DREAMLOVERS
(MCA 5140)
October/1980
Produced by Jerry Crutchfield
Pete Wade, Jon Goin, Pete Bordonali, Chip Young, Johnny Christopher - guitar
Weldon Myrick - steel
Bill McCubbin, Joe Osborne, Steve Schaffer, Neil Stubenhaus, Jack Williams - bass
Buster Phillips, Jerry Carrigan, Steve Turner - drums
Jerry Swallow - mandolin
Bobby Wood, Hargus Pig Robbins, Steve Goldstein, Steve Hardin - piano/keyboards
Shane Keister - synthesizer
Strings by The Sheldon Kurland Strings
Vocals:
Mel Tillis, Bergen White, Diane Tidwell, Sheri Kramer, Steve Goldstein
Recorded:
May/1980, Nashville
1.
CAN I SEE YOU TONIGHT
(Rafe VanHoy - Deborah Allen)
« © '78 Posey Publishing, BMI »
I don't know where to start now that we've fallen apart
How can we talk heart to heart you're so far away what can I say
I've tried to understand how things got so out of hand
I've held out as long as I can now I'm on the telephone
Sayin' can I see you tonight think of the time that we're wasting
Everything could be right it could be love that we're making
[ guitar ]
Now that we're on the line I'll tell you what's on my mind
Love that we're tryin' to hide well is suffering from too much pride
When will we see the end to this game where nobody wins
Cause as long as nobody gives in it goes on and on and on and on
Can I see you tonight...
Instead of breaking up instead of breaking up
Can I see you tonight...
Can I see you tonight...
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2.
LOVE KNOWS WE TRIED
(Rory Bourke - Jan Crutchfield - Kerry Chater)
« © '80 Careers Music, BMI / Chappell & Co, ASCAP »
It's time to pack up all the dreams and walk away
No matter what our hearts might say
Now we know we're at the end of a love so it's foolish to pretend why try
We cried clinging to each other tenderly we were the best that we could be
Through the sweet and gentle years and now after all these tears we cried
Love knows we tried
Love knows we tried we gave it all we had and more
Love knows we tried we've got the memory and someday we may see
Goodbye doesn't mean we really didn't try so you can hold your head up high
And as I walk away from you knowing well we did all that we could do inside
Love knows we tried
Oh love knows we tried...
Love knows we tried love knows we tried
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3.
I'VE GOT SOMEBODY
(Randy Goodrum)
« © '80 Chappell & Co, ASCAP »
Everybody take a big long listen I've got somebody to love
Everybody take a big long listen cause I've got somebody to love
I used to worry bout tomorrow but tomorrow never came
Somebody with a crystal ball said you'll never be happy at all
Well that's one point for me and none for the ball
I've got somebody to love I've got somebody to take care of
I've got somebody to love
Everybody take a big long listen I've got somebody to love
[ guitar ]
I used to comb my hair for hours tryin' to make it look just right
I used to make fancy plans just to find someone and have a one night stand
Well that's all over now and here's the reason why
I've got somebody to love...
I've got somebody to love...
I've got somebody to love...
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4.
LET ME COUNT THE WAYS
(Jerry Crutchfield - Claire Cloninger)
« © '80 Songs Of Universal, BMI / Universal Music, ASCAP »
Here goes one more empty night lonely lady foolish pride
Do I need you deep inside let me count the ways
Losing tracks of tears I've shed feeling empty as my bed
Could you give me love instead let me count the ways
Who could count the times you're on my mind more and more
Who could count the waves that reach out for the shore
Days and nights are all the same one part lonely two parts pain
Do I need you back again let me count the ways
[ strings ]
Who could count the times...
Let me count the ways
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5.
DREAM LOVER
(Bobby Darin)
« © '59 Alley Music, BMI »
[ with Glen Campbell ]
Every night I hope in pray a dream lover will come my way
Hold in the lovin' arms and know the magic of her charms
Cause I want (I want) a girl (a boy) just to call (to call) my own
I want a dream lover so I don't have to dream alone
Dream lover where are you with the love oh so true
And the hands that I can hold count the minutes as we grow old
Cause I want (I want) a girl...
Some day I don't know how I hope she'll hear my plea
Some way I don't know how she'll bring her love to me
Dream lover until then I'll go to sleep and dream again
That's the only thing I could do to make my lovin' dreams come true
Cause I want (I want) a girl...
