MAKE WAY FOR WILLIE NELSON
(RCA Victor LSP-3748)
March/1967
Produced by Chet Atkins & Felton Jarvis
Jerry Reed - el.guitar/dobro
Velma Smith - rh.guitar
Buddy Emmons, Jimmy Day - steel
Roy Huskey - bass
Johnny Bush - drums
Hargus Pig Robbins - piano
Jerry Smith - piano/harpsichord
Wade Ray - fiddle
Brenton Banks, Sollie Fott, Lillian Hunt, Sheldon Kurland - strings
Anna Johnson, Judy Johnson, Mary Johnson, Margaret Willis - vocals
Recorded:
June 8/1966, RCA Victor Studio, Nashville (1,12)
Nov 28-29/1966, RCA Victor Studio, Nashville (2-11)
1.
MAKE WAY FOR A BETTER MAN
(Cy Coben)
« © '66 Delmore Music, ASCAP »
Give me talkin' now you tried to make her happy you couldn't make her happy
Make way for a better man than you
You tried your brand of lovin' she couldn't stand your lovin'
Make way for a better man than you
I held back cause you and I were friends
But old buddy this is where our friendship ends
I'm takin' over now those signals she keeps sendin' means your romance is endin'
Make way for a better man than you
[ guitar - steel ]
Those fancy words you told her were not enough to hold her
Make way for a better man than you
I guess you're in your lockout you came to back and struck out
Make way for a better man than you
I held back cause you and I...
Make way for a better man than you
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2.
SOME OTHER WORLD
(Floyd Tillman)
« © '58 Peer International, BMI »
Some other world has all the sunshine cause there's no sunshine in mine
Out of the darkness came thunder and rain leavin' my dreams all in vain
Some other world there sleeps my darlin' there where the skies are always blue
Why don't they take me out of this world and let me find my sunshine with you
[ steel ]
Some other world there sleep...
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3.
HAVE I STAYED AWAY TOO LONG
(Frank Loesser)
« © '43 Frank Music, ASCAP »
Have I stayed away too long have I stayed away too long
If I came home tonight would you still be my darling or have I stayed away too long
The love light that shone so strong sweet love light that shone so strong
If I came home tonight would that same light be shining
Or have I stayed away too long
I'm just outside of town and I'll soon be at your door
But maybe I'd be wrong to hurry there
I'd best keep out of town and worry you no more
Maybe someone else has made you care
Have all of my dreams gone wrong my beautiful dreams gone wrong
If I came home tonight would you still be my darling or have I stayed away too long
If I came home tonight would you still be my darling or have I stayed away too long
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4.
BORN TO LOSE
(Frankie Brown)
« © '43 Peer International, BMI »
I'm born to lose I've lived my life in vain every dream has only brought me pain
All my life I've always been so blue born to lose and now I'm losing you
Born to lose it seems so hard to bear how I long to always have you near
You've grown tired and now you say we're through born to lose and now I'm losing you
[ dobro ]
I'm born to lose my every hope is gone it's so hard to face an empty dawn
And you were all the happiness I knew I'm born to lose and now I'm losing you
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5.
LOVIN' LIES
(Dorothy Chapman - Troy Martin - Pete Pyle)
« © '49 Peer International, BMI »
I'll never understand dear as long as I live I guess I will always wonder why
You told me that you loved me with all of your heart
And then without a warning said goodbye
The lovin' lies that I believed and now how I grieved
You didn't mean it from the start and you told me lovin' lies and broke my heart
[ steel ]
You say I'll soon forget you and find someone new
But darlin' now how wrong you are
I only had one love dear and that was for you
And from that love my heart will bear to start
The lovin' lies that I believed...
So you told me your lovin' lies and broke my heart
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6.
