lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

LORD MR. FORD

(Dick Feller) « © '72 Vector Music, BMI / Sixteen Stars Music, BMI »
Well if you're one of the millions who own one of them
Gas drinkin' piston clinkin' air pollutin' smoke belchin'
Four wheeled buggies from Detroit City then pay attention
I'm about to sing your song son

Well now I'm not a man to point or judge to bear ill-will or hold a grudge
But I think it's time I said me a few choice words
All about that demon the automobile the metal monster with the polyglass wheels
The end result of a dream of Henry Ford
Well now I've got a car that's mine alone that me and the finance company own
A ready made pile of manufactured grief
And if I ain't out of gas in the pourin' rain I'm changin' a flat in a hurricane
I once spent three days lost on a cloverleaf

Well it ain't just the smoke or the traffic jam that makes me the bitter fool I am
But that four-wheeled buggy is dollarin' me to death
For gas and oil and fluids and grease and wires and tires and antifreeze
And then them excessories well honey that' s somethin' else
Well you get stereo tape and a color TV get a backseat bar and reclinin' seats
And just pay once a month like you do your rent
Well I figure it up in over a period of time this four thousand dollar car of mine
Cost fourteen thousand dollars and ninety-nine cents

Well now Lord Mr Ford I just wish that you could see
What your simple horseless carriage has become
Well it seems your contribution to man to say the least got a little out of hand
Well Lord Mr Ford what have you done
[ guitar ] Now the average American father and mother own one whole car and half another
And I'll bet that half a car is a trick to drive don't you
But the thing that amazes me I guess is the way we measure a man's success
By the kind of automobile that he can afford to buy
Well now it's red light green light traffic cop right turn no turn must turn stop
Get out the credit card honey we're out of gas
Well now all the cars placed end to end would reach to the moon and back again
And there'd probably be some poor fool pull out to pass
Well now how I yearn for the good ol' days without that carbon dioxide haze
A hangin' over the roar on the interstate
Well if the Lord who made the moon and stars would've meant for me and you to have cars
He'd've seen that we was born with a parkin' space

Well Lord Mr Ford I just wish that you could see
What your simple horseless carriage has become
Well it seems your contribution to man to say the least got a little out of hand
Well Lord Mr Ford what have you done
Come away with me Lucille in my smokin' chokin' automobile
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2.

FOLSOM PRISON BLUES

(Johnny Cash) « © '56 House Of Cash, BMI »
Well I hear the train a comin' she's gonna rollin' round the bend
And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when
But I'm stuck in Folsom Prison oh the time keeps draggin' on
And that train keep a rollin' on down to San Antone

Well now I bet there's rich folks eatin' in a fancy dining car
I bet they're drinkin' coffee chewin' on big cigars
But I know I had it comin' now I know I can't be free
And that train keep a movin' and Lord that's what tortures me
[ guitar ] Well when I was just a baby my mama told me son
Always be a good boy don't you mess around with guns
But I shot a man in Reno stood there to watch him die
And when I hear that whistle blowing oh I hang my head and I cry

Well if they freed me from this prison if that railroad train was mine
Bet I'd move it on just a little bit farther down the line
Away from Folsom Prison that's where I want to stay I got to stay now
And I'd let that lonesome whistle let that lonesome whistle blow my blues away
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3.

RAINBOW RIDE

(Diane Morrison - Shink Morrison) « © '72 Vector Music, BMI / Sixteen Stars Music, BMI »
Come with me upon my rainbow ride
Let me share the love I feel inside
And if perhaps a little bit of color touches you
Then you can spread a little bit of color somewhere too

I would like to ride a rainbow for a while
I'd paint the world the color of your smile
The air would hand the freshness of your breath upon my cheek
And love's the only language it would speak

And if I could paint the sounds of children everywhere
Then I would choose the color of your hair
Chains of happy laughter they would flow with my rainbow
The world would see the love I've come to know

Come with me upon my rainbow ride...
[ strings ] Yes come with me upon my rainbow ride...
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4.

TWO TIMING

(Jerry Reed Hubbard) « © '72 Vector Music, BMI / Sixteen Stars Music, BMI »
[ instrumental ] **********

5.

