KITTY WELLS
QUEEN OF HONKY TONK STREET
Decca DL-74929
October 16/1967
Produced by Owen Bradley
Recorded:
Dec/1966, Bradley's Barn, Mtount Juliet (4)
May/1967, Bradley's Barn, Mtount Juliet
1.
QUEEN OF HONKY TONK STREET
(Jim Anglin)
« © '67 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
The lights are low and the jukebox is loud
As we make the rounds among the wild unruly crowd
One honky tonk to another where ole friends meet
Got me this name Queen of Honky Tonk Street
Queen of Honky Tonk Street that's next to Jukebox Lane
You gave me the name taught me how to play the game
Don't point your finger at me men should understand
That a honky tonk woman's good as a honky tonk man
[ guitar ]
The slurs at honky tonk angels will they ever end
Most women go honky tonkin' just to please their men
If we had stayed at home away from night life beat
I wouldn't have the name Queen of Honky Tonk Street
Queen of Honky Tonk Street that's next to Jukebox Lane...
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2.
WALK THROUGH THIS WORLD WITH ME
(Sandy Seamons - Kaye Savage)
« © '66 Glad Music, BMI / Pappy Daily Music, BMI »
Walk through this world with me go where I go
Share all my dreams with me I need you so
In life we search and some of us find
I've looked for you a long long time
And now that I found you new horizons I see
Come take my hand and walk through this world with me
[ guitar ]
Walk through this world with me go where I go
Share all my dreams with me I've searched for you so
And now that I found you new horizons I see
Come take my hand and walk through this world with me
Come take my hand and walk through this world with me
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3.
IF I KISS YOU (WILL YOU GO AWAY)
(Liz Anderson)
« © '67 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
If I kiss you will you go away
Like in the game my mother used to play
You're so much hurt I wish you wouldn't stay
If I kiss you will you go away
My mom would come when I'd get hurt at play
She'd kiss my hurt and it would go away
But now I'm grown I don't know what to do
I've never known a bigger hurt than you
If I kiss you will you go away...
[ guitar ]
I've seen a kiss make sorrow disappear
A kiss can dry away the biggest tear
A kiss can make a heartache vanish too
I don't see why it wouldn't work on you
If I kiss you will you go away...
If I kiss you will you go away
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4.
WASTING MY TIME
(Jim Anglin)
« © '67 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
Wasting my time acting happy and carefree
The one hurting most that's got to be me
I should win an Oscar my acting was first class
You were just a bad memory from out of my past
Dancing and laughing the world at my feet
Then the life of the party cried herself to sleep
Wasting my time acting happy and carefree...
[ steel ]
My make believe world is no good for me
But it only hurts me more when I face reality
I'm tired of pretending there's nothing else to do
But there's one thing for certain I'll keep on loving you
Wasting my time acting happy and carefree...
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5.
NEED YOU
(Johnny Blackburn - Lou Porter - Teepee Mitchell)
« © '49 PolyGram Int, ASCAP »
I need you oh how I need you
The nights are lonely since we're apart
I miss you oh how I miss you
Come back my darlin' and mend my heart
I'm sorry dear I made you cry
Please forgive and forget the days gone by
I need you oh how I need you
Come back my darlin' into my heart
[ steel ]
I'm sorry dear I made you cry...
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6.
JUST BEYOND THE MOON
(Jeremy Slate)
« © '67 Central Songs, BMI / Ring A Ding Music, BMI »
(I'll walk just beyond the moon then I'll stop and wait for you)
My mother and my father were in love for fifty years
So when dad died we wondered why my mother shed no tears
We asked her once about it but she wouldn't tell us why
Instead she'd walk outside each night and smile up the sky
Then just before she left us she called us to her side
She told us what my father said to her just before he died
I remember when you said you'd never leave me
Through these golden years I've kept the same vow too
But now that I am going please don't leave me
I'll walk just beyond the moon then I'll stop and wait for you
You can look up ev'ry night and you'll see me light the light
Where I'll watch for you to join me someday soon
We'll go looking through the stars for the heaven that is ours
And I know we'll find it soon somewhere just beyond the moon
(I'll walk just beyond the moon then I'll stop and wait for you)
I'll just sit there by a star and I'll watch you from afar
Till I see you walking toward me someday soon
Then together hand in hand we'll find our promised land
And we'll settle down forever darling just beyond the moon
(I'll walk just beyond the moon then I'll stop and wait for you)
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7.
