1.

Heart Over Mind

Mel Tillis

© Cedarwood Pub, BMI

I love you so much that I can't leave you
Even though my mind tells me I should
But then you make me think you really want me
Then all my thoughts of leavin' do no good

You've got me heart over mind worried all the time
Knowing you will always be the same
You'll keep hurting me I know but I just can't let you go
Cause my heart won't let my love for you change
[ instrumental ]
Friends tell me they see you out with others
And in my heart I try hard to forget
But you come home and tell me you still love me
And I still hope there's some chance for us yet

You've got me heart over mind...

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2.

I Ain't Never

Mel Tillis - Webb Pierce

© Cedarwood Pub, BMI

Well I ain't never I ain't never seen nobody like you
No no no never a have I ever seen nobody like you
You call me up and say to meet me at nine
I have to hurry hurry but I'm there on time
I walk a right up and knock on your door
The landlord says she ain't a here no more

I ain't never oh darling seen nobody like you
Hoo hoo but I love you yeah I love you
I love you just the same
[ instrumental ]
Well you tell me sweet things that you don't mean
You've got me a livin' in a haunted dream
You make me do things I don't wanna do
My friends ask me Tilly what's a wrong with you

I ain't never oh darling...
I love you just the same I love you just the same

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3.

Ten Thousand Drums

Mel Tillis - Carl Smith

© Cedarwood Pub, BMI

Waitin' waitin' for the redcoats to come
But all I hear in my frozen ears is ten thousand drums
Ten thousand drums
Johnny Johnny don't be afraid
We can whip those redcoats settin' in the shade
Settin' in the shade

We've got the best of all the rest of Genereal Washington
And when we meet those redcoats watch those redcoats run
Throwin' down their drums throwin' down their drums

Listen listen Johnny better get your gun
Cause there ain't wooden soldiers behind ten thousand drums
Behind ten thousand drums
Runnin' runnin' Johnny watch them run
We finally whip those redcoats finally stop those drums
We stop ten thousand drums

We're the best of all the rest such Yankee son of a guns
Now we can tell our mammies how we made 'em run slowin' down thir drums
Slowin' down their drums slowin' down their drums
Ten thousand drums ten thousand drums

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4.

No Love Have I

Mel Tillis

© Cedarwood Pub, BMI

A honey bee loves the honey a chickadee loves the sky
Ev'rybody loves somebody but no love have I no love have I
Standing on the corner lovers pass me by
How my heart is crying cause no love have I no love have I

Every night in my prayers I pray for some lost love to come my way
Then we'll spend our lonely hours making love in an ivory tower
Lonely is the city when the moon lights up the sky
But what good is that moonlight if no love have I no love have I

Every night in my prayers I pray for some lost love to come my way...

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5.

I'm Tired

Mel Tillis - Webb Pierce - Buck Peddy

© Cedarwood Pub, BMI

Oh Lord I'm tired tired of living this a way

Standin' on the corner of a busy street
Lookin' for your face in every crowd I see
Checkin' every honky tonk in this town
Tryin' to find the places that you hang around
Oh Lord I'm tired tired of living this a way

Well I've been waitin' on you baby night and day
Wonderin' if your love will ever come my way
My time's a runnin' out and I'm slowing down
I'm tired of being just another hang around
Oh Lord I'm tired tired of living this a way
[ instrumental ]
Well there ain't no happiness in anything I do
I found myself so lonely when I'm not with you
What makes you just a kind of girl a guy will love
You've got so many others that you're thinking of
Oh Lord I'm tired tired of living this a way
Oh Lord I'm tired tired of living this a way

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6.

Tupelo County Jail

Mel Tillis - Webb Pierce

© Cedarwood Pub, BMI

Come on and write write write me a letter
Send that letter by mail
Send that letter in care of
The Tupelo County jail

Come on and wish me the best of luck dear there's no one to go my bail
There's never been a place so lonely as the Tupelo County jail
Fill that letter full of kisses gonna have me a ball
Cause baby kisses on paper are better than no kisses at all

Come on and write write write me a letter...
[ instrumental ]
Fill that letter full of kisses gonna have me a ball
Cause baby kisses on paper are better than no kisses at all
Tupelo County jail Tupelo County jail

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7.

