lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

LONESOMEST LONESOME

(Mac Davis)
« © '70 Screen Gems Music, BMI »
Well I scorched your favorite pan this morning
Trying to make some pancakes spilled the grease
And had to stop and mop the floor
Sat there like a little baby crying in my cornflakes
I don't think I can take it anymore
Baby come home
This is the lonesomest lonesome I've ever known

Late last night I woke up trembling
With my arms wrapped round your pillow
And a lump as big as Texas in my throat
Sat there in the dark and played my guitar till the sun came up
And wrote the saddest song I ever wrote
Baby come home
This is the lonesomest lonesome I've ever known

The lonesomest lonesome oh the saddest sad
The loneliest I've ever been alone
You were the best thing this poor boy ever had
Now you're gone

Well tonight I'm gonna get down on my knees and say a prayer
For the first time since I can't remember when
And maybe if I'm lucky when I wake up in the morning
You'll be soft and warm beside me once again
Baby come home
This is the lonesomest lonesome
Lonesomest lonesome I've ever known
Baby come home
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2.

BUT I WAS LYING

(Joe Allison - Audrey Allison)
« © '62 Central Songs, BMI »
I said congralutaions and I hope you're happy
But I was lying I hope you're crying
And everytime he touches you you'll think of me

I said the best of luck to you and to your new love
But I was lying no use denying
I'm not as good a loser as I thought I'd be

I hope our past is strong enough to cloud your vision
Till one day he'll even get to look like me
I hope my mem'ry crowd your mind within decision
And from force of habit you'll come straight to me

And when I said I'll see you soon let's get together
I wasn't lying I hope you're crying
Tears of happiness when you come back to me
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3.

ONE NIGHT TO REMEMBER

(Raymond A. Smith)
« © '71 Hello Darlin Music, BMI »
It's funny now that it's ending
The guilt we've been feeling is gone
We both know tomorrow I'm leaving
And tonight our love don't seem so wrong

So let's give ourselves one night to remember
One night we can call our own
A few borrowed moments to hold to forever
Just one night before I'm gone
[ strings ] Surely we owe it to each other
One night to go with us from now on
These moments are our last ones together
And we've denied our feelings for so lone

So let's give ourselves one night to remember
One night we can call our own
A few borrowed moments to hold to forever
Just one night then I'll be gone
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4.

JUST THE OTHER SIDE OF NOWHERE

(Kris Kristofferson)
« © '70 Combine Music, BMI »
I come from just the other side of nowhere to this big time lonesome town
They got a lotta ice and snow here half as cold as all the people I found
Every way I've tried to go here seems to bring me down
I've seen about enough to know where I belong

I've got a mind to see the headlight
Shining on that old white line between my heart and home
Sick of spending Sundays wishing they was Mondays sittin' in a park alone
So give my best to anyone who's left who's ever done me any loving way but wrong
And tell 'em that the pride of just the other side of nowhere going home

Taking nothing but to show there for these dues I've paid
But the soul I almost sold here and the body I've been given away
Fadin' from the neon night time glow here headin' for the light of day
Just the other side of nowhere going home
Just the other side of nowhere going home
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5.

EMPTY CHAIRS

(Don McLean)
« © '71 Songs Of Universal, BMI »
I feel a trembling tingle of a sleepless night
Creep through my fingers and the moon is bright
Beams of blue come flick'ring through my window pane
My gypsy moths that dance around a candle flame

And I wonder if you know that I never understood
That although you said you'd go until you did I never thought you would
[ guitar + piano ] Moonlight used to bathe the contours of your face
While chestnut hair fell all around the pillow case
And the fragrance of your flowers rest beneath my head
A sympathy bouquet left with the love that's dead

And I wonder if you know...