THAT LUCKY OLD SUN

(Beasley Smith - Haven Gillespie) « © '55 Robbins Catalog, ASCAP »
Up in the morning out on the job work like a devil for my pay
That lucky old sun got nothing to do but just roll around heaven all day
Well I fuss with my woman toil with my kids
Sweat till I'm all wrinkled and gray
But that lucky old sun ain't got nothing to do
But just roll around heaven all day

Good Lord above don't you hear I'm pinin' I got teardrops in my eyes
Oh send down the cloud with the silvery linin' lift me to paradise
Now won't you show me the river take me across
Let me wash all my troubles away
Like that lucky old sun give me nothing to do
But just roll around heaven all day
[ guitar ] Well now good Lord above don't you hear I'm pinin'...
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6.

YOU CAN'T KEEP ME HERE IN TENNESSEE

(Rodney Crowell) « © '72 Vector Music, BMI / Sixteen Stars Music, BMI »
By the time we left Kentucky all that was on my mind
Was the way I've spent my trouble like a dime
When we got back to Nashville things were still the same
Lord my thought went back to Texas and I hoped to ease the pain

Cause you fall like a tree when you're cut down
And you been too long hackin' away at me
Well it's a long long road I'm taking back to Texas
Cause you can't keep me here in Tennessee

Well in all my looking at you
It's funny all the things I've never seen Lord
Cause the sun don't shine beside you
Least wise it's never shone on me shone on me

Cause you fall like a tree when you're cut down...

Well my mind's been in a dungeon
A prison ain't a world of make believe make believe
And I'm a begging for your pardon
I've served my time and somehow take my leave take my leave

Cause you fall like a tree when you're cut down...
Yes you fall like a tree when you're cut down...
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7.

LADY IS A WOMAN

(Dick Feller) « © '72 Vector Music, BMI / Sixteen Stars Music, BMI »
She's elegant she's gracious a lady of the finest social set
And you're the rich man that can buy her all the world
And what she wants she gets
You give her charge to count some cheque books
Thinking that's the way to keep her satisfied
But what she needs the most is what no charge or count of cheque book ever buy

The lady is a woman even you should understand
While the lady may need soft things the woman needs a man
Yes the lady is a woman that you can be certain of
While your lady wants for nothing still your woman wants for love
[ guitar ] Well all I do is drive your limousine and chauffer you the way you'd like to go
But when I look at your lady even I can see there's something you don't know
You give her everything she wanted but not one of the things she really needs
Yes you still may have your lady but lately now your woman comes to me

Your lady is a woman even you should understand
While your lady may need soft things still your woman needs a man
Your lady is a woman that you can be certain of
While your lady wants for nothing still your woman wants for love
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8.

PICKIE PICKIE PICKIE

(Jerry Reed Hubbard) « © '72 Vector Music, BMI / Sixteen Stars Music, BMI »
[ instrumental ] **********

9.

ONE SWEET REASON

(Dick Feller) « © '72 Vector Music, BMI / Sixteen Stars Music, BMI »
I have spent my time in goin' never carin' never knowin'
Just what it was I might be goin' through
And I'd planned on leavin' you the same just up and gone the way I came
But you may have noticed I'm still here with you

Yes there's one sweet reason why you've yet to see me leavin'
Just one thing between here and gone
And it's wrapped up in your smile and a pair of blue green eyes
And a touch that warms me like the fire's glow
Any number of a hundred things would send me down that road
But there's one sweet reason I don't go

I've run from ties I've cut my strings I've unlocked doors I've broken chains
Fading like a shadow in the down
When other loves have turned to clay I've turned my back and walked away
And you should be the next to find me gone

Yes there's one sweet reason...
[ guitar ] Now I find no need in goin' from the sweet love I've been knowin'
To the restless ways and days that I once knew
For more and more I've looked to find when leavin' creeps across my mind
It's lost in all the days I've spent with you

Yes there's one sweet reason...
You're the one sweet reason I don't go
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10.

I'M GONNA WRITE A SONG

(Glenn Sutton) « © '71 Peer Music, BMI »
Folks sit around with their face in a frown and they gape at the way things they are
They're happy to recieve but they hardly ever want to give
Well neighbor I'm so tired of complaining so in the time remaining
I'm gonna do my best to make the world a better place to live

Yes I'm gonna write a song that the whole wide world can sing
It's gonna be about sunshine and praise every living thing
It's gonna be about love the only thing the world needs a lot more of
Well I'm gonna write a song that the whole wide world can sing
Pick it son
[ guitar ] Well our fourfathers had only faith in God and they willed to make the nation strong
So the old time religion could help 'em to find a better way
Well we need a liitle more soul saving and a whole lot more flag waving
And there ain't no better time for us to start than today
Singing children

Well now I'm gonna write a song that the whole wide world can sing...
I'm gonna write a song that the whole wide world can sing...
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