DON WILLIAMS
YELLOW MOON
MCA 5407
April/1983
Produced by Don Williams & Garth Fundis
Billy Sanford - guitar/mandolin
Dave Kirby - rh.guitar
Lloyd Green - steel/dobro
Joe Allen - bass
Kenny Malone - drums
Charles Cochran - piano/keyboards
Buddy Spicher - fiddle
The Nashville String Machine - strings
Garth Fundis - vocals
1.
STAY YOUNG
(Graham Lyle - Benny Gallagher)
« © '77 Irving Music, BMI / Songs Of Windswept Pacific, BMI »
Oh don't you lose that light in your eye
You're never too old to love it's never too late to try
When somebody needs you give 'em all you can give
When you're living to love and loving to live
Stay young keep your wheels in motion
You got everything that you need
Stay young with your rock and rolling
All the best things in life are free
[ mandolin ]
Oh don't you feel like playing the fool
To step out of line and break all the rules
Don't you let them tell you it's not for you
Don't go growing old before you're due
Stay young keep your wheels in motion...
[ mandolin ]
Stay young keep your wheels in motion...
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2.
I'M STILL LOOKING FOR YOU
(Bob McDill)
« © '83 Ranger Bob Music, ASCAP / PolyGram Int, ASCAP »
Love comes once they say
If it's the real thing me I feel that way
Knowing you must be there waitin' for me somewhere
Some people say that I'm a fool but I'm still looking for you
Yes I guess it's sad
The lovers I've been through some I could have had
But they never were enough nobody measures up
Lovers and friends I've had a few but I'm still looking for you
Maybe it's wrong I don't know maybe I'm just chasing rainbows
But it's gotta be forever when I fall
But lately my hopes have been sinking lately I find I've been thinking
Maybe you're not really there at all
Tears and years go by
And I haven't found it seems the dream should die
But I hang on somehow still I keep reaching out
With all the loves that I've been through I'm still looking for you
[ piano ]
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3.
STORY OF MY LIFE
(Hal David - Burt Bacharach)
« © '57 Famous Music, ASCAP / Casa David Music, ASCAP »
Someday I'm gonna write the story of my life
I'll tell about the night we met
And how my heart can't forget
The way you smiled at me
I want the world to know the story of my life
The moment when your lips met mine
And that first exciting time
I held you close to me
The sorrow when our love was breaking up the mem'ry of a broken heart
Later on the joy of making up never never more to part
There's one thing left to do before my story's through
I've got to take you for my wife
So the story of my life can start and end with you
[ guitar ]
The sorrow when our love was breaking up...
There's one thing left to do before my story's through
I've got to take you for my wife
So the story of my life can start and end
Can start and end can start and end with you
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4.
WRONG END OF THE RAINBOW
(Richard Leigh - Milton Blackford)
« © '82 U Catalog, ASCAP »
I know this feeling from somewhere I know I've been here before
The one I love forever doesn't love me anymore
So here I am heartache my only friend
Wrong end of the rainbow again
I was looking for true love but I didn't get far
Before I tied all my heartstrings to some falling star
Now here I am heartache my only friend
Wrong end of the rainbow again
Between the winning and losing there's a very fine line
This time I felt like a winner when I was losing all the time
I get this rainy day feeling that I'm gonna be blue
I thought the day that I found her I'd seen the last of you
But here I am heartache my only friend
Wrong end of the rainbow again
[ piano ]
So here I am heartache my only friend
Wrong end of the rainbow again
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5.
YELLOW MOON
(Richard S. Brannan)
« © '83 Colgems Music, ASCAP »
The moon is on the rise it stares at me tonight
I'm reminded of the arms that held me tight
Last time I held you it ended all too soon
We were lying underneath a yellow moon
There's a yellow moon hanging in a starry sky
Oh I wonder if you're watching it too
There's a yellow moon hanging in a starry sky
Wherever you are it's watching over you
Oh shine on shine on yellow moon
[ guitar ]
Sometimes we sit and talk me and that old moon
I ask him are you happy or if you're blue
I start to reminisce to a summer night in June
We feel in love under a yellow moon
There's a yellow moon hanging in a starry sky...
