LP Discography

DOLLY PARTON
HEARTBREAK EXPRESS
(RCA Victor AHL1-4289)
April/1982
Produced by Gregg Perry & Dolly Parton

Ron Elliott, Craig Hull, Richard Wachtel - guitar
Leland Sklar
Russ Kunkel, David Platshon, Brian Glascock - drums/percussion
Ron Oates, Jeff Colela, Steve Goldstein, Bill Cuomo - keyboards
Lee Dresser - harmonica
Richard Hyde, Bill Reichenbach - trombone
Chuck Findley, Gary Grant, Don Manza, Tom Scott - horns
Vocals:
The Jordanaires
Rosemary Butler, Arnold McCutle, Julia Tillman Waters, Luther Waters, Oren Waters, Maxine Willard Waters
Recorded:
Dec/1981-Jan/1982 in Nashville

1. HEARTBREAK EXPRESS
(Dolly Parton) « © '81 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
Packin' my suitcase writin' a tearstained goodbye note
Stayin' so long to a love gone wrong and that's all she wrote
Leavin' behind what once was mine with sad regrets
But it's all gone now and I'm leavin' town on my heartbreak express

Walkin' in the rain with a heart full of pain to the train depot
The only thing that's gonna keep me warm now is my overcoat
Lost and lonely waitin' in line at the ticket desk
Hey Mr would you give me a one-way ticket on my heartbreak express

I'm gonna roll on down the line
I'm gonna go so far I'm gonna get it off my mind
It hurts to know it ain't enough when you give your best
Get a ticket to ride and I'm leavin' tonight on my heartbreak express
[ sax ] Oh I couldn't hold a candle to the flaming beauty that caught his eye
It's killing me now but I won't stay around and let him watch me die
Oh it just goes to show that you never do know cause I never would've guessed
I'd be sittin' here now on a train sorrow bound called the Heartbreak Express

I'm gonna roll on down the line
I'm gonna go so far I'm gonna get it off my mind
Maybe someday somewhere someway I will forget
But there's no goin' back so roll on down my track you old heartbreak express
Feelin' alone while a low whistle moans on the heartbreak express

Roll on roll on roll on down the line gonna get him off my mind
Roll on roll on roll on down the line gonna get him off my mind
Got a ticket to ride and I'm leavin' tonight on the heartbreak express
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2. SINGLE WOMEN
(Michael O'Donoghue) « © '81 Least Loved Music, BMI »
Single bars and single women with a single thought in mind
Just to make it till the morning looking for what they can find
For a man they won't remember for a night they can't forget
Do you come to this place often may I light your cigarette

Drinkng beer and amaretto passing time and swapping jokes
Hoping for a new beginning but the beginning to lose hope
And you're waiting for that moment when a glance becomes a stare
Umm what's that perfume you're wearin' haven't I met you somewhere

Find a matchbox in the morning with a name and number scrawled
When you phone a woman answers and you wish you'd never called
They're friendly when they met you but they're strangers when they go
Do you mind if I come join ya would you like to dance one more
[ sax ] And it's gettin' near to closing and the seconds pass like years
Lots of friends to share the lughter not a one to share the tears
And you wish they'd change that jukebox you know every song it plays
Can I drop you off at my place ah what's the matter are you gay

You've got a twenty in your pocket got your toothbrush in your purse
Life could get a whole lot better but it better not get worse
Single bars and single women with a single thought in mind
Just to make it till the morning looking for what they can find
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3. MY BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAIN BOY
(Dolly Parton) « © '69 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
From a shack by a mountain stream to a room in New Orleans
So far from my blue ridge mountain home
Oh the men I meet ain't warm and friendly like the one in old Virginy
No they ain't real like my blue ridge mountain boy

Oh I was just a little past eighteen when I came to New Orleans
I have never been beyond my home state line
There was a boy there he loved me dearly but I broke his heart severely
When I left my blue ridge mountain boy

Oh but life was dull in my hometown lights were out when the sun went down
And so I thought that city life was more my style just a little more my style
But nights get lonely away from home and it's easy to go wrong
The men ain't kind like my blue ridge mountain boy

And New Orleans held things in store things I've never bargained for
And every night a different man knocks on my door
Oh but late at night when all is still I can hear a whippoorwill
As I cry for my blue ridge mountain boy

Oh but I can't ever go back home cause the boy I loved is gone
I guess he got tired of waiting for me to return
They say he'd married last October but I never will get over
Oh the sweet love of my blue ridge mountain boy

Oh oh though I miss that blue ridge mountain boy
How I miss my blue ridge mountain boy
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4. AS MUCH AS ALWAYS
(Dolly Parton) « © '81 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
I hoped I wouldn't miss you long but I still can't believe you're gone
And I still miss you just as much as always
I hoped I'd get you off my mind it's been a long time but I find
That I still think of you as much as always

