lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

SHE'S LOOKIN' BETTER BY THE MINUTE

(Jimmie Helms - Grant Townsley) « © '69 Sure-Fire Music, BMI »
She's looking better by the minute well I don't know what's in it
That makes the drink turn a poor boy's head

She's not much to look at a little old and a little fat
But I'll hang around and have a beer or two
For I know if I'll drink enough she won't look quite so rough
It's amazing what a little beer can do

She's looking better by the minute well I don't know what's in it
That makes the drink turn a fellow's head
She's looking better by the minute I guess they must've been benedict
To go right to a poor boy's head

Now she don't looks so awful bad considerin' in all this beer I've had
As a matter of fact guess I could do worse
I could take the sixpacks home but I sure hate to drink alone
And it takes more than beer to quench my thirst

She's looking better...
[ guitar ] Now in the darkness of this bar she looks like a movie star
That goes to show how wrong the guy can be
I guess I'd better pick her up fore I start to sober up
We'll have a ball this movie star and me

She's looking better...
To go right to a poor boy's head
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2.

IF I EVER STOP HURTIN'

(Billy Hughes) « © '69 Ernest Tubb Music, BMI »
If I ever stop hurtin' I'm gonna try one more time
If I ever get over this girl that's on my mind
I'm gonna keep looking for a girl who's true and kind
If I ever stop hurtin' I'm gonna try one more time

This is not the first time I have had a hertache
This is not the first time I have loved in vain
I keep hoping that someday I'll find a good girl
Who won't leave me with a heart so full of pain

If I ever stop hurtin'...
[ steel ] If I ever stop hurtin'...
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3.

GAMES PEOPLE PLAY

(Joe South) « © '68 ATV Songs, BMI »
Oh the games people now every night and every day now
Never meanin' what they say now never sayin' what they mean
So they 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 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
Oh neither one will ever give in so we gaze at an eight by ten
Thinkin' bout the things that might have been and it's a dirty rotten shame

Lotten da la da da da...
[ guitar ] People walkin' up to ya singing glory hallelujah
Then they're tryin' to sock it to you 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 and get on board

Lotten da la da da da...

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

Lotten da la da da da...
Yes I'm talkin' bout you and me and the games people play
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4.

MAKING BELIEVE

(Jimmy Work) « © '54 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Making believe that you still love me and it's leaving me alone and so blue
I'll always dream still I'll never own you making believe is all I can do
I can't hold you close when you're not with me
You're somebody's love and you'll never be mine
Making believe I'll spend my lifetime loving you and making believe
[ steel - guitar ] I can't hold you close darling when you're not with me
You're somebody's love and you'll never be mine
Making believe I'll spend my lifetime just loving you and making believe
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5.

CARROLL COUNTY ACCIDENT

(Bob Ferguson) « © '68 Warden Music, BMI »
Carroll County's pointed out as kinda square
The biggest thing that happens is a county fair
I guess that's why it seemes like such a big event
What we all call the Carroll County accident

The wreck was on the highway just inside the line
Walter Browning lost his life and for a time
It seemed that Mary Ellen Jones would surely die
But she lived long enough for her to testify

Walter Browning was a happy married man
And he wore a golden wedding ring upom his hand
But it was gone nobody knew just where it went
He lost it in the Carroll County accident

Mary Ellen testified he flagged her down
Said he was sick and could she drive him into town
No one even doubted what she said was true
Cause she was well respected in the county too
[ guitar ] I went down to see the wreck like all the rest
The bloody seats the broken glass the tangled mess
But I found something no one else had even seen
Behind the dash in Mary's crumpled up machine

A little matchbox circled by a rubber band
And inside the ring from Walter Browning's hand
It took a while to figure out just what it meant
The truth about the Carroll County accident

By dark of night I dropped the ring into a well
And took a sacred oath that I would never tell
The truth about the Carroll County accident
Cause the county ordered Dad a marble monument
I lost him in the Carroll County accident
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6.

