1.

Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys

Ed Bruce - Patsy Bruce

© Tree Pub, BMI

Mammas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
Don't let 'em pick guitars and drive 'em old trucks
Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such
Mammas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
Cause they'll never stay home and they're always alone
Even with someone they love

A cowboy ain't easy to love and he's harder to hold
He's rather give you a song than silver or gold
Budwiser buckles and soft faded wrangler's and each night begins a new day
If you can't understand him and he don't die young he'll probably just ride away

Mammas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys...

A cowboy loves smokey ole pool rooms and clear mountain mornings
He loves little warm puppies and children and girls of the night
Them that don't know him won't like him
Them do sometimes won't know how to take him
He's not wrong he's just different
And his pride won't let him do things to make you think he's right

Mammas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys...
Mammas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys...

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2.

(# 21 country hit)

Diane

Ronnie Rogers

© Newkeys Music, BMI

*****

3.

(# 12 country hit)

The Last Cowboy Song

Ed Bruce - Ron Peterson

© Tree Pub, BMI

with Willie Nelson

This is the last cowboy song
The end of a hundred year waltz
The voices sound sad as they're singing along
Another piece of America's lost

He rides a feed lot and clerks in a market
On weekends sellin' tobacco and beer
And his dreams of tomorrow surrounded by fences
But he'll dream tonight of when fences weren't here

He blazed the trail with Lewis and Clark
And eyeball to eyeball ol' Wyatt backed down
He stood shoulder to shoulder with Travis in Texas
And rode with the Seventh when Custer went down

This is the last cowboy song...

Remington showed us how he looked on canvas
And Louie L'Amore has told us his tale
And Willie and Waylon and me sing about him
And wish to God we could have ridden his trail

The Old Chisholm Trail is covered in concrete now
And they truck 'em to market in fifty foot rigs
They blow by his market never slowing to reason
Like living and dying was all he did

This is the last cowboy song...
This is the last cowboy song...
This is the last cowboy song...
This is the last cowboy song

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4.

(# 14 country hit)

Girls Women And Ladies

Ed Bruce - Patsy Bruce - Ron Peterson

© Tree Pub, BMI

There was only me and her and him
The bar was giving last call so I thought I'd move on in
And I was slick and feeling like a man
So I took the stool between 'em
And ordered one more round for me and her and him

I placed my arms across the back of her barstool
I don't remember what I said but at the time it sounded cool
She pushed her drink away and never looked at me
She just paid her tab tipped the man
And left me sittin' there alone with him

And she said there's girls and there's women and there's ladies
There's yes'es and there's no's and there's maybes
There's teasin' and pleasin' they start learnin' when they're babies
There's girls and there's women and there's ladies

Well he pushed his old straw hat back and he grinned
And he said ain't they all a mystery ha ha sonny it's a sin
They're all sittin' on the world they're tryin' to win
Ah but you know I love a mystery
So let's drink another round to you and me and them

He said there's girls and there's women and there's ladies...
There's girls and there's women and there's ladies...
Said there's girls and there's women and there's ladies...

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5.

(# 24 country hit)

Evil Angel

Jesse Winchester

© Fourth Floor Music, ASCAP

Evil angel on my shoulder well you sure do know your stuff
Now you start off with just a little till I just can't get enough

Well that first sip of whiskey burnt your tongue
Now didn't it
That first sip of whiskey it burnt your tongue
Now didn't it
But you you had to go and have another
Now didn't you
But the first sip of whiskey oh don't you remember
That first sip of whiskey burnt your tongue

Evil angel on my shoulder well you sure do know your stuff...

Now that first cigarette had burnt your eyes
Now didn't it
But that first cigarette burnt your eyes
Now didn't it
But you you had to go and light another
Now didn't it
But that first cigarette oh son do you remember
That first cigarette had burnt your eyes

Evil angel on my shoulder well you sure do know your stuff...
[ guitar ]
Now that first cheating love made you ashamed
Now didn't it
That first cheating love made you ashamed
Now didn't it
But you had to go and find another
Now didn't you
But that first cheating love oh some don't I remember
That first cheating love made you ashamed

Evil angel on my shoulder well you sure do know your stuff...
Evil angel on my shoulder well you sure do know your stuff...
Ah till I just can't get enough

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6.

