lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

WHERE HAS ALL THE LOVE GONE

(Chuck Glaser) «© '66 Ensign Music, BMI »
In a small country town when the flowers were in bloom I found her
Oh more beautiful love I know there's never been
In a great big city all alone I tried to forget her
And I keep asking myself over and over again

Where has all the love gone where has all the love gone
Where has all the love gone it's gone I only know it's gone
[ fiddle - guitar ] On the soft sound of breeze we would drift on our cloud toward tomorrow
As we stare at the world through a window of rose colored pane
Now I stare at a jungle of concrete surrounded by sorrow
And I keep asking myself over and over again

Where has all the love gone...
It's gone I only know it's gone
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2.

BREAK MY MIND

(John D. Loudermilk) «© '66 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Baby oh baby tell the man at the ticket stand that you've changed your mind
Let me run on out and tell the cab to keep his meter flyin'
Cause if you say goodbye to me babe you're gonna break my mind

Break my mind break my mind
No I just can't stand to hear them big jet engines whine
Break my mind break my mind oh Lord
If you leave you're gonna leave a babblin' fool behind
[ piano - guitar ] Baby oh baby let me take your suitcase off of the scales in time
Tell the man that you've suddenly developed a thing about flyin'
Cause if you say goodbye to me babe you're gonna break my mind

Break my mind break my mind
If you leave you're gonna leave a babblin' fool behind
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3.

SWEET DREAMS

(Don Gibson) «© '55 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Sweet dreams of you every night I go through
Why can't I forget you and start my life anew
Instead of having sweet dreams about you

You don't love me it's plain
I should know you'll never wear my name
I should hate you the whole night through
Instead of having sweet dreams about you
[ steel - guitar ] Sweet dreams of you...
Instead of having sweet dreams about you
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4.

IF I EVER GET BACK TO GEORGIA

(Baker Knight) «© '67 Unichappell Music, BMI »
Well the wind blows cold in New York City along about the middle of now
And I'm telling you I'd be a happy man if I could get away somehow
Cause I'm growing old before my time finally I see the light
But if it costs a dime to get around the world I couldn't get out of sight

But if I ever get back to Georgia there'll be no messin' around
If I ever get back to Georgia I'm gonna nail my feet to the ground
[ guitar ] Well the buildings here in New York City grow so doggone tall
Sometimes you can walk for a couple of days and never see the sun at all
So I left last night I was homeward bound now I wanna sit and I cry
Cause I stuck out my thumb till my thumb got numb and the cars went right on by

But if I ever get back to Georgia...
[ piano ] Well I guess my time in New York City hasn't been a total waste
Cause I met a little girl from a social world and really put her in her place
When she sold me half of the Brooklyn Bridge I hung around just for spite
And I played this part till I won her heart and I bought the other half last night

But if I ever get back to Georgia...
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5.

GENTLE ON MY MIND

(John Hartford) «© '67 Ensign Music, BMI »
It's knowing that your door is always open and your path is free to walk
That makes me tend to leave my sleepin' bag rolled up and stashed behind your couch
And it's knowin' I'm not shacked by forgotten words and bons
And the ink stains that have dried upon some line
That keeps you in the back roads by the rivers of my mem'ry
That keeps you ever gentle on my mind

It's not clinging to the rocks and I'd be planted on their columns now that binds me
Or somethin' that somebody said because they thought we fit together walking
It's just knowin' that the world will not be cursin' or forgivin'
When I walk along some railroad track and find
That you're moving on the back roads by the rivers of my mem'ry
And for hours you're just gentle on my mind

Though the wheet fields and the clothes lines
And the junk yards and the highways come between us
And some other woman's cryin' to her mother cause she turned and I was gone
I still run in silence tears of joy might stain my face
And summer sun might burn me till I'm blind
But not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the back roads
By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind

I dipped my cup of soap back from a gurgling crackling caltron in some train yard
My beard a roughen coal pile and a dirty hat pulled low across my face
Through cupped hands round a tin can I pretend I hold you to my breast and find
That you're waving from the back roads by the rivers of my mem'ry
Ever smiling ever gentle on my mind
That you're waving from the back roads by the rivers of my mem'ry
Ever smiling ever gentle on my mind
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6.

LIKE A BIRD (SPREAD MY WINGS AND FLY)

(Larry Kingston) «© '68 Careers Music, BMI »
You look so pretty lying there with dreamland's smile upon your face
Your golden curls in disarray upon your starched white pillow case
The soft blue satin covers pulled up tight around your lovely throat
It almost makes me want to go destroy the message on the note

The note I left upon your perfumed stationary by the phone
I hate to think about you waking up at dawn to find me gone
It hurts me so to get up in the middle of the night and go
But thinking back I do remember faintly that I told you so

I told you I was like a bird a free and wild and restless thing
And even though I take a mate and build a nest in early spring
When summer winds have had their day and winter clouds are flying high
Instinctively I spread my wings and fly

I only know that I must go and nothing here must hold me back
I like the love you gave me and the tender way you scratched my back
I like your warm sweet kisses and the way you cook your ham and eggs
I like the way the suntan lotion softened up your lovely legs

I like the static noise I heard when you would sit and brush your hair
The way you gave yourself to me and never asked to go nowhere
But most of all I like the way you always smiled and never frowned
The way you took this chance for love and took me just for what I am
I told you I was like a bird...

And now my darling as I leave I fight the yearning in my blood
To wake you up and love you just once more before I go for good
But somehow I am fighting back my passion for I cannot stay
And someday you'll look back and know the best it ended up this way

I told you I was like a bird...
I fly I fly I fly
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7.

