lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

LOVE'S GONNA LIVE HERE

(Buck Owens) « © '64 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Oh the sun's gonna shine in my life once more
Love's gonna live here again
Things're gonna be the way they were before
Love's gonna live here again

Love's gonna live here love's gonna live here
Love's gonna live here again
No more loneliness only happiness
Love's gonna live here again
[ fiddle ] I hear bells a ringin' I hear birds a singin'
Love's gonna live here again
I hear bees a hummin' and I know the days're comin'
Love's gonna live here again

Love's gonna live here love's gonna live here...
[ guitar - steel ] Love's gonna live here love's gonna live here...
Love's gonna live here again
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2.

WALK THROUGH THIS WORLD WITH ME

(Sandy Seamons - Kaye Savage) « © '66 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
[ piano ] 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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3.

I'D LOVE TO LAY YOU DOWN

(Fred Aylor McRae) « © '80 Music City Music, ASCAP »
There's a lot of ways of sayin' what I want to say to you
There's songs and poems and promises and dreams that might come true
But I won't talk of starry skies or moonlight on the ground
I'll come right out and tell you I'd just love to lay you down

Lay you down and softly whisper pretty love words in your ear
Lay you down and tell you all the things a woman loves to hear
And I'll let you know how much it means just having you around
Oh darling how I'd love to lay you down

There's so many ways your sweet love's made this house into a home
You've got a way of doin' little things that turn me on
Like standing in the kitchen in your faded cotton gown
With your hair all up in curlers I'd still love to lay you down

Lay you down and softly whisper pretty love words in your ear...

When a whole lot of Decembers are showin' in your face
Your auburn hair has faded and silver takes its place
You'll be just as lovely and I'll still be around
And if I can I know that I'd still love to lay you down

Lay you down and softly whisper pretty love words in your ear...
Lay you down and softly whisper pretty love words in your ear...
Oh darling how I'd love to lay you down
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4.

A-11

(Hank Cochran) « © '63 Tree Publishing, BMI »
I just came in here from force of habit
I don't intend to spend too much time in here
But I saw you headin' for the jukebox
And if you play A-11 there's gonna be tears

I don't know you from Adam but if you're gonna play the jukebox
Please don't play A-11
[ steel ] This used to be our favorite nightspot
And when she was here it was heaven
It was here that she told me that she loved me
And we always played A-11

I don't know you from Adam...
[ fiddle - guitar ] I don't know you from Adam...
No please don't play A-11
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5.

LONG BLACK VEIL

(Marijohn Wilkin - Danny Dill) « © '59 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
Ten years ago on a cold dark night
A man was killed neath the town hall light
There was a few at the scene and they all did agree
The man who ran looked a lot like me

Well the judge said son what is your alibi
If you were somewhere else then you won't have to die
But I spoke not a word though it meant my life
I had been in the arms of my best friend's wife

She walks these hills in a long black veil
And visits my grave when the night winds wail
Nobody knows nobody sees nobody knows but me
[ harmonica ] Well the scaffold was high and eternity's near
She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear
But sometimes at night when the cold winds blow
In a long black veil Lord she cries over my bones

She walks these hills in a long black veil...
Nobody knows nobody sees nobody knows but me
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6.

KAY

(Hank Mills) « © '68 Johnny Bienstock Music, BMI »
Kay with all your singing talent back in Houston Nashville's all you talked about
I sold everything I owned to bring you here now you'll be famous there's no doubt
Last week you knocked 'em out in New York tonight Chicago's going wild
Your record on the jukebox don't sound bad
Kay I'm living yet I'm dying staring out at Music City from my cab

Caution lights blink out their warning some old Big Ben clock chimes three a.m.
Starving hound dogs search the trash can my gas tank could use ten dollars worth again
All the potholes here on Main Street jar my rib cage I can cuss
The crowd of nightlife people look so sad
Kay I'm living yet I'm dying staring out at Music City from my cab

Two young soldiers from Fort Campbell told me how they won the war in Afghanistan
Sirens echoed through an alley and some woman said somebody stabbed a man
I rushed Miss Teenage to the doctor she begged to give the child my name
I can't count the cups of coffee that I've had
Kay I'm living yet I'm dying staring out at Music City from my cab

Three rose petals on my front seat fallen from the bouquet Jimmy took to June
Jim kept mumbling through his teardrops God she'll leave this world with flowers in her room
Kay I showed some drunk your picture and he made the smart remark
I hit him in the mouth for was I mad
Kay I'm living yet I'm dying staring out at Music City from my cab

Fiddles steel guitars and pianos how they play
Grinding out the latest sounds from Music City USA
Kay although I know I've brought you to the swinging music world
I miss pictures of those happy times we've had
Kay I'm living yet I'm dying staring out at Music City from my cab
Kay I'm living yet I'm dying staring out at Music City from my cab
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7.