There's a yellow moon hanging in a starry sky...
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6.
LOVE IS ON A ROLL
(Roger Cook - John Prine)
« © '83 Screen Gems Music, BMI / Big Ears Music, ASCAP / Bruised Oranges, ASCAP »
I can't walk late although I need the money
Got to get home to my loving honey
She'll be there waiting waiting impatiently
Love is on a roll love is on a good roll
Usually I meet with the boys on Friday
Only this morning she said this is my day
The look she gave me sent a shiver down into my soul
Love is on a roll love is on a good roll
I'm a songwiter a professional dreamer
Mostly a singer but sometimes a screamer
I should know if anybody knows at all
When love is on a roll love is on a good roll
So I got to go I got to get home early
Be with my woman soft and curvy
Makes me feel like a king and not a regular Joe
Love is on a roll love is on a good roll
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7.
PRESSURE MAKES DIAMONDS
(Bob McDill - John Schweers)
« © '83 Ranger Bob Music, ASCAP / PolyGram Int, ASCAP »
Well we've had our troubles we've had our hard times
Where some might have stumbled we've always survived
Sometimes love weakens when the chips are all down
But what we've got together gets stronger somehow
Pressure makes diamonds much harder than stone
And they only get finer as each day goes on
We've been through some bad times but we made it somehow
Cause if pressure makes diamonds our love's a diamond by now
[ steel ]
Well we know the feeling when the world closes in
We've been there before love and we might go again
The road may get rocky life may get hard
But the whole world together can't tear us apart
Pressure makes diamonds...
Pressure makes diamonds...
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8.
IF LOVE GETS THERE BEFORE I DO
(Dickey Lee - Kerry Chater)
« © '83 Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
Another twenty miles and I'm halfway there
Another twenty miles and I'm running scared
It's a beautiful night and I should be there
But I left you too long going who knows where
I know you're tired of waiting
And I know you're tired of hesitating
If love gets there before I do darling don't you take it
You know I'm on my way to you as fast as I can make it
There's danger in the summer moon don't think there's nothing to it
If love gets there before I do darling don't you do it no don't you do it
I know you're hearing lines from those other guys
Tryin' to wear you down under starry skies
But you know that I want you to just hold on
What a shame if I get there and you are gone
I know you're tired of waiting...
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9.
I'LL TAKE YOUR LOVE ANYTIME
(Tommy Rocco - Charlie Black - Austin Roberts)
« © '82 Chappell & Co, ASCAP / PolyGram Int, ASCAP »
I have seen this old cold world go gold and silver crazy
Some people live to fill their pockets and it never ceased to amaze me
If money buys them happiness it's alright for them I guess
Money sure can buy a lot but it can't buy what I got
I'll take your love anytime baby solid as a rock bigger than the sky
I'll take your love anytime baby I know it'll be there as time goes by
I'll take your love anytime baby solid as a rock bigger than the sky
I'll take your love anytime baby I know it'll be there as time goes by
I know I can count on you to keep the juices flowing
This thing between a man and woman beats anything else going
Talk of fortune talk about fame it sounds nice but it's way too tame
When you and I let the feelings fly it's the all time natural high
I'll take your love anytime baby...
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10.
NOBODY BUT YOU
(John Jarrard - J.D. Martin)
« © '83 ATV Tunes, ASCAP / MCA Music, ASCAP »
Who just by touching my hand makes me understand
Questions my heart is asking
Who opened my eyes made me realize
Love is everlasting
Nobody but you nobody but you
Nobody else could love me like you do
Nobody but you could see me through
Your love is true and I don't need nobody but you
Who comes just close enough and shows me that love
Is nothing to be afraid of
Who holds me so tight every night
And shows me what love is made of
Nobody but you nobody but you...
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