LIVE AT COBO HALL DETROIT
(MGM SE-4644)
July/1969
Produced by Jim Vienneau
Recorded live at Cobo Hall, Detroit City
1.
JAMBALAYA (ON THE BAYOU)
(Hank Williams)
« © '52 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Goodbye Joe me gotta go me oh my oh
Well I gotta go and pole the pirogue down the bayou
Yes my Yvonne the sweetest one me oh my oh
Son of a gun we'll have some fun down on the bayou
Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and fillet gumbo
Because tonight I'm a gonna see my ma cher amio
Pick on guitar and fill fruit jar and be gay-o
Son of a gun we'll have some fun down on the bayou
[ steel ]
Oh Thibodaux Fontaineaux the place is buzzin'
My kin folk come to see Yvonne by the dozen
Hey dress in style and go hog wild me oh my oh
Son of a gun we'll have some fun on the bayou
Jambalaya and a crawfish pie...
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2.
DETROIT CITY
(Mel Tillis - Danny Dill)
« © '63 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
I wanna go home I wanna go home oh how I wanna go home
Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City
And I dreamed about those cottonfields and home
I dreamed about my mother dear old papa sister and brother
And I dreamed about that girl who's been waiting for so long
I wanna go home I wanna go home oh how I wanna go home
[ guitar ]
Old homefolks think I'm big in Detroit City
From the letters that I write they think I'm fine
But by day I make the cars and by night I make all the bars
If only they could read between the lines
Now you know I rode the freight train north to Detroit City
And I've drove this while I find I've just been wastin' my time
So I think I'm gonna pack up my foolish pride
Put it on that Southbound train and ride
And I'll go back to the loved ones the ones I left behind
I wanna go home I wanna go home oh how I wanna go home
[ guitar ]
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3.
GAMES PEOPLE PLAY
(Joe South)
« © '68 ATV Songs, BMI »
The games people now every night and every day now
Never meanin' what they say now never sayin' what they mean
They did 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 da de dee
I'm talkin' bout you and me and the games people play
[ guitar ]
People walkin' up to ya singing glory hallelujah
And they're tryin' to sock it to ya in the name of the Lord
They just 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...
I'm just talkin' bout you and me and the games people play
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4.
STANDING IN THE SHADOWS
(Hank Williams Jr)
« © '66 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Yes I know I'm not great and they say I imitate
Now anymore I don't know Lord when I'm just doing the best I can
It's hard standing in the shadows of a very famous man
As I travel around from town to town
I have a whole lotta daddy's old fans and friends come around
And they say I know Hank would be proud of you if he were with us today
Now well we're all so glad and we know he would be too
That you're carryin' on his music this way
Yes they say Hank was the all time great
And we know you'll just be as good as your dad
But I just smile and say there'll never be another Hank Williams friends
And that's the part that always makes them sad
Yes I know that I'm not great...
There's so many times when I'm on that old stage
I feel a little something go through me
And for just a minute Lord I'm in another world
And that's when it always does something to me
The people are a hollering and clapping real loud
While I'm out they're just taking my bows
I look up toward that ceiling and I say to myself just listen dad
Just listen to your old crowd
But as the show goes on and the people clap and holler more
I start to do another of those great songs
That's the time that I know although you're gone
Your music will live on and on and on
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5.
FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREAKDOWN
(Earl Scruggs)
« © '49 Peer International, BMI »
[ instrumental ]
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6.
YOU WIN AGAIN
(Hank Williams)
« © '52 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
The news is out all over town that you've been seen out runnin' round
I know that I should leave but then Lord I just can't go you win again
This heart of mine could never see what everybody knew but me
Just trusting you was my great sin Lord what can I do you win again
[ steel ]
Now I'm sorry for your victim now because soon his head like mine will bow
He'll give his heart but all in vain and someday say you win again
You have no heart you have no shame you take true love and give the blame
I guess that I should not complain cause I love you still you win again
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7.
SHE THINKS I STILL CARE
(Dickey Lee - Steve Duffy)
« © '62 Glad Music, BMI / Pappy Daily Music, BMI / Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
Now just because I asked a friend about her
And just because I spoke her name somewhere
Just because I rang her number by mistake today
She thinks I still care
And just because I haunt the same old places
Where the mem'ry of her lingers everywhere
Just because I'm not the happy guy I used to be
She thinks I still care
Now if she's happy thinking I still need her
Then let that silly notion bring her cheer
Oh how could she ever be so foolish
And where would she get such an idea
Just because I asked a friend about her
And just because I spoke her name somewhere
Just because I'm not the happy guy I used to be
She thinks I still care
Now she thinks I still care
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8.
DARLING YOU KNOW I WOULDN'T LIE
(Red Lane - Wayne Kemp)
« © '69 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Here I am late again for the last time and like I promised I just told her goodbye
Please believe me for this time it's really over and darling you know I wouldn't lie
I had to let her down easy as slow as I could after all she's got feelings too
But it took a little longer than I thought it would
Oh but this time she knows we're really through
She wanted to hold me forever and this lipstick shows her final try
And these tears on my shoulders have proved that she failed
And darling you know I wouldn't lie
[ steel ]
Didn't I come and tell you about her how temptation lured she and I
But I know it was only fascination and darling you know I wouldn't lie
I had to let her down easy as slow as I could after all she's got feelings too
But it took a little longer than I thought it would
But now she knows we're really through
Now she wanted to hold me forever and this lipstick shows her final try
Please believe me for this time it's really over and darling you know I wouldn't lie
And darling you know I wouldn't lie
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9.
I'M SO LONESOME I COULD CRY
(Hank Williams)
« © '49 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Did you hear that lonesome whippoorwill he sounds too blue to fly
The midnight train is whining low I'm so lonesome I could cry
Lord I never seen a night so long as time goes crawling by
The moon just went behind a cloud to hide its face and cry
[ steel ]
Now the silence of a falling star lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder where you are I'm so lonesome I could cry
I'm so lonesome I could die
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10.
YOUR CHEATIN' HEART
(Hank Williams)
« © '52 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Your cheatin' heart will make you weep you'll cry and cry and try to sleep
But sleep won't come the whole night through your cheatin' heart will tell on you
When tears come down like falling rain you'll toss around and call my name
You'll walk the floor the way I do your cheatin' heart will tell on you
Your cheatin' heart will pine someday and crave the love you threw away
The time will come when you'll be blue your cheatin' heart will tell on you
When tears come down like falling rain you'll toss around and call my name
You'll walk the whole night through your cheatin' heart will tell on you
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11.
I SAW THE LIGHT
(Hank Williams)
« © '48 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Well I saw the light I saw the light no more darkness no more night
Now I'm so happy no sorrow in sight praise the Lord I saw the light
Well I wandered so aimless life filled with sin I wouldn't let my dear Saviour in
Then Jesus came like a stranger in the night praise the Lord I saw the light
Yeah I saw the light...
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