CONNIE SMITH
SOUL OF COUNTRY MUSIC
RCA Victor LSP-3889December/1967
Produced by Bob Ferguson
Ray Edenton, Earl Porter, Lamar Watkins - guitarRuss Hicks - steel
Roy Huskey - bass
Buddy Harman - drums
Hargus Pig Robbins - piano
Charles Justice - fiddle
Vocals:
Dorothy Dillard, Priscilla Hubbard, Louis Nunley, William Wright
Recorded:
May 24-26/1967, RCA Victor Studio, Nashville
1.
DON'T KEEP ME LONELY TOO LONG
(Melba Montgomery) « © '66 Glad Music, BMI / Pappy Daily Music, BMI »Life sure gets lonely alone no one to talk to alone
Nights sure get longer since you've gone
Don't keep me lonely too long
I need your arms to hold me and hear you say you need me
Don't let me live on dreams alone
Don't keep me lonely too long
Memories of faithful one so lonely
My tortured heart cries out because it loves and wants you only
Yes I'm too lonely alone afraid of being alone
Without your love I can't go on
Don't keep me lonely too long
Don't keep me lonely too long
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2.
SURELY
(Peggy Whittington) « © '63 Johnny Bienstock Music, BMI »Surely I'm still on your mind just a little bit
Surely there's a mem'ry that you can't forget
How can a love so strong suddenly just fade and die
There must be a reason why darling surely
I wanted very much to make you love me
And I tried every way that I knew how
And I just can't walk away with a mem'ry
When I love you more than ever right now
Surely I'm still on your mind...
Oh there must be a reason why darling surely
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3.
LAST LETTER
(Rex Griffin) « © '39 Anne Rachel Music, ASCAP »Why do you treat me as if I were only a friend
What have I done that has made you so distant and cold
Sometimes I wonder if you'll be contented again
Will you be happy when you are withered and old
I cannot offer you diamonds or mansions so fine
I cannot offer you all of the riches you crave
But if you'll say that you long to forever be mine
Take off the teardrops the heartaches and sorrow you'll save
[ guitar ] When you are weary and tired of another one's gold
When you are lonely then think of this letter my own
Oh but don't try to answer though I've suffered anguish untold
If you don't love me then quite don't you leave me alone
Now as I am writing this letter I think of the past
And all the promises that you are breaking so free
But to this old world I'll soon say my farewells at last
I will be gone when you read this last letter from me
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4.
BURNING BRIDGES
(Walter Scott) « © '57 Broad River Publishing, BMI »Found some letters you wrote me this morning
And they told of the love we once knew
Now they're gone I'd burned them to ashes
Don't want nothing to remind me of you
Burning bridges behind me it's too late to turn back now
Burning bridges behind me all I want is to forget you somehow
Sold the house we once planned together
Said goodbye to the friends we once knew
Then I moved to a faraway city
Trying hard to forget about you
Burning bridges behind me...
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5.
I'M YOUR WOMAN
(Jean Chapel) « © '67 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »When you just walk by me ever so casually
Oh how I long to be just your woman
Just a brush of your lips and my heart jumps and skips
At your slight fingertips I'm your woman
And if you ever take me in your arms real tight
For a moment I'll feel wrong to be feeling so right
And if you ever kiss me a hungry goodnight
I'll be too weak to fight I'm your woman
Like a rose in full bloom sending out sweet perfume
I know you're in the room without looking
I've been wildly upset since the moment we met
You won't let me forget I'm a woman
And if you ever take me in your arms real tight...
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6.
THERE GOES MY EVERYTHING
(Dallas Frazier) « © '65 Husky Music, BMI / Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »I hear footsteps slowly walking
As they gently walk across the lonely floor
And a voice is softly saying
Darling this will be goodbye forever more
There goes my reason for living
There goes the one of my dreams
There goes my only possesion
There goes my everything
As my mem'ry turns back the pages
I can see the happy years we had before
And the love that kept this old heart beating
Has been shattered by the closing of a door
There goes my reason for living...
There goes my only possesion there goes my everything
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7.
IT ONLY HURTS FOR A LITTLE WHILE
(Mack David - Fred Spielman) « © '56 September Music, ASCAP / PolyGram Int, ASCAP »It only hurts for a little while
That's what they tell me that's what they say
It only hurts for a little while
Then all your heartaches will fade away
It's so easy to be smart with somebody else's heart
But I don't know how to start forgetting you what can I do
Oh it only hurts for a little while
That's what they tell me just wait and see
My heart will break till you come back to me
[ fiddle - guitar ] My heart will break till you come back to me
(It only hurts for a little while)
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8.
FAMILY BIBLE
(Paul Buskirk - Claude Gray - Walt Breeland) « © '60 Glad Music, BMI / Pappy Daily Music, BMI »There's a family Bible on the table
Its pages worn and hard to read
But the family Bible on the table
Will ever be my key to memory
At the end of day when work was over
And when the evening meal was done
Dad would read to us from the family Bible
And we'd count our many blessings one by one
I can see us sittin' round the table
As from the family Bible dad would read
I can hear my mother softly singing
Rock of ages rock of ages cleft for me
[ piano ] This old world of ours is full of troubles
This old world would also better be
If we have more Bibles on the tables
And mothers singing rock of ages cleft for me
I can see us sittin' round the table...
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9.
IF TEARDROPS WERE SILVER
(Don Wayne) « © '60 Tree Publishing, BMI »If heartaches were laughter then I'd be a clown
If loneliness was happiness I could sure spread some round
If hurting was like heaven there'd be no wings like mine
If teardrops were silver oh how I'd shine
If loving you was good for me I'd be the picture of health
And if missing you was riches I'd own the world and all its wealth
And if wanting you was wisdom I'd be the wisest and then
I'd know why I'd lost you and could win your love again
But hurting's not heaven it's more like someplace else
But hurting is the one thing that I do so well
Yes if heartaches were funny I could laugh all the time
And if teardrops were silver oh how I'd shine
If teardrops were silver oh how I'd shine
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10.
WALK THROUGH THIS WORLD WITH ME
(Sandy Seamons - Kaye Savage) « © '67 Glad Music, BMI / Pappy Daily Music, BMI »Walk through this world with me go where I go
Share all my dreams with me I need you so
In life we search and some of us find
I've looked for you a long long time
And now that I found you new horizons I see
Come take my hand and walk through this world with me
[ guitar ] Walk through this world with me go where I go
Share all my dreams with me I've searched for you so
And now that I found you new horizons I see
Come take my hand and walk through this world with me
Come take my hand and walk through this world with me
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11.
IT'S SUCH A PRETTY WORLD TODAY
(Dale Noe) « © '66 Freeway Music, BMI »It's such a pretty world today look at the sunshine
And every day's the same since I met you
It's such a pretty world today knowing that you're mine
And happinsess is being close to you
And though the rain may fall our skies will all be blue
If I look close enough the sun would come shining through
It's such a pretty world today look at the sunshine
Today and every day since I met you
[ steel - fiddle ] It's such a pretty world today...
And though the rain may fall...
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12.
TOUCH MY HEART
(Johnny Paycheck - Aubrey Mayhew) « © '66 Dream City Music, BMI »Touch my heart feel the hurt it's destroying me
I've tried but I can't seem to shake his memory
Touch my heart feel the hurt the pain and misery
And tell me again what love can do for me
If you lived in my world a while you'd soon forget how to smile
In my world there's a million ways to cry
If you had my eyes you could see how someone changed my destiny
I'm a girl who can't live and yet can't die
Touch my heart feel the hurt...
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