CINCINNATI OHIO
(Bill Anderson)
« © '64 Johnny Bienstock Music, BMI »
One more hour and I'll be home
Close my eyes and rest my bones
Can't be more than a mile or so
From Cincinnati Ohio Cincinnati Ohio
Cincinnati where the river winds
Cross the Mason and the Dixon Line
Heaven waits for me I know
In Cincinnati Ohio Cincinnati Ohio
I guess perhaps the memories got too strong
Grabbed me by the heart strings and pulled me home
I got to thinkin' bout some friends I know
In Cincinnati Ohio Cincinnati Ohio
(Cincinnati Ohio Cincinnati Ohio)
I walked half way from Lewieville
Now there she lies at the foot of the hill
Shinin' like a jewel in the valley below
Cincinnati Ohio Cincinnati Ohio
Cincinnati where the river winds...
Cincinnati where the river winds...
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8.
ALL THE TIME
(Mel Tillis - Wayne P. Walker)
« © '58 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI / Songs Of PolyGram, BMI »
All the time yes darling all the time
Tenderly constantly I'll love you
Ev'ry day I'll prove it ev'ry day
In happiness or loneliness I'll love you
Other's arms may tempt me but don't let that worry you
For even when they tempt me I'll never be untrue
All the time yes darling all the time
Through the years through smiles or tears I'll love you
Other's arms may tempt me but don't let that worry you...
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9.
I CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE
(Dallas Frazier)
« © '67 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI / Glad Music, BMI / Pappy Daily Music, BMI »
They all say I can't get there from here
I'm looking for the town where sadness can't be found
Where happiness is blooming all year round
A place where there's no heartache and no one cries a tear
But they all say I can't get there from here
Surely there's a place to rest a tortured mind
Oh what I'd give if I could find
A place where there's no mem'ries of all those wasted years
But they all say I can't get there from here
[ steel ]
Surely there's a place to rest a tortured mind...
They all say I can't get there from here
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10.
IT'S SUCH A PRETTY WORLD TODAY
(Dale Noe)
« © '66 Freeway Music, BMI »
It's such a pretty world today look at the sunshine
And ev'ry day's the same since I met you
It's such a pretty world today knowing that you're mine
And happinsess is being close to you
And though the rain may fall my skies will all be blue
If I look close enough the sun will come shining through
It's such a pretty world today look at the sunshine
Today and ev'ry day since I met you
[ steel ]
It's such a pretty world today look at the sunshine...
And though the rain may fall my skies will all be blue...
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11.
PAPER MANSIONS
(Ted Harris)
« © '66 Plainspoken Music, ASCAP »
Don't build for me no paper mansions
That only stand until you've gone
You paint the nicest futures of anyone I know
You always leave me holding on to pretty words that glow
You've built a thousand mansions out of dreams that seem so strong
But they're always made of paper not of stone
Don't build for me no paper mansions
That I can never call my own
For love can't live in paper mansions
That only stand until you've gone
[ piano ]
You've always been a dreamer dear and I'm a dreamer too
But I guess I've had too many of the kind that don't come true
So don't build me no mansion with paper walls so thin
That only stand until you leave again
Don't build for me no paper mansions...
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12.
I'LL NEVER FIND ANOTHER YOU
(Tom Springfield)
« © '65 Chappell & Co, ASCAP »
There's a new world somewhere they call the Promised Land
And I'll be there someday if you will hold my hand
I still need you there beside me no matter what I do
For I know I'll never find another you
There is always someone to reach across they say
And you'll be my someone forever and a day
I could search the whole world over until my life is through
But I know I'll never find another you
It's a long long journey so stay by my side
When I'll walk through the storm you'll be my guide be my guide
If they gave me a fortune my pleasure would be small
I could lose it all tomorrow and never mind at all
But if I should lose your love dear I don't know what I'd do
For I know I'll never find another you
[ guitar ]
But if I should lose your love dear...
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