lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

RAINBOW IN DADDY'S EYES

(Dallas Frazier - Sanger D. Shafer) « © '73 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
On a cold and grey October day our family moved away
From a thirty acre farm in Tennessee
And the part for me in the schoolhouse play would have to wait
On a rainbow that only daddy would ever see

That was when my mama started praying
Lord let him dream but make him realize
That dreams won't feed the children that we're raisin' today
Oh Lord take the rainbow from his eyes

Well even after I grew older we kept waitin' for the home
That daddy kept on building in his mind
And on the day he passed away he took my mama's hand
And said honey I can make it just give me time

Jesus I pray that you'll forgive him
For dreaming away my mama's life
And Lord if there's a rainbow up in heaven today
Please Lord let it shine in my daddy's eyes
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2.

MY CRICKET AND ME

(Leon Russell) « © '73 Embassy Music, BMI / Songs Of The Knoll, BMI »
I was just thinking about you today
And your leavin's left me a memory
But I cannot get through to you find words to say
To you darling we're so far away

Oh no I ain't crying these ain't tears in my eyes
I'm so happy I'm dying with laughter
Buck if you'd just come back over now I know that you'll see
We're not lonesome my cricket and me

Your picture reminds me I wanted to be free
I hurt you I throw you away
But if you'd just come over now I know that you'll see
We ain't lonesome my cricket and me
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3.

MANHATTAN KANSAS

(Joe Allen) « © '72 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Manhattan Kansas ain't no place to have a baby
If you got no man to give it his last name
And my folks back in Manhattan didn't want me or her bundle
So I took my child and caught an evening train

I got a job in Denver washing dishes in a diner
At least it buys my baby milk to drink
He once told me I was pretty but the only ring it got me
Is the ring of grease that runs around the sink

Yes I laid beside him gentle cause he told me that he loved me
And he made me dance before the music played
But at least I didn't beg him I'd rather wash my dishes
It makes me feel as if my hands're clean

At night I stands there thinkin' bout the men back home in Kansas
And how my folks just turned away ashamed
I look down through the soap suds reache down and pulls the drain plug
And watches as Manhattan drains away
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4.

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 pleased when they awaken
And see all the fields snowy white
But the snow makes me think of my darling
Cause 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

Oh please make the winter go quick Lord
So the flowers around him will grow
Cause I can't stand the thought of my darling
Lying there in the deepening snow
[ steel ] Little Bobby climbs up on my knee now
And says mommie what causes snow
And I tell of the wonderful father
Who watches us all here below
And then I hold him so close and I kiss him
And he kissin' back doesn't know
That my kiss was meant for his daddy
Lying there in the deepening snow

Oh please make the winter go quick Lord...
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5.

BIRMINGHAM MISTAKE

(Gene Dobbins - Johnny Wilson - Tony Austin) « © '73 Zodiac Music, ASCAP »
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6.

NEVER BEEN TO SPAIN

(Hoyt Axton) « © '72 Irving Music, BMI »
Well I've never been to Spain but I kinda like the music
For the men there are insane and they sure know how to use it
But they don't abuse it I can't refuse it and never gonna lose it

Well I've never been to England but I kinda like the Beatles
Aw I started for Las Vegas I only made it out to Phoenix
Can't you feel it you must believe it but it feels so good

Well I've never been to heaven but I've been to Oklahoma
People tell me I was born there Lord I really don't remember
In Oklahoma or in a coma what does it matter

Well I've never been to Spain but I kinda like the music
For the men they are insane there and they sure know how to use it
They don't abuse it never gonna lose it can't refuse it

Well I've never been to England but I kinda like the Beatles
Oh I headed for Las Vegas I only made it out to Phoenix
Can't you feel it you must believe it but it feels so good

Well I've never been to heaven...
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7.

FADED LOVE

(Bob Wills - John Wills) « © '51 Anne Rachel Music, ASCAP »
As I look at the letter that you wrote to me
It's you that I am thinking of
And as I read the lines that to me were so sweet
I remember our faded love

And I miss you darling more and more every day
As heaven would miss the stars above
And with every heartbeat I still think of you
And remember our faded love

As I think of the past and all the pleasures we shared
As I watch the mating of the dove
It was in the springtime when you said goodbye
I remember our faded love

I miss you darling more and more every day...
I remember our faded love
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8.

LAST LETTER

(Rex Griffin) « © '39 Anne Rachel Music, ASCAP »
Why do you treat me as if I were only a friend
What have I done that's made you so distant and cold
But sometimes I wonder if you'll be contented again
Will you be happy when you are withered and old

I cannot offer you diamonds or mansions so fine
And I cannot offer you clothes that your young body craves
But if you'll say that you long to forever be mine
Just think of the teardrops the heartache and misery you'll save

While I am writing this letter I think of the past
And of the promises that you are breaking so free
Son to this old world I'll soon bid my farewell at last
I will be gone when you read this last letter from me
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9.

IT'S NOT EASY

(Sammi Smith) « © '73 Zodiac Music, ASCAP »
It's time to try another goodbye without cryin'
The time to smile when all my dreams are dyin'
To look at your face and say that my place is not for you
That ain't easy to think of you

It's not easy to feel the warmth of your touch
Cause that's where I really wanna be
But your thoughts are so full of yesterday
And there's no room left for me

So I guess I'll go as long as you know I still love you
And there's still a chance that someday you'll look around you
And if you should find that my love's your kind I'll be waitin' here for you
But waitin' ain't the easy thing to do
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10.

CITY OF NEW ORLEANS

(Steve Goodman) « © '69 Jurisdat Music, ASCAP / Turnpike Tom Music, ASCAP »
Ridin' on the City of New Orleans
Illinois Central Monday morning rail
There's fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail

Out on the southbound odyssey the train pulls out of Kankakee
Rolling past houses farms and fields
And passin' towns that have no names and freightyards full of old black men
And the graveyards full of the rusted automobiles

Good mornin' America how are you
I said don't you know me I'm your native son
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
I'll be gone five hubdred miles when the day is done

Dealin' cards with an old man on the club car
Many a point ain't no one keepin' score
Pass that paper bag that holds the bottle
And feel the wheels a rumbling neath the floor

And the sons of poor men porters and the sons of engineers
Ride their father's magic carpet made of steel
And mothers with their babes asleep rockin' to that gentle beat
The rhythm of the rails is all they feel

Good mornin' America how are you...

It's night time on the City of New Orleans
Changin' cars in Memphis Tennessee
A half way home and we'll be there by mornin'
Through the Mississippi darkness rolling down to the sea

But all the towns and cities seem to fade into a bad dream
And the steel rails still ain't heard the news
The conductor sings his songs again the passengers will please refrain
This train have got the disappearing railroad blues

Good mornin' America how are you...
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