lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

YEARBOOKS AND YESTERDAYS

(Myra Smith - Margaret Lewis)
« © '68 Ragged Island Music, BMI »
The weather was bad it was windy and rainin' outside
So I decided to stay in clean my room and give a lift to my pride
I was cleanin' out the corner of my closet and overturned a boxlid
And there were my yearbooks and pictures and my yesterday friends

On the very first page Janie Adams set smilin' at me
She was the queen of the senior class but she failed in history
Hi Janie 'member when we played hockey with those out of town boys
And how scared we got they didn't wanna bring us back and called us killjoys

On the next page there was Johnny Roosevelt most handsome boy at school
Hi Johnny guess you never knew what a crush I had on you
But it only lasted untill Michael Grady moved to Central High
He was a big bashful football bawl and I loved him at first sight

Well there you are you Mike I was wonderin' when you'd be showin' up
Gosh you've got a bruise on your eye
Oh I remember those Pacus boys were mighty rough
And remember how us girls all cried when we lost the game that night
It was so cold why you couldn't even squeeze me you were bandaged up so tight

Hello Paddy June and Billy Roy heard you've married and settled down
Betty Rogers still writes now and then since I moved out of town
You remember my daddy got a transfer when school came to an end
And for awhile I lost tracks of my yearbooks and yesterdays friends

But today as I visit back with you hi Joni and Clyde
I know I never really could forget you even if I tried
For in my heart all our years together never came to an end
And you know there's really no such thing as a yesterday friend
There's really no such a thing as a yesterday friend
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2.

WHAT WAS HER NAME

(Myra Smith - Margaret Lewis)
« © '68 Ragged Island Music, BMI »
Oh what was her name she used to sit next to me in math
Had the saddest eyes I'd ever seen and like me she was only sixteen
What was her name she was so silent and strange
Then the word leaked out and time brought about the truth and the tragedy began

She was only sixteen and married and married to a law-breaking man
And lovin' him and trustin' him as only a young girl can
He looked so exciting and different to the eyes of this innocent child
He said I'll marry you and carry you through a life exciting and wild

Oh what was her name I see her so well in my mind
Especially that day right after school when I saw her for the last time
The sheriff's car was there she looked so small and alone
As they put her inside and drove out of sight I was scared and ran all the way home

They were tryin' to make her betray him but she refused to understand
How the love of her life could be mixed up with a dirty thieving man
So she never said a word against him and finally they set her free
When she met him that night she was surprised when he said
That's the last time you'll squeal on me

When the first bell rang the next morning she was sittin' on the schoolhouse steps
Leaning 'gaist the rail she looked so pale I asked a friend if she was asleep
The last bells rang and still she didn't move as we all started to class
So June went over to her sayin' come on the last bells has rang
That's when she saw the knife in her back
Oh heck what was her name
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3.

EDNA BURGOO

(Myra Smith - Margaret Lewis)
« © '68 Ragged Island Music, BMI »
Edna Burgoo wore a shoe size No 10
When the roll was called that fall and class was ready to begin
She was five feet nine and showin' signs of growin' still some more
Every time she'd sit down she bump her knees and knock her pencils on the floor

There was one old gripy teacher in the bunch
Picked on Edna for everything from books to the baloney in her lunch
And Edna's temper every day was growin' mighty thin
So to avoid the clash she changed her class took up gym when basketball begin

Now the forward on our team was Mabel Earl
She refused to let the couch replace her with this big new girl
So Edna won the bench while we moaned and groaned as Mabel failed to score
Now I can't say who done it but at the half someone helped Mabel break her toe

Now the action sure got fast that second half
With Mabel out Edna came on strong to bring the hometeam back
There was no way that ball could miss when Edna raised her feet
And when a mighty throw put it through the hook
The crowd came screaming off their seats

Our strappy little guard was Emma Jean
No sooner the ball would miss the hook then she'd steal it for our team
Edna threw the goal so fast the lights couldn't keep up with the score
And a halftime 80:17 climbed all the way to read 90:84

Two minutes left showed on the scoreboard clock
Edna and Emma Jean were sweatin' like cotton hands on the dock
With seconds left a faster playin' just about splattered our minds
For Edna had two free shots coming and the score was 90:89

When Edna Burgoo put her tootsies on the mark
Everybody in that place got so quiet it hurt my heart
She bounced the ball on her fingertips and then she hit the spot
It was 90:90 but nobody moved and she steadied her knees for that second shot

Made no difference if her shoe was No 10
We were pullin' for her to make the mark and let our hometeam win
Then the hats flew high and the crowd went wild when Edna's shot was done
For she made champions of us all with the score of 90:91
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4.

