lp discography - covers & lyrics

MEL TILLIS

M-M-MEL

MGM M3G-5002
August/1975
Produced by Jim Vienneau
Cover

1.

MY BAD GIRL TREATS ME GOOD

(Jerry House) « © '75 Sawgrass Music, BMI »
I reach out for something I don't have at home
Now I've got that something though I know it's wrong
My good girl won't love me way I think she should
My good girl treats me better my bad girl treats me good

My good girl's an angel except when I'm at home
My bad girl's a devil except when we're alone
I guess I messed up my life but I've done the best I could
My good girl treats me better my bad girl treats me good
[ guitar ] Her sunshine smile awarm me but that sun went down
Neon lights then called me and I went to town
My bad girl said fair to me and I burned the blacken wood
My good girl treats me better my bad girl treats me good

My good girl's an angel except when I'm at home...
My good girl treats me better my bad girl treats me good
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2.

STORMS NEVER LAST

(Jessi Colter) « © '74 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Storms never last do they baby
Bad times all pass with the wind
Your hand in mine stills the thunder
And you'd make the sun want to shine

I followed you down so many roads baby
I've picked wild flowers and sung you soft sad songs
And every road you took I know your search was for the truth
And the clouds brewing now won't be the last

Cause storms never last do they baby...
[ steel - fiddle ] Storms never last do they baby...
Yes you'd make the sun want to shine
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3.

SHE STILL LOVES ME

(Sherry Bryce) « © '75 Sawgrass Music, BMI »
I caught her crying as she washed my clothes
That lipstick on my shirt told all she had to know
Put my arms around her she turned her face to me
She threw her arms around me and let that shirt drop in my feet

She said you know I love you and don't matter where you've been
And I start counting blessings once again
She's found the signs so many times and I just can't believe
That through it all she still loves me

She tried to smile at me and wipe her tears away
And searched through all the words I knew for anything to say
But she'd heard it all before and when I tried to speak
She put her fingers on my lips and then she said to me

She said you know I love you...
She said you know I love you...
That through it all she still loves me
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4.

YOU NEVER TRIED TO CLIP MY WINGS

(Bennie Caudill) « © '75 Sawgrass Music, BMI »
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5.

MENTAL REVENGE

(Mel Tillis) « © '66 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
I hope that the friend you've thrown yourself with
Gets drunk and loses his job
And that the road you're walking on gets cold and 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 will have sweet sweet sweet mental revenge
I will have sweet sweet sweet mental revenge
[ fiddle ] 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
You never was my woman cause you were never true
So all in all if the curtain should fall I hope that it falls on you

I will have sweet sweet sweet mental revenge...
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6.

LOOKIN' FOR TOMORROW (AND FINDING YESTERDAY)

(Billy Arr - David Allds) « © '75 Sawgrass Music, BMI »
I've tried so hard to get you off my mind
But it seems you've left too much of you behind
Mem'ries of the past get in my way
I keep lookin' for tomorrow and finding yesterday

You're in every cup of coffee and in every glass of wine
And each song on the jukebox sounds like yours and mine
Funny when I look at someone new I see your face
I keep lookin' for tomorrow and finding yesterday
[ steel ] I told myself the day you said goodbye
Go find somebody new to drive her from your mind
But easy said's not easy done like some folks say
While I'm lookin' for tomorrow I keep finding yesterday

You're in every cup of coffee...
I keep lookin' for tomorrow and finding yesterday
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7.

BREAD LINE BAND

(Jimmy Chappell - Pat Bunch) « © '75 Sawgrass Music, BMI »
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8.

TENNESSEE BANJO MAN

(Ken McDuffie) « © '75 Sawgrass Music, BMI »
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9.

RAINY DAY WOMAN

(Waylon Jennings) « © '66 Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
Oh rainy day woman
I never seem to see you for the good times or the sunshine
You have been a friend of mine rainy day woman

That woman of mine she ain't happy
Till she finds something wrong and someone to blame
If it ain't one thing it's another one on the way

Oh rainy day woman...
[ steel - fiddle ] Woke up this morning to the sunshine
Sure as hell looks just like rain
I know where to go on a cloudy day

Oh rainy day woman...
[ steel ] Oh rainy day woman...
Oh rainy day woman...
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10.

PRETTY LADY

(Jeff Lopez) « © '75 Tuffy Music, ASCAP »
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