CONNIE SMITH
CONNIE'S COUNTRY
RCA Victor LSP-4132April/1969
Produced by Bob Ferguson
1.
SEATTLE
(Ernie Sheldon - Jack Keller - Hugo Montenegro) « © '69 Colgems Music, ASCAP »The bluer skies you've never seen than in Seattle
And the hills the greenest green than in Seattle
Like a beautiful child growing up being wild
Full of hopes and full of fears full of laughter full of tears
Full of dreams for lasty years in Seattle in Seattle
When it's time to leave your home and your loved ones
It's the hardest thing a girl can do
And you pray that you will find someone warm and sweet and kind
Cause you're not sure what's waiting for you
The bluer skies you've never seen...
When you find your own true love you will know it
By the smile by the look in his eyes
It's in the pinetrees in the air never knew it could be so fair
It makes you so proud that you could cry
The bluer skies you've never seen...
In Seattle in Seattle oh in Seattle in Seattle oh in Seattle
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2.
RIBBON OF DARKNESS
(Gordon Lightfoot) « © '66 Early Morning Music, SESAC »Ribbon of darkness over me since my true love walked out the door
Tears I never had before ribbon of darkness over me
Clouds're gathering o'er my head they chill the day and hide the sun
And shroud the night when day is done ribbon of darkness over me
Rain is fallin' on the meadow where once my love and I did lie
Now he is gone from the meadow my love goodbye
Ribbon of darkness over me where once the world was young as spring
Where clouds're bloomin' birds were would sing ribbon of darkness over me
[ strings ] In this cold room lying don't wanna see no one but you
Lord I wish I could be dying to forget you
How I wish your heart could see my mind just takes the breaks of day
Come on back and take away ribbon of darkness over me
La da da da dee de dee la da da da dee de dee
Hmm hmm hmm ribbon of darkness over me
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3.
GOTTA LOTTA BLUES TO LOSE
(Jimmy Gateley) « © '69 Songs Of Universal, BMI »Gotta lotta blues to lose guess by now you've heard the news
Cause it's all over town that you've made me a fool and a clown
Gotta lotta blues to lose and I'm wearin' out my shoes
Just to walkin' around in this lonely ol' town gotta lotta blues to lose
I don't know where to start picking up my heart
You've shattered it in little bitty pieces
I gotta lotta tears to cry a lotta mem'ries that must die
And if I take it slow I'll forget you I know gotta lotta blues to lose
[ strings ] I don't know where to start...
I gotta lotta blues to lose I gotta lotta blues to lose
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4.
TODAY I STARTED LOVING YOU AGAIN
(Merle Haggard - Bonnie Owens) « © '67 Tree Publishing, BMI »Today I started loving you again
Now I'm right back where I've really always been
I got over you just long enough to let my heartache mend
Then today I started loving you again
What a fool I was to think I could get by
With only these few million tears I've cried
I should have known the worst was yet to come
And that crying time for me had just begun
Cause today I started loving you again...
Today I started loving you again...
Yes today I started loving you again
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5.
YOU
(Jimmy Holder) « © '69 Ripcord Music, BMI »There'll always be another tear there'll always be another year
There'll be another sky of blue
But no matter what may come or go this one thing I surely know
There'll never ever be another you
There'll always be another smile there'll always be another mile
There'll be another morning dew
Though years may come and years may go this one thing I surely know
There'll never ever be another you
There'll be another teardrop there'll be another raindrop
And there'll be another love that's true
Though love may come and love may go this one thing I surely know
There'll never ever be another you
No there'll never ever be another you
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6.
I'LL LOVE YOU ENOUGH (FOR BOTH OF US)
(Ray Griff) « © '69 Helene Blue Musique, ASCAP »I'll love you enough for both of us
Till you decide just how you feel
You're still not sure if you love me or not
So I'll love you enough for both of us
I hope in time you'll find that I'm your every dream come true
A spark within your heart may start to glow
But then again it just might end it could be this way too
Whatever happens I want you to know
I'll love you enough for both of us
Always remember how I feel
I'll wait around until you know for sure
And I'll love you enough for both of us
I'll love you enough for both of us
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7.
