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Billy Swan

I Can Help

(# 1 top country album)
(# 21 top pop album)

Monument KZ-33279
Nov / 1974

Produced by Chip Young

Cover image of I Can Help

Reggie Young, John Christopher, Dennis Linde, Chip Young - guitar
Lloyd Green - steel
Mike Leech - bass
Hayward Bishop - drums
Bobby Wood - piano
Bobby Emmons - keyboards/organ
Charlie McCoy - harmonica
Farrell Morris - percussion
David Kielhofner - sax
Horns:
Harrison Calloway, Ron Eades, Billy Puett, Dennis Good, Don Sheffield, George Tidwell
Arrangements by Bill Justis
Recorded:
Aug/1974, Young'un Studio, Murfreesboro, TN
Engineering: Chip Young

1.

Lover Please

Billy Swan

© Combine Music, BMI

Lover please please come back
Don't take the train comin' down the track
Don't please don't don't leave me
Don't leave me in misery

You wouldn't ever hold me so near
You wouldn't ever call me dear
Don't you know I'd die for you
Now you're gone that's what I'll do

Lover please please come back...
[ instrumental ]
Old old story not too long
About a love that went all wrong
The girl left the boy oh so bad
Now he's gone and she's so sad

So lover please please come back...
Lover please please come back...

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2.

(# 1 country hit)
(# 1 pop hit)

I Can Help

Billy Swan

© Combine Music, BMI

If you got a problem don't care what it is
If you need a hand I can assure you this
I can help I got two strong arms I can help
It would sure do me good to do you good let me help

It's a fact that people get lonely ain't nothing new
But a woman like you baby should never have the blues
Let me help I got two for me let me help
It would sure do me good to do you good let me help

When I go to sleep at night you're always a part of my dream
Holdin' me tight and tellin' me everything I wanna hear

Don't forget me baby all you gotta do is call
You know how I feel about you if I can do anything at all
Let me help if your child needs a daddy I can help
It would sure do me good to do you good let me help
[ instrumental ]
When I go to sleep at night you're always a part of my dream
Holdin' me tight and tellin' me everything I wanna hear

Don't forget me baby all you gotta do is call...

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3.

(# 53 pop hit)

I'm Her Fool

Dennis Linde - Billy Swan

© Combine Music, BMI

She tells me all the time that she loves me
She even poured the wine of the same
She taught me like my first grade teacher
To love and I love the same

And I love to go to school and I like to shoot pool
And I can't play your fool
Cause I'm her fool

I run like a dog when she calls me
Cause she pets me when I bury my bone
I stay overnight with her sometimes
But I don't stay over long

Cause I gotta go to school I love to shoot pool
And I can't be your fool
Cause I'm her fool

I'm her fool in the evening and I'm her fool when it's dawn
I guess I'd be on her side even if her side were wrong

(You're really right you're right)
(You're really wrong you're wrong)
(You're really right you're right)
(You're really wrong you're wrong)
(You're really right you're right)
(You're really wrong you're wrong)
(You're really right you're right)
(You're really wrong you're wrong)

My papa said you made a mistake son
But my mama said the girl she's alright
Well I've come to my own decision
And I'm gonna be with her tonight

Cause I love to go to school I like to shoot pool
I can't be your fool
Cause I'm her fool

I'm her I'm her I'm her fool
I'm her I'm her I'm her fool
I'm her I'm her I'm her fool
I'm her I'm her I'm her fool

I'm her I'm her I'm her fool
I'm her I'm her I'm her fool
I'm her I'm her I'm her fool
I'm her I'm her I'm her fool

(I'm her I'm her I'm her fool
I'm her I'm her I'm her fool
I'm her I'm her I'm her fool
I'm her I'm her I'm her fool)

(I'm her I'm her I'm her fool
I'm her I'm her I'm her fool)

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4.

I'd Like To Work For You

Billy Swan

© Combine Music, BMI

Now I may never be a preacher cause I don't know how to save
And I could not be a lawyer although I know it pays
And by no means be the President I don't have that kind of head
And I could not be a doctor no way cause I freak when I see red

There's just one thing on my mind I get off on
I'd like to work for you that's what I'd like to do

I could love you in the evening and kiss you all the night
And wake you up in the mornin' with a touch I'm sure you'd like
Make sure you took your vitamins and dried ya when you're soakin' wet
Take you out to dinner and you could take it off my check

I don't care to climb a mountain and I've long since gave up trees
I don't care to sail the ocean cause I'd get sick of the sea
I don't want to fly like birds do God did not give me wings
And I could not be an artist I'd just waste time and paint

There's just one thing on my mind I get off on
I'd like to work for you that's what I'd like to do
I'd like to work for you that's what I'd like to do

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5.

