CHARLIE WALKER
RECORDED LIVE IN DALLAS TEXAS
Epic BN-26483November/1969
Produced by Billy Sherrill
Recorded:April 26/1969, Dewey Groom's Longhorn Ballroom, Dallas (1-9) live
Jan 16/1968, Columbia Recording Studio, Nashville (10) added applause
Nov 1/1968, Columbia Recording Studio, Nashville (11) added applause
Good evening friends my name is T Tommy Cutter
It's a great pleasure to be back in Dallas at Dewey Groom's Longhorn Ballroom
And a special pleasure tonight
Because I'm here to introduce for Epic Records one of their famous country music stars
He's a Texan by birth makes his home in Nashville Tennessee now
And of cousre he's awful proud to be back here in Dallas where he got his start
Make welcome and listen to him sing first Pick Me Up On Your Way Down one of his famous hit songs
Ladies and gentlemen Charlie Walker
Thank you T Tommy and let's everbody dance hit it boys
1.
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
[ fiddle - steel ] 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 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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Welcome to the Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas Texas
It's certainly a pleasure to be here with you tonight
We have always wanted to do an on tour album
And I said as we said earlier this evenin' that if we ever got a chance to do one
I wanted to kinda go back to my old stompin' grounds
Where I kinda got my first start in the music business and it was Dallas Texas
And it's nice to be with you tonight and we hope that we can do a few things that you will enjoy
Thank you
We're gonna be doin' a lot of our records and of course
Some that we hope that you enjoy that some of the other fellas
In the business have put on records through out the years
Here's one of our favorites one of the late and great Hank Williams
Ole timers we hope you like the way we do it for you
Everbody dance to Jambalaya here we go
2.
JAMBALAYA (ON THE BAYOU)
(Hank Williams)« © '52 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Goodbye Joe me gotta go me oh my oh
Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou
My Yvonne the sweetest one me oh my oh
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou
Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and fillet gumbo
Cause tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher amio
Pick guitars fill fruit jars and be gay-o
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou
[ steel - fiddle ] Thibodaux Fontaineaux the place is buzzin'
Kinfolks come to see Yvonne by the dozen
Dress in style go hog wild me oh my oh
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou
Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and fillet gumbo...
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou
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We'd like to slow it down and do a good dance tune for you right now
See you folks kinda hit the floor
We know in this part of the country if you're breakin' toenails you're havin' a good time
So here's one of our favorites and we hope you like the way we do it for you
Almost Persuaded here it is
3.
ALMOST PERSUADED
(Billy Sherrill - Glenn Sutton)« © '66 Al Gallico Music, BMI »
Last night all alone in a barroom I met a girl with a drink in her hand
She had ruby red lips coal black hair and eyes that would tempt any man
Then she came and sat down at my table and as she placed her soft hands in mine
I found myself wanting to kiss her for temptation was flowing like wine
And I was almost persuaded to strip myself of my pride
Almost persuaded to push my conscience aside
[ fiddle - steel ] Then we danced and she whispered I need you
Take me away from here and be my man
And I looked into her eyes and I saw it
The reflection of my wedding band
And I was almost persuaded to let strange lips lead me on
Almost persuaded but your sweet love made me stop and go home
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Here's a song that I would like to do for you on this album
We hope you like the way we do it for you
This song is written about a little town in Oklahoma
The name of the town is Moffett Oklahoma
I don't know how many of you folks have been there or not
Yeah everbody knows where Moffett is
Everbody knows where Moffett is
Well great it's a great town
And I'd like to do a song kind of a tribute to Moffett Oklahoma
We hope you like here's the way it goes
4.
