lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

TAKE TIME TO LOVE HER

(Jerry Foster - Bill Rice) « © '72 PolyGram Int, ASCAP »
Take time to love her for days at home and nights alone
Are the kind of the things that she can't understand
Take time to love her or someone else who has more time
Will come along and take her off your hands

When's the last time you took her out and danced with her till morning
And set her pretty roses the way you used to do
There was a time when you took time to show her she was wanted
But have you show her lately how much she means to you

Take time to love her...

How long since you called her up without a special reason
And told her that you thought of her cause love was on your mind
How long since you bought her gifts when there was no occasion
To let her know that her love grows sweeter all the time

Take time to love her...
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2.

BABY DON'T GET HOOKED ON ME

(Mac Davis) « © '72 Screen Gems Music, BMI »
Girl you're gettin' that look in your eyes and it's startin' to worry me
I ain't ready for no family ties nobody's gonna hurry me
Just keep it friendly girl cause I don't want to leave
Don't start clinging to me girl cause I can't breathe

Baby baby don't get hooked on me
Baby baby don't get hooked on me
Cause I'll just use you then I'll set you free
Baby baby don't get hooked on me

Girl you're a hot blooded woman child and it's warm where you're touchin' me
But I can tell by your tremblin' smile you're seeing way too much of me
Girl don't let your life get tangled up with mine
Cause I'll just leave you I can't take no clinging vine

Baby baby don't get hooked on me...
Baby baby don't get hooked on me...
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3.

CRYSTAL CHANDELIERS

(Ted Harris) « © '65 Plainspoken Music, ASCAP »
Oh the crystal chandeliers light up the paintings on your wall
The marble statuettes are standing stately in the hall
But will the timely crowd that has you laughing loud help you dry your tears
When the new wears off of your crystal chandeliers

I never did fit in too well with folks you knew
It was plain to see that the likes of me don't fit with you
Cause you traded me for the gaiety of the well to do
And turned away from the love I offered you

Oh the crystal chandeliers light up...

I see your picture in the news most every day
You're the chosen girl of the social world so the stories say
But a paper smile only lasts a while then it fades away
And the love we knew will come home to you some day

Oh the crystal chandeliers light up...
When the new wears off of your crystal chandeliers
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4.

GOOD TIME CHARLIE'S GOT THE BLUES

(Danny O'Keefe) « © '70 Road Canon Music, BMI / Warner-Tamerlane Publishing, BMI »
Everybody's gone away said they're movin' to LA
There's not a soul I know around everybody's leavin' town
Some caught a freight some caught a plane Find the sunshine leave the rain
They said this town'll waste your time I guess they're right it's wastin' mine
Some gotta win some gotta lose Good time Charlie's got the blues
Good time Charlie's got the blues
[ guitar ] You know my heart keeps tellin' me you're not a kid at thirty-three
You play around you lose your wife you play too long you lose your life
I got my pills to ease the pain can't find a thing to ease the rain
I'd love to try and settle down but everybody's leavin' town
Some gotta win some gotta lose Good time Charlie's got the blues
Good time Charlie's got the blues
Good time Charlie's got the blues
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5.

I USED IT ALL ON YOU

(Tom Crum) « © '70 Forrest Hills Music, BMI / Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Lord there's just no love to give her I used it all on you

She's an angel and she could fill any man's dream
I do nothing to deserve her yet she treats me like a king
She worships me all she wants is my love too
But there's just no love to give her I used it all on you

When she turns to me it breaks what's left of my heart
She's do anything if I'd love her but there's nowhere for her to start
She holds me just the way I wanted you to
But there's just no love to give her I used it all on you

Each time I try to love her I feel so ashamed
Cause there's no love only kindness and that's just not the same
I've even learned to hate you but what good did it do
For there's still no love to give her I used it all on you
There's just no love to give her I used it all on you
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6.

