lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

GAMES PEOPLE PLAY

(Joe South) « © '68 ATV Songs, BMI »
Oh the games people play now ev'ry night and ev'ry day now
Never meanin' what they say now never sayin' what they mean
They just wile away the hours in their ivory towers
Till they're covered up with flowers in the back of a black limousine

Lotten da la da da da lotten da la a dee de dee
I'm a talkin' bout you and me and the games people play

Oh we make one another cry break a heart then we say goodbye
Cross our hearts and we hope to die that the other one's to blame
Neither one'll ever givein' so we gaze at an eight by ten
A thinkin' bout the things that might have been
And it's a dirty dirty dirty rotten shame

Lotten da la da da da...
[ fiddle ] Now people walkin' up a to ya singin' glory hallelujah
And they're tryin' to sock it to ya in the name of the Lord
They're gonna teach you how to meditate
Read your horoscope and cheat your fate
And furthermore to hell with hate come on get on board

Lotten da la da da da...

Look around tell me what you see what's a happenin' to you and me
God grand me the serenity to remember who I am
Cause you're givin' up your sanity for your pride and your vanity
Turn your back on humanity and you don't give a da da da

Lotten da la da da da...
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2.

MARGIE'S AT THE LINCOLN PARK INN

(Tom T. Hall) « © '69 Newkeys Music, BMI / Unichappell Music, BMI »
My name's in the paper where I took the boy scouts to hike
My hands are all dirty from working on my little boy's bike
The preacher came by and I talked for a minute with him
My wife's in the kitchen and Margie's at the Lincoln Park Inn

And I know why she's there I've been there before
But I made her a promise that I wouldn't cheat anymore
I try to ignore it but I know she's in there my friend
My mind's on a number and Margie's at the Lincoln Park Inn

Next Sunday it's my turn to speak to the young people's class
And they expect answers to all of the questions they ask
Oh what would they say if I spoke on a modern day sin
And all of the Margies at all of the Lincoln Park Inns

The bike is all fixed and my little boy is in bed asleep
And his little puppy is curled in a ball at my feet
My wife's bakin' cookies to feed to the Bridge Club again
I'm almost out of cigarettes and Margie's at the Lincoln Park Inn
And I know why she's there
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3.

HEARTACHES BY THE NUMBER

(Harlan Howard) « © '59 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Heartache number one was when you left me
I never knew that I could hurt this way
And heartache number two was when you came back again
You came back and never meant to stay

Now I've got heartaches by the number troubles by the score
Ev'ry day you love me less each day I love you more
Yes I've got heartaches by the number a love that I can't win
But the day that I stop countin' that's the day my world will end
[ steel - fiddle ] Heartache number three was when you called me
And said that you were comin' back to stay
With hopeful heart I waited for your knock on the door
I waited but you must have lost your way

Now I've got heartaches...
But the day that I stop countin' that's the day my world will end
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4.

GOOD DEAL LUCILLE

(Al Terry - Jimmy D. Miller - Charles Theriot) « © '54 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Goodbye Lou cherche vous another man
Say l'amour portoujour if you can
You're high class you've got a past now you're a wheel
Ho ho good deal Lucille

Go your way leave today that's your plan
Leave me here cherche vous another man
Paint the town sorrows drown that's how I feel
Ho ho good deal Lucille
[ guitar - fiddle ] (Ho ho good deal Lucille)

Parlez vous here's to you it's your game
If I'm here or I'm gone it's all the same
Call the tune stack the cards this is your deal
Ho ho good deal Lucille

Au revoir so long and goodbye
C'est la vie woe is me me oh my
Paint the town sorrows drown that's how I feel
Ho ho good deal Lucille
Ho ho good deal Lucille
Ho ho ho ho ho good deal Lucille
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5.

GIVE ME ONE MORE DAY

(Rochelle Frazier) « © '69 Sawgrass Music, BMI »
I know I promised months ago that I divorce my wife
And you say you're tired of living in this sin
But please be patient and don't leave I'm just ashamed to face her
For years she stood by me through thick and thin

Just give me one more day and then I'll tell her
That the home she helped me build I'll tear apart
Just give me one more day and then I'll tell her
Cause today I haven't got the heart
[ steel ] She should have been the first to know about our love affair
But I just couldn't bear to see her tears
Her life's been built around me and my happiness
Now a fool like me will make it wasted years

Just give me one more day...
No today I haven't got the heart
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6.

