lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

CURE FOR THE BLUES

(Hank Snow) « © '70 Hank Snow Music, BMI »
I've got a sort of lowdown feeling a sickness that is hard to describe
It ain't no use to call a doctor cause the cure I know he couldn't prescribe
Day by day I'm gradually failin' guess it's just a matter of time
It's started in my mind and infected my heart
Baby when you said goodbye
[ piano ] I thought that I was slowly improvin' when the tears began to dry
Then I passed you on the corner and it took the rainbow out of my sky
So baby won't you hear my pleadin' your love would really pull me through
It would heal my troubled mind leave these heartaches behind
Cause you're the only cure for the blues
[ guitar ] I strolled beside that muddy Mississippi and as the evening sun sank low
That naggin' deep inside said jump boy but the longin' in my heart said no
I guess that I'll continue on a walking and maybe Lady Luck will come through
Then contentment I will find in my troublesome mind
Cause baby you're the cure for the blues
Cause baby you're the cure for the blues
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2.

ATLANTIC COASTAL LINE

(Mel Tillis - Fred Burch) « © '65 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
Everybody calls me bo I got no money but I hold my row
Some folks say I'm just a no good guy
But I can ride for miles in old boxcar smoke cigarettes butts and used cigars
Ridin' the Atlantic Coastal Line

Hear that lonesome whistle whine smell that perfume of Georgia pines
See that big moon roll above this hobo's life is a life I love
Ridin' the Atlantic Coastal Line ridin' the Atlantic Coastal Line
[ piano ] Well I had me a woman in Albany but a rowdy way's made a wreck of me
And I had to get away before I lost my mind
But as long as this rattler takes me around there ain't one woman gonna tie me down
Ridin' the Atlantic Coastal Line

Hear that lonesome whistle whine Alabama and Caroline
Florida Georgia Tennessee a hobo's life is a life for me
Ridin' the Atlantic Coastal Line ridin' the Atlantic Coastal Line
[ guitar ] I make my coffee in a can but this bo ain't worried man
Morning sun greets me with the shine
I go south when the trade winds blow and I go north where there ain't no snow
Ridin' the Atlantic Coastal Line

Hear that lonesome whistle whine smell that perfume of Georgia pines
See that big moon roll above this hobo's life is a life I love
Ridin' the Atlantic Coastal Line ridin' the Atlantic Coastal Line
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3.

CRYING TIME

(Buck Owens) « © '64 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Oh it's crying time again you're gonna leave me
I can see that faraway look in your eyes
I can tell by the way you hold me darling
That it won't be long before it's crying time

Now they say that absence makes the heart grow fonder
And that tears are only rain to make love grow
For my love for you could never grow no stronger
If I live to be a hundred years old

(Oh it's crying time again you're gonna leave me
I can see that faraway look in your eyes
I can tell by the way you hold me darling
That it won't be long before it's crying time) [ guitar ] **********

4.

I AIN'T BEEN ANYWHERE

(Gerry Butler - Geoff Mack) « © '67 Unichappell Music, BMI »
I was sittin' at home just a listenin' to my radio
An' along came a fella who apparently had been on the go
Well he started in a braggin' bout everywhere he'd been
And there isn't any place in this whole world he hasn't seen
You ask me where I've been and I'm a going to tell you Pard
Why I ain't even been outside the gate in my backyard

I ain't been anywhere Joe ain't been anywhere Joe
I didn't want to go so I guess I'll never know Joe
An old stick in the mud Bud I ain't been anywhere

I ain't seen London Paris Washington Chicago
Bombay Mandalay Calgary Cashmere
Thailand Ireland Iceland Greenland
Halifax Poland Switzerland Scotland
Liverpool Dry Gulch Tombstone Moscow
Carlsbad Leningrad Stalingrad too bad

I ain't been anywhere Joe ain't been anywhere Joe...

Siam Amsterdam Oslo Rotterdam
Birmingham Tokyo Melbourne Saigon
Trinidad Hong Kong Florida Reykjavik
Copenhagen Berlin Congo Key West
Petersburg Wallisburg Cherbourg Luxemburg
Chalush Toronto Cripple Creek I'm sick

I ain't been anywhere Joe ain't been anywhere Joe...

Kumquat Limerick Inverness Loch Ness
Swansea Cuanda Colombo Gold Coast
Edinburgh Singapore Galveston Okinawa
Blarney Killarney Karachi Pyongyang
Warsaw Tarancon Down Libya
Goose Bay Labrador Outer Space no place

I ain't been anywhere Joe ain't been anywhere Joe...

Ohio Toledo Wexford Frankfurt
Silverton Norfolk Alamo Sabula
Brighton Kiowa Denmark Dover
Chalis Rio Lima Philippines
Hebrides Hawaii Portland Cleveland
Leipzig Laramie Horsehair nowhere

I ain't been anywhere Joe ain't been anywhere Joe...

Wait a minute Horsehair why doggone it that's my hometown
So I guess I must'a been there huh
I ain't been anywhere
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5.

ROME WASN'T BUILT IN A DAY

(Yvonne Devaney) « © '67 Hank's Music, BMI / Tennessee Music, BMI »
Fallin' in love is still something quiet strange to my heart
This is the first time for me and I'm new at the part
So my love if I say it I do little things I don't mean to say or do
Remember I love you and I'll make it all up to you

Darlin' Rome wasn't built in a day
Amoure nonroman enjourno
Love that's true grows with each passing day
Amoure nonroman enjourno
[ guitar ] If ever a dark cloud surrounds us to darken the blue
Remember the sunshine of our love will come shinin' through
Into life rain must fall and it falls just as sure as the rain falls from above
Bringin' the roses and thorns to the spring of our love

Darlin' Rome wasn't built in a day...
Amoure nonroman enjourno
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6.

