HAPPY JOURNEY
(RCA Victor LSP-2464)
January/1962
Produced by Chet Atkins
Hank Garland, Velma Smith - guitar
Bob Moore - bass
Buddy Harman - drums
Floyd Cramer - piano
Anita Kerr, Gordon Stoker - accordion
Dutch McMillin - sax
Vocals:
The Jordanares (Hoyt Hawkins, Neal Matthews, Gordon Stoker, Raymond Walker)
The Anita Kerr Singers (Dottie Dillard, Hoyt Hawkins, Anita Kerr)
Recorded:
1960-1961, RCA Victor Studio, Nashville
1.
HAPPY JOURNEY
(Charles Nowa - Fred Jacobson - Nicola Wilke)
« © '61 Regent Music, BMI »
Happy journey and auf wiederseh'n oh my darling till we meet again
Happy journey happy journey don't forget the one who love you so
I'll be lonely waiting just for you I'll be patient and forever true
Happy journey happy journey darling till that day
When you'll be coming back to stay
And once when I didn't know what to do and where to go
Then you came and love walked in with you
Now we have to say goodbye still I promise I won't cry
Though that something I won't have to do
[ accordion - sax]
I'll be lonely waiting just for you...
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2.
OH HOW I MISS YOU (SINCE YOU WENT AWAY)
(Pete Cassell)
« © '58 Peer International, BMI »
Oh how I miss you since you went away oh how I need you more every day
I'll be so happy when you're back to stay oh how I miss you since you went away
I lost my sunshine the day you went away all of my blue skies have turned into gray
I'm so brokenhearted that's all I can say oh how I miss you since you went away
[ piano ]
(Oh how I miss you since you went away)
I miss your blue eyes your sweet smiling face
No one on earth dear could ever take your place
Don't think I'm fooling when these words I say
Oh how I miss you since you went away
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3.
I CAN'T STOP LOVING YOU
(Don Gibson)
« © '58 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
I can't stop loving you so I've made up my mind
To live in memory of old lonesome times
I can't stop wanting you it's useless to say
So I'll just live my life in dreams of yesterday
Those happy hours that we once knew though long ago still make me blue
They say that time heals the broken heart
But time has stood still since we've been apart
I can't stop loving you...
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4.
YOU'RE THE REASON
(Terry Fell - Bobby Edwards - Fred Henley)
« © '60 Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
(Walking the floor feeling so blue smoke cigarettes drink coffee too)
Honey you're the reason I don't sleep at night
(Go for a walk look at the moon strum my guitar sing our love's tune)
Baby you're the reason I don't sleep at night
I'm bettin' you're not losing sleep over me
But if I'm wrong don't fail to call come over and keep me company
I lay here at night I toss and I turn loving you so how my heart yearns
You're the reason I don't sleep at night
(Walking the floor feeling so blue smoke cigarettes drink coffee too
Strum my guitar sing our love tune losing sleep over you)
I'm bettin' you're not losing...
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5.
LET ME BE THE ONE
(W.S. Stevenson - Paul Blevins - Joseph Hobson)
« © '60 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Let me be the one to walk with you when you want somebody to talk with you
Anything that makes you happy I wanna do oh darling let me be the one
Let me be the one who means the most the one you wanna love and call your own
And when you choose your partner I wanna be the choice oh please let me be the one
Let me be the one to sit with you
And when you want some lovin' I'll know just what to do
Lots of lots of huggin' and a kiss or two you've gotta let me be the one
Let me be the one to take you out to your favorite places you have no doubt
And when the evening's gone we'd kiss goodnight oh please let me be the one
[ guitar ]
Let me be the one to share with you all your little pleasures and sorrows too
In all kind of weather I wanna be with you oh please let me be one
Let me be the one to hold your hand when the preacher says do you take this man
All these happy thoughts will mean so much fun if you'd only let me be the one
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6.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME
(Bill Anderson)
« © '61 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Today has been my birthday and tonight I should be glad
But you weren't here to share it and inside I've hurt so bad
I didn't want your presence just your kiss and company
And your lips to softly whisper happy birthday to me
But I came home all by myself and lit the candle
Made a wish for you and love that used to be
I unwrapped the tiny package that I bought myself
Then I sang happy birthday to me
[ piano ]
I thought for sure you sent me at least a birthday card
But the postman didn't even stop when he passed by my yard
You could have telephone and ease a lot of misery
Instead I called myself and said happy birthday to me
And I came home all by myself...
