lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

HALOS AND HORNS

(Dolly Parton) « © '02 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
Halos and horns sinners and saints
Hearts that are torn between what's wrong and ain't
Just because it feels right does not make it so
So we struggle through life in horns and halos

Tempted and tried with each step we take
We stumble and slide and make our mistakes
Ask God to forgive us for all of our sins
Then we take off our horns and wear halos again

Halos and horns sinners and saints...

Halos and horns sinners and saints
We're praised or we're scorned we either run or we faint
Oh oh but life is a challenge from the day that we're born
Just trying to balance in halos and horns
It's heaven or hell halos or horns

Halos and horns sinners and saints
Hearts that are torn between what's wrong and ain't
But just because it feels right well that don't make it so
So we struggle through life in horns or halos
It's either horns or halos
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2.

SUGAR HILL

(Dolly Parton) « © '02 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
Up on Sugar Hill we'd go walkin' hand in hand while the south wind blowed
Bob whites callin' black crows cawkin' countin' the warts on a toad in the road
Down in the mill pond swimmin' naked showin' more than we should have showed
We were just kids explorin' nature learnin' more than we should have knowed

Sug sug sug Sugar Hill memories stealin' sugar on the mountainside
Sug sug sug Sugar Hill sugar sweeter than candy and cake and pie

A yellow dress drapin' off of my shoulder seein' myself in the looking glass
Older now and a little bit bolder thinking about our summers past
Up on Sugar Hill we'd go walkin' hand in hand up the mountainside
Teenage lovers plannin' and talkin' dreamin' of a future for you and I

Sug sug sug Sugar Hill memories stealin' sugar on the mountain top
Sug sug sug Sugar Hill sugar sweeter than ice cream and soda pop

Years have past we're married with children
Our days are happy and our memories fond
We still find it quite appealin'
To go to Sugar Hill and swim naked in the pond

Sug sug sug Sugar Hill memories stealin' sugar on the mountain top
Sug sug sug Sugar Hill sugar sweeter than ice cream and soda pop

Up on Sugar Hill there's a wealth of treasure
Down it's memory lane I go walking still
What it means to me is more than I can measure
Golden moments up on Sugar Hill
Up on Sugar Hill with the fireflies glowin'
Sound of katydids and the whippoorwill
Honeysuckle bloomin' and a mountain stream's flowin'
A little spot of heaven up on Sugar Hill
Up on Sugar Hill with the bobwhite's callin'
Black crows cawkin' and the soft wind blows
Up on Sugar Hill there are love birds talkin'
Up on Sugar Hill where the good times roll

Up on Sugar Hill Sug Sug Sug Sugar Hill memories
Stealin' sugar on the mountainside
Up on Sugar Hill sug sug sug Sugar Hill sugar
Sweeter than candy and cakes and pies
A little spot of heaven (op on Sugar Hill)
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3.

NOT FOR ME

(Dolly Parton) « © '02 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
Birds sing for everyone but me for me it rains
And I can't hear the music for the pain
I see such happiness for some but not for me

With love I always try so hard to get it right
I find it gone just when I think I might
Regretfully I see it last for some but not for me

Out of reach of all the things I want to have and hold
I've come to just accept that's how it goes
I've come so close
Not for me it's not for me to question I suppose
But I keep wondering what the future holds
Why must it be
That life's so sweet for some but not for me not for me
[ dobro ] Birds sing for everyone but me for me it rains
And I can't hear the music for the pain
I see such happiness for some but not for me
For me it rains there's only pain it's not for me
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4.

HELLO GOD

(Dolly Parton) « © '02 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
Hello God are you out there can you hear me are you listening any more
Hello God if we're still on speaking terms can you help me like before
I have questioned your existence my resistance leaves me cold
Can you help me go the distance hello God hello hello

This old world has gone to pieces can we fix it is there time
Hate and violence just increases we're so selfish cruel and blind
We fight and kill each other in your name defending you
Do you love some more than others we're so lost and confused

Hello God are you out there can you hear us are you listening any more
Hello God if we're still on speaking terms can you help us like before
Oh the free will you have given we have made a mockery of
This is no way to be livin' we're in great need of your love
Hello God (hello hello)

Hello God can you grant us love enough to make amends
(Hello God) is there still a chance that we could start again
Hello God we've learned our lesson dear God don't let us go
(Hello hello) more than ever hello God hello hello
Hello God we really need you we can't make it without you
(Hello God) we beseech you in the name of all that's true
Hello God please forgive us for we know not what we do
Hello God give us one more chance to prove ourselves to you
Hello God (hello God) hello God
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5.

