SAMMY KERSHAW
HAUNTED HEART
(Mercury 514332)
March/1993
Produced by Norro Wilson & Buddy Cannon
Steve Gibson, Brent Mason, Michael Severs - el.guitar
Ken Bell, John Willis, Bill Hullett - ac.guitar
Weldon Myrick, Sonny Garrish - steel/dobro
Mike Chapman, Larry Paxton - bass
Steve Turner, Jerry Kroon - drums
Rob Hajacos, Ozzie Osment - fiddle
David Briggs, Costo Davis - piano/keyboards
Danny Parks - mandolin
Terry McMillan - harmonica/percussion
Vopcals:
Shania Twain, Melonie Cannon, Curtis Young, Dennis Wilson
1.
MEMORY THAT JUST WON'T QUIT
(Walt Aldridge - Susan Longacre)
« © '93 Famous Music, ASCAP / Lehsem Music, ASCAP /
Publishing Twos Music, ASCAP / WB Music, ASCAP »
I saw your car today it looked like it anyway
Those foreign makes all look the same
It took me way back to that time when I watched you
Slam the door and drive away
Ever since that night I just can't shake your memory
It's everywhere I go and every thing I see
It's all over town tryin' to track me down
Making sure that your old flame stays lit
Just like a blue tick hound dogging me around
You've got a mem'ry just won't quit
[ guitar ]
I've been out a time or two but what's a man to do
When your mem'ry tags along
I tried to give it the slip I got out in front of it
But somehow it always beats me home
It always seems to hunt me down and chase me up a tree
No matter what I just can't lose your memory
It's all over town...
Just like a blue tick hound
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2.
QUEEN OF MY DOUBLE WIDE TRAILER
(Dennis Linde)
« © '93 Blackwood Music, BMI »
Well I met her out at Murphy's Restaurant she said she was fresh from the farm
And I remember thinking for a country girl that she went pretty well armed
We sat there talking by the lobster tank I ordered her a slow gin fizz
And when them chicken fried steaks arrived she said I like living like this
So I made her the queen of my double wide trailer
With the polyester curtains and the redwood deck
Times she's run off and I've got to trail her
Dang her black heart and her pretty red neck
[ guitar ]
Well a few nights later I run into her with some stranger on a park bench
She said he rebuilds engines and his name is Earl
He's the Charlie Daniels of the torque wrench
I whispered honey let's just go on home and have some onion rings and watch TV
And as I walked her to the truck Earl was crying don't you leave me
I said this is the queen...
[ steel ]
I said this is the queen...
I said this is the queen...
Oh she's the queen she's the queen
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3.
STILL LOVIN' YOU
(Rock Killough)
« © '93 Final Approach Publishing, BMI / Songs Of Universal, BMI »
I thought you might want to stay if I put my guitar away
Quit the band and came home to stay but that wouldn't do
And this ol' guitar of mine used to ease my troubled mind
Now everyday I find it's lonesome too
Here I go again blowing my show again
Unable to glow again still lovin' you
Loosing my hope again at the end of my rope again
Unable to cope again still lovin' you
[ steel ]
I must've been million miles I must've faked a million smiles
Just can't get reconciled to be without you
And I'd like to start again and replay my part again
Not break your heart again I can't stand these blues
Here I go again...
I'm unable to cope again still lovin' you
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4.
SHE DON'T KNOW SHE'S BEAUTIFUL
(Bob McDill - Paul Harrison)
« © '93 Ranger Bob Music, ASCAP / PolyGram Int, ASCAP / Careers Music, BMI »
We go out to a party somewhere the moment we walk in the door
People stop and everybody stares she don't know what they're staring for
She don't know she's beautiful (never crossed her mind)
She don't know she's beautiful (no she's not that kind)
She don't know she's beautiful though time and time I told her so
[ fiddle ]
There she goes just walking down the street and someone lets a whistle out
A girl like her she just can't see what the fuss is all about
And she don't know she's beautiful...
[ guitar ]
Morning comes and her hair's all a mess that's when she thinks she looks her worst
It's times like this she don't know why I can't take my eyes off her
And she don't know she's beautiful...
She don't know she's beautiful...
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5.
