lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

IT DON'T WORK THAT WAY

(Jerry Reed Hubbard) « © '66 Vector Music, BMI / Sixteen Stars Music, BMI »
She's nothin' but a woman just another pretty face
You can't find another girl just to take her place
No use a makin' a fool of yourself you can't find a somebody else

But honey it don't work that way
And I'm just kiddin' myself when I say
I'll forget someday
Cause honey real love it don't work that way
[ guitar ] It looks mighty good this smile I wear actin' like I just don't care
If anybody mentions yesterday I'll just try to laugh it away

But honey it don't work...

I can walk around puttin' on there tellin' everybody that I don't care
But it's hard to hide the pain inside when a lonely heart is missin' you
And the love that we once knew

Cause I've tried to take the memory of all the love you gave to me
And put it off out of my heart so I can make a brand new start

But honey it don't work...
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2.

GUITAR MAN

(Jerry Reed Hubbard) « © '66 Vector Music, BMI / Sixteen Stars Music, BMI »
Well I quit my job down at the carwash I left my mama a goodbye note
By sundown I'd left Kingston with my guitar under my coat
I hitchhiked all the way down to Memphis got a room at the YMCA
For the next three weeks I went a hountin' them night clubs
Lookin' for a place to play
Well I thought my pickin' would set 'em on fire
But nobody wanted to hire a guitar man

Well I nearly bout starved to death down in Memphis
I run out of money and luck
So I bummed me a ride down to Macon Georgia
On a overloaded poultry truck
I thumbed on down to Panama City
Started checkin' out some of them all night bars
Hopin' I can make myself a dollar makin' music on my guitar
Got the same old story at them all night piers
There ain't no room around here for a guitar man
We don't need a guitar man son

So I slept in the hobo jungles I bummed a thousand miles of track
Till I found myself in Mobile Alabama in a club they call Big Jack's
A little four piece band was jammin' so I took my guitar and I sat in
I showed 'em what a band would sound like with a swingin' little guitar man
Show 'em son
[ guitar ] So if you ever take a trip down to the ocean find yourself down round Mobile
Well make it on out to the club called Jack's if you got a little time to kill
Just follow that crowd of people you'll wind up out on his dance floor
Diggin' the finest little five piece group up and down the Gulf of Mexico
And guess who's leadin' that five piece band
Why wouldn't you know it's that swingin' little guitar man yeah
[ guitar ] **********

3.

YOU'RE YOUNG AND YOU'LL FORGET

(Jerry Reed Hubbard) « © '66 Vector Music, BMI / Sixteen Stars Music, BMI »
I know that it would make you cry
To find that I had gone didn't even say foodbye
You'll hate me for a while
Because I promised love and left you just regret

But I know that I could never be
The kind of man that you have in your mind on me
Though you said we must part it would break your heart
But you're young and you'll forget

You're young and I know time
Will help you find a perfect man who really love you
And not a man like me who's like the wind and must be free
But a man who's worthy of you

For I could never settle down
To just one way of life one woman and one town
So sad to part this way but you'll be glad someday
For you're young and you'll forget
[ guitar ] You're young and I know time...
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4.

WOMAN SHY

(Jerry Reed Hubbard) « © '66 Vector Music, BMI / Sixteen Stars Music, BMI »
You say you ain't never met a man quite like me
And you gonna love me for the rest of your life
You even talkin' bout startin' a family
Settlin' down and becomin' my little wife

Well I've been fed that line before
And I can't digest that kinda talk anymore
You guessed it honey I'm tellin' you bye bye bye
Cause I'm just a little bit woman shy

The last three women I cared anything about
They all lied to me and told me the same old thing
With one I made a whole lot of plans
Hired a preacher rented a church and bought a big ole diamond ring

But I got to the church what did I find
She's made off with preacher and that diamond ring of mine
Well that's one reason why
This old boy's still a little bit woman shy

Mhm I'm a woman shy woman shy
I'd like to fall in love but I'm afraid to try
Cause I'm a woman shy woman shy
Everone I ever love told me a lie

But honey you've done wonders for my vanity
And your sweet love has soothed my manly pride
A gal like you could make me lose my sanity
If you'd just half way give it a try

So I better run cause it's plain to see
I hang around here you'll get your hooks into me
But if I ever marry you're the one I'm gonna try
But right now I'm just a little bit woman shy

Yes I'm a woman shy woman shy
I'm just a little bit woman shy mhm yeah
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5.

