MEMPHIS PORTRAIT
(Decca DL-75232)
May/1970
Produced by Chips Moman
Reggie Young - lead guitar
Johnny Christopher - rh.guitar
Mike Leech - bass
Gene Chrisman - drums
Bobby Wood - piano
Bobby Emmons - organ
Glen Spreen - strings/horns
1.
GIVE A HAND TAKE A HAND
(Barry Gibb - Maurice Gibb)
« © '70 Crompton Songs, BMI / Gibb Brothers Music, BMI »
Wish the world was run by all little children we could be happy once again
And we won't hurt when we're like little children we won't ever feel the pain
When my fight for life on earth is over and I leave cause I can't stand it
Just let the world let it keep right on loving we'll all join hands another day
Everybody's got to feel the pain everybody's got to take a hand
Everybody's got to fall in love to make everybody understand
Everybody's got to be to take a hand
I love you I told you a million times do you believe what I said
All my love belongs to you here after we'll all join hands another day
Everybody's got to feel the hurt...
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2.
LEAVING ON A JET PLANE
(John Denver)
« © '69 Cherry Lane Music, ASCAP / Music Of 1091, ASCAP »
Oh my bags are packed I'm ready to go I'm standing here outside your door
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye
But the dawn is breaking it's early morn the taxi's waitin' he's blowing his horn
Already I'm so lonesome I could cry
So kiss me and smile for me tell me that you'll wait for me
Hold me like you'll never let me go
I'm leaving on a jet plane I don't know when I'll be back again
Oh babe I hate to go
There's so many times I've let me down so many times I've played around
I tell you now that they don't mean a thing
Every place I'll go I'll think of you every song I'll sing I'll sing for you
When I come back I'll wear your wedding ring
So kiss me and smile for me...
Now the time has come to leave you one more time let me kiss you
Then close your eyes and I'll be on my way
Dream about the days to come when I won't have to leave alone
About the times I won't have to say
So kiss me and smile for me...
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3.
SO CLOSE TO HEAVEN
(Bobby Weinstein - Jon Stroll)
« © '70 Blackwood Music, BMI »
Lightning flashed thunder roared and all the future that I counted on
In a moment it had come and gone
By the time I could turn around you were gone and I was all alone
Sort of like the comet beyond the star
You brought me so close to heaven I was so high off of the ground
So close to heaven and I think I may never come down
Nature laughed I discovered you someone I could tell my troubles to
Guess I learned some things I never knew
You brought me so close to heaven I was so high off of the ground
So close so close and I think I may never come down
So close to heaven so high off of the ground
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4.
GAMES PEOPLE PLAY
(Joe South)
« © '68 ATV Songs, BMI »
Oh the games people now every night and every day now
Never meanin' what they say now never sayin' what they mean
And they wile away the hours in their ivory towers
Till they're covered up with flowers in the back of a black limousine
Na na da la da da da na na da la a dee de dee
Talkin' bout you and me and the games people play
Oh we make one another cry break a heart then we say goodbye
Cross our hearts and we hope to die that the other one's to blame
Neither one will ever give in so we gaze at an eight by ten
Thinkin' bout the things that might have been it's a dirty rotten shame
Na na da la da da da...
People walking up to ya singing glory hallelujah
And they're tryin' to sock it to ya in the name of the Lord
They're gonna teach you how to meditate read your horoscope and cheat your fate
And furthermore to hell with hate come on and get on board
Na na da la da da da...
Look around tell me what you see what's happened to you and me
God grand me the serenity just to remember who I am
Cause you've given up your sanity for your pride and your vanity
Turn your back on humanity and you don't give a da da da
Na na da la da da da...
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5.
I THINK I LOVE YOU AGAIN
(Tony Wine - Irvin Lewine)
« © '70 Sosaha Music, BMI / Forty West Music, BMI / Irvin Lewine Music, BMI »
We go out skating on ice slowly melting in
Someday I think we're gonna drown
You're your own person just the same way that I am
So sometimes we get each other down
Then I replace you with a breaking body a pretty face but no mind
And I found feeling coming back to me and I think I love you again
Dancing together on thin lines of parting
Weighing the future all alone
Woneding where is forever is it somewhere in the sky
Or just a place you call home
Sometimes while smiling in the middle of the night child
As I taste this stranger's kiss oh I miss you baby
Feel it coming back to me and I think I love you again
And I think I love you again baby I know I love you again
Sometimes while smiling in the middle of the night chat
As I keep this stranger's kiss I miss you baby
Feel it coming back to me and I think I think I love you again
I think I love you again baby I think I think I love you again
Don't you know I love I love you again
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6.
