lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

IF TEARDROPS WERE PENNIES

(Carl Butler) « © '51 Peer International, BMI »
An acre of diamonds I'd offered to you
A solid gold mansion an airplane or two
This whole world would be yours to have and to hold
If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold

If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold
I'd have all the riches my pockets would hold
I'd feel oh so wealthy with treasures untold
If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold
[ fiddle ] The tears that have fallen won't buy you a thing
The heartaches you've caused me won't pay for a ring
The love that I wanted would not have grown cold
If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold

If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold...
But teardrops aren't pennies and heartaches aren't gold
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2.

SOUNDS OF NIGHT

(Porter Wagoner) « © '73 Porter Music, BMI »
Hear the evening breezes start to blowing
See the evening shadows start to come
Listen to the nightbirds start their singing
Now the sounds of night have just begun

A lonely hootowl cries out in the darkness
For its mate that's nowhere to be found
Then a lonesome whippoorwill strats calling
Their lonely voices fill the night with sound

Hear the church bell ringing in the distance
What a mournful sound so late at night
Wonder why the darkness makes it sound so lonesome
Listen to the lonely sounds of night
[ steel ] The darkness seems to whisper in the silence
Your love is gone but things will be all right
Still my lonely heart cries through the darkness
Listening to the lonely sounds of night

Hear the church bell ringing in the distance...
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3.

LAUGH THE YEARS AWAY

(Howard Tuck) « © '73 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
A corporation owns the factory I work in
Someone else owns the house we call our home
The bank owns the car we drive around
And we've got something we can call our own

We've got love happiness surrounds us
And we thank the Lord for every single day
And with love we'll always have each other
And together we can laugh the years away
[ steel ] We're so thankful for our lovely children
And I work hard to keep new shoes upon their feet
But sometimes they've not too much on our table
But we've got something that's mighty hard to feed

We've got love happiness surrounds us...
We've got love happiness surrounds us...
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4.

YOU

(Dolly Parton) « © '73 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
The morning sun comes quietly into my room each morning
It wakes me up to greet a brand new day
I arise a thinking that it's so good to be living
Loving you is why I feel this way

You my love it's you that makes me always feel like singing
And every song I sing I sing for you
You and only you can make the sun shine when it's raining
All my happiness I owe to you
You all my happiness I owe to you

The garden of Eden couldn't have been any sweeter
Than this paradise I share with you
Our love outshines the eastern star the brightest in the heavens
Surely heaven must have sent me you

You my love it's you that makes me always feel like singing...
You you make me complete and I love you
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5.

WASTING LOVE

(Porter Wagoner) « © '73 Porter Music, BMI »
It seems we lost the feeling somewhere along the way
The distance now between us grows farther day by day
We never love each other we're just passing off the time
Wasting love yours and mine

Wasting love love divine wasting love yours and mine
There's nothing left between us just the ties that bind
Wasting love yours and mine wasting love

We just might find happiness with somebody new
For all the love we're wasting surely could be used
Not long ago our love was so true and kind
Now it's been wasted yours love and mine

Wasting love love divine...
Wasting love yours and mine wasting love
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6.

COME TO ME

(Dolly Parton) « © '73 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
Everyone needs someone they feel that they can run to
Let me be your someone the one you always come to
I wish you only happiness but that won't always be
So come to me when you're in need won't you come to me

Come to me when you're down I will help you up
When you find you need the strenght that only comes from love
Let me be the one you run to in your time of need
Come to me when you're in need come to me

Come to me when you're in need and let me hide you from the world outside
Come to me when you're in need and I will dry your teardrops when you cry
Come to me let me be the one that gives you strenght when you are weak
Come to me when you're in need come to me
Come to me when you're in need come to me
Won't you come to me
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7.