I CAN'T REACH HER ANYMORE
(Mark Petersen - Bruce Theien)
« © '93 Ray Stevens Music, BMI »
She still answers whenever I call we talk about work and the weather and all
If I mention the past or maybe coming back home
It ain't long till I hear that old cold dial tone
I still got her number but I can't reach her anymore
I can't reach out and touch her heart the way I did before
She don't have much to talk about since my feet did the walking out
If she could only see them walk the floor
I still got her number but I can't reach her anymore
[ piano - steel ]
She says her job is hectic but it's beautiful outside
She might call in sick tomorrow and just take a drive
I said I'd really love to see you can I meet you somewhere
And then the conversation fades and long distance fills the air
Still got her number...
Still got her number...
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6.
HAUNTED HEART
(Buddy Brock - Kim Williams)
« © '92 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI / Cross Keys Publishing, ASCAP »
Go down a road called yesterday take a left on the lost highway
And make a right on memory lane drive until you feel the pain
At the river of tears take one last turn cross the bridge that just won't burn
A run down house is love's graveyard that's where you'll find my haunted heart
My haunted heart can't rest in peace it's buried with her memory
It's a living in here after dark all alone with a haunted heart
Late at night a slamming door shadows move cross the floor
Footsteps fall on silent stairs I hear her call but no one's there
Her photograph hangs by the bed a grind reminder love is dead
The love I killed just won't depart it's a living in my haunted heart
My haunted heart...
I said all alone with a haunted heart
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7.
NEON LEON
(Buddy Cannon - Larry Bastian)
« © '92 Rio Bravo Music, BMI / Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
Here he comes Neon Leon looking so fine with his gold chains on
Got a customized caddy with the top snapped down
He's known everywhere in town as Neon Leon
He's too cool Neon Leon out there twistin' designer shades on
He can bop he can boogie you right in the groove
And he's got all the moves he's Neon Leon
All the dancin' stops when he begins
The guys just watch while the girls go after him Neon Leon Neon Leon
[ piano ]
Cruisin' main Neon Leon goin' so slow his white scarf on
Got his hair slicked back a duck tail style
Cars backed up for miles for Neon Leon
Parked outside the drive-in eatin' fries
The coolest man in the world for a town this size Neon Leon Neon Leon
Man look at them fender skirts you ever seen so much chrome in your life
Look at the way he rolls them cigarettes up in his sleeves ain't that cool that's cool
I hear he's gonna move on down to Louisiana and buy him a bar
And call it you all Leons I'm gonna go there
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8.
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
(Dean Dillon - Donny Kees)
« © '92 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
You were the only woman for the longest time
And I'll admit that even now you still cross my mind
Cause we had what others only dream about but that was then and this is now
We used to be red hot lovers swore we'd always be each other's
You and me used to be what might have been
There was a time I couldn't take my eyes off you
And I could tell by your touch you didn't want me to
And if I had you over again we wouldn't be apart
Cause I still go on loving you in my heart
We used to be red hot lovers...
I wonder to this day why I let you slip away
We used to be red hot lovers...
Oh you and me used to be what should have been
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9.
YOU'VE GOT A LOCK ON MY LOVE
(Buddy Cannon - Larry Bastian)
« © '92 Rio Bravo Music, BMI / Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
When I go walkin' down the street
The girls that used to catch my eye don't interest me
I got my mind on you instead Marilyn Monroe could not turn my head
Don't you see I've got a one track mind you've got me wearing blinders
You've got a lock on my love baby ain't going no where can't you see
You've got a lock on my love baby throw away the key
I never thought I'd see the day I'd be happy bout a woman takin' my freedom away
Never thought I'd walk the line but baby let me say the pleasure is all mine
Let the other guys make the rounds looking for what I found
You've got a lock on my love...
Making love to me just used to be a game to play
But when I met you I threw my little black book away
You've got a lock on my love...
You've got a lock on my love...
Throw away the key throw away the key
Throw away the key throw away the key
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10.
CRY CRY DARLING
(Jimmy D. Miller - Jimmy Newman)
« © '53 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Cry cry darling that's what I do if you'd leave me with the blues
Cry cry darling that's all I do if it's you I should lose
For me there'd be no sunshine if we should ever part
Cry cry darling that's what I do cause you're the one in my heart
[ guitar ]
Cry cry darling my eyes will cry and never dry if you should go
Cry cry darling when shadows creep I'll just weep all night I know
Girl you know how much I would miss you if we should ever part
Cry cry darling that's what I do cause you're the one in my heart
Cry cry darling that's all I do cause you're the one in my heart
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