lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

DON'T LET IT TROUBLE YOUR MIND

(Dolly Parton) « © '68 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
Our love affair is bitter sweet insecure and incomplete
And I've often wondered why your leavin's been so long delayed
It's all become so complicated maybe you feel obligated
And out of symptahy for me you stay

But I had rather live alone than live with someone doesn't love me
And I'd rather have your gold and stay
And put me down a thinkin' you're above me
Our love affair is so woundup it's best that we unwind
And if you don't love me leave me and don't let it trouble your mind hmm

You've waited much too long to leave afraid of how I take it
And I'm deeply touched by your concern but I think I can make it
It won't be easy for a while but I'll forget in time
And if you don't love me leave me and don't let it trouble your mind

I had rather live alone...
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2.

HE'S A GO-GETTER

(Dolly Parton) « © '68 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
He's a go-getter a go-getter
When his wife gets off from work he'll go get her

Now I've got a neighbor that lives down the road away
His wife holds down a steady job he don't turn his hand all day
I know that most of you will know the kind I'm talking about
The kind that rather than have to work yeah he'd rather do without

But he's a go-getter a go-getter...
[ fiddle ] There's a group of men in the courthouse yard anytime that you go by
Playin' checkers and tradin' knives and makin' jokes about their wives
They'll wait all week for payday and they hope that money's plenty
And the wife that worked those long hard hours never gets a penny

But he's a go-getter a go-getter...
Yes he's a go-getter a go-getter...
He's a go-getter a go-getter...
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3.

IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS (WHEN TIMES WERE BAD)

(Dolly Parton) « © '68 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
We'd get up before sunup to get the work done up
We'd work in the fields till the sun had gone down
We've stood and we've cried as we've helplessly watched
A hailstorm a beatin' our crops to the ground
We've gone to bed hungry many nights in the past
In the good old days when times were bad

No ammount of money could buy from me the mem'ries that I have of them
No ammount of money could pay me to go back and live through it again
[ guitar ] I've seen daddy's hands break open and bleed
And I've seen him work till he's stiff as a board
And I've seen mama lay and suffer in sickness
In need of a doctor we couldn't afford
Anything at all was more than we had
In the good old days when times were bad

We've got up before and found ice on the floor
Where the wind would blew snow through the cracks in the wall
And I couldn't enjoy then havin' a boyfriend
I had nothing decent to wear at all
So I longed for a love that I never had
In the good old days when times were bad

No ammount of money...
In the good old days when times were bad
In the good old days when times were bad
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4.

IT'S MY TIME

(John D. Loudermilk) « © '67 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Gather round girls you I grew up with
My old friends that I used to scuff with
Need you around me at this time
You've all had your turn to cry and old friends stood closely by
Friends of mine stand by me cause it's my time

It's my time it's my time it's my time
It's my time to cry hmm-hmm-hmm
It's my time to cry oh-oh-oh
It's my turn to cry yeah-yeah it's my time

Gather round boys I used to to play house with
Come here boys I first kissed on the mouth with
Need your tender words so kind
You've all had your misty eyes and old friends stood by to dry
Friends of mine stand by me cause it's my time

It's my time it's my time it's my time
It's my time to cry oh-oh-oh
It's my time to cry yeah-yeah-yeah
It's my turn to cry hmm-hmm it's my time
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5.

HARPER VALLEY P.T.A.

(Tom T. Hall) « © '67 Newkeys Music, BMI / Unichappell Music, BMI »
I want to tell you all the story bout a Harper Valley widowed wife
Who had a teenage daughter that attended Harper Valley Junior High
Well her daughter came home one afternoon and didn't even stop to play
And she said mom I got a note here from the Harper Valley PTA

Well the note says Mrs Johnson you're wearing your dresses way too high
It's reported you've been drinkin' and a runnin' round with men and going wild
Now we don't believe you ought to be a bringin' up your little girl this way
And it was signed by the secretary Harper Valley PTA

Well it happened that the PTA was gonna meet that very afternoon
And boy were they sure surprised
When Mrs Johnson wore her miniskirt into the room
And as she walked up to the blackboard I can still recall the words she had to say
She said I'd like to address this meeting of the Harper Valley PTA

Now there's Bobby Taylor sittin' there and seven times he asked me for a date
And Mrs Taylor sure seems to use a lotta ice whenever he's away
And Mr Baker can you tell us why your secretary had to leave this town
And shouldn't wodow Jones be told
To keep her window shades all pulled completely down

Now Mr Harper couldn't be here cause he stayed too long at Kelly's Bar again
And if you'll smell Shirley Thompson's breath you'll find she's had a little nip of gin
And when you have the nerve to tell me as a mother you think that I ain't fit
Well this is just a little Payton Place and you're all Harper Valley hypocrites

Now I wouldn't put you on because it really did it happened just this way
That day my mama socket it to the Harper Valley PTA
That day my mama socket it to the Harper Valley PTA
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6.