JUST A DRINK AWAY

(Bobby Lewis - Billy Parker) « © '69 Tree Publishing, BMI »
See that girl at the bar she just took my house and car
And the little ones that meant to world to me
She gets wilder day by day now she's just a drink away
Just a drink away from anyone but me
So step up to the bar makes no difference who you are
You'll be welcomed just as long as she can see
That she's tearing out my heart like she planned from the start
She's just a drink away from anyone but me
[ steel ] I tried so hard to leave this town but it seems I'm tied and bound
To a love that somehow just won't set me free
And I miss my baby so and I pray they'll never know
She's just a drink away from anyone but me
If the judge could only see what she does to punish me
I wonder how he'd feel about her now
Would he still think that she's right If he could see her here each night
Just a drink away from anyone but me
She's just a drink away from anyone but me
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7.

SATURDAY SATAN SUNDAY SAINT

(Wayne P. Walker) « © '69 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI / Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
Saturday satan Sunday saint foolin' your neighbors that's what you think
Readin' the good book singin' the hymns
Come Monday morning and he's back to a life of sin

Old brother Brown all week he steals
Tells everyone this big business deals
The deacon walks by a dollar hits the plate
Tryin' to buy self a ticket to the pearly gates
Old sister Rose on the very first row
Been a sittin' right there twenty years or so
Never hears a word when the preacher speaks
Too busy talkin' bout the bad girl down the street

Saturday satan Sunday saint...

This little song holds good advice
Though some people may think it ain't too nice
Well if you're one who's wearing the shoes
Well there's somebody watchin' and you ain't nobody's fool

Saturday satan Sunday saint...
Come Monday morning and he's back to a life of sin
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8.

TODAY I STARTED LOVING YOU AGAIN

(Merle Haggard - Bonnie Owens) « © '67 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Today I started loving you again
I'm right back where I've really always been
I got over you just long enough to let my heartaches mend
Then today I started loving you again

What a fool I was to think I could get by
With only these few million tears I've cried
I should have known the worst was yet to come
And that crying time for me had just begun

Cause today I started loving...
Yes today I started loving you again
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9.

FOLSOM PRISON BLUES

(Johnny Cash) « © '56 House Of Cash, BMI »
I hear the train a comin' it's rollin' round the bend
And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when
I'm stuck in Folsom Prison and time keeps draggin' on
But that train keeps a rollin' on down to San Antone
When I was just a baby my mama told me son
Always be a good boy don't ever play with guns
But I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die
When I hear that whistle blowin' I hang my head and I cry
[ guitar ] I bet there's rich folks eatin' in some fancy dining car
They're probably drinkin' coffeee and smokin' big cigars
Well I know I had it comin' I know I can't be free
But those people keep a movin' and that's what tortures me
[ steel ] If they freed me from this prison if that railroad train was mine
I bet I'd move it on a little farther down the line
Far from Folsom Prison that's where I want to stay
And I'd let that lonesome whistle blow my blues away
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10.

TOMMY'S DOLL

(Glenn D. Tubb - Jack Moran) « © '69 Tree Publishing, BMI »
The kids all laughed at Tommy's doll but Tommy didn't care
Cause he felt so much better when that little doll was there
His mom and dad were busy doing things that parents do
So Tommy's doll was all he had to tell his troubles to
When Tommy reached the age of five his daddy said now son
It's time to trade your dolly in for these soldiers and this gun
But Tommy said oh daddy please my dolly wants to stay
But his father said now be a man and he threw the doll away
Tommy never talked much after that he just sorta went into a shell
But he never cried he just held inside all those things he couldn't tell
Then one day he saw his dolly wave from a trash can cross the street
And like a flash he darted out his little friend to meet
He never saw this speeding car nor heard this screeching sound
And before the driver knew it he had run poor Tommy down
(The people came as people do and look down at the boy
He layed there for a moment like a tragic broken toy)
Then reaching out his little arms he sat up straight and tall
And whispered with his dying breath someone please hand me my doll
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11.

ONE MORE MEMORY

(Bobby George - Vern Stovall) « © '62 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Just give me one more memory that's all I ask of you
To see you once again would mean a lot to me
We'll pretend I'm just a friend that you once knew
So please be there and give me one more memory

Now hello darling I'm just passing through this way
Thought I'd call you up I haven't long to stay
If you'll meet me in our same old meetin' place
I promise you that I won't speak of yesterdays

Just give me one more memory...
[ guitar ] Now I respect the choice you made so long ago
And if you're happy dear that's all I need to know
I'm not here to cause you any misery
But if I could see you I'd have one more memory

Just give me one more memory...
So please be there and give me one more memory
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