CONNIE SMITH
SUNSHINE AND RAIN
RCA Victor LSP-4077October/1968
Produced by Bob Ferguson
1.
NATCHILLY AIN'T NO GOOD
(Jerry Reed Hubbard) « © '68 Vector Music, BMI / Sixteen Stars Music, BMI »Some people are born with a set of values honest and fair
But you were born with a streak of mean and you natchilly don't care
To the eyes of the world our love must look like one funny joke
Cause you never made one vow to me that you ain't already broke
Yes you just natchilly ain't no good boy you just natchilly ain't no good
Yes your mama and your daddy didn't raise you like they should
Well your heart is stone and your soul is black and you're as mean as sin could be
No you ain't no good to yourself or nobody and you're that way natchilly
[ horns ] The eyes of love are blind I hear that's what some fella wrote
But I can close my eyes and smell that perfume on your coat
Now I could scream and pitch a fit start fussin' and lose my cool
But you'd just laugh and look at me honey like I'm some kind of fool
Yes you just natchilly ain't no good...
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2.
DEEPENING SNOW
(Harlan Howard) « © '64 Tree Publishing, BMI »It's snowing out there in the gloaming
I've sat here and watched it all night
The kids will be thrilled when they awaken
And look at the fields deep and white
But the snow makes me think of my darling
For he hated the snow and the cold
Now he lies in a grave back in Knoxville
With a headstone that's just one year old
Won't you please make the winter go quick Lord
So the flowers around him can grow
For I can't stand the thought of my darling
Lying there in the deepening snow
[ ac.guitar ] Little Jimmy climbs up on my knee now
Says mommie what causes the snow
And I tell the wonderful father
Who cares for us all here below
Then I hold him so close and I kiss him
And he kissing back doesn't know
That my kiss is meant for his daddy
Lying there in the deepening snow
Won't you please make the winter...
Lying there in the deepening snow
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3.
YOU ARE GONE
(Johnny Carver) « © '68 Tree Publishing, BMI »Everywhere I go everyone I know
Seems to remind me that you are gone
Nothing that I do is the same without you
It just reminds me that you are gone
Can someone see how I cry
Does anyone care if I live or die
Everytime I find love it's the same not real love
It just reminds me that you are gone
[ guitar ] It just reminds me that you are gone
Can someone see how I cry...
It just reminds me that you are gone
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4.
HURT GOES ON
(Sheb Wooley) « © '68 Channel Music, ASCAP »I suppose I'll get over you in time
And I hope it's before I lose my mind
All the pleasure in my life is gone
And the hurt goes on the hurt goes on
If your mem'ry ever haunts you about me
Then you'll know how this feeling feels inside me
I can't stop it your mem'ry's all I own
And the hurt goes on the hurt goes on
[ steel ] If your mem'ry ever haunts you about me...
And the hurt goes on the hurt goes on
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5.
TO CHICAGO WITH LOVE
(Harlan Howard) « © '68 Tree Publishing, BMI »He said there's no future back here in these hills
His mind grew so restless he couldn't be still
Though I knew I might lose him and all I dreamed of
Still I send my baby to Chicago with love
Big city don't hurt him don't change him I pray
Keep him the same sweet boy as when he went away
He'll never know how often I pray to God above
To send down his blessings to Chicago with love
Well I just got his first letter
He's got a job and things are looking fine
He keeps sorry he didn't write me before
But he just didn't have a time
He says I've got a lotta new friends now honey
The Chicago sure is a swinging place
And by the way I just got married
And I'll be bringing in home with me one of these days
Big city don't hurt him...
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6.
GENTLE ON MY MIND
(John Hartford) « © '67 Ensign Music, BMI »It's knowing you don't try to bind my freedom with some promise made of gold
That for you my door stays open and our love becomes a simple to A street
And it's knowing we're not shacked by forgotten words and bons
And the ink stains that have dried upon some line
That keeps you on the back roads by the rivers of my mem'ry
That keeps you ever gentle on my mind
It's not clinging to the rocks and I'd be planted on their columns now that bind us
Or something that somebody said because they thought we fit together walking
It's just knowin' that the world will not be cursin' or forgivin'
When I'm driftin' through the market place and find
That you're moving on the back roads by the rivers of my mem'ry
And for hours you're just gentle on my mind
[ guitar ] Though the wheet fields and the clothes lines
And the junk yards and the highways come between us
And some other woman cryin' to her mother cause she turned and you were gone
I still might walk for hours tears of joy might stain my face
And a summer sun might burn me till I'm blind
But not to where I cannot see you movin' on the back roads
By the rivers flowin' gentle on my mind
The shadows freek in the autumn winds that make me draw inside myself in silence
Cross legged now I sit and watch the endless chase of leaves across my yard
And laying down my hair brush I lean back within my window seat and find
That you're moving on the back roads by the rivers of my mem'ry
Evrer smiling ever gentle on my mind
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7.
