lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

PILL

(Lorene Allen - Don McHan - T.D. Bayles) « © '72 Coal Miners Music, BMI / Guaranty Music, BMI »
You wined me and dined me when I was you girl
Told me if I'd be your wife you'd show me the world
But all I've seen of this old world is a bed and a doctor bill
I'm tearin' down your brooder house cause now I've got the pill

All these years I've stayed at home while you had all your fun
And every years that's gone by another baby's come
There's gonna be some changes made right here on nursery hill
You've set this chicken your last time cause now I've got the pill

This old maternity dress I've got is going in the garbage
The clothes I'm wearin' from now on won't take up so much yardage
Miniskirts hot pants and a few little fancy frills
Yeah I'm making up for all those years since I've got the pill

I'm tired of all your crowing how you and your hens play
While holdin' a couple in my arms another's on the way
This chicken's done for up her nest and ready to make a deal
And you can't afford to turn it down cause you know I've got the pill

This incubator is overused because you've kept it filled
The feeling good comes easy now since I've got the pill
It's gettin' dark it's roostin' time tonight it's too good to be real
Oh daddy don't you worry now cause momma's got the pill
Oh daddy don't you worry now cause momma's got the pill
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2.

WILL YOU BE THERE

(Gene Dunlap - Lee Miller) « © '74 Coal Miners Music, BMI »
When the time comes and I need someone to hold me
When the time comes and I need someone to care
If I'm ever down and out and need somebody
If I ever call on you will you be there

Self-relyin' is the work I use for me
Independence is the thing I've got to be
Self-substantivein' doesn't mean that I don't care
If I ever call on you will you be there

Ah if my dreams and schemes should ever tell me
And my life is empty when I've lost it all
If I'm ever down and out and need somebody oh yeah
If I ever call on you will you be there
If I ever call on you will you be there
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3.

IT'S TIME TO PAY THE FIDDLER

(Don Wayne - Walter Haynes) « © '74 Coal Miners Music, BMI »
Well it's time to pay the fiddler and it's sad to know we've danced it all the way
But the one night's disappearing leaving nothing but the cold hard light of day
And it's time to start erasin' all the rainbows we've been chasing in our minds
We know there's no way of making other ties on us unravel and unwind

Yes it's time to pay the fiddler and today's the day the first instalment's due
For the rest of all my days I wonder why the maker mismatched me and you
But there's so much to consider like my man and little baby
Who need and want my love just like you do
Now it's time to pay the fiddler but before we pay the fiddler
Let's ask him please play one last final tune

Well it's time to pay the fiddler now there's naked sorrow drippin' from my eyes
On'ry stranded and unshamed we've loved each other now we've got to let it lie
But I can feel my hands a trembling and I search to find a handle on the door
So let's let the fiddler pull his magic bow across our heart strings just once more

Yes it's time to pay the fiddler...
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4.

PAPER ROSES

(Janice Torre - Fred Spielman) « © '50 Music Sales, ASCAP »
Paper roses paper roses
[ steel ] I realize the way your eyes deceived me
With tender looks that I mistook for love
So take away the flowers that you gave me
And send the kind that you remind me of

Paper roses paper roses oh how real those roses seem to be
But they're only imitation like your imitation love for me
[ steel ] I thought that you would be a perfect lover
You seemed so full of sweetness at the start
But like the big red rose that's made of paper
Ah there isn't any sweetness in your heart

Paper roses paper roses...
Like your imitation love for me
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5.

YOU LOVE EVERYBODY BUT YOU

(Tom T. Hall) « © '74 Hallnote Music, BMI / Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
God was right giving you the gift of love
Yes you've used your gift of love so willingly
God was good giving you the hands to help
You've done well and I know he must be pleased

I know you're lonely I don't know what I can do
I know you're unhappy you love everybody but you

God was wise giving you a warming smile
You have warmed so many hearts unselfishly
God was great giving you the settling touch
God is great God is good endlessly

I know you're lonely...
You love everybody but you
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6.

