lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

BIG MIDNIGHT SPECIAL

(Traditional)
« © '59 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Big midnight special shine your light on me
Big midnight special shine your everlovin' light on me

Woke up this mornin' heard the whistle blow
The jailor said come boy it's time to go

Big midnight special shine your light on me...

I've never had the blues so in my life before
Till my baby left me at the station door

Big midnight special shine your light on me...
[ steel ] They put him in a pullman guard's around his door
Said you off to Atlanta to serve ten years more

Big midnight special...

He looked all around him in the pullman car
Saw the men wearin' top hats smokin' big cigars

Big midnight special shine your light on me...
[ guitar ] Took him off in Atlanta at the end of the line
Said you start servin' time boy for your awful crime

Big midnight special shine your light on me...

That whistle makes me lonesome on the midnight train
But he knows I'm waitin' till it brings him home again

Big midnight special shine your light on me...
Shine your light on me
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2.

BLUES STAY AWAY FROM ME

(Alton Delmore - Wayne Raney - Henry Glover)
« © '49 Fort Knox Music, BMI / Trio Music, BMI »
Blues stay away from me blues why don't you let me be
Don't know why you keep on haunting me
Love was never meant for me true love was never meant for me
Seems somehow we never can agree
Life is full of misery dreams are like a memory
Bringing back your love that used to be
[ piano ] Tears so many I can't see years don't mean a thing to me
Time goes by and still I can't be free
Time goes by and still I can't be free
Time goes by and still I can't be free
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3.

WALTZ OF THE ANGELS

(Jack Rhodes - Dick Reynolds)
« © '55 Central Songs, BMI »
The waltz of the angels I hear each time
I hold you tightly in these arms of mine
Tis surely from heaven this music I hear
When your lips say I love you in waltz time my dear

There must be a power much higher than mine
A writer of love songs way up in the sky
The maker of roses of love sweet and true
And the waltz of the angels the moonlight and you
[ steel ] Oh hurry my darling to my waiting arms
I'll love you forever and keep you from harm
They say love is endless our hearts have been kissed
By the waltz of the angels and far beyond this

There must be a power much higher than mine...
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4.

ANOTHER (JUST LIKE ME)

(Vic McAlpin - Roy Drusky)
« © '60 Johnny Bienstock Music, BMI »
You didn't love me long until the thrill was gone
Then another made me your ol' used to be
How long can her love last when a new wears off so fast
There'll always be another then another then another just like me

Just like me she'll understand the sorrow
Of lovin' you today and losin' you tomorrow
I'd warned her but she'd called it jealousy
So let there be another then another and another just like me
[ steel ] Now you go anywhere for a brand new love affair
Somebody new who thrills you instantly
When the thrill has ceased to chill and from the past I know it will
There'll always be another then another and another just like me

Just like me she'll understands...
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5.

ONE WHITE ROSE

(Shorty Long - Dick Wentzel)
« © '53 Mamy Music, BMI »
We danced in the night dear a night of delight dear
And I gave a white rose to you
But then in the dawn dear the sun found you gone dear
A white rose lay crushed in the dew

His love was a rose tossed away
But what was one rose when you had a bouquet
You laughed at my caring still I go on
Wearing a white rose in my heart for you
[ piano ] His love was a rose cast away...
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6.

I DON'T APOLOGIZE FOR LOVING YOU

(Velma Burns)
« © '60 Unichappell Music, BMI »
We're the pass time of the gossips and it hurts me through and through
For there's saying we don't care just what we do
I turn my head and close my heart to what I know is true
But I don't apologize for lovin' you

I feel guilty when I hold you for another wears your name
And it's wrong for me to do these things to you
Each time I kiss you I am adding fuel to the flame
But I don't apologize for lovin' you
[ steel ] Maybe I have made you sorry from the first day that we met
With all the things I never meant to do
I know that I will pay throughout a lifetime of regret
But I don't apologize for lovin' you

Even when I'm with another you're the one I'm thinkin' of
Just a habit that I have of lovin' you
I'm sorry that the other hearts were broken by our love
But I don't apologize for lovin' you
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7.

