lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

THAT'S YOU AND ME

(Chuck Glaser - Gene Martin) «© '74 Ensign Music, BMI »
Look at you look at me just how different can we be
Day and night wrong and right that's you and me
I love you you love me but we love so differently
Yes and no stay and go that's you and me

You and me we just can't be close to each other
Everything is all mixed up in some way or other
I love you you love me but we love so differently
Black and white day and night that's you and me
[ guitar ] I blame you you blame me and we go on constantly
Round and round up and down that's you and me
I tell you you tell me it's your fault that we disagree
Just the same you're to blame that's you and me

You and me we just can't be close to each other
Everything is all mixed up in some way or other
I tell you you tell me it's your fault that we disagree
But like turtle doves we're still in love that's you and me
Like turtle doves we're so in love that's you and me
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2.

COME LIVE WITH ME

(Boudleaux Bryant - Felice Bryant) «© '73 House Of Bryant, BMI »
Come live with me and be my love share my bread and wine
Be wife to me be life to me be mine
Come live with me and be my love let our dreams combine
Be mate to me be fate to me be mine

With these hands I'll build a roof to shield your head
Yes and with these hands I'll carve the wood for a babybed
Oh come live with me and won't you be my love so I can love you all the time
Be part of me be the heart of me be mine
[ guitar ] I'll try to do my best for you I promise you
And I'll laugh with you and I'll cry with you my whole life through
Oh come live with me and won't you be my love share my bread and wine
Be part of me be the heart of me baby please be mine
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3.

BRAND ON MY HEART

(Hank Snow) «© '50 Hank's Music, BMI »
My troubled old heart dear is beating with pain
You've gone and I know I'm the one who's to blame
You've gone in the world dear to make a new start
And left as a mem'ry you're brand on my heart

They say you were crying while packing your things
And left me your locket and bright golden rings
The plans for your future I've broken apart
Now all I have left is you're brand on my heart

You say you are sorry it ended this way
And that I'll find someone to love me someday
Another to cherrish the love we once knew
But darling that someone can only be you
[ steel ] The flowers you planted that rose you loved best
Its dark velvet petals are now closed in death
The birds have hushed singing it all plays a part
To deepen the wound of you're brand on my heart

I'm appealing to you for forgiveness today
For all of your tears darling I've had to pay
If you'll just forgive me we'll make a new start
And no more will I carry you're brand on my heart
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4.

ONE MINUTE PAST ETERNITY

(Stan Kesler - Bill Taylor) «© '69 Hi-Lo Music, BMI »
When will my arms grow cold when will your kiss grow old
When will I want to be free
Exactly one minute past eternity
When will I make you blue cheat and run around on you
Throw away the love you've given me
Exactly one minute past eternity

Eternity is forever so darling have no fear
My love for you will last and last a million million years
When will I say goodbye break your heart and make you cry
Tell you to forget about me
Exactly one minute past eternity
[ piano - guitar ] Eternity is forever...
Exactly one minute past eternity
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5.

BIRTH OF THE BLUES

(B.G. DeSylva - Ray Henderson - Lew Brown) «© '50 Ballentine Stephen Music, ASCAP / Ray Henderson Music, ASCAP / WB Music, ASCAP »
They heard the breeze in the trees making weird melodies
And they made that the start of the blues
And from a jail came the wail of a down-hearted frail
And they played that as part of the blues

From a whippoorwill high on a hill they took a new note
Pushed it through a horn till it was worn into a blue note
And then they nursed it and rehearsed it and gave out with the news
That the southland gave birth of the blues
That the southland gave birth of the blues
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6.

MAMA TRIED

(Merle Haggard) «© '68 Tree Publishing, BMI »
The first thing I remember knowin' was a lonesome whistle blowin'
And the youngest dream of growin' up to ride
On a freight train leavin' town not knowin' where I'm bound
No one could change my mind but mama tried

One and only rebel child for my family meek and mild
My mama seemed to know what lay in store
Spite of all my Sunday learnin' toward the bad I kept on turnin'
Till mama couldn't hold me anymore

And I turned twenty one in prison doing life without parole
No one could steer me right but mama tried mama tried
Mama tried to raise me better but her pleadings I denied
That leaves only me to blame cause mama tried
[ guitar ] Dear old daddy rest his soul left my mama heavy load
She tried so very hard to fill his shoes
Working hours without rest wanted me to have the best
She tried to raise me right but I refused
And I turned twenty one in prison...
That leaves only me to blame cause mama tried
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7.

PRISONER'S SONG

(Guy Massey) «© '24 Shapiro-Bernstein Co, ASCAP »
Oh I wish I had someone to love me
Yes someone to call me their own
Oh I wish I had someone to sleep with
Cause I'm tired of sleeping all alone

Please meet me tonight in the moonlight
Please meet me tonight all alone
For I had a sad story to tell you
It's a story that's never been told

I'll be carried to the new jail tomorrow
Leaving my poor ol' darling all alone
With the cold prison bars all around me
And my head on a pillow of stone

Now I have a grand ship out on the ocean
All mounted with silver and with gold
And before my poor darling would suffer
That ship would be anchored and sold

Now if I had the wings of an angel
Over these prison walls I would fly
And I'd fly to the arms of my poor darling
And there I'd be willing to die
[ guitar ] **********

8.

PAPER ROSES

(Janice Torre - Fred Spielman) «© '50 Music Sales, ASCAP »
I realize the way your eyes deceived me
With tender looks that I mistook for love
So throw away the flowers that I sent you
And I'll send the kind that you remind me of

Paper roses paper roses oh how real those roses seem to be
But they're only imitation like your imitation love for me
[ steel ] I thought that you would be a perfect lover
You seemed so full of sweetness after start
But like a big red rose that's made of paper
There isn't any sweetness in your heart
Paper roses paper roses...
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9.

ALL I CAN HOLD TO

(Ruby Moody - Marvin Thompson) «© '74 Hank's Music, BMI »
Another crying night will soon be over now
The morning light won't help I'll still be blue
Cause everywhere I turn there's only loneliness
Memories are all I can hold to

Mem'ries are the moments when we were as one
Memories you would only hope to find
Mem'ries in your loving arms you'd whisper my name
Then I would feel your burning limbs on mine

All these memories are locked within my heart
My world was gone the moment I lost you
If wants could talk they'd tell you of the tears I've cried
But memories are all I can hold to
Mem'ries are the moments...
Then I would feel your burning limbs on mine
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10.

I KEEP DREAMING OF YOU ALL THE TIME

(Ruby Moody - Marvin Thompson) «© '74 Hank's Music, BMI »
In my dreams an old friend came to see you
Right from the start he was the stealing kind
You'll never know how much it hurt me darling
The night you left his loving on your mind

I keep dreaming of you all the time
Then and only then you're really mine
There's sadness when you go away and I face another day
Yet I keep dreaming of you all the time
[ fiddle ] Last night again I dreamed we were together
I held you close the way I used to do
I kissed your lips and said I found my heaven
You whispered low how much you love me too
I keep dreaming of you...
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