PARADISE
(Giant 24603)
1995
Produced by James Stroud & David Malloy
Rich Alves, Bill McCorvey - guitar/vocal
Dann Huff - el.guitar
Larry Byrom - ac.guitar
Paul Franklin - steel
Dean Townson - guitar/vocal
Glenn Worf - bass
Jimmy Lowe - drums
Joe Spivey, Glen Duncan, Rob Hajacos - fiddle
Steve Nathan, Gary W. Smith, Johnny Neel - piano/keyboards
John Wesley Ryles, Curtis Write, Curtis Young - vocals
1.
PARADISE
(Bob McDill - Roger Murrah)
« © '95 Ranger Bob Music, ASCAP / PolyGram Int, ASCAP / Murrah Music, BMI »
There's a state highway at the end of this road
Muddy four miles any way you go
You'll stick it to the doors if you even try
A neighbor couldn't make it in a four-wheels drive
But we got a house and a creek to fish
Seven acres and a satellite dish
I don't want to go nowhere let the river flow I don't care
Can't go to work and the boss can't call
But me and my baby don't mind at all
Stuck out here in paradise
[ fiddle ]
Searching the sky for a chance in the weather
It's gonna get worse before it gets better
The bridge is out second time this year
Ain't no other way out of here
We got deer in the woods tomatoes in a jar
A fire and a VCR
I don't want to go nowhere...
[ fiddle ]
Got the garden in and the wood all stacked
A freezer on the porch out back
I don't want to go nowhere...
Paradise
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2.
LET THE JONESES WIN
(John Jarrard - Wendell Mobley - Kent Wells)
« © '95 New Works Music, BMI / Warner-Tamerlane Publishing, BMI »
My friend Joe's gotta bass boat hooked to a Range Rover
It ain't ever been wet
His next door neighbor's got a condo in Jamaica
He ain't ever seen it yet
We keep tryin' to keep up I'm not sure I know why
The trouble with this rat race baby is there ain't no finish line
Let's let the Joneses win let's lay the tempo back
Take time to breathe again and skip the heart attack
That wild goose chase we've been on never ends
Let's let the Joneses win
I bought us a rubber raft a discount Chris Craft
Down at the Wal-Mart store
It ain't a house boat but the dang thing floats
And at least it's all paid for
What you say we call it well and blow off work today
We can watch the world go by while we're floatin' down the lake
Let's let the Joneses win...
[ guitar ]
That wild goose chase we've been on never ends
Let's let the Joneses win
Let's let the Joneses win let's let the Joneses win
Let's let the Joneses win yeah
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3.
911
(Rich Alves - Bill McCorvey - Gary Harrison)
« © '95 Longitude Music, BMI / Flaw Factor Music, BMI /
Georgian Hills Music, BMI / Music Of Stage Three, BMI / Songs Of Universal, BMI »
Call 9-1-1 emergency
Got a man down here on bended knee
Perpetrator is a red head stands five foot three
Call 9-1-1 emergency
It was a case of hit and run Lord she took me by surprise
Send someone to the rescue cause I'm much too weak to fight
Call 9-1-1 (call 9-1-1) emergency...
I'm in a state of confusion like I've never felt before
She's got me sending flowers and hanging round the jewelry store
Call 9-1-1 (call 9-1-1) emergency...
[ guitar ]
Call 9-1-1 emergency...
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4.
BIGGEST BROKEN HEART IN TENNESSEE
(Rich Alves - Bill McCorvey - Gary Harrison)
« © '95 Longitude Music, BMI / Flaw Factor Music, BMI /
Georgian Hills Music, BMI / Music Of Stage Three, BMI / Songs Of Universal, BMI »
I'm bluer than the bluegrass in Kentucky
I'm sadder than a weeping willow tree
I'm lonesome as the mountains on the moon
With the biggest broken heart in Tennessee
I heard through the grapevine how you're doing
You turned some cajun head's in New Orleans
You caused a fight in a cowboy bar in Texas
And the biggest broken heart in Tennessee
You took this ol' country boy to school
You wrote the book then you broke the rules
And left a trail of red hot memories
Yeah I'm bluer than the bluegrass in Kentucky...
[ guitar ]
Well my story's made the rounds in Chattanooga
Everybody down in Memphis knows of me
You're the one to thank for my fame and misfortune
And the biggest broken heart in Tennessee
You took this ol' country boy to school...
Yeah I'm bluer than the bluegrass in Kentucky...
Yeah I got the biggest broken heart in Tennessee
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5.
I THINK LOCALLY
(John Schweers - Roger Murrah - Bill McCorvey)
« © '95 Murrah Music, BMI / Music Of Stage Three, BMI »
I ain't worried about the ocean but I'm glad some folks are
Now I like whales and darter snails but you can carry this thing too far
They wanna save the planet but they're endangering me
We ain't got no ozone problem here in Tennessee
I don't think globally I think locally
Our high school football team don't play Germany
When you got a good woman by your side you don't need to hug no tree
I don't think globally I think locally
[ guitar ]
My idea of green peace is no weeds in the yard
I did my part for clean air I fixed the muffler on my car
That computer virus is a terminal disease
This information highway moves too dang fast for me
I don't think globally I think locally...