TOO HEAVY TO CARRY
(Fred Matthews - Alan Miles - Benny Mardones)
« © '70 Chappell & Co, ASCAP »
Tar paper shanty on an old dirt road
Seeing my mother working made my blood run cold
People making fun made me wonder and doubt
Why the Lord chose our family to have to go without
I'd shout out in anger a child stricken with fears
When my ma couldn't stand it more she'd dry away my tears
I look back a women and it's fresh in my mind
A girl leaving home trying to find
The answer to a question that I ask every day
How can mama cry so softly and still look up and say
The Lord never makes a burden too heavy to carry
Never puts a challenge where it can't be won
Some people have to try just a little bit harder
Before their life's work is done
My strength built of rock from what I thought was sand
Mother was rewarded cause she earned that promised land
See my reflection in the eyes of my little son
He spoke words that told me my life's work was done
When he said Lord never makes a burden too heavy too carry
And he never puts a challenge where it can't be won
I said now some people have to try just a little bit harder
Before their life's work is done
I said the good Lord never makes a burden too heavy to carry
He ain't gonna put a challenge where it can't be won
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7.
WALK A MILE IN MY SHOES
(Joe South)
« © '69 ATV Songs, BMI »
If I could be you and you could be me for just one hour
If we could find a way to get inside each other's mind
If you could see you through my eyes instead of your ego
I believe you'd be surprised to see that you'd been blind
Walk a mile in my shoes walk a mile in my shoes
Before you abuse critize and accuse walk a mile in my shoes
Now your world you see around you is just a reflection
And the law of common says you gotta reap just what you sow
So unless you've lived a life of total perfection
You'd better be careful of every stone that you should throw
Yet we spend the day we spend the day throwing stones at one another
Cause you don't think or wear my hair the same way you do
Well he may he may be common people but he's your brother
And when you strike out and try to hurt him it's a hurtin' you
Now walk a mile in my shoes...
Lord there are people on reservations and out in the ghettos
And brother there but for the grace of God go you and I
Ah if I only if I only had the wings of a little angel
Don't you know I'd fly I'd fly I'd fly to the mountain and then I'd cry
Walk walk a mile in my shoes...
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8.
HELLO LOVE
(Willis Williams - Reggie Young)
« © '70 Screen Gems Music, BMI »
My life was cold and you came and warmed my soul
I need you everyday to stop my loneliness
In you I see everything that's good for me
Goodbye misery hello love
I ain't believing this wonderful feeling
That I'm receiving when I touch your hand
And now I see what a happy thing it can be
Goodbye misery hello love
No I ain't believing this wonderful feeling
That I'm receiving when I touch your sweet head
Oh now now I see what a very happy thing it can be
Goodbye misery hello love
Hello love you know I'm glad to see you
Goodbye misery hello love
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9.
PROUD MARY
(John C. Fogerty)
« © '68 Jondora Music, BMI »
Left a good job in the city
Working for the man both night and day
But I never lost a minute of sleep
Worrying bout the way things might have been
Big wheel keep on turning Proud Mary keep on burning
Rolling rolling rolling on the river
Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis
I said I pumped a lot of tan in New Orleans
But I never saw the good side of a city
Till I hitched a ride on a riverboat queen
Big wheel keep on turning...
I said you know that I'm rolling rolling
You know that I'm rolling on the river
[ organ ]
Rolling rolling rolling on the river
Now if you come down to the city
I said I bet you gonna find some people who live
You don't have to live if you ain't got no money
People on the river that know how to give
Big wheel keep on turning...
You know I said that I'm rolling rolling I'm rolling on the river
Now let's roll on let's roll on
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10.
DO RIGHT WOMAN DO RIGHT MAN
(Chips Moman - Dan Penn)
« © '70 Screen Gems Music, BMI »
Take me to heart and I'll always love you
And nobody can make me do wrong
Take me for granted leavin your love unshown
Makes will power weak and temptation strong
A woman's only human this you should understand
Oh she's not just a plaything she's flesh and blood just like her man
If you want a do right all day's woman
You gotta be a do right all night's man
They say that's it's a man's world but you can't prove that by me
And as long as we're together now have a better respect for you
If you wanna do right all day woman
You gotta be my right all night man
If a woman's only human oh can't you understand
I said that she's not just a plaything she's flesh and blood
Just like any other her man
I said if you want a do right all day's woman
Oh you gotta be my do right all night's man
I said you gotta be my do right all night's man
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11.
I'M GONNA KEEP ON LOVING YOU
(Paul Davis)
« © '70 ATV Songs, BMI / Paul And Jonathan Songs, ASCAP »
Even though you found another even though I'm not your lover
I've been hurt it's not the first time
You've hurt me so and now I want to let you know
I'm gonna keep on loving you loving you
Loving you loving you loving you loving you loving you
Loving you loving you loving you loving you loving you
Now I know I should stop this crying
I would if I could but that's the way it's gotta be
Oh I reapeat you'll never want me
So I let it be cause I know I'll never be free
I'm gonna keep on loving you loving you...
I know that I can't live on dreams of yesterday
Cause your love becomes too cheap
And that's the price I'll have to pay
I'm gonna keep on loving you loving you...
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