lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

WORLD NEEDS A WASHIN'

(Hank Cochran - Buck Trent)
« © '68 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Oh the world needs a washin' so why shouldn't it rain
Maybe the rain will wash away the pain
Oh the world needs a washin' so why shouldn't it rain
Let it rain let it rain let it rain

Forty days and forty nights that's what it look last time
To wash the world clean enough so the sun could shine
The way the want the wilfulness that seems to be the cause
It's time again for the rain to fall

Oh the world needs a washin'...
[ fiddle - banjo ] Oh the world needs a washin'...
Let it rain et it rain let it rain
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2.

BANKS OF THE OHIO

(Bill Fold - Bob Ferguson)
« © '61 Warden Music, BMI »
I asked my love to take a walk just to walk a little ways
As we talked about our future wedding day
And when she told me she can never be mine

I placed a knife against her breast as into my arms she pressed
She cried oh please don't murder me I'm not prepared for eternity

Only say that you'll be mine in no other's arms entwined
Down beside where the waters flow down by the banks of the Ohio

I started home between twelve and one I cried my God what have I done
I've murdered the only girl I loved because she would not be my bride

Only say that you'll be mine...
Down by the banks of the Ohio
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3.

SING ME BACK HOME

(Merle Haggard)
« © '67 Tree Publishing, BMI »
The warden let the prisoner down the hallway to his doom
And I stood up to say goodbye like all the rest
And I heard him tell the warden just before he reached my cell
Let my guitar playing friend do my request

Let him sing me back home with the song I used to hear
Make my old mem'ries come alive
Then take me away and turn back the years
Sing me back home before I die

I recall last Sunday morning when a choir from off the street
Came in to sing a few old gospel songs
And I heard him tell the singers there's a song my mama sang
Could I hear it once before you move along

Won't you sing me back home...
Won't you sing me back home before I die
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4.

BAREFOOT NELLIE

(Jimmie Davis - Don Reno)
« © '59 Fort Knox Music, BMI / Trio Music, BMI »
Red headed picker was sittin' on a limb Ma said chicken but Nellie shot him
Wrung his neck and picked him clean the funiest chicken I've ever seen

Hey (barefoot Nellie) ho (barefoot Nellie)
Hey (barefoot Nellie) you're the one for me

Now Nelie put on her Sunday dress she thought that it would look the best
Made out of an old beet sack old beet rope around the back

Hey (barefoot Nellie) ho (barefoot Nellie)
Hey (barefoot Nellie) you're the one for me
[ banjo - fiddle ] Now Nellie went to town one day a ridin' on a bale o'hay
Sold a man a trip to Mars now she sits behind the bars

Hey (barefoot Nellie) ho (barefoot Nellie)...

Now Nellie's got a pair of shoes and she can wear 'em if she choose
Why the heck she's got the blues wants to wear a size twenty two

Hey (barefoot Nellie) ho (barefoot Nellie)...
[ fiddle ] Picked a little hog walk in the luck he made three tracks just one duck
Nellie said who you think I am that hog's missin' about one hen

Hey (barefoot Nellie) ho (barefoot Nellie)...
Hey (barefoot Nellie) ho (barefoot Nellie)...
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5.

SORROW OVERTAKES THE WINE

(Joyce McCord)
« © '68 Sawgrass Music, BMI »
They say my tears come from the bottle that stands beside me all the time
But I wonder if they know the sorrow that always overtakes the wine

I drink to find forgetful valleys where I can leave old memories behind
But always just before I reach them sorrow overtakes the wine
[ fiddle ] These tears can find me when I'm sober they're quick to show up any time
And I always try to drink them under but sorrow overtakes the wine

I drink to find forgetful valleys...
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6.

BLACK JACK'S BAR

(Jimmie Driftwood)
« © '68 Warden Music, BMI »
When I was a young man I played my guitar
I played for the people in Black Jack's Bar
They danced to the music and called me a star
And I took in the money in Black Jack's Bar

I kept things a movin' with a crazy beat
I kept up a rhythm with my two big feet
I played pretty women like I played my guitar
And I got into trouble in Black Jack's Bar
Got into trouble in Black Jack's Bar

One night I played till my fingers were sore
They called for a break and I stepped through the door
I stood there a lookin' at the heaven so grand
When up stepped a woman with a bottle in her hand

She took one swallow and I saw her frown
I turned up the bottle and I guzzled it down
I battled my eyes and I looked at her charms
The next thing I knew she was in my arms
I got in trouble in Black Jack's Bar
[ fiddle ] I hugged her and kissed her and called her mine
Drunk on her kisses and drunk on her wine
Somebody yelled come and play your guitar
We both stuggered back into Black Jack's Bar

Somebody said you better run for your life
You've been a playin' with the wrong man's wife
He swang his knife and swung my guitar
And I killed me a gambler in Black Jack's Bar
I got in trouble in Black Jack's Bar

When I get out of this place called the pen
I ain't never comin' back here again
I'm gonna do right and I'm gonna go straight
I'm gonna be careful whose wife I date

I ain't a huggin' no woman but mine
Drinkin' no liquor and not much wine
Sittin' in my cell with my old guitar
Wonder who's a playin' in Black Jack's Bar
(I got in trouble in Black Jack's Bar)
Wonder who's a playin' in Black Jack's Bar
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7.

