RANDY TRAVIS
STORMS OF LIFE
(Warner Bros 25435)
June/1986
Produced by Kyle Lehning & Keith Stegall
Steve Gibson, Keith Stegall, Larry Byrom, Greg Jennings, Fred Newell - el.guitar
Ken Bell, Mark Casstevens, Bobby Thompson - ac.guitar
Doyle Grisham - steel
Jerry Douglas - dobro
Michael Rhodes, David Hungate, Jack Williams - bass
Mark Hembree - ac.bass
Eddie Bayers, James Stroud, Larrie Londin - drums
Bobby Wood, Shane Keister, Dennis Burnside, Kyle Lehning - keyboards
Blaine Sprouse, Hoot Hester - fiddle
Mark O'Connor - fiddle/mandolin
Terry McMillan, Kirk Johnson - harmonica/percussion
Don Jackson - clarinet
Vocals:
Lisa Silver, Diane Stegall, Paul Overstreet, Paul Davis, Kathy Baillie, Michael Bonagura Jr,
Thomas Brannon, Phil Forrest, Alan LeBoeuf
1.
ON THE OTHER HAND
(Don Schlitz - Paul Overstreet)
« © '85 Don Schlitz Music, ASCAP / Scarlet Moon Music, BMI »
On one hand I count the reasons I could stay with you
And hold you close to me all night long
So many lovers games I'd love to play with you
On that hand there's no reason why it's wrong
But on the other hand there's a golden band
To remind me of someone who would not understand
On one hand I could stay and be your loving man
But the reason I must go is on the other hand
[ guitar ]
In your arms I feel the passions I thought had died
When I looked into your eyes I found myself
When I first kissed your lips I felt so alive
I've got to hand it to you girl you're somethin' else
But on the other hand...
Yes the reason I must go is on the other hand
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2.
STORMS OF LIFE
(Troy Seals - Max D.Barnes)
« © '86 Irving Music, BMI »
There's a dirty piece of cardboard that reads Montgomery Ward
Taped across the window of my old Ford
A six-pack on front seat and a box of chicken wings
I'm dialin' cross the radio for a song that I can sing
I'd better change my wandering ways I know I've seen my better days
Always gettin' high when I get low
Well I left my soul out in the rain Lord what a price I've had to pay
Storms of life are washin' me away
[ guitar ]
An old mail pouch tobacco sign fadin' on the barn
Bringing back sweet memories of mama's farm
When love was just a country girl that lived on down the road
You know she almost had me turned around but that was years ago
I'd better change my wandering ways...
Yeah the storms of life are washin' me away
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3.
MY HEART CRACKED (BUT IT DID NOT BREAK)
(Ronny Scaife - Phil Thomas - Don Singleton)
« © '86 Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
You're spreadin' lies all over town
About the way your brushed me off and put me down
Well I'm here to say make no mistake my heart cracked but it did not break
Well I can't deny the hurt was deep
The way you slammed that door and walked right out on me
But I'm telling you get one thing straight my heart cracked but it did not break
Shattered dreams lie everywhere broken promises are all we shared
Well I finally took all I could take my heart cracked but it did not break
[ guitar ]
Well I was blue but not for long
Cause this brand new love I've got has made me strong
Well I'm over you and all the ache my heart cracked but it did not break
Shattered dreams lie everywhere...
Yeah my heart cracked but it did not break
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4.
DIGGIN' UP BONES
(Paul Overstreet - Al Gore)
« © '85 Careers Music, BMI »
Last night I dug your picture out from our old dresser drawer
I set it on the table and I talked to it till four
I read some old love letters right up till the break of dawn
Yeah I've been sittin' alone diggin' up bones
And I went through the jewelry and I found our wedding rings
I put mine on my finger and I gave yours a fling
Across this lonely bedroom of our recent broken home
Yeah tonight I'm sittin' alone diggin' up bones
I'm diggin' up bones I'm diggin' up bones exhummin' things that's better left alone
And I'm resurectin' mem'ries of a love that's dead and gone
Yeah tonight I'm sittin' alone diggin' up bones
And I went through the closet and I found some things in there
Like that pretty negligee that I bought you to wear
And I recalled how good you looked each time you had it on
Yeah tonight I'm sittin' alone diggin' up bones
I'm diggin' up bones...
[ guitar ]
I'm resurectin' mem'ries...
I'm diggin' up bones...
I'm diggin' up bones...
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5.
NO PLACE LIKE HOME
(Paul Overstreet)
« © '86 Scarlet Moon Music, BMI »
There's my easy chair just sittin' there I've spent a lot of time
Thinking of this perfect love I know it's yours and mine
And oh how I love that old picture on the wall of you and me and the kids
My most favorite times in life I've spent right here where we lived
There's no place like home there's no place like home
It just hit me as I was leaving there's no place like home
From the bedroom I smell perfumue my favorite kind you wore
And it brings back mem'ries of all those nights behind our bedroom door
And the saddest thing I think I've ever seen was my closet all cleaned out
It's sad to think that one must leave becasuse we can't work things out
There's no place like home...
