CLAUDE KING
MEET CLAUDE KING
(Columbia CS-8610)
June/1962
Produced by Don Law & Frank Jones
Grady Martin, Jerry Kennedy - lead guitar
Hank Garland - guitar/banjo
Harold Bradley - bass guitar
Ray Edenton, Gerald Tomlinson - rh.guitar
Joe Zinkan - bass
Buddy Harman - drums
Floyd Cramer - piano
Maybelle Carter - autoharph
Bill McElhiney - trumpet
Vocals:
The Anita Kerr Singers
The Jordanaires
The Glaser Bros
Recorded:
May 18/1961, Bradley Film & Recording Studio, Nashville (5,6)
Aug 3/1961, Bradley Film & Recording Studio, Nashville (11)
Sept 1/1961, Bradley Film & Recording Studio, Nashville (1)
Jan 24/1962, Bradley Film & Recording Studio, Nashville (4,9)
Jan 25/1962, Bradley Film & Recording Studio, Nashville (2,3,8,10)
Jan 26/1962, Bradley Film & Recording Studio, Nashville (7,12)
1.
COMANCHEROS
(Tillman Franks)
« © '61 Robbins Catalog, ASCAP »
The Comancheros are takin' this land
The Comancheros are takin' this land
Paul Regret of New Orleans a fast man with a gun
Didn't want to go but he had to run when he shot down the judge's son
Yes he shot judge Moebeam's son
With the dark of night he left that town never to return again
With a one-way ticket at the end of the line
He was told by a stranger man
The Comancheros are takin' this land
And then the Comancheros came ridin' through the night
Stealin' and a killin' takin' everything in sight
Nothin' left behind but a blood in the sand
The Comancheros are takin' this land
The Comancheros are takin' this land
[ trumpet ]
I'll cover every inch of the ground where I stand I'd die before I'd run
I'm not afraid of any living man and here I'll make my stand
With a gun I'll make my stand
He rode into the Comanchero town like a wild man on the run
Before he'd leave they'd all be dead they died by his blazin' gun
They died by his blazin' gun
And then the Comancheros came ridin' through the night...
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2.
YOU'RE BREAKING MY HEART
(Harriett Melka)
« © '56 Peer International, BMI »
(You're treating me wrong you're breaking my heart)
The clothes that I wear are shabby and old
But I'll never spend your silver and gold
Each night I'm alone we're drifting apart
You're treating me wrong you're breaking my heart
You've shattered my hopes my dreams are all gone
My life is so bare how can I go on
You never will change it's too late to start
You're treating me wrong you're breaking my heart
[ piano ]
Once I was free the one in your dreams
But now that I'm yours you forgot me it seems
The things you have done have torn us apart
You're treating me wrong you're breaking my heart
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3.
I'M JUST HERE TO GET MY BABY OUT OF JAIL
(Karl Davis - Harty Taylor)
« © '34 Songs Of Universal, BMI »
I'm not in your town to stay said a lady old and gray
To the warden of the penitentiary
I'm not in your town to stay and I'll soon be on my way
I'm just here to get my baby out of jail
(Yes warden I'm just here to get my baby out of jail)
I tried to raise him right and I prayed both day and night
That he'd never follow the footsteps of his dad
I have searched both far and wide and I feared that he had died
Now at last I found my baby here in jail
(Yes warden at last I found my baby here in jail)
It was just five years today since my husband passed away
He was found beneath the snow so cold and white
Made a vow to keep his ring his golden watch and his chain
But the county laid my husband in the ground
(Yes warden the county laid my husband in the ground)
[ guitar ]
I will pawn you my watch I will pawn you my chain
I will pawn you my golden diamond ring
I will wash all your clothes I will scrub all your floors
If that will get my baby out of jail
(Yes warden if that will get my baby out of jail)
Then we heard the warden say to that lady old and gray
I will bring your baby boy to your side
Two big iron gates swung wide apart she held her darlin' to her heart
She kissed her baby boy and then she died
(Yes smiling in the arms of her darling boy she died)
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4.
GIVE ME YOUR LOVE AND I'LL GIVE YOU MINE
(A.P. Carter)
« © '61 Peer International, BMI »
Just at the close of a bright summer day
Just as the twilight had faded away
Soft on the breeze like the coo of a dove
Someone was singing an old song of love
Tell me you love me and say you'll be true
I love nobody in this world but you
Your heart and my heart in love will entwine
You give me your love and I'll give you mine
Stroll along with me to the quiet shady nook
Where flowers bloom at the side of the brook
Nature is sleepin' the birds are at rest
I'll place a wild rose on your beautiful breast
Tell me you love me and say you'll be true...
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5.
BIG RIVER BIG MAN
(Mike Phillips - George Watson)
« © '61 Robbins Catalog, ASCAP »
Way down on Mississippi big river came a mighty big man
He built a town on that river and owned everything in that glen
He fell in love and married a girl she was young and mean and wild
He vowed he'd tame her but it couldn't been done
She was too late to devil's own child
Big river (keep on flowin' flowin') big man (keep on growin' growin')
Big river (keep on flowin' flowin') big man (keep on growin' growin')
The love you have for greed and power will surely pull you down
You lose your friends you lose your soul in that darn city to big man's town
Big river (keep on flowin' flowin') big man (keep on growin' growin')
Big river (keep on flowin' flowin') big man (keep on growin' growin')
Look down in the water all around to hear the steamboat whistle blow
Come on big man get a movin' you got a long way to go
Just like a big river big man you gotta move on and on
Take your money keep your dough you're gonna be left all alone
Big river (keep on growin' growin')...
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6.
