lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

I'VE GOT ALL THE HEARTACHES I CAN HANDLE

(Shel Silverstein) « © '73 Evil Eye Music, BMI »
I just come into this bar to have a quick one
Maybe give the bowling game a whirl
Well you sat down next to me and in a minute I could see
That you're a complicated kinda girl
You say there's someone home waitin' for you
But you don't really care much if he cares
If you're prayin' for a chance had a really big romance
I don't think I'm the answer to your prayers

Cause I've got all the heartaches I can handle back at home
I got all the pain and sufferin' I can use
While I thank you for your gracious invitation
I'll call you when I'm runnin' short to blues
[ guitar ] It's true that you might love me more than she does
And we might be a whole lot more than friends
But I might start to love you as much as he does
And then you'd be out looking once again
I've been traveling down love's rocky road a long time
And I guess that I should know a danger sign
So you stay here try to drown your trouble
And I guess I'll go walking home to mine

Cause I've got all the heartaches...
I'll call you when I'm runnin' out of blues
**********

2.

TEXAS TROUBADOUR

(Porter Wagoner) « © '73 Porter Music Music, BMI »
The New York City folks say I'm too country
The Grinny Village hippies call me square
But at the Long Horn barroom down in Dallas Texas
They call me the Texas Troubadour there

My home state of Texas you've been good to me
Your wide open spaces treat me fair
The girls are so much prettier down in Texas
They don't breathe that New York City polluted air
[ steel ] The New York City sidewalks filled with people
Too busy to say hello to you there
With hearts as cold as the concrete that they walk on
They sure could use some clean fresh Texas air
Now Texas folks don't judge you till they know you
And they don't judge you then by what you wear
And you can feel at home anyplace in Texas
If you don't own a thing or if you're a millionaire

Now my home state of Texas...
**********

3.

MISSING IN ACTION

(A. Q. Smith - Helen Kaye) « © '70 Peer International, BMI »
The warship had landed and night come ashore
The fighting was over for me ever more
For I had been wounded they left me forget
A stone for my pillow and snow for my bed
The enemy found me and took me away and made me a prisoner of war so they say
But God in his mercy was with me one day the gate was left open and I ran away
I returned to the old home my sweet wife to see
The home I had built for my darling and me
The door I then opened and there on the stand I saw a picture of her and the man
The clothes she was wearing told me the sad tale
My darling was wearing a new bridal veil
Then I found a letter and these words I read missing in action she thought I was dead
[ steel ] So I kissed her picture and whispered goodbye
My poor heart was breaking but my eyes were dry
I knew it was too late for her now to learn
I knew she must never know I had returned
A vagabond dreamer forever I'll roam
Because there was no one to welcome me home
The face of my darling no more I shall see for missing in action forever I'll be
**********

4.

DON'T SHE LOOK GOOD

(Jerry Chesnut) « © '72 Tree Publishing, BMI »
She was on her way out of your life when I found her not knowing which way to turn
She's forgotten the feeling of two arms around her but it didn't take her long to learn
You had new worlds to conquer so you didn't want her or anything cramping your style
But don't she look great in the new dress I bought her
And don't she look good when she smiles
Did you really think you were so all important she couldn't get by on her own
Did you really think losing you would destroy her and that's why she kept hanging on
She stuck to her promise and talked to her conscious she did all she could for a while
Then picked up the pieces and she started livin'
Now don't she look good when she smiles
[ steel ] Don't she look good in the new dress I bought her
And the new way that she wears her hair
She's in a new world and she's not the same girl
She knows now that somebody cares
You can't believe that the same girl you let go could change so in this little while
But don't she look great in the new dress I bought her
And don't she look good when she smiles
Now don't she look great in the new dress I bought her
And don't she look good when she smiles
**********

5.

DAISY A DAY

(Jud Strunk) « © '72 Seven High Music, ASCAP »
He remembers the first time he met her he remembers the first thing she said
He remembers the first time he held her and the night that she came to his bed
He remembers her sweet way of saying honey has something gone wrong
He remembers the fun and the teasing and the reason he wrote her this song

I'll give you a daisy a day dear I'll give you a daisy a day
I'll love you until the rivers run still and the four winds we know blow away

They would walk down the street in the evening and for years I would see them go by
And their love that was more than the clothes that they wore
Could be seen in the gleam of their eyes
As a kid they would take me for candy and I'd love to go tagging along
Holding hands while we walked to the corner
And the old man would sing her his song

I'll give you a daisy a day dear...
[ steel ] Now he walks down the street in the evening and he stops by the old candy store
And I somehow believe he's believing that he's holding her hand like before
For he feels all her love walking with him and he smiles at the things she might say
Then the old man walks up to the hilltop and he gives her a daisy a day

I'll give you a daisy a day dear...
I'll give you a daisy a day
**********

6.

