lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

NEVER ENDING SONG OF LOVE

(Delaney Bramlett) « © '71 Unart Catalog, BMI »
I've got a never ending love for you
From now on that's all I wanna do
From the first time we met I knew
I'd have a never ending love for you

I've got a never ending love for you...

After all this time of being alone
We can love one another feel for each other from now on
Feels so good I can hardly stand it

Never ending love for you from now on that's all I wanna do
From the first time we met I knew
I'd sing my never ending song of love for you
[ steel ] After all this time of being alone...
I've got a never ending love for you...
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2.

ON THE SOUTHBOUND

(Dickey Lee - Allen Reynolds) « © '70 Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
Well I woke up this morning when the cold Chicago wind
Blew my newspaper blanket off my back
Through my dirty broken window the grey sun filtered in
As I dreamed about the Southbound railroad track

I could almost hear the crickets in a sleepy cottonfield
As daddy drove our vagon to the gin
But today I'd give a fortune for a twenty five cent meal
And I wish I was a country boy again

So let me ride on the Southbound
Back to where I came from I don't care or where I am
Let me ride on the Southbound
And put me off somewhere near Birmingham
[ guitar ] What happened to my vision of a mansion on a hill
And the fame and fortune I came here to win
I've got nothing but the roaches running cross my window sill
And I wish I was a country boy again

So let me ride on the Southbound...
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3.

YEAR THAT CLAYTON DELANEY DIED

(Tom T. Hall) « © '71 Newkeys Music, BMI / Unichappell Music, BMI »
Well I remember the year that Clayton Delaney died
They said for the last two weeks that he suffered and cried
It made a big impression on me although I was a barefoot kid
They said he got religion at the end and I'm glad that he did

Clayton was the best guitar picker in our town
I thought he was a hero and I used to follow Clayton around
I often wondered why Clayton who seemed so good to me
Never took his guitar and made it down in Tennessee

Daddy said he drank a lot but I could never understand
I knew he used to picked up in Ohio with a five piece band
Clayton used to tell me son you better put that old guitar away
There ain't no money in it it'll lead you to an early grave

I guess if I'd admit it Clayton taught me how to drink booze
I can see him half stoned pickin' up the Lovesick Blues
When Clayton died I made him a promise I was gonna carry on somehow
I'd give a hundred dollars if he could only see me now

I remember the year that Clayton Delaney died
Nobody ever knew it but I went out in the woods and I cried
Well I know there's a lotta big preachers that know a lot more than I do
But it could be that the good Lord likes a little picking too
Yeah I remember the year that Clayton Delaney died
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4.

EVERYBODY'S REACHING OUT FOR SOMEONE

(Dickey Lee - Allen Reynolds) « © '71 Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
Everybody's reaching out for someone
Everybody's knocking at some door
And long before I ever found you
You're the one that I was reaching for

Just like the trees along the river bend
Lift up the branches to the sun above
We spent our lifetimes reaching for a friend
Cause everybody needs someone to love

And everybody's reaching out for someone...

I wanted you since the day my life began
I've heard your footsteps running just beyond my mind
Ever since that moment I've been reaching for your hand
Hoping you'd be reaching out for mine

Everybody's reaching out for someone...
Everybody's reaching out for someone...
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5.

TAKE ME HOME COUNTRY ROADS

(John Denver - Bill Danoff - Taffy Nivert) « © '71 Cherry Lane Music, ASCAP / Music Of 1091, ASCAP / WB Music, ASCAP »
Almost heaven West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains Shenandoah River
Life is old there older than the trees
Younger than the mountains blowin' like a breeze

Country roads take me home to the place I belong
West Virginia mountain mama take me home country roads

All my mem'ries gather round her
Miner's lady stranger to blue water
Dark and dusty painted on the sky
Misty taste of moonshine teardrops in my eyes

Country roads take me home...

I hear her voice in the mornin' as she calls me
The radio reminds me of my home far away
Drivin' down the road I get a feelin' that I should have been
Home yesterday yesterday

Country roads take me home...
Country roads take me home...
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6.

WEEKENDS

(Dickey Lee - Allen Reynolds) « © '71 Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
Lights from the bedroom made halos of hair around her head
And later in silence she lay soft as silk on my bed
She whispered I love you then I placed a kiss on her cheek
And in moments her eyelashes covered her dark eyes in sleep

I lay there in silence as she lived in dreams of her own
Loving her so much the tears down my face warmly flowed
Her soft hair kissed my pillow and curled gold and brown on her cheek
My mind took her picture for a memory that I'd always keep

Saturday morning we laughed and we walked in the park
Having such good times that we lost today to the dark

Sunday came running her mother came promptly at three
Taking my daughter my pride and joy away from me
The week days are so lonely but on Fridays Lord my life begins
Cause I can't have her only on the weekends

Saturday morning we laughed...
Saturday morning we laughed...
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7.

MY BLUE TEARS

(Dolly Parton) « © '71 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
Fly ye away from my window little bluebird
Fly ye as far as you can away from here
And let not your song fall upon my ear
Go spread your blue wings and I'll shed my blue tears

For the one that I have loved she has left me and gone
And I'm in no mood for to hear your sad song

Bring not your light into my dark blue yellow sunshine
Waste not your warmth on the coldness in here
Oh trouble me not go ye elsewhere
Go light your blue sky aNd I'll shed my blue tears

For the only one that I have ever loved has gone
And I'm in no mood for the sunshine today

Go spread your blue wings go light your blue sky
And I'll shed shed my blue tears
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8.

MAHAGONY PULPIT

(Dickey Lee - Allen Reynolds) « © '71 PolyGram Int, ASCAP »
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9.

THERE'S NOBODY HOME TO GO HOME TO

(Dickey Lee - Allen Reynolds - Mitt Addington) « © '70 Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
The neon lights are going out the barmaid's half asleep
Soon they'll have to lock the door and I'll be on the street
About half as drunk as I need to be to face this night alone
While others sleep in loving beds I'm just kicking stones

Cause there's nobody home to go home to
And I pray the Lord that somehow I'll get by
But there's nobody home to go home to
And tonight I'd like to lay me down to die
[ steel ] I see it in my foggy mind the shutters and the doors
Where flowers bloom and love once grew a hundred years before
Where a girl with golden hair made my life a song
Then the picture fades away and all the world is wrong

Cause there's nobody home to go home to...
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10.

SPECIAL

(Jerry Foster - Bill Rice) « © '70 PolyGram Int, ASCAP »
The only thing I really own is what you see me wearing on my back
The only friends I've ever known are the kind you meet along a railroad track
The kind you bum tabacco from and see the world through a boxcar door
A friend who talks and makes you laugh has nothing much but gives you half
And maybe you don't see him anymore

Special I hear your lonesome whistle whine
Special keep moving me on down the line
[ steel ] My mackinaw so full of holes and ain't too good at keeping out the cold
My shoes are worn so paper thin my feet can feel the cinders through the soles
Sometimes I see a pretty girl wonder what I've missed along the way
Once someone special wore my ring loved me more than anything
I gave her up and caught a train one day

Special I had a special girl on time
Special keep moving me on down the line
Special I hear your lonesome whistle whine
Special keep moving me on down the line
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