ONLY MAMA THAT'LL WALK THE LINE
(Ivy J. Bryant) « © '67 Central Songs, BMI »Won't you tell me if you can what's the matter with a man
When he starts a stayin' out all night
He's been a steppin' outta line and a messin' off my mind
And don't you know that that ain't right
Cause ever since I was a little bitty teeny girl
He thought he was the only man in this whole world
But now he bettter do some thinkin' and then he'll find
He's got the only mama that'll walk the line
While I'm working every day all he wants do is play
And I'm gettin' tired of bein' here alone
And I'm a comin' unglued from his funny little moods
When he finally come a dragging home
Cause ever since I was a little bitty teeny girl...
[ guitar ] I keep a packin' up my clothes but everybody knows
That I'm really just a puttin' him on
Now when I start a walking after when you'll hear him squawking
And a begging me to come back home
Cause ever since I was a little bitty teeny girl...
He's got the only mama that'll walk the line
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8.
HEARTBREAK AVENUE
(Mel Foree) « © '51 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »I'm alone in a house made of sorrow
And each room is haunted with you
Should the end of the world come tomorrow
I'll be waiting on Heartbreak Avenue
I scatter all our promises behind me
There's no use to hope that they'll come true
But if you change your mind you can find me
I'll be waiting on Heartbreak Avenue
I was warned that some day you'd desert me
And I'd wake up and find that we were through
They all told me that you'd only hurt me
And I'd end up on Heartbreak Avenue
Someday you may understand this yearning
When somebody does the same to you
Then when deep in your heart there's a burning
We'll be neighbors on Heartbreak Avenue
We'll be neighbors on Heartbreak Avenue
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9.
WHAT MAKES A MAN WANDER
(Harlan Howard) « © '58 Bramble Music, BMI »Why do you like to roam if you've got so much love at home
What makes a man wander what makes a man wander
The whistle of a train does something to your brain
What makes a man wander what makes a man wander
I know you love me as much as you ever could love anyone
Yet you're still gone
You come back and you vow that you settle down now
Then you're gone with the dawn
Why do you like to roam if you've got so much love at home
What makes a man wander what makes a man wander
[ harmonica ] I know you love me as much...
Why do you like to roam...
What makes a man wander what makes a man roam
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10.
SUNDOWN ON MY MIND
(Dallas Frazier) « © '68 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »I wish that I could find the way to make my yesterdays
Pack up and find themselves another home
I don't like to live with everything that's gone
When my lovin' lost its flavor and you wanted sweeter wine
How come you let your mem'ries here behind
They're with me from the dawn until the sundown on my mind
You're with me when the robin sings an early morning song
You're with me in the sunshine all day long
Your mem'ry's always with me when the Sandman knocks upon my door
And whispers it's a dreamin' time
You're with me from the dawn until the sundown on my mind
[ harmonica ] I've heard them say a heartache's nothin' more than just a mem'ry
They say the hurt will leave when I'll forget
But I can't stop remembering you yet
If broken hearts were able to turn back the hands of time
I think I'd be the first to stand in line
You're with me from the dawn until the sundown on my mind
You're with me when the robin sings...
You're with me from the dawn until the sundown on my mind
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11.
HOW MUCH LONELIER CAN LONELY BE
(Dallas Frazier) « © '68 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »(How much lonelier can lonely be)
In my world there's no green grass or roses
And the rainbow in the sky is grey to me
There's no letter in the mailbox from my baby
Well how much lonelier can lonely be
When a robin sings to me he sounds unhappy
And the smile is something I no longer see
I can't even hear a little baby laughing
Well how much lonelier can lonely be
I forsake my very last possession
If I could live one yesterday with you
Without you in my arms my world is empty
And cold without the warm love we once knew
Sunrise finds me staring at the ceiling
And crying cause the hurt won't let me sleep
Every day without you grows more lonely
But how much lonelier can lonely be
But how much lonelier can lonely be
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12.
JUST A LITTLE SUNSHINE IN THE RAIN
(Ricci Mareno) « © '68 Music City Music, ASCAP »Like a wond'rous dream that ends with dawn
Your love touched my heart then you were gone
Though I couldn't keep you for my own
You're the only happiness I've known
You're the one who taught me how to smile
Your love brightened up my world awhile
Warm and tender darling you remain
Just a little sunshine in the rain
You're the one who taught me...
Just a little sunshine in the rain
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