So baby say that I can stay for just a day or so
Then maybe I can change your mind and I won't have to go
Just look into these baby blues and tell me it's okay
I love that smile it drives me wild no love won't die today
There's no place like home there's no place like home
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6.
1982
(Buddy Blackmon - Vip Vipperman)
« © '85 Southern Grand Alliance, ASCAP / Songs Of Grand Coalition, BMI »
Operator please connect me with 1982
I need to make apologies for what I didn't do
I sure do need to tell her that I've thought the whole thing through
And now it's clear that she is what I should have held on to
They say hindsight's twenty-twenty but I'm nearly goin' blind
From starin' at her photograph and wishing she was mine
It's that same ole lost love story it's sad but it's true
There was a time when she was mine in 1982
[ steel ]
Postman can you sell me a special kind of stamp
One to send a letter from this crazy lonely man
Back into the wasted years of my living past
I need to tell her now I know how long my love will last
They say hindsight's twenty-twenty...
Losing my mind going back in time in 1982
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7.
SEND MY BODY
(Randy Travis)
« © '86 Sometimes You Win Music, ASCAP »
Well the judge he found me guilty of wrong doing
And he sentenced me to hang in mid-July
He looked down at me and said your life's a ruin
If I were you I'd break right down and cry
But nobody seems to care that I ain't guilty
Lord I never did the things they said I've done
But I guess they're gonna have to hang somebody
And it's looking like I'm goin' to be the one
So send my body home on a freight train
And don't worry none that I don't go first class
Send my body home on a freight train so everyone can see me when I pass
And don't worry none about no fancy funeral it don't matter how they lay me down
You see they bury me out by mama's apple tree
And send my body back to my home town
[ guitar ]
My mama was a damn hard workin woman and she tried to raise us kids without a pa
Last thing that she said she was on her dying bed
Was son don't get in trouble with the law
Whenever my time comes to meet my maker I'm gona try to do my very best
I'm gonna try to stand and take it like a man when they ask if I have one request
Well I'll say send my body home...
Yeah you see they bury me...
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8.
MESSIN' WITH MY MIND
(Joe Allen - Charlie Williams)
« © '86 Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
I said one thing I'd never do was care or hang around for too long anywhere
I could always move ahead with nothing left behind
Then you started messin' with my mind
This town was just another place to play to have some fun and then be on my way
You were just another way for me to pass some time
Then you started messin' with my mind
I can't believe how much my mind has changed or the way my life's been rearanged
I swore one thing I'd never do was be to staying kind
Then you started messin' with my mind
[ clarinet - guitar ]
The first in line for party time was me always the last to leave or try to be
I never thought I'd wanna change I suited me just fine
Then you started messin' with my mind
I can't believe how much...
I swore one thing...
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9.
REASONS I CHEAT
(Randy Travis)
« © '86 Sometimes You Win Music, ASCAP »
A working day too long when everything goes wrong
And a boss who don't know I'm alive
I once had a notion I'd get that promotion but now I barely survive
A wife to demanding with no understanding of why I stay dead on my feet
A dimly lit tavern a willing young woman are some of the reasons I cheat
My children keep growing me age keeps on showing like all of my old friends I meet
So I'm getting older my life's growing colder just some of the reasons I cheat
[ fiddle - steel ]
The hair that I'm losing and a woman who's choosing to lay sound asleep by my side
The bills they are mounting that's when I start counting
On someone to help soothe my pride
A lady that knows me affection she shows me and a smile so easy and sweet
The dreams that I've buried the load that I've carried
Are some of the reasons I cheat
My children keep growing...
Yes I'm getting older my life's growing colder just some of the reasons I cheat
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10.
THERE'LL ALWAYS BE A HONKY TONK SOMEWHERE
(Johnny McRae - Steve Clark)
« © '86 Music City Music, ASCAP »
There may not be a Superbowl in 2083
Cars and trains and video games will all be history
The world just keeps on changing things come and then they go
Nothing lasts forever except one thing I know
There'll always be a honky tonk with a jukebox in the corner
And someone crying in their beer and one old hanger-oner
And a lady looking lonely from a losing love affair
Yeah there'll always be a honky tonk somewhere
Yeah there'll always be a honky tonk somewhere
There may be fact'ries on the moon and farming out in space
It seems there's nothing here on earth that something won't replace
But as long as there's a broken heart there'll be a place to go
Where good ol' boys meet good ol' girls and the wine and music flow
There'll always be a honky tonk...
There'll always be a honky tonk...
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