemme tell you what I happened then
I packed some clothes and I walked out and I ain't goin' back again

So take a letter Maria addressed to my wife
Sayin' I won't be coming home gotta start a new life
So take a letter Maria addressed to my wife
Sayin' a copy to my lawyer gotta start a new life

You been many things but most of all a good secretary to me
And in times like this I feel that you'll always be close to me
Was I wrong to work nights to try to fill a good life
All work and no play it's just caused me a wife

So take a letter Maria addressed to my wife...

Well a man loves a woman it's hard to understand
That she would find no pleasure in the arms of another man
Maria I never really noticed how sweet you are to me
It just all happenes I'm free tonight would you like a dinner with me

So take a letter Maria addressed to my wife...
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2.

RUBY DON'T TAKE YOUR LOVE TO TOWN

(Mel Tillis) « © '66 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
You've painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair
Ruby are you contemplating going out somewhere
The shadow on the wall tells me the sun is going down
Oh Ruby don't take your love to town

Fot it wasn't me that started that old crazy Asian war
But I was proud to go and do my patriotic chore
And Ruby I know that I'm not the man I used to be
Oh Ruby I still need your company

It's hard to love a man whose legs are bent and paralized
And the wants and the needs of a woman your age Ruby I realize
But it won't be long I've heard them say until I'm not around
Oh Ruby don't take your love to town

She's leaving now cause I just heard the slamming of the door
The way I know I've heard it slam one hundred times before
And if I could get my gun you know I put her in the ground
Oh Ruby don't take your love to town
Oh Ruby don't take your love to town
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3.

TO SEE MY ANGEL CRY

(Conway Twitty - L.E. White - Charles Haney) « © '69 Tree Publishing, BMI »
(To see an angel cry)

See her there see her crying she thinks she loves him so
She don't know how much it hurts me to hear her beg him not to go
If she were mine again I'd never let the tears fill her eyes
But she don't know how much it hurts me to see an angel cry

Once she built her world around me but like a fool I tore it down
And she begged me not to leave her just the way she's doing now
But she's begging to another with that same hurt in her eyes
But she ddon't know how much it hurts me to see an angel cry

I didn't know how much I loved her till she turned and walked away
And I didn't know how much I hurt her until I saw her here this way
If she were mine I'd hold her forever and dry the tears from her eyes
But she ddon't know how much it hurts me to see my angel cry
She ddon't know how much it hurts me to see my angel cry
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4.

WORDS

(Barry Gibb - Maurice Gibb - Robin Gibb) « © '68 Crompton Songs, BMI / Gibb Brothers Music, BMI »
Smile an everlasting smile a smile can bring you near to me
Don't ever let me find you're down cause that would bring a tear to me
This world has lost its glory let's start a brand new story now my love
Right now there'll be no other time and I can show you how my love

Talk an everlasting words and dedicate them all to me
And I will give you all my life I'm here if you should call to me
You think that I don't even mean a single word I say
It's only words and words are all I have to take your heart away

You think that I don't even mean a single word I say
It's only words and words are all I have to take your heart away
It's only words and words are all I have to take your heart away
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5.

I STILL LOVE YOU

(Anthony A. Jones) « © '69 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
I knew from the very start that you would never care
But just the thoughts of losing you were more than my heart could bear
I kept hoping there'd come a time when love we both would find
But now I know I can never make you mine

Love is a simple thing but I know it must be shared
With us my love was true but your love just wasn't there
I'll forget you maybe in time but only God can erase your love from my mind
And it's useless I can never make you mine

I'll keep trying to find the way to make you mine
To prove my love is true and hope and pray you'll love me too
What else can I do I still love you
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6.

LITTLE DEEDS OF KINDNESS

(Vince Bulla - Peter Cotton) « © '69 Peach Music, BMI »
It's your little deeds of kindness and your little words of love
It's all the many things you do
It's your little deeds of kindness and your little words of love
That make me wanna keep on loving you

Happiness I found is just a thing called love
And the love I found is just a thing called you
Cause loving the thing that I see plenty of
In the little deeds of kindness that you do

It's your little deeds of kindness...
[ guitar ] The only thing that's brighter than my morning sun
Is every morning's happy thought of you
And as I count my blessings all the one by one
I count the deeds of kindness that you do

It's your little deeds of kindness...
It's your little deeds of kindness...
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7.

WICHITA LINEMAN

(Jim Webb) « © '68 PolyGram Int, ASCAP »
I am the lineman for the county and I drive the main road
Searching in the sun for another overload
I hear you singing in the wires I can hear you through the whine
And the Wichita lineman is still on the line

I know I need a small vacation but it don't look like rain
And if it snows that stretch down south won't ever stand the strain
And I need you more than want you and I'll want you for all time
And the Wichita lineman is still on the line
[ steel ] And I need you more than want you and I'll want you for all time
And the Wichita lineman is still on the line
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8.

SWEET CAROLINE

(Neil Diamond) « © '69 Prophet Music, SESAC »
Where it began I can't begin to know it
But then I know it's growing strong
Was in the spring and spring became a summer
Who'd have believe you'd come along

Hand touching hand reaching out touching me touching you
Sweet Caroline good times never seemed so good
I've been inclined to believe they never would

But now I look at the night and it don't seem so lonely
We fill it up with only two
And when I've hurt hurtin' runs off my shoulder
How can I hurt when holding you

One touching one reaching out touching me touching you
Sweet Caroline good times never seemed so good
I've been inclined to believe they never would
[ piano - steel ] Sweet Caroline good times never seemed so good
Sweet Caroline good times never seemed so good
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9.

EVERYBODY'S TALKIN'

(Fred Neil) « © '67 Third Palm Music, BMI »
Everybody's talkin' at me I don't hear a word they're sayin'
Only the echoes of my mind
People stop and starin' I can't see their faces
Only the shadows of their eyes

I'm going where the sun keeps shining through the pouring rain
Going where the weather suits my clothes
Bankin' off of the northeast wind sailing on a summer breeze
Skippin' over the ocean like a stone
[ steel ] I'm going where the sun keeps shining...

Everybody's talkin' at me I don't hear a word they're sayin'
Only the echoes of my mind
Oh and I won't leave my love behind
Oh and I won't leave my love behind
Only the echoes of my mind
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10.

ONE FOR THE ROAD

(Liz Anderson) « © '69 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
You don't want me anymore you're sending me away
The love that burned so bright has lost its glow
But this is all I'm asking for before I leave today
One kiss now and one more for the road

Two kisses I must have before I go
One kiss goodbye and one more for the road
[ guitar ] I never know when one more kiss will help me sort to face
The cold and empty future without you
Or when to have the mem'ry of that one last warm embrace
Will be just one that takes to see me through

Two kisses I must have before I go...
Two kisses I must have before I go...
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