lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

BETTER CLASS OF LOSERS

(Harlan Howard - Ron Peterson) « © '86 Tree Publishing, BMI »
I said I'm through with honky tonks they only bring me down
So I dressed my best and headed for the brightest spot in town
I've watched the rich folks come and go and one thing's very clear
There's just as many lonely people here

I'm just hanging round a better class of losers
It don't matter if you drink beer or champagne
I've only found a better class of losers
Uptown downtown misery's all the same

It's all been downhill for me since baby walked away
I'm down here at the bottom and I guess that's where I'll stay
I'm a looking for an answer but all that I've seen here
Is the same old lonely phoney atmosphere

I'm just hanging round a better class of losers...
Uptown downtown misery's all the same
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2.

PRISONER OF LOVE

(Leo Robin - Russ Columbo - Clarence Gaskill) « © '59 Colgems Music, ASCAP / Edwin H Morris Co, ASCAP / Leo Robin Music, ASCAP »
Alone from night to night you'll find me
Too weak to break the chains that bind me
I need no shackles to remind me I'm just a prisoner of love

For one command I stand and wait now
From one who's master of my fate now
I can't escape for it's too late now I'm just a prisoner of love
[ vibes ] What's the good of my caring if someone is sharing those arms with me
Although she has another I can't have another for I'm not free
She's in my dreams awake or sleeping
Upon my knees to her I'm creeping
My very life is in her keeping
I'm just a prisoner of love
[ piano ] For one command I stand and wait now...
What's the good of my caring...
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3.

SOFT RAIN

(Ray Price) « © '62 Fort Knox Music, BMI / Trio Music, BMI »
Soft rain was falling when you said goodbye
Thunder and lightning filled my heart inside
A love born in heaven had suddenly died
And the soft rain was teardrops for the angels all cried

If love can be perfect ours must have been
But perfection is always destroyed by men
The rain whispered softly a true love just died
And the soft rain was teardrops for the angels all cried

The rain started falling when you said goodbye
And lightning came crashing from out of the sky
The sky that was bright blue turned slowly to grey
And the angels cried with me as you walked away

If love can be perfect ours must have been...
And the soft rain was teardrops for the angels all cried
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4.

RAMBLIN' ROSE

(Noel Sherman - Joe Sherman) « © '62 Erasmus Music, ASCAP »
Ramblin' rose ramblin' rose why you ramble no one knows
Wild and wind blown that's how you've grown who can cling to a ramblin' rose

Ramble on ramble on when you're ramblin' days are gone
Who will love you with a love true when you're ramblin' days are gone

Ramblin' rose ramblin' rose why I want you heaven knows
Though I love you with a love true but who can cling to a ramblin' rose

Ramblin' rose ramblin' rose why I want you heaven knows
Though I love you with a love true but who can cling to a ramblin' rose
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5.

IF IT'S LOVE (THEN BET IT ALL)

(J.R. Cochran) « © '00 Justice Artists Music, BMI »
You could build a wall around you now no one would blame you
Everyone would sigh and sympathize for what you've been through
You could count the feelings that he walked on as a reason to let it in
Or count it as a ribbon in the race that you've been running when you win

But if it's love that you're playing for bet it all
There's no way to save your pride
Or leave a cushion for yourself should you fall
If it's love that you're playing for play to win
A heart is only broken when it loses the desire to try again

But you could build a wall around you know no one would blame you
Those who gather round would not look down although they're seeing through
You could let the sorrow that you're feeling be tomorrow's point of view
Or you could let the feeling that you're hoping for be what's guiding you

So if it's love that you're playing for ah bet it all...
You could build a wall around you now
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6.

IN MY LIFE

(John Lennon - Paul McCartney) « © '65 ATV Tunes, ASCAP »
There are places I'll remember all my life though some have changed
Some forever not for better some have gone and some remain
All these places have their moments with lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living in my life I've loved them all

But of all these friends and lovers there is no one that compares with you
And these mem'ries lose their meaning when I think of love as something new
Though I know I'll never lose affection for people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them in my life I love you more
[ ac.guitar ] There are places I'll remember all my life though some have changed
Some forever not for better some have gone and some remain
Though I know I'll never lose affection for people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them in my life I love you more
In my life I love you more
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7.