COME THE MORNING

(Dick Feller) « © '70 Ensign Music, BMI »
I sit upon the bed in my rented room and watch
The broken shadows from the street lights playing tag upon the wall
Down the street a neon light is reaching out to mock the night
And all the little fears that darkness brings

The smoke of my last cigarette still hangs upon the air and yet
I reach to light another from the pack that's nearly gone
And the dawn seems a million miles away but all the while

Down in the trainyard the graveyard shift had just come on
And turned their ragged collars against the drizzling rain
Back and forth the yard engine goes about the pulling out
The railroad cars that soon will be making up the train
That's gonna be come the morning

I wonder if I ever cross the mind of someone that I might have learned to love
Had I ever chose to try
Or did she fail to think about me in the lonely nights without me
Was she the last to care if I should live or die

I've been a nameless ghost that rides the empty wave of memory
In the dark deserted closets of the mind of someone else
And now I'm a ghost unto myself but still I know

And now I cross the room and stand before the open window
And reach out to touch the rain that's slowly falling on my hand
The pavement hot and cold below looks back at me and seems to know
It ends without a tear without a smile

And in those last brief seconds could it be I was mistaken
Or did I hear a voice somewhere that softly called my name
Or was it just a whistle of a train for all the while

Down in the trainyard the graveyard shift had just gone home
To hang their clothes to dry them bar their doors against the rain
The yard engine breathe a sigh Then pulls a last grey coal car by
Then moves aside to look with pride Upon the new born train
That I won't take come the morning

I wonder if I ever cross the mind of someone that I might have learned to love
Had I ever chose to try
Or did she fail to think about me in the lonely nights without me
Was she the last to care if I should live or die
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7.

I WISH IT WAS MINE

(Bill Anderson) « © '63 Johnny Bienstock Music, BMI »
Somewhere a telephone is ringing right now
Someone's old sweetheart is on the line
She's calling to patch up an old love affair
Oh I wish it was mine

Somebody's writing a letter right now
And saying Lawd oh I was blind
Somebody's darling longs to come home
Oh I wish it was mine

But you never write me and you never phone
There's somebody else on your mind
And somebody's heart is glad you don't love me
Oh I wish it was mine
[ guitar ] But you never write me and you never phone...
(Oh I wish it was mine) **********

8.

I'M MOVIN'

(Les Pouliot) « © '69 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
I've been movin' I've been movin'

Down a dusty road along the railroad line
In the spring fall winter and the summertime
Cross the river and the creek and the mounted peak
In the alley in the valley every day of the week
I've been movin' I've been movin'

Standin' by the road with my thumb in the air
I got dust on my face and dirt in my hair
A beer truck stops and I get in the back
Mith a load of booze sittin' on a gunney sack
Mighty dry and so I broke a keg and drained it dry
The driver stopped and threw me off man I could barely walk
But I'm movin yes I'm movin'

Down a dusty road along the railroad line
In the spring fall winter and the summertime
Cross the river and the creek and the mounted peak
In the valley in the alley every day of the week
I'm movin' I keep movin'
And I'll keep movin' till I'm movin' on off my mind

Well I'm walkin' twenty miles to the nearest hick town
I got holes in my socks and my shoes broken down
In a coffee shop there everybody stares
Order up a meal that could choke a millionaire
Eat the food taste good I'm done better run
No dough better go before the sheriff comes
I'm movin' I keep movin'

Down a dusty road along the railroad line
In the spring fall winter and the summertime
Cross the river and the creek and the mounted peak
In the alley in the valley every day of the week
I keep movin' I keep movin'
And I'll keep movin' till I move it on off my mind

Well back on the road with my thumb held high
I'm hopin' some chick will come and give me a ride
I'll show her I'm a hot stud here she comes
A rich chick who gets her kicks from highway thumbs
I climb on we're gone winin' and dinin'
I con fifty bucks and leave the next one a cryin'
I'm movin' yes I'm movin'

Down a dusty road along the railroad line...
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9.

GO WITH MY HEART

(Yvonne Devaney) « © '69 Country Classics Music, BMI »
He will never love you more than I do darling
He will never need you more than I do darling
But as long as fate decrees that we must part
Go with my blessings darling go with my heart

Your happiness means all the world to me
And if you love him so and you wanna go my love I'll set you free
But he will never love you more than I do darling
He will never need you more than I do darling
Now that you have torn my only world apart
Go with my blessings darling go with my heart
[ guitar ] He will never love you more...
Go with my blessings darling go with my heart
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10.

SILVER RAILS

(Jack Newman) « © '64 Unichappell Music, BMI »
I'm free as a man can be this is the life for me
Go when I want do or I don't no worries and troubles for me
A newspaper for my bed no naggin' woman bangin' my head
I'm free as the breeze and I go when I please
Silver rails keep me free silver rails keep me free

When I find a place I don't like when I find the things ain't right
An old freight train will be waiting to set me free
Silver rails keep me free silver rails keep me free
[ guitar - steel ] I follow that old sunshine ain't nothing I've left behind
I'm walking it slow always ready to go I don't get far from that line
At night I get my sleep that's all I ever need
I hear the whistle call and it's goodbye to you all
Silver rails keep me free silver rails keep me free

When I find a place I don't like...
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