THE VOICE OF BILLIE JO SPEARS
(Capitol ST-114)
November/1968
Produced by Kelso Herston
Recorded:
June/1968, Columbia Recording Studio, Nashville (1,3)
Sept/1968, Columbia Recording Studio, Nashville
1.
HOME LOVING MAN
(Jack Rhodes)
« © '68 Central Songs, BMI / Fort Knox Music, BMI / Trio Music, BMI »
I'm a fool fool woman that's all alone
Just didn't know where I had a home
I left the good man to play with life
Bought myself some heartaches double price
I want my baby I need my baby
I gotta get back to my baby don't you understand
Cause I miss my loving from my home loving man
You'll never know the feeling or understand
Till you've been loved by a home loving man
I want my baby my home loving baby
Just a silly quarrel and I was gone
My leavin' made a shamble of our happy home
My little parakeet keeps a callin' his name
And the woman inside me is doin' the same
I want my baby I need my baby
The lights have failed and the thrill is gone
I gotta get back to my man at home
You'll never know the feeling or understand
Till you've been loved by a home loving man
I want my baby my home loving baby
I want my baby my home loving baby
I want my baby my home loving baby
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2.
TAKE ME TO YOUR WORLD
(Billy Sherrill - Glenn Sutton)
« © '67 Al Gallico Music, BMI »
If you can find it in your heart to just forgive
I'll come back and live the way you wanted me to live
All I want is just to be your girl
Please come and get me and take me to your world
Take me to your world away from barrooms filled with smoke
Where I won't have to serve a drink or hear another dirty joke
All I want is just to be your girl
Please come and get me and take me to your world
[ strings - piano ]
Take me to your world away from home the things I've heard
Where people say I love you and love is not a dirty word
All I want is just to be your girl
Please come and get me and take me to your world
Please come and get me and take me to your world
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3.
HARPER VALLEY P.T.A.
(Tom T. Hall)
« © '67 Newkeys Music, BMI / Unichappell Music, BMI »
I want to tell you all the story bout the Harper Valley widow wife
Who had a teenage daughter who attended Harper Valley Junior High
Well her daughter came home one afternoon and didn't even stop to play
She said mama I got a note here from the Harper Valley PTA
The note said Mrs Johnson you're a wearing your dresses way too high
It's reported you've been drinking and a running round with men and goin' wild
We don't believe you ought to be a bringing up your little girl this way
It was signed by the secretary Harper Valley PTA
Well it happened that the PTA was gonna meet that very afternoon
They were sure surprised when Mrs Johnson wore her miniskirt into the room
She walked up to the blackboard and I recall the things she had to say
She said I'd like to address this meeting of the Harper Valley PTA
Now there's Bobby Taylor sittin' there and seven times he asked me for a date
And Mrs Taylor sure seems to use a lotta ice whenever he's away
And Mr Baker can you tell us why your secretary had to leave this town
And shouldn't wodow Jones be told to keep
Her window shades all pulled completely down
Well Mr Harper couldn't make it cause he stayed too long at Kelly's Bar again
And if you smell Shirley Thompson's breath you'll find she's had a little nip of gin
When you have the nerve to tell me that you think that as a mother I'm not fit
Well this is just a little Payton Place and you're all Harper Valley hypocrites
No I wouldn't put you on because it really did it happened just this way
The day my mama socket it to the Harper Valley PTA
The day my mama socket it to the Harper Valley PTA
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4.
TILL SOMETHING BETTER COMES ALONG
(Jerry Chesnut)
« © '68 Tree Publishing, BMI »
I don't believe you love me as much as you left home
But since you feel you only you keep holding on
You'll carry me to any lenght just to prove you have the strenght
And you'll hold me till something better comes along
And then you'll leave me you won't even care
How I feel when I'll awake and you're not there
So I'll just live and love you one day at a time
And until something better comes along your mind
[ guitar + piano ]
If I have a chance my life to rearrange
I couldn't change the things I'd really like to change
By going back the only thing I came this time
Because till something better comes along your mind
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5.