I'M GONNA MARRY NELL

(Marie Wilson) « © '69 Sawgrass Music, BMI »
Grab the bow fiddle up a tune
Clean the dust from the parlor room
Slap my back and a wish me well
Cause I'm gonna marry Nell boys I'm gonna marry Nell

Well I went a courtin' in the good ole days
Me and my horse and buggy
I asked my gal to marry me if she thought that much of me
If she thought that much of me

Grab the bow fiddle up a tune
Clean the dust from the parlor room
Slap my back and a wish me well
Cause I'm gonna marry Nell boys I'm gonna marry Nell

Hup two three four hup two three four
I fought in the Battle of a New Orleans
We got separated
I had my fill of bacon and beans
But I knew Nell had waited I knew my Nell had waited

Grab the bow fiddle up a tune...

I searched the mountains searched the plains
Many a year went by
Before I saw my Nell again
A tear was in her eye boy a tear was in her eye

Grab the bow fiddle up a tune...
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7.

OLD FAITHFUL

(Mel Tillis) « © '68 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
I always called her old faithful
She was always there when I came home
And I never thought the day would come she'd leave me
But for me those kind of thinkin' days are gone

Cause old faithful ain't faithful anymore
She's stepping out to even up the score
She's out there where the lights are bright
Winein' dinin' every night
And old faithful ain't faithful anymore
[ steel ] Night after night she sat waitin'
Just to touch the fool that she loved so
But now for her those waiting days are over
For absence makes the warmest heart grow cold

Cause old faithful ain't faithful...
And old faithful ain't faithful anymore
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8.

PICK ME UP ON YOUR WAY DOWN

(Harlan Howard) « © '56 Tree Publishing, BMI »
You were mine for just a while now you're puttin' on the style
And you've never once looked back at your home across the track
You're the gossip of the town but my heart can still be found
Where you tossed it on the ground pick me up on your way down

Pick me up on your way down when you're blue and all alone
When their glamour starts to bore you come on back where you belong
You may be their pride and joy but they'll find another toy
Then they'll take away your crown pick me up on your way down
[ piano - steel ] They have changed your attitude now you're haughty and so rude
Your new friends can take the blame underneath you're still the same
When you learned these things are true I'll be waiting here for you
As you tumble to the ground pick me up on your way down

Pick me up on your way down...
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9.

WHERE LOVE HAS DIED

(Jim Owen) « © '69 Sawgrass Music, BMI »
If my years were less if my shoes were new I'd pack my things and I'd leave you
Hitch myself to some westbound train you'd never see me again
If I could dream as I once could I'd be gone it'd be good
I don't want to live havin' never tried in some old house where love has died

We once had love but it's gone now don't know when don't know how
We're two strangers under one roof no need to lie that's the truth
Love has gone there's nothing left I wanna leave I can't help myself
Don't want to live havin' never tried in some old house where love has died
[ guitar ] Too many ghosts walk the floor ghost of the love that ain't no more
I'd like to have what we once had ain't no way and that's too bad
Cause you're too much a part of me for me ever to be free
So we'll keep a livin' need a try some old house where love has died
Some old house where love has died some old house where love has died
Some old house where love has died some old house where love has died
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10.

COVER MAMA'S FLOWERS

(Johnny Gore) « © '69 Sawgrass Music, BMI »
It's been many years now since mom passed away
But there's lots of sweet mem'ries that I have today
And when I see autumn and leaves turning brown
I feel like mama is somewhere around

Don't forget to cover my flowers I still hear my sweet mother say
Be sure to cover my flowers or my flowers will wither away

Yes I remember though it's been so long
My heart feels so heavy and life seems so wrong
I'd give all my treasures and things I might own
To go back to mama's old country home

Don't forget to cover my flowers...
[ fiddle - steel ] As I wait in this jungle in this foreign land
Of people so indifferent to God and to man
It's kill or be killed and I wonder today
If the ones that I'm fighting thinks of mama this way

Don't forget to cover my flowers...
Be sure to cover my flowers or my flowers will wither away
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11.

CRAZY ARMS

(Ralph Mooney - Chuck Seals) « © '56 Tree Publishing, BMI / Songs Of Universal, BMI »
Now blue ain't the word for the way that I feel
And the storm's brewing in this heart of mine
This ain't no crazy dream I know that it's real
You're someone else's love now you're not mine

Crazy arms that reach to hold somebody new
For my yearning heart keeps saying you're not mine
My troubled mind knows soon to another you'll be wed
And that's why I'm lonely all the time
[ fiddle - steel ] So please take the treasured dreams I had for you and me
And take all the love I thought was mine
Someday my crazy arms may hold somebody new
But now I'm so lonely all the time

Crazy arms that reach to hold somebody new...
And that's why I'm lonely all the time
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