lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

COMPANY YOU KEEP

(Dolly Parton - Bill Owens) « © '66 Combine Music, BMI »
Yes you're known by the company you keep

You say you're doing nothing wrong and I don't believe you are
I'm only trying to help you sis before you go too far
In my eyes you're an angel but folks think that you're cheap
Cause you're known by the company you keep

Please listen to your big brother I feel I know what's best for you
I feel it's best to warn you that's the least that I can do
I'm not accusing you of anything I know it's just fun you seek
But you're known by the company you keep

The company you keep keeps you out too long
Mom and dad don't go to sleep until you get home
Sis you're gettin' in too deep you'd better look before you leap
Cause you're known by the company you keep
Yes you're known by the company you keep
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2.

FOR LOVING ME

(Gordon Lightfoot) « © '64 Early Morning Music, SESAC »
That's what you get for loving me
That's what you get for loving me
Everything we had is gone if you can see
That's what you get for loving me

Don't you shed a tear for me
I ain't the love you thought I'd be
I've had a hundred just like you but don't be blue
I'll have a thousand before I'm through

That's what you get for loving me...
[ guitar ] There you go you're cryin' again
You should have known how things would end
But someday when your poor heart is on the mend
I just might pass this way again

That's what you get for loving me...
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3.

APARTMENT NO. 9

(Johnny Paycheck - Bobby Austin) « © '66 Dream City Music, BMI »
Just follow the stairway to this lonely world of mine
You'll find me waitin' here in Apartment No 9

Not so very long ago you walked away from me
And after all the plans we made you decided to be free

Loneliness surrounds me without your arms around me
And the sun will never shine in Apartment No 9
[ piano ] I'll keep waiting in this lonely room just in case you'd change your mind
You'll find me waitin' here in Apartment No 9

Loneliness surrounds me...
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4.

TAKE ME

(Leon Payne - George Jones) « © '64 Glad Music, BMI / Pappy Daily Music, BMI »
Take me take me to your darkest room close every window and bolt every door
The very first moment I heard your voice I'd be in darkness no more
Take me to your most barren desert a thousand miles from the nearest sea
The very first moment I saw your smile it would be like heaven to me

There's not any mountain too rocky to climb no desert too barren to cross
Somewhere if you could just show a sign of love I could bear any loss
Take me to Siberia and to coldest weather of the wintertime
And it would be just like spring in California as long as I knew you were mine

There's not any mountain...
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5.

I LOVE YOU DROPS

(Bill Anderson) « © '66 Johnny Bienstock Music, BMI »
They're not teardrops just sincere drops
They're I love you drops cause I love you

They were on my pillow when I woke up this morning
They were on the letter I tried all day to write
And just a little while ago I saw them falling
On your picture as I kissed it goodnight

I love you drops I miss you drops
Hurry home drops you've been gone so long drops
They're not teardrops just sincere drops
That say I'm lonesome and I love you
[ steel ] Never knew this heart could hurt the way it hurts for you
I've never lived so many lifetimes in a week
Why don't you come on back to me the way you said you would
And kiss these little crystals off my cheek

I love you drops I miss you drops...
That say I'm lonesome and I love you
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6.

LIES JUST CAN'T BE TRUE

(Bill Phillips - Nita Phillips) « © '66 Need A Hit Music, BMI »
My heart is pounding it's beating faster because my heart just heard
That you've been cheating on me baby it's lies it's lies that I knew
I can never believe the stories because I love you so
And you promised you'd be faithful the lies just can't be true

They're not true they're not true let me hear the truth from you
Say you're mine all the time I won't let lies turn me from you
I am sick and my heart is aching just to be with you
Tell me you'll be mine forever the lies just can't be true
[ steel - piano ] They're not true they're not true...
No the lies just can't be true
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7.