Never thought the words you said were true
Never thought you said just what you meant
Never knew how much I needed you
Never thought you'd leave until you went
[ guitar + piano ] Morning comes and morning goes with no regret
The evening brings the memories I can't forget
Empty rooms that echoe as I climb the stairs
Empty clothes that drape and fall on empty chairs

And I wonder if you know...
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6.

TIME

(Dave Kirby)
« © '71 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Watch the tiny children play
They don't really know what they are facing
See them laugh and run away
Running swifter through each day that's racing
Time time old faithful friend of mine

When my first love left me here
Alone and crying filled with fear you moved me
You took me riding through the years
And left behind my grief amd tears and soothed me
Time time old faithful friend of mine

Time with the seasons you have flown
Your years have gently aged the wine
You gave me harvest seeds that I have sown
Time old faithful friend of mine

So when the problems cloud your mind
And you long to leave behind your grieving
If you can only wait and find
With the clouds old father time is leaving
Time time old faithful friend of mine
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7.

THAT'S WHAT LEAVING'S ABOUT

(Thomas Lazaros)
« © '71 Lazaros Music, ASCAP »
It's that farewell time for talking
Time to say just what you're feeling
All the secrets you're concealing can come out
There's no reason for holding back
And that's what leaving's about

There's no special form to follow
Just a point we can agree on
All the time for putting me on has ran out
I didn't always believe you girl
And that's what leaving's about

It's about time all of the time we spent together yet so all alone
And it's about people you and me the two we've never known

And there's a trace of recognition
That's been there since I first met you
But one day I will forget you I have no doubt
It may take of it long but then
That's what leaving's about
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8.

WAKE UP YESTERDAY

(Dave Kirby)
« © '71 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Oh this was not an ordinary morning
It even seems the sun came up all wrong
Now light the day of love is almost over
And come tomorrow morning you'll be gone

Let's go to sleep tonight and wake up yesterday
Back when this room was more than just a place to lay
Where has the love all gone it can't be far away
If we'll just go to sleep and wake up yesterday

If destiny won't take us both together
And surely we could find someone who would
Let's try to hold on just a little longer
And disappoint the future like we should

Let's go to sleep tonight and wake up yesterday...
Let's go to sleep tonight and wake up yesterday
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9.

OVER

(Hal Bynum - James Gruber)
« © '71 Universal Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
Over you say it's over
You want me to know it's over for you but it's not over for me
And while there's breath left in my body it won't ever be

Trying I can't stop trying
I know there's no hop but I still have to try there's nothing else I can do
Though in my heart I know it's over I can't live without you

Over you say it's over...
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10.

THIS HOUSE

(Dave Kirby - Glenn Martin)
« © '71 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Sir this hous is vacant but it's not empty
For this is where a love once lived with me
Pictures chairs and tables are now missing
But it's still furnished with old memories

Here's where a baby dreamed he was a cowboy
And he fought the indians almost every night
And sometimes he'd come sliding down the stairway
And tell us that he was an astronaut

Now that door leads into the master bedroom
Go ahead and look I'll wait outside
To go in there would stirrup more old mem'ry
A written in this room where our love died

So stranger how could you go wrong
This house only needs someone to care
And just because it's vacant it's not empty
Because love has already lived in here
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11.

OH LONESOME ME

(Don Gibson)
« © '58 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Well everybody's going out and having fun
I'm just a fool for staying home and having none
I can't get over how she set me free
Oh lonesome me

A bad mistake I'm making by just hanging round
I know that I should have some fun and paint the town
A lovesick fool that's blind and just can't see
Oh lonesome me

I'll bet she's not like me she's out and fancy free
Flirtin' with the boys with all her charms
But I still love her so and brother don't you know
I'd welcome her right back here in my arms

Well there must be some way I can lose these lonesome blues
Forget about the past and find somebody new
I've thought of everything from A to Z
Oh lonesome me
[ guitar ] I'll bet she's not like me she's out and fancy free...
Well there must be some way I can lose these lonesome blues...
Oh lonesome me oh oh lonesome me
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