SWEET LOVIN'
(Tillman Franks - Clyde Baum)
« © '61 Magic Circle Pubishing, BMI »
Sweet lovin' sweet lovin' can't you hear my pleadin'
You know that I'm needin' some sweet lovin' tonight
Flowers love sunshine violets love dew
Angels in heaven know I love you
You are the flower of my life
And I want some sweet lovin' tonight
Sweet lovin' sweet lovin'...
I love the way you smile when you talk
I love the way you look when you walk
I want to tell you darling it's true
I love everything about you
Sweet lovin' sweet lovin'...
[ banjo ]
I don't need money or things that can buy
I don't want silver and I'll tell you why
All that I need to make everything right
Is to have some sweet lovin' tonight
Sweet lovin' sweet lovin'...
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7.
WOLVERTON MOUNTAIN
(Merle Kilgore - Claude King)
« © '62 Painted Desert Music, BMI »
They say don't go on Wolverton Mountain
If you're looking for a wife
Cause Clifton Clovers has a pretty young daughter
He's mighty handy with a gun and a knife
Her tender lips are sweeter than honey
And Wolverton Mountain protects her there
The bears and the birds tell Clifton Clovers
If a stranger should enter there
All of my dreams are on Wolverton Mountain
I want his daughter for my wife
I'll take my chances and climb that mountain
Though Clifton Clovers he might take my life
Her tender lips are sweeter than honey...
I'm going up on Wolverton Mountain
It's too lonesome down here below
It's just not right to hide his daughter
From the one who loves her so
Her tender lips are sweeter than honey...
But I don't care about Clifron Clovers
I'm gonna climb up on his mountain
I'm gonna take the girl I love
I don't care about Clifron Clovers
I'm a gonna climb up on that mountain
And I'll get the one I love
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8.
WOULD YOU CARE
(Tillman Franks - Addison Cole)
« © '61 Southern Music, ASCAP »
Would you care if I should leave you would you care if we should part
Would your heartache just a little tell me darling would you care
Lift your eyes to mine my darling let me see the love like there
For you know I love you dearly and to me there's none so fair
Yet at times I often wonder would you care if I dare
Tell you that my love had vanished tell me sweetheart would you care
Would you care if I should leave you would you care if we should part
Would you care if someone told you that another won my heart
Would you care if you found me mostly held in someone's arms
Would your heartache just a little tell me darling would you care
[ ac.guitar ]
Just suppose that I should leave you and tomorrow I'd be gone
Would your sweet lips still remember the kisses that we've known
Would you want me back my darling would your heart still feel the same
Would the lonely tears shown in your eyes each time you hear my name
Would you care if I should leave you...
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9.
PISTOL PACKIN' PAPA
(Al Dexter)
« © '42 Peer International, BMI »
(He's a pistol packin' papa)
I'm a pistol packin' papa and when I walk down the streets
You can hear those people shouting don't turn your gun on me
Now folks I'm just a good guy and I'm going to have my fun
If you don't want to smell my smoke don't monkey with my gun
Sometimes one shot will do him sometimes it takes four or five
Sometimes I shoot all around me before I'm satisfied
When you hear my pistol poppin' you better hide someplace
Cause I ain't made for stoppin' and I come from a shootin' race
My sweetheart understands me she says I'm her big shot
I'm a pistol packin' papa and I don't know when to stop
When I have that funny feeling that luring ramblers talk
I swing aboard some freight trains and I shoot my pistol off
You can have my Newport roadster you can have my Stetson hat
Bou you can never take from me my silver mounty cat
I'm a pistol packin' papa I'm going to have my fun
Just follow me you will hear the bucking of my gun
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10.
LITTLE BITTY HEART
(Claude King)
« © '62 Painted Desert Music, BMI »
The strangest thing in all the world is a heart so small
It will just keep right on breaking if you ever let it fall
And I guess I've never known how to solve the mystery
Oh how a thing so tiny could control so much of me
A little bitty love can grow the strongest
A little bitty time away from you can be the longest
Oh how I wish I had never come to know
How a little bitty heart can break so big
[ ac.guitar ]
I wish that I could find a way to get a heart that's new
I would lock it deep inside me just out of reach of you
But I guess there is no way how to solve the mystery
Oh how a thing so tiny could control so much of me
A little bitty love can grow...
How a little bitty heart can break so big
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11.
I CAN'T GET OVER THE WAY YOU GOT OVER ME
(Claude King)
« © '61 Magic Circle Publishing, BMI »
I can't get over the way you got over me (so soon)
You just turned your back and then you walked away
I get my own to show my love was true (for you)
You'll never know how much I'm missing you
Oh I've got to learn how to learn how to get over you
Poor little me I loved you too much too long
I can't get over the way you got over me (so soon)
You just turned your back and then you walked away
[ piano ]
Oh I've got to learn how...
You just turned your back and then you walked away
(You walked away)
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12.
I BACKED OUT
(Tompall Glaser)
« © '62 Ensign Music, BMI »
Thought about goin' back to you thought about holdin' you in my arms
Thought about kissing you too and got to my feet
And I thought that you cheat
Couldn't do it and I backed out
Thought about leaving this city catch the very next plane out of town
Took my suitcases down and got to the door
Hadn't seen you once more
Couldn't leave you and I backed out
Backed out of it ride into it from the devil to the deep blue sea
Can't live with you and can't live without you
Don't know what's gonna happen to me
(Don't know what's gonna happen to me)
[ ac.guitar ]
Backed out of it ride into it from the devil to the deep blue sea
Can't live with you and can't live without you
Don't know what's gonna happen to me
Couldn't leave you and I backed out
Don't know what's gonna happen to me
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