lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

I'M MOVIN' ON

(Hank Snow) «© '50 Unichappell Music, BMI »
That big eight wheeler rollin' down the track
Means your true lovin' daddy ain't comin' back
Cause I'm movin' on I'll soon be gone
You were flyin' too high for my little old sky so I'm movin' on
That big loud whistle as it blew and blew
Said hello to the Southland we're comin' to you
And we're movin' on oh hear my song
You had the laugh on me so I've set you free and I'm movin' on
[ fiddle ] Mister fireman won't you please listen to me
Cause I got a pretty mama in Tennessee
Keep movin' me on keep rollin' on
So shovel the coal let this rattle a roll and keep movin' me on
Mister engineer take that throttle in hand
This rattler's the fastest in the southern land
To keep movin' me on keep rollin' on
You're gonna ease my mind put me there on time and keep rollin' on
[ guitar ] I told you baby from time to time
But you just wouldn't listen or pay me no mind
Now I'm movin' on I'll soon be gone
You've broken your vow and it's all over now so I'm movin' on
You switched your engine now I ain't got time
For a trifling woman on my main line
Cause I'm movin' on I'm rollin' on
I've warned you twice now you can settle the price cause I'm movin' on
[ steel ] But some day baby when you've had your play
You're gonna want your daddy but your daddy will say
Keep movin' on you stayed away too long
I'm through with you too bad you're blue keep movin' on
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2.

DOWN THE TRAIL OF ACHIN' HEARTS

(Jimmy Kennedy - Nat Simon) «© '51 Chappell & Co, ASCAP »
[ with Anita Carter ]
Down the trail of achin' hearts where nobody's hidin' their tears
You sent me there where sadness starts down the trail of achin' hearts

You told me I was your darling you kept me hanging around
Somebody else is your darling so lonesome and blue I'll be found
Down the trail of achin' hearts...
[ steel ] Once I was passing your window under the light of a star
Somebody else played my love song and played it on my old guitar
Down the trail of achin' hearts...
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3.

RHUMBA BOOGIE

(Hank Snow) «© '52 Unichappell Music, BMI »
Well come all you children give a listen to me
Let me tell you bout a new boogie beat
There's no hesitation and it's sweepin' the nation
It's the Rhumba Boogie down the South American way

While Madame Lozonga was teachin' La Conga
In her little cabana in old Habana
We were doing the Charleston and Ballin' the Jack
Then that old black bottom till they started the Jitterbug rag

Then across the water came Cuban Pete
He started the boogie to the Rhumba beat
It's the Rhumba Boogie let's give it a whirl
While he plays the Boogie in the South American style
[ guitar ] Well you step out together then you circle around
Count one two three then put your right foot down
Then you circle your lady as you swing and you sway
To the Rhumba Boogie in the South American way

When that old piano it starts to ring
Everybody then starts to sing
To the Rhumba Boogie done the tropical style
It's the Rhumba Boogie and they're doin' it all of the while

Well the guy responsible for leadin' the band
Yells do you stuff it's the best in the land
It's the Rhumba Boogie let's dance it a while
To the boogie woogie done the Rhumba Cuban all style
[ guitar ] While Madame Lozonga was teachin' La Conga
In her little cabana in old Habana
The folks in old Mexico where doin' the tango
And we were steppin' to the rhythm of an old guitar

Till across the water came Cuban Pete
He started to boogie to the Rhumba beat
It's the Rhumba Boogie let's dance it a while
To the Rhumba Boogie done the Rhumba Cuban all style
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4.

BLUEBIRD ISLAND

(Hank Snow) «© '51 Unichappell Music, BMI »
[ with Anita Carter ]
My ship set sail to Bluebird Island and slowly drifted out to sea
Her silver sails to cross the ocean my lover's lonely heart set free

Then out across the waves the blusbirds came one day
Out o'er the silver sea your message brought to me
To sail my ship of love along the moonlit bay
And anchor in the harbor of your heart

The trade winds there on Bluebird Island soon dried her lonely tears away
The treasure eye found broken hearted was locked within my heart to stay
[ fiddle - steel ] The trade winds there on Bluebird Island...
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5.