MY SCRAPBOOK

(Jerry Foster - Bill Rice)
« © '68 PolyGram Int, ASCAP »
While looking through an old scrapbook of mine
I let the pages take me back through time
Just an old scrapbook yellowed with age
But a million old mem'ries still live on each page

Memories that never will die from our first hello to our last goodbye
Old souvenirs and pictures we took I'll keep them forever inside my scrapbook

I see two tickets to the high school play
The note on the napkin he wrote me one day
That said things he thought were too silly to say
His change of address when he moved away

Memories that never will die...
[ guitar ] I look at the last page and can't help but cry
The newspaper clippings tell how he died
We planned to be married that night secretely
But fate stopped my love on his way to meet me

Memories that never will die...
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5.

PART OF HONEY

(Tom T. Hall)
« © '68 Newkeys Music, BMI / Unichappell Music, BMI »
The teacher said it's time to think about the annual fate
To be put on that scene sponsored by the PTA
Most of you have seen the script and now the question is
Who would like to play the part of honey

The part calls for a lady who was beauty wit and charm
Who falls in love with Jerry Walsh of Merry Meadow Farm
In the end they marry and go off to see the world
Now who would like to play the part of honey
[ harmonica ] The hand of Sally Jordon slowly raised into the air
Other members of the class all turned around to stare
For Sally Jordon was a poor girl it was plain to see
She could never play the part of honey

The teacher just pretended that she didn't see a hand
Instead she picked the daughter of a very wealthy man
Poor and pretty Sally sat there holdin' back her tears
She wanted so to play the part of honey
[ harmonica ] The play went off without her and as graduation came
Sally Jordon went away and they forgot her name
But Sally Jordon never did forget the high school play
She didn't get to play the part of honey

One day there was news about a movie in the town
People came to see it for a hundred miles around
For there was someone in it that the population knew
Sally Jordon played the part of honey

Perhaps the moral of the story's neighter here nor there
For beauty is as beauty does and wit and charm are airs
When all has been considered it's difficult to tell
Just who it is that fits the part of honey
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6.

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO CHARLIE BROWN

(Ben Peters)
« © '68 Shelby Singleton Music, BMI »
I know it's been a long time since my family moved away
And I've been looking forward to this trip back here today
I'd like to hear bout all the folks here in my old hometown
Like whatever happened to Charlie Brown

I see that Bobby Rosenbloom now runs his daddy's store
It looks like Chubby Adams gained two hundred pounds or more
And they've fixed up this old drugstore where we used to hang around
But whatever happened to Charlie Brown

Whatever happened to Charlie Brown
I've asked almost everyone in town
No one here recalls the last time they saw him around
Oh whatever happened to Charlie Brown

Too bad about poor Becky Jones she's in a family way
She thought that they'd be married but the boy skipped town one day
I asked her if she'd seen Charlie and she started break him down
Oh whatever happened to Charlie Brown

Whatever happened to Charlie Brown...
I wonder what happened to Charlie Brown
Oh whatever happened to Charlie Brown
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7.

GIRL MOST LIKELY

(Myra Smith - Margaret Lewis)
« © '68 Ragged Island Music, BMI »
Papa worked but his cheque was small
Mama sowed just to help us all
And our old house sure needed paint
And when it rained the roof would leak
Well the teacher's pet was Susie Grout
Born with the silver spoon in her mounth
Miss Goody two shoes in sonerity
And I was a little Miss Nothin' and they thought of me as

The girl most likely yea yea yea yea yea yea
The girl most likely
To wind up in uh-huh jam
They judged by the way I looked not the way I am

Well I guess it's true I looked apart
But developin' fast was not my fault
Didn't know my sexappeal showed through
Those made over clothes and run down shoes
Now the doctor's son is hidin' out
And the whole town knows what it's all about
Because the evidence is plain
Ha it ain't me it's Susie Jane

The girl most likely yea yea yea yea yea yea
The girl most likely
Susie's daddy is on the run
And he sure looks funny with that hot shot gun

Well the weddin' bells can't wait till June
It'd better be now or else real soon
Susie Jane is in the jam
Hey listen that gun go wam wam wam
Well some of that talk is dyin' down
And there's a lot of most likelys in this town
Just because a house needs a coat of paint
That doesn't mean a girl is somethin' she ain't
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8.

