lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

HOW LONG DOES IT HURT (WHEN A HEART BREAKS)

(Virginia Midgett - D.W. Orinich)
« © '61 Central Songs, BMI »
How long does it hurt when a heart breaks
How long can you stand the pain
How long does one grieve when a dream die
And only the mem'ries remain

It seems it must take forever
To forget a love you once knew
How long does it hurt when a heart breaks
How long must my heart ache for you
[ guitar ] How long does it hurt when a heart breaks
Oh how many tears must fall
Before one is free from the chains
Of a love that's beyond all recall

I keep saying soon I'll forget you
But somehow I never do
How long does it hurt when a heart breaks
As long as I keep lovin' you
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2.

LEAVE ME ALONE

(Wayne P. Walker)
« © '61 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI / Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
I don't want you anymore I found somebody new
I don't believe I'll take another chance on lovin' you
I have found the sweetest love that I have ever known
So do me a favor and leave me alone

If you pass us on the street don't stop and say hello
He might guess that you were once the one that I loved so
I have found in him a love that you have never shown
So do me a favor and leave me alone

Do me a favor leave me alone
Give me this second chance the first one's gone

What's the use of holding on to a love of yesterday
You're only holding on to heartaches that might go away
Find yourself somebody new I did while you were gone
So do me a favor and leave me alone
[ steel ] Do me a favor leave me alone...
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3.

GO ON WITH YOUR DANCING

(Jack Rhodes)
« © '61 Central Songs, BMI »
Go on with your dancin' go on have your fun
You've hurt me the last time the damage is done
When I saw you kiss her my heart felt the sting
So go on with your dancin' and don't change a thing

Where there's tinkle of glasses and sparkle of wine
You've met her out here now just one too many times
The kiss you were stealin' you thought you could hide
But go on with your dancin' and I'll step aside
[ guitar + steel ] Go on with your dancin' and laugh with your crowd
I lost you to bright lights and music so loud
I wish I could kiss you just one last goodbye
But go on with your dancin' it's no time to cry

Where there's tinkle of glasses and sparkle of wine...
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4.

I DON'T REMEMBER

(Marijohn Wilkin)
« © '61 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
I don't remember much about him that's the lie I tell my heart
When I hear his name I'm not to blame if lonesome heartaches start
I don't remember how I loved him when my dreams came to an end
If a teardrop falls it's just because a memory slipped in

I can't recall the way I cried when he made me second choice
I don't remember how I tried to erase the sound of his voice
I'd like to make myself believe this I know that lyin' is a sin
So each night I pray I'll see the day I don't remember him
[ piano - steel ] I can't recall the way I cried...
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5.

ARE YOU CERTAIN

(Bennie Benjamin - Sol Marcus)
« © '58 Bennie Benjamin Music, ASCAP »
Are you certain when you say you care
Do you love me with some love to spare
I'm gonna ease right out of a one sided love affair
So be certain when you say you care

Are you certain will your lips be true
Do you need me just as I need you
Don't wanna lose my heart and wind up all alone and blue
So be certain that your lips are true

Are you certain you see only me
There's no other no new love can be
Say I'm the only one or I'll freeze and stay clear and free
So be certain you see only me
So be certain you see only me
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6.

WOULD YOU BE SATISFIED

(Johnny Mullins)
« © '56 Warden Music, BMI »
I'm just someone who's all alone in a cold and empty home
You're far away and yet you're still here by my side
You're dreamin' now of bygone years of honky tonks and bubblin' beers
If you were free and could go back there would you be satisfied

Cause on the day we were wed you vowed to face the road ahead
But now you're living in the past that should have died
Now if your life you could renew do the things you used to do
But didn't have my love to turn to would you be satisfied
[ steel ] Each evenin' when the sun goes down you yearn to go out on the town
I can see it in the gaze you try to hide
Those honky tonkin' memories are haunting you constantly
My dear if they should steal you from me would you be satisfied

You know that I have never asked about your dark and sinful past
I've always loved you and I've stayed right by your side
But now if fate should take your hand and lead you down that road again
To all those honky tonks you danced in would you be satisfied
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7.

