PAM TILLIS
IT'S ALL RELATIVE - TILLIS SINGS TILLIS
(Epic EK-86546)
September 3/2002
Produced by Ray Benson
Ray Benson, John Jorgenson, Joe Manuel - guitar
James Pennebaker, Bryan Sutton - guitar/mandolin
Bruce Bouton, Dan Dugmore, Lloyd Maines, Robby Turner - steel/dobro
Mike Brignardello, Spencer Starnes, David Spicher - bass
Greg Morrow, Lynn Williams, Jim White, David Sanger - drums/percussion
Matt Rollings, Beegie Adair, Floyd Domino, Tony Harrell, Bob Patin
Buddy Spicher, Aubrey Haynie, Jason Roberts - fiddle
Marty Stuart - mandolin
Delbert McClinton, Patrick Buchanon - harmonica
John Catchings, David Davidson - strings
Vocals:
Emmylou Harris, Lona Heid, Louis Dean Nunley, Dolly Parton, Gordon Stoker,
Rhonda Vincent, Trisha Yearwood, Curtis Young
1.
BURNING MEMORIES
(Mel Tillis - Wayne P. Walker)
« © '63 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
Tonight I'm burning old love letters
Photographs and memories of you
Hoping somehow I'll feel better
And when the smoke is gone I won't want you
Burning mem'ries (teardrops fall while I am) burning mem'ries
Burning all those memories of you that I can't lose
My heart to you no longer matters
And I can't live on memories
Into the fire those dreams you've shattered
And when the smoke is gone then I'll be free
Burning mem'ries (teardrops fall while I am)...
Burning all those memories of you that I can't lose
[ steel - fiddle ]
Oh those burning mem'ries (teardrops fall while I am)...
Burning mem'ries (teardrops fall while I am)...
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2.
SO WRONG
(Mel Tillis - Danny Dill - Carl Perkins)
« © '60 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
I've been so wrong for so long
Thought I could live without the love that you give
I was wrong oh so wrong
I have been so wrong for so long
I didn't know that I loved you so I was wrong
Well now I never knew I could want you darling oh so much
Now that you're gone I dream of you and your sweet touch
I was so wrong for so long
But I've seen the light darling I'll make it right I was wrong
Well now I never knew...
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3.
UNMITIGATED GALL
(Mel Tillis)
« © '66 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
Well how can you have the unmitigated gall
To come back now expecting me to fall
Right down on my knees and kiss your feet yeah feet
Feet that one day went a walking out on me with a fast talking
Slob you hardly knew his name your mind is de-arranged
And where did you get the backbone and grit
To come back now expecting me to fit
Right back into plans that we once made
Plans that now are gone forever to return never ever
I don't want you anymore so get away from my door
And let me live live live and let me live live live
Don't come messing up my life again
And how can you have the courage and the nerve
To come back now expecting me to love
You after the way that you've done me
Guess you think that I'm a fool but you're the one that's blew their cool
I don't need you anymore so get away from my door and let me live
[ guitar ]
Guess you think that I'm a fool but you're the one that's blew their cool
I don't need you anymore so get away from my door
And let me live live live and let me live live live
And let me live live live and let me live live live
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4.
VIOLET AND A ROSE
(Mel Tillis - Bud Auge - John Reinfield)
« © '52 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
A violet fell in love with a rose
And started it flashing from its head to its toes
Then one day the rose was kissed by the dew
A new love was born and the violet turned blue
Roses are red violets are blue
I'm sending red red roses to you
If you care to send some flowers to me
Then send me some violets I'm blue as can be
I wanted my love to bouquet with you
Just like the rose you've proven untrue
A flower that's wild they say has no home
And just like the violet I'm left all alone
Roses are red violets are blue...
Send me some violets I'm blue as can be
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5.
I AIN'T NEVER
(Mel Tillis - Webb Pierce)
« © '59 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
I ain't never I ain't never
Seen nobody like you oh oh oh never have I ever seen nobody like you
You call me up and say to meet me at nine
I have to hurry hurry but I'm there on time
I walk a right up and knock on your door
The landlord says she ain't a here no more
I ain't never oh darling seen nobody like you
Oh oh oh but I love you yeah I love you I love you just the same
[ guitar ]
Well you tell me sweet things that you don't mean
You've got me a livin' in a hunted dream
You make me do things I don't wanna do
My friends say Tillis what's wrong with you
I ain't never oh darling...
[ steel ]
Oh I ain't never oh darling...
I love you just the same I love you baby I love you just the same
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6.
NOT LIKE IT WAS WITH YOU
(Mel Tillis - Wayne P. Walker)
« © '68 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI / Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
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7.
