STORY SONGS OF MOUNTAINS AND VALLEYS
(Mercury SR-60971) '64
Produced by Jerry Kennedy & Shelby S. Singleton
Jerry Kennedy, Grady Martin - lead guitar
Harold Bradley - bass guitar
Ray Edenton - rh.guitar
Pete Drake, Lloyd Green - steel
Bob Moore - bass
Buddy Harman - drums
Hargus Pig Robbins - piano
Charlie McCoy - harmonica/vibes
Vocal accompaniment by The Jordanaires
Recorded 1963-1964, Nashville
1.
MOUNTAIN OF LOVE
(Harold Dorman - Wylie Gann)
« © '60 Morris Music, BMI »
I'm standing on a mountain looking down on the city
The way I feel is a doggone pity
Teardrops falling down a mountainside
Many times I've been here and many times I've cried
We used to be happy when we were in love high on a mountain of love
Night after night I've been standing here alone
Weeping my heart out till the cold gray dawn
Hoping that you're lonely and you'll come here too
Hoping just by chance that I'll get a glimpse of you
Trying hard to find you somewhere above high on a mountain of love
A mountain of love a mountain of love you should be ashamed
We used to be a mountain of love but you just changed your name
Way down below there's a half a million people
Somewhere there's a church with a great tall steeple
Inside the church there's an altar filled with flowers
Weddin' bells are ringing and they should have been ours
That's why I'm so lonely here up above high on a mountain of love
A mountain of love a mountain of love...
High on a mountain of love high on a mountain of love
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2.
VALLEY OF TEARS
(Antonio Domino - Dave Bartholomew)
« © '57 Unart Catalog, BMI »
I want you to take me where I belong
Where hearts have been broken with a kiss and a song
Spend the rest of my days without any cares
Everyone understands me in the valley of tears
Soft words have been spoken so sweet and low
But my mind is made up love's gotta go
Spend the rest of my days without any cares
Everyone understands me in the valley of tears
[ guitar ]
Soft words have been spoken...
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3.
TOO MANY MOUNTAINS
(Merle Kilgore - Faron Young)
« © '64 Al Gallico Music, BMI »
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4.
LONG BLACK VEIL
(Marijohn Wilkin - Danny Dill)
« © '59 Cedarwood Publishing, BMI »
Ten years ago on a cold dark night
There was someone killed neath the town hall light
There were few at the scene but they all agreed
The slayer who ran looked a lot like me
The judge said son what is your alibi
If you were somewhere else then you won't have to die
I spoke not a word though it meant my life
I had been in the arms of my best friend's wife
She walks these hills in a long black veil
She visits my grave when the night winds wail
Nobody knows and nobody sees nobody knows but me
The scaffold was high and eternity near
She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear
But sometimes at night when the cold wind moans
In a long black veil she cries all alone
She walks these hills...
Nobody knows but me
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5.
FOGGY MOUNTAIN TOP
(A.P. Carter)
« © '54 Peer International, BMI »
If I was on some foggy mountain top I'd sail away to the west
I'd sail all around this whole wide world to the girl I love the best
If I had listened to what mama said I would not have been here today
Just lyin' around this old jailhouse weepin' my poor life away
If I was on some foggy mountain top...
[ guitar ]
Oh whenevr you see that girl of mine there's something you must tell her
She need not fool no time away courtin' some other feller
(Yes you caused me to weep yes you caused me to moan
You caused me to leave my home
Oh that lonesome pine and those good ole times have marred my way back home)
If I was on some foggy mountain top...
If I was on some foggy mountain top...
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6.
MY FRIEND ON THE RIGHT
(Red Lane - Faron Young)
« © '64 Tree Publishing, BMI »
Well this old picture is so faded you can hardly see
And that smiling face there in the middle well you can see it's me
And that pretty girl there on my left was mine to hold so tight
But I lost her to my friend there on the right
And that big house you see there in the background
That big shiny car I bought to drive her around
And just to keep her happy I worked hard both day and night
Now it all belongs to my friend there on the right
The picture showed the truth but I was oh so blind
I was a guy in the middle all the times
I filled my hopes up till they were out of sight
And then she walked away with my friend there on the right
[ strings ]
The picture showed the truth...
Yes she walked away with my friend there on the right
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7.
HEARTBREAK VALLEY
(Margie Singleton - Dianne Kilroy - Eddie Kilroy)
« © '64 Shelby Singleton Music, BMI »
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8.
WOLVERTON MOUNTAIN
(Merle Kilgore - Claude King)
« © '62 Painted Desert Music, BMI »
They say don't go on Wolverton Mountain
If you're looking for a wife
Cause Clifton Clovers has a pretty young daughter
He's mighty handy with a gun and a knife
But her tender lips are sweeter than honey
And Wolverton Mountain protects her there
The bears and the birds tell Clifton Clovers
If a stranger should wander there
All of my dreams are on Wolverton Mountain
I want his daughter for my wife
I'll take my chances and I'll climb that mountain
Though Clifton Clovers may take my life
Her tender lips are sweeter than honey...
I'm a goin' up on Wolverton Mountain
It's too lonesome down here below
It's just not right to hide that daughter
From the one who loves her so
Cause her tender lips are sweeter than honey...
But I don't care about Clifron Clovers
I'm a gonna climb up on his mountain
I'm gonna take the girl I love I don't care about Clifron Clovers
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9.
PEE WEE VALLEY
(Merle Kilgore)
« © '64 Painted Desert Music, BMI »
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10.
WHAT WILL I TELL MY DARLING
(Jerry Crutchfield - Faron Young)
« © '63 Songs Of Universal, BMI »
(What) what will I tell my darling (when) oh when she comes back home
How will I say that I'm sorry for the sings that I know I've done wrong
(Oh she) yes she's gonna walking and kiss me
(Yes I know) oh I know that's what she's gonna do
Then she'll look at me so tenderly and say whose darling are you
Well let's see I'm gonna tell her that I've missed her
And oh yes I'm so glad that you're my own
But oh is it best to tell the rest oh what what will I tell my darling
[ piano ]
(Oh she) yes she's gonna walking...
(What will I tell my darling)
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11.
I'VE COME TO SAY GOODBYE
(Don Robertson - Hal Blair)
« © '63 Anne Rachel Music, ASCAP / Don Robertson Music, ASCAP »
I haven't come to please like all the times before
The arms I used to need can't hold me anymore
I haven't come to blame I do even ask you why
This time it's not the same I've come to say goodbye
No begging on my knees like all the times before
Are just the memories I'm leaving at your door
Don't ask me to explain so I won't have to lie
I've gotta go away and I've come to say goodbye
No begging on my knees...
Yes I've just gotta go away and I've come to say goodbye
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12.
IN THE MISTY MOONLIGHT
(Cindy Walker)
« © '64 Acuff-Rose Music, BMI »
In the misty moonlight by the flickering firelight
Any place is all right long as I'm with you
In a faraway land by the trophic sea sand
If your hand's in my hand I won't be blue
A way up on the mountain a way down in the valley
I know I'll be happy anyplace anywhere I don't care
In the misty moonlight by the flickering firelight
Any place is all right long as you are there
I could be happy in one little room with only a table and a chair
As happy as I'd be in a kingdom by the sea darling if you were only there
And I could be rich or I could be poor in fact if you were by my side
I could be anything in this whole wide world I know I'll be satisfied
A way up on the mountain...
In the misty moonlight by the flickering firelight
Any place is all right long as you are there
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