lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

WABASH CANNONBALL

(Roy Carter) « © '46 Peer International, BMI »
From the great Atlantic ocean to the wide Pacific shore
From the queen of flowing mountains to the southbells by the moor
She's mighty tall and handsome and known quite well by all
She's the combination on the Wabash Cannonball

She came down from Birmingham one cold December day
As she pulled into the station you could hear all the people say
There's a gal from Tennessee she's long and she's tall
She came down from Birmingham on the Wabash Cannonball

Listen to the jingle the rumble and the roar
As she glides along the woodlands through the hills and by the shore
Hear the mighty rush of the engine hear that lonesome hoboe's call
Trav'ling through the Dixie on the Wabash Cannonball
[ dobro ] Our eastern states are dandy so the people always say
From New York to St Louis and Chicago by the way
From the hills of Minnesotta where the wrippling waters fall
No changes can be taken on the Wabash Cannonball

So here's to daddy Claxton may his name forever stand
And always be remembered in the ports of Alabam
His earthly race is over and the curtains round him fall
We'll carry him home to Victory on the Wabash Cannonball

Now listen to the jingle...
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2.

I'M SO LONESOME I COULD CRY

(Hank Williams) « © '49 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Hear that lonesome whippoorwill he sounds too blue to fly
The midnight train is whining low I'm so lonesome I could cry
I've never seen a night so long when time goes crawling by
The moon just went behind a cloud to hide its face and cry
[ piano ] Did you ever see a robin weep when leaves began to die
That means he's lost the will to live I'm so lonesome I could cry
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 cry
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3.

WALKING THE FLOOR OVER YOU

(Ernest Tubb) « © '41 Unichappell Music, BMI »
I'm walking the floor over you
I can't sleep a wink that is true
I'm hoping and I'm praying as my heart breaks right in two
Walking the floor over you

You left me and you went away
You said that you'd be back in just a day
You've broken your promise and you left me here alone
I don't know why you did dear but I do know that you're gone

I'm walking the floor over...
[ guitar ] Now darling you know I love you well
Love you more than any tongue can tell
Just keep right on a walking and it won't hurt you to cry
Remember that I love you and I will the day I die

I'm walking the floor over...
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4.

BOUQUET OF ROSES

(Steve Nelson - Bob Hillard) « © '47 Anne Rachel Music, ASCAP / Better Half Music, ASCAP »
I'm sending you a big bouquet of roses
One for every time you broke my heart
And as the door of love between us closes
Tears will fall like petals when we part

I've begged you to be different
But you'll always be untrue
I'm tired of forgiving now there's nothing I can do
So I'm sending you a big bouquet of roses
One for every time you broke my heart
[ guitar - piano ] You made our lover's lane a road of sorrow
Till at last we had to say goodbye
You're leaving me to face each blue tomorrow
With a broken heart you taught to cry

I know that I should hate you after all you've put me through
But how can I be bitter when I'm still in love with you
So I'm sending you a big bouquet of roses
One for every time you broke my heart
One for every time you broke my heart
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5.

WAITING FOR A TRAIN

(Jimmie Rodgers) « © '29 Peer International, BMI »
All around the water tank waiting for a train
A thousand miles away from home standing in the rain
I walked up to a brakeman to hand him a line of talk
He says if you've got money Bill I'll see that you don't walk
I haven't got a nickel not a penny can I show
Get off get off you railroad bum and he slammed the boxcar door

He put me off in Texas a state I dearly love
The wide open spaces all around me the moon and stars above
Nobody seems to want me or lend me a helping hand
I'm on my way from Frisco going back to Dixieland
My pocketbook is empty and my heart is full of pain
I'm a thousand miles away from home just a waiting for a train
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6.

HIGH NOON (DO NOT FORSAKE ME)

(Ned Washington - Dimitri Tiomkin) « © '52 Volta Music, ASCAP / Catherine Hinen, ASCAP / Patti Washington Music, ASCAP »
Do not forsake me oh my darling on this our wedding day
Do not forsake me oh my darling wait wait along
I do not know what fate awaits me I only know I must be brave
And I must face a man who hates me
Or lie a coward a craven coward or lie a coward in my grave

Oh to be torn twixt love and duty supposin' I lose my fairhaired beauty
Look at that big hand move along nearing high noon
He made a vow while in state prison vowed it would be my life or his'n
I'm not afraid at all of what will I do if you leave me

Do not forsake me oh my darling you made that promise as a bride
Do not forsake me oh my darling although you're grieving don't think of leaving
Now that I need you by my side
Wait along wait along wait along wait along
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7.

COLD COLD HEART

(Hank Williams) « © '51 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
I tried so hard my dear to show you're my every dream
Yet you're afraid each thing I do is just an evil scheme
A mem'ry from your lonesome past keeps us so far apart
Why can't I free your debtful mind and melt your cold cold heart

Another love before my time made your heart sad and blue
And so my heart is paying now for things I didn't do
In anger unkind words are said that make the teardrops start
Why can't I free your debtful mind and melt your cold cold heart
[ guitar ] You'll never know how much it hurts to see you sit and cry
You know you need and want my love yet you're afraid to try
Why do you run and hide from life to try it just ain't smart
Why can't I free your debtful mind and melt your cold cold heart

There was a time when I believed you belonged to me
But now I know your heart is shackled to a memory
The more I learn to care for you the more we drift apart
Why can't I free your debtful mind and melt your cold cold heart
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8.

MAKE THE WORLD GO AWAY

(Hank Cochran) « © '63 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Make the world go away and get it off of my shoulders
Say the things you used to say and make the world go away

Do you remember when you loved me before the world took me astray
If you do then forgive me and make the world go away

Make the world go away...

I'm sorry if I hurt you I'll make it up day by day
Just say you love me like you used to and make the world go away

Make the world go away...
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9.

I HEARD A SILVER TRUMPET

(Billy Walker) « © '68 Matamoros Music, BMI »
Goodbye my love it's time to go I heard a silver trumpet blow
It's calling me to find the boat and so my love goodbye
The world is ours to wander free neath heaven up above
Goodbye my love it's time to go I heard a silver trumpet blow
It's calling me to find the boat and so my love goodbye
[ guitar ] Goodbye my love now don't you cry we'll be together by and by
We'll keep ol' glory waving high and so my love goodbye
No matter where on earth I'll go it's you I'm dreaming of
Goodbye my love it's time to go I heard a silver trumpet blow
It's calling me to find the boat and so goodbye my love
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10.

T FOR TEXAS (BLUE YODEL NO. 1)

(Jimmie Rodgers) « © '28 Peer International, BMI »
T for Texas T for Tennessee T for Texas T for Tennessee
T for Telma the gal who made a wreck out of me

If you don't want me mama you sure don't have to stall
If you don't want me mama you sure don't have to stall
Cause I can get more women than a passanger train can haul

Gonna buy me a pistol just as long as I'm tall
Gonna buy me a pistol just as long as I'm tall
I'm gonna shoot poor Telma just to see her jump and fall
[ guitar ] Rather drink muddy water sleep in a hollow log
Rather drink muddy water sleep in a hollow log
Than to be in Atlanta treated like an old hound dog

Gonna buy me a shotgun with a big long shiny belt
Gonna get me a shotgun with a big long shiny belt
Gonna shoot that rounder the one who stole away my gal

T for Texas T for Tennessee...
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