COUNTRY HAPPENING
(Chart CHS-1018)
September/1969
Produced by Cliff Williamson
Grady Martin, Wayne Moss, Harold Bradley, Ray Edenton - guitar
Lloyd Green - steel/dobro
Bob Moore - bass
Buddy Harman - drums
Hargus Pig Robbins - piano
Charlie McCoy - harmonica
Recorded:
Apr/1968, RCA Victor Studio, Nashville (4,8,9)
July/1968, RCA Victor Studio, Nashville (1,5,10)
Aug/1968, RCA Victor Studio, Nashville (2,6,12)
March/1969, RCA Victor Studio, Nashville (3,7,11)
1.
FREEBORN MAN
(Keith Allison - Mark Lindsay)
« © '67 Gigawatt Music, BMI / Keith Git-tar Music, BMI »
I was born in the southland twenty odd years ago
I ran away for the first time when I was four years old
I'm a freeborn man my home is on my back
I know every inch of highway every foot of back road every mile of rairoad track
I got a gal Cincinnati I got a woman in San Antone
I've always loved the girl next door but any place is home
I'm a freeborn man...
[ harmonica - dobro ]
I got me a worn out guitar I carry in an old coal sack
I've hocked it bout two hundred times but I always got it back
I'm a freeborn man...
You may not like my appearance may not like my song
May not like the way I talk but you'll like me when I'm gone
I'm a freeborn man...
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2.
YES VIRGINIA
(Liz Anderson)
« © '67 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
(Yes Virginia yes Virginia yes Virginia yes Virginia)
I've been telling you there's someone else Virginia
You're not listening this time I think you should
But you've never really cared have you Virginia
So you just can't see how anybody could
Yes Virginia there is another woman and she loves me like I used to wish you'd do
Yes Virginia there is another woman now I need her more than I need you
(Yes Virginia yes Virginia yes Virginia yes Virginia)
I have never measured up to what you've wanted
I'm through trying now I know I never can
That's the reason why I love her so Virginia
She accepts me just exactly as I am
Yes Virginia there is another woman...
(Yes Virginia yes Virginia)
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3.
BUT THAT'S ALL RIGHT
(Autry Inman)
« © '66 Tree Publishing, BMI »
I gave my heart I gave my all you built me up then you let me fall
You wore my ring upon your hand but then you changed your mind
But that's all right I looked around and found true love
[ steel ]
You made me laugh you made me cry I wished that day that I could die
You never dreamed that by and by I'd be glad you changed your mind
But that's all right I looked around and found true love
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4.
WOMAN WON'T YOU MAKE UP MY MIND
(Jerry Lane - Joe Gibson - Kenny Vernon)
« © '69 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
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5.
SEASHORES OF MY MIND
(Kenny Vernon - Nestor Eaton)
« © '69 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
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6.
LOOKING OVER OUR SHOULDERS
(Joe Gibson - Geoff Stephens)
« © '69 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
[ with LaWanda Lindsey ]
Looking over our shoulders everywhere we go
So afraid that we'll be seen by someone that we know
Then we're in double trouble for we live our double life
Looking over our shoulders for my husband and my wife
I guess we're no better than two common feet
Though it's love not money that we still
So when we run and hide to meet each other
Doubts and fears are always at our hill
Looking over our shoulders...
Though we tried to tell ourselves that we're not wrong
And we have to think about our kids
And it's a poor excuse for we knew all alone
It's not right to steal the way we did
Looking over our shoulders...
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7.
BA-BA SONG
(Nestor Eaton - Wayne Gailey - Kenny Vernon)
« © '69 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Well here I am and there you are and I don't know what to say
If I could sing a song to you well this is what I'd say
I'd say ba ba ba ba ba...
[ guitar ]
Well I can tell by your smile you're as happy as can be
So won't you come a little closer babe and sing this song with me
Goin' ba ba ba ba ba...
[ guitar - steel ]
Now the day has come when you said you'd marry me
You and me we'll sing in harmony
Singin' ba ba ba ba ba...
One more time ba ba ba ba ba...
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8.
OH WHY NOT TONIGHT
(Gene Hood)
« © '69 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
You keep saying you don't love him you want to be free
You tell me your wants are mine
Yet each time I ask you to tell him goodbye
You answer I can't oh how I try
Why oh why not tonight tell him let's make our wrongs right
I can't wait for tomorrow I'm growin' weak love's growin' stronger
Why oh why not tonight
You don't want to hurt him to you he's been kind
We both know we can't go on this way
We must find an ending and start a new beginning
We can't go on cheating for life
Why oh why not tonight...
Why oh why not tonight
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9.
I'LL TELL YOU WHERE TO GO
(Jerry Lane - Gene Hood - Kenny Vernon)
« © '69 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
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10.
IS IT ME
(Jerry Lane - Kenny Vernon - Wayne Gailey)
« © '69 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
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11.
RAINING ON A SUNNY DAY WITHOUT YOU
(Jerry Lane - Wayne Gailey - Kenny Vernon)
« © '69 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
It's raining and skies are blue the sun is shining and so are you
It's raining on a sunny day without you
You're laughing but I'm so blue each drop that falls is a part of you
It's raining on a sunny day without you
When the sun comes up and the rain comes down good luck for me should come around
The cloudy skies for me won't disappear
Excuse me if you think I'm wrong but I just wish you'd come on home
It's raining on a sunny day without you
[ steel ]
When the sun comes up...
Yes it's raining on a sunny day without you
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12.
EYE TO EYE
(Joe Gibson)
« © '69 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
[ with LaWanda Lindsey ]
Yes you've got that full of doubt look on your face
And you act like you came in laugh in the human race
Too late now to search our minds thinking of polite
For the first time since we're married we're seeing eye to eye
I caught you out with someone else yes I was running round
But what were you and that guy doin' on this side of town
The truth may hurt but I'm afraid that it's too late to cry
For the first time since we're married we're seeing eye to eye
[ guitar ]
Seems we're both out with the other what a heck
At the game of slippin' round we're running neck and neck
I thought I was being smart and I thought that I was sly
For the first time since we're married we're seeing eye to eye
I caught you out...
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