As much as always as much as always just as much as always
As much as always just as much as always
I still miss you still think of you just as much as always
As much as always just as much as always
I still want you still need you just as much as always
[ steel ] I hoped that I'd find someone else but there's too much of you still left
And I still love you just as much as always
I hoped that I'd forget your touch but I still want it just as much
And I still need it just as much as always

As much as always...
As much as always as much as always
I still love you I do love you just as much as always
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5. DO I EVER CROSS YOUR MIND
(Dolly Parton) « © '73 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
Oh sometimes I go walkin' through fields where we walked
Long ago in the sweet used to be
And the flowers still grow but they don't smeel as sweet
As they did when you picked them for me

And when I think of you and the love we once knew
How I wish we could go back in time
Do you ever think back on old mem'ries like that
Or do I ever cross your mind

Do you ever wake up lonely in the middle of the night
Because you miss me do you darling
Oh and do your mem'ries ever take you back into another place in time
Oh and do you ever miss the feelings and the love we shared
When you were with me do you darling
I just wonder do I cross your mind
[ ac.guitar ] Oh how often I wish that again
I could kiss your sweet lips like I did long ago
And how often I long for those two loving arms
That once held me so gentle and close

And when I think of you....
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6. RELEASE ME (AND LET ME LOVE AGAIN) (Eddie Miller - W.S. Stevenson - Robert Yount) « © '54 Roschelle Publishing, BMI »
Please release me let me go cause I I don't love you anymore
And to live with your love is a sin so release and let me love again

I have found a new love dear and I'll always want him near
His lips are warm while yours are cold so release me my darling let me go

Oh please release me let me go
Cause I just I just don't love you anymore
And to live together we both know it's a sin
So release me release me and let me love again
[ guitar - harmonica ] Oh please please please release me let me go
Cause I I don't love you anymore
And to live together is a sin so release and let me love again

Oh please release me let me go cI don't love you anymore
And to live together is a sin so release and let me love again
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7. BARBARA ON YOUR MIND
(Dolly Parton) « © '81 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
Last night you called me Barbara as you lay fast asleep
And although I'm not Barbara you wanted me to be
You whispered words I haven't heard in such a long long time
Last night you said I love you with Barbara on your mind

Sometimes I find traces of her kisses on your skin
And strands of chestnut hair that say you've been with her again
Little traces of her that it breaks my heart to find
Last night you called me darlin' with Barbara on your mind

With Barbara on your mind you held me in your arms so tight
And lying there so close to you I cried until daylight
And though you think that I don't know well I'm really not that blind
Last night you said I love you with Barbara on your mind
Last night you called me darlin' with Barbara on your mind
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8. ACT LIKE A FOOL
(Dolly Parton) « © '81 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
You make me act like a fool
You treat me mean and cold and cruel
You make me do things that I hate to do
Why do you make me act like a fool

Now that you know just how much I care
you treat me mean and it ain't right nor fair
I keep holding on though I don't know what to
While you make me act like a fool

You know just how to hurt me and you often do
When we're out in public I start fightin' with you
You start trouble in private when nobody knows
Oh then you go away smellin' just like a rose

So you make me act like a fool...
[ sax ] You know just how to hurt me and you so often do
You start flirtin' in public with somebody new
You start trouble in private when nobody knows
Oh then you go away smellin' just like a rose

So you make me act like a fool...
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9. PRIME OF OUR LOVE
(Dolly Parton) « © '81 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
I have rocked you to sleep like a baby
Stood beneath you and lifted you up
I have given you comfort and safety
Now you've gone in the prime of our love

I have cradled your head on my pillow
Quenched your thirst from my sweet loving cup
I have bowed to your needs like a willow
Now you've gone in the prime of our love

Oh the days are so slow in their passing
And the nights are so dreadfully dull
And the question my heart keeps on asking
Why'd you leave in the prime of our love

I have cradled your head...
[ steel ] In the prime of our love you've forsaken
Our bright hopes and just left them to fade
And the heart that was yours
For the breaking lies in pieces to wither away

I have cradled your head on my pillow...
In the prime of our love you've forsaken...
Lies in pieces as cold as the clay
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10. HOLLYWOOD POTTERS
(Dolly Parton) « © '82 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
Mothers hold on to your sons and your daughters
Should Hollywood claim them you'll hold them no more
Cause they'll become clay to the Hollywood potters
And there's no escape once they walk through that door

Hollywood Hollywood dungeon of drama
Center of sorrow city of schemes
Hollywood Hollywood terrace of trauma
Palace of promises dealer in dreams

Some may go hungry some go insane
Some go to the bottle and some to the veins
Some become users and some become used
And some even make it but most never do

Hollywood Hollywood dungeon of drama...

You spin them around like a merry go round
You mold them and shape them and then throw them down
All of your glitter and all of your gold
Is that what you give in exchange for a soul
Cause they sell their souls for the likes of you
While you chew up and spit out what you cannot use

So mothers hold on to...
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