(# 14 country hit)

When You Fall In Love (Everything's A Waltz)

Ed Bruce - Patsy Bruce - Ron Peterson

© Tree Pub, BMI

We don't dance the two-step anymore
All we need's a small spot on the floor
The band can go on playing almost anything it wants
When you fall in love everything's a waltz

Eyes were meant for looking into way up close
Arms were meant for holding what you want the most
Lips were meant to say what bodies feel down in their hearts
When you fall in love everything's a waltz

We don't dance the two-step anymore...
[ fiddle ]
We don't hear the music that is being played
But all we need's the music that our two hearts made
Beating soft three-quarter time and we just sing along
When you fall in love everything's a waltz

We don't dance the two-step anymore...

Oh the band can go on playing almost anything it wants
Cause we're in love and everything's a waltz

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7.

(# 1 country hit)

You're The Best Break This Old Heart Ever Had

Wayland Holyfield - Randy Hatch

© Vogue Music, BMI

Oh there were others
And some were friends and some were merrily lovers
But they all helped me discover
It's so hard to find someone who'll be true

And I said no way would I fall again no no way
There's just too many heartaches
And I don't like the way it feels to feel my heart break
Then there was you

You're the best break this old heart ever had
You're all the good luck that I'll never need to have
Never thought I'd ever love again like that
You're the best break this old heart ever had

All around me
My world was crumbling down all around me
Oh but then you found me
And with your love you mended my life

You're the best break this old heart ever had...
You're the best break this old heart ever had...
You're the best break this old heart ever had

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8.

(# 13 country hit)

Love's Found You And Me

Ed Bruce - Ronnie Rogers

© Tree Pub, BMI

Just as sure as there's gold in California
A jukebox in Texas guitars down in Tennessee
Just as sure as the peach grows in Georgia
We gonna make it love's found you and me

It's been a long time long time to comin'
And you tried other so have I
But love never touched me till you touched me
And you never saw love till you saw it in my eyes

Just as sure as there's gold in California...
[ dobro - steel ]
You can look too hot and overlook it
Never see the forest for the trees
Run your race too fast and never win it
But if love is a gamble babe won't bet on you and me

Just as sure as there's gold in California...
Just as sure as there's gold in California...
We gonna make it baby love's found you and me

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9.

(# 4 country hit)

Ever Never Lovin' You

Ed Bruce - Patsy Bruce - Glenn Ray

© Tree Pub, BMI

It must be I have always loved you
Just never knew where I would find you
You've always been the one babe now that I've found you
I can't remember ever never lovin' you

There may have been someone to hold you
But I can't recall because she wasn't more you
It's either you or none babe now that we're one
I can't imagine ever never lovin' you

I always knew how much I loved you
But up till now I didn't know you how could I show you
There may have been someone before you
But I can't remember ever never lovin' you
I can't remember ever never lovin' you

I always knew how much I loved you
But up till now I didn't know you how could I show you
There may have been someone before you
But I can't remember ever never lovin' you
I can't imagine ever never lovin' you

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10.

(# 6 country hit)

My First Taste Of Texas

Ed Bruce - Ronnie Rogers

© Tree Pub, BMI

My first taste of Texas had blue eyes and golden hair
Beneath the Tennessee silver moon we found a feelin' we could share
And age made no difference I'd been around and she was young
And my first taste of Texas still lingers in my heart and on my tongue

Her gentle heart was broken in a way a tender lady shouldn't have to know
And mine was somewhere in between somethin' I should hold on to or let go
Her talking blue eyes told me the story of the love she failed to find
And without conversation I suppose the lines on my face told her mine

My first taste of Texas had blue eyes and golden hair...

Cause we're not done we've only just begun
Begun to love now the two of us are one
And age made no difference we're still around and love's still young
And my first taste of Texas still lingers in my heart and on my tongue

My first taste of Texas had blue eyes and golden hair
Beneath the Tennessee silver moon we found a feelin' we could share
And age made no difference we're still around and love's still young
And my first taste of Texas still lingers in my heart and on my tongue

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11.

Theme From Bret Maverick

Ed Bruce - Patsy Bruce - Glenn Ray

© Tree Pub, BMI

*****

12.

(# 21 country hit)

You're Not Leaving Here Tonight

Tommy Rocco - Charlie Black - Kerry Chater

© Chappell Co, ASCAP

There's no way back cause we've come too far
We'll watch the last bridge burn in a midnight fire
Any thought of saying good night was lost when we closed the door
And I'm sure

You're not leaving here tonight not till I hold you tight
Not till the sun burns brighter than this old candle light
I really don't care how long it takes till the moon is gone
With loving so near you're not leaving here tonight

The light is soft laying on your skin
We're close enough to go where we've never been
We feel the love that's waiting for us why wait a moment more
I think we're sure

You're not leaving here tonight not till I hold you tight...
You're not leaving here tonight not till I hold you tight...
You're not leaving here tonight not till I hold you tight...