FLY ME TO THE MOON (IN OTHER WORDS)

(Bart Howard) « © '63 Hampshire House Publishing, ASCAP »
Fly me to the moon let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars
In other words hold my hand in other words baby kiss me
Fill my heart with song let me sing forever more
You are all I long for all I worship and adore
In other words please be true in other words I love you
[ horns ] Fly me to the moon let me sing among the stars...
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8.

BODY AND SOUL

(John Green - Edward Heyman - Robert Sour) « © '30 Quarter Music, ASCAP / Range Road Music, ASCAP /
WB Music, ASCAP / Druropetal Music, BMI »
My heart is sad and lonely for you I sigh for you dear only
Why haven't you seen it I'm all for you body and soul
I spend my days in longing and wondering why it's me you're wronging
I tell you I mean it I'm all for you body and soul

I can't believe it it's hard to conceive it that you turn away romance
Are you pretending it looks like the ending unless I could have one more chance
To prove dear my life a wreck you're making
You know I'm yours for just the taking
I'd gladly surrender myself to you body and soul
[ strings ] My life a wreck you're making you know I'm yours for just the taking
I'd gladly surrender myself to you body and soul
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9.

I'VE GOT A NEW HEARTACHE

(Wayne P. Walker - Ray Price) « © '56 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI / Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
You're back in town again spreadin' talk around
That I'm still in love with you though you let me down
I hate to admit it but I guess the talk is true
Or else you couldn't make my heart ache the way you do

I've got a new heartache about an old sweetheart
That left me for somebody new
I've got a new heartache about an old sweetheart
And that's why I'm feeling so blue
[ guitar ] Why did you turn up again I was doing fine
I'd found another sweetheart to drive you from my mind
I thought that I'd forgotten you but I know that it's not true
Or else you couldn't make my heart ache the way you do

I've got a new heartache...
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10.

ONLY BRIDGE

(Jeffrey Tweel - Garland Cochran) « © '00 Mighty Nice Music, BMI / Tree Publishing, BMI / Wood Eye Music, BMI »
You've always put a torch to each and every bridge you've crossed
With each and every one a little more was lost
I hope you take enough mem'ries to keep you when you're gone
The only bridge you haven't burned is the one you're standing on

You might be by yourself out there till God knows when
For you I know there'll be no crossing back again
If you ever learn by then you'll already be alone
The only bridge you haven't burned is the one you're standing on

There's a golden rule but somwhow you failed to learn it
You find a bridge to cross and then you burnt it
The saddest part is that you were only doing yourself wrong
The only bridge you haven't burned is the one you're standing on

The saddest part is that you were only doing yourself wrong
The only bridge you haven't burned is the one you're standing on
The only bridge you haven't burned is the one you're standing on
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11.

I WISH I WAS EIGHTEEN AGAIN

(Sonny Throckmorton) « © '78 Tree Publishing, BMI »
At a bar down in Dallas an old man chimed in
And they thought he was out of his head
And all being a young man they just laughed it off
When they heard what this old man he said

He said I'll never again turn the young ladies headds
Or go running off in to the wind
I'm three quarters home from the start to the end
And I wish I was eighteen again

Oh I wish I was eighteen again and going where I've never been
Now old folks and old oaks standing tall just pretend
I wish I was eighteen again
[ piano - vibes ] Time turns the pages and life goes so fast
The years turn the black hair all grey
I talk to some young folks but they don't understand
The words this old man got to say

Oh I wish I was eighteen again...
Oh I wish I was eighteen again
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12.

WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD

(George Weiss - George Douglas - Bob Thiele) « © '68 Abilene Music, ASCAP / Quartet Music, ASCAP / Range Road Music, ASCAP »
I see trees of green red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself what a wonderful world

I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day the dark sacred night
And I think to myself what a wonderful world

The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people going by
I see friends shaking hands saying how do you do
They're really saying I love you

I hear babies cry I watch them grow
They'll learn much more than I'll ever know
And I think to myself what a wonderful world

I see trees of green red roses too...
Yes I think to myself what a wonderful world
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