LITTLE BIRD

(Dolly Parton) « © '68 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
Beauty is a rare perfume precious yet doesn't last long
Youth is but a playful breeze that blows our way once then moves on
Love is a hidden treasure some never find where it lies
And memory is a little bird that flies through life and never dies

Little bird take me aboard your beautiful wings and let me fly
Fly me away back to yesterday and drop me off there awhile

Let me smell the rare perfume of the sweet flower of beauty again
Let me run in the playful breeze of youth long gone with the wind
Let me sit for a while by the place where I found the treasure of love
Then sing me a song as you fly me along on a long last yourney above
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7.

MINE

(Dolly Parton) « © '68 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
A little white house with black wooden shadows
A porch with its columns all covered with vine
My broken dreamhouse where he lives with another
But this was supposed to be mine

And two little children that look like their daddy
With the same smile and the same eyes that shine
The only thing wrong I'm not their mommie
But they were supposed to be mine

He's givin' to her what he promised to me
The plans that we made never can be
For each night he holds and caresses another
And she is supposed to be me

He's givin' to her what he promised to me...
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8.

CARROLL COUNTY ACCIDENT

(Bob Ferguson) « © '68 Warden Music, BMI »
Carroll County's pointed out as kinda square
The biggest thing that happens is the county fair
And I guess that's why it seemes like such a big event
What we all call the Carroll County accident

The wreck was on the highway just inside the line
Walter Browning lost his life and for a time
It seemed that Mary Ellen Jones would surely die
But she lived long enough for her to testify

Now Walter Browning was a happy married man
And he wore a golden wedding ring upom his hand
But it was gone nobody knew just where it went
He'd lost it in the Carroll County accident

Mary Ellen testified he flagged her down
Said he was sick and could she drive him into town
And no one even doubted what she said was true
Cause she was well respected in the county too

Now I went down to see the wreck like all the rest
The bloody seats the broken glass the tangled mess
But I found something no one else had even seen
Behind the dash in Mary's crumpled up machine

A little matchbox circled by a rubber band
And inside the ring from Walter Browning's hand
It took a while to figure out just what it meant
The truth about the Carroll County accident

By dark of night I dropped the ring into a well
And I took a sacred oath that I would never tell
The secred of the Carroll County accident
Cause the county ordered Dad a marble monument
I lost him in the Carroll County accident
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9.

FRESH OUT OF FORGIVENESS

(Bill Owens - Gene Gill) « © '68 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
Don't tell me you're sorry for thing you caused me
And from from now on you'll be true
And don't don't you ask me to forgive you again
I'm fresh out of forgiveness for you

Now I I gave you everything I knew how to give
Now I've done done everything you've ever asked me to do
But even even a fool gets so tired being fool
I'm fresh out of forgiveness for you

No I I can't I just can't I can't forgive you this time
If I did oh I know you do
Well you're just too just too wrong and you hurt me hurt me again
And I'm fresh out of forgiveness for you
I'm fresh out of forgiveness for you
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10.

MAMA SAY A PRAYER

(Dolly Parton) « © '68 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
The bright lights of this city are a pretty sight to see
Perhaps they're extra pretty to a country girl like me
Temptation waits at every turn and it won't let me be
So mama when you pray tonight say a special prayer for me

I miss your tender goodnight kiss of love and understanding
The goodnight kisses I get now are cruel and so demanding
So mama when you pray tonight and while you're on your knees
Mama say a special prayer for me
[ steel - guitar ] The nights get cold and lonely when you're far away from home
And lonely makes it easy for a good girl to go wrong
Evil eyes search through the night for lonely girls like me
So mama when you pray tonight say a special prayer for me

I miss your tender goodnight kiss...
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11.

ALWAYS THE FIRST TIME

(Joyce Lavern McCord) « © '68 Sawgrass Music, BMI »
Now I've never stepped through the doors of a barroom
Or tasted the flavor of wine
And I've never danced to the songs on a jukebox
Or held someone that wasn't mine

But there's always the first time and if you don't change
Then I guess the first time can't be arranged can't be arranged

Now I've never dressed for the eyes of a stranger
To sow seeds of lust in his mind
And I've never walked down backroad of temptation
To leave dirty footprints behind

But there's always the first time...
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12.

D-I-V-O-R-C-E

(Bobby Braddock - Curly Putman) « © '67 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Our little boy is four years old and he's quite a little man
So we spell out the words we don't want him to understand
Like T-O-Y or maybe S-U-R-P-R-I-S-E
But the word we're hiding from him now tears the heart right out of me

Our D-I-V-O-R-C-E becomes final today
Me and little J-O-E will be going away
I love you both and this will be pure H-E double L for me
Oh I wish that we could stop this D-I-V-O-R-C-E

Watch him smile he thinks it's Christmas or his fifth birthday
And he thinks C-U-S-T-O-D-Y spells fun or play
I spell out all the hurtin' words and I turn my head when I speak
Cause I can't spell away this hurt that's dripping down my cheeks

Our D-I-V-O-R-C-E becomes final today...
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