I DON'T HURT ANYMORE

(Don Robertson - Jack Rollins) «© '53 Anne Rachel Music, ASCAP »
It don't hurt anymore all my teardrops are dried
No more walking the floor with that burning inside
Just to think it could be time has opened the door
And at last I am free I don't hurt anymore

No use to deny I wanted to die the day you said we were through
But now that I find you're out of my mind I can't believe that it's true
And I've forgotten somehow that I cared so before
And it's wonderful now I don't hurt anymore
[ fiddle - guitar ] No use to deny I wanted to die...
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6.

(NOW AND THEN THERE'S A) FOOL SUCH AS I

(Bill Trader) «© '52 MCA Music, ASCAP »
Pardon me if I'm sentimental when we say goodbye
Don't be angry with me should I cry
When you're gone yet I'll dream a little dream as years go by
Now and then there's a fool such as I

Now and then there's a fool such as I am over you
You taught me how to love and now you say that we are through
I'm a fool but I'll love you dear until the day I die
Now and then there's a fool such as I
[ fiddle - guitar ] Now and then there's a fool...
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7.

GOLDEN ROCKET

(Hank Snow) «© '50 Unichappell Music, BMI »
From old Montana down to Alabama
I've been before and I'll travel again
You triflin' women can't keep a good man down
You dealt the cards but you missed a play
So hit the road and be on your way
Gonna board the Golden Rocket and leave this town

I was a good engine a runnin' on time
But baby I'm switchin' to another line
So honey never hang your signal out for me
I'm tired of runnin' on the same old track
Bought a one way ticket and I won't be back
This Golden Rocket's gonna blow my blues away
[ guitar ] Hear that lonesome whistle blow
That's your cue and now you know
That I got another true love waitin' in Tennessee
This midnight special is a burnin' the rails
So woman don't try to follow my tail
This Golden Rocket's gonna blow my blues away

Hear her thunder on through the night
This Golden Rocket is doin' me right
And that sunny southland sure is a part of me
Now from your call board earse my name
Your fire went out you done lost your flames
And this Golden Rockets is rollin' my blues away
[ fiddle ] That old conductor he seemed to know
You done me wrong I was feelin' low
For he yelled aloud we're over that Dixon Line
The brakeman started singin' a song
Said you're worried now but it won't be long
This Golden Rocket is leavin' your blues behind
[ guitar ] Then the porter yelled with his southern drawl
Let's rise and shine good mornin' ya all
And I sprang to my feet to greed the new born day
When I kissed my baby at the station door
That whistle blew like it never before
Of the Golden Rocket that rolled my blues away
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8.

UNWANTED SIGN UPON YOUR HEART

(Hank Snow) «© '50 Unichappell Music, BMI »
I'm a wanderer I'll keep drifting on
Can't see honey why you done me wrong
Hard luck's sure has got me I can't sleep a wink
I'll just have to face it from now on
Sailing on the sea of dreams no one cares for me
And we're drifting oh so far apart
You slam the door of love on me and found a new daddy I could see
By that unwanted sign upon your heart
[ fiddle ] Seems like I'm always on the losing end
Your little game of love was just pretend
I have learned the hard way it was plain to see
You were nothing more than just a friend
Never thought you'd treat me so I can't understand
Why you had to tear my world apart
Let me everything to lose and along with the mean old blues
That Unwanted sign upon your heart
[ steel - fiddle ] Maybe someday that old tide will turn
And you're ship will drift on back to me
Then I'll be the captain you will be the crew
You know how it feels to sit and yearn
You may think you're doing fine and the world is yours
But you played an unfair game to start
When you learn that love is blind you'll come back but then you'll find
That unwanted sign upon my heart
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9.