IF

(David Gates) « © '71 ATV Tunes, ASCAP »
If a picture paints a thousand words then why can't I paint you
The words will never show the you I've come to know
If a face could launch a thousand ships then where am I to go
There's no one home but you you're all that's left me to
And when my love for life is running dry
You come and pour yourself on me

If I could be two places at one time I'd be with you
Tomorrow and today beside you all the way
If the world should stop revolving spinning slowly down to die
I'd spend the end with you and when the world was through
Then one by one the stars would all go out
Then you and I would simply fly away
[ mandolin - banjo ] If a picture paints a thousand words then why can't I paint you
Cause the words will never show the you I've come to know
Then one by one the stars would all go out
Then you and I would simply fly away fly away
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6.

SHATTERED IMAGE

(Dolly Parton) « © '76 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
I used to sit for hours as a kid
Dangle my feet from an old flat bridge
Seein' myself in the water below
Shatter my image with the stones I'd throw

I recall a vacant old shack
Down by the edge of the tobaccer patch
A child's reflection in a dirty window
Shatter my image with the stones I'd throw

A long time gone and a long time ago
When I shattered my image with the stones I'd throw
The world is cruel and people are cold
They shatter my image with the stones they throw
Shatter my image with the stones they throw

I'm far from perfect but I ain't all bad
It hurts me more than it makes me mad
You gather your stones by stoopin' so low
Then shatter my image with the stones you throw

If you live in a glass house don't throw stones
Don't shatter my image till you look at your own
Look at your reflection in your house of glass
Don't open my closet if your own's full of trash
Stay out of my closet if your own's full of trash

A long time gone and a long time ago...
A long time gone and a long time ago ...

Shatter my image with the stones you throw
Don't shatter my image with the stones you throw
Shatter my image with the stones you throw
Shatter my image with the stones you throw...
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7.

THESE OLD BONES

(Dolly Parton) « © '02 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
These old bones will tell your story these old bones will never lie
These old bones will tell you surely what you can't see with your eye
These old bones I shake and rattle these old bones I toss and roll
And it's all in where they scatter tells you what the future holds

Oh she lived up on the mountain eleven miles or so from town
With a one-eyed cat named Wink a Billy goat and a blue tick hound
Her graying hair was braided and wrapped around her head
And her dress was long and faded and her home a rusty shed

In a little pouch of burlap tied with a piece of twine
There were bones all shapes and sizes gathered through the course of time
She'd throw them out before you she swore that she could see
The present past and future she could ready your destiny

Everybody knew about her came to get their fortune read
Concerning health and wealth and power who to love and when to wed
Well I just like helpin' people I'm just glad that I can help
Why I know everybody's secrets but I keep it to myself ha ha ha

These old bones will tell your story...

Some called her witchy woman some said she was insane
Some said she was a prophet still everybody came
Just because a body's different well that don't make 'em mad
Well they've crucified a many for the special gifts they've had

I had often heard about her dreamed about her now and then
For I too was clairvoyant came about when I was ten
I was fascinated with her and the things I'd heard about
And I knew some day I'd meet her and one day it came about

Well I know'd that you's a comin' I could feel it in my bones
These old bones have also told me that I won't be here for long
Did you know that you'd adopted did you know you once twas mine
But the county took you from me said I wasn't right in mind

But I just know'd I had to see you fore these bones was laid to rest
So I conjured up a message ha ha it must've worked I guess
This gift runs in the family I know you also know
And I passed this gift on to you these old bones they're just for show

These old bones will tell your story these old bones will never lie
These old bones will tell you surely how you'll live and when you'll die
These old bones I shake and rattle these old bones I toss and roll
And it's all in where they scatter tells you what the future holds

I held her hand while she was dyin' and with the funeral through
I headed on back up the mountain for Billy Wink and Blue
And that little pouch of burlap with those bones so worn and old
She gave me somethin' special now every time I throw

These old bones will tell your story...