LOVIN' ON BACKSTREETS

(Hugh King) « © '72 Milene Music, ASCAP »
We try to pick the most unlikely places
Where no one's apt to know us by our names
Then for a while we share the sweet affection
That makes it worth the sorrow and the pain

Of lovin' on backstreets and livin' on main
Suffering hell through the daylight for the heaven darkness brings
Two hearts in the shadows tradin' passion for pain
Lovin' on backstreets and livin' on main
[ fiddle ] In the morning when I face the one who owns me
And she conforts me with some things I can't explain
Then once again I'll hate myself for livin'
And wonder just how long my mind can stand the strain

Of lovin' on backstreets and livin' on main...
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7.

NOW LONELY IS ONLY A WORD

(Rory Bourke - Gayle Barnhill) « © '73 Unichappell Music, BMI »
When I needed sunshine you saved it for me
When I had no future you made it for me
So I'm gonna love you for all that I'm worth
Cause lonely is only a word

When I needed lovin' you gave it to me
When life had no music oh you played for me
You gave me more that I ever deserved
Now lonely is only a word

Lonely was only what I used to be
With no one around to bring comfort to me
Then I found you and I lost all the hurt
Now lonely is only a word

So I'm gonna love you for all that I'm worth
Cause lonely is only a word
Now lonely is only a word
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8.

MAN THAT I AM

(Nat Stuckey) « © '73 Tree Publishing, BMI »
In a world where there's not enough love to go round
And hurt wears a pretty disguise
Well I found the love that's too strong to tear down
As strong as the look in her eyes

And I'm so thankful your love found me wrapped these two arms round me
Lifted me when I was down
You made me see what I could do and you made me want to
You made me the man that I am
[ steel ] Oh I wake up each morning at first light of dawn
And your face is the first thing I see
Then I think how some men search world for their dreams
And mine's like right next to me

And I'm so thankful your love found me...
You made me the man that I am
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9.

LOVE ME

(Jeanne Pruett) « © '73 Johnny Bienstock Music, BMI »
Love me oh love me love me like no other girl can do
Need me need and just let me go on needing you

If you want to try to make me over
Into something else that fits your plan
Well it's alright if you will only tell me
That you'll always want me for your man

Love me oh love me love...

If you'll ever say that you are leaving
Lord I don't know what on earth I'll do
Cause I could never face a new tomorrow
If I knew I'll wake up without you

Love me oh love me love...
And just let me go on needing you
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10.

ALABAMA WILD MAN

(Jerry Reed Hubbard) « © '68 Vector Music, BMI / Sixteen Stars Music, BMI »
Now my daddy was a hard shelled Alabama preacher
My mama was a dedicated a Sunday School teacher
My brother went a college and got a PHD
Daddy said the only dud in the family was me
He said boy you ain't never gonna amount to a thing
All you do is sit around with that silly looking guitar and sing
You hang around them joke joints most of your time
Making music like some wild man done lost his mind

Going uh hook it now what's that s'posed to mean boy
And sock it to me you're just a wild man boy

Well one day my daddy told me boy I've had enough
Now you can pack up that guitar and you can just pack up your stuff
So I left with my guitar and organized me a band
Called myself the Alabama Wild Man
Well I worked in every joint from New York City to Gulf
Singing songs for pennies never making enough
Many nights I lived on coffee and cold sardines sody crackers and pork and beans
But friends I finally went to Music City USA
Said I'm the Alabama Wild Man folks I'm here to stay
Took my guitar and showed 'em what I's talkin' about
So we made a little record and we put it out

With me going uh hook it hook it boy hook it again
Sock it to that guitar

Well now I'm driving cadillacs a city block long
And the Alabama Wild Man can do no wrong
Cause I'm selling them records I'm working those shows
And people love me everywhere I go
But friends a funny thing happened bout a week or so back
I worked a show in my hometown and the place was packed
And I guess who was sittin' out on a front row seat
Was my daddy grinnin' up at me and pattin' his feet

Sayin' sock it to your daddy's wild man
Hook it son hook it play that guitar boy show 'em
Yeah that's my boy up there alright taught him everything he knows
Bought him his guitar hook it son sock it to me
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