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7.
I NEED YOU NOW
(Jamie Crane - Al Jacobs)
« © '61 Miller Catalog, ASCAP »
If I ever needed you I need you now I can't remember when I've ever been so blue
If I ever needed love I need it now I feel so all alone I don't know what to do
No day or night goes by when I don't have my cry
I feel like I could die from wanting you
I can't ease my aching heart honey you know how if I ever needed you I need you now
[ piano ]
No day or night goes by...
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8.
I CAN SEE AN ANGEL WALKIN'
(Kay Adelman)
« © '61 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
I can see an angel walkin' someone else is by her side
I can hear an angel talkin' and she looks so satisfied
I can see an angel smilin' by her side I wanna be
In my heart I'll go on cryin' only tears are left for me
Time will change many things your seasons will come and go
But I won't ever change all my life I'll love her so
I can see an angel laughin' she's the one that I adore
I will always keep on hidin' all my life for ever more
[ piano ]
Time will change many things...
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9.
JEALOUS HEART
(Jenny Lou Carson)
« © '51 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Jealous heart oh jealous heart stop beating can't you see the damage you have done
You have driven her away forever jealous heart now I'm the lonely one
I was part of everything she planned for and I know she loved me from the start
It's so hard to know she'll never love me all because of you oh jealous heart
[ guitar ]
Through the years her memories still haunt me even though we're many miles apart
It's so hard to know she'll never love me all because of you oh jealous heart
[ yodel ]
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10.
KEEPER OF THE KEY
(Harlan Howard - Wynn Stewart - Lance Guyness - Kenny Devine)
« © '61 Vidor Publications, BMI »
You have gone and yet I'm still your prisoner
Althought you're with your new love I'm not free
For you have placed a lock around my heart dear and you are the keeper of the key
Love locked inside like mine burns constantly please darling please come back to me
Let's lock our hearts together for a lifetime for you are the keeper of the key
[ piano ]
Love locked inside like mine...
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11.
ONE HAS MY NAME (THE OTHER HAS MY HEART)
(Eddie Dean - Dixie Dean - Hal Blair)
« © '48 Southern Music, ASCAP »
One has my name the other has my heart
With one I'll remain that's how my heartaches start
One has brown eyes the other's eyes are blue
To one I am tied to the other I am true
One has my love the other only me
But what good is love to a heart that can't be free
So I'll go on living my life just the same
While one has my heart and the other has my name
[ guitar - piano ]
One has my love the other only me
But what good is love to a heart that can't be free
If I could live over my life I would change
The one who has my heart would also have my name
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12.
JOHNNY MY LOVE (GRANDMA'S DIARY)
(Boudleaux Bryant - Felice Bryant)
« © '60 House Of Bryant, BMI »
(Johnny my love Johnny my love Johnny my love Johnny my love)
While looking through an old trunk as kids we'd all times do
We found a yellow notebook that was nearly torn in two
That book was grandma's diary her name was written clear
And on the first old tattered page we found these words so dear
Johnny my love Johnny my love you make the whole world shine
You make the whole world shine for me cause you're my Johnny my love
We brought grandma's old diary to show to mom and dad
The way they started crying well it really made us sad
And when they started singing the words we'd seen before
I'll never hear a song so sweet in a million years or more
Johnny my love...
Cause you're my Johnny my love cause you're my Johnny my love
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