I want a dream lover so I don't have to dream alone
Dream lover don't wanna dream (I don't wanna dream alone)
Dream lover dream out dream out dream lover (I don't wanna) dream alone
Dream lover let's dream dream lover oh my lovin' sweet dreams dream lover
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6.
SOMEBODY TRYING TO TELL YOU SOMETHING
(Joe Rainey - Jack Tempchin)
« © '80 Glen Campbell Music, BMI »
You were movin' too fast to ever grow old
Must a took a wrong turn back down the road
Searchin' for truth where there just wasn't any
And the wine's not so sweet when you've had one too many
Somebody's knocking on your door is your day finally coming
Is it the hand of fate or maybe somebody tryin' to tell you something
Looking out the window at the fading light
If you could do it all over where would you be tonight
Shadows on the walls like her long dark hair
And you know you know better when you say you don't care
Somebody's knocking on your door...
[ rh.guitar ]
You tore it all apart now put it back together
It'd be easier if you could just live forever
You feel something coming that you don't understand
And you pray to the Lord it ain't out of your hands
Somebody's knocking on your door...
Somebody's knocking on your door...
Maybe somebody tryin' to tell you something
Maybe somebody tryin' to tell you something
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7.
ALL THE WAY
(Bob Morrison - Jim Zerface)
« © '80 Music City Music, ASCAP »
I came close to fallin' a time or two before
But somethin' always told me to wait for somethin' more
Then you took me places my heart had never been
You brought me to the edge of love and now I'm fallin' in
I'm going down down down spinning round round round
Falling deeper in love every day
I've tried so hard to take it slow but I'm losing control
This time I think I'm gonna fall all the way
[ strings ]
I could feel the magic from the very start
There's no way to stop a feelin' when it's from the heart
Now I'm all but helpless when you hold me close
I'm not sure just where you're takin' me but I'm sure I want to go
I'm going down down down...
(Down down spinning round round round)
I'm going down down down...
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8.
TENNESSEE WOMAN
(Jim Webb)
« © '80 PolyGram Int, ASCAP »
Lay me down on porch at midnight get me high on the southern moonlight
Walk me down by the river star bright hold me my friend I'm home again
I'm a Tennessee woman who's been away from home
I know I don't belong in that city world
Old Smoky Mountains do you remember me
I'm from Tennessee I'm just a local girl
[ piano ]
Make my bed where the sun can wake me from my dreams of childhood take me
Where the winds of time can't shake me help me unload this weight of the road
I'm a Tennessee woman...
I'm a Tennessee woman...
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9.
DON'T YOU WANT TO BE A LOVER TONIGHT
(Sterling Whipple)
« © '80 Careers Music, BMI »
It's the time of night when lovers head for home
With polite goodbyes to the others who sleep alone
From the bright lights and the crowds they disappear
While you and I make up our minds right here
Don't you want to be a lover tonight
Behind some closed door where dreams can take the light
I'd love to see your face if we get it right
oh come with me and be a lover tonight
[ guitar ]
We can make the world a better place to be
As part of it is simply you and me
And one thing even two can do for sure
Is make some love that wasn't here before
Don't you want to be a lover tonight...
Don't you want to be a lover tonight...
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10.
MY SONG
(Joe Rainer - Steve Hardin)
« © '80 Glen Campbell Music, BMI »
[ with Glen Campbell ]
I wasn't lookin' for no one I was just out tryin' to have some fun
When baby you walked in my world that day
Then you looked right into my eyes and a voice that could make the devil cry
You just sang my poor heart away
Friends may come and friends may go but lovers either stay
Or break your heart oh you just fall apart
I thought I could take it or leave it but I can't hardly believe it
But nobody ever sang a song about me before
And I begged you baby as you walked out the door
Please don't play my song for somebody else
It's so beautiful let me keep it for myself
Please don't change the chorus and put in another man's name
Please don't take my song away oh baby please don't take my song away
[ keyboard ]
Sittin' here in my lonely room with the radio on one afternoon
I heard a voice that made me shiver
Oh no one could sing that way if they didn't mean just what they say
And my tears fell like a river
Sang oh baby I love you I was such a fool not to stay
We may never see each other again but I'll never take your song away
Oh baby I'll never take your song away oh baby I'll never take your song away
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