I DO MY SWINGING AT HOME
(Harmony KH-32166)
March/1973
Produced by Billy Sherrill
Recorded 1968-1973, Columbia Studio, Nashville
1.
SITTIN' AND THINKIN'
(Charlie Rich)
« © '63 Knox Music, BMI »
(Please baby wait for me wait for me wait for me)
I got loaded last night on a bottle of gin
And I had a fight with my best girl friend
When I'm drinkin' I am nobody's friend
But please baby wait for me until they let me out again
I know the same thing has happened before
And everytime it does I hate it more and more
But when I'm drinkin' I am nobody's friend
So please baby wait for me until they let me out again
I spent a whole lotta time sittin' and thinkin'
Sittin' and just thinkin' bout you
Well if I didn't spend so much time sittin' and drinkin'
We'd still have the love that we once knew
Oh I won't promise the same thing won't happen again
But I can promise it'll be a long long time till then
Cause when I'm drinkin' I am nobody's friend
But please baby wait for me until they let me out again
Please baby wait for me until they let me out again
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2.
PROUDEST LONELIEST FOOL
(Ricci Mareno - Jerry Gillespie)
« © '68 Music City Music, ASCAP »
She didn't see things my way and I was too proud to give in
I have to learn the hard way that pride is always your best friend
I needed her love so badly but like a fool I let her go
I kept my pride but deep down inside I'm the proudest loneliest man I know
(I needed her love so badly but like a fool I let her go)
I kept my pride but deep down inside I'm the proudest loneliest man I know
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3.
MAMA TAKE ME HOME
(Carmol Taylor)
« © '70 Algee Music, BMI »
I saw a man walk from a bar today and staggered all around
I've heard a scream and saw the car that knocked him to the ground
A silver haired ol' lady rushed to him and raised his head
He must have thought she was his mama because these words he said
Mama my wife has gone and left me
Mama she left with my best friend
Mama I was coming home to tell you
So mama take me home and help me live and love again
I saw him laying there his broken body wrecked with pain
I wanted so to help him but I was too ashamed
He rolled his head from side to side struggling for his life
You don't know how I felt cause I'm the friend that took his wife
Mama they took my babies from me
Mama she loves another man
Mama it's gettin' hard to see now
So mama take me home and let me live and love again
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4.
HAVE A HEART
(Margaret A. Rich)
« © '70 Makamillion Music, BMI »
Would you lend a helping hand to save a drowning man
Could you refuse a hungry child a crust of bread
And if were a millionare would you have a dime to spend
For a beggar or would you turn away in the stand
(Have a heart) this man is drowning (have a heart) this child is hungry
(Have a heart) this beggar's begging you please don't walk away
(Have a heart) I'm drowning in my tears (have a heart) oh I'm hungry for your kiss
I'm begging on my knees have a heart and please love me
(Have a heart) this man is drowning...
I'm begging on my knees have a heart and please love me
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5.
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN LONELY (HAVE YOU EVER BEEN BLUE
(George Brown - Peter DeRose - Billy Hill)
« © '33 Shapiro-Bernstein Co, ASCAP »
Have you ever been lonely have you ever been blue
Have you ever loved someone just as I love you
Can't you see I'm sorry for each mistake I've made
Can't you see I've changed dear can't you see I've paid
Be a little forgiving take me back in your heart
How can I go on living now that we're apart
If you knew what I've been through you would know why I ask you
Have you ever been lonely have you ever been blue
(Have you ever been lonely have you ever been blue
Have you ever loved someone just as I love you)
If you knew what I've been through you would know why I ask you
Have you ever been lonely have you ever been blue
Have you ever been lonely have you ever been blue
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6.