BACK TO SCHOOL

(Tom T. Hall)
« © '68 Newkeys Music, BMI / Unichappell Music, BMI »
Wintertime comes early to the north part of this state
I walk along the river where we used to come and skate
The trees are now all gone and by the river there's a sign
Trespassin' is a twenty dollar fine

Looking up the road toward the schoolhouse on the hill
That thing about an empty building causes me to chill
My memory goes back to when the teacher rang the bell
The day she sent you home for saying hell

Walking past the building so important in my past
The road is full of ol' discarded bottles and some trash
I step behind the building as I shelter from the cold
I see our names in letters big and bold

My fingers trace the letters of a work of art alone
And I recall the day that you carved it in a stone
Somehow I can see you now with books and coat in hand
You always waved as down the hill you ran

Cokes were just a nickel then and many were the times
The two of us would sip them as if they were village wine
And then on Graduation Day we bought the little ring
And said that carats didn't mean a thing

Now I retrace my footsteps to the cab that waits for me
Looking back to see our names you carved upon a tree
The driver says I look familiar asks me what's my name
I say hurry I have to catch a plane
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9.

THAT'S HOW IT IS WITH HIM AND ME

(Becki Bluefield)
« © '68 Shelby Singleton Music, BMI »
With my head on my pillow and my back turned to him so he can't see
The tears I promised him I wouldn't cry are fallin' down my cheeks
It's just knowin' that he's going that's tearin' the heart right out of me
Life and love go hand in hand and that's how it is with him and me
[ guitar ] Lovin' him the way I do it hurts to face the things that have to be
For with tomorrow's sunset all that I'll have left is memories
It's just knowin' that he's going that's tearin' the heart right out of me
A woman's heart goes with her man and that's how it is with him and me
[ guitar ] We can't change circumstances the things that have to be just have to be
So the tears I promised him I wouldn't cry I'll hide so he can't see
And when he takes me in his arms holds me tight and says goodbye to me
All my love will go with him for that's how it is with him and me
That's how it is with him and me
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10.

TEARDROPS ON PAGE 43

(Tom T. Hall)
« © '68 Newkeys Music, BMI / Unichappell Music, BMI »
It's so still I can't hear the pages that fall
As I look through my yearbook again
And I know I'll cry at the picture I see
Teardrops on page forty-three

There's a picture of us on page forty-three
Together with you I wanted to be
In the back of my book you wrote goodbye to me
That's why my teardrops are on page forty-three

I'd like to go back through the pages of time
And hold you again in my arms
In the picture we look so happy holding hands
Why you loved her I don't understand

There's a picture of us...
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11.

BOX OF MEMORIES

(Clark Bentley - Jerri Clark)
« © '68 Shelby Singleton Music, BMI »
The class reunion invitation was delivered to me today
It brought back burning mem'ries of a happy yesterday
I went to my cedar chest got down on my knees
The chest that once was full of hope is now a box of memories

As I carefully open up the box my mind wanders back
To all the things we used to do me and Billy Jack
Here's the first note he wrote and gave me in the hall
It asked if I'd stay after school to watch him play football
The chest that once was full of hope is now a box of memories

Here are the tickets dubbed for my first picture show
I'd seen him talkin' to Rita Gail and I almost didn't go
The forage I wrote to the senior prom pressed and dried
The scarf he tied around my hair for a motorcycle ride
The chest that once was full of hope is now a box of memories

Here's his lettered sweater with a patch Player of the year
And the handkerchief I'd used to wipe away all my tears
When he was playing chicken to prove the greatness of his nerve
And a speeding car killed my dreams on Dead Man's Kerb
The chest that once was full of hope is now a box of memories
Yes the chest that once was full of hope is now a box of memories
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12.

TASTE OF TEARS

(Teddy Bart - Paul Wyatt)
« © '68 BMG Songs, ASCAP / Prize Music, ASCAP »
From the seed of a lifetime to the harvest years
A girl knows the bitter and sweet taste of tears
The first love was a green love it was free and sincere
It ended in heartbreak and the young taste of tears

Then came the fool's love of life's wasted years
Time changes nothing but the taste of your tears
You pray for a true love and soon he appears
To share joy and sadness and the sweet taste of tears
And the sweet taste of tears
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