lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

SINGING MY SONG

(Billy Sherrill - Glenn Sutton - Tammy Wynette)
« © '69 Al Gallico Music, BMI »
Here's a song I love to sing
It's about the man that wears my ring
And even though he's tempted he knows
I'll make sure that he gets everything

Cause when it's cold he knows I'm warm
And I warm him in my arms
And when he's sad oh I make him glad
And I'm his shelter from the storm

I'm his song when he feels like singing
And I swing when he feels like swinging
I don't know what I does that's right
But it makes him come home at night

And when he's home it makes sure he's never alone
And that's why I keep singing my song
And when he's home it makes sure he's never alone
And that's why I keep singing my song
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2.

I'M NOT HALF AS STRONG

(Joe Gibson - Robert Stephen)
« © '69 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Use to I could muster up the courage
And the strength to drive temptation from my door
You came and my world went topsy-turvy
All my good intentions are no more

I'm not half as strong as I used to be
What once was all wrong seems alright to me
You've completely destroyed my morality
I'm not half as strong as I used to be
[ steel ] Time was when my pride would never let me
Beg you not to leave and let my feelings show
For I know it's a fact that you don't love me
But I'm not strong enough to let you go

I'm not half as strong as I used to be...
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3.

BEGGARS CAN'T BE CHOOSERS

(Liz Anderson)
« © '65 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Beggars can't be choosers anyhow

Here I am I'm waiting at your feet again
Hoping that a crumb of love might fall
Wishing you'd give all your love to me but then
Beggars can't be choosers after all

Hand me down your hand-me-downs I don't care
Old left-over kisses I'm not proud
I'll take any love you think you can spare
Beggars can't be choosers anyhow
[ steel - guitar ] Why can't our love be the way it used to be
That would take a miracle I guess
Maybe you've forgotten baby this is me
Begging one more chance for happiness

Hand me down your hand-me-downs I don't care...

I'll take any love you think you can spare
Beggars can't be choosers anyhow
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4.

I DID MY DUTY

(Tommy Dee)
« © '68 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
I did my duty kissed him when he came home
Did my duty though it didn't seem right
I had his supper on the table and waiting
I did my duty because I'm his wife

Then at bedtime I kissed him goodnight
Smiling sweetly as I turned out the light
He turned away then and I cried all night
I did my duty because I'm his wife

But I'm his wife in name alone he no longer seems to care
He doesn't even notice I've started fixing my hair
Will he ignore the fruit of love that should be picked it's over ripe
Till someone else does his duty and is loving his wife
[ piano ] Yes I'm his wife in name alone he no longer seems to care...
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5.

WOMAN'S INTUITION

(Jay Frank)
« © '68 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Watching you walk out the door I get the strangest feeling
That something we once had has come and gone
It worries me because it's not a thing that's self-revealing
It's something I can't put my finger on

You laugh at me and tell me that it's all in my mind
But you don't look me in the eye you turn away each time
And if I bring up the subject of this front you hide behind
You call it suspicion oh but it's woman's intuition
[ guitar ] When you come home late from work and have that far-a-way look
It's just as though you're in another world
And one day soon it's bound to change into an I can't stay look
Although you tell me there's no other girl

You laugh at me and tell me that it's all in my mind...
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6.

WAVE BYE BYE TO THE MAN

(Joe Gibson - Buck Lindsey)
« © '68 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
See the man at the door the one that made us cry
He won't anymore for we'll be gone bye bye

My little one you see he don't love you and me
So raise your little hand and wave bye bye to the man

He's the man who stays gone more than he stays at home
The man you call dad the one you never had

A real daddy you know would never let us part
He'd hold us here with love that comes straight from his heart

But this one doesn't care he just keeps standing there
So raise your little hand and wave bye bye to the man
[ steel ] He's the man who stays gone more than he stays at home...
A real daddy you knowwould never let us part...
But this one doesn't care he just keeps standing there...

So raise your little hand and wave bye bye to the man
Wave bye bye to the man wave bye bye to the man
Wave bye bye to the man
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7.

TAKE ME HOME

(Joe Gibson)
« © '64 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
In here the lights are dim but all around
My eyes see things they're wishin' that they never even found
Your party's gettin' rough and this party's seen enough
To know that I had best be homeward bound

Take me home please take me home
I'm not your kind of girl
Take me home please take me home
I don't belong here in your world

It hits my mind like water in the face
The kind of girl you thought I was to bring me to this place
I guess I'm just naive but somehow I believe
There's more to life than living in disgrace

Take me home please take me home...
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8.

