MISS SMITH GOES TO NASHVILLE
(RCA Victor LSP-3520)
March/1966
Produced by Bob Ferguson
Ray Edenton, Jimmy Lance, Jerry Reed, Kelso Herston - guitar
Walter Haynes - guitar/bass guitar
Weldon Myrick - steel
Henry Strzelecki, Roy Huskey - bass
Leonard Miller, Kenneth Buttrey - drums
Hargus Pig Robbins - piano
Vocal chorus:
Dorothy Dillard, Millie Kirkham, Louis Nunley, William Wright,
Dolores Edgin, Priscilla Hubbard, Gordon Stokey, Raymond Walker
Recorded:
Aug 5/1965, RCA Victor Studio, Nashville (4,6,12)
Oct 14/1965, RCA Victor Studio, Nashville (3,7,8,9)
Nov 2/1965, RCA Victor Studio, Nashville (1,2,5,10)
1.
BACK IN MY BABY'S ARMS AGAIN
(Dallas Frazier - Arthur Leo Owens)
« © '65 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Honey bees are a gonna be hummin' guitar strings are a gonna be strummin'
When I'm back in my baby's arms again
Happy wheels are a gonna be turnin' flames of love are a gonna be burnin'
When I'm back in my baby's arms again
No more tears are gonna be fallin' I done heard my true love a callin'
Open arms are waitin' yonder round the bend
Rivers of honey are a gonna be flowin' big sweet flowers are a gonna be growin'
When I'm back in my baby's arms again
[ guitar - steel ]
The voice of love is a gonna be talkin' hand in hand we're gonna be walkin'
When I'm back in my baby's arms again
The big old swings are a gonna be swingin' water springs are a gonna be springin'
When I'm back in my baby's arms again
No more tears are gonna be fallin'...
Yeah when I'm back in my baby's arms again
When I'm back in my baby's arms again
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2.
GO AHEAD AND MAKE ME CRY
(Leslie Lyle)
« © '55 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Go ahead and make me cry go ahead and make me blue
Bring the teardrops to my eyes if that's what you wanna do
Go ahead and make me lonely darling I belong to you
For you are my one and only go ahead and make me blue
Darling I could never change so why should I complain
Even though you broke my heart it's yours to tear apart
Go ahead and make me live go ahead and let me die
This is all I have to give go ahead and make me cry
[ guitar ]
Darling I could never change...
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3.
SAME AS MINE
(Marge Barton)
« © '65 Mimosa Publishing, BMI »
Mister postman gee I'm glad you came my way
Please take back this letter that you brought me yesterday
It's my name but you see you've got to find
That other girl in town whose name's the same as mine
Yes Mister postman it was opened by mistake
I read enough to know that someone's heart is gonna break
Her love is lost in each and every line
It's for a girl in town whose name's the same as mine
Mister postman I know you're not to blame
Anyone could make the same mistake it's such a common name
I guess you'd call it a strange cold incidence
That somene's name is felt the same add a different residence
Drop this letter off farther down the line
To that girl in town whose name's the same as mine
There must be a girl in town whose name's the same as mine
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4.
IF I TALK TO HIM
(Priscilla Mitchell - Dolores Edgin)
« © '65 Vector Music, BMI / Sixteen Stars Music, BMI »
If I talk to him I take him back again
So if he calls please tell him I'm not home
He's gone again I told him we were through
That he could live his life the way he wanted to
I said my love for him had died but I know it's not true
And if I talk to him my feelings would show through
Yes if I talk to him I take him back again
I'm afraid to even answer the phone
Cause if I talk to him I take him back again
So if he calls please tell him I'm not home
[ steel ]
I tell my heart I'm better off without him now
But like the other times he changed my mind somehow
He'd shed some tears and talk sweet talk so sure that I believe
But this time it's the end if he'll just let me be
But if I talk to him I take him back again...
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5.
AIN'T NOTHIN' SHAKIN' (BUT THE LEAVES)
(Dallas Frazier - Arthur Leo Owens)
« © '65 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Well ever since the day that you left me I been whinin' like a little lost pup
The sun went down when you left town and you ain't gonna come back up
A walkin' in a wearin' out leather a scuffin' out the hardwood floor
Starin' at the phone since you've been gone and listenin' for a knock on the door
Well there ain't nothin' shakin' but the leaves on the trees
And they wouldn't shake if it wasn't for the breeze
There ain't nothin' happenin' with the birds and the bees
There ain't nothin' shakin' but the leaves
[ steel ]
Now hurt's lookin' in through the window my heartaches are laughin' in the hall
And I got news that old man blues is a seepin' through the cracks in the wall
The end is a waitin' round the corner and hope is just about gone
If you only knew what I needed you then you'd come a running back home
Oh well there ain't nothin' shakin'...