TALK TALK
(Jack Rhodes)
« © '68 Central Songs, BMI / Fort Knox Music, BMI / Trio Music, BMI »
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6.
MOLLIE BROWN
(Jack Rhodes - Billie Jo Spears)
« © '68 Careers Music, BMI / Fort Knox Music, BMI / Trio Music, BMI »
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7.
WOMAN OF THE WORLD
(Jerry Foster - Marvin Shiner)
« © '68 PolyGram Int, ASCAP »
I'd change if it means pleasing you
And when I do don't treat me like a woman of the world
Tell me what you're expecting of me
And when I agree don't treat me like a woman of the world
I know that there's no guarantee you'll stay with me forever
In fact the odds of keeping you aren't too much in my favor
Reach down search your soul and you'll see
What you're making of me but don't make me a woman of the world
No don't make me a woman of the world
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8.
I DON'T WANNA PLAY HOUSE
(Billy Sherrill - Glenn Sutton)
« © '68 Al Gallico Music, BMI »
Today I sat alone at the window and I watched our little girl outside at play
With the little boy next door like so many times before
But something didn't seem quite right today
So I went outside to see what they were doing
And then the teardrops made my eyes go dim
Cause I heard him name a game and I hung my head in shame
When I heard our little girl say to him
I don't wanna play house I know it can't be fun
I watched mommy and daddy and if that's the way it's done
I don't wanna play house it makes my mommy cry
Cause when she played house my daddy said goodbye
I don't wanna play house...
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9.
HE'S GOT MORE LOVE IN HIS LITTLE FINGER
(Mack Vickery - Carl Friend)
« © '68 Tree Publishing, BMI »
He's got more love in his little finger than you've got in all your heart
He's got more love in his little finger than you've got in your whole heart
And when you leave off in tenderness that's where his tenderness starts
Oh he wouldn't lie to me not to save his life that's something he just wouldn't do
He's got more love in his little finger more love that is off of you
He's everything a man should be he's kind he's good and he's true
And when I look into his eyes there's a love light that was missing in you
Just one sweet kiss that's all I need tell me we'll never part
He's got more love in his little finger than you've got in all your heart
He's got more love in his little finger than you've got (you've got )
Than you've got (you've got) than you've got in all your heart
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10.
GET BEHIND ME SATAN AND PUSH
(Ann Kiker - Doris Hamilton)
« © '68 All Roads Music, BMI »
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11.
ODE TO BILLIE JOE
(Bobbie Gentry)
« © '67 Northridge Music, ASCAP »
It was the third of June another sleepy dusty Delta day
I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was a bailin' hay
At dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
And mama hollered at the backdoor y'all remember to wipe your feet
She said I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Wridge
Today Billie Joe Macallister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Papa said to mama as she passed around the black eyed peas
Billie Joe never had a lick of sense pass the biscuits please
There's five more acres in the lower forty I got to plow
And mama said it was a shame about Billie Joe anyhow
It seems like nothing ever comes to no good upon Choctaw Wridge
And now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Brother said he recollected when he and Tom and Billie Joe
Put a frog down my back at the Caroll County picture show
And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night
I'll have another piece of apple pie you know it don't seem right
I saw him at the sawmill yesterday upon Choctaw Wridge
And now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
Mama said to me child what's happened to your apetite
I've been cookin' all mornin' and you haven't touched a single bite
That nice young preacher brother Tailor dropped by today
Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday oh by the way
He said he saw a girl that's looked a lot like you upon Choctaw Wridge
And she and Billie Joe was throwin' somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge
One year has come and gone since we heard the news about Billie Joe
Brother married Becky Thompson and they bought a store in Tupelo
There was a virus goin' round and papa caught it and he died last spring
Now mama doesn't seem to want to do much of anything
And me I spent a lot of time pickin' flowers upon Choctaw Wridge
And dropped 'em down into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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