WORDS I'M GONNA HAVE TO EAT

(Liz Anderson) « © '66 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
I don't love you anymore I'm glad that we are through
Just whatever was it that I thought I saw in you
Take those words and coke and chocolatte and make the sugar sweet
Those are the words that I'm gonna have to eat

I was wrong when I told you I didn't need your love
I can't live without you so what was I thinking of
Pride you had me talkin' big when I said foolishly
I no longer love you you don't mean a thing to me

Take those words and coke and chocolatte...
[ dobro ] I can't stand it since you're gone this mis'ry has to end
I'll do anything you say to get you back again
Even gladly eat those words to make you satisfy
One by one I'll swallow them together with my pride

I don't love you anymore...
Take those words and coke and chocolatte...
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8.

THERE GOES MY EVERYTHING

(Dallas Frazier) « © '65 Husky Music, BMI / Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
There goes my only possesion there goes my everything

I hear footsteps slowly walking as they gently walk across a lonely floor
And a voice is softly saying darling this will be goodbye forever more
There goes my reason for living there goes the one of my dreams
There goes my only possesion there goes my everything

As my mem'ry turns back the pages
I can see the happy years we had before
And the love that kept this old heart beating
Has been shattered by the closing of a door

There goes my reason for living...
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9.

CITY LIGHTS

(Bill Anderson) « © '58 Johnny Bienstock Music, BMI »
A bright array of city lights as far as I can see
The great white way shines through the night for lonely guys like me
The cabaretes and honky tonks their flashing signs invite
A broken heart to lose itself in the glow of city lights

Lights that say forget her name in a glass of cherry wine
Lights that offer other girls for empty hearts like mine
They paint a pretty picture of a world that's gay and bright
But it's just a mask for loneliness behind those city lights
[ piano - steel ] The world was dark and God made stars to brighten up the night
Did the God who put those stars above make those city lights
Did he make a place for men to cry when things don't turn out right
Are we just supposed to run and hide behind those city lights

Lights that say forget her love in a different athmosphere
Lights that lure are nothing but a masquarade for tears
They paint a pretty picture but my arms can't hold them tight
And I just can't say I love you to a street of city lights
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10.

I DIDN'T FORGET

(Bill Phillips) « © '66 Need A Hit Music, BMI »
I go on about my business every day
As if nothing ever happened between us
I keep telling everyone that I don't think of you
But I lie to them and to myself too much

I didn't forget all the kisses that we shared
I didn't forget the way you ran your fingers through my hair
And each place I go there's your mem'ry still yet
I can't fool myself I didn't forget
[ steel ] I keep going to the honky tonks each night
And I see my friends all having a good time
They don't know the mis'ry and the hurt within
Cause I'm living in a world of just pretend

I didn't forget all the kisses that we shared...
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11.

LET'S WALK AWAY STRANGERS

(Mel Tillis - Benny Joy) « © '63 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
Let's walk away strangers pretend we've never met
I'm sorry that we led each other on
Let's walk away strangers my heart feels regret
And we both know this kind of love is wrong

Yes I've got an angel home waiting faithfully
And surely I'm tearing down the faith she has in me
So let's walk away strangers pretend we've never met
Forget me woman and I'll forget you
[ steel ] Yes I've got an angel home waiting faithfully...
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12.

FRIENDS TELL FRIENDS

(Dolly Parton - Bill Owens) « © '65 Combine Music, BMI »
Friends tell friends and pretty soon everybody knows

It was only yesterday that you said goodbye
But today everybody knows as well as I
Bad news spreads like wild fire and that's what I've been told
Friends tell friends and pretty soon everybody knows

Friends tell friends so no one's in the dark
Everybody knows I've got a broken heart
I guess the whole wide world will know that you made my teardrops flow
Friends tell friends and pretty soon everybody knows
[ piano ] Everybody knows we're through all over town
Ain't it funny but where it sure got around
I didn't have to tell no one I guess that it shows
Friends tell friends and pretty soon everybody knows

Friends tell friends so no one's in the dark...
Friends tell friends and pretty soon everybody knows
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