1.

Detroit City

Mel Tillis - Danny Dill

© Cedarwood Pub, BMI

I wanna go home I wanna go home
Oh Lord I wanna go home

Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City
And I dreamed about those cotton fields and home
I dreamed about my mother dear old papa sister and brother
And I dreamed about the girl that's been waiting for so long

I wanna go home I wanna go home
Oh Lord I wanna go home
[ instrumental ]
Now the home folks think I'm big in Detroit City
From the letters that I write they think I'm just fine
By day I make the cars and by night I'm a making the bars
Lord if only they could read between the lines

As you know I rode a long black freight train way up north to Detroit City
But after all these years I find that well I've just been wastin' my time
But you know what I think I'm gonna do folks I'm gonna take my foolish pride
And put it on a Southbound freight and ride

I wanna go home I wanna go home
Oh Lord I wanna go home

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2.

Crazy Arms

Ralph Mooney - Chuck Seals

© Champion Music, BMI

Now blue ain't the word for the way that I feel
And the storm's brewing in this heart of mine
This ain't no crazy dream I know that it's real
You're someone else's love now you're not mine

Crazy arms that reach to hold somebody new
For my yearning heart keeps saying you're not mine
My troubled mind knows soon to another you'll be wed
And that's why I'm lonely all the time
[ instrumental ]
So please take the treasured dreams I had for you and me
And take all the love I thought was mine
Someday my crazy arms may hold somebody new
But now I'm so lonely all the time

Crazy arms that reach to hold somebody new...
And that's why I'm lonely all the time

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3.

Daddy Sang Bass

Carl Perkins

© Cedarwood Pub, BMI

I remember when I was a lad
Times were hard and times were bad
But there's a silver lining behind every cloud
Just poor people that's all we were
Tryin' to make a livin' out of black land dirt
We'd get together in a family circle sing out loud

(Daddy sang bass mama sang tenor)
Me and little brother would join right in there
Singing seems to help a troubled soul
One of these days and it won't be long
I'll rejoin them in a song
I'm gonna join the family circle at the throne
No the circle won't be broken by and by Lord by and by
(Daddy sang bass mama sang tenor)
Me and little brother would join right in there
In the sky Lord in the sky
[ instrumental ]
Now I remember after work mama would call in all of us
You could hear us singing for a country mile
Now little brother has done gone on
I'll rejoin him in a song
We'll be together again up yonder in a while

(Daddy sang bass mama sang tenor)
Me and little brother would join right in there...
In the sky Lord in the sky

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4.

Games People Play

Joe South

© Lowery Music, BMI

Oh the games people play now
Ev'ry night and ev'ry day now
Never meanin' what they say now
Never sayin' what they mean
They just wile away the hours
In their ivory towers
Till they're covered up with flowers
In the back of a black limousine

Lotten da la da da
Lotten da la da de dee
I'm a talkin' bout you and me
And the games people play

Oh we make one another cry
Break a heart then we say goodbye
Cross our hearts and we hope to die
That the other one's to blame
Neither one'll ever givin' in
So we gaze at an eight by ten
A thinkin' bout the things that might have been
And it's a dirty dirty dirty rotten shame

Lotten da la da da...
[ instrumental ]
Now people walkin' up a to ya
Singin' glory hallelujah
And they're tryin' to sock it to ya
In the name of the Lord
They're gonna teach you how to meditate
Read your horoscope and cheat your fate
And furthermore to hell with hate
Come on get on board

Lotten da la da da...

Look around tell me what you see
What's a happenin' to you and me
God grand me the serenity
To remember who I am
Cause you're givin' up your sanity
For your pride and your vanity
Turn your back on humanity
And you don't give a da da da

Lotten da la da da...
Lotten da la da da...

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5.

Good Deal Lucille

Jimmy D. Miller - Al Terry - Charles Theriot

© Acuff-Rose Music, BMI

Goodbye Lou cherche vous another man
Said l'amour portoujour if you can
You're high class you've got a past now you're a wheel
Ho ho good deal Lucille

Go your way leave today that's your plan
Leave me here cherche vous another man
Paint the town sorrows drown that's how I feel
Ho ho good deal Lucille
[ instrumental ]
(Ho ho good deal Lucille)

Parlez vous here's to you it's your game
If I'm here or I'm gone it's all the same
Call the tune stack the cards this is your deal
Ho ho good deal Lucille

Au revoir so long and goodbye
C'est la vie woe is me me oh my
Paint the town sorrows drown that's how I feel
Ho ho good deal Lucille

Ho ho good deal Lucille
Ho ho ho ho ho good deal Lucille

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6.

My Special Angel

Jimmy Duncan

© Blue Grass Music, BMI

You are my special angel sent from up above
The Lord smiled down on me and sent an angel to love
You are my special angel right from paradise
I know that you're an angel heaven is in your eyes

The smile from your lips brings the summer sunshine
The tears from your eyes brings the rain
I feel your touch your warm embrace and I'm in heaven again

You are my special angel through eternity
I'll have my special angel here to watch over me
Here to watch over me

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7.

Tormented Heart

Mel Tillis

© Cedarwood Pub, BMI

There's no wings on you girl you're lost in this world
And I've got a tormented heart
You never could be true and still I worshiped you
And I've got a tormented heart

I know I must have loved you since you were a baby
And all you've ever done for me was drive me half crazy
And it would surely be a sin to love this much again
Cause I've got a tormented heart
[ instrumental ]
I know I must have loved you since you were a baby...

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8.

Burning Memories

Mel Tillis - Wayne P. Walker

© Cedarwood Pub, BMI

(Burning mem'ries burning mem'ries)

Tonight I'm burning old love letters
Photographs and memories of you
Hopin' somehow I'll feel better
And when the smoke is gone I won't want you

Burning mem'ries burning mem'ries
Memories of you that I can't use

My heart to you no longer matters
And I can't live on memories
Into the fire goes dreams you've shattered
And when the smoke is gone then I'll be free

(Burning mem'ries burning mem'ries)

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9.

I Love You Drops

Bill Anderson

© Moss-Rose Pub, BMI

They're not teardrops
Just sincere drops
They're I love you drops
Cause I love you

They were on my pillow when I woke up this mornin'
They were on the letter I tried all day to write
And just a little while ago I saw them fallin'
On your picture as I kissed it goodnight

I love you drops
I miss you drops
Hurry home drops
You've been gone so long drops
They're not teardrops
Just sincere drops
That say I'm lonesome
And I love you

Never knew this heart could hurt the way it hurts for you
Never lived so many lifetimes in a week
Why don't you come back to me the way you said you would
And kiss these salty little crystals off my cheek

I love you drops...

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