lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

CARRY ME BACK

(Don Reid - Harold Reid) « © '73 Songs Of Universal, BMI »
Carry me back Lord while I still got the time

Is Jimmy through serving is Hitch with Uncle Sam
Do the kids still spend Saturday nights driving round Hamburger Dance
Did Jackie ever make it to the streets of Hollywood
And Bobby I'd love to see him again and I would if I could

Carry me back and make me feel at home
Let me cling to those mem'ries that won't let me alone
Where it was always summer and she was always kind
Carry me back Lord while I still got the time
[ strings ] Does the preacher still visit when some poor so gets down
Do the stores still stay open on Friday nights downtown
It's Jo Ann still as pretty as when she wore my high school ring
When you see her tell her I said July 1959 she'll know what I mean

Carry me back and make me feel at home...
Carry me back Lord while I still got the time
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2.

WOMAN I STILL LOVE

(Don Reid) « © '73 Songs Of Universal, BMI »
And what will happen to you are you sure you'll be all right
When you'll walk away from me today into a brand new light
Will you do and say to him things you did and said to me
Do you think you'll touch him as much as you're still touching me

And what will happen to you are you sure you'll be all right
Can you promise me you'll never be sorry late at night
And if you think you've found that man you've been dreaming of
Ask him please to treat with ease the woman I still love

Will you do and say to him things you did and said to me
Do you think you'll touch him as much as you're still touching me
Oh and ask him please to treat with ease the woman I still love
[ strings ] The woman I still love
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3.

WHAT DO I CARE

(Johnny Cash) « © '58 Anne Rachel Music, ASCAP »
When I'm all through if I haven't been what they think I should be
If the total isn't high enough when they figure me
When I grow old if there's no gray from worry in my hair
What do I care what do I care

What do I care just as long as you were mine a little while
When the road was long and weary you gave me a few good miles
What do I care if I miss a goal because I make a slip
I'll still be satisfied because I tasted your sweet lips

What do I care if I never have much money
And sometimes my table looks a little bare
Anything that I may miss is made up for each time we kiss
You were mine for a little while so what do I care
[ guitar ] What do I care if I never have much money...
You were mine for a little while so what do I care
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4.

IF WE NEVER HAD

(Don Reid) « © '73 Songs Of Universal, BMI »
If we took just a little more than we should have taken
If by chance we let something good go bad
If we sorta made a mess out of what we have together
Still it's better than if we never had

If we said too many things that should have been unspoken
If we spent too much time making one another sad
If we both doubt tomorrow and never see each other
Still it's better than if we never had

If we spent too little time being happy
If we spent too much time being mad
If we loved a little harder without a little trying
Still it's better than if we never had
[ dobro - guitar ] If we spent too little time being happy...
It's better than if we never had
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5.

TAKE GOOD CARE OF HER

(Arthur Kent - Ed Warren) « © '61 Music Sales, ASCAP »
I supposed I ought to say congratulations
For you've won the only girl I ever loved
But I've hurt too much to face the situation
Just take good care of her take good care of her

Just to be around her was my greatest pleasure
She was everything my future held in store
So remember when you take my only treasure
Please take good care of her take good care of her

I must accepted she loves you more than me
So with my broken heart I'll bow out gracefuly

Please don't send me any wedding invitations
For I couldn't bear to see her there with you
If she's happy that will be my consolation
So take good care of her take good care of her
I still love her take good care of her
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6.

STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO

(Don Reid) « © '73 Songs Of Universal, BMI »
From Tampa Florida's pride and joy to California shame
She left home and came out west and changed her Christian name
She thumbed her way for seven days and way too many nights
And hit the streets of San Francisco running for her life

A week in cosmetology two weeks in airline school
Seven days of shorthand in a secretarial pool
But now deskclerks and bellhops now know her by her face
And the folks of Tampa know her by her mama's disgrace

All through the day she sits alone and dreams of Tampa High
Wonders what the other kids are doing then she cries
Then with the California sun she goes down every night
And hits the streets of San Francisco walking for her life

In her mind she plays a make believe game of her own
She pretends she's window shopping furnishing a home
For a husband who will come along and take her from this life
But for now a John will come along and take her for the night

All through the day she sits alone and dreams of Tampa High...
She'll walk the Streets of San Francisco the rest of her life
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7.