Now I can't tell you what you want to hear I just tell you what I see
It's these old bones a talkin' blame it on them don't pack it on me
It's just like that time that there boy died up at the sawmill
Well I know'd who done it but I never said
And I know'd when somebody is a cheatin'
Or when somebody's baby was gonna be born dead
But unless somebody just plain out and asked me
Well I just figured there ain't no point goin' around actin' like you know
Everything just cause you might ha ha ha
Ah you know girl I want you to take these bones
Cause I don't want no young'un of mine a goin' around unprepared
You just remember that the magic is inside you there ain't no crystal ball
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8.

WHAT A HEARTACHE

(Dolly Parton) « © '84 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
I thought I saw the promise of forever in your eyes
I thought that I was sure of what I saw
You led me to believe that I was special in your life
So I left my heart wide open for the fall

I thought I'd found a safe and lovin' place inside your heart
And I was warm and willing anytime
The same soft lips that kissed me sweet were lyin' from the start
But I swear I thought your love was genuine

What a heartache you turned out to be
What a heartache what a heartache
Like a switchblade that cuts quick and deep
Oh what a heartache what a heartbreak
Love ain't always what it appears to be
Oh what a heartache you turned out to be

It just goes to show that you never can tell
Cause I really thought that I knew you well
I still can't believe I could be deceived so easily
Are all these wishes I'm wishin' to myself
Just rusty coins in a wishin' well
Wishes come true they come false as well
It's too late for you and me
Oh what a heartache you turned out to be

What a heartache what a heartache
Love is two-faced and easy to deceive
Oh what a heartache what a heartache
What a mistake to think I could believe
What a heartache what a heartache
Like a switchblade that cuts quick and deep
Oh what a heartache you turned out to be
What a heartache what a heartache what a heartache what a heartache
What a heartache oh what a heartache you turned out to be
Oh what a heartache oh what a heartache
What a heart break you turned out to be
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9.

I'M GONE

(Dolly Parton) « © '02 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
Some chewing gum and candy some magazines and snacks
Some startin' over money that I've been holdin' back
A change of clothes and notepad to write a letter back to say so long
A one-way ticket saying goodbye to everything
Threw my weddin' band out of the window of the train
All I want's my freedom reclaim my maiden name I'm movin' on cause I'm gone

You can tell the truth or you can lie you can say I left you or I died
Say I'm in the Himalayas on some spiritual quest
And could spend years looking for the light
Say I'm in the witness program with the FBI
Say a UFO abducted me from home
You can say what you choose but I tell you the truth
You can say for sure I'm gone cause I'm gone

You think that you're above me like I'm not good enough
You make me feel unwanted unwelcome and unloved
You're selfish vain and greedy you're hateful rude and rough
And you're so wrong
But you'd rather live unhappy and tolerate the pain
Than separate and have me takin' half of everything
Well I'm leavin' your possessions left on the goodbye train
Left you alone cause I'm gone

You can have the house the car the boat my records books and stereo
The dog and the cat my ceramic shop out back my doll collection and my clothes
You can keep all our friends and all the pictures in the den
And the fluffy pillows you sleep on
When you lay your head on that big feather bed
You can rest assured I'll be gone I'll be gone

You can tell the truth or you can lie...
Some chewing gum and candy magazines and snacks...
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10.

RAVEN DOVE

(Dolly Parton) « © '02 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
There will come a day when sorrow fades away
And anguish and heartache shall ease
No mothers crying no soldiers dying
And turmoil and misery shall cease

The hungry shall be fed the aimless shall be led
And sad eyes will no longer weep
The last shall be first through heaven he'll burst
With his heavenly host from the east

Weapons to plowshares hate turns to love
Descending from heaven he'll sweep down to us
In a radiant splendor oh won't it be sweet
When the raven of darkness turns into a white dove of peace
Raven dove (raven dove)

Oh there will come a day when I'll fly away
Forever to be in his keep
Eternal life in the sweet by and by
When raven dove raven dove speaks

When lambs walk with lions a child tames the beast
Nations shall gather and bow at his feet
And loved ones shall rise up arom their earthly sleep
And he'll separate all the chaff from the wheat
Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah how sweet
When the raven of darkness turns into a white dove of peace
Raven dove (hallelujah) raven dove

Behold he cometh in the clouds and every eye shall see him
Sweet bird sweet bird of peace raven dove
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11.

