LET'S LIVE A LITTLE
(Columbia CL-1172)
July/1958
Produced by Don Law
Grady Martin, Hank Garland, Samuel Pruett - guitar
Tom Pritchard - bass
Buddy Harman - drums
Floyd Cramer - piano/organ
Vocal accompaninemt by The Anita Kerr Singers
Recorded:
Feb 14/1958, Bradley Film & Recording Studio, Nashville
1.
LET'S LIVE A LITTLE BEFORE WE SAY GOODBYE
(Ruth E. Coletharp)
« © '51 Peer International, BMI »
Take your little lips and kiss me take your little arms and squeeze me
Let's live a little before we say goodbye
I'll draw my money out of the bank I'll buy you roses and pretty things
So let's live a little before we say goodbye
You'll wear a yellow ribbon in your wavy hair
I'll wear the suit you like and a big bowtie
We'll pretend we're happy though we know it's a lie
So let's live a little before we say goodbye
[ guitar ]
You'll be my queen of beauty I'll be proud that you're my cuty
Let's live a little before we say goodbye
Someday our hair will turn grey and we will think of yesterday
So let's live a little before we say goodbye
The band will be playing the waltz just for two
And I will be saying darling I love you
We'll pretend we're happy though we know it's a lie
So let's live a little before we say goodbye
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2.
MR. MOON
(Autry Inman - Shirl Lyn - Carl Smith)
« © '51 Peer International, BMI »
Can I depend on your light pretty moon while I'm holding her tight silver moon
Will you be there above helping me win my love will I see you tonight Mr Moon
Every time you're shinin' there's romance in the air
Reset her heart to pinein' and tell her I'll be there
As I look in her eyes pretty moon will you shine from the sky silver moon
If I ask her who'll be mine will you stand by me
Will I see tonight Mr Moon
(It seems your gold and beauty just makes a perfect night
Somehow it seems my cuties look cuter by your light)
There'll be just us three pretty moon you and her her and me silver moon
For helping our romance I'll thank you in advance
And I'll see you tonight Mr Moon
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3.
NIGHT TRAIN TO MEMPHIS
(Beasley Smith - Marvin Hughes - Owen Bradley)
« © '42 Peer International, BMI »
Take that night train to Memphis take that night train to Memphis
You know how I'm longing to see you
Leave that 3-50-7 and arive at eleven then I'll be shoutin' hallelujah
Hallelujah hallelujah I'll be shoutin' hallelujah all the day
Oh we'll have a jubilee down in Memphis Tennessee
And we'll shout hallelujah all the day
[ piano ]
Take that night train to Memphis take that night train to Memphis
And when you arrive at the station
I'll be right there to meet you I'll be right there to greed you
So don't turn down my invitation
Hallelujah hallelujah...
[ guitar - organ ]
Take that night train to Memphis take that night train to Memphis
Tell that engineer to pull a trottle open
Keep that engine stack a smokin' I'm not kiddin' I'm not jokin'
And I'll soon be with my girl I'm hopin'
Hallelujah hallelujah...
Shoutin' hallelujah all the day
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4.
SLOWLY
(Webb Pierce - Tommy Hill)
« © '52 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
Slowly I'm falling more in love with you
Slowly you're winning a heart that can be true
Now I can't hide my feelings no matter what I do
For slowly I'm falling more in love with you
More and more I need you and want you by my side
More and more I love you as each day passes by
My heart I know you're stealing I hope that you'll be true
But I'm falling more in love with you
(Slowly falling slowly falling slowly falling) more in love with you
Slowly I'm falling...
(Slowly falling slowly falling slowly falling)
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5.
HANG YOUR HEAD IN SHAME
(Fred Rose - Ed G. Nelson - Steve Nelson)
« © '56 Anne Rachel Music, ASCAP »
Don't your conscience ever bother you everytime you hear my name
Tryin' to think of all that I've gone through and hang your head in shame
Someone came along and took my place then you gave me all the blame
You should go somewhere and hide your face and hang your head in shame
[ guitar ]
When you said I was the only one wanted just your little game
Now look back at all the harm you've done and hang your head in shame
You don't miss me since we've been apart I wish that I would say the same
Think of how you broke my trusting heart and hang your head in shame
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6.
