lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

GOODNIGHT IRENE

(Huddie Ledbetter - John A. Lomax) « © '50 Ludlow Music, BMI »
Last Saturday night I got married
And me and my wife we settled down
Now me and my wife we have parted
Gonna take another stroll downtown

Irene goodnight Irene goodnight
Irene goodnight goodnight Irene
I'm gonna see you oh see you in my dreams
[ guitar ] Well sometimes I live in the country
And sometimes I live in town
And sometimes sometimes I take a little notion
I take a notion I take a stroll downtown

Singing Irene goodnight Irene goodnight...
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2.

THE CHUCK BERRY MEDLEY

PROMISED LAND
(Chuck Berry) « © '64 Arc Music, BMI »
Tribute to one of the greatest in the business Mr Chuck Berry

Son well I left my home in Norfolk Virginia California on my mind
Strattled that greyhound and rode him into Releigh and on across Caroline
Well we stopped in Charlotte we by passed Blackhill never was a minute late
We was ninety miles out of Atlanta by sunup rollin' out of Georgia state

Somebody help me get out of Louisiana just the help me get to Houston town
There are people there who care a little bout me and they won't let a poor boy down
Well sure as you're born they brought me a silk suit and put luggage in my hand
And I woke up high over Albuquerque on a jet to the promised land
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JOHNNY B. GOODE (Chuck Berry) « © '58 Arc Music, BMI / Isalee Music, BMI »
Well down in Lousiana close to New Orleans
Way back up in the woods neath the evergreens
There was a little shack made of earth and wood
Where lived a country boy named Johnny B Goode
Who never ever learned to read or write so well
But he could play that guitar just like a ringin' a bell

Go go go Johnny go go go Johnny go go
Go Johnny go go go Johnny go go Johnny B Goode
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SCHOOL DAY (RING RING GOES THE BELL)
(Chuck Berry) « © '63 Arc Music, BMI / Isalee Music, BMI »
Well up in the mornin' and out to school
The teacher is teachin' the Golden Rule
American history and practical math
You studyin' hard and hopin' to pass
Workin' your fingers right down to the bone
The guy behind you won't leave you alone

Well ring ring goes the bell the cook in the lunch room's ready to sell
You're lucky if you can find a seat you're fortunate if you have time to eat
Well back in the classroom open your book
Keep up the teacher don't know how mean she looks
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MAYBELLINE
(Chuck Berry - Alan Freed - Russ Fratto) « © '55 Arc Music, BMI »
Well now I was motivatin' over the hill I saw Maybelline in a Coupe deVille
Cadillac rollin' on an open road nothin' outrun my V8 Ford
Cadillac doin' about ninety-five bumper to bumper rollin' side to side

Maybelline why can't you be true
Oh Maybelline why can't you be true
You've done started back doin' the things you used to do
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MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
(Chuck Berry) « © '58 Arc Music, BMI / Isalee Music, BMI »
Well no long distance information give me Memphis Tennessee
Help me find the party try to get in touch with me
Well she did not leave her number but I know who placed the call
Because my uncle took the message and he wrote it on the wall
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3.

SWEET MEMORIES

(Mickey Newbury) « © '68 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Sweet memories sweet memories

My world is like a river as dark as it is deep
Night after night the past creeps in and gathers all my sleep
My days are just an endless stream of emptiness to me
Filled only by the fleeting moments of your memories

Sweet memories sweet memories
[ steel ] She slipped into the silence of my dreams again last night
Wondering from room to room she's turning on each light
Your laughter spills like water from the river to the sea
I'm swept away from sadness clinging to her memories

Sweet memories sweet memories
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4.

YOU TOOK ALL THE RAMBLIN' OUT OF ME

(Jerry Reed Hubbard) « © '70 Vector Music, BMI / Sixteen Stars Music, BMI »
You took all the ramblin' out of me girl
With the finest lovin' I ever done seen
Now all I wanna do is sit home and play my little guitar
And sing songs about all the places that I've seen

Your country loving and your country cooking
Done blowed my mind and set me free
You took away all my urge to roam
All I wanna do is just hang around home
Cause you took all the ramblin' out of me

How I wound up down here in Monroe
Somethin' I'm never gonna figure out it's true
But your sweet love settled me down
Made me quit all my travelin' round
Now all I wanna do is sit home and grow old with you

Last night I heard a freight train through my window
And I couldn't help thinkin' as I heard that whistle scream
How that old lonesome sound don't make me itch and want to move around
Cause you took all the ramblin' out of me

You took all the ramblin' out of me girl...
Your country loving and your country cooking...
You took all the ramblin' out of me girl...
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5.

