It might be the short length of this album that inevitably makes it feel like it just didn't quite all come together, yet there are plenty of high points, such as the catchy title tune, the grooving "It's All Wrong, But It's All Right," "Two Doors Down," and the typically Parton-esque charm of "Cowgirl and the Dandy." Some problems originate with the studio backup, which just isn't country enough. Sure, there's some pedal steel here and there, but an effort is obviously being made to steer her away from the hardcore country sound to whatever might have been perceived as being popular in the late '70s. This is still a few years before disco was to temporarily monopolize her aesthetic. The musicians here represent a smooth Los Angeles sound, with pickers such as David Lindley aboard. There are even synthesizer contributions from Ian Underwood, but from what he does one would hardly know that he had been a member of the avant-garde rock outfit the Mothers of Invention.
DOLLY PARTON
HERE YOU COME AGAIN
RCA Victor APL1-2544
December 24/1977
Produced by Gary Klein
Ben Benay, David Wolfert, Jay Graydon - guitar
Dean Parks - guitar/banjo
David Lindley - slide guitar
Al Perkins - steel
David Hungate - bass
Ed Greene, Jim Keltner - drums/percussion
David Foster - keyboards/synthesizer
Nick DeCaro - accordion/arrangements
Vocals:
Jan Gassman, Myrna Matthews, Marti McCall, Gene Morford, Zedric Turnbough
Recorded:
1977, RCA Victor Studio, Nashville
1.
HERE YOU COME AGAIN
(Cynthia Weil - Barry Mann)
« © '77 Screen Gems Music, BMI / Summerhill Songs, BMI »
Here you come again just when I'm about to get myself together
You waltz right in the door just like you've done before
And wrap my heart round your little finger
Here you come again just when I'm about to make it work without you
You look into my eyes and lie those pretty lies
And pretty soon I'm wonderin' how I came to doubt you
All you gotta do is smile that smile and there go all my defenses
Just leave it up to you and in a little while
You're messin' up my mind and fillin' up my senses
Here you come again lookin' better than a body has a right to
And shakin' me up so that all I really know
Is here you come again and here I go
[ guitar ]
All you gotta do is smile that smile....
Here I go and here I go and here I go
Here you come again and here I go and here I go and here I go
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2.
BABY COME OUT TONIGHT
(Joyce Lavern McCord)
« © '77 Sosaha Music, BMI »
Baby won't you come out tonight just come up the hill
Cause there's a full moon on the risin'
Hey baby can't you steal away you know I really need to see you tonight
I just got a word you was packin' it in
What's the matter this old town got you crazy again
I can see the sad look in your eyes but I don't know how to say goodbye
And tommorrow you're gonna have your day
Take your wife and you're gonna run away
Baby while I'm wailing you'll be sailing like a hog across the bay
Singin' oo la la la la la la la la oh
Baby won't you come out tonight
Oh baby won't you come out tonight
We'll run up the hill and we'll dance in the moonlight
Let me gaze into your eyes till we both go blind
Oh baby can I see you tonight
I'm just tryin' to find a way to make it last
Good friends they seem to slip away so fast
And I know we're both headed down seperate tracks
And when you go baby don't look back
There won't be no more sleeping over on a Tuesday night
No more running to the races for a dark horse at midnight
No more dancing after hours singing in the showers
Or clinging to each other in the soft morning light
Singin' oo la la la la la la la la
Oh baby won't you come out tonight
Oh baby won't you come out tonight
I'll meet you on the corner and you'll be there at midnight
Oh baby can you steal away you know I really want to see you tonight
Ooo baby can you come out tonight
We'll run up the hill and dance again in the moonlight
Oh baby can you steal away I really wanna see you tonight
Oh baby won't you come out tonight come up the hill
There's a full moon on the rise
Oh baby can you steal away baby won't you come out tonight
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3.