UNDER YOUR SPELL AGAIN

(Buck Owens - Dusty Rhodes)
« © '59 Central Songs, BMI »
You've got me under your spell again sayin' those things again
Makin' me believe that you're just mine
You've got me dreaming those dreams again thinkin' those things again
I've got to take you back just one more time

I swore the last time that you let me down
That I wouldn't see you if you came around
But I can't tell my heart what's right or wrong
And I've been so lonely since you've been gone
You've got me under your spell again...
[ steel ] Well ev'rybody tells me that I'm a fool
That I never should have put my faith in you
And way down deep inside I guess I know it's true
But no one else can make me feel the way you do

You've got me under your spell again...
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8.

YOU'RE THE ONLY GOOD THING

(Jack Toombs - Chuck Gregory)
« © '54 Golden West Melodies, BMI »
Are you thinking that I don't care for you
Could it be you believe that I've been untrue
Well listen sweetheart it just cannot be
Cause you're the only good thing that's happened to me

We have our ups and downs like all lovers do
But you know in your heart that I worship you
So don't ever think of setting me free
Cause you're the only good thing that's happened to me
[ piano ] We have our ups and downs...
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9.

GOT YOU ON MY MIND

(Joe Thomas - Howard Biggs)
« © '58 Angle Music, BMI »
Got you on my mind feeling kinda sad and low
Got you on my mind feeling kinda sad and low
Wonderin' where you are wonderin' why you had to go
Tears began to fall ev'rytime I hear your name

Tears began to fall ev'rytime I hear your name
Since you went away nothin' seems to be the same
No matter how I try my heart keeps tellin' me that I can't forget you
If it should ever be that you wanna come back to me gonna let you

Got you on my mind feeling kinda sad and low
Got you on my mind feeling kinda sad and low
Wonderin' where you are wonderin' why you had to go
Wonderin' where you are wonderin' why you had to go
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10.

IF YOU HAVEN'T YOU CAN'T FEEL THE WAY I DO

(Bill Carver)
« © '60 Tannen Music, BMI »
Have you ever lost someone just like I lost you
Have you ever missed someone like I'm missin' you
Have you ever cried the whole night through
If you haven't you can't feel the way that I do

Don't tell me it's silly to sit here and cry you
Can't understand if I want to die
Have you ever lost someone just like I lost you
If you haven't you can't feel the way that I do
[ piano ] Have you ever been cheated like you cheated me
Have you ever been called someone's used to be
Have you ever gone through just what I've gone through
If you haven't you can't feel the way that I do

Don't tell me it's silly to sit here and cry you...
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11.

MOCKIN' BIRD HILL

(Vaughn Horton)
« © '49 Cromwell Music, ASCAP »
When the sun in the mornin' peeps over the hill
And kisses the roses round my window sill
Then my heart fills with gladness when I hear the trill
Of the birds in the treetops on Mockin' Bird Hill

Tra la la twittle dee dee dee it gives me a thrill
To wake up in the mornin' to the mockin' bird's trill
Tra la la twittle dee dee dee there's peace and good will
You're welcome as the flowers on Mockin' Bird Hill

Got a three cornered plow and an acre to till
And a mule that I bought for a ten dollar bill
Got a tumbledown shack and a rusty ol' mill
But it's my home sweet home up on Mockin' Bird Hill

Tra la la twittle dee dee dee it gives me a thrill...
[ piano ] When it's late in the evenin' I climb up the hill
And survey all my kingdom while ev'rything's still
Only me and the sky and an ol' whippoorwill
Singin' songs in the twilight on Mockin' Bird Hill

Tra la la twittle dee dee dee it gives me a thrill...
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12.

COLOR SONG (I LOST MY LOVE)

(Fred Wise - Dewey Bergman - Milton Leeds)
« © '49 Bourne Co, ASCAP »
White's for the wedding that I'll never see
Blue is for heartaches that he gave to me
Green were those two eyes that stole him away
Gray were the dark skies on that tragic day

Black was the gun that I drew from my side
Red flowed the blood as my false lover died
Brown was the earth that they threw on his grave
Yellow the flower that over him wave
[ piano ] Black was the robe on the ole judge that day
White was my face when he said you must pay
Blue are the tears that I shed in my cell
Red are the roses where other folks dwell

Gold was my hair when they first sentenced me
It will be silver when they set me free
Gone is the rainbow that shone up above
Life lost its color when I lost my love
Life lost its color when I lost my love
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