GIDDY UP GO
(Starday SLP-363)
January/1966
Produced by Don Pierce
1.
I'M JUST LUCKY I GUESS
(Red Hayes - John David Cole)
« © '66 Fort Knox Music, BMI / Trio Music, BMI »
She's my girl she's my world she's my life to me
She's my girl she's my world she's my wife to be
She makes me actin' dress my best keeps me filled with the happiness
I don't know I'm just lucky I guess
What a lucky day it was when I met her what a lucky street to meet with the best
But don't ask me why I come to win her I don't know I'm just lucky I guess
She's my girl she's my world...
[ steel ]
She will give me memories extra special she's so different not like all the rest
Since I met her how I've changed she's gonna let me change her name
I don't know I'm just lucky I guess
She's my girl she's my world...
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2.
I'LL STEP ASIDE
(Johnny Bond)
« © '57 Unichappell Music, BMI »
I'll step aside for you if you don't want me
I'll step aside for you if you don't care
I'm not the one to cling to a broken promise
I'll step aside for someone else somewhere
I'll step aside for you if you don't want me
I'll step aside for you and you alone
And when I'm gone just promise you'll remember
That I was once your darling all your own
[ piano ]
Before you go just answer this last question
As you gaze into my tear dimmed eyes
It can't be true you never cared about me
And all those words I treasured were just lies
I'll step aside for you...
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3.
GIRL ON THE BILLBOARD
(Hank Mills)
« © '65 Johnny Bienstock Music, BMI »
Doo da doo doo doo a doo da doo doo doo
Who is the girl wearin' nothin' but a smile and a towel
In the picture on the billboard in the field near the big old highway
Rolling down the highway in my Jimmy haulin' freight
From Chicago to St Louis Lord I see her every day
A double clutching weasel like me can hardly ever get a girl to look at him that way
Like the girl wearin' nothin' but a smile and a towel
In the picture on the billboard in the field near the big old highway
Wow what a girl wearin' nothin' but a smile and a towel
In the picture on the billboard in the field near the big old highway
I bet it wouldn't take her long to be gone
If someone would pull a dirty trick and take her towel away
I slow my Jimmy down to twenty that's how many wrecks I see there every day
Caused by the girl wearin' nothin' but a smile and a towel
In the picture on the billboard in the field near the big old highway
A doo da doo doo doo a doo da doo doo doo
Oh I love the girl wearin' nothin' but a smile and a towel
In the picture on the billboard in the field near the big old highway
I guess I'm gettin' bolder cause I'd rather kiss and hold her
Than just keep a lookin' at her everyday
At 4:45 coffee drinking eatin' time Jimmy shimmies
While I wake up the artist who painted the display
Of the girl wearin' nothin' but a smile and a towel
In the picture on the billboard in the field near the big old highway
Doggone that girl wearing nothing but a smile and a towel
In the picture on the billboard in the field near the big old highway
Sleepy headed painter said the girl wasn't real better get the (kwee) on my way
On Route 66 from the billboard to Chicago
You will find tiny pieces of my heart scattered every which a way
Scattered by the girl wearin' nothin' but a smile and a towel
In the picture on the billboard in the field near the big old highway
A doo da doo doo doo a doo da doo doo
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4.
I COULDN'T STAND THE THOUGHT OF LOSING YOU
(Red Hayes - Al Gore)
« © '66 Fort Knox Music, BMI / Trio Music, BMI »
There's so many people breaking up their homes
Neighbors callin' one another on the phone
Gossips say that our break up is overdue
Oh I couldn't stand the thought of losing you
Oh I couldn't stand the thought of losing you
And with one another's help we'll see it trhough
They can't hurt us with their talking that they do
Oh I couldn't stand the thought of losing you
[ steel ]
I just wish that we could make them understand
All the problems that we have are dwelt in hand
And our troubles don't concern our neighbors too
Oh I couldn't stand the thought of losing you
Oh I couldn't stand the thought...
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5.
MORE FROM HABIT THAN DESIRE
(Bill Parsons - Red Sovine)
« © '61 Fort Knox Music, BMI / Trio Music, BMI »
You tell me how you need me when you're lonely
The thought of losing me tears you apart
When you need love you think of just me only
But I'm sure it's more from habit than desire
You tell me how you lie awake and reminisce
Of when my kiss almost stops your heart
But your eyes have lost their glow your kiss has lost its fire
And I know it's more from habit than desire
[ steel ]
You say when I'm away you live in emptiness
Like nothing's left a whole world's let you down
I wish I'd had the power to bring you happiness
But you've just grown used to havin' me around
It's just habit when you tell me that you love me
I've lost the key that opens up your heart
And your eyes have lost their glow your kiss has lost its fire
And I know it's more from habit than desire
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6.
LAST FOXHOLE
(Mel Tillis - Fred Burch)
« © '66 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
(Oh Lord let it be the last foxhole)
He lived by my side on an Island in the sea
A place called Okeinawa and just like me
He was fighting in the army against Japan
Our home was a foxhole made of clay blood and sand
(The last foxhole oh the last foxhole oh Lord let it be the last foxhole)
Soon the war was over and we went our seperate ways
He went home to Brooklyn but in the army I chose to stay
Now he often wrote me the letters and told me about his fears
When his son became a man would he had to live
(The last foxhole oh the last foxhole oh Lord let it be the last foxhole)
Then came Korea they sent my company
And that same Brooklyn boy right back with me
But I left him there in the grave deep and cold
They just covered him up in his last foxhole
(The last foxhole oh the last foxhole oh Lord let it be the last foxhole)
Well the years went by now here I am in another foxhole in VietNam
And there's a boy from Brooklyn behind a gun
They couldn't send his daddy so they sent his son
(Oh the last foxhole oh the last foxhole oh Lord let it be the last foxhole)
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7.