IT'S ALL WRONG BUT IT'S ALL RIGHT
(Dolly Parton)
« © '77 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
Hello are you free tonight I like your looks I love your smile
Could I use you for a while it's all wrong but it's all right
The amber sunset glow has died my needs are very much alive
Is it okay if I stop by it's all wrong but it's all right
It's all wrong but it's all right just close your eyes and hold me tight
Tell me sexy lovin' lines it's all wrong but it's all right
It may be wrong if we make love but I just need someone so much
And who knows it might last for life it's all wrong but it's all right
It's all wrong but it's all right...
It's all wrong but it's all right just close your eyes and fantasize
Tell me sexy lovin' lines it's all wrong but it's all right
It's all wrong but it's all right...
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4.
ME AND LITTLE ANDY
(Dolly Parton)
« © '77 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
Late one cold and stormy night I heard a dog a barking
Then I thought I heard somebody at my door a knocking
I wondered who could be outside in such an awful storm
And then I saw a little girl with a puppy in her arms
Before I could say a word she said my name is Sandy
And this here is my puppy dog it's name is little Andy
Standing in the bitter cold in just a ragged dress
Then I asked her to come in and this is what she said
Ain't you got no gingerbread ain't you got no candy
Ain't you got an extra bed for me and little Andy
Patty cake and bakersman my mommy ran away again
And we was all alone and didn't know what else to do
I wonder if you'll let us stay with you
Giddy up trotty horse goin' to the mill can we stay all night
If you don't love us no one will I promise we won't cry
London bridge is falling down my daddy's drunk again in town
And we was all alone and didn't what we could do
We wonder if you'll let us stay with you
She was just a little girl not more than six or seven
But that night as they slept the angels took them both to heaven
God knew little Andy would be lonesome with her gone
Now Sandy and her puppy dog won't ever be alone
Ain't you got no gingerbread ain't you got no candy
Ain't you got an extra bed for me and little Andy
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5.
LOVIN' YOU
(John Sebastian)
« © '77 Aleey Music, BMI »
If you've been wondering what I'm gonna do
While you are sleeping am I sleeping too
Well I'm just sittin' here lovin' you close my eyes and lovin' you
I'm just sittin' back sittin' here lovin' you
I have been wondering just what I would do
If I weren't sleeping had I not found you
Well I'd be outside findin' you I'd be walkin' on the avenue findin' you
Well I'm just sittin' back sittin' here lovin' you
Now the reason that you never see me runnin' round
Fingers on my forehead couldn't calm me down
And he can't even get me up and on my feet
When I've got to take care of some business on the street
Oh I have been walking all my streets alone
But I won't keep walking to keep from going home
Couldn't quite barely conceive of you now I can't conceive of ever leavin' you
Oh and I'm just sittin' back sittin' here lovin' you
If you've been wondering what I'm gonna do...
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6.
COWGIRL AND THE DANDY
(Bobby Goldsboro)
« © '77 Warner House Of Music, BMI »
In the airport lounge he sat with his cane and durby hat
The grandest man that I had ever seen
Outside the heavy rains had grounded all the planes
So I asked him if he'd like some company
In my rhinestone studded suit and my cowgirl high heel boots
I must have been a sight for him to see
But he said pull up a chair as I fumble with my hair
A more unlikely pair you'll never see
I was Mogon David wine he was Chablis 59
But there we sat the cowgirl and the dandy
He was ski resorts in Aspen and summers in Paris
I was Grand Ole Opry Nashville Tennessee
The cowgirl and the dandy as different as could be
But it seemed so right that rainy night in Tennessee
Then somewhere in between his Harvey's Bristol cream
And the beer that I kept sipping at his table
We somehow came together for a night of stormy wheater
Now there's a little bit of class in this old cowgirl
And there's a little bit of country in the dandy
The cowgirl and the dandy as different as could be
But it seemed so right that rainy night in Tennessee
I was Mogon David wine he was Chablis 59
But there we sat the cowgirl and the dandy
He was ski resorts in Alaska and summers in Paris
I was Grand Ole Opry Nashville Tennessee
He was ski resorts in Alaska and summers in Paris
I was Grand Ole Opry Nashville Tennessee
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7.
