lp discography - covers & lyrics

1.

RIVERBOAT

(Bill Anderson)
« © '59 Songs Of Universal, BMI »
Well I spent the better part of my life on a Mississippi riverboat
I used to be known from coast to coast as the slickest gambler afloat
I've dealt the cards from Minnesota to the harbor at New Orleans
Made a lotta big money on the riverboat I loved a lotta pretty riverboat queens

Riverboat riverboat I love your whistle's wail
I wish I was back on the riverboart stead of in the Memphis jail
[ banjo ] Oh a big man got on the riverboat our last time in St Paul
He had a lotta money but his luck went bad and the riverboat won it all
He said I dealt from bottom of the deck and he pulled a shiny knife
But before that gambler lunged at me my 44 took his life

Riverboat riverboat I love your whistle's wail...
[ banjo ] Well they came on the boat and they took me to jail when we got to Tennessee
A gamblin' man has very few friends guess nobody cared for me
So I might be here for a many long years
But if I ever get out I'm gonna head straight for that levee and get me
S riverboat headin' south

Riverboat riverboat I love your whistle's wail...
Stead of in the Memphis jail
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2.

LIFETIME ISN'T LONG ENOUGH

(Virginia Midgett - Arthur Korb)
« © '52 Central Songs, BMI »
A lifetime isn't long enough to be in love with you
To prove how much I care sweetheart the way I want to do
A lifetime isn't long enough I couldn't even start
In twice that time to tell you have the things within my heart

If I could live a million years then maybe I'd have time
To make you really understand how glad I am you're mine
I love you more and more each day until my life is through
But a lifetime isn't long enough to be in love with you

If I could live a million years and then a million more
I never could grow tired of sayin' it's you I adore
Long as I live my life is yours my heart and my love too
But a lifetime isn't long enough to be in love with you
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3.

FACE TO THE WALL

(Bill Anderson - Faron Young)
« © '59 Songs Of Universal, BMI »
Was I farther from your conscience standing face to the wall

I suspected there was something that you weren't telling me
And last night I learned the reason for it all
I was looking through your window saw you kissing someone else
You reached up and turned my picture slowly face to the wall

Face to the wall so you wouldn't have to see
Anything at all to make you think of me
Did the cheapness of the moment make you feel ashamed and small
Was I farther from your conscience standing face to the wall
[ steel ] Alone out in the darkness were the eyes that worshipped you
As you cheated me I watched my idle fall
With your arms around another and his lips where mine should be
Then I saw you turned my picture slowly face to the wall

Face to the wall so you wouldn't have to see...
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4.

EVERYTIME I'M KISSING YOU

(Carl Belew - Faron Young - Johnny Horton)
« © '57 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
Everytime I'm kissing you I think of you kissing him

I came home and I found you in the arms of a friend
I should have turned and walked away when I saw you kissing him
You beg me to forgive you but I wonder if I can
Cause everytime I'm kissing you I think of you kissing him

You even said you were ashamed but it hurts me just the same
And I'll have to pay the cost cause I can't hold the love that's lost
I thought I was the only one but you don't know the harm you've done
Cause everytime I'm kissing you I think of you kissing him
[ steel - fiddle ] You even said you were ashamed...
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5.

LONG TIME AGO

(Merle Kilgore - Faron Young)
« © '58 Johnny Bienstock Music, BMI »
You used to hold me you used to kiss me a long long time ago
As we're introduced again you said that we were old friends
But you used to hold me you used to kiss me a long long time ago
But to me it seems so strange to call you by another's name
Cause you used to hold me you used to kiss me a long long time ago

Just seein' you again makes me remember a long long time ago when you were mine
But it's too late to live my life all over hard to turn back old ages of time
As you turned and walked away I thought again of yesterday
When you used to hold me you used to kiss me a long long time ago
[ steel ] Just seein' you again makes me remember...
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6.

THAT'S THE WAY IT'S GOTTA BE

(Roy Drusky)
« © '59 Johnny Bienstock Music, BMI »
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7.