MUSIC MAKIN' MAMA FROM MEMPHIS

(Hank Snow) «© '51 Unichappell Music, BMI »
Listen to a story bout a gal I know
She's my music makin' mama I'm her hillbilly beau
She's sweeter than the music when she tickles the strings
Sweeter than the flowers down in New Orleans
She's my music makin' mama from Memphis Tennessee

She'll play a little rhythm do the boogie up right
The Tennessee polka maybe blues in the night
Everybody travels from near and far
To hear her when she swings it on her old guitar
She's my music makin' mama from Memphis Tennessee
[ guitar ] You can hear her in the evening when the sun sinks low
A singin' and a pickin' on her old banjo
You gotta jive when the words roll out of her mouth
Everybody's callin' her the Queen of the South
She's my fiddle playin' mama from Memphis Tennessee
[ fiddle ] You gotta start dancin' when she gets in the groove
Plays the big bass fiddle or she'll yodel the blues
She plays a down beat an off beat any old beat
A breakdown a hoedown and does it up neat
She's my bass pickin' baby from Memphis Tennessee
[ bass ] You'll know when my baby is a comin' to town
All the jive jumpin' jitterbugs they gather around
They keep yellin' to my queenie now honey let's go
My baby starts a pickin' and a pickin' down low
My music makin' mama from Memphis Tennessee
[ guitar ] She'll play a little rhythm do the boogie up right
The Tennessee polka maybe blues in the night
Everybody travels from near and far
To hear her when she picks it on her old guitar
She's my music makin' mama from Memphis Tennessee
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10.

MARRIAGE VOW

(Jenny Lou Carson) «© '49 Unichappell Music, BMI »
Do you take this woman to be your dear wife
Do you vow to love her the rest of your life
And will you protect her and honor her name
Oh don't cause her heartaches and don't bring her shame

Share with her in powerty with her in wealth
For richer for poorer through sickness and health
All these things the Parson did ask me and then
I whispered I do and I'd do it again
[ steel - fiddle ] For I really love her the one I call wife
And I'll go on caring the rest of my life
I'd die to protect her and she'd do the same
I'd cut off my tongue before I'd bring her shame

We may be in powerty may not have wealth
But we stick together through sickness and health
I'll always be thankful till my life is done
That two little words made us both into one
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11.

GAL WHO INVENTED KISSIN'

(Charles Orr - Earl Griswold) «© '52 Unichappell Music, BMI »
I loved a gal who invented kissin' I don't recall her name
But I do believe that gal should sit high up in the hall of fame
Until she came along just think what we were missin'
That's why today I'm shoutin' hooray for the gal who invented kissin'

She thought the fellows how to smooth instead of holdin' hands
And she showed them how to steel a kiss like they do in foreign land
Until she came along just think what they were missin'
Loved was very nice but as cold as ice to that gal who invented kissin'
[ guitar ] She showed the girls how pucker up and roll their pretty eyes
And she showed them how to kiss hello and how to kiss goodbye
Until she came along just think what they were missin'
They could only cook or read a book till that gal who invented kissin'

Mr Edison he invented the lights Mr Bell the telephone
And Columbus found America their names're all well known
But till she came along this world had somethin' missin'
And I'm tellin' you there was nothin' to do till that gal invented kissin'
[ guitar ] She ever knows how to kiss so fire and how to kiss goodnight
On every kind of hug and kiss she holds a copy rhyme
And if I had my wish the only thing I'm wishin'
Is to make a date and stay out late with the gal who invented kissin'
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12.

WITH THIS RING I THEE WED

(Jack Rollins - Steve Nelson) «© '50 Anne Rachel Music, ASCAP »
With this ring I Thee wed an angel here beside me
Just a moment more and heaven will be mine
With this ring I Thee wed as every dream inside me
Comes true each time I hear the church bells chime

This little band of gold I hold will soon be on your finger
A kiss a vow a moment so divine
With this ring I Thee wed and now you're mine forever
To have and hold until the end of time
[ steel ] With our hearts tied as one we'll leave the church together
Together as we know we'll always be
In a life just began this day will live forever
Like blossoms in a treasured memory

Your big bouquet may fade away but as the years go by dear
I'll take your hand and say each day anew
With this ring I Thee wed I vow I love you truly
And everyday you hear me say I do
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