SOUND OF DIFFERENT DRUMS
(Harlan Howard) « © '69 Tree Publishing, BMI »We march to the sound of different drums
For we both want different things from life
You don't care to discuss anything serious
While I want to have your children and to be your wife
I know I can't change you I won't even try
And so I'll just love you and look you grow up by and by
We march to the sound of different drums
We're out of step and someday we must part
We talk but you never use words like forever
And even in your arms I'm never in your heart
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8.
HAPPY STREET
(Ben Peters) « © '68 Shelby Singleton Music, BMI »I was blue till I found you
I didn't know where the road of life was leadin' me to
I'm on my own I walk alone
It seems like Lonely Street would be my permanent home
But baby now I'm walkin' down Happy Street
Smilin' at everyone that I meet
Oh ain't it funny what fallin' in love can do
Now I'm walkin' down Happy Street
I never thought life could be so sweet
Now I'm walkin' down Happy Street with you
[ strings ] Same old place same human race
But now it seems like the world put on a happier face
Since you are mine each day I find
It's filled with sunshine and your love is makin' it shine
And baby now I'm walkin' down Happy Street
Smilin' at everyone that I meet
Oh ain't it funny what fallin' in love can do oh honey
Now I'm walkin' down Happy Street
I never thought life could be so sweet
But anyplace is Happy Street with you
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9.
BLUE LITTLE GIRL
(Betty Jean Robinson) « © '69 Marchar Music, BMI »Once I had everything going for me like I planned
A bed of red roses a good looking sweet loving man
And I'd hear them whisper she's the luckiest girl in the world
But my world is blue and I'm just a blue little girl
The more love he gave me the more love I asked him to give
And not for one moment did my selfish heart think of him
Then one day he turned and slowly walked out of my world
Now my world is blue and I'm just a blue little girl
Yes it's a blue world a crazy blue hazy blue world
I broke his heart and now I'm just a blue little girl
I saw him today it was more than this sad heart could stand
He walked with another and she wore his ring on her hand
I watched them and whispered she's the luckiest girl in the world
But my world is blue and I'm just a blue little girl
Yes it's a blue world...
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10.
LONELY WOMAN
(Jean Chapel - Alda Calongne) « © '69 Blind Squirrel Music, BMI »No one can cry like a woman can
It's been that way since time began
No one on earth is lonelier than a lonely woman
Her life without love is like a rose
That wilts and dies when her lover goes
You're listening to someone who really knows a lonely woman
No one can cry like a woman...
Is this my heart or drums that began
For only the sounds of the world closing in
When I remember how long I have been a lonely woman
No one can cry like a woman...
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11.
YOU DON'T HAVE VERY FAR TO GO
(Merle Haggard - Red Simpson) « © '64 Owen Publications, BMI »You always find the way to hurt my pride
If I'm not crying you're not satisfied
I don't know why you want to hurt me so
But if you're trying to break my heart you don't have very far to go
You don't have very far to go before the heartache begins
I already feel the sadness of a heartbreak settin' in
You're turning down the flame of love too low
And if you're trying to break my heart you don't have very far to go
[ strings ] Don't have very far to go before the heartache begins
I already feel the sadness of a heartbreak settin' in
You can't love me and still want to hurt me so
If you're trying to break my heart you don't have very far to go
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12.
GATHERING FLOWERS FOR THE MASTER'S BOUQUET
(Marvin E. Baumgardner) « © '49 Bridge Building Music, BMI »Death is an angel sent down from above
Sent for the buds and the flowers we love
Truly 'tis so for in heaven's own way
Each soul is a flower in the Master's bouquet
Gathering flowers for the Master's bouquet
Beautiful flowers that will never decay
Gathered by angels and carried away
Forever to bloom in the Master's bouquet
Loved ones are passing each day and each hour
Passing away as the life of a flower
But every bud and each blossom some day
Will bloom as a flower in the Master's bouquet
Gathering flowers for the Master's bouquet...
Now let us be faithful till life's work is done
Blooming with love till the reaper shall come
Then we'll be gathered together that day
Transplanted to bloom in the Master's bouquet
Gathering flowers for the Master's bouquet...
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