THERE NEVER WAS A TIME

(Myra Smith - Margaret Lewis)
« © '69 Ragged Island Music, BMI »
There was a time we'd sit in the backyard cause the house would get so hot
From the summer sun there was no way of sleepin'
And you'd play your old guitar we'd fight mosquitos and enjoyed
Your backyard concerts for we had no television
We'd just begun our life as man and wife and hard ships then
Could scaresly scare us into quittin'
Things were far from bein' fine we often dined upon a dime
But there never was a time we didn't love

And that Christmas brought us saddest days
When your pride gave a way you told the kids
There'd be no gifts cause we were broke
And though their little tears of grief it was so hard to see it didn't hurt me
Like the lump I knew was in your throat
It was then with arms entwined we both broke down and cried
For it seemed like nothing good would ever come
The doctor bills we couldn't pay they came and took our car away
But there never was a time we didn't love

Now there's an easy chair for my back a satin pillow for my head
And the kids are wild about the brand new car
Dad and I can order steak with all the trimmings and not worry
If we've spent a dollar more than we can spare
No wonder in our prayers we've thanked the man upstairs who led us through
The years of rearin' kids and paying bills
And I think he guied us not because we were smart but just because
There never was a time we didn't love
No there never was a time never was a time
No there never was a time we didn't love
No there never was a time we didn't love
No there never was a time we didn't love
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9.

WHAT KIND OF A WOMAN

(Ben Peters)
« © '68 Shelby Singleton Music, BMI »
What kind of woman do you want me to be
The kind that stays at home or the kind you're slippin' out to see
Should I start makin' all the bar rooms every night to get you to lookin' at me
Just tell me what kind of woman do you want me to be

What kind of woman turns you on like a light
Cause that's the kind of woman that I'm gonna be tonight
I don't care what you think the other woman's got she ain't got nothin' on me
Just tell me what kind of woman do you want me to be

What kind of woman did you think that you had
A sweet little girl incapable of goin' bad
Big boy don't think I'm gonna step aside and let some girl make a monkey of me
Just tell me what kind of woman do you want me to be
[ steel ] What kind of woman did you think that you had...
Baby tell me what kind of woman do you want me to be
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10.

FADED BLUE

(Gene Woods)
« © '67 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Young and foolish just eighteen so much in love heart full of dreams
Blue faded dress the day that I wore you
So proud to know I'd wear his name when on my finger he placed the ring
And with this ring he whispered I love you

Faded blue wedding dress that's you
Hanging there you hold dreams that never can come true
For like your colors his love faded too
He turned my world to colors like you from happy to faded blue
[ steel ] Now in the closet you hang alone all his clothes are gone
Don't you miss him next to you the way I do
Wedding dress please tell me how we can forget him now
For yesterday he wed somebody new

Faded blue wedding dress that's you...
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11.

WOMAN OF THE WORLD (LEAVE MY WORLD ALONE)

(Sharon Higgins)
« © '68 Sure-Fire Music, BMI »
You came from the city streets to my little country town
Your spell is on my baby and you've got me sorrow bound
You don't really love him you're playing round for fun
Woman of the world leave my world alone

You're the devil's woman that's what my man don't know
Why I wear more in swimmin' than you wear to parties where you go
There's a place I know where you should go for that's where you belong
Woman of the world leave my world alone

I don't know about the things the bright lights told to you
My country boy don't know them any better than I do
I'll have to watch him hurting after you are gone
Woman of the world leave my world alone

You're the devil's woman that's what my man don't know...
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12.

DECLINE AND FALL OF ME

(Joe Gibson)
« © '68 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
How I bragged you were the best catch in the town
And today our wedding day I'd be a queen
But good cow the mighty now has fallen down
For you never did appear upon the scene

The decline and fall of me came about so suddenly
That I had no time to brace against the shock
Tho the warning signs were there I was walking round on air
So I never even heard misfortune knock
[ steel ] Guess that I was much to proud of loving you
With a foolish pride that goes before a fall
So now at the ripe old age of twenty-two
I'm a has been who never was at all

The decline and fall of me came about so suddenly...
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