THAT'S WHY I SING THIS WAY

(Max D. Barnes) « © '02 Sixteen Stars Music, BMI / Max D Barnes Songs, BMI »
My mama used to tell me son you better get your work done your daddy's coming home at five
And if you ain't all thru with the chores you gotta do boy I'm gonna tan you alive
I was glued to the radio listenin' to my hero singing those sad old songs
Singing them sadder than a one car funeral nobody sings like Jones

I'd take that old kitchen broom up to my room and I'd play it like an old guitar
Or sit out on the porch tryin' to sing like George dreamin' of becoming a star
Well things I never did when I was just a kid made me what I am today
See mama used to whoop me with a George Jones album that's why I sing this way
[ guitar ] So I ended up in Nashville working at a saw mill just to be close to the stars
I got a little broke but I couldn't ask my folks so I had to hock my old guitar
I still hang around Tootsie's Orchid Lounge thinking he'll walk through that door
But a voice in my mind says you wasting your time cause George don't drink no more

I used to take that old broom up to my room and I played it like an old guitar
Or sit out on the porch trying to sing like George dreaming of becoming a star
Well things I never did when I was just a kid made what I am today
You see mama used to whoop me with a George Jones album that's why I sing this way
[ harmonica - fiddle ] Well things I never did when I was just a kid made me what I am today
You see mama used to whoop me with a George Jones album that's why I sing this way
Mama used to whoop me with a George Jones album that's why I sing this way
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8.

I NEVER GO AROUND MIRRORS

(Lefty Frizzell - Sanger D. Shafer) « © '73 Peer International, BMI / Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
I can't stand to see a good man go to waste
One who never combs his hair or shaves his face
A man who leans on wine over love that's told a lie
Oh it tears me up to see a grown man cry

So I never go around mirrors
I can't stand to see me without you by my side
No I never go around mirrors
All because I've got a heartache to hide
[ steel ] I can't stant to be where heartaches hang around
It's so easy for the blues to get me down
To see a grown man crawl is more than I can stand
Now I can't look into the eyes of half a man

So I never go around mirrors...
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9.

DIM LIGHTS THICK SMOKE (AND LOUD LOUD MUSIC)

(Joe Maphis - Max Fidler - Rose Lee Maphis) « © '52 Maphis Music, BMI »
Dim lights thick smoke and loud loud music
It's the only kind of life you'll never understand
Dim lights thick smoke and loud loud music
You'll never make a wife to a home loving man

Drinking and dancing to a honky tonk band
Is the only kind of life you'll ever understand
Go on and have your fun you think you've played it smart
I feel sorry for you and your honky tonk heart

Dim lights thick smoke and loud loud music...
[ steel - guitar ] A home and little children means nothing to you
A house filled with love and the husband so true
You'd rather have a drink with the first man you'll meet
The only home you'll know is the bar down the street

Dim lights thick smoke and loud loud music...
No you'll never make a wife to a home loving man
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10.

MAKE UP AND FADED BLUE JEANS

(Merle Haggard) « © '81 Tree Publishing, BMI »
In downtown Modesto I was workin' the Holiday Inn
I would stick with a gig that would last us throughout the weekend
I was singin' a new song I'd wrote on the way into town
When she came in the front door and found her a place to sit down

I knew right away she like the words to my song
Cause she stared at my big guitar and followed my fingers too long
And she had the likeness of a girl I'd seen in a dream
But lights can do wonders with make up and faded blue jeans

And the last thing I needed was somebody messin' up my mind
So I found a hundred reasons for turnin' away one more time
She could cause me to sing bad and fall out of love with guitar
And blow all my chances at bein' a big singin' star

With one passing glance I could tell she was young for her age
Oh she got to looking better as she got down closer to the stage
And as she sipped on her wine I could tell just the kind she would be
And somehow I knew she was here to the bad things to me

And the last thing I needed was somebody messin' up my mind...

She could cause me to sing bad and fall out of love with guitar
And blow all my chances at bein' a big singin' star
And blow all my chances at bein' a country music star
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11.

AFTER THE FIRE IS GONE

(L.E. White) « © '69 Tree Publishing, BMI »
[ with Rhonda Vincent ]
Love is where you find it when you find no love at home
And there's nothing cold as ashes after the fire is gone

The bottle is almost empty the clock just now struck ten
Darling I had to call you to our favorite place again
We know it's wrong for us to meet but the fire's gone out at home
And there's nothing cold as ashes after the fire is gone

Love is where you find it...
[ steel ] Your lips are warm and tender your arms hold me just right
Sweet words of love you remember that the one at home forgot
Each time we say it's last time oh but we keep hanging on
And there's nothing cold as ashes after the fire is gone

Love is where you find it...
No there's nothing cold as ashes after the fire is gone
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12.

OLD VIOLIN

(Johnny Paycheck) « © '86 Dwight Manners Music, BMI / Hilstan Music, BMI »
I can't recall one time in my life
I've felt as lonely as I do tonight
I feel like I could lay down and get up no more
It's the damndest feeling I never felt it before

Tonight I feel like an old violin
Soon to be put away and never played again
Don't ask me why I feel like this I can't say
I only wish this feeling would just go away

I guess it's cause the truth is the hardest thing I ever faced
Cause you can't change the truth in the slightest way cause I tried
So I asked myself where'd you go from here
Then like a damned fool I turned around and looked in the mirror
And there I was seein' an old violin
Soon to be put away and never played again

So one more time just to be sure
I asked myself where in the world do you go from here
And there was a nickel worth of difference when I looked in the mirror
Cuse there I was seein' an old violin
Soon to be put away and never played again

And just like that it hit me that old violin and I were just alike
We'd give our all to country music and soon we'd give our life
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