BILLIE JO SPEARS
MR. WALKER IT'S ALL OVER
(Capitol ST-224)
May/1969
Produced by Kelso Herston
1.
MR. WALKER IT'S ALL OVER
(Gene Crysler)
« © '69 Barmour Music, BMI »
I left Garden City Kansas with a ticket and a yen to see New York
I typed eigty words a minute so your corporation let me go to work
I fetch paper clips and coffee even help you dodge your domineering wife
Mr Walker it's all over I don't like the New York secretary's life
In this building there's a crowd of guys with old familiar thoughts upon their minds
That's a lot of hands a reaching out you grab the things that I consider mine
And the president persues me even though he's old and hair a turnin' white
Mr Walker it's all over I don't like the New York secretary's life
There's a flat in Greenwich Village that I took because the subway wasn't far
But a trumpet player's upstairs and below me ther's a jumping all night bar
And to frost a bitter cake I have to share the place with bugs and big ol' mice
Mr Walker it's all over I don't like the New York secretary's life
Your sweetheart in personnel said I should give her written notice like the rest
So I wrote goodbye with my brightest lipstick right across her big expensive desk
You'd better call the Times and tell 'em put your wanted ad right back in classified
Mr Walker it's all over I don't like the New York secretary's life
There's a Greyhound at the station and a mom at home with open arms for me
Garden City's looking better every minute now since I have learned to see
And the boy next door don't know it but come June he's gonna gain himself a wife
Mr Walker it's all over I don't like the New York secretary's life
Mr Walker it's all over I don't like the New York secretary's life
Mr Walker it's all over I don't like the New York secretary's life
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2.
KEEP ME FROM CRYIN' TODAY
(Merle Haggard)
« © '68 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Hold me love me and tell me that you decided to stay
At least put it all till tomorrow and keep me from cryin' today
Help me make ready with the heartaches that's soon will be coming my way
Consider how little I'm asking of you and keep me from cryin' today
Keep me from cryin' today oh help me forget in your own special way
Let's saved our goodbyes for tomorrow and keep me from cryin' today
Let's saved our goodbyes for tomorrow and keep me from cryin' today
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3.
LOOK OUT YOUR WINDOW
(Jack Rhodes - Bob Millsap)
« © '69 Central Songs, BMI / Fort Knox Music, BMI / Trio Music, BMI »
Look at your window a thousand miles away
Look at your window a thousand miles away
And you will see me and see that I am true
A thousand lonely days a million sleepless nights won't stop my love for you
I remember the sad times I had to go from you
You said think of me often and everytime you do
Look at your window...
Yes I do think of you often it always brings me tears
And whenever I get lonely your gentle voice I hear
Look at your window...
A thousand lonely days a million sleepless nights won't stop my love for you
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4.
TIPS AND TABLES
(Jack Rhodes - Henry Ebner)
« © '69 Central Songs, BMI / Fort Knox Music, BMI / Trio Music, BMI »
The tips will buy pretty things for baby until the day my man walks in
I'd get so tired drying tears and tables I'd seen enough dirty cups and lonely men
You left me in the world of tips and tables gone with that old used-to-be
I could go out dry and turn the tables but I can't stand strange hands touching me
I guess I took his love for granted young foolish hearts seem to beat that away
So many times he would say he just love me
Now someone else holds the hands I pushed away
He left me in the world of tips and tables...
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5.
STAND BY YOUR MAN
(Billy Sherrill - Tammy Wynette)
« © '68 Al Gallico Music, BMI »
Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man
You'll have sad times and he'll have good times
Doin' things that you don't understand
But if you love him you'll forgive him even though he's hard to understand
But if you love him all be proud of him cause after all he's just a man
Stand by your man give him two arms to cling to
And something warm to come to when nights are cold and lonely
Stand by your man and show the world you love him
Keep giving all the love you can stand by your man
Stand by your man and show the world...
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6.
HOLD ME TIGHT
(Johnny Nash)
« © '68 Nashco Music, ASCAP »
Well I don't wanna hear it no more fussin' and a fightin' baby hold me tight
Let's let bygones be bygones let's think about tomorrow or our future's bright
Well I know I was wrong but I was just a fool too blind to see
You were the only one for me
Ah but now I see the light and everything's gonna be alright baby hold me tight
Pa pa pa pa pa
Well I know I was wrong...
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7.
THAT MAN
(Jerry Foster - Bill Rice)
« © '69 PolyGram Int, ASCAP »
I've got to leave that man alone that makes a fool of me
I've got to leave while I've still got my pride
If I'd stay around much longer it'll be too late for me
I'd better listen to that voice I hear inside
That man doesn't love you girl can't you see he's just using you
That man doesn't love you girl that man ain't the man for you
I'd seen the way he looks at girls with hunger in his eyes
And I felt the coldness of his lips on mine
He still tells me he loves me but I can tell he lies
Cause I hear that little voice inside my mind
That man doesn't love you girl...
That man ain't the man for you
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8.
MY ARMS STAY OPEN LATE
(Curly Putman - Dan Lomax)
« © '69 Tree Publishing, BMI »
The baby cries I could almost die from lonesome
The late show's gone and the coffee's on I think I reach some
Somewhere out there my love you share but your thoughts are far from home
But when the lights on Broadway go off and every honky tonk is closed up
My arms stay open late so you'll come home
What you do is wrong but my love stays strong for you
I don't think I'll change a thing at all I might lose you
Though it's almost dawn and you're still not at home I'll wait here patiently
For the lights to my love never go off and the door to my heart don't close up
My arms stay open late so you'll come home
My arms stay open late so you'll come home
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9.
THANKS FOR HANGIN' ROUND WORLD
(Jack Rhodes - Buddy Lucky)
« © '69 Central Songs, BMI / Fort Knox Music, BMI / Trio Music, BMI »
You won't believe it but one I thought I'd never see your smilin' face again
So I'm amazed to find that you've been standing here
Outside my front door all this time
When he went away I thought like him you forgotten bout me
Oh thanks for hangin' round world I'm gonna need your company
Well come in world I'll put on the coffee we'll talk over our old times
But we'll leave out the hurt and all the loneliness I felt when he left me behind
When he went away I thought like him you ain't nothing for me
Oh thanks for hangin' round world I'm gonna need your company
Thanks for hangin' round world I'm gonna need your company
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10.
YOU COULDN'T EVEN LIGHT HIS CANDLE
(Dallas Frazier)
« © '69 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
As soon as you found out that he was out of town
You thought that just for old time sake you could come around
One look in your eye tells me that you came to bring shame into our home
With heaven my witness I want you to write something down
You couldn't even light his candle
Or strike the match that's started the fire that's burning just for him
I'm his and only his to touch or handle and you couldn't even light his candle
[ steel ]
You couldn't even light his candle...
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11.
PRICE I PAY TO STAY
(Ed Bruce)
« © '68 Careers Music, BMI / Dream City Music, BMI »
There was a time I really thought it did some good
To get down on my knees to you and I would
But baby now that's all changed today's a brand new day
And you ain't worth the price I pay to stay
Just because you're the best looking woman that I've ever seen
Ain't reason enough to have to treat you like a king
There's a harder lesson you needed to learn and it might as well be today
Baby you ain't worth the price I pay to stay
I'm tired of tryin' to turn the other cheek to you
And never knowin' which way to turn cause you've made up
A brand new set of rules
Somewhere I picked up a little more pride than I had yesterday
Baby you ain't worth the price I pay to stay
[ dobro ]
I'm tired of tryin' to turn...
Ah baby you ain't worth the price I pay to stay
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