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO RANDOLPH SCOTT

(Don Reid - Harold Reid) « © '73 Songs Of Universal, BMI »
Everybody knows when you go to the show you can't take the kids along
You've gotta read the paper and know the code of GPG and R and X
And you gotta know what the movie's about before you even go
Tex Ritter's gone and Disney's dead and the screen is filled with sex

Whatever happened to Randolph Scott ridin' the train alone
Whatever happened to Gene and Tex and Roy and Rex the Durango Kid
Oh whatever happened to Randolph Scott his horse plain as could be
Whatever happened to Randolph Scott has happened to the best of me
[ guitar ] Everybody's tryin' to make a comment about our doubts and fears
True Grit's the only movie I've really understood in years
You gotta take your analyst along to see if it's fit to see
Whatever happened to Randolph Scott has happened to the industry

Whatever happened to Johnny Mack Brown and Alan Rocky Lane
Whatever happened to Lash LaRue I'd love to see them again
Whatever happened to Smiley Burnette Tim Holt and Gene Autry
Whatever happened to all of these has happened to the best of me
Whatever happened to Randolph Scott has happened to the industry
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8.

I WISH I COULD BE

(Don Reid) « © '73 Songs Of Universal, BMI »
I wish I could be in Knoxville tonight
So I wouldn't worry if you were all right
And you wouldn't wonder where I spent the night
If I could only be in Knoxville tonight

I wish I could be in St Paul today
And watch you get dressed and ready for your day
And tell you some things I know you've been told
If I could get to St Paul before it gets cold

I wish I could sleep tonight in Little Rock
But then we never did go too much by the clock
But I don't remember hearing you ever complain
I'd sleep tonight in Little Rock if I could fly a plane

I'd give everything I have if things had just begun
And you were lying there in North Carolina sun
Everything we had was still yet to be
Carolina you sure does the best of me
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9.

WE OWE IT ALL TO YESTERDAY

(Don Reid - Harold Reid) « © '73 Songs Of Universal, BMI »
Yesterday will never be forgotten
Tomorrow's ten thousand years away
Everything we ever had together
We owe it all to yesterday

Do you remember my old Ford how cold it used to get
And the blanket that we used to wrap up in
Well you that Ford and blanket all got away from me
God I'd love to get you all together again

Yesterday will never be forgotten...

Do you know I think about you too much
Everything I said then I still mean
If we could do it over I wouldn't change a thing
Your bobby socks keep dancing in my dreams

Yesterday will never be forgotten...
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10.

WHEN I STOP DREAMING

(Charlie Louvin - Ira Louvin) « © '55 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
When I stop dreaming that's when I'll stop loving you

The worst that I've ever been hurt in my life
The first time I ever have wanted to die
Was the night when you told me you loved someone else
And asked me if I could forget
When I stop dreaming that's when I'll stop loving you

You may teach the flowers to bloom in the snow
You may take a pebble and teach it to grow
You may teach all the raindrops to return to the clouds
But you can't teach my heart to forget
When I stop dreaming that's when I'll stop loving you
When I stop dreaming that's when I'll stop loving you
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11.

STRAND

(Lew DeWitt) « © '73 Songs Of Universal, BMI »
To every silver cowboy who rode the silver screen
Do you remember ridin' through the strand
And do you remember me I'm the front row kid
Who galloped right behind you till the end

And saved your life so often by callin' out your name
When it looked like Blackie had the upper hand
We saved towns and ranches in spite of threats and rain
While staying safe and dry inside the strand

The Strand it was a fortress in the heart of town
It's marquee proudly boasted out you name
Sending out a message to youngin's all around
And each and every Saturday we came

We came to watch our heroes ride the silver screen
In hot pursuit of Blackie's outlaw band
I wish that I could walk up to that ticket booth again
And buy just one more ticket to the strand

But our town is changing and it seems we need
A parking lot to help our town expand
Today I learned a lesson like you I must be brave
Today I learned their tarryin' down the strand

I wish that there was something fellow's we could do
One more effort before we disband
We've saved those towns and ranches and now before we're through
Seems we ought to try to save the strand

But they say it's over and I guess it's true
They'll park their cars where horses used to stand
I'll try to use the courage that I learned from you
Every time I think about the strand

And If I could live life over there's much that I would change
And possibly I'd be a different man
I'd follow many different trails but one would stay the same
And that's the one that led me to the strand
That happy trail that led me to the strand
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