BEST YEARS OF YOUR LIFE
(Keith Lloyd)
« © '58 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
(And these will be the best years of your life)
You say your heart is broken that my love was just a token
You say this parting touch you like a knife
But if you let it grieve you your youth would surely leave you
Cause these should be the best years of your life
I know it won't be easy cause your memories are busy
And yet you're still too young for all the strife
So let me tell you like a brother go on out and find another
And these will be the best years of your life
[ guitar ]
You say that taste is bitter because you loved a quitter
But I'm not free to take you for a while
You're lucky that it's over cause somehow you recover
And these will be the best years of your life
I know it won't be easy...
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7.
IF TEARDROPS WERE PENNIES
(Carl Butler)
« © '51 Peer International, BMI »
If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold
I'd have all the riches my pockets would hold
I'd feel oh so wealthy with treasures untold
If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold
An acre of diamonds I'd offered to you
A solid gold mansion an airplane or two
This whole world would be yours to have and to hold
If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold
[ guitar ]
The tears that have fallen won't buy you a thing
The heartaches you've caused me won't pay for a ring
The love that I wanted would not have grown cold
If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold
If teardrops were pennies...
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8.
MORE AND MORE
(Merle Kilgore - Webb Pierce)
« © '54 Unart Catalog, BMI / Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
More and more I'm forgettin' the past more and more I'm livin' at last
Day by day I'm losin' my blues more and more I'm forgettin' bout you
But oh how hard I tried to keep you by my side
And oh how I cried the day we said goodbye
Day by day I'm losin' my blues more and more I'm forgettin' bout you
[ piano ]
More and more I'm forgettin' the past...
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9.
SWEET LITTLE MISS BLUE EYES
(Don Helms - Merle Taylor - C.H. Taube)
« © '58 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
Who makes me forget all the other girls I've met sweet little Miss Blue Eyes
Who's sweeter to me than she really ought to be sweet little Miss Blue Eyes
Little Miss Blue Eyes looks so good I'm gonna bring her to the neighborhood
I'm gonna make every girl in town jealous while she's around
I'm walking the line cause I'm glad that she's mine I'm living in paradise
I know I can't go wrong I'm just stringing along with sweet little Miss Blue Eyes
[ guitar - piano ]
Who stole the stars taken care of my heart she makes me realize
It's love before me and I want to be with sweet little Miss Blue Eyes
Little Miss Blue Eyes looks so good...
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10.
HONKY TONK MAN
(Johnny Horton - Tillman Franks - Howard Hausey)
« © '56 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
Well I'm a honky tonk man and I can't seem to stop
I love to give the girls a whirl to the music of an old jukebox
But when my money's all gone I'm on the telephone
Callin' hey hey mama can your daddy come home
Well I'm living fast and dangerously but I've got plenty of company
When the moon comes up the sun goes down
That's when I want to see the lights of town
Cause I'm a honky tonk man...
[ guitar ]
It takes a purty little gal and a jug of wine
What it takes to make a honky tonk mind
The jukebox a whinin' honky tonk sound
That's when I want to lay my money down
Cause I'm a honky tonk man...
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11.
I LOVE YOU A THOUSAND WAYS
(Lefty Frizzell - Jim Beck)
« © '50 Peer International, BMI / Sure-Fire Music, BMI »
I love you I'll prove it in days to come I swear it's true darling you're the only one
I think of you of the past and all our fun I love you I'll prove it in days to come
You're my darling you've been true I should have been good to you
You're the one that's in my heart while we're apart
I'll be true I'll prove it to you some day I love you in my heart you'll always stay
I've been so blue and lonesome all these days I love you I'll prove it a thousand ways
[ guitar ]
I'll be nice and sweet to you and no more will you be blue
I'll prove I love you every day all kinds of ways
So darling please wait please wait until I'm free
There'll be a change a great change made in me
I'll be true there'll never be a blue day I love you I'll prove it a thousand ways
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12.
I OVERLOOKED AN ORCHID (WHILE SEARCHING FOR A ROSE
(Carl Story - Shirl Lyn - Carl Smith)
« © '50 Peer International, BMI »
The orchid is a flower that blooms so tenderly to thrill the fairest lady of the land
If placed beside a blushing rose the rose would not compare
But how was such as I to understand
I overlooked an orchid while searching for a rose
The orchid that I overlooked was you
The rose that I was searching for has proved to be untrue
The orchid now I find my dear was you
[ guitar ]
The rose has lost its color but the orchid is the same
And I'm alone to face these lonely years
I didn't see the orchid I was looking for a rose
And now I pay the price with bitter tears
Cause I overlooked an orchid...
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