CLOSE ALL THE HONKY TONKS
(Epic BN-26137)
January/1965
Produced by Billy Sherrill
Recorded:
Aug 14/1964, Columbia Recording Studio, Nashville (1,6,10)
Nov 17/1964, Columbia Recording Studio, Nashville (2,4,5,9,12)
Nov 19/1964, Columbia Recording Studio, Nashville (3,7,8,11)
1.
CLOSE ALL THE HONKY TONKS
(Red Simpson)
« © '64 Tree Publishing, BMI »
She's in some honky tonk tonight I know
Dancin' where the music's loud and lights're low
In a crowded bar she likes to hang around
And as long as there's a honky tonk she'll never settle down
Close all the honky tonks lock all the doors
Don't let the one I love go there anymore
Close all the honky tonks throw away the key
Then maybe the one I love will come back to me
[ piano ]
I wish I had the power to turn back the time
And live again the hours when she was all mine
It hurts to see her running with that crowd downtown
And as long as there's a honky tonk she'll never settle down
Close all the honky tonks...
Then maybe the one I love will come back to me
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2.
HONKY TONK BLUES
(Hank Williams)
« © '48 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Well I left my home down on a rural route
I told my pa I'm goin' steppin' out
And get the honky tonk blues (honky tonk blues)
I said the honky tonk blues (honky tonk blues)
Hey Lord I got 'em I got the honky tonk blues
Well I stopped into every join in town
This city life has really got me down
I got the honky tonk blues (honky tonk blues)
I said the honky tonk blues (honky tonk blues)
Well Lord I got 'em I got the honky tonk blues
[ guitar ]
Well I danced all night I wore out my shoes
Woke up this mornin' wishin' I could lose
That jumpin' honky tonk blues (honky tonk blues)
I said the honky tonk blues (honky tonk blues)
Well Lord I got 'em I got the honky tonk blues (honky tonk blues)
Well I'm gonna tuck my worries underneath my arm
And scat back to my pappy's farm
And lose the honky tonk blues (honky tonk blues)
I said the honky tonk blues (honky tonk blues)
Well Lord I got 'em I got the honky tonk blues oh Lord
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3.
BAND KEEPS PLAYIN' ON
(Red Simpson - Fuzzy Owen)
« © '64 Tree Publishing, BMI »
You walked in with me but you walked out with someone else
And left me sittin' here alone all by myself
I thought you were over him but I was wrong
My world just stopped but the band keeps playin' on
They just keep playin' cause they don't notice you are gone
You walked right out on me while they played our favorite song
And before you reached the door my teardrops reached the floor
My world just stopped but the band keeps playin' on
[ guitar ]
You said that you'd forgotten him and no more did you care
But when he walked in your eyes lit up to see him there
Well he asked you to dance and just like that you were gone
My world just stopped but the band keeps playin' on
They just keep playin' cause they don't notice you are gone...
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4.
WILD SIDE OF LIFE
(William Warren - Arlie A. Carter)
« © '51 Unart Catalog, BMI »
You wouldn't read my letter if I wrote you
You asked me not to call you on the phone
But there's something I'm wanting to tell you
So I wrote it in the words of this song
I didn't know God made honky tonk angels
I might have known you'd never make a wife
You gave up the only one that ever loved you
And went back to the wild side of life
[ guitar ]
The glamour of the gay night life has lured you
To the places where the wine and liquor flow
Where you wait to be anybody's baby
And forget the truest love you'll ever know
I didn't know God made honky tonk angels...
And went back to the wild side of life
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5.
LAST CALL FOR ALCOHOL
(Don Rollins)
« © '64 Tree Publishing, BMI / Linduane Music, BMI »
There's no blonde at the bar making eyes at me
So I don't suppose that I'd be cheerful company
Anyhow it's too late to even hope tonight
They just switched off the jukebox and turned on the lights
And it's last call for alcohol oh that's the worst of all
When the drinks are gone the table's cleared and they tell me to go home
To a house where live the pieces of my broken heart
Last call for alcohol and time for tears to start
[ piano ]
Cuase there once was somebody in this life of mine
One to take her place I don't expect to find
But it might be a long long time before
She's back and the lights go on in my life once more
And it's last call for alcohol oh that's the worst of all
When the drinks are gone the table's cleared and they tell me to go home
Waitress tell 'em fix one more and pour it tall
I'll drink it fast I know that it's last call for alcohol
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6.
