HERE'S WILLIE NELSON
(Liberty LST-7308)
July/1963
Produced by Joe Allison
Recorded:
July 12/1962, Nashville (2,4)
Feb 20/1963, Nashville (1,3,5-12)
1.
ROLY POLY
(Fred Rose)
« © '56 Milene Music, ASCAP »
Roly Poly eatin' corn and taters hungry every minute of the day
Roly Poly knowin' all the biscuits long as he can chew it it's okay
He can eat an apple pie and never even bat an eye
He likes everything from a soup to hay
Roly Poly daddy's little fatty I bet he's gonna be a man someday
[ fiddle - steel - piano ]
Roly Poly scrambled eggs for breakfast bread and jelly twenty times a day
Roly Poly eats a hard day dinner it takes lots of strenght to run and play
Well now he pulls up weeds and does the chores runs both ways through all the doors
He waers up that apetite that way
Roly Poly daddy's little fatty I bet he's gonna be a man someday
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2.
HALF A MAN
(Willie Nelson)
« © '59 Tree Publishing, BMI »
If I'd only had one arm to hold you better yet if I had none at all
Then I wouldn't have two arms that ache for you there'd be one less mem'ry to recall
If I'd only had one ear to listen to the lies that you told to me
Then I more closely resemble the half a man that you've made of me
[ strings + piano ]
If I'd only had one leg to stand on then how much how much truer picture you'd see
For then I more closely resemble the half a man that you've made of me
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3.
LONELY LITTLE MANSION
(Willie Nelson)
« © '61 Tree Publishing, BMI »
(I'm a lonely little mansion for sale) furnished with everything but love
I'm looking for someone to come live with me
I've got a large picture window and a yard filled with trees
The sign reads two stories and that's all that's for sale
But there's so many stories I could tell
My windows are closed and I'm gasping for air
My carpets are spotted with tear stains here and there
A torn photograph still lies on my floor and two sweethearts don't live here anymore
I'm a lonely little mansion for sale and for someone I'd fit just like a glove
I'm a lonely little mansion for sale furnished with everything but love
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4.
LAST LETTER
(Rex Griffin)
« © '39 Anne Rachel Music, ASCAP »
Why do you treat me as if I were only a friend
What have I done that has made you so distant and cold
Sometimes I wonder if you'll be contented again
Will you be happy when you are withered and old
I cannot offer you diamonds and mansions so fine
I cannot offer you all the clothes that your young body crave
But if you'll say that you long to forever be mine
Just think of the teardrops the heartaches and sorrow you'll save
While I am writing this letter I think of the past
And of the promises that you have broken so free
And to this old world I'll soon say my farewell at last
I will be gone when you read this last letter from me
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5.
SECOND FIDDLE
(Roger Miller)
« © '63 Tree Publishing, BMI »
You asked me if I'd care if you danced with Joe
I said yes it's all right but my heart whispered no
For inside I was crying for last night it was Jim
Must I play second fiddle while you're dancing with them
Could it be maybe I'm just imagining things do I believe I'm second with you
Only you know the answer is it me or Joe or Jim
Must I play second fiddle while you're dancing with them
[ fiddle ]
Only you know the answer...
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6.
TAKE MY WORLD
(Willie Nelson)
« © '63 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Take my word for what I tell you I have never lied to you
Pay no mind to what they're sayin' I have never been untrue
Evil tongues in town continue to prat aloud their evil news
You'll have to take my word when I tell you I love you I love you (I love you)
The power of gossip is always strengthen when it finds a respected ear
If you listen the chances are greater that a thread of doubt may appear
Evil tongues in town continue...
Evil tongues in town continue to prat aloud their evil news
You'll have to take my word when I tell you I love you I love you I love you
Take my word I love you take my word I love you
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7.
RIGHT OR WRONG
(Haven Gillespie - Arthur L. Sizemore - Paul Biese)
« © 'Edwin H Morris Music, BMI »
Right or wrong I'll always love you though you're gone I can't forget
Right or wrong I'll keep on dreaming though I wake with that same old regret
All along I knew I'd lose you still I prayed that you'd be true
In your heart you love another but right or wrong I'm still in love with you
[ fiddle - piano - guitar - steel ]
Right or wrong I'll always love you...
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8.
FEED IT A MEMORY
(Hank Cochran - Justin Tubb)
« © '63 Tree Publishing, BMI »
They said that my heart wouldn't have long to live
To lose you was more than it could stand
And that your love was all that could make it survive
But I'm doing all that I can
I just feed it a mem'ry to keep it alive a taste of the love that we once knew
And when my heartbeat gets weak and it's starting to die
I just feed it a mem'ry of you
I must keep my heart living someway and somehow
In case that you might change your mind
So if you can give it the love that it needs
Just come by and see it sometime
And feed it a mem'ry to keep it alive...
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9.
LET ME TALK TO YOU
(Danny Dill - Don Davis)
« © '57 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
Just one more dance just one more chance so I can talk to you
Don't live too fast forget the past and I will try to prove
I would do anything you want me to
Don't run around don't paint the town let me talk to you
Don't go too far with that crowd at the bar
That's not the way to win please fall in love again
Give me your heart so I can start to build our life anew
I know you've paid so if you're afraid let me talk to you
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10.
WAY YOU SEE ME
(Willie Nelson)
« © '63 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Birds flying south to the one I love birds flying light and free
Don't tell my darling that you saw me looking the way you see me
Winds blowing warm to the one I love winds please kiss her for me
Don't tell my darling that you saw me looking the way you see me
The way you see me is how I've been and how ever since she's been gone
But tell her you saw me like I'd like to be tell her I'm happy alone
River of tears that I have cried river flow on to the sea
But if you tell my darling you flowed from my eyes she'd see me the way you see me
She'd see me the way you see me
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11.
THINGS I MIGHT HAVE BEEN
(Robert B. Sherman - Richard M. Sherman)
« © '52 Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
I might have been a helpless soul with nothing much in store
I might have been without a gold just dreams and nothing more
I might have known my life alone but that's where you came in
Your loving arms have saved me from the things I might have been
I might have been the kind who roams a stranger everywhere
Just one of those poor stay-at-homes with no one's lips to share
But your sweet kiss has changed all this and made my life begin
So keep loving me don't let me be the things I might have been
The things I might have been
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12.
HOME MOTEL
(Willie Nelson)
« © '62 Tree Publishing, BMI »
What used to be my home has changed to just a place to stay
A crumbling last resort when day is through
Sometimes between sundown and dawn somehow I find my way
To this home motel on Lost Love Avenue
No one seems to really care if I come here at all
And the one who seems to care the least is you
I'm gonna hang a neon sign with letters big and blue
Home Motel on Lost Love Avenue
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