TEXAS DANCE HALL GIRL

(Justin Tubb) « © '72 Tree Publishing, BMI »
She's the first one on the dance floor when the music starts to play
She's the first to buy the band around the drink
She's just out to have a good time dances every set they play
And she don't care what anybody thinks

She's a sad and lonely Texas dance hall girl
Who's just tryin' to bring a smile to this old world
But behind the smile a broken heart lives in another world
She's a sad and lonely Texas dance hall girl
[ steel ] No one really knows the story that there's an old love on her mind
Cause the certain song brings teardrops to her eyes
But they only dare a minute then she's laughing one more time
With what little happiness a teardrop buys

She's a sad and lonely...
She's just a sad and lonely Texas dance hall girl
**********

7.

MILES IN MEMORIES

(Ernest Tubb - Carl Story) « © '73 Ernest Tubb Music, BMI »
Yes I've got lots of miles but lots of mem'ries
And I wouldn't set the miles back if I could
Cause whenever I get blue I know exactly what to do
Just retravel all those miles in memories

You say that all those miles are showing on me
Well I'll admit I had some rough ones way back when
But for every mile they hold a story left untold
Back there in my book of memories

Cause I've got lots of miles...
[ steel ] Now as faces and places come before me
Making up my full book of memories
And I wouldn't ever dare one page to solve up there
I might want to review them all some day

Yes I've got lots of miles...
**********

8.

LORD KNOWS I'M DRINKING

(Bill Anderson) « © '72 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Hello Mrs Johnson you self righteous woman
Sunday School teacher what brings you out slummin'
Do you reckon the preacher would approve where you are
Standing here vis'tin' with a back slidin' christian in a neighborhood bar
Well yes that's my bottle and yes that's my glass
And I see you're eye balling this pretty young lass
It ain't none of your business but yes she's with me
And we don't need no sermon you self righteous woman just let us be

The Lord knows I'm drinking and running around
And he don't need your loud mouth informing the town
The Lord knows I'm sinning and sinning ain't right
But me and the good Lord gonna have us a good talk later tonight
[ guitar + steel ] Goodbye Mrs Johnson you self righteous biddy
I don't need your preaching and I don't need your pity
So go back to whatever you hypocrites do
And when I talk to heaven be nice and I'll put in a good word for you

Yes the Lord knows I'm drinking...
Yes me and the good Lord gonna have us a good talk later tonight
**********

9.

PASS ME BY (IF YOU'RE ONLY PASSING THROUGH)

(Hillman Hall) « © '72 Leahrae Music, BMI »
Would you look at what came down the road today
Wanting me to be one more mistake to make
A bridge to burn to get to someone knew
Hey pass me by if you're only passing through

You sure look like the traveling kind to me
Don't stop if this ain't where you want to be
Now I don't know what you think you're running to
Hey pass me by if you're only passing through
[ guitar + steel ] I'm not gonna be your stepping stone among the other hearts that you've walked on
Lord help me if I fall in love with you hey pass me by if you're only passing through
Hey pass me by if you're only passing through

You sure look like the traveling kind to me...
Just pass me by if you're only passing through
**********

10.

WHAT MY WOMAN CAN'T DO

(Billy Sherrill - Earl Montgomery - George Jones) « © '73 Algee Music, BMI / Songs Of Universal, BMI »
It amazes me how she can change my mind
When it seems to be impossible she can do it everytime
And the way she always loves me she's got that down perfect too
I keep asking myself what is it the lady can't do
She brightens any room she walks inside
And the way she comes in smiling you'd never think she ever cries
She still looks as young and pretty as she did the day we met
If there's one thing bad about her I ain't found it yet
What it is my woman can't do can't be done
If there's ever been a darling I've got one
She beats all I've ever seen she's the champion of our team
What my woman can't do can't be done what my woman can't do can't be done
**********

11.

LAST LETTER

(Rex Griffin) « © '39 Anne Rachel Music, ASCAP »
Why do you treat me as if I were only a friend
What have I done that makes you so diff'rent and cold
Sometimes I wonder if you'll be contented again
Will you be happy when you are withered and old
I cannot offer you diamonds or mansions so fine
I cannot offer you clothes that your young body crave
But if you'll say that you long to forever be mine
Think off the heartaches the tears and the sorrow you'll save
[ steel ] When you are weary and tired of another men's gold
When you are lonely remember this letter my own
Don't try to answer though I've suffered anguish untold
If you don't love me I wish you would leave me alone
While I am writing this letter I think of the past
And of the promises that you are breaking so free
But to this world I will soon say my farewells at last
I will be gone when you read this last letter from me
**********