BACK HOME IN GEORGIA

(John Ragsdale) « © '72 Vector Music, BMI / Sixteen Stars Music, BMI »
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6.

I'M NOT PLAYING GAMES

(Jerry Reed Hubbard) « © '72 Vector Music, BMI / Sixteen Stars Music, BMI »
Please don't whisper love words tenderly
Not occure just playing games with me
If you only plan to leave me some day
Then don't make me learn to care this way

Cause I'm not playing games with you
This time my love is really true
To spend my whole life loving you is all I want to do
This time it's not a game I play
I need you more than words can say
For you I'd give my soul away no I'm not playing games

Please don't let me give my love to you
Now if you don't feel the way I do
Tell me now if it can never be
Don't make me learn to love you hopelessly

Cause I'm not playing games with you...
No I'm not playing games with you...
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7.

NASHVILLE WOMAN

(Glenn Lansdale) « © '72 Vector Music, BMI / Sixteen Stars Music, BMI »
Nashville woman sing your country songs to me
Nashville woman sing your country songs to me
I ain't had no lovin' since I left you and Tennessee

Nashville woman let me lay down across your bed
I need you woman let me lay down across your bed
Cause babe I got the blues and I hear freight trains in my head
[ guitar ] Downhome lady take that guitar down from off the wall
Yes downhome lady take that guitar down from off the wall
And honey sing me songs of midnight and I might live and leave it all

Oh Nashville woman just sing your country songs to me
Yeah Nashville woman sing your country songs to me
Woman I ain't had no lovin' since I left you and Tennessee
Well Nashville woman oh love me Nashville woman
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8.

SIXTEEN TONS

(Merle Travis) « © '46 Unichappell Music, BMI / Merle's Girls Music, BMI »
Son yeah some people say a man's made outta mud
But a poor man's made outta muscle and blood
Muscle and blood skin and bone a mind
That's weak and a back that's strong

You load sixteen tons what do you get
Another day older and deeper and debt
St Peter don't you call me I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
I owe my soul I owe my soul to the company store

I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine
Grabbed me a shovel and I went to the mine
Loaded sicteen tons of No 9 coal
And the storeboss said well bless my soul

I load sixteen tons what do you get...
[ guitar ] Well I was born one morning it was drizzlin' rain
Figting and trouble is my middle name
I was raised in wood by mama of mine
No hightoned mama makes me walk the line

I load sixteen tons what do you get...

If you see me comin' better step aside
A lotta men didn't and a lotta men died
One fist is iron the other one's steel
If the right one don't get you then the left one will

I load sixteen tons what do you get...
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9.

CARIBBEAN

(Mitchell Torok) « © '55 Unichappell Music, BMI »
Have you ever been down to Haiti when the summer sun was sinkin' low
There's nothin' but romance just everwhere you glance
And the native hearts are all aglow
But when the Cuban Queen comes upon the scene
They all stare like a statue out of stone
And when they realize what's before their eyes
The other girls are left all alone

Down in the Caribbean it's not a dream you're seein'
When you get a glimpse of the lady with the charm
But from miles away you can see her sway
To the beat of the Cuban Conga line that forms
[ guitar ] Up in a tree so high way up in the sky sits a wide eyed monkey on a limb
He wonders why the people go to so much trouble tryin' hard to just look like him
He doesn't understand that it's a lady's hand
That makes a little heart feel so sublime
But before too long he starts singing the song
And then he gets in the Conga line

Down in the Caribbean it's not a dream you're seein'...
Down in the Caribbean it's not a dream you're seein'...
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10.

I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND

(Marijohn Wilkin - Kent Westberry) « © '72 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
Well you call me your baby while you're holding my hand
But how you can hurt me I just don't understand
Well you tell me that you need me like the ocean needs the sand
And how you mistreated me woman I just don't understand
Well you know that I love you more than anyone can
But a one-sided love I just don't understand
[ guitar ] Oh you know that I love you love you woman more than anyone can
But a one-sided love oh I just don't understand
Well you tell me that you love me while you're holding my hand
Oh but how you can hurt me oh I just don't understand
Well you tell me tell me you love me more than anyone can
Oh you hurt woman I don't understand
Oh I don't understand I just don't understand
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