I'M THE MAN
(Bernard Spurlock)
« © '62 Fort Knox Music, BMI / Trio Music, BMI »
Good evening young man do you know who I am
From the look on your face I think you may
You know my wife much too well you've made my life a living hell
Now I'm the man who comes to stand in your way
All the blame is not on you this kinda game always takes two
But God helps us if you don't hear what I say this very day
I don't like your cheatin' plans you'd better listen while you can
Cause I'm the man who comes to stand in your way
[ guitar + harmonica ]
I must have failed her somehow but I won't fail her now
All that matters is that she's come back to stay
So young man I beg of you don't make me do what I can't to do
Cause I'm the man who comes to stand in your way
I'm gonna keep her no matter what she's my wife she's all I've got
And before I lose her love I'll see you kid and laid away
So I'm warnin' you young man but I won't warn you again
Cause I'm the man who comes to stand in your way
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8.
I THINK I CAN SLEEP TONIGHT
(Red Hayes - Don Stock)
« © '66 Fort Knox Music, BMI / Trio Music, BMI »
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9.
TRUCK DRIVIN' SON OF A GUN
(Dixie Dean - Robert A. King)
« © '65 Shelby Singleton Music, BMI »
I got a cute little gal in every eastern town from Boston to St Louis
There's some that I don't even know but I'm looking forward to
Cause I like my women everywhere I go
So roll on big wheels don't you roll so slow
Peggy Ann is a waitin' in Memphis and Betty Lou in Maine
I got a good ole gal in Knoxville but man I forgot her name
But not her figure I remember that
Yeah I'm a kiss stealin' a wheelin' deelin' a truck drivin' son of a gun
[ piano ]
Well there goes Joe flyin' low making up his time
But where I sit I don't believe you'd say I'm wastin' mine
I'm movin' faster than a Jimmy-8
If you think I'm losin' time you're runnin' late
I got a steady little baby waitin' back home for me
But there are six more towns to go till I'm back in Tennessee
And six more women at least I know
Yeah I'm a kiss stealin' a wheelin' deelin' a truck drivin' son of a gun
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10.
WHAT'S HE DOIN' IN MY WORLD
(Carl Belew - Billy Joe Moore - Eddie Bush)
« © '65 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
What's he doin' in my world what's he doin' holdin' my world
If he's not more than just a friend why were you kissin' him
And what's he doin' in my world
What's he doin' in my world did you tell him that you're my girl
If your love is really true tell him my world's made for two
What's he doin' in my world
Oh don't let me keep on wondering just what you're gonna do
Wondering if the one I love loves somebody new
What's he doin' in my world we don't need him in our world
So if it's true he's just a friend explain those kisses you gave him
And what's he doin' in my world (what's he doin' in my world)
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11.
KISS AND THE KEYS
(Bernard Spurlock)
« © '68 Fort Knox Music, BMI / Trio Music, BMI »
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12.
GIDDY UP GO
(Red Sovine - Tommy Hill)
« © '65 Fort Knox Music, BMI / Trio Music, BMI »
The highways that wind and wander over mountain and valleys deserts and plains
I guess I've drove about all of 'em
Cause for the past 25 years now the cab of a truck has been my home
And it'd be kinda hard for me to settle down and not be on the go
Why I remember the first truck I drove
I was so proud I could hardly wait to get home to show my wife and my little boy
And my little boy was so excited like so when he saw his first snow
He wasn't old enough to say too many words
He just kept hollering goddyup go daddy giddyup go
So that's what I named the old truck Giddyup go
Oh things wasn't too bad of course I's gone a lot
And after about six years I got home one day and found my wife and little boy gone
I couldn't find out what happened nobody seemed to know
So from that day on it's been me and old Giddyup go
I've made a lot of friends at all the truck stops
And some of 'em would kick me about my litle sign
Of course they knew where I got the name
Cause I told 'em about that little boy of mine
And how his first word about that old truck was Giddyup go
Today I was barrelin' down old 66
When up beside me pulled down a brand new diesel rig
Both stacks of blowin' black coal
And as she pulled around and back in front of me a big lump came in my throat
And my eyes watered like I had a bad old cold
A little sign on the back of the truck that read Giddyup go
Well I pushed old Giddyup go stayed right on him
Until the next truck stop where he'd pulled up
I waited till he went in and I offered to buy him a cup
Well we got to talkin' shop and I said
Now did you come by the name on your truck Giddyup go
Well he said I got it from my pop
Dad used to drive a truck that's what mom talked about a lot
You see I lost mom when I was just past sixteen and I lost all track of pop
Mom said he got the name from me
I shook his hand and told him that I had something I wanted him to see
I took him out to the old truck
And brushed off some of the dirt so the name would show
And his eyes got big and bright as he read Giddyup go
Oh we had a lot of things to talk about and buddy I felt like a king
And now we've just pulled back on old 66 and he's handled that big rig
Better than any gearjammer that I'd ever seen
Well now the lines on the highway have got much brighter glow
As we go roarin' down the road and me starin' at a little sign that reads Giddyup go
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