lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

HE'LL HAVE TO GO

(Joe Allison - Audrey Allison) « © '59 Central Songs, BMI »
Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone
Let's pretend that we're together all alone
I'll tell the man to turn the jukebox way down low
And you can tell your friend there with you he'll have to go

Whisper to me tell me do you love me true or is he holding you the way I do
Though love is blind make up your mind I've got to know
Should I hang up or will you tell him he'll have to go

You can say the words I wanna hear while you're with another man
Do you want me answer yes or no darling I will understand

Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone
Let's pretend that we're together all alone
I'll tell the man to turn the jukebox way down low
And you can tell your friend there with you he'll have to go
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2.

I LOVE YOU MORE

(Martin Greene - Jim Reeves) « © '57 Tree Publishing, BMI / Tune Publishers, BMI »
(I love you more love you more love you more love you more)

I love you more than every wave that breaks upon
Some far and distant lonely island shore
I love you more than every drop of rain that falls
With every drop that falls I love you more

At night I watch the moon on high and count the stars up in the sky
For every star that shines tonight my love for you is just as bright
I love you more forever I'll be true to you
I know you'll always love me true forever more
[ guitar ] At night I watch the moon on high...
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3.

WISHFUL THINKING

(Martin Greene - Rayford Greene) « © '57 Tree Publishing, BMI / Tune Publishers, BMI »
Wishful thinking daydreams fly happy visions fill the night
Untold memories fade to blue while my heart aches just for you
While my heart aches just for you

Oh I would walk a thousand miles I'd swim the seven seas
I'd count the stars in the Milky Way or leaves upon the trees
To see the twinkle in your eye the devil in your smile
Hold your hand touch your lips for just a little while

Wishful thinking daydreams fly...
[ piano - guitar ] Wishful thinking daydreams fly...
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4.

HONEY WON'T YOU PLEASE COME HOME

(Jim Reeves - Luke McDaniel) « © '56 Fort Knox Music, BMI / Trio Music, BMI »
My friends all say what a pity that you've been gone so long
Wonder how you are in the city oh honey won't you please come home
The cotton and the corn have been gathered the green green pastures are gone
The day looks like stormy weather honey won't you please come home mhm
[ piano ] The whippoorwills have started calling the night winds whisper a song
Soon the tears will be falling oh honey won't you please come home
Soon the snow will be falling down comes teardrops and moan
I miss the sound of your calling oh honey won't you please come home mhm
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5.

I'M BEGINNING TO FORGET YOU

(Willie Phelps) « © '60 Longitude Music, BMI / Songs Of Universal, BMI »
I'm beginning to forget you that old heartache is gone
I'm beginning to sleep at night no more crying till dawn
I can hear your name mention now and it brings no misery
I'm beginning to forget you like you forgot me
I'm beginning to smile again after crying for so long

I can hear the tune we loved so well and it's just another song
I'm so happy that it's over I'm so thankful to be free
I'm beginning to forget you like you forgot me
[ whistle ] I can hear the tune we loved so well...
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6.

BILLY BAYOU

(Roger Miller) « © '58 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Back about eighteen hundred and some a Louisiana couple had a red headed son
No name soothe him Jim Jack or Joe they just called him Billy Bayou

Billy Billy Bayou watch where you go you're walkin' on quick sand and walk slow
Billy Billy Bayou watch what you say a pretty girl'll get you one of these days
[ guitar ] Billy was a boy kinda big for a size red hair and freckles and big blue eyes
Thirteen years from the day he was born Bill fought the battles of the Little Big Horn

Billy Billy Bayou watch where you go...
[ guitar ] One said day Billy cried ho-ho I can whip the feathers of Geronimo
He smarted off the chief got mad this nearly ended our Louisiana lad

Billy Billy Bayou watch where you go...
[ guitar ] One day in 1878 a pretty girl walked through Bill's front gate
He didn't know whether to stand there and run
He wound up married cause he did neighter one

Billy Billy Bayou watch where you go...
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7.