MAD MRS. JESSE BROWN

(Randall Rogers) « © '74 Southern Arts Music, BMI »
I'm gonna call myself a taxi I'm gonna take a little trip downtown
Search every bar and honky tonk till I find Jesse Brown
Jesse ain't been a makin' it home the past few friday nights
Somethin's been takin' his money and keepin' him out till broad daylight

Hey cab driver let me out right here there's the car I'm a looking for
Yeah ain't ole Jesse gonna be surprised when I walk through that door
There he sits with a painted blonde buyin' all the drunks a round
I'll turn the jukebox off and introduce myself as mad Mrs Jesse Brown

Ole blondie headed for the ladies room but I caught her goin' in the door
One good pull and her long blonde wig went flyin' to the floor
I washed her heavy make-up down with Jesse's mug of beer
I pulled her off of that barroom floor and I slung her down in a chair

Take a look at what you got now Jesse Brown
Yeah you've been a lovin' on a phoney honky tonk clown
Ah step up a little bit closer I've got her all striped down
Take a look at what you've got now Jesse Brown

There she sits with a head full of pins and no eyebrows at all
Her ruby red lips ain't so red her eyelashes ain't so long
The big black mole and rosey cheeks disappeared in the fight
Oh Jesse Brown just hang around I'm a gonna turn on the lights

Yeah take a look at what you got now Jesse Brown...
Take a look at what you've got now Jesse Brown
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7.

BACK TO THE COUNTRY

(Tracey Lee) « © '74 Coal Miners Music, BMI »
Apple blossoms in the air rabbit hunters everywhere
It's back to the country life for me
Blue skies and butterflies I smell mama's applepies
It's back to the country life for me

Well I'm not meant for city life I'd never make the city wife
I've gotta yearn for milkin' cows bacon bread and slop and souse
Flies a buzzin' everywhere bailin' hay or rockin' chair
Suppur's on I'm almost there it's back to the country life for me
[ fiddle + harmonica ] Shady lanes and lima beans skinny dippin' in the stream
It's back to the country life for me
I'm gonna find me a country boy we'll raise kids ten or more
It's back to the country life for me

Well I'm not meant for city life...
It's back to the country life for me
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8.

HANDS OF YESTERDAY

(Ray Griff) « © '74 Helene Blue Musique, ASCAP »
I won't get too close to you cause I remember
What you said that day our love came to an end
You told me when you let if by chance we ever met
That you didn't want me touching you again

What you've said back it has never veen forgotten
Like my love for you that moment seemed to last
Seeing you again God knows that I'd like to hold you close
But you want no part of your old lonesome past

You don't wanna feel the hands of yesterday
You don't want them touching you in any way
Mine is one caress that you'll just too soon forget
You don't wanna feel the hands of yesterday

If I said that seeing you didn't nothing to me
I'd be telling you a lie cause that's not true
I would like to kiss your lips touch you with my fingertips
But I keep my distance like you asked me to

You don't wanna feel the hands of yesterday...
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9.

I CAN HELP

(Billy Swan) « © '74 Combine Music, BMI »
If you've got a problem I don't care what it is
If you need a hand I can assure you of this
I can help I've got two lovin' arms I can help
It'd sure do me good to do you good I can help

It's a fact that people get lonely ain't nothing new
But a man like you baby should never have the blues
I can help I've got two for me I can help
It'd sure do me good to do you good let me help

Oh when I go to sleep at night you're always a part of my dreams
Holdin' me tight and tellin' me everything I wanna hear

Oh don't forget me baby all you gotta do is call
You know that I love you you I'd do anything at all
Let me help if your child needs a mama I can help
Oh it would sure do me good to do you good let me help
[ steel ] Oh when I go to sleep at night...
Oh it would sure do me good to do you good let me help
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10.

ANOTHER YOU

(Jimmy Peppers) « © '74 Coal Miners Music, BMI »
His eyes may be a deeper blue but they remind me so much of you
He may even comb his hair a little different
And when he's walkin' by my side and tells me his love will never die
Then it's plain to see I found me another you

I never wanted it this way but there's one thing I can say
He's givin' all the love I wanted you to
When we're alone each night and day he speaks the same words you once say
Oh can it really be I found me another you

He looks like you he talks like you and when he whispers my name
It sounds so much like you're talkin' I feel you're holdin' me again
There's a feeling with him I found that makes your mem'ry stay around
Yes it just might be I found me another you
Oh yes it just might be I found me another you
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11.

JIMMY ON MY MIND

(Conway Twitty) « © '73 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Now I'm lying here with Jimmy on my mind
And next to me my soon to be the one I left behind
And Lord it's killin' me to seek him cryin'
You know I'm lying here beside him with Jimmy on my mind

Yes I know that I once loved him and I place no one up above him
And I never thought I'd ever set him free
But it just wasn't in my plans the way Jimmy squeezed my hand
The first time that he held me close as he danced with me

He said I've loved you for a long time but you're married to a friend of mine
And I try hard to never let it show
But my love for you is stronger I can't hide it any longer
And so I thought I'd better let you know

Now I'm lying here with Jimmy on my mind...
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