lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

OH SINGER

(Myra Smith - Margaret Lewis)
« © '71 Ragged Island Music, BMI »
Oh singer sing me an old song yeah
Oh singer sing me an old song sing me an old song about cotton place
Tell me how the good earth feels down in the high white cotton yeah
Cause in my life I'll never get to walk on my knees in the fields

Oh singer sing about the railroad
Sing about the coal shovellin' on the Elliney rail
Let me get a ride afar with all the people in the depot
Cause in my life singer I'll never ride those coal black trains

Take me back oh singer take me back
I'm livin' a life I can't slow down cept with a song
And I wanna know how the people make it without big corporations
And I wanna feel how the people live when life is old

Oh singer take me to the river
Let me ride the big river boat down to New Orleans
Let me lean up aboard and wash my hands in the Mississippi water
Cause singer I can only ride that boat in a song you sing

Take me back oh singer take me back...
Oh singer sing me an old song...
In the fields
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2.

I'VE DONE A LOT OF LOVING SINCE THEN

(Becki Bluefield - Jerri Clark)
« © '71 Shelby Singleton Music, BMI »
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3.

WILL THE REAL JESUS PLEASE STAND UP

(Don Hill - Willie Young)
« © '71 Shelby Singleton Music, BMI »
Some folks say he's comin' other say he came
Some say he's a different colar some use the different name
No matter what they're sayin' well it all comes up the same
Who's leadin' the children who's takin' them home
Who's leadin' the sheep to the promised land or they left to roam
Will the real Jesus please stand up I need him
Will the real Jesus please stand up I need him
etc...
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4.

LIGHT YOUR LIGHT

(Myra Smith - Margaret Lewis)
« © '71 Ragged Island Music, BMI »
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5.

IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND

(Gordon Lightfoot)
« © '69 Early Morning Music, SESAC »
If you could read my mind love what a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like an old time movie bout a ghost from a wishing well
In a cast the dark or a fortress strong with chains upon my feet
You know that ghost is me
And I will never be set free as long as I'm a ghost that you can't see

If I could read your mind love what a tale your thoughts could tell
Just like a paperback novel the kind that drug stores sell
When you reached the part where the heartaches start
The hero would be me but heroes often fail
You won't read that book again because the ending's just too hard to take

I'd walk away like a movie star who gets burned in a three way script enter No 2
A movie queen kkep to play the scene of bringin' all the good things out of me
But for now love let's be real
I never thought I could act this way and I've got to say that I just don't get it
I don't know where we went wrong but the feelin' is gone and I just can't get it back

If you could read my mind love what a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like an old time movie bout a ghost from a wishing well
In a cast the dark or a fortress strong with chains upon my feet
But stories always end
And If you read between the lines you'd know that I'm just trying to understand
The feelin's that you lack
I'd never thought I could feel this way and I've got to say that I just don't get it
I don't know where we went wrong but the feelin' is gone and I just can't get it back
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6.

CHILDREN

(Joe South)
« © '67 ATV Songs, BMI »
Children go run and jump and play you'll be men and women some day
Then you'll have to leave your world of make believe now children
Young carefree children
Children need someone to understand children need someone to hold their hands yeah
To cheer you when you're sad to spank you when you're bad
Now children haughty naughty children

Ride goes before destruction the Holy Spirit goes before the fall
Don't you know that we're all children and it's all for one and one for all
Oh children call each other names children playing grown up games
And the thing that's really sad we lose the faith we had
When we were children loud proud children
were children clowns proud children

Children who think that they are grown children with children of their own
From the cradle to the grave why must we all behave like children
Lost lonely children
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7.

GOOD ENOUGH TO BE YOUR WIFE

(Michael Murphy)
« © '71 Mills Music, ASCAP »
You ask me if we con live together
Marriage doesn't fit your way of life
And you say that you'll be with me forever
Well if that's true please make me your wife

Cause if I'm good enough to be your woman good enough to share your life
Good enough to live together I'm good enough to be your wife
Good enough to have your children good enough to give 'em life
Good enough to do your cooking I'm good enough to be your wife
[ piano ] I don't care what people say about us
Loving one another isn't wrong
And I don't care as long as we're together
Right here next to you's where I belong

But if I'm good enough to be your woman...
[ piano ] Darling I'm so glad you want me with you
But sharin' someone's life just ain't the game
So with you really want to live together
Then first of all I've got to have your name

Cause if I'm good enough to be your woman...
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8.

ONE TOKE OVER THE LINE

(Michael Brewer - Thomas Shipley)
« © '71 Careers Music, BMI »
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9.

TELL THE TRUTH AND SHAME THE DEVIL

(Myra Smith - Margaret Lewis)
« © '71 Ragged Island Music, BMI »
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10.

HELP ME MAKE IT THROUGH THE NIGHT

(Kris Kristofferson)
« © '70 Combine Music, BMI »
Take the ribbon from your my shake it loose and let it fall
Laying soft against your skin like the shadows on the wall
Come and lay down by my side till the early morning light
All I'm taking is your time help me make it through the night

I don't care what's right or wrong and I won't try to understand
Let the devil take tomorrow Lord tonight I need a friend
Yesterday is dead and gone and tomorrow's out of sight
And it's sad to be alone help me make it through the night
[ ac.guitar ] It's sad to be alone help me make it through the night
I don't wanna be alone help me make it through the night
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11.

ROSES AND THORNS

(Naomi Martin)
« © '71 Shelby Singleton Music, BMI »
There are the roses and there are the thorns
There's a time for happiness and there's a time to mourn
There's a time to love then when love is faded and worn
Oh oh instead of the roses there are the thorns

Once there was spring and the flowers were gentle and sweet
I inhaled the goodness of love and my life was complete
I reached for a rose and its petals were crushed by my touch
Oh oh I love too hard and the thorns are now hurtin' too much

Winter comes on with no mercy for those unpreapared
Coldness creaps in on a heart that a dead love needs bared
Loving too much leaves a wreckage like that of a storm
Yes it does instead of the roses now I am holding the thorns

Roses and thorns so close together they grow
Fladness and sadness emotiones that everyone knows
When there is one the other can't be far behind oh no
I've held the rose and the stem with the thorns is now mine

Roses and thorns so close together...
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