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13.

(# 19 country hit)

If It Was Easy

Larry Kingston - Harlan Sanders

© Window Music, BMI

I wish there was a way to love a lot
And only hurt a little when love lets you down
I wish there was a way to love and run
And not find the hurt behind you when you turn around

But I guess I know why love's the way it is
I think I know why love is such a game of hit and miss

If it was easy everyone would do it
If it was easy everyone would be in love
If it was easy I'd be the first to do it
If it was easy I'd gladly go back through it
If it was easy everyone would be in love

I wish love was a part that you could play
And then just walk away when the curtain falls
I wish that you could take it as it comes
And leave it when it goes without a second thought

But I guess that's not the way it's make make believe
I try my best but love just seems to get the best of me

If it was easy everyone would do it...

If it was easy if it was easy
If it was easy if it was easy

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14.

(# 4 country hit)

After All

Ed Bruce - Patsy Bruce

© Tree Pub, BMI

There's a parking lot where the corner cafe stood
One of the places we first fell in love
They've built a waterslide on the bluff by the riverside
Where we first fumbled our way into love

And you hardly ever hear it it's a golden oldie now
But you and I danced to it at least a thousand miles
We ran with Bobby and his wife her name I can't recall
We had lots of fun and love hardly anything else at all

The things we knew are turning brown and gray with age are gone
It's funny how the years slip by I can't help but wonder why
Sometimes it doesn't seem that long

After all these years after all the joys and tears
After all is said and done after most of everything we knew is gone
I still love you
[ guitar ]
After all these years after all the joys and tears...
I love you

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15.

(# 45 country hit)

Tell 'em I've Gone Crazy

Ed Bruce - Patsy Bruce - Ron Peterson

© Tree Pub, BMI

I've got friends or at least I hope I do
Who'll wonder where the me went in me and you
And some of them may miss me but what the hell that's what friends are for
Just tell 'em I've gone crazy tell 'em I don't live here anymore

If they don't know why I'm leavin' they never knew me anyway
Better they should wonder then I should have to stay
I didn't lose I quit the battles won or lost weren't worth the war
You can tell 'em I've gone crazy tell 'em I don't live here anymore

But it oughta count for something we meant enough for me to stay this long
And when they ask about me I hope you'll find a kind word for me when I'm gone
I didn't lose I quit the battles won or lost weren't worth the war
You can tell 'em I've gone crazy tell 'em I don't live here anymore
[ guitar ]
Just tell 'em that I'm crazy tell 'em I don't live here anymore

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16.

(# 3 country hit)

You Turn Me On (Like A Radio)

Bob McDill - Jim Weatherly

© Hall-Clement Pub, BMI

Baby deep in the night you touch me
When the mood is right and you reach out
And switch on a light in me
Something starts to glow inside
And I feel the heat start to rise
And I'm helpless as any man could be

You turn me on like a radio
Baby then you play me soft and low
You know how to make the music flow deep in my soul
Baby you know just how to keep the signals strong
You got me turned in all night long
Whenever you want oh you turn me on like a radio

Baby when the room is dark
You touch me and I feel a spark
And I hear that old song start to play
And softly it fills the room
And each time that I hear that tune
I know it's gonna take me away

You turn me on like a radio...
You turn me on like a radio...

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17.

When Givin' Up Was Easy

Keith Palmer

© Haripo Ent, ASCAP

*****

18.

(# 4 country hit)

Nights

Byron Hill - Tony Hiller

© Queen's Crown Music, BMI

Nights are the loneliest part of the day
That's when your mem'ry comes around and gets me down
Mhm nights there's a star for every tear that's fallin' from my eyes
Oh how I cry

On these nights alone thinkin' back to you and I
It's these nights I know I never should have said goodbye
Nights are the loneliest part of the day
That's when your mem'ry comes around and gets me down
[ fiddle ]
On these nights alone thinkin' back to you and I...

I said nights there's a star for every tear that's fallin' from my eyes
Oh how I cry
Mhm nights are the loneliest part of the day
That's when your mem'ry comes around and gets me down

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