PICKIN' WILD MOUNTAIN BERRIES
(Chart CHS-1030)
1970
Produced by Slim Williamson
Recorded:
Dec/1969, RCA Victor Studio, Nashville (1,2)
Jan/1970, RCA Victor Studio, Nashville
1.
PICKIN' WILD MOUNTAIN BERRIES
(Cliff Thomas - Ed Thomas - Bob McRee)
« © '68 Crazy Cajun Music, BMI »
Where you've been where you've been it's the same ole question again
What's the use baby what's the use they ain't never gonna turn us loose
You got dirt all over your face oh and your lipstick is way out of place
Oh we gonna tell 'em what we tell 'em every time before
They won't leave us alone they want us to come home
We been busy makin' merries and pickin' wild mountain berries
We're pickin' wild mountain berries that's our excuse every time
But we've been busy makin' merries and pickin' wild mountain berries
[ banjo ]
I don't know oh I don't know if I can keep honey from lettin' it show
What's our plan tell me what's our plan now you know they won't understand
If my hair is a drippin' wet and my clothes are soakin' wet
And we didn't go skinny dippin' in a cement pond
You're my baby you're my man though your hair is sure gettin' to be a mess
There ain't no berries in your bucket well'll explain it honey as best as we can
They won't leave us alone...
We're pickin' wild mountain berries...
*******
2.
WE DON'T DESERVE EACH OTHER
(Jerry Lane)
« © '70 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Don't look at me with love in your eyes I don't deserve a place in your life
You know me much too well you should realize
I'm not the kind of girl that you'd want for the wife
You seem to waste the tears flowin' after me
And heard the words of sadness that they say
People I meet on the street turn their backs to me
While their fingers of gossip point my way
We don't deserve each other we're not good enough for us
I can't look down my path I'm not worthy of your trust
We don't deserve each other but love will find a way
We'll pretend we're someone else and we only met today
[ harpsichord ]
We don't deserve each other...
**********
3.
LOOKING OVER OUR SHOULDERS
(Joe Gibson - Geoff Stephens)
« © '69 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
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...
**********
4.
YOU AND YOUR SWEET LOVE
(Bill Anderson)
« © '69 Tree Publishing, BMI »
I wish you only knew all the days I've made it through
Because of you and your sweet love
I wish that I could count the times peace and comfort filled my mind
Because of you and your sweet love
You're that keeps me going the sun that lights my sky
The rose that blooms in winter the rain that cools July
Never try to tell me it wasn't God above that sent me you and your sweet love
[ steel ]
Almost every night it seems you come walking through my dreams
Precious you and your sweet love
And tonight though we're apart there's a fullness in my heart
Thanks to you and your sweet love
You're the rock I cling to the star I wish upon
The water in my desert the anchor in my storm
Oh never try to tell me it wasn't God above that sent me you and your sweet love
He sent me you and your sweet love
**********
5.
BRIDGE WASHED OUT
(Mel Melshee - Jimmy Louis - Sandra Smith - Slim Williamson)
« © '65 Caption Music, BMI / Grand Haven Music, BMI »
When I awoke this a morning the rain was a pouring down
I was gonna wed the little river girl just over the bridge across town
Now I'm runnin' up and down the river and my nerves are drivin' me wild
And the bridge washed out and I can't swim and my baby's on the other side
Well now rain oh rain stop a fallin' dark clouds hurry from the sky
The preacher and my bride are waitin' and the weddin' bells are startin' to chime
I can't kiss and hold her and it's drivin' me out of my mind
Cause the bridge washed out and I can't swim and my baby's on the other side
[ guitar ]
Now I got one foot in the river the other foot solid on the ground
I try to swim that ragin' river but I know if I try I'm gonna drown
There's not a boat around me they walked on out with the tide
And the bridge washed out and I can't swim and my baby's on the other side
Well now rain oh rain...
The bridge washed out and I can't swim and my baby's on the other side
**********
6.
EYE TO EYE
(Joe Gibson)
« © '69 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
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
[ ac.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...
**********
7.
LET'S THINK ABOUT WHERE WE'RE GOING
(Dick Heard - Bob Yarbrough)
« © '69 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Baby don't tell me stories about your past again
And honey don't ask me qustions about the trouble I've been in
Yes I love you I love you too let's start our lives again
So let's think about where we're going and forget about where we've been
Yes let's think about where we're going and forget about where we've been
And if we'll trust each other our love will never end
Yes we can share tomorrow together hand in hand
So let's think about where we're going and forget about where we've been
[ steel ]
You've heard a lot of talk around of how I used to be
Well I'm no angel either and I guess you've heard about me
I'll forgive if you will I know true love will win
If we think about where we're going and forget about where we've been
Yes let's think about...
**********
8.
ALWAYS ALWAYS
(Joyce McCord)
« © '68 Sawgrass Music, BMI »
Darling will your love be mine forever always always
Will you keep those vows we've made together always always
Will your love be as strong if my dreams should all go wrong always always
Darling will you stay with me forever always always
Will your love remain through stormy weather always always
Will your love be strong enough to walk the roads that might get rough always always
In return for your love I'll be true as stars above always always
And the love that I feel will forever be so real always always
**********
9.
PART IN BETWEEN
(Slim Williamson - Kenny Vernon)
« © '70 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
The part in between gets lonely when you're not there
These dreams that I dream are bout someone that's somewhere
If only I had never tasted the love you had to give
The part in between wouldn't have this life to live
Just thinking about you and all the love that we had
With all the love you gave me words just couldn't start to compare
If only I could call you and hear your voice once again
The part in between would be living again
[ steel ]
Just thinking about you...
**********
10.
DOWN IN THE BOONDOCKS
(Joe South)
« © '65 ATV Songs, BMI »
Down in the boondocks down in the boondocks
People lookin' down cause that's the side of town I was born in
I love him he loves me but I don't fit in his society
Lord have mercy on the girl from down in the boondocks
Every night I watch the lights from the house up on the hill
I love a boy who lives up there and I guess I always will
But I don't dare go near his door cause jis folks won't let me in
So I have to try to be content just to see him wherever I can
Down in the boondocks...
One find day I'll find a way to move from this old shack
I'll hold my head up like a queen and I never never will look back
Until that day I'll save my love for a boy I'll soon call mine
But tonight he'll have to steal away to see me one more time
Down in the boondocks...
Lord have mercy on the girl from down in the boondocks
**********