lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

ALMOST IN LOVE

(Randy Starr - Luiz Bonfa) « © '68 Gladys Music, ASCAP / Cherry Lane Music, ASCAP »
Your lips were made for kisses so tender I'm almost in love tonight
When we are close my heart says surrender I'm almost in love tonight

And here under the spell of evening I long to hold you tight
Heaven is near why think of tomorrow I'm almost in love tonight
[ strings - horns ] It may be just the spell of evening I long to hold you tight
Heaven is near why think of tomorrow I'm almost in love tonight
(In love tonight) almost in love
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2.

LONG LEGGED GIRL (WITH THE SHORT DRESS ON)

(Leslie McFarland - Winfield Scott) « © '65 Cherry River Music, BMI / Chrysalis Songs, BMI »
Alright I've been thumbin' rides travellin' light walkin' streets till past midnight
Trampin' roads trails and lanes scalin' cliffs and fields and plains
Searchin' till the early dawn for that long legged girl with the short dress on

Ridin' trucks bikes and skis sailin' lakes and brooks and seas
Drivin' wagons cars and jeeps walkin' on stilts in ten foot leaps
Searchin' till the early dawn for that long legged girl with the short dress on
And everywhere I go she's been and gone

She's fine it's just too bad she's the travellin' kind
So fine I just can't rest till I make her mine
Well I've been from Maine to Tennessee Mexico and Wahkiki
Rain or shine sleet or snow searchin' high and searchin' low
Cause everything depends upon that long legged girl with the short dress on

She's fine it's just too bad...
That long legged girl with the short dress on
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3.

EDGE OF REALITY

(Bill Giant - Bernie Baum - Florenece Kaye) « © '68 Cherry River Music, BMI / Chrysalis Songs, BMI »
I walk along a thin line darling dark shadows follow me
Here's where life's dream lies disillusioned the edge of reality

Oh I can hear strange voices echo laughing with mockery
The borderline of doom I'm facing the edge of reality

On the edge of reality she sits there tormenting me
The girl with the nameless face
On the edge of reality where she overpowers me
With fears that I can't explain
She drove me to the point of madness the brink of misery
If she's not real then I'm condemned to the edge of reality

On the edge of reality...
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4.

MY LITTLE FRIEND

(Shirl Milete) « © '68 Cherry River Music, BMI / Chrysalis Songs, BMI / Last Straw Music, BMI »
My warped and worried mind resortd
To wandering off to ponder things I never talk about
A pretty girl I used to know but wouldn't know if we met face to face
And defying every logic known
I wish all the time machine could take me back again
To the wonder of my first love the old folks tease me bout
Referring to her only as my little friend

Somewhere far away and maybe not so far away
The child has grown into a woman of the world
I assume just knowing that she knew so much of life at such a tender age
I learned from her the whispered things the big boys at the pool hall talk about
The thrill and disappointment fear and shame that first love brings
But oh how I thought I loved my little friend

The fragrance of the green grass mingled with the scent of love and warming earth
The moonlight night I kissed and cried and swore I'd never touch another girl
But time moved fast and I moved on and I loved others time and time again
But with each time I thought of her and always gave a little more
Assembled love and rememberance for my little friend
Oh oh oh assembled love and rememberance for my little friend
Oh oh oh assembled love and rememberance for my little friend
Oh oh oh assembled love and rememberance for my little friend
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5.

LITTLE LESS CONVERSATION

(Mac Davis - Billy Strange) « © '68 Cherry River Music, BMI / Chrysalis Songs, BMI »
A little less conversation a little more action
All this aggrevation ain't satisfaction in me
A little more bite and a little less bark a little less fight and a little more spark
Close your mouth and open up your heart and baby satisfy me satisfy me baby

Baby close your eyes and listen to the music and dig to the summer breeze
It's a groovy night and I could show you how to use it
Now come along with me and put your mind at ease

A little less conversation a little more action...

Come on baby I'm tired of talking grab your coat and let's start walking
Come on come on come on come on come on come on
Don't procrastinate don't articulate girl it's gettin' late you just sit and wait around

A little less conversation a little more action...
Satisfy me satisfy me baby satisfy me satisfy me baby
Satisfy me satisfy me girl satisfy me satisfy me baby
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6.