LOVE IS OUT TONIGHT

(Porter Wagoner - Tom Pick) « © '73 Porter Music, BMI »
As blue skies and daylight darken into night
Surrounding us with beauty as the stars make their light
They spell out our names all the stars up above
As they flicker and shine like letters of love

Then a warm breath of air whispers through the trees
As the leaves on their branches have blown to the breeze
Ripples of water seemed to echo the sound
Love's out tonight there's love all around

Small drops of dew act as nature's perfume
Placing its fragrance on all that's in blue
While I hold you so close your lips touching mine
With nature all around us watching our love entwine

Love's out tonight see the candles in the sky
God lend us the heavens tonight for you and I
A night full of love for all the world to see
Love's out tonight all around you and me
Love's out tonight
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8.

IN THE PRESENCE OF YOU

(Porter Wagoner) « © '73 Porter Music, BMI »
In the presence of you I wonder
Why I can't say the things that I want to
All the pretty words that I planned to say when I'm with you
I lose them in the presence of you

Your nearness makes my voice tremble
There's a weakness that I feel through and through
Searching for words to describe how I love you
Don't come easy in the presence of you

Love and admiration might make my words silent
But feelings say more than words do
And the feeling of loving you is all around me
Anytime I'm in the presence of you

Love and admiration might make my words silent...
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9.

I GET LONESOME BY MYSELF

(Dolly Parton) « © '73 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
In a dingy upstairs room in the dirty part of town
A little girl stood waving from a window
She was calling to me I was standing down below
And I heard her small voice sayin'

(Hey Mister I want you to come up here and talk to me
You ain't got no other place to go
I can't come outside and play cause I ain't got no friends
I can't come outside no way cause my mom is gone and locked me in
But there is the key outside the door is layin' on the shelf
I want you to come up here and talk to me cause I get lonesome by myself)

I was feelin' lonesome too and I knew just how she felt
And I knew just what she meant when she said she got lonesome by herself
She kept callin' to me and I thought well since her mama's gone
I'd walk and talk to her awhile since we're both alone
We got a talkin' and I asked her why she was there by herself

(Well my mommie never used to leave me by myself at night
But mommie says I'm bigger now I'm not but that's alright
I don't go to school cause I'm not old enough right yet
But I can go to school next year cause next year I'm gonna be six
I used to have a daddy but he left long time ago
I asked my mommie why he left but my mommie says she don't know
I know she loves my daddy
Cause sometimes when I smile mommie says I look just like him
Then the tears get in my mommie's eyes
My mommie drinks I know she does cause I can smell it on her breath
Mommie never used to drink so I know it's cause my daddy's gone
And my mommie she gets lonesome by herself I sure get lonesome by myself)

How she talked about her daddy it reminded me of me
How I walked out of my own little girl and a woman that really loved me
As I was thinkin' of them she said
(Have you got a little girl that's about the size of me
Have you got a picture of her I can see)
I took a picture of my violin and handed it to her
When she saw the picture I couldn't believe her words
(Hey that's my mommie in that picture and that baby well that baby must be me
And you must be my daddy then)
Then the tears rolled down my face like they never had before
I just couldnb't believe it as I held her in my arms
And I said I'll wait here till your mama comes
And I'll tell her that I still love her and I'm sorry that I'd ever left
And I'd like to stay if she let me cause I sure get lonesome all by myself
(Well you won't be lonesome now cause I love you)
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10.

THERE'LL ALWAYS BE MUSIC

(Dolly Parton) « © '73 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
A mother sings as she rocks her babies
Children sing the noted nursery rhymes
The old church bell is ringing for the Sunday morning singing
Music is as old as the time

As the farmer works the fields he sings a song
The songbirds in the trees sing along
And the wind makes melodies as it whistles through the trees
Man's burdens are made lighter with a song

There'll always be music as long as there's a story to be told
There'll always be music cause music is the voice of the song
There'll always be music

Rain makes rhytmic sounds when it's falling
There's music in a new born baby's cry
There's music all around and there is no sweeter sound
For that's the way a man expresses life

In heaven there's a choir of angels singing
We often heard about God's angel band
Music will live on when men on earth are gone
There'll still be music in that promised land

There'll always be music...
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