I don't need to know the price of corn in Paraguay
Just give me the local paper or USA Today
I don't think globally I think locally...
I don't think globally I think locally
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6.
WEAKNESS FOR THE WEEKEND
(Tim Johnson)
« © '95 Big Cary Music, BMI / Warner-Tamerlane Publishing, BMI »
Monday alarm clock ringin' wake up I've got to go
Dog tired and the coffee's steamin' dash for the truck and hit the road
Punch in punch out it's gonna be another weekday hell
Tuesday same old story Wednesday sure drags on
Thursday always bores me Friday at five thank God I'm gone
I've got a weakness for the weekend
I'm addicted to these honky tonking nights
I've got a weakness for the weekend
And it's a feelin' I'm not strong enough to fight
Bar stool I'm the first one on it draft beer chug-a-lug-a-lug
I'm no fool I won't waste a minute party until the sun comes up
Boot scoot two step dance until my boot soles go to hell
Sunday can't believe it's over Monday just around the bend
It's gonna feel like forever till Friday rolls around again
I've got a weakness for the weekend...
[ guitar - fiddle ]
Yeah I've got a weakness for the weekend...
It's a feelin' I'm not strong enough to fight
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7.
WHEN HER LOVE WAS MINE
(Mark D. Sanders - Bob Regan)
« © '95 Blackwood Music, BMI »
The sign on the side of the trailer said
Your past revealed and revisited
With a new age medium as your guide
So I pulled out a twenty and I went inside
Through hanging beads down a darkened hall
To a little room with a crystal ball
She said how far back do you wanna go
I said just about a year or so
When I did not lay awake all night
When everything that's gone now was still going right
Before I got this urge to travel back in time
When her love was mine
When her love her sweet love was mine
She said boy this ball don't work like that
I can't slow the thing down when it's going back
I see you now in an ancient life
You were an Aztec king with seven wives
Then she read my palm and the tarot cards
Made a diagram of the moon and stars
But when she mentioned some future love
I said tell me bout the man I was
When I did not lay awake all night...
Oh when her love her sweet love was mine yeah
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8.
COUNTRY
(Roger Murrah - Marcus Hummon)
« © '95 Murrah Music, BMI / Careers Music, BMI »
He's got a John Deere cap and a bad haircut
A face only a mama could love
But he's a hard worker he comes home at night
He's got a wife and a dog two kids and a half
He's a lifetime die hard democrat
And he pays his bills he's an honest man
He's validated unadulterated country
He's got a bumper sticker on his new Dodge van
That says follow me to the promised land
He's tried and true bleeds red white and blue
He works six days a week for Saturday night
To hear the jukebox play the time of his life
But come Sunday morning he sings I saw the light
He's flag waving soul saving country
When I look at this man I see a little bit of myself
That part of me that can't be nobody else
He's come and get it unapologetic flag waving soul saving
Validated unadulterated the man's country
He's got a John Deere cap and a bad haircut
A face only a mama could love
But he's a hard worker he comes home at night
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9.
RODEO QUEEN
(Rich Alves - Bill McCorvey - Dean Townson)
« © '95 Flaw Factor Music, BMI / Music Of Stage Three, BMI »
She's got the blue jeans she's got the cowboy boots
She's a hard workin' girl workin' 9 to 5 she's a dancin' machine
She knows every step to every single song
And there ain't no doubt she's a lady she's a rodeo queen
Round and round can't sit down
Hit the line one more time
So put on another country song
Gonna dance all night till the cows come home
Yeah she's built for love and she knows how to move
She's got a classic style with a country groove
She's a dancin' machine
She's a blue ribbon winner and she wears it well
She's got a crown on her cowboy hat she's a rodeo queen
Round and round can't sit down...
Round and round she goes up and down the floor
Can't sit down she's a rodeo queen
Round and round she goes...
Round and round she goes...
Round and round she goes...
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10.
FEED JAKE
(Danny Mayo)
« © '90 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
I'm standing at the crossroads in life and I don't know where to go
You know you've got my heart babe but my music's got my soul
Let me play it one more try I'll tell the truth and make it rhyme
And hope they understand me
Now I lay me down to sleep and pray the Lord my soul to keep
If I die before I wake feed Jake
He's been a good dog my best friend right through it all
If I die before I wake feed Jake
The Broadways' like a sewer bums and hookers everywhere
Wino passed out on the sidewalk doesn't anybody care
Some say they're worthless just let 'em be
I for one would have to disagree and so would their mamas
Now I lay me down to sleep...
If you get an ear pierced some will call you gay
If you drive a pickup they'll say no you must be straight
But what you are and what you ain't
What you can and what you can't does it really matter
Now I lay me down to sleep...
If I die before I wake feed Jake
If I die before I wake feed Jake
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