(# 95 country hit)

Shake Rattle And Roll

Charles Calhoun

© Progressive Music, BMI

Get outta that bed wash your face and hands
Get outta that bed wash your face and hands
Well you get in that kitchen make some noise with the pots and pans

Way you wear those dresses the sun comes shinin' through
Yes you wear those dresses the sun comes shinin' through
I can't believe my eyes all of that belongs to you

I said shake rattle and roll
I said shake rattle and roll
I said shake rattle and roll
I said shake rattle and roll
Well you won't do right to save your doggone soul
[ instrumental ]
I believe to my soul you're the devil and now I know
I believe to my soul you're the devil and now I know
Well the more I work the faster my money goes

I'm like a one-eyed cat peepin' in a seafood store
I'm like a one-eyed cat peepin' in a seafood store
Well I can look at you till you ain't no child no more

I said shake rattle and roll...
I said shake rattle and roll...

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6.

Queen Of My Heart

Billy Swan - Benny Whitehead

© Combine Music, BMI

Queen of my heart (queen of my heart) my tears are fallin'
You're mean and you're smart (mean and you're smart) you keep me crawlin'
You make me go boo hoo hoo like Fat's used to do
You got me drinkin' whiskey
You got me sittin' round all night long playin' those tear jerkin' lovesick songs
Till the moon goes home the sun comes on you're really tearin' me apart queen of my heart

Shoo baba shoo baba wah shoo baba shoo baba wah
(Queen of my heart)

Queen of my heart (queen of my heart) hear my declaration
Today is the start (today is the start) of my reclamation
Cause you're through through through makin' me blue
I'm takin' back my love girl
Gonna find somebody who will be in love with life and in love with me
When I find this dream of mine somebody worthy of the part I make her

Queen of my heart (queen of my heart) queen of my heart (queen of my heart)
Queen of my heart (queen of my heart) queen of my heart (queen of my heart)
Queen of my heart (queen of my heart) queen of my heart (queen of my heart)
Queen of my heart (queen of my heart) queen of my heart (queen of my heart)

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7.

Don't Be Cruel

Otis Blackwell - Elvis Presley

© Shalimar Music, BMI

You know I can be found I'm sittin' home all alone
If you can't come around at least on the telephone
Don't be cruel to a heart that's true

Baby if I made you mad with somethin' that I might have said
Please let's forget the past for our future looks bright ahead
Don't be cruel to a heart that's true

I don't want no other love
Baby it's just you I'm thinking of
Don't be cruel to a heart that's true
Don't be cruel to a heart that's true

Well let's walk up to the preacher and let us say I do
Then you'll know you'll have me and I know I'll have you too
Don't be cruel to a heart that's true

Why should we be apart
I really love you baby cross my heart
Cross my heart cross my heart
Cross my heart cross my heart

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8.

Wedding Bells

Claude Boone

© E.H. Morris Co, ASCAP

I have the invitation that you sent me
You wanted me to see you change your name
I couldn't stand to see you wed another
But dear I hope you're happy just the same

The wedding bells are ringing in the chapel
That should be ringing now for you and me
Down the aisle with someone else you're walking
Those wedding bells will never ring for me

I planned a little cottage in the valley
I even bought a little band of gold
I thought someday I'd place it on your finger
But now the future looks so dark and cold

Wedding bells are ringing in the chapel
I hear the children laughing now with glee
At home alone I hang my head in sorrow
The wedding bells will never ring for me
[ instrumental ]
The wedding bells are ringing in the chapel
That should be ringing out for you and me
Down the aisle with someone else you're walking
Those wedding bells will never ring for me

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9.

The Ways Of A Woman In Love

Charlie Rich - Bill Justis

© Hi-Lo Music, BMI

You've cut out your dancin' and you never see a show
Friends come by to pick you up and you hardly ever go
It seems your head is in the clouds above
You've got the ways of a woman in love
With another man
You've got the ways of a woman in love

I walked by your house at night in hopes that I might see
The guy who's got you in a spin I wish that guy was me
I don't know why it's you I'm dreamin' of
Cause you've got the ways of a woman in love
With another man
You've got the ways of a woman in love

Many is the night I've laid awake and cried
Oh you'll never know how much you've hurt my foolish pride

And how it hurts me
When I recall your kisses and the times I've held you tight
Now when I come to see you you're sittin' in the light
I'm missin' all those things that we dreamed of
Cause you've got the ways of a woman in love
With another man
You've got the ways of a woman in love

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10.

P.M.S. (Post Mortem Sickness)

Billy Swan - Dulin Lansester

© Combine Music, BMI

Why why don't you love me
Why why do you want to hurt me
For I I only want to love you
Physical and mental and spiritually
Why can't I get out of your range
Tell me what did I do to deserve this pain
(Oh baby)
Why why do I have to have you
Why for I've already had you
Oh but I I only want to love you
Physical and mental and spiritually
Physical and mental and spiritually
Physical and mental

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