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Mel Tillis

Greatest Hits

Elektra E1-60192
Oct / 1982

Produced by Jimmy Bowen

Cover image of Greatest Hits

1.

Southern Rains

Roger Murrah

© Blackwood Music, BMI

Sometimes my soul gets weary and my mind begins to wonder
And like that old train the Hummingbird it goes to Alabam
They say home is where the heart is and mine is down in Dixie
And when you go down to Dixie you're heading for higher ground

(Southern rain)
Blowing from the coast of Mississippi
(Southern rain)
I fell better when those southern waters hit me
I can't get into Jordan seven times to easy the pain
But I can pray for help and hope for southern rain

(Southern rain)
Like the sunshine it's a blessing sent from heaven
(Southern rain)
They can wash away your cares if you let them
You may not believe my story and you may think I'm insane
But they're the closest thing to home those southern rains

Austick is a peeling that a body can't get over
There's no such thing as healing and it won't go away with time
When were young we want to get away when we're old we want to go back
And we spend our lives replacing all the things we leave behind

(Southern rain)
Blowing from the coast of Mississippi
(Southern rain)
I fell better when those southern waters hit me
I can't get into Jordan seven times to easy the pain
But I can pray for help and hope for southern rain

(Southern rain)
Like the sunshine it's a blessing sent from heaven...

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2.

Lying Time Again

Chance Walker

© Sawgrass Music, BMI

Well it's lying time again
I can't tell her where I've been
Lord the stories never end
And it's lying time again

While she's waiting up for me
Her tears falling in the night
In another's arms I'll be
Till time brings on the morning light

And it's lying time again
I can't tell her where I've been
Lord the stories never end
And it's lying time again

As I slip into our room
She lies sleeping all alone
Where she's cried herself to sleep
Waiting for me to come home

And it's lying time again
I can't tell her where I've been
Lord the stories never end
And it's lying time again

(And it's lying time again)
I can't tell her where I've been
(Lord the stories never end)
And it's lying time again

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3.

Dream Of Me

Buddy Cannon - Jimmy Darrell - Raleigh Squires

© Sawgrass Music, BMI

My life on the road girl has always been hard on me and you
Every time we say goodbye it gets harder to do
But when I'm far away somewhere alone and the missin' you starts
All I've got to do is picture you and I can feel you in my heart

So dream of me every time you get to feelin' blue
Dream of me and I'll be dreamin' of you

I've been a lot of places there's just no place like home
And I'm always on my way back to you every minute that I'm gone
So when you get to feelin' lonely just remember we won't always be apart
Close your eyes and think of me and you can feel me in your heart

So dream of me every time you get to feelin' blue
Dream of me and I'll be dreamin' of you

So dream of me every time you get to feelin' blue
So dream of me and I'll be dreamin' of you

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4.

Blind In Love

Bob Corbin

© Return Music, BMI

You tell me come over but I can't stay late
I'm just your fool to manipulate
I leave your bed and get in my car
I'll be out of your sight out of your heart

But my love is so blind my love is so blind
You can treat me any way you have a mind to
Cause I'm blind in love with you

When we're with your friends you treat my so unfair
You talk about me like I ain't standing there
But I just smile and sip at my drink
I don't really care what people think

Cause my love is so blind my love is so blind...

There is now way out for me now
I've gone completely round the bend
There is no way this will work out
But I'll hang on right to the end

You lie to me every chance you can
Treat me just like the fool I know I am
Each time I say I won't take no more
There I am standing at your door

Cause my love is so blind my love is so blind...

You can treat me any way you have a mind to
Cause I'm blind in love with you

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5.

One Night Fever

Bob Morrison - Johnny McRae

© Music City Music, ASCAP

One night fever

I watch you settin' at the mirror puttin' on your face
I know a million men who'd kill to be here in my place
'Cause your so dog-gone pretty that it's almost a crime
To make believe you're going shopping
While I make believe I'm blind

One night fever burning in your soul
One night fever that you can't control
I know you're trying but you can't be true
Cause that one night fever has got a hold on you

Well I thought the love I gave you would surely change your ways
And cure the neon mania that haunts you night and day
But it almost drives me crazy pretending I don't know the score
That that dress you're puttin' on will end up on a stranger's floor

One night fever burning in your soul
One night fever that you can't control
I know you're trying but you can't be true
Cause that one night fever has got a hold on you
One night fever

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6.