YOUR OLD USED TO BE

(Faron Young - Hilda Young)
« © '60 Johnny Bienstock Music, BMI »
Will I ever get used to being your old used to be

I watched you walk away from me so long ago
I didn't know I loved you and I let you go
And just to think that I'm the one who set you free
Will I ever get used to being your old used to be

I've gotten used to people's stares as I walk by
I keep my head bowed low so they can't see me cry
They say there goes a man who lives in a memory
Will I ever get used to being your old used to be
[ steel ] I've got no one to help me pass these lonely days
When night time comes I just can't keep the blues away
Or if I dream your lovely face is all I see
Will I ever get used to being your old used to be

I've gotten used to...
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8.

I HEAR YOU TALKIN'

(Faron Young)
« © '59 Johnny Bienstock Music, BMI »
You want me to come back and love you again
I hear you talkin' but your words ain't comin' in
You want me to be something that I ain't never been
I hear you talkin' but your words ain't comin' in

I learned the lesson you taughed to me
I might be a guessin' but I think you made a fool of me
You should've thought of the way you'd feel before you were untrue
I hear you talkin' but your words ain't comin' in
[ guitar ] You want me to come back and love you again...

I guess I loved you but I found out so soon
Cause this heart of mine was fallin' so in love with you
Best of him lots of luck I guess this is the end
I hear you talkin' but your words ain't comin' in
I hear you talkin' but your words ain't comin' in
I hear you talkin' but your words ain't comin' in
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9.

COUNTRY GIRL

(Roy Drusky)
« © '59 Johnny Bienstock Music, BMI »
I met you my country girl you didn't have a thing
I fell in love I dressed you up and I bought the ring
I was teaching you to love you were learning fine
Then one day you learned too much and it poisoned your sweet mind

Now you've gone and left me you're with somebody new
But I wonder if you told him I bought the clothes on you
When you do your dancin' and you whisper soft and sweet
I wonder if you tell him I bought the shoes on your feet
[ steel ] Now I've lost my country girl to a city love affair
He'd built you up you fell for him you didn't treat me fair
You think that he's the dream come true he says he loved you so
But wait until the word gets out I taught you all that you know

Now you've gone and left me you're with somebody new...
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10.

ALONE WITH YOU

(Roy Drusky - Lester Vanadore - Faron Young)
« © '58 Johnny Bienstock Music, BMI »
How I'd love to be around you when the lonely night surrounds you
How I'd love to be alone with you
What I'd give to have the power to read your mind one hour
How I'd love to be alone with you

Just to be with you one night you and me alone
Kiss your lips and hold you tight have you for my own
This would be a joy unending could be a real beginning
How I'd love to be alone with you
[ guitar ] How I'd love to be around you when the lonely night surrounds you
How I'd love to be alone with you
If I only knew for certain I'd cut out all my flirtin'
How I'd love to be alone with you

Just to be with you one night you and me alone
Kiss your lips and hold you tight have you for my own
Won't you try to be my baby just for once and then well maybe
I could always be alone with you
Won't you try to be my baby just for once and then well maybe
I could always be alone with you and I could always be alone with you
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11.

I'LL BE ALRIGHT (IN THE MORNING)

(Roy Drusky - Faron Young - Bob Stroud)
« © '60 Johnny Bienstock Music, BMI »
Oh tonight I found myself forgetting you
It happened in the arms of someone new
I buried all the dreams I had of you
So I'll be alright in the morning

I'll be alright in the morning
I never thought that I'd get over you
I'll be alright in the morning
Cause tonight I finally found the love that's true

Another love another start
Another dream another heart
Another life for me begins with dawn
Tomorrow memories of you will be gone

I'll be alright in the morning...
[ guitar ] Another love another start...
Oh tonight I finally found the love that's true
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12.

I HATE MYSELF (FOR FALLING IN LOVE WITH YOU)

(Cliff Crofford)
« © '58 Owen Publications, BMI »
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