There ain't nothin' shakin' but the leaved
There ain't nothin' shakin' but the leaves
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6.
I DON'T HAVE ANYPLACE TO GO
(Bill Anderson)
« © '65 Johnny Bienstock Music, BMI »
You told me late last night you wished I'd leave you
Your love for me is gone and we both know
I'll do anything I can to make you happy
But I don't have anyplace to go
I can't go running home cause I don't have one
To stay in town would be like dying slow
For every day I'd run into your mem'ry
I don't have anyplace to go
[ steel ]
The fault is mine for loving you so deeply
No one should ever love another so
For there you stand telling me to leave you
And I don't have anyplace to go
I don't have anyplace to go
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7.
I'LL NEVER GET OVER LOVING YOU
(Connie Smith)
« © '65 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
(I'll never get over loving you)
Ever since the day you said goodbye and walked away with someone new
I can't be happy I just sit and cry I'll never get over loving you
I have always been so happy with your love I've been true I'll swear by stars above
Now you tell me you and I are through but I'll never get over loving you
[ steel ]
No one else could ever take your place I've tried going out with one or two
But each time I look at them I see your face no I'll never get over loving you
I can't figure out just what it is I've done did I ever make you cry or make you blue
But it be you found someone you think that you could never get over loving too
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8.
HOLDIN' ON
(Lee Emerson)
« © '65 Golden West Melodies, BMI »
Holdin' on barely holdin' on I know if I led off you'll be gone
----- that's holdin' you here
And I'm just barely barely holdin' on
I never will forget that feelin'
You said love is gone you were leavin'
The hands on the clock quit going around
And I was in the water going down
Holdin' on barely holdin' on...
[ steel ]
Now every hour brings you closer to goin'
And I already feel the hurt of growin'
You're gonna leave that mighty lonely girl
How much longer can I hold you in my world
Cause I'm just holdin' on...
Yeah I'm just barely barely holdin' on
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9.
NOBODY BUT A FOOL (WOULD LOVE YOU)
(Bill Anderson)
« © '65 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Nobody but a fool would love you after the way you've done me
Broke every vow you made me broke every rule
Who'd lie awake all night cryin' till you were out of sight
Loving you with all of her might nobody but a fool
I don't know what it was that made me trust you like I did
Stars got in my eyes or either rocks got in my head
All I knew was your two lips kissed me heavenly
Till yesterday those tender lips kissed goodbye to me
Nobody but a fool would love you...
[ steel ]
Well people tried to tell me how you'd hurt me I suppose
But I was blind as any bat and deaf as any post
You clawed me like a tiger I loved you like a lamb
And knowing I still do just shows me up for what I am
Cause nobody but a fool would love...
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10.
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
(Bill Anderson - Moneen Carpenter)
« © '65 Johnny Bienstock Music, BMI »
The wedding bells have barely stopped their ringing
But already all your love for me is gone
On the day that we were wed well I guess we should have said
For better or for worse but not for long
Now my dream of love has turned into a nightmare
For you say that in your life I don't belong
You said your vows I said mine but we both left out one line
For better or for worse but not for long
[ steel ]
All the lifetime that we planned has been a short one
And the love that couldn't die did not live long
I wanted you eternaly but you only wanted me
For better or for worse but not for long
For better or for worse but not for long
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11.
WILL THE REAL ME PLEASE STOP CRYING
(Bob Tubert)
« © '65 Vintage Music, BMI »
Will the real me please stop crying and let me let me forget
There are three faces that I wear the first says I don't care
The second one knows he's lying
The third one hide the heart that's been broken all apart
Will the real me please stop crying
Will the real me please stop crying lonely lonely tears of regret
Will the real me please stop crying and let me let me forget
[ steel ]
All three faces belong to me but there's one that no one sees
All of them know his love's dying
Two of them want to lie but the other just wants to cry
Will the real me please stop crying
Will the real me please stop crying...
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12.
IF YOU WON'T TELL ON ME
(Dallas Frazier)
« © '65 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Ol' heart the way our true love has been doin'
Just rips and tears my pride right half in two
I know you're just as much ashamed as I am
So if you won't tell on me I won't tell on you
Let's not breathe a word or they'll start saying
There they go the world's two greatest fools
Ol' heart there's not one doubt that we're both crazy
So if you won't tell on me I won't tell on you
[ steel ]
Ol' heart I hope that no one will discover
The foolish things that his love made us do
We'd prob'ly have to pack and leave the country
So if you won't tell on me I won't tell on you
Let's not breathe a word...
No if you won't tell on me I won't tell on you
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