SO WRONG SO FAST

(Frankie Walcher)
« © '61 Beechwood Music, BMI »
As I sit here alone and in silence reliving each day of the past
I'm searching my life for one answer how things went so wrong so fast

Don't tell me that it is all over for if I was wrong in the past
I'll help build a brand new tomorrow that won't go so wrong so fast
[ guitar ] We lived ev'ry day for each other no love was more certain to last
But somewhere and somehow it wavered then things went so wrong so fast

The little mistakes we'd forgotten the careless remarks that were cast
All came back in one angry moment and things went so wrong so fast

Don't tell me that it is all over...
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8.

SECOND BEST

(Marie Wilson)
« © '61 Johnny Bienstock Music, BMI »
I know you'll never love me the way I love you
And I'll always be second best to you
But in my heart I'd rather have just part of you
Than all of someone else for there's no one else like you

I'd rather be the second one you've loved than not to know
This feeling that I get each time you let me hold you close
And anything to keep you with me I would do
I'm glad that I can be second best to you
[ steel ] If it's wrong to worship you then wrong I'll be
No one else can do the things you do to me
And just what little time that you can spend with me
Means more than all the rest though I'm only second best

I'd rather be the second one...
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9.

I LOST YOU AFTER ALL

(Ira Louvin - Helen Carter)
« © '56 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
I should have known you'd never changed that you were havin' fun
And in your chain of broken hearts I only counted one
Those unkind things you'd say and do I doubt if you recall
I never did complain to you but I lost you after all

Too much faith in promises made so carelessly
Proves a trusting heart can break from lovin' recklessly
I loved you more than anything that love I can't recall
I even wore your wedding ring but I lost you after all
[ steel ] Too much faith in promises made so carelessly...
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10.

I'D LIKE TO KNOW (WHERE PEOPLE GO)

(Vic McAlpin - Roy Drusky)
« © '60 Johnny Bienstock Music, BMI »
The lights are low the teardrops flow mis'ry is complete
I'd like to know where people go when they leave lonely street

Could there be such a place where you hurt too much to cry
Where broken hearts can never mend and are left alone to die

I loved him so that's why I go where blues and mem'ries meet
I'd like to know where people go when they leave lonely street
[ piano ] Could there be such a place where you hurt too much to cry...
I'd like to know where people go when they leave lonely street
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11.

IF YOU WERE LOSING HIM TO ME

(Helen Carter - June Carter)
« © '61 Tree Publishing, BMI »
You say I'm bein' selfish cause I won't set him free
But once I've given him to you what is left for me
You say that he don't love me right now that may be true
But if you were losing him to me I wonder what you'd do

If you were losin' ev'rything that made your world go around
Would you hang on till he forgot the other love he'd found
Or would you freely let him go the way you want me to
If you were losin' him to me I wonder what you'd do
[ guitar ] You've had your stolen moments but how can they compare
With the many ups and downs that we have had to share
I want him to be happy even if it means with you
But if you were losing him to me I wonder what you'd do

If you were losin' everythin' that made your world go around...
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12.

JEALOUS HEART

(Jenny Lou Carson)
« © '49 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Jealous heart oh jealous heart stop beating
Can't you see the damage you have done
You have driven him away forever
Jealous heart now I'm the lonely one

I was part of ev'rything he planned for
And I know he loved me at the start
Now he hates the sight of all I stand for
All because of you oh jealous heart

You have filled my conscience full of sorrow
For I know he never was untrue
Jealous heart why did you make him hate me
Now there's nothin' left but jealous you

Many times I trusted you to guide me
But your guiding only brought me tears
Why oh why must I have you inside me
Jealous heart for all my lonely years

Jealous heart why did I let you rule me
When I knew the end would bring me pain
Now he's gone he's gone and found another
Oh I'll never see my love again

Through the years his memory will haunt me
Even though we're many miles apart
It's so hard to know he'll never want me
Cause he heard your beating jealous heart
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