LIVIN' LOVIN' SOUNDS
(Hickory LPS-124)
1965
Produced by Wesley Rose
Grady Martin, Hank Garland, Harold Bradley - guitar
Bob Moore - bass
Buddy Harman - drums
Floyd Cramer - piano
Vocals:
The Anita Kerr Singers
(Anita Kerr, Winifred Breast, Dottie Dillard, Louis Nunley, Bill Wright, Millie Kirkham)
Recorded:
July 11/1960, Bradley Film & Recording Studio, Nashville (12)
Aug 31/1960, Bradley Film & Recording Studio, Nashville (2)
Sept 1/1960, Bradley Film & Recording Studio, Nashville (6,10)
Sept 3/1960, Bradley Film & Recording Studio, Nashville (1,4,11)
Feb 12/1961, Bradley Film & Recording Studio, Nashville (7)
Dec 22/1961, Bradley Film & Recording Studio, Nashville (5)
July 12/1962, Bradley Film & Recording Studio, Nashville (3)
May 28/1963, Bradley's Barn, Mt. Juliet (9)
Aug 31/1964, Monument Recording Studio, Nashville (8)
1.
I LOVE YOU BECAUSE
(Leon Payne)
« © '49 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
I I I love you because you understand dear
Every single thing I try to do
You're always there to lend a halping 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 ]
I love you because my heart is lighter
Every time I'm walking by your side
I love you because the future's brighter
The door to happiness you've opened wide
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
Oh but most of all I love you cause you're you
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2.
OH LONESOME ME
(Don Gibson)
« © '58 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Everybody's going out and having fun
I'm just a fool for staying home and having none
I can't get over how she set me free oh lonesome me
A bad mistake I'm making by just hanging round
I know that I should have some fun and paint the town
A lovesick fool is blind and just can't see oh lonesome me
I'll bet she's not like me she's out and fancy free
Flirtin' with the boys with all her charms
But I still love her so and brother don't you know
I'd welcome her right back here in my arms
There must be some way I can lose these lonesome blues
Forget about the past and find somebody new
I've thought of everything from A to Z oh lonesome me
[ guitar ]
I'll bet she's not like me...
There must be some way I can lose...
Oh lonesome me oh lonesome me
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3.
HEY JOE
(Boudleaux Bryant)
« © '53 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Hey Joe where'd ya find that pearly girlie where'd ya get that jolly dolly
How'd ya rate that dish I wish was mine
Hey Joe she's got skin that's creamy dreamy eyes that look so lovey dovey
Lips as red as cherry berry wine
Now listen Joe I'm not a heel but old buddy let me tell you how I feel
She's a honey she's a sugarple I'm warning you I'm gonna try
To steal her from you
Hey Joe though we've been the best of friends this is where that friendship ends
I've gotta have that dolly for my own
[ guitar ]
Now come on Joe let's make a deal let me dance with her to see if she is real
She's the cutest girl I've ever seen I'll tell you face to face I mean
To steal her from you
Hey Joe we'll be friends until the end but it looks like the end my friend
I've gotta have that dolly for my own
Hey Joe hey hey Joe
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4.
BAD BAD DAY
(Don Gibson)
« © '58 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
It's been a bad bad day for me
It's been a sad sad day for me
My baby left on her way now I'm left here to pay
It's been a bad bad day for me
It's been a dark dark day for me
The sun won't shine on my blue misery
Tears are falling like rain only sorrow remains
Tt's been a sad sad day for me
Everywhere I go trouble greets me
Sorrow seems to know just where to meet me
Why oh why this old day deceive me
Wish my love please come back and free me
It's been a bad bad day for me
There's nothing left but an old used to be
And it sure does get old being left in the cold
It's been a bad bad day for me
[ guitar ]
Everywhere I go trouble greets me...
It's been a bad bad day for me...
It's been a bad bad day for me
It's been a bad bad day for me
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5.
LOUISIANA MAN
(Doug Kershaw)
« © '61 Acuff-Rose Music »
At first mom and papa called their little boy Ned
Raised him on the banks of the river bed
A houseboat tied to a big big tree
A home for my papa and my mama and me
The clock strikes three papa jumps to his feet
Already mama's cooking papa somethin' to eat
At half past papa he's ready to go
Jumps in his piro headed down the bayou
He's got fishin' lines strung across the Louisiana River
Gotta catch a big fish for us to eat
He set his crops in the swamps catchin' anythin' he can
Tryin' to make a livin' he's a Louisiana man
Gotta make a livin' he's a Louisiana man
Muskart hides a hangin' by the dozen
Even got a lady make a muskart's cousin
Pile of hide dryin' in the hot hot sun
Tomorrow papa's gonna turn them into mon
They call mama Rita and my daddy Jack
A little baby brother on the floor that's Mac
Rynn and Lynn are the family twins
Big brother Ed's on the bayou fishin'
On the river float papa's great big boat
That's for my papa goes into town
He takes every bit of the night and day
Then ever reach the place where the people stay
I can hardly wait when tomorrow comes around
That's the day papa takes his fure to town
Papa promised me that I could go
He said we'll go to see a cowboy show
I saw the cowboys and Indians for the first time then
I told my papa gotta go again
Papa said son we got the lines to run
We'll go again soon but there's work to be done
Fishin' lines strung across the Louisiana River...