DAGGER THROUGH THE HEART

(Dolly Parton) « © '02 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
Oh you're out there tonight with another
And my pain is so dreadfully sharp
I picture you with her and shudder
It's like a dagger through the heart

Do you think that my feelings don't matter
Or your cheatin' or hurtful remarks
When you leave me all broken and shattered
It's like a dagger through the heart

Oh I know I'm a fool to keep staying
When you've made hurtin' me such an art
Tossed around like a used box of crayons
It's like a dagger through the heart

Oh you cut me to pieces so often
Like a knife or a poisonous dart
I would be better off in my coffin
It's like a dagger through the heart

Oh I know I'm a fool to keep staying...
Like a dagger through the heart through the heart
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12.

IF ONLY

(Dolly Parton) « © '02 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
The word if just two tiny letters
Says so much for something so small
The biggest little word in existence
Never answers just questions us all

If regrets were gold I'd be rich as a queen
If teardrops were diamonds how my face would gleam
If I'd loved you better I wouldn't be lonely
If only if only if only

But looking back now I see clearly
With my twenty-twenty hindsight
Oh but I don't think I haven't paid dearly
Cause you could be in my arms tonight

If regrets were gold I'd be rich as a queen
If teardrops were diamonds how my face would gleam
How I let you go I swear is beyond me
But if only oh if only oh if only

I could start over if I could go back
Have the power to change things then I would do that
But I listened to others like a fool oh shame on me
But if only you would just come back
If only dare I even ask oh if only
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13.

JOHN DANIEL

(Dolly Parton) « © '02 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
John Daniel came to town one summer afternoon
Wearing dirty work clothes so everyone presumed
He was just another logger from the logging camp nearby
And he was but there was somethin' different in John Daniel's eyes

John Daniel was a young man not more than twenty-four
And there was an air about him that one could not ignore
And in spite of calloused hands and dirty clothes his face was kind
And I wanted so to know what was in John Daniel's mind

John Daniel tell me where did you come from tell me where is it you've been
John Daniel tell me why are you different from all of these other men
John Daniel there's somethin' about you that I don't quite understand
John Daniel do you hold the answer to a higher plan

I rented him a room he went upstairs like all the rest
It was Saturday and he'd be going in to town I guessed
But he left in a robe and sandals with a Bible in his hand
And I thought to myself John Daniel I don't understand

Now I'd planned to meet some friends of mine when I got off at three
In the park we often gather to talk of love and peace
When I got there I found that a crowd had gathered round
And there I saw John Daniel a sittin' on the ground

John Daniel tell me where did you come from...

So you want to be free he said well this is how you can
As he read from the Bible he held in his hand
We were searchin' for the truth not knowing where to look
Not knowing that the answers all were in John Daniel's book

John Daniel told us all how we could be free
John Daniel taught us all a better way for you and me
He came to us in our own way so we'd be sure to see
He had the light and essence of the man from Galillee

John Daniel tell me where did you come from...
John Daniel John Daniel John Daniel John Daniel

John Daniel John came to town one summer afternoon...
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14.

STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN

(Jimmy Page - Robert Plant) « © '53 Superhype Publishing, ASCAP »
There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven
When she gets there she knows if the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for
Oh oh a stairway to heaven

There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure
Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings
In a tree by the brook there's a songbird who sings
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven
Oh oh it makes me wonder oh oh oh realy really wonder

There's a feeling I get when I look to the west
And my spirit is crying for leaving
In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees
And the voices of those who stand looking

And it's whispered that soon if we all call tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason
And a new day will dawn for those who stand long
And the forests witll echo with laughter

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow don't be alarmed now
It's just a spring clean for the May queen
Yes there are two paths you can go by but in the long run
There's still time to change the road your own
And it makes me wonder

Your head is humming and it won't go in case you don't know
The piper's calling you to join him
Oh can you hear the wind blow
And did you know your staiway lies on the whispering wind
Stairway to heaven stairway to heaven

You can't buy it you can't borrow
You've got to walk it straight and narrow
Stairway to heaven stairway to heaven stairway to heaven
[ banjo ] And as we walk on down the road our shadows longer than our souls
All that glitters is not gold wanna be a rock and not a roll
Oh the great almighty dollar leaves you lonely lost and hollow
You can't fool yourself forever you gotta work to get to heaven
Stairway to heaven
If we listen and hold fast to every question that we asked
The truth will come to us at last and she's buying a stairway to heaven
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