MOFFET OKLAHOMA
(Curtis Leach - Claude McBride)« © '67 Saran Music, BMI »
I rolled into Moffet Oklahoma down by that Arkansas state line
I walked into a honky tonk and ordered a glass of California wine
He said we got Oklahoma blue and we gotArkansas homebrew
But no sir we don't dig that foreign kind
We got brandy rum and gin and moonshine for the men
We don't dig no California wine
A big cat stood up at a piano his beard was at least a foot long
I walked up to the bandstand and asked him to play me a hillbilly song
He said we play rock and we play pop we play blues and we play bop
But no sir we don't dig down on the farm
We play jazz and we play jerk and we watch those miniskirts
But we don't dig no hillbilly song
[ guitar - steel ] I sat myself down at a poker table
The sign read dealers' choice I played awhile
When my deal came I flipped the first card over
Said spit in the ocean cucamonga style
He said we play draw and we play stud and I mean bud we play for blood
But no sir we don't dig no nothin' wild
You can buy one in a pinch stack the deck or check a cinch
But we don't dig no cucamonga style
I dropped a dollar on the blackjack table
And told the dealer let the face cards fall
I turned over eighteen and said hit me
Well he did and that's the last thing I recall
Well I guess you know the rest I've got my semi pointed West
Whine big diesel whine
And if I ever see old Moffet Oklahoma again it'll be west of the California line
They'll have to move it west of that California line
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We call this the brogan song we hope you like it
It's a good dance tune called My Shoes Keep Walking back to you
Here it is
5.
MY SHOES KEEP WALKING BACK TO YOU
(Bob Wills - Lee Ross)« © '56 Chappell & Co, ASCAP / Unichappell Music, BMI »
I may say that I don't care hold up head up in the air
Even tell my friends I'm glad that you don't call
But when the day is through my heartache starts anew
And that's when I miss you most of all
And my arms keep reaching for you my eyes keep searching for you
My lips keep calling for you and my shoes keep walking back to you
[ steel - fiddle ] No matter how much I pretend I wish I had you back again
For nothing else means half as much as you
My world just seemed to die the day you said goodbye
And I can't forget no matter how I try
And my arms keep reaching for you...
And my shoes keep walking back to you
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Here's a song ladies and gentlemen we'd like to do for you
I especially want to do this in this album because we found this song here in Dallas
My good friend Dewey Groom who has the ballroom here the Longhorn Ballroom
I was down here oh 'bout a year ago I guess
And I heard this song here at Dewey's place
And I said I gotta record this because this is one of the cutest songs I've heard in a long time
And the song was real good to us and we'd like to do it for you tonight
It's called Don't Squeeze My Sharmon
Here it is
6.
DON'T SQUEEZE MY SHARMON
(Carl Belew - Van Givens)« © '66 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Did you hear what happened last Saturday night
While dancin' and drinkin' we all got half tight
This sweet thing named Sharmon was dancin' with me
When up stepped her boy friend and he hollered at me
Please don't squeeze my Sharmon don't hold her so tight
You'd best keep my warning it's my last one tonight
She's soft and she's gentle and as sweet as can be
And if Sharmon needs squeezin' then leave back to me
[ steel ] Along about midnight I was feeling no pain
And me and Miss Sharmon were dancin' again
Then Hank and big Harlan got into a fight
And I heard someone holler as out went the lights
Please don't squeeze my Sharmon...
And if Sharmon needs squeezin' then leave back to me
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We're very honored tonight to have some of our collegues in the music business here with us tonight
It's good to see Ronnie Dawson
Ronnie is with the same company that we're with
It's nice to have Ronnie here with us tonight
And of course Jerry Wallace is here with us tonight
it's certainly nice to be workin' with Jerry it's great to have him here at the Longhorn Ballroom
He's a great job and we've enjoyed his company so much tonight
and also one of the all time greats of the country music business Al Dexter
Al is here with us tonight the guy that had the original record on Pistol Packin' Mama
And so many of our big records through out the years
Too Late To Worry And Too Blue To Cry and so it's nice to have Al Dexter here with us tonight too
Let's do eh this next song it's one our our newest records and we hope you like it
It's called Honky Tonk Season
Here it is one more time
7.