NAME OF THE GAME WAS LOVE

(Cy Coben) «© '69 Delmore Music, ASCAP »
While lookin' through my jewelry drawer beneath some papers there I saw
An address book I'd kept throughout the years
It listed all the girls on it friends my list sure has grown
Each name brings back the laughter and the tears
There were girls that I'd romance with girls that I had dance with
Some whose face that I just can't recall
There were girls I kissed and lied to some I couldn't though I tried to
The name of the game was love and I played it with them all

There was Mary Martha Diana Eva Josie Hannah Anna Sally Beth and Rosie
Bonnie Connie Susan and Cindy you get Claudette Emma and Mindy
Janett Gina Ingrid or a Bessie Florance Fanny surely were fantasy
Francie Nora Alice even Dolly Gertie Gretchen Carmelita and Molly
Girls of every nation each one a new temptation
They were great I sure had a ball
They were girls that I had courted girls whose marriage plans I hoarded
The name of the game was love and I played it with them all

There was Betty Ann Carol and Yuanita Cora Dora Grace and Rosilita
Mory Margie Lisa Katie Dottie Lottie Lynn and a Sadie
Henrietta Mabel Jane and a Alice Daisy Maizie Mona and Cecilia
Lois Liza Laura and Leona Vida Vee Louisa and Ramona
Penny Janice Silvia Elmira Etta Gretta Louise or Mira
Merle and Perle and Leorial and Denise Doris Picta Julia and Amy
Frances Flora Dontie even Trudy Barbara Ethel Ellen is a beauty
Katie Camden and Athenalina Georgia Clara Alba and Ema
Iris Elise Dorothy and Hilda Olga Donna Lulu Bella Gilda
Eunice Phoebe Ida and a Eda and I loved them all
And I loved them all
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8.

HONEY

(Bobby Russell) «© '68 PolyGram Int, ASCAP »
See the tree how big it's grown but friends it hasn't been too long
It wasn't big
I laughed at her and she got mad the first day that she planted it
Was just a twig
Then the first snow came and she ran out to brush the snow away
So it wouldn't die
Came running in all excited slipped and almost hurt herself
And I laughed till I cried
She was always young at heart kinda dumb and kinda smart
And I loved her so
I surprised her with a puppy kept me up all Christmas Eve
Two years ago
And it would sure embarrass her when I came home from working late
Cause I would know
That she'd been sitting there and crying
Over some sad and silly late late show
And honey I miss you and I'm being good
And I'd love to be with you if only I could

She wrecked the car and she was sad so afraid that I'd be mad
But what the heck
Though I pretended hard to be guess you could say she saw through me
And hugged my neck
I came home unexpectedly and found her crying needlessly
In the middle of the day
And it was in the early spring when flowers bloom and robins sing
She went away
And honey I miss you and I'm being good
And I'd love to be with you if only I could

Yes one day while I wasn't home while she was there and all alone
The angels came
Now all I have is memories of honey and I wake up nights
And call her name
Now my life's an empty stage where honey lived and honey played
And love grew up
A small cloud passes overhead and cries down on the flower bed
Where honey loved
And honey I miss you and I'm being good
And I'd love to be with you if only I could
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9.

OH LONESOME ME

(Don Gibson) «© '58 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Well everybody's goin' out and havin' fun
I'm just a fool for staying home and havin' none
I can't get over how she set set me free oh lonesome me

A bad mistake I'm making by just hanging round
I know that I should have some fun and paint the town
A lovesick fool is blind and just can't see oh lonesome me

I'll bet she's not like me she's out and fancy free
Flirting with the boys with all her charms
But I still love her so and brother don't you know
I'd welcome her right back here in my arms

Well there must be some way I can lose these lonesome blues
Forget about the past and find somebody new
I've thought of everything from A to Z oh lonesome me
[ piano - guitar ] I'll bet she's not like me...
Oh lonesome me oh lonesome me
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10.

I REALLY DON'T WANT TO KNOW

(Don Robertson - Howard Barnes) «© '53 Anne Rachel Music, ASCAP »
How many arms have held you and hated to let you go
How many how many I wonder but I really don't want to know
How many lips have kissed you and set your soul aglow
How many how many I wonder but I really don't want to know

So always make me wonder always make me guess
And even if I ask you darling don't confess
Just let it remain me your secret but darling I love you so
No wonder no wonder I wonder no I really don't want to know
[ guitar ] So always make me wonder...
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11.

GREEN GREEN GREEN

(Blaine Smith - Reg Cooper) «© '69 Ensign Music, BMI »
Walking with my honey down by the water
Green green green
Spring is in the air but we're doin' what we order
I'm just a poor boy she's the banker's daughter
Green green green

Nights are warm and sun is in the valley
Green green green
Nights are warm and sun is in the valley
Warm and sweet were kisses from my Sally
Green gren green

Love made us warm and we really shouldn't tarry
Green green green
Love made us warm and we really shouldn't tarry
Cause she's only seventeen and not allowed to marry
Green green green
[ guitar ] I went to the banker ask him for his daughter
Green green green
I went to the banker ask him for his daughter
He flew into a rage and he said I couldn't court he
Green green green

The leaves're fallin' and where is my honey
Gold gold gold
The leaves're fallin' and where is my honey
Curse on that banker and curse on his money
Gold gold gold

Snow is fallin' on the sun and valley
Gone gone gone
Snow is fallin' on the sun and valley
I'm worried and sick for my darlin' Sally
Gone gone gone
[ guitar ] They pull her body from the freezing water
Cold cold cold
They pull her body from the freeing water
There beneath the tree lay our baby daughter
Cold cold cold

Digging two graves down by the water
Green green green
Digging two graves down by the water
One for my true love one for baby daughter
Green green green
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