TWO DOORS DOWN
(Dolly Parton)
« © '77 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
Two doors down they're laughin' and drinkin' and havin' a party
And two doors down they're not aware that I'm around
Here I am cryin' my heart out feeling sorry
While they're havin' a party just two doors down
Lying across my lonely bed in this lonely old department
Crying about the way that life's kickin' me around
My love of yesterday is gone but he promised no tomorrow
But they're feeling no sorrow just two doors down
No two doors down they're laughin' and drinkin'...
I think I'll dry these useless tears and get myself together
I think I'll wonder down the hall and have a look around
Cause I can't stay inside this lonely room and cry forever
I think I really rather join 'em two door down
Yeah two doors down they're laughin' and drinkin'...
I can't believe I'm standing here dry eyed all smiles and talking
Making conversation with the new love I have found
I ask him if he'd like to be alone so we start walking
Down the hall to my place waitin' two doors down
Oh two doors down they're laughin' and drinkin'...
Yeah two doors down they're laughin' and drinkin'...
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8.
GOD'S COLORING BOOK
(Dolly Parton)
« © '77 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
Today as I was walking in the fields just down the way
I sat down on a fallen log to pass the time away
And as I looked around me the more that I did look
The more I realize that I was viewing God's coloring book
I saw a golden ray of sunlight a silver drop of dew
A soft white floating cloud sailing cross the sky of blue
A yellow dandelion pretty evergreen
And some red and orange flowers growing wild along the streams
And the more I look around me and the more that I do look
The more I realize that I am viewing God's coloring book
The greyness in an old man's hair the pink in baby's cheeks
The blackness in a stormy sky the brown in fallen leaves
And the multicolored rainbow stretched out across the sky
And the purple haze at sunset just before the night
And the more I look around me...
Then I turn my face toward the sky and say a silent prayer
Though God doesn't speak to me I see him everywhere
He is all around me he's everywhere I look
And each new day is but a new page in God's coloring book
Each new day is but a new page in God's coloring book
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9.
AS SOON AS I TOUCHED HIM
(Norma Helms - Ken Hirsch)
« © '76 Colgems Music, ASCAP / Screen Gems Music, BMI »
He came to me like a bright idea shining like the sun
And the way his eyes burned into mine I knew he must be the one
Oh he drew me in like a magnet does so I couldn't pull away
And the kind of love I gave to him I'm not shamed to say
Oh soon as I touched him soon as I touched him
I felt like a woman and the feeling made me close my eyes
As soon as I touched him oh I was born again
I heard myself cryin' like a new born baby cries
He told me what I meant to him swore that I was sent to him
All my lovin' went to him now he's gone oh he's gone
Now I hide myself from the light of day so no one else can see
A part of him that I can't forget that's growing deep inside of me
Oh soon as I touched him soon as I touched him...
Soon as I touched him soon as I touched him...
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10.
SWEET MUSIC MAN
(Kenny Rogers)
« © '76 Cherry Lane Music, ASCAP »
Sing a song sweet music man
Cause I won't be there to hold your hand like I used to
I'm through with you
You're a heck of a singer and powerful man
But you surround yourself with people who demand so little of you
You touched my soul with your beautiful song
You even had me singin' along right with you you said I need you
Then you changed the words and added harmony
Then you sang the song you had written for me to someone new
Oh but nobody sings a love song quite like you do
Oh and nobody else can make me sing along
Nobody else can make me feel things are right when I know they're wrong
Nobody sings a love song quite like you
Sing your song sweet music man travel the world with a six piece band
That does for you what you tell 'em to
And you try to stay young but the songs are sung
To so many people who've all begun to come back on you
Sing your song sad music man making your living doin' one night stands
They're through with you they don't need you
You're still a heck of a singer but a broken man
But you'll keep on looking for one last fan to sing to
Oh and nobody sings a love song quite like you do
Oh and nobody else can make me sing along
And nobody else can make me feel things are right
When they're wrong with a song nobody sings a love song quite like you
Sing your song sweet music man I believe in you
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