YOU MADE ME LIVE LOVE AND DIE
(Floyd Tillman)
« © '66 Peer International, BMI »
I cried and cried my heart out but what good does it do
Crying never bothers anyone so cold as you
I've thought the whole thing over and now I'll go and find
A beeter place where angels heal broken hearts like mine
You made me live you made me love and now you'll make me die
I'll never live or love again there's no need now to try
I'll say farewell to this old world this is my last goodbye
You made me live you made me love and now you'll make me die
[ steel ]
And just for night is over I'll never see the day
I'll hold your picture to my heart then I'll be on my way
I'll say farewell...
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7.
WHAT NOW MY LOVE
(Carl Sigman - Pierre Delanoe - Gilbert Becaud)
« © '62 BMG Songs, ASCAP / Major Songs, ASCAP »
What now my love now that you've left me how can I live through another day
Watching my dreams turn into ashes and my hopes into bits of clay
Once I could see once I could feel now I am numb I've become unreal
I walk the night oh without a goal stripped of my heart and my soul
What now my love now that it's over I feel the world closing in on me
Here come the stars tumbling around me and there's the sky where the sea should be
What now my love now that you're gone I'd be a fool to go on and on
No one would care no one would cry if I should live if I should die
What now my love now there is nothing only my last goodbye
Only my last my last goodbye
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8.
TEACH ME TO FORGET
(Leon Payne)
« © '66 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
You taught me how to love with all my heart with all my soul I trusted you
And now you say we'll have to live apart a thing I don't know how to do
You said someday I'd find somebody new and I'll have not one regret
But stay a while if what you say is true stay and teach me to forget
[ piano ]
You taught me how to worship you alone and now you say you'll have to go
And people call me on the telephone just to say I told you so
I know now that I only learned to live on the night when first we met
God above will teach me to forgive but stay and teach me to forget
Please stay and teach me to forget
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9.
MANSION ON THE HILL
(Hank Williams - Fred Rose)
« © '48 Milene Music, ASCAP / Intersong USA, ASCAP »
Tonight down here in the valley I'm lonesome and oh how I feel
As I sit here alone in my cabin I can see your mansion on the hill
Do you recall when we parted the story to me you revealed
You said you could live without love dear in your loveless mansion on the hill
[ dobro ]
I've waited all through the years love to give you a heart true and real
Cause I know that you're living in sorrow in your loveless mansion on the hill
The light shines bright from your window and the trees stand so silent and still
I know you're alone with your pride dear in your loveless mansion on the hill
In your loveless mansion on the hill
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10.
IF IT'S WRONG TO LOVE YOU
(Bonnie Dodd - Charles Mitchell)
« © '57 Peer International, BMI »
If it's wrong to love you wrong I'll always be
And though the world may scorn me darling can't you see
If it's wrong to want you when my day is through
Gladly I will pay for all my dreams of you
And though we met too late dear and you'll never know
That without a right to I have loved you so
I can't change my heart now you're a part of me
So if it's wrong to love you wrong I'll always be
[ guitar ]
And though we met...
And if it's wrong to love you wrong I'll always be
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11.
HAVE I TOLD YOU LATELY THAT I LOVE YOU
(Scott Wiseman)
« © '45 Songs Of Universal, BMI »
Have I told you lately that I love you could I tell you once again somehow
Have I told you how with all my heart and soul I need you
Well darling I'm telling you now
My heart would break in two if I should lose you I'm no good without you anyhow
Have I told you lately that I love you well darling I'm telling you now
[ steel - guitar ]
Have I told you lately when I'm sleeping every dream that I dream is you somehow
And have I told you how my every thought is in your keeping
Well darling I'm telling you now
My world would end today if I should lose you
Cause I'm no good without you anyhow
Have I told you lately that I love you well darling I'm telling you now
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12.
ONE IN A ROW
(Willie Nelson)
« © '66 Tree Publishing, BMI »
If you can truthfully say that you've been true just one day
Well that makes one in a row one in a row one in a row
And if you can look into my eyes one time without telling lies
Well that makes one in a row one in a row one in a row
Why do I keep loving you after all the things you do
And just one time come into my arms and be glad that you're in my arms
That will make one in a row one in a row one in a row
Why do I keep lovin' you...
One in a row one in a row
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