IF HEARTACHE IS THE FASHION

(Roger Miller - Jim Reeves) « © '59 Tree Publishing, BMI »
My hands reach out to touch someone but they know she's not there
My memory keeps running back to one who used to care
My heart has lost the will to live my lips the will to smile
If heartache is the fashion then I guess that I'm in style

Our places I'm invited to I never want to go
Afraid I'll see my old sweetheart with her new love and so
I stay home and walk the floor as if it's my last mile
If heartache is the fashion then I guess that I'm in style
[ guitar ] My lips will miss the tender kiss that someone else will know
My eyes will not forget the day I stood and watched her go
My arms will ache to hold the love that I held for a while
If heartache is the fashion then I guess that I'm in style
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8.

PARTNERS

(Danny Dill) « © '59 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
Two partners went in search of gold as friendly as could be
One was young and one was old and the gay young fool was me
Since neighter one could write his name we swore upon our souls
To share the wealth and then shook hands the hands that dug for gold (oh partners)

The summer days were gone at last and winter nights grew cold
The snow had trapped us in the pass when we finally find the gold
We took our fortune to the shack to wait the winter through
But the food ran low so I killed my friend what else was there to do (oh partners)

I threw his body just outside into the bitter cold
Somehow I had to stay alive I now had all the gold
But the howling wind just seemed to say you have killed a man
And you'll never get to spend the gold with the blood upon your hands (oh partners)

The cabin's covered now with snow and shelves of food are bare
Satan's waitin' for me now and I'm too cold to care
Is that the devil at the door coming for my soul
Or is it just the old man a looking for his gold (oh partners)
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9.

I LOVE TO SAY I LOVE YOU (THEME OF LOVE)

(Jack Fulton - Louis Steele) « © '57 Jewel Music, ASCAP »
I love to say I love you and hold you close to me
I love to say how wonderful you are as no one else could be

When first I said I love you within my heart I knew
I'd love to say I'll love you all my life because it's true

(When first I said I love you I love you) within my heart I knew
I'd love to say I'll love you all my life because it's true
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10.

I'D LIKE TO BE

(Hugh Ashley) « © '58 Budde Songs, BMI / Tree Publishing, BMI »
I'd like to be the picture on your mantel I'd like to be the window in your door
I'd like to be the feather on your pillow I'd even like to be the carpet on your floor
I'd like to be the star outside your window that lucky chair that holds you every night
The puppy pop you warm up every morning I'd even like to be the apple that you bite

And if you need someone to talk with I'd like to be the little voice inside
And if you'll ever have a heartache I wanna be the tear you hide
I'd like to the be the record on your phonograph the melody that action night and day
And when you're old enough to want to marry
I'd like to be the one who steals your heart away
[ guitar ] And if you need someone to talk with...
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11.

AFTER AWHILE

(Martha High - Bob Montgomery) « © '59 Dundee Music, BMI »
After awhile after awhile I'll learn to smile after awhile
I'll love again when my heart mends
I'll leave heartbreaks out high after awhile
Some day you'll learn just how I feel
When love brings you heartache only time can heal
After awhile after awhile I'll learn to smile after awhile
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12.

HOME

(Roger Miller) « © '59 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Well I've been a traveler most of my life I never took a home never took a wife
Ran away young and decided to roam
Wanna see my mama and my daddy back home
Home where the river runs cold the water tastes good the winters ain't cold
Home where trees grow tall the homefires burn and the whippoorwills call

I remember stories that my daddy used to tell
My eyes would get big and my chest just a swell
I could sit for hours and listen with glee
As he'd tell of how he lived when he's a boy like me
Home where the river runs cold...

Well mama dear mama do you still love your boy
After all my roamin' can I still bring you joy
Mom sent a letter got it not long ago
She said to come home I'm a missin' you so

Home where the river runs cold...
Whippoorwills call whippoorwills call whippoorwills call
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