RUBBERNECKIN'

(Dorry Jones - Bunny Warren) « © '68 Cherry River Music, BMI / Chrysalis Songs, BMI / Bargyle Music, BMI »
Stop look and listen baby that's my philosophy
It's called rubberneckin' baby but that's all right with me
Stop look and listen baby that's my philosophy
It's called rubberneckin' baby but that's all right with me

Some people say I'm wasting time but they don't really know
I like what I see I see what I like it gives me such a glow yeah yeah yeah
First thing in the morning last thing in the night
I look and stare everywhere and I see everything in sight hey hey hey

Stop look and listen baby that's my philosophy
It's called rubbernecking baby but that's all right with me
Some people say I'm wastin' time but I don't really care
I like what I see I see what I like it gives me such a glow yeah yeah yeah

Sitting on the backporch all by myself
Along came Mary Jane now I'm with somebody else hey hey hey

Stop look and listen baby that's my philosophy
It's called rubbernecking baby but that's all right with me yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah baby that's all right with me
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7.

CLEAN UP YOUR OWN BACKYARD

(Mac Davis - Billy Strange) « © '68 Cherry River Music, BMI / Chrysalis Songs, BMI »
Back porch preacher preaching at me acting like he wrote the golden rules
Shakin' his fist and screechin' at me shoutin' from his soap box like a fool
Come Sunday morning he's lyin' in bed his eyes all red from the wine he's had
Wishing he was dead when he oughta be headin' for Sunday school

Clean up your own backyard oh don't you hand me none of your lines
Clean up your own backyard you tend to your business I'll tend to mine

Drugstore cowboy criticising acting like he's better than you and me
Standin' on the sidewalk supervising tellin' everybody how they ought to be
Come closin' time most every night he locks up tight and out go the lights
And he ducks out of sight and he cheats on his wife with his employee

Clean up your own backyard...

Armchair quarterback's always moanin' second guessin' people all day long
Pushing fooling and hanging on in always messing where they don't belong
When you get right down to the nitty-gritty isn't it a pity that in this big city
Not a one a little bitty man'll admit he could have been a little bit wrong

Clean up your own backyard...
Clean up your own backyard you tend to your business I'll tend to mine
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8.

U.S. MALE

(Jerry Reed Hubbard) « © '66 Vector Music, BMI / Sixteen Stars Music, BMI »
Now I'm a US Male cause I was born
In a Mississippi town on a Sunday morn
Now Mississippi just happens to occupy a place
In the southeastern portion of this here United States
Now that's a matter of fact buddy and you know it well
So I just call myself the US Male
That's M-A-L-E son that's me

Now I said all that to say all this
I've been watchin' the way you've been watchin' my miss
For the last three weeks you been hot on her trail
And you kinda upset this US Male
You touch her once with your greasy hands
I'm gonna stretch your neck like a long rubber band
She's wearin' a ring that I bought her on sale
And that makes her the property of this US Male

You better not mess with the US Male my friend
The US Male gets mad he's gonna do you in
You know what's good for yourself son
You better find somebody else son
Don't tamper with the property of the US Male
[ guitar ] Through the rain and the heat and the sleet and the snow
The US Male is on his toes
Quit watchin' my woman for that ain't wise
You ain't pullin' no wool over this boy's eyes
I catch you round my woman champ
I'm gonna leave your head bout the shape of a stamp
Kinda flattened out so you'll do well
To quit playin' games with this US Male

You better not mess with the US Male my friend
The US Male gets mad he's gonna do you in
You know what's good for yourself son
You gonna find somebody else son
Don't tamper with the property of the US Male
Sock it to me
[ guitar ] All right now I'm gonna tell it like it is son
I catch you messin' 'round with that woman of mine
I'm gonna lay one on ya. You're talkin' to the US Male
The American US Male
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9.

CHARRO

(Mac Davis - Billy Strange) « © '68 Elvis Presley Music, BMI »
With eyes that hide the man within
You see behind the eyes of other men
You've lived and died and come to life again
And now you stand alone at the crossroads of your mind
You've left your yesterdays behind
But which road leads you to tomorrow charro

You've turned your back on yesterday
Betrayed a man who swore he'd make you pay
For when you left you took his bride away
You know he'll never let you break away for easily
You'll have to fight before you're free
But how much more time can you borrow charro

Now in a single moment your past grows dim
One thought goes racing across your mind
You ride to meet the woman you stole from him
Oh no charro don't go charro don't go

There's something hanging in the wind
Your past is catching up and closing in
You've been halfway to hell and back again
And now you laugh in the devil's face with your last breath
You'll run a race with life and death
But will you live to see tomorrow charro
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10.

STAY AWAY

(Sid Tepper - Roy C. Bennett) « © '68 Gladys Music, ASCAP / Cherry Lane Music, ASCAP »
Ten thousand miles even though I roam
I can hear the call of the hills of home
The canyon's high and the valley is low
Echo how can you stay away

My dreams are there where the eagle flies
Where the mountain tops seem to touch the sky
The winding streams and the winds that blow
Ask me how can you stay away

Far too long have I stayed apart
From this land that I love and denied my heart
Now now I know I must go
Where the hills say don't stay away
Where the hills say don't stay away
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