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Kenny Vernon

Country Happening

(# 43 top country album)

Chart CHS-1018
Sep / 1969

Produced by Slim Williamson, Joe Gibson

Cover image of Country Happening

Grady Martin, Wayne Moss, Harold Bradley, Ray Edenton - guitar
Lloyd Green - steel/dobro
Bob Moore - bass
Buddy Harman - drums
Hargus Pig Robbins - piano
Charlie McCoy - harmonica
Recorded:
Mar/1969, RCA Victor Studio, Nashville

1.

Freeborn Man

Mark Lindsay - Keith Allison

© Gigawatt Music, BMI

I was born in the southland twenty some odd years ago
I ran away for the first time when I was four years old
I'm a freeborn man my home is on my back
I know every inch of highway
Every foot of back road every mile of railroad track

I got a gal Cincinnati I got a woman in San Antone
I've always loved the girl next door but any place is home
I'm a freeborn man my home is on my back
I know every inch of highway
Every foot of back road every mile of railroad track
[ instrumental ]
I got me a worn out guitar I carry in an old tow sack
I've hocked it bout two hundred times but I always got it back
I'm a freeborn man my home is on my back
I know every inch of highway
Every foot of back road every mile of railroad track

You may not like my appearance may not like my song
May not like the way I talk but you'll like me when I'm gone
I'm a freeborn man my home is on my back
I know every inch of highway
Every foot of back road every mile of railroad track

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2.

Yes Virginia

Liz Anderson

© Yonah Music, BMI

(Yes Virginia yes Virginia yes Virginia yes Virginia)

I've been telling you there's someone else Virginia
You're not listening this one time I think you should
But you've never really cared have you Virginia
So you just can't see how anybody could

Yes Virginia there is another woman
And she loves me like I used to wish you'd do
Yes Virginia there is another woman
Now I need her more than I need you

(Yes Virginia yes Virginia yes Virginia yes Virginia)

I have never measured up to what you've wanted
I'm through trying now I know I never can
That's the reason why I love her so Virginia
She accepts me just exactly as I am

Yes Virginia there is another woman...
(Yes Virginia yes Virginia)

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3.

But That's All Right

Autry Inman

© Tree Pub, BMI

I gave my heart I gave my all
You built me up then you let me fall
You wore my ring upon your hand
But then you changed your mind

But that's all right
I looked around and found true love
[ instrumental ]
You made me laugh you made me cry
I wished that day that I could die
You never dreamed that by and by
I'd be glad you changed your mind

But that's all right
I looked around and found true love

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4.

Woman Won't You Make Up My Mind

Jerry Lane - Joe Gibson - Kenny Vernon

© Yonah Music, BMI

You tell me that the devil's gonna get me
But when I try to do right you won't let me
You want to rule my life well that's just fine
Oh but woman won't you make up my mind

I try every way to get along
But if I say right is right you say that it's wrong
Anyway I turn you draw the line
Oh but woman won't you make up my mind

You make sure you keep me not a knowin'
Whether I'm comin' or I'm goin'
I'm not sure of anything all the time
Oh but woman won't you make up my mind

I try every way to get along
But if I say right is right you say that it's wrong
I've been in the dark so long I think I'm blind
Oh but woman won't you make up my mind
Mmm but woman won't you make up my mind

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5.

Seashores Of My Mind

Nestor Eaton - Kenny Vernon

© Yonah Music, BMI

Oh the shades of many colors wrapped around in silky satin
As the summer winds blow gently through my hair
I visualize explosions as I look deep in the oceans
I can hear the haunting voices in the air

As my footsteps wonder softly over grains of sand that taught me
Exploding colors revolving from the sand
Unorganized illusions but I overlook confusions
I can feel the world reach up and take my hand
[ instrumental ]
Oh the shades of many colors wrapped around in silky satin...

In the world of revolution I can feel the strange illusions
Vibrations poundin' bitter in my mind
Uncontrolled by beats or pressures I look toward the better pleasures
As I walk along the seashores of my mind
As I walk along the seashores of my mind

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6.

Looking Over Our Shoulders

Joe Gibson - Geoff Stephens

© Peach Music, SESAC

with LaWanda Lindsey

Looking over our shoulders everywhere we go
So afraid that we'll be seen by someone that we know
Then we're in double trouble for we live our double life
Looking over our shoulders for my husband and my wife

I guess we're no better than two common feet
Though it's love not money that we still
So when we run and hide to meet each other
Doubts and fears are always at our hill

Looking over our shoulders everywhere we go...

