lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

BUMMIN' AROUND

(Pete Graves)
« © '53 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Got an old slauch hat got my roll on my shoulder
I'm as free as the breeze and I'll do as I please
Just a bummin' around
Got a million friends don't feel any older

I've got nothing to lose not even the blues
Just a bummin' around

Whenever worries start to botherin' me
I grab my coat my old slauch hat hit the trail again you see
I ain't got a dime don't care where I'm going
I'm as free as the breeze and I'll do as I please
Just a bummin' around
[ guitar - piano ] Whenever worries start to botherin' me...
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2.

HEADIN' DOWN THE WRONG HIGHWAY

(Ted Daffan)
« © '51 Unichappell Music, BMI »
Too many sweethearts and none of them true
Too many things that I shouldn't do
Made lots of money all spent the wrong way
Heading down the wrong highway

Made lots of friends and now they're all gone
Too many mem'ries that still linger on
Too many drinks whole night and day
Heading down the wrong highway
[ piano ] Too many heartaches and too many tears
Crowded too much in just a few years
Want to go right but I've lost my way
Heading down the wrong highway

Lost everything lost all my friends
God only knows how this all will ends
Drinking and gambling each night and day
Heading down the wrong highway
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3.

KENTUCKY WALTZ

(Bill Monroe)
« © '52 Peer International, BMI / Bill Monroe Music, BMI »
We were waltzin' that night in Kentucky
Beneath that beautiful harvest moon
I was a boy that was lucky
But it all ended too soon

As I sit here alone in the moonlight
I can see your smiling face
And I long once more for your embrace
And that beautiful Kentucky Waltz
[ piano ] As I sit here alone in the moonlight...
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4.

FOREIGN LOVE

(Lawton Williams)
« © '57 Western Hills Music, BMI »
Harbor lights are ahead and bright they're shining
I can feel the thrill of coming home
But I know my heart will not be willing
To forget a foreign love I've known

I will soon be in the arms that waited faithfully
Each day that I've been gone
But my heart could never be contented
To forget a foreign love I've known
[ guitar ] What on earth could be the right decision
It's no good to find a memory
Should I tell the one that calls me darling
That a foreign love is haunting me

Can I live with one and love another
And go on and face what is to be
In the sea of dreams my heart is anchored
And the foreign love is haunting me
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5.

BLUE HAWAII

(Leo Robin - Ralph Rainger)
« © '36 Famous Music, ASCAP »
Night and you and blue Hawaii
The night is heavenly and you are heaven to me
Lovely you and blue Hawaii
With all this loveliness that should be loved

Come with me while the moon is on the sea
The night is young and so are we
Dreams come true in blue Hawaii
And mind could all come through
This magic night of nights with you
[ guitar ] Come with me while the moon is on the sea...
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6.

FRAULEIN

(Lawton Williams)
« © '56 Unart Catalog, BMI »
Far across deep blue water lives an old German's daughter
By the banks of the old River Rhine
Where I loved her and left her but I can't forget her
Cause I miss my pretty Fraulein

Fraulein Fraulein look up toward the heavens
Each night when the stars start to shine
By the same stars above you I swear that I love you
You are my pretty Fraulein
[ guitar - piano ] When my memories wander away over yonder
To the sweetheart that I left behind
In a moment of glory a face comes before me
The face of my pretty Fraulein

Fraulein Fraulein look up toward the heavens...
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7.

I LOVE YOU BECAUSE

(Leon Payne)
« © '49 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
I love you because you understand dear

Every single thing I try to do
You're always there to lend a helping hand dear
I love you most of all because you're you

No matter what the world may say about me
I know your love will always see me through
I love you for the way you never doubt me
But most of all I love you cause you're you
[ piano ] No matter what may be the style or season
I know your heart will always be true
I love you for a hundred thousand reasons
But most of all I love you cause you're you
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8.

FILIPINO BABY

(Billy Cox - Clarke Van Ness)
« © '54 Shapiro-Bernstein Co, ASCAP »
When the warship left Manila sailing proudly o'er the sea
Many sailors hearts were filled with sad regret
Looking backward to this Island where they spent such happy hours
Making love to every pretty gal they've met

Well up stopped a little sailor with his bright eyes all aglow
Saying take a look my gal's photograph
Then the sailors gathered round him just to look upon her face
And he said I love my Filipino baby

She's my Filipino baby she's my treasure and my pet
Her teeth are bright and pearly and her hair is black as jet
Her lips are sweet as honey and her heart is true I know
And I love my little Filipino baby
[ guitar ] In a little rustic cottage in the Port of Fillippines
Dwells a pretty little maiden all alone
And she's thinking of her true love though he's far off cross the sea
And her heart beats true for him and him alone

Then one day he whispered darling I've come back from Caroline
I've come back to claim the only girl I love
And that night there was a wedding while the ships crew gathered round
And he wed his little Filipino baby

She's my Filipino baby she's my treasure and my pet...
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9.

TOO CLOSE TO HER (AND TOO FAR FROM YOU)

(Cindy Walker)
« © '63 Bathurst Music, BMI »
I was just lonesome I was just blue
And I was too close to her and too far from you
We shared a glass of wine and a dance or two
And I held her close to me wishing she was you

That's how things happen that's how things begin
A heart gets too lonesome and looks for a friend
I didn't mean to cheat or be untrue
But I was too close to her and too far from you

Day after day went by with no letter from you
And you didn't telephone like you said that you would do
And darling I felt so hurt when you let me down
So lonely and tired of just hangin' around

And that's how things happen that's how things begin...
(Too far from you)
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10.

CANDY KISSES

(George Morgan)
« © '48 Unichappell Music, BMI »
Candy kisses wrapped in paper
Mean more to you than any of mine
Candy kisses wrapped in paper
You'd rather have them any old time

You don't mean it when you whisper
Those sweet love words in my ear
Candy kisses wrapped in paper
Mean more to you than mine do dear
[ piano + guitar ] I build a castle out of dreams dear
I thought that you were building one too
Now my castles all have fallen
And I am left alone and blue

Once my heart was filled with gladness
Now there's sadness only tears
Candy kisses wrapped in paper
Mean more to you than mine do dear
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