Mary Don't You Weep

Mel Tillis - Marijohn Wilkin

© Cedarwood Pub, BMI

Oh Mary don't you weep for me
Oh Mary just you wait for me
The war's gonna soon be over
Oh Mary don't you weep

Jimmy sent a letter to his bride back home
For three long years he's been gone
He left her crying on her wedding day
And went to fight the battle of the Blue and Gray

Oh Mary don't you weep for me...

Mary's young heart was filled with joy
When she got the letter from her soldier boy
His words of love made her heart beat fast
But little did she know it would be the last

Oh Mary don't you weep for me...

On that same day Atlanta burnt down
Her soldier boy he fell to the ground
Now Mary sits alone by the candle light
And reads his letter over every night

Oh Mary don't you weep for me...
Oh Mary don't you weep for me...

Oh Mary don't you weep oh Mary don't you weep
Oh Mary don't you weep

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8.

Holiday For Love

Mel Tillis - Wayne P. Walker - Webb Pierce

© Cedarwood Pub, BMI

I'd like to make everyday with you a holiday for love
Every hour of the day you're all I'm a thinkin' of
All week long when you're gone I sit around so blue
I just can't wait for the Saturday day my holiday with you

Monday Tuesday Wednesday wonderin' if you miss me too
Thursday Friday Saturday making plans just to be with you
Oh I'm a gonna be so sweet to you neath that moon above
And I'd like to make everyday with you a holiday for love
[ instrumental ]
Monday Tuesday Wednesday wonderin' if you miss me too...
I'd like to make everyday with you a holiday for love

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9.

Shanghied

Mel Tillis - Marijohn Wilkin

© Cedarwood Pub, BMI

I've played around in China town passin' time away
When Black Jack Red hit me in the head and when I woke up next day
I was many miles away

I was shanghied on an ocean freighter I was shanghied eatin' beans and tater
I was shanghied on an ocean freighter and I wanna get back to shore
Back to the gold coast shore

They throwed me off in old Hong Kong and put me on my own
Not a penny in my pockets ten thousand miles from home
And that's a mighty long way from home

And I was shanghied in old Hong Kong I was shanghied I was all alone
I was shanghied I wanna get back home back to the gold coast shore
Back to the gold coast shore

Well I worked for my grub on an old Dutch tub and I wound up in LA
Where a pretty little girl took me on a whirl and when I woke up next day
When I woke up next day

I was shanghied for the rest of my my life I was shanghied but that's alright
I was shanghied I got a pretty little wife and I'm never leaving home no more
I'm never leaving home no more

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10.

A Thousand Miles Ago

Mel Tillis - Webb Pierce

© Cedarwood Pub, BMI

There's a thousand miles in back of me and many more to go
Ridin' on a freight train feeling mighty low
I keep a wonderin' why she quit me but I guess I'll never know
Yeah she used to be my baby a thousand miles ago

A thousand miles ago I started feelin' bad
Cause I just lost a future I thought I really had
I know I shouldn't feel this way cause I still love her so
And I can't keep from thinkin' about a thousand miles ago
[ instrumental ]
I know I've held her in my arms a thousand times or more
Promised her a world of love till I learned the score
That's a why I'm feelin' lonesome that's why I'm feelin' low
She used to be my baby a thousand miles ago

A thousand miles ago I started feelin' bad...
Yeah I can't keep from thinking about a thousand miles ago

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11.

Emotions

Mel Tillis - Ramsey Kearney

© Cedarwood Pub, BMI

Emotions what are you doin'
Oh don't you know you'll be my ruin
You've got me crying crying again
When will you let this heartache end

Emotions you get me upset
Make me remember what I want to forget
I've been so lonely lonely too long
Emotions please leave me alone

You worry my days you torture my nights
Never a dream turns out right
Emotions give me a break
Let me forget that I made a mistake
Oh can't you see what you're doing to me
Emotions please set me free

You worry my days you torture my nights...
(Set me free)

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12.

One More Time

Mel Tillis

© Cedarwood Pub, BMI

I wonder what the power is that you hold over me
I never get to love you long just your memory
And I make a vow each time you leave that this will draw the line
Then you come back and just like now I'm falling one more time

One more time my lips may kiss you
A one more time my arms will miss you
But it won't belong until you're gone with a mem'ry left behind
And I just know that when you go I'll be lonely one more time

Your nearness makes me weaken and I give into you
And I'm doing all the things I said that I wouldn't do
And I make a vow each time you leave that this will draw the line
Then you come back and just like now I'm fallin' one more time

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