CARROLL COUNTY ACCIDENT

(Bob Ferguson)
« © '68 Warden Music, BMI »
Carroll County's pointed out as kinda square
The biggest thing that happens is the county fair
I guess that's why it seemes like such a big event
What we all call the Carroll County accident

The wreck was on the highway just inside the line
Walter Browning lost his life and for a time
It seemed that Mary Ellen Jones would surely die
But she lived long enough for her to testify

Walter Browning was a happy married man
And he wore a golden wedding ring upon his hand
But it was gone nobody knew just where it went
He lost it in the Carroll County accident

Mary Ellen testified he flagged her down
Said he was sick and could she drive him into town
No one even doubted what she said was true
Cause she was well respected in the county too

I went down to see the wreck like all the rest
The bloody seats the broken glass the tangled mess
But I found something no one else had even seen
Behind the dash in Mary's crumpled up machine

A little matchbox circled by a rubber band
And inside the ring from Walter Browning's hand
It took a while to figure out just what it meant
The truth about the Carroll County accident

By dark of night I dropped the ring into a well
And took a sacred oath that I would never tell
The truth about the Carroll County accident
Cause the county ordered Dad a marble monument
I lost him in the Carroll County accident
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8.

ROCKY TOP

(Boudleaux Bryant - Felice Bryant)
« © '67 House Of Bryant, BMI »
Wish that I was on old Rocky Top down in the Tennessee hills

Ain't no smoggy smoke on Rocky Top ain't no telephone bills
Once I had a girl on Rocky Top half bear the other half cat
Wild as a mink but sweet as soda pop and I still dream about that

Rocky Top you'll always be home sweet home to me
Good ole Rocky Top Rocky Top Tennessee Rocky Top Tennessee

Once two strangers climbed old Rocky Top looking for moonshine still
Strangers ain't come down from Rocky Top reckon they never will

Corn won't grow at all on Rocky Top the dirt's too rocky by far
That's why all the folks on Rocky Top get their corn from a jar

Rocky Top you'll always be...
[ banjo + fiddle ] I've had years of cramped up city life trapped like a duck in a pen
All I know is it's a pity life can't be simple again

Rocky Top you'll always be...
Rocky Top Tennessee Rocky Top Tennessee
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9.

YOUR MOTHER'S EYES

(Mel Tillis)
« © '68 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
My children come sit here and hold to my hands
For I must tell you something that I don't understand
Lately we've been living in the shadows of surprise
For I'm not the only man in your mother's eyes

I can't say it's my fault and I won't say it's hers
For I might have neglected when her need for me occured
But we're still a family and must realize
That I'm not the only man in your mother's eyes

No I'm not the only man in her eyes anymore
And soon she'll be leaving walking out the door
And things won't be easy with her not around
And the shame that's now with us will be hard to live down
So children bear with me promise daddy you'll try
Since I'm not the only man in your mother's eyes

So children bear with me promise daddy you'll try
Since I'm not the only man in your mother's eyes
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10.

KING OF THE CANNON COUNTY HILLS

(Louis M. Jones)
« © '68 Loray El Marlee Publishing, BMI »
Folks tell me I should go to the city
And go to school and learn a lot of things
But I already know what makes the fox fire glow
And just what time the robbin redbreast sings

Well I know that the possum likes persimmons
And I know that fishes breathe out through their gills
So while I can kill a squirell and court the sweetest girl
I'm the king of the Cannon County hills

Let the senor have his senorita
Let the hippy have his LSD and thrills
But when I'm with my darling in the mountains
I'm the king of the Cannon County hills

Well the things I know you cannot learn in college
And I don't need cash cause I ain't got no bills
I can tell you in a flash just how long to cook your mash
And the best come from the Cannon County hills

Let the senor have his senorita...
[ fiddle - banjo ] Now I'm not saying don't go to college
Cause knowledge sure will cure a lot of ills
But I know this little song is a gettin' away too long
Come and see me in the Cannon County hills

Let the senor have his senorita...
I'm the king of the Cannon County hills
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11.

I LIVED SO FAST AND HARD

(Dolly Parton)
« © '68 Velvet Apple Music, BMI »
I was raised on cornbread and gravy
And I slept in a cardboard box till I was nearly three
I bathed myself in the muddy river runnin' by our shack
By the time that I had reached thirteen I'd been through hell and back

I've been throwed from pillar to post I've been banged around and scarred
I've done so much I've seen so much and I've lived so fast and hard
[ ac.guitar ] Mama died when I was young and I never knew my dad
I never had the love and care that other children had
I spent five years in an orphan's home but I ran off one day
And I hoboed an old freight train to San Francisco Bay

I've fought in the war I've been in jail there ain't much I ain't done
I'd lived as much as any man before I was twenty one
[ ac.guitar ] I've been throwed from pillar to post...
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12.

FALLEN LEAVES

(Louis M. Jones)
« © '68 Papa Lou Recordings, BMI »
Fallen leaves that lie scattered on the ground
The birds and flowers that were here can not be found
All the friends that he once knew are not around
They are scattered like the leaves upon the ground

Some folks drift along through life and never thrill
To the feeling that a good deed brings until
It's too late and they are ready to lie down
There beneath the leaves that scattered on the ground

Lord let my eyes see every need of every man
Make me stop and always lend a helping hand
Then when I'm laid beneath that little grassy mound
There'll be more friends around than leaves upon the ground

To your grave there's no use taking any gold
You cannot use it when it's time for hands to fold
When you leave this earth for a better home someday
The only thing you'll take is what you gave away
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