lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

JUST THE WAY I AM

(Dolly Parton) « © '68 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
If you hear me crying in the night
Pretend that you don't hear me it's all right
Don't ask me why I'm crying please don't make a sound
I don't know why it's just the way I am

If you think I act a little strange
And you don't understand when I do things
Like running through the fields while the rain is pouring down
I don't know why it's just the way I am

Even though you may not understand me
I hope that you'll accept me like I am
For there are many sides of me my mind and spirit must be free
I might smile while other folks would frown
I don't know why it's just the way I am

I might go out chasing butterflies
And if I fail to catch 'em I might fly
If you want me you might find me in the meadow walking round
I don't know why it's just the way I am

I might be home and busy cleaning house
And in the middle of my work I might go out
And go play game to children at the playground
It makes me happy that's just the way I am

Even though you may not understand me
I hope that you'll accept me like I am
For there's a childish side in me my mind and spirit must be free
I might smile when you think I should frown
I don't know why it's just the way I am
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2.

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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3.

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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4.

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
The men I meet ain't warm and friendly like the one in old Virginy
Oh they ain't real like my blue ridge mountain boy

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

Life was dull in my hometown lights were out when the sun went down
And I thought the city life was more my style
But nights get lonely way from home and it's easy to go wrong
The men ain't kind like my blue ridge mountain boy
[ steel ] New Orleans held things in store things I've never bargained for
Every night a different man knocks on my door
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 since the boy I loved is gone
He grew 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
Blue ridge mountain boy
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5.

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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6.

IN THE GHETTO

(Mac Davis) « © '68 Cherry River Music, BMI / Chrysalis Songs, BMI / ATV Songs, BMI »
As the snow flies
On a cold and gray Chicago morn a poor little baby child is born
In Ghetto and his mama cries
Cause there's one thing that she don't need
It's another little hungry mouth to feed in the Ghetto
People don't you understand the child needs a helping hand
He'll grow to be an angry young man someday
Take a look at you and me are we too blind to see
Do we simply turn our heads and look the other way while the world turns

A hungry little boy with a running nose plays in the streets as the cold wind blows
In Ghetto and his hunger burns
So he starts to roam the streets at night
And he learns how to steal and he learns how to fight in Ghetto
Then one night in desperation the young man breaks away
And he buys him a gun and he steals a car and he tries to run
But don't get far and his mama cries

As a crowd gathers round and the angry young man
Paces down the street with a gun in his hand
In Ghetto and the young man dies
On a cold and gray Chicago morn another little baby child is born
In Ghetto and his mama cries
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7.

DADDY COME AND GET ME

(Dolly Parton - Dorothy Jo Hope) « © '68 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
In this mental institution looking out through these iron bars
How could he put me in here how could he go that far
Yes I need help but not this kind he didn't love me from the start
But it's not my mind that's broken it's my heart

Oh daddy come and get me and take me home with you
I'm depending on you daddy there's nothing I can do
And you said that I could come to you if I ever was in need
But daddy I can't come to you you'll have to come to me

When he said he loved another I was crazy with jealousy
That's cause I was crazy over him and I couldn't stand to set him free
And I couldn't stand to lose him and I cried and cried for days
And he said that I was crazy he just put me in here to get me out of his way
Daddy come and get me

Oh daddy come and get me...
Oh daddy come and get 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.

GYPSY JOE AND ME

(Dolly Parton) « © '69 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
We might have slept in a may-use yard or camped by the river banks
We fed ourselves from the fruit of the land and quenched our thirst with rain
We never did allow no roots to grow beneath our feet
Life just had no pattern for Gypsy Joe and me

All we had was each other and the rags upon our back
The closest thing to a home we knew was some abandoned shack
But we had all we wanted and the rest we didn't need
Life was free and simple for Gypsy Joe and me

Now Gypsy was my little dog I found by the road in a ditch
And so I named him Gypsy cause that name just seemed to fit
Oh and Joe he was my man the flower of my soul
Though he never said he loved me I just always seemed to know

While standing by the highway a thumbing for a ride
The speeding wheels of a passing car took Gypsy's life
I lost him where I found him and his loss was misery
Now there's no more Gypsy there's just Joe and me

Well the winter came and the snow did fall and the night was cold and still
And the rags we wore were not enough and Joe he caught the chill
And he told me how he loved me and in my arms he went to sleep
Now there's no more Gypsy no more Joe there's just me

While standing here on the edge of this bridge looking down I see
The face of Joe and Gypsy looking up at me
And somewhere in the distance I can hear them calling me
Tonight we'll be together again Gypsy Joe and me
Yeah tonight we'll be together again Gypsy Joe and me
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