I FEEL FOR YOU

(Jerry Reed Hubbard) « © '66 Vector Music, BMI / Sixteen Stars Music, BMI »
Just to see you there cryin' boy brings to mine
All the things I've told you one time
I told you she'd hurt you and leave more regret
And more heartache than you could ever forget

So sit there and cry boy the way that I did one time
And wish you could die boy to get that woman off of your mind
Go on and fall all to pieces boy the way that she made me do
I know what you're goin' through and I feel for you
[ guitar ] When you took her from me you've thought you'd found
The woman to fill your whole world around
I'd tried to tell you but you wouldn't see
She'd leave you for someone the way she did me

Now sit there and cry boy...
Yes I know what you're goin' through and I feel for you
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6.

TAKE A WALK

(Jerry Reed Hubbard) « © '66 Vector Music, BMI / Sixteen Stars Music, BMI »
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7.

LOVE MAN

(Jerry Reed Hubbard) « © '66 Vector Music, BMI / Sixteen Stars Music, BMI »
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8.

IF I PROMISE

(Jerry Reed Hubbard) « © '66 Vector Music, BMI / Sixteen Stars Music, BMI »
If I got on my knees I come crawlin' to you little girl
Would you love me once again
Cause I'll do anything to prove that I love you still
And that I'm sorry for the fool I've been

Haven't slept in the month of Sundays
And I know one day I'm a gonna lose my sanity
Can't stop dreamin' about you
And life without you just don't mean a thing to me

So if I promise to be a good boy and never hurt you anymore
Could things be like they were before
If I promise to be a good boy and be the way you want me to
Would I still have a chance with you

Cause I don't know what made me fool enough to think
That I could live without your love
I nust have cried a million tears since our goodbye
Yes the misery fits me like a glove

So if I promise to be a good boy...
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9.

U.S. MALE

(Jerry Reed Hubbard) « © '66 Vector Music, BMI / Sixteen Stars Music, BMI »
I'm a US male cause I was born in a south Georgia town on a Sunday morn
Now Georgia just happens to occupy a place
In the South Eastern portion on 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 m-a-l-e son that's me

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

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

So you'd better not mess with the US male my friend...
[ guitar ] **********

10.

LONG GONE

(Jerry Reed Hubbard) « © '66 Vector Music, BMI / Sixteen Stars Music, BMI »
Oh well it's long gone long gone you got my baby and you're long gone
But I'll be hangin' around cause I know you're gonna put her down
Well she'll need someone that's true when she wakes up one day
And find you're long gone long gone

You just wandered into town
You took her and you started messin' around with my baby
You stole her heart cause she ain't used to your kind
With your fancy clothes and uptown style
It didn't take but a little while to get your way
Cause your pretty little lies she couldn't see behind

And so it's long gone long gone...
[ guitar ] The man in me would like to fight to take you down by the river tonight
And change your way but that would make her hate the side of me
So there's nothing left for me to do a standin' watch by the likes of you
Hurt the girl I love while she's too much in love to even see

Oh yes it's long gone long gone...
Long gone long gone long gone
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11.

IF IT COMES TO THAT

(Jerry Reed Hubbard) « © '66 Vector Music, BMI / Sixteen Stars Music, BMI »
Everybody tells me you're a woman with the past
Quick to make a promise but your love will never last
They tell me that I'm foolish to think that your love could be fair
But they don't know that I'm too much in love to even care
I'll be satisfied lovin' and losin' you honey if it comes to that

If it comes right down to hurtin' and you'll break this heart of mine
At least I've known the happiness of havin' your love for a time
If it happens that I lose you then I'll have the memory of how you loved me
I'll be yours until it happens and I'm gonna love you all the way
I don't care what comes tomorrow as long as you're all mine today
I'll be satisfied lovin' and losin' you honey if it comes to that
[ guitar ] If it comes right down to hurtin'...
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12.

CLAW

(Jerry Reed Hubbard) « © '66 Vector Music, BMI / Sixteen Stars Music, BMI »
[ instrumental ] **********