ASHES OF LOVE
(RCA Victor APL1-4715)
June/1972
Produced by Allen Reynolds & Dickey Lee
Recorded: 1972, RCA Victor Studio, Nashville
1.
ASHES OF LOVE
(Johnny Wright - Jack Anglin - Jim Anglin)
« © '51 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Ashes of love cold as ice you made the debt I'll pay the price
Our love is gone there's no doubt ashes of love the flames burned out
[ steel ]
The love light that shines in your eyes has gone out to my surprise
We said goodbye my heart bled I can't revive your love is dead
Ashes of love...
[ steel - fiddle ]
I trusted dear our love would stand your every wish was my command
My heart tells me I must forget I loved you then I love you yet
Ashes of love...
Ashes of love...
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2.
WAITING FOR A TRAIN
(Jimmie Rodgers)
« © '29 Peer International, BMI »
All around the water tank waitin' for a train
A thousand miles away from home sleeping in the rain
I walked up to the brakeman and give him a line of talk
He said if you've got money I'll see that you don't walk
I haven't got a nickel not one penny can I show
Get off get off you railroad bum and he slammed that boxcar door (yodel)
[ dobro ]
He put me off in Texas a place I dearly love
Wide open spaces all around me and the moon and stars up above
Well nobody seems to want me nor to lend me a helping hand
I'm on my way from Frisco going back to Dixie Land
Though my pocketbook is empty and my heart is full of pain
I'm a thousand miles away from home waitin' for a train (yodel)
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3.
I SAW MY LADY
(Gove Scrivenor)
« © '72 April Music, ASCAP »
I saw my lady walking by the river yesterday
She was picking flowers singin' songs of love along the way
Seeing her by moonlight tells me that her hair is shining yellow
Picking daisies nervously waiting by the river for her fellow
Think about her in my dreams see her through the misty scenes
All I know it really means I love her
Will she ever leave me she hasn't said she has somebody new
Or will she come and take my hand walk me down along the river too
[ steel ]
All I know it really means I love her
Will she ever leave me...
I saw my lady walking by the river yesterday
I saw my lady walking by the river yesterday
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4.
SHE THINKS I STILL CARE
(Dickey Lee - Steve Duffy)
« © '62 Glad Music, BMI / Pappy Daily Music, BMI / Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
(She thinks I still care)
Just because I asked a friend about her just because I spoke her name somewhere
Just because I rang her number by mistake today she thinks I still care
Just because I haunt the same old places
Where the mem'ry of her lingers everywhere
Just because I'm not the happy guy I used to be she thinks I still care
Well if she's happy thinking I still need her then let that silly notion bring her cheer
But how could she ever be so foolish where would she get such an idea
Just because I asked a friend about her just because I spoke her name somewhere
Just bacause I saw her then went all to pieces she thinks I still care
She thinks I still care
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5.
KINGDOM I CALL HOME
(Dickey Lee - Allan Reynolds)
« © '72 Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
I don't have a gold mine in Alaska and this won't be the year I fly to Rome
I don't have oilwells in Oklahoma oh but I have a kingdom I call home
I don't have an army in my kingdom but I don't have to fight my wars alone
The love of my woman's all I need to help me rule the kingdom I call home
Though the Queen of the castle wears a plain cotton dress
And the little princess plays with paper dolls
While the keeper of the kingdom is rich in happiness
And the world is locked outside the palace walls
This world may never know I walk its valleys
And history won't carve my name in stone
But when my children are grown they'll remember
There was love in the kingdom I called home
And the Queen of the castle...
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6.
CATFISH JOHN
(Bob McDill - Allen Reynolds)
« © '72 PolyGram Int, ASCAP / Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
Mama said don't go near that river don't be hanging round ol' Catfish John
Come the mornin' I'd always be there
Walking in his footsteps in the sweet delta dawn
Let me dream of another mornin' and the time so long ago
When the sweet magnolias blossomed cottonfields were white as snow
Catfish John was a river hobo living by the river bend
Thinkin' back I still remember I was proud to be his friend
Mama said don't go near that river...
[ steel ]
Born a slave in the town on Vicksburg traded for a chestnut mare
Still he never spoke in anger though his load was hard to bear
Mama said don't go near that river...
So let me dream of another mornin' mhm mhm mhm mhm
Cottonfields were white as snow mhm mhm mhm mhm
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7.
GOT LEAVIN' ON HER MIND
(Jack Clement)
« © '65 Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
The longer I know her the more I can tell my darling's not happy with me
The longer I know that I know her too well the less love in her eyes I see
Cause she don't hold and kiss me like she did one time
I think my sweet baby's got leavin' on her mind
The stronger I hold her the farther apart my darling is growin' from me
The danger of my darling breaking my heart it's fast movin' in on me
Cause she don't hold and kiss me...
The deeper I love her the farther away my darling slips out of my hands
The longer the future the longer I'll stay out of my darling's plans
Cause she don't hold and kiss me...
I think my sweet baby's got leavin' on her mind
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8.
LET TIME BE YOUR FRIEND
(Allan Reynolds - Susan Kay Taylor)
« © '72 Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
I have walked through the shadow of your afternoon
Chasing the sundown of our love
Making believe I'm still the one on your mind
Hoping your thoughts will all be kind
So let time be your friend so let peace rule your mind
And be kind to yourself trusting the things you're hoping to find
Mhm mhm mhm mhm mhm mhm
Making believe I'm still the one on your mind...
So let time be your friend...
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9.
IT'S FOUR IN THE MORNING
(Jerry Chesnut)
« © '71 Tree Publishing, BMI »
It's four in the morning and once more the dawning
Just woke up the wanting in me
Wishing I'd never met her knowing if I'd forget her
How much better off she would be
The longer I hold on and the longer this goes on the harder it's gonna be
But it's four in the morning and once more the dawning
Just woke up the wanting in me
I've never deserved her God knows when I hurt her
That's the last thing that I want to do
She tries but she can't tell how she feels but I know
Too well what she's going through
If I love her so much I don't know why I can't do
The right thing and just let her be
But it's four in the morning and once more the dawning
Just woke up the wanting in me
[ fiddle - steel ]
Last night I told her this time it's all over making ten times I told her goodbye
Last night we broke up this morning I woke up
And for the tenth time I'm changing my mind
I saw more love in her eyes when I left her than most foolish men will ever see
But it's four in the morning and once more the dawning
Just woke up the wanting in me
It's four in the morning and once more the dawning just woke up the wanting in me
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10.
SPARKLING BROWN EYES
(Billy Cox)
« © '54 Poca River Music, BMI »
There's a ramshackle shack in old Caroline it's calling me back to the girl of mine
Those two brown eyes I'm longing to see oh the girl of my dreams she'll always be
[ fiddle - steel ]
Those two brown eyes that sparkle with love came down to me from heaven above
If I had the wings of a beautiful dove I'd fly to the arms of the one that I love
My sparkling brown eyes my sparkling brown eyes my sparkling brown eyes
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