Though we tried to tell ourselves that we're not wrong
And we have to think about our kids
And it's a poor excuse for we knew all alone
It's not right to steal the way we did

Looking over our shoulders everywhere we go...

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7.

Ba-ba Song

Jerry Lane - Joe Gibson - Kenny Vernon

© Yonah Music, BMI

Well here I am and there you are and I don't know what to say
If I could sing a song to you well this is what I'd say

I'd say ba ba ba ba ba...
[ instrumental ]
Well I can tell by your smile you're as happy as can be
So won't you come a little closer babe and sing this song with me

Goin' ba ba ba ba ba...
[ instrumental ]
Now the day has come when you said you'd marry me
You and me and then we three we'll sing in harmony

Singin' ba ba ba ba ba...
One more time ba ba ba ba ba...

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8.

Oh Why Not Tonight

Gene Hood

© Yonah Music, BMI

You keep saying you don't love him you want to be free
You tell me that your wants are mine
Yet each time I ask you to tell him goodbye
You answer I can't oh how I try

Why oh why not tonight
Tell him let's make our wrongs right
I can't wait no longer I'm growin' weak love's growin' stronger
Why oh why not tonight

You don't want to hurt him to you he's been kind
We both know we can't go on this way
We must find an ending or to start a new beginning
We can't go on cheating for life

Why oh why not tonight...
Why oh why not tonight

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9.

I'll Tell You Where To Go

Jerry Lane - Gene Hood - Kenny Vernon

© Yonah Music, BMI

I hear that since you left me you've made every bar in town
It seems as though you can't find a place to settle down
If I can be of any help be sure to let me know
Cause if you're looking for a place I'll tell you where to go

When all those friends you found stop being any fun
And when your good times are gone babe I can't help you none
But I'd be the very last to say I told you so
But if you're looking for a place I'll tell you where to go
[ instrumental ]
When all those friends you found stop being any fun...

I just heard that you've been seen around my neighborhood
I thought sure that when you left that you'd be gone for good
But if you need a favor I never could say no
But if you're looking for a place I'll tell you where to go
If you're looking for a place I'll tell you where to go

**********

10.

Is It Me

Jerry Lane - Kenny Vernon - Wayne Gailey

© Yonah Music, BMI

There you go again won't you tell me all those lies
Tell me of all the places you've been to make me realize
Of all those sleepless nights I've stayed awake and thought of you
Wonderin' in my mind if I have caused the things you do

Well is it me or is it you
That makes you do the things you wanna do to me

I keep thumbin' through my mind for the page you want to see
And maybe I can solve this mental strain inside of me
Then maybe I can make you see just what I'd like to be
To make you realize there's still a change left in me

Well is it me or is it you
That makes you do the things you wanna do to me

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11.

Raining On A Sunny Day Without You

Jerry Lane - Kenny Vernon - Wayne Gailey

© Yonah Music, BMI

It's raining and the skies are blue
The sun is shining and so are you
It's raining on a sunny day without you
You're laughing but I'm so blue
Each drop that falls is a part of you
It's raining on a sunny day without you

When the sun comes up and the rain comes down
Good luck for me should come around
The cloudy skies for me won't disappear
Excuse me if you think I'm wrong
But I just wish you'd come on home
It's raining on a sunny day without you
[ instrumental ]
When the sun comes up and the rain comes down...
Yes it's raining on a sunny day without you

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12.

Eye To Eye

Joe Gibson

© Peach Music, SESAC

with LaWanda Lindsey

Yes you've got that full of doubt look on your face
And you act like you came and laugh in the human race
Too late now to search our minds thinking of polite
For the first time since we married we're seeing eye to eye

I caught you out with someone else yes I was running round
But what were you and that guy doin' on this side of town
The truth may hurt but I'm afraid that it's too late to cry
For the first time since we married we're seeing eye to eye
[ instrumental ]
Seems we both are out with the other what a heck
At the game of slippin' round we're running neck and neck
I thought I was being smart and I thought that I was sly
For the first time since we married we're seeing eye to eye

I caught you out with someone else yes I was running round...

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