HONKY TONK SEASON
(Dallas Frazier)« © '68 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Totay's the first day of honky tonk season
I'm gonna take in every honky tonk in town
I've got a license to drink for lots of reasons
And honky tonk season will be opened all year round
Although your clothes were never packed you left me a long time back
But kept on foolin' me by hangin' round
Up until your hungry eyes could find a better price
You found him last night and then you shot me down
Totay's the first day of honky tonk season...
[ steel - fiddle ] Totay's the first day of honky tonk season...
And honky season will be opened all year round
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We'd like to do this next one for you
I don't think any dance album would be complete without this song right here
I know it's been recorded many many times and we hope you like the way we do it for you tonight
We had so much fun at the San Antonio Fast Stock Show and Rodeo this past February
And we'd like to do this song for all of friends from San Antonio
That might be with us tonight and all of you
We hope you like the way we do the San Antonio Rose
Here it is
8.
SAN ANTONIO ROSE
(Bob Wills)« © '40 Bourne Co, ASCAP »
Deep within my heart lies a melody a song of old San Antone
Where in dreams I lived with a memory beneath the stars all alone
It was there I found beside the Alamo enchantment strange as the blue up above
A moonlit pass that only she would know still hears my broken song of love
Moon and all your splendor knows only my heart
Call back my Rose Rose of San Antone
Lips so sweet and tender like petals falling apart
Speak once again of my love my own
Broken song empty words I know still live in my heart all alone
But that moonlit pass by the Alamo and Rose my Rose of San Antone
[ guitar - steel - fiddle ] Moon and all your splendor...
And Rose my Rose of San Antone
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We've done just about ever type song that we could think of tonight
lot of our records
We'd like to do a good polka for you right now and here's one of my favorites
We had a real great Mexican dinner here in Dallas tonight
And I'll tell you it's my favorite food I guess if I had to pick anything that was one of my favorites
You get down next to pinto beans and cornbread and you're talkin' my language
And I'm gonna have to do this one for you tonight and I want you to polka to this one
It's called El Rancho Grande
9.
EL RANCHO GRANDE
(Bartley Costello - Emilio Uranga)« © '56 Peer International, BMI »
Alla en la rancho grande alla donde vivia
Habia una ranche rita que alegre me decia que alegra me decia
Te voy hacer tus calzones como los usa el ranchero
Te los comienzo de lana te los acabo de cuero
[ fiddle + steel ] Alla en la rancho grande alla donde vivia...
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Folks we'd like to do one for you right now
Here's a song that I learned as a boy listenin' to the late and great Jimmie Rogers records
And I'd like one of the greatest vocal groups in the country to help me out on it
Here's my friends the Jordaniares
And the song is called The One Rose
10.
ONE ROSE (THAT'S LEFT IN MY HEART)
(Del Lyon - Lani McIntire)« © '30 Shapiro-Bernstein Co, ASCAP »
You're the one rose that's left in my heart dear
I love you adore you I do
Each night through loveland we'd wander sweetheart
Telling love stories anew
Out of the blue skies a dark cloud came rolling
Breaking my poor heart in two
Don't leave me alone for I love only you
You're the one rose that's left in my heart
[ trumpet ] Out of the blue skies a dark cloud came rolling...
You're the one rose that's left in my heart
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but before we do it we'd like to say thank you so much for being such a great audience tonight
We've had a great time bein' here in Dallas with you
And we hope it won't be too long till we get back down this way and sing some more songs for you
Here's a song that we'd like to close out the album with tonight
This was written by my friend from Mexia Texas Miss Cindy Walker
It's a song that was recorded many many years ago by Mr Bob Wills
And we'd like to do it for you and we hope you like the way we do it
Here it is it's called You're From Texas
11.
YOU'RE FROM TEXAS
(Cindy Walker)« © '46 Mesa Music, BMI »
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