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6.
YOU WIN AGAIN
(Hank Williams)
« © '52 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
The news is out all over town that you've been seen out runnin' round
I know that I should leave but then I just can't go you win again
This heart of mine could never see what everybody knew but me
Just trusting you was my great sin what can I do you win again
[ piano ]
This heart of mine could never see...
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7.
GREAT SNOWMAN
(John D. Loudermilk)
« © '61 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
A few years ago there lived a lover by the name of Jimmy Jones
Who really snowed the girls and left them cold
And gained the title on the Great Snowman
I remember the day when the snow melted away
And the great snowman was wed
He said yes I do and little Linda siad it too
And the Great Snowman was wed
Now Jimmy Jones was the snowman's name
He put all the other local lovers to shame
He had good looks and a big fine car
And he went around breaking all the girlies' hearts
Until one day the Great Snowman found
Linda Lou started melting him down
He bought the ring and they set the day
And the Great Snowman started melting away
I remember the day...
Now the Great Snowman and his loving spouse
Lived in the little subdivision house
They've got six kids and his mother in law
And expecting another kiddie in the fall
His old Cadillac needs a paint retouched
It's full of baby diaper and bottles and such
The Great Snowman has outgrown
All his flashy cuddy clothes
I remember the day...
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8.
GO ON HOME BOY
(John D. Loudermilk)
« © '64 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Windmill turning in the summer breeze go on home boy
Front gate squeaking and she needs some grease go on home boy
Mama is a washing up the supper dishes
Daddy's out back cleaning some fishes
Go on home boy ah go on home
The road is dusty and it needs some rain go on home boy
Barns are rusty and they need some paint go on home boy
Shep is waitin' at the front yard gate
Yelpin' and a barkin' he can hardly wait
Go on home boy mhm go on home
Yeah big size city done and had its day
I'm gettin' homesick I'm on my way
When I get back I'll never roam
Ain't no place like home sweet home
Barbara's waitin' by the wellhouse path go on home boy
Warm lips waitin' to welcome me back go on home boy
There'll be a weddin' just as soon as I'm home
Then I'll never ever be alone
Go on home boy oh go on home
Mhm mhm I'm coming home mhm mhm I'm coming home
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9.
FILE
(John D. Loudermilk)
« © '65 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
That crooked lawyer that son of a gun
He took my woman and away they run
She took my money and he took my car
And left me stranded here behind these bars
They're off having them swinging spree
But I'm worried bout 'em swinging me
Bars won't hold me but a little while
If mama don't forget the file
Oh mama bake a sugar cake for your loving child
Oh ho ho ho mama bake a sugar cake for your poor imprisoned child
Mama bake a sugar cake
Oh but mama mama mama mama mama mama mama don't forget the file
That crooked lawyer that son of a gun
He said I had the case all but won
My baby said she'd testify for me
That I was innocent as I could be
And when she got up on the witness stand
She told the judge I was the guilty man
Hand in hand they left the trial
Oh mama don't forget the file
Oh mama bake a sugar cake...
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10.
JEALOUS HEART
(Jenny Lou Carson)
« © '49 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 at the start
Now she hates the sight of all I stand for
All because of you oh jealous heart
Through the years her memory will haunt me
Even though we're many miles apart
It's so hard to know she'll never want me
Cause she heard your beating jealous heart
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11.
I LOVE YOU SO MUCH (IT HURTS)
(Floyd Tillman)
« © '56 Peer International, BMI »
I love you so much it hurts me darling that's why I'm so blue
(I'm so afraid to go to bed at night) afraid of losing you
I love you so much it hurts me and there's nothing I can do
I want to hold you my dear forever and ever
I love you so much it hurts me so
[ guitar ]
I want to hold you my dear forever and ever
I love you so much it hurts me so
I love you so much it hurts me so
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12.
LET'S THINK ABOUT LIVIN'
(Boudleaux Bryant)
« © '60 House Of Bryant, BMI »
In every other song that I've heard lately some fellow got shot
And his baby and his best friend both died with him as likely as nut
In half of the other songs some cat's cryin' are ready to die
We've lost most all of our happy people and I'm wondering why
Let's think about livin' let's think about lovin'
Let's think about hoopin' and a hoppin' and a boppin' and a lovey dovey dovin'
Let's forget about a whinnin' and a cryin' and a shootin' and a dyin'
And a fellow with a switchblade knife
Let's think about livin' let's think about life
We lost ol' Marty Robbins down in El Paso a little while back
And now Miss Patti Page or one of them is a wearing black
Cathy's Clown had Don and Phil where they feel like they could die
If we keep on losin' our singers like that I'll be the only one you can buy
Let's think about livin' let's think about lovin'...
Let's think about livin' let's think about lovin'...
Let's think about livin' let's think about life
Let's think about livin' let's think about life
Let's think about livin' let's think about life
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