1.

(# 4 country hit)

Green Green Grass Of Home

Curly Putman

© Tree Pub, BMI

The old hometown looks the same
As I step down from the train
And there to meet me is my mama and papa
And down the road I look and there runs Mary
Hair of gold and lips like cherries
It's good to touch the green green grass of home

Yes they've all come to meet me
Arms arreached and smilin' sweetly
It's so good to touch the green green grass of home

The old house is still standing
Though the paint is cracked and dry
And there's that old oak tree that I used to play on
Down the lane I walk with my sweet Mary
Hair of gold and lips like cherries
It's good to touch the green green grass of home

Then I awake and look around me
At these cold grey walls that surround me
And I realize that I was only dreamin'
For there's a guard and there's a sad old padre
Arm in arm we'll walk at daybreak
When again I'll touch the green green grass of home

They'll all come to see me
In the shade of that old oak tree
As they lay me neath the green green grass of home

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2.

(# 48 country hit)

Ole Slew Foot

Jay Webb

© Scope Music, BMI

High on the mountain what do you see
Bear tracks bear tracks lookin' back at me
You better get your rifles boys before it's too late
The bear's got a little pig and headed through the gate

He's big around the middle and he's broad across the rump
Doin' ninety miles an hour takin' thirty feet a jump
He never been caught and he ain't never been treed
Some folks say looks a lot like me
[ instrumental ]
I saved up my money and I bought me some bees
They started makin' honey way up in the trees
I chopped down the tree but my honey's all gone
Ole Slew Foot's done made himself at home

He's big around the middle and he's broad across the rump...
[ instrumental ]
Winter's comin' on and it's twenty below
The river's froze over so where can he go
We'll chase him in the gully and we'll run him in the well
And shoot him at the bottom and we'll listen to him yell

He's big around the middle and he's broad across the rump...

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3.

(# 3 country hit)

Eat Drink And Be Merry (Tomorrow You'll Cry)

Celia Ferguson - Sandra Ferguson

© Budde Songs, BMI

Little heart you've been broken many times before
But the wound always heals no matter how sore
But this time is different and I can't tell you why
Eat drink and be merry tomorrow you'll cry

They say that time will erase all my sorrow
Well I guess since I've lost you I'll find out tomorrow
Be gay while she's with you don't break down and cry
Eat drink and be merry tomorrow you'll cry
[ instrumental ]
A heart that is stricken with hate and with lies
Will soon be forsaken and left there to die
Well I guess that's what happened she said her goodbye
Eat drink and be merry tomorrow you'll cry

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4.

The Stranger's Story

Pete Stamper

© Warden Music, BMI

Now listen to a story a stranger just told me
Of a love that he's not ashamed
He has her no longer but proud he once owned her
Though she shares another man's name

He told of the good times they had in the springtime
Before she was stolen away
He blamed her oh no none he said she was too young
To know her heart wanted to stay

Then he drank to her new love that it might be true love
A future so happy and bright
With his eyes growing misty as he drank down the whiskey
That was tellin' his story that night

Though he didn't know me he told all of the story
And not a word said without pride
Then he asked if I blamed her but oh when he named her
I wanted to run out and hide

How could I tell him the man that had dealt him
His sorrow and sadness was me
So I left from the table while I was still able
To hold back my own misery

A wonder comes to me maybe he knew me
And told me just so I would cry
But without his knowing the tears were then flowing
For she had just told me goodbye

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5.

False True Love

Anne Bybee

© Warden Music, BMI

Come in come in you old true love
And chat for awhile with me
For it's been three quarters of a long year or more
Since I spoke one word to thee

I shan't come in I shan't set down
I ain't got a moment's time
And since you are engaged with another true love
Then your heart is no longer mine

When you were mine, my old true love
Then your lead lay on my breast
You could make me believe by the falling of your arm
That the sun rose up in the west

There is many the star shall jingle in the west
There is many the leaf below
There is many the damn that shall lite upon a man
For treating a poor girl so

I wish to the Lord I'd never been born
Or had died when I was young
Then I never would have mourned for my old true love
Nor have courted no other one

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6.

You Can't Make A Heel Toe The Mark

Ray Pennington - Don Reno

© Tree Pub, BMI

You can't change the daylight to dark
And you can't make a heel toe the mark

I warned you not to give your love to me
I knew that I would only break your heart
I'm the kind you just can't ever change
Cause you can't make a heel toe the mark

You can't stop time from rollin' on you
Can't keep a man from goin' wrong
You can't change the daylight to dark
And you can't make a heel toe the mark
[ instrumental ]
A leopard can never change its spots
The big tiger would never change its stripes
A hound dog would never change its bark
And you can't make a heel toe the mark

You can't stop time from rollin' on you...
No you can't make a heel toe the mark

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7.

Man In The Little White Suit

Dallas Frazier

© Blue Crest Music, BMI

Smokin' cigarettes by the carton drinking coffee by the pound
Slowly pullin' my hair out by the roots
Acting funny lookin' at the mirror making faces like a clown
Just sittin' here waitin' for the man in the little white suit

Everybody told me you would drive me crazy
And they said you'd had me barking like a hound
But a fool in love ain't got the sense to listen
Now my barking is the gossip of the town

Smokin' cigarettes by the carton drinking coffee by the pound...
[ instrumental ]
Just a crazy fool to believe the things you told me
I hate to say the fool is you know who
I'd sooner be the victim of a hanging
Then to be a fool I am because of you

Smokin' cigarettes by the carton drinking coffee by the pound...
Smokin' cigarettes by the carton drinking coffee by the pound...

Just sittin' here waitin' for the man in the little white suit
Just sittin' here waitin' for the man in the little white suit

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8.

The Keeper Of The Key

Harlan Howard - Beverly Stewart - Lance Guyness - Kenny Devine

© Vidor Pub, BMI

You are the keeper of the key

You have gone and yet I'm still your prisoner
Although you're with a new love I'm not free
For you have placed a lock around my heart dear
And you are the keeper of the key

Love locked inside like mine burns constantly
Oh darling please come back to me
We'll lock our hearts together for a lifetime
And God will be the keeper of the key
[ instrumental ]
Only you can break the chains that bind me
You alone can end my misery
No one else can dry the tears that blind me
For you are the keeper of the key

Love locked inside like mine burns constantly...

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9.

They Listened While You Said Goodbye

Harlan Howard

© Wilderness Music, BMI

(Listen listen listen they're saying goodbye)

The birds stop their singing when I'm passing by
And even the flowers just stand there and cry
For they know the reason I have tears in my eyes
They listened while you said goodbye

The sun has stopped shining the moon hides its face
He promised so much now he hides in disgrace
I guess all creation was there last night
They listened while you said goodbye

You say what you're seekin' is over the hill
That I'll find a new love but I never will
For you didn't know my whole world stood still
And listened while you said goodbye
[ instrumental ]
You say what you're seekin' is over the hill...

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10.

I Dreamed I Saw America On Her Knees

Johnny Mullins

© Warden Music, BMI

I dreamed I saw America on her knees
She knelt in prayer with humble outstretched hands

Last night I fell asleep sittin' in my favorite chair
I had read the evening paper news of trouble everywhere
Evil spread throughout the nation like a dark cloud overhead
Crime increasing faith decreasing people saying God is dead

Then I saw a great revival spreading like a mighty wind
From every city town and village starting first in the hearts of men
Every church bell started ringing every Christian took their stand
And people learnt to love each other and the great and the small walked hand in hand

I dreamed I saw America on her knees
She knelt in prayer with humble outstretched hands
I dreamed that God in heaven heard her plea
And with tender love reached down and healed our land

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