ROGER MILLER
A TRIP IN THE COUNTRY
(Mercury SR-61297)
September/1970
Produced by Jerry Kennedy
Recorded:
June 11-12/1970, Monument Studio, Nashville
1.
TALL TALL TREES
(Roger Miller - George Jones)
« © '61 Trio Music, BMI »
Well if you wanna drive a big limousine I'll buy the longest one you've ever seen
I'll buy you tall tall trees and all the waters in the seas I'm a fool fool fool for you
Well if you wanna own a great big mansion well I'll give it my utmost attention
I'll buy you tall tall trees and all the waters in the seas I'm a fool fool fool for you
Well I'm a fool over you it may take a while but I'll prove it's true
Well if it's lovin' you want I've got it if it's money you want I'll get it
I'll buy you tall tall trees and all the waters in the seas I'm a fool fool fool for you
[ fiddle - steel ]
Well if you wanna take a trip across the ocean we'll travel anywhere you take a notion
I'll buy you tall tall trees and all the waters in the seas I'm a fool fool fool for you
Well if you wanna own a great big mansion....
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2.
WORLD I CAN'T LIVE IN
(Roger Miller)
« © '60 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Once more I've said that I leave you but once more I'm changing my mind
Yours is a world I can't live in but without you I can't live in mine
You'd rather go places without me I don't understand you at times
Yours is a world I can't live in but without you I can't live in mine
[ steel ]
Could be it's your way of loving and you don't mean to treat me unkind
Yours is a world I can't live in but without you I can't live in mine
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3.
NOTHING CAN STOP MY LOVE
(Roger Miller - George Jones)
« © '65 Trio Music, BMI »
I gotta get up I gotta get goin' rain or shine sleetin' or snowin'
Nothing can stop me stop me stop my loving you
Wander through woods climb a high mountain
Love's in my heart like waters in a fountain
Nothing can stop me stop me stop my loving you
Cross the fire walk through river you'll be the taker and I'll be the giver
I'll give you lovin' lovin' honey that's what I'll do
Climb a big wall I'd tear into pieces I gotta get to your love and kisses
Nothing can stop me stop me stop my loving you
[ steel - fiddle ]
I can't stop praisin' the day I found you
I'd walk a hundred miles just to be around you
Nothing can stop me stop me stop my loving you
Nothing at all nothing in the world can make me stop fallin' for you my girl friend
Nothing can stop me stop me stop my loving you
Cross the fire walk through river...
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4.
WHEN TWO WORLDS COLLIDE
(Roger Miller - Bill Anderson)
« © '61 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Your world was so different from mine don't you see
We just couldn't be close though we tried
We both reached for heavens but ours weren't the same
That's what happens when two worlds collide
Your world was made up of things sweet and good
And my world could never fit in wish it could
Two hearts lie in shambles and oh how they've cried
That's what happenes when two worlds collide
[ steel ]
Your world was made up...
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5.
MY EARS SHOULD BURN (WHEN FOOLS ARE TALKED ABOUT)
(Roger Miller)
« © '68 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Sometimes my mem'ries let me hold and kiss you
But that's just lending me the things I live without
And if it's my fault that I can't really hold you
Yes my ears should burn when fools are talked about
What made me think I craved another's kisses another's so unworthy I found out
My arms should have no right to hold another
And my ears should burn when fools are talked about
[ fiddle ]
At night in dreams I do her callin' to me
She loves me she loves me there's no doubt
But my lips have no right to ask forgiveness
And my ears should burn when fools are talked about
Yes my ears should burn when fools are talked about
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6.
WORLD SO FULL OF LOVE
(Roger Miller - Faron Young)
« © '60 Tree Publishing, BMI »
I know how it feels to be alive with no desire to live
I know how it feels to die inside to try hard to forgive
And my way of finding out is on the day you let me down
In this world so full of love and not enough to go around
I was once so proud to have your love that I could taste with pride
But that sunshine turned to storm now that's all I feel inside
It's enough to make me wish that I could had and not be found
From this world so full of love and not enough to go around
[ steel - fiddle ]
I could sit for days and wonder and not find the answer still
By the time I die I wonder if by then I even will
It's enough to make me wish that I could had and not be found
From this world so full of love and not enough to go around
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7.
DON'T WE ALL HAVE THE RIGHT
(Roger Miller)
« © '70 Tree Publishing, BMI »
I left it all when she left I said she'd come back again
Don't we all have the right to be wrong now and then
She won't come home says her love will never be mine again
Don't we all have the right to be wrong now and then
Yes I wasn't so smart after all
I forgot that with love there are two ways to fall
She won't come home says her love will never be mine again
Don't we all have the right to be wrong now and then
[ fiddle ]
I left it all when she left I said she'd come back again
Don't we all have the right to be wrong now and then
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8.
THAT'S THE WAY I FEEL
(Roger Miller - George Jones)
« © '58 Trio Music, BMI »
Did you ever feel unwanted kicked around so much you're taunted
Heart cries out with so much pain well that's the way I feel
Love someone and loved her dearly spoke sweet words she didn't hear me
Left me here heartsick and lonely that's the way I feel
To cry would do no good I used to think it would
But the more I cried the more I believed here's what I'll do
Let this feeling have its day maybe it will go away
Maybe I will find another that's the way I feel
I can let heartbreak overcome me just because of the way she done me
I'll forget I ever loved her that's the way I feel
[ fiddle - guitar ]
To cry would do no good...
Yes I'll forget I ever loved her that's the way I feel
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9.
HALF A MIND
(Roger Miller)
« © '58 Tree Publishing, BMI »
I don't love you like I used to do but I'm afraid to tell you so
I've got half a mind to leave you but only half the heart to go
Words to tell you just don't come to me I guess my courage is too slow
I've got half a mind to leave you but only half the heart to go
[ steel ]
Maybe time will prove that you are not to blame but now's the time I need to know
I've got half a mind to leave you but only half the heart to go
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10.
WHEN A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME
(Roger Miller)
« © '60 Tree Publishing, BMI »
I walk up to my door and hate to turn the key
Emptiness is all that waits inside for me
That's how it is when the one you love is gone
That's how it is when your house is not a home
I look around and see things marked with his and hers
Things like these just make things that much worse
That's how it is since I live my life alone
That's how it is since my house is not a home
[ steel ]
Is there a way up for soul so torn as mine
Each day I live I'm like a prisoner passin' time
That's how it is ask anyone who lives alone
That's how it is when your house is not a home
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11.
INVITATION TO THE BLUES
(Roger Miller)
« © '58 Fort Knox Music, BMI / Trio Music, BMI »
I couldn't sleep last night I just walked the floor
Don't know how I stand this anymore
Lonely are the times since I lost you recieved your invitation to the blues
I don't know why you caused me such pain
I just hope I'll never go through this much again
Lonely me I don't know what to do recieved your invitation to the blues
[ steel - fiddle ]
You took the laughter from this world of mine thanks to you the sun will never shine
Walk the floor so much wore out my shoes recieved your invitation to the blues
I don't know why you caused me such pain...
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