Stay A Little Longer

Bob Wills - Tommy Duncan

© Red River Songs, BMI

Well you've all seen my little blue eyed Sally
She lives a way down on Shinbone Alley
The number on the gate and the number on the door
The next house over is the grocery store

Stay all night stay a little longer
Dance all night dance a little longer
Pull off your coat throw it in the corner
Don't see why you don't stay a little longer

Well sittin' on the window talkin' to my love
A slop bucket fell from the window up above
Mule and the grasshopper eatin' ice cream
The mule got sick and we laid him o'er the beam

Stay all night stay a little longer...

Well you can't go home if you're goin' by the mill
The bridge washed out at the bottom of the hill
Big creek's up and the little creek's left
Plow my corn with a double shovel

Stay all night stay a little longer...
Stay all night stay a little longer...

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7.

Your Body Is An Outlaw

Buzz Rabin

© Sawgrass Music, BMI

I can't help it if I'm crazy
When it comes to loving you
I'll perform my civic duties
Like the blues say I should do

I'm a deacon at First Baptist
My family treats me like a king
And my wife is mostly happy
Cause she don't know everything

But your body is an outlaw
Stealing from my soul
Well I know hell could not be worse than
Not having you to hold

And I'm on my way to see you
And to feel you feeling me
In the satisfying shadow
Of what is and has to be

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8.

After The Lovin'

Alan Bernstein - Ritchie Adams - Richard Zigler

© Silver Blue Music, ASCAP

So I sing you to sleep after the lovin'
With a song I just wrote yesterday
And I hope you can hear
What the words and the music have to say

It's so hard to explain everything that I'm feelin'
Face to face I just seem to go dry
As I love you so much
That the sound of your voice can get me high

Thanks for taking me
On a one way trip to the sun
And thanks for turning me
Into a someone

Oh I sing you to sleep after the lovin'
I brush back the hair from your eyes
And the love on your face
Is so real that it makes me wanna cry

And I know that my song isn't saying anything new
Oh but after the lovin' I'm still in love with you

I sing you to sleep after the lovin'
I brush back the hair from your eyes
And the love on your face
Is so real that it makes me wanna cry

And I know that my song isn't saying anything new
Oh but after the lovin' I'm still in love with you
Yes after the lovin' I'm still in love with you
After the lovin' I'm still in love with you

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9.

Steppin' Out

Billy Starr

© Cherio Corp, BMI

Yes I know that my baby's been steppin' out
She used to be my darlin'
Her old flame keeps comin' right back again
Botherin' my baby

I tried to hold my head up high
And look my friends right in the eye
But way down deep inside it hurts me so
Her old used to be is on the pout again
Botherin' my baby
And I have worried now so long dear
It's really driving me crazy
But I won't ever pout
Neither my darlin' I cannot shout
Yes I know that my baby's steppin' out
[ instrumental ]
I tried to hold my head up high...

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10.

A Million Old Goodbyes

Bobby Russell - Buzz Cason - Steve Gibb

© Buzz Cason Pub, ASCAP

There's a plane out tonight
And I swear to you I'm gonna take that flight
Please don't you come to see me cry
You've seen it in a million old goodbyes

There was me there was you
But there never was an us to hook onto
There were times we touched the sky
Long before a million old goodbyes

Breaking up sometimes is more loving than the staying up
Crying nights and planning how to patch it up
Knowing it was something needing giving up

It was good it was fine
We've played out this ending many times
We can say that we have tried
Way beyond a million old goodbyes

There's a plane out tonight
And I swear to you I'm gonna take that flight
We can say that we have tried
Way beyond a million old goodbyes
Way beyond a million old goodbyes

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