MENTAL REVENGE
(Mel Tillis)
« © '66 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
I hope that the friend you've thrown yourself with gets drunk and loses her job
And ever road you're walking on gets cold rocky and hard
I couldn't make you love me you only made me blue
So all in all if the curtain should fall I hope that it falls on you
I hope that it falls on you
Well I hope that the train from Caribou Maine runs over your new love affair
You walk the floor from door to door and pull out your peroxide hair
I never was your woman cause you were never true
So all in all if the curtain should fall I hope that it falls on you
And I'll have sweet sweet sweet mental revenge
I'll have sweet sweet sweet mental revenge oh yeah
[ dobro - fiddle - guitar ]
I never was your woman cause you were never true
So all in all if the curtain should fall I hope that it falls on you
And I'll have sweet sweet sweet mental revenge
I'll have sweet sweet sweet mental revenge
I'll have sweet sweet sweet mental revenge oh yeah
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8.
HEART OVER MIND
(Mel Tillis)
« © '61 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
I love you so much that I can't leave you
Even though my mind tells me I should
Then you make me think you really want me
And all my thoughts of leaving do no good
You've got me heart over mind worried all the time
Knowing you will always be the same
You keep hurting me I know but I just can't let you go
Cause my heart won't let my love for you change
Friends tell me they see you out with others
And in my heart I try hard to forget
But you come home and tell me you still love me
And I still hope there's some chance for us yet
You've got me heart over mind...
[ fiddle ]
You've got me heart over mind...
You've got me heart over mind heart over mind heart over mind
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9.
GOODBYE WHEELING
(Mel Tillis)
« © '66 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
I've been reeling around Wheeling West Virginia just a little too long
Now I gotta be leaving cause one deceiving free wheeling man done me wrong
And it's goodbye Wheeling West Virginia I don't guess I'll settle down
Since he don't need me Lord I can't see me any longer hanging round this old town
Cause I've got a feeling that I've been concealing many thoughts bout traveling on
Well things ain't grooving so I'd better be a moving
When you wake up in the morning big Wheeling I'm gonna be gone gone gone
I'm gonna be gone gone gone
[ harmonica ]
Since he don't need me Lord I can't see me any longer hanging round this old town
Cause I've got a feeling I've been concealing...
Well it's goodbye Wheeling
Gone gone gone gone gone gone
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10.
EMOTIONS
(Mel Tillis - Ramsey Kearney)
« © '57 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
Emotions what are you doing oh don't you know you'll be my ruin
You've got me crying crying again when will you let this heartache end
Emotions you get me upset make me remember what I wand to forget
I've been lonely lonely too long emotions please leave me alone
You worry my days you torture my nights never a dream turns out right
Emotions give me a break let me forget that I made a mistake
Oh can't you see what you're doing to me emotions please set me free
You worry my days oh you torture my nights...
Set me free
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11.
HONEY (OPEN THAT DOOR)
(Mel Tillis)
« © '61 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
Honey honey honey won't you open that door
This is your sweet daddy don't you love me no more
It's cold outside let me sleep on the floor
Honey won't you open that door
I honky tonked around Dallas I got in a poker game
But somebody must have been cheastin' I lost everything but my name
I walked half way to Memphis I finally got back home
But I'd been better off where I was cause here's when things went wrong
I went right down to see ol' Bob I thought he was my friend
The landlord said that Bob's not here the police done hauled him in
I ren right back to little honey's house I got me a rockin' chair
Now honey if you don't open that door I'm gonna rock on away from here
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12.
DETROIT CITY
(Mel Tillis - Danny Dill)
« © '62 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
I wanna go home I wanna go home oh how I wanna go home
Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City
And I dreamed about those cottonfields and home
I dreamed about my mother dear old papa sister and brother
I dreamed about that girl who's been waiting for so long
Homefolks think I'm big in Detroit City
From the letters that I write they think I'm fine
But by day I make the cars by night I make the bars
If only they could read between the lines
Cause you know I rode the freight train north to Detroit City
And after all these years I find I've just been wastin' my time
So I just think I'll take my foolish pride
And put on a Southbound freight and ride
And go on back to the loved ones I left waiting far behind
I wanna go home I wanna go home oh how I wanna go home
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13.
COME ON AND SING
(Mel Tillis)
« © '66 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
Come on and sing girl sing boy sing a happy song
Come on and sing girl sing boy this old world may not last long
Most everybody's doing too much fighting and there's not enough singing going on
How many people have you ever seen fight while they were singing a song
Most everybody's mistreating one another just fight a personal game
But that wouldn't happen to the sisters and the brothers
When they hold back their heads and sing
Most everybody's doing too much talking talking it and just get mad
So if all that talking's gonna make you unhappy why don't just sing and be glad
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