TRUCK DRIVIN' MAN
(Terry Fell)
« © '62 Unichappell Music, BMI »
I stopped at a road house in Texas a little place called Hamburger Dan's
I heard that jukebox a playin' a song about a truck drivin' man
So pour me another cup of coffee for it is the best in the land
I'll put a quarter in the jukebox and play the Truck Drivin' Man
The waitress then brought me some coffee I thanked her then called her back again
I said that old song sure does fit me cause I'm a truck drivin' man
So pour me another cup of coffee...
[ guitar ]
I climbed back aboard my old semi and then like a flash I was gone
I got them old truck wheels a rollin' I'm on my way to San Antone
So pour me another cup of coffee...
And play the Truck Drivin' Man
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7.
HONKY TONK SONG
(Mel Tillis - Buck Peddy)
« © '56 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI / Tree Publishing, BMI »
I got me a room in a cheap hotel
My head was a spinnin' and I didn't feel well
I laid right down and tried to go to sleep
The band was playing in the joint underneath
I picked up my pillow and I covered up my head
But the band kept a playing and a shaking my bed
Honky tonk same old song honky tonk all night long
Honky tonk my money's all gone honky tonk she done me wrong
I turned and I tossed but I couldn't go to sleep
Cause the band kept a playing with a honky tonk beat
[ piano ]
My baby's gonna left me and I'm feeling blue
She took all my money I'm a telling you
I'm tryin' to forget her but I don't know what to do
The honky tonk song keeps a leaking through
I turned and I tossed but I couldn't go to sleep
Cause the band kept a playing with a honky tonk beat
Honky tonk same old song honky tonk all night long...
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8.
SHOES OF A FOOL
(Jim Coleman - Jimmy Day)
« © '64 Tree Publishing, BMI »
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9.
PICK ME UP ON YOUR WAY DOWN
(Harlan Howard)
« © '56 Tree Publishing, BMI »
You were mine for just a while now you're puttin' on the style
And you've never once looked back at your home across the track
You're the gossip of the town but my heart can still be found
Where you tossed it on the ground pick me up on your way down
Pick me up on your way down when you're blue and all alone
When their glamour starts to bore you come on back where you belong
You may be their pride and joy but they'll find another toy
Then they'll take away your crown pick me up on your way down
[ guitar ]
They have changed your attitude made you haughty and so rude
Your new friends can take the blame underneath you're still the same
When you've learned these things are true I'll be waiting here for you
As you tumble to the ground pick me up on your way down
Pick me up on your way down...
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10.
BAD THINGS I DO
(Jerry Foster - Bill Rice)
« © '64 PolyGram Int, BMI »
It's hour past midnight I'm on my way home
And my guilty conscience won't leave me alone
Fot I've been out cheatin' with somebody new
What makes me do the bad things I do
Back there at a truckstop I washed my face
And I checked the mirror for each tell-tell trace
For lipstick or makeup that might leave a clue
What makes me do the bad things I do
I don't understand what gets in my mind
To make me keep cheatin' time after time
I've got a good woman so loving and true
What makes me do the bad things I do
[ guitar ]
Tomorrow at breakfast I hope she won't see
Through my lying answers when she'll question me
I'll tell her that I met a friend we once knew
What makes me do the bad things I do
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11.
EVERY GOOD REASON
(Ray Griff)
« © '64 Tree Publishing, BMI »
I have every good reason to leave you after the way you've hurt me so
But every good reason I have for leavin' ever seems to be enough for me to go
Every time that you're untrue I tell myself I'm leavin' you
And I'll never see you anymore
By my heart always rules my mind and I forgive you every time
I never seem to make it to the door
I have every good reason to leave you...
[ guitar ]
I have every good reason to leave you...
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12.
FRAULEIN
(Lawton Williams)
« © '56 Unart Catalog, BMI »
Far across a blue water lives an old German's daughter
By the banks of the old River Rhine
Where I loved her and left her but I can't forget her
I miss my pretty Fraulein
Fraulein Fraulein walk down by the river
Pretend that your hand's holding mine
By the same stars above you I swear that I love you
You are my pretty Fraulein
[ guitar ]
When the memories wander away over yonder
To the sweetheart that I left behind
In a moment of glory a face comes before me
The face of my pretty Fraulein
Fraulein Fraulein walk down by the river...
You are my pretty Fraulein
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