LIFE HAS ITS LITTLE UPS AND DOWNS
(Margaret A. Rich)
« © '69 Makamillion Music, BMI / Warner-Tamerlane Publishing, BMI »
I don't know how to tell her I didn't get that raise in pay today
I know how much she wanted that dress in Baker's window
And it breaks my heart to see her have to wait
And cancel all the plans she made to celebrate
But I can count on her to take it with a smile and not a frown
She knows that life has its little ups and downs
Like ponies on a merry-go-round
And no one grabs a brass ring every time but she don't mind
She wears a gold ring on her finger and it's mine
New house plans we've had so long I guess will gather dust another year
And the daffodils are blooming that she planted way last fall upon the hill
And over by the gate and Lord knows I hate to say again we'll have to wait
But you can bet that she'll just take it with a smile and not a frown
She knows that life has its little ups and downs...
She wears a gold ring on her finger and I'm so glad it's mine
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7.
DADDY DON'T YOU WALK SO FAST
(Peter Callander - Geoff Stephens)
« © '70 Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
The love between the two of us was dying
And it got so bad I knew I had to leave
But halfway down the highway when I turned around and saw
My little girl a running after me
Crying daddy don't you walk so fast daddy don't you walk so fast
Daddy slow me down some cause you're making me run
Daddy don't you walk so fast
It broke my heart to tell my little baby
That her daddy had to run and catch a train
She had no way of knowing I was leaving home for good
I turned around and there she was again
Crying daddy don't you walk so fast...
Only for the sake of my sweet daughter
I just had to turn back home right there and then
I try to start a new life with the mother of my child
I couldn't bear to hear those words again
She said daddy don't you walk so fast...
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8.
GOLDEN SLIPPER ROSE
(Curly Putman)
« © '70 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Now mama wore those skin tight dresses all the time
She worked at the Golden Slipper Cafe every night
But mama loved me and sister and we both loved her so
But everone called mama Golden Slipper Rose
Now mama drank and mama laughed and danced all night
She made us go to school both taught us wrong from right
And tucked us in with a kiss each night and loved and watched us grow
Still everone called mama Golden Slipper Rose
Looked up to by some and looked down on by many
Loved by just a few so her life goes
Still everone called mama Golden Slipper Rose
Now the preacher reads a line that fits mama like a bluff
He said a woman like this woman was born to be loved
And as they close the lid on mama's life and the town looks down its nose
Heaven waits to welcome home Golden Slipper Rose
Heaven waits to welcome home Golden Slipper Rose
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9.
PAPA WAS A GOOD MAN
(Hal Bynum)
« © '72 Tree Publishing, BMI »
It rained all the way to Cincinnati
With our mattress on top of the car
Us kids were eatin' crackers and baloney
And papa kept on drivin' never stopped once at a bar
Then mama started talkin' about Jesus
And how our lives could be from now on
While papa bought a used tire in Columbus
Mama rocked the baby till all his tears were gone
She said your papa is a good man and don't you kids forget it
The whiskey's tryin' to ruin him but I know the Lord won't let it
Then we sang Amazing Grace and Bringing In The Sheaves
Rock of ages rock of ages cleft for me
I guess we should have known papa never could quit drinking
The whiskey had too much about hold on him
But he loved us and he did the best he could
And everytime the world would fall all around us
Mama packed everything we owned into some old car
And started out for some new town
She said your papa is a good man...
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10.
I DO MY SWINGING AT HOME
(Billy Sherrill)
« © '70 Algee Music, BMI »
Nobody loves a drink anymore than me
I might buy a round or two or three
I've been known to stumble and hit the floor
Oh but I'm never too drunk to make it to the door
Red wine can start my head a swimmin'
But I draw the line when it comes to women
I never met a woman that could make me roam
And I do my swinging at home
She gives me more love better love sweeter love true love
And that's where I belong
I might do a lotta talking but soon you'll see me walking
Cause I do my swinging at home
[ piano ]
She gives me more love better love sweeter love true love
And that's where I belong
I might do a lotta talking but soon you'll see me walking
I do a lotta swinging a lotta love song singing
But I do my swinging at home
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