1.

Miss The Mississippi And You

Bill Halley

© Peer Int, BMI

I'm groing tired of the big city lights
Tired of the glamour tired of the size
I'm alway dreaming of roaming once more
Back to my home on the old river shore

Days are dark and dreary everywhere I roam
How I long for Mississippi and you
Nothing seems to cheer me under heaven's door
How I miss the Mississippi and you

Roaming the wide world over
Always alone and blue so blue
I am sad and weary longing to go home
Yes I miss the Mississippi and you

Mockingbirds are singing round the cabin door
While I dream of Mississippi and you
And my memories are bringing happy days of yore
I have spent in Mississippi with you

Roaming the wide world over
Always alone and blue so blue
Longing for my homeland on that muddy watershore
Yes I miss the Mississippi and you
The Mississippi and you

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2.

Motherless Children

A.P. Carter

© Peer Int, BMI

Motherless children have a hard time when the mother is gone
Motherless children have a hard time when the mother is gone
Motherless children have a hard time
There's all that weeping and all that crying
Motherless children have a hard time when the mother is gone

Father will do the best he can when the mother is gone
Father will do the best he can when the mother is gone
Father will do the best he can
But there's so many things he just don't understand
Motherless children have a hard time when the mother is gone


People say a sister will do when the mother is gone
People say a sister will do when the mother is gone
People say a sister will do
But she'll get married turn her back on you
Motherless children have a hard time when the mother is gone

Friends will treat you like your mother will when your mother is gone
Friends will treat you like your mother will when your mother is gone
Friends will tell you what to do
Then they'll turn their back on you
Motherless children have a hard time when their mother is gone

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3.

Sea Of Heartbreak

Hal David - Paul Hampton

© Shapiro-Bernstein Co, ASCAP

with Bruce Springsteen

The lights in the harbor don't shine for me
I'm like a lost ship adrift on the sea

Sea of heartbreak lost love loneliness
Memories of your caress so divine
I wish you were mine again my dear on this sea of tears
Sea of heartbreak

How did I lose you? Oh where did I fail
Why did you leave me always to sail

Sea of heartbreak lost love loneliness...

Oh what I'd give to sail back to shore
Back to your arms once more

Come to my rescue oh come here to me
Take me and keep me away from the sea

Sea of heartbreak lost love loneliness
Memories of your caress so divine
I wish you were mine again my dear on this sea of tears
Sea of heartbreak

Sea of heartbreak lost love loneliness
Memories of your caress so divine
I wish you were mine again my dear on this sea of tears
Sea of heartbreak sea of heartbreak
The sea of heartbreak

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4.

Take These Chains From My Heart

Fred Rose - Hy Heath

© Milene Music, ASCAP

Take these chains from my heart and set me free
Youre grow cold and no longer care for me
All my faith in you is gone but the heartaches linger on
Take these chains from my heart and set me free

Take these tears from my eyes and let me see
Just a spark of the love that use to be
If you love somebody new let me me find a new love too
Take these chains from my heart and set me free

Give my heart just a word of sympathy
Be as fair to my heart as you can be
Then if you no longer care for the love being there
Take these chains from my heart and set me free

Take these chains from my heart and set me free...

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5.

I'm Movin' On

Hank Snow

© Hill And Range Songs, BMI

That big eight wheeler a rollin' down the track
Means your true lovin' daddy ain't comin' back
Cause I'm movin' on I'll soon be gone
You were flyin' too high for my little old sky
So I'm movin' on

That big loud whistle as it blew and blew
Said hello to the Southland we're comin' to you
And we're movin' on oh hear my song
You had the laugh on me so I've set you free
And I'm movin' on

Mister Fireman won't you please listen to me
Cause I got a pretty mama in Tennessee
Keep movin' me on keep rollin' on
So shovel the coal let this rattle a roll
And keep movin' me on

Mister Engineer take that throttle in hand
This rattler's the fastest in the southern land
To keep movin' me on keep rollin' on
You're gonna ease my mind put me there on time
And keep rollin' on

I warned you baby from time to time
But you just wouldn't listen or pay me no mind
Now I'm movin' on I'm rollin' on
You have broken your vow and it's all over now
So I'm movin' on

You switched your engine now I ain't got time
For a triflin' woman on my main line
Cause I'm movin' on you done your daddy wrong
I've warned you twice now you can settle the price
Cause I'm movin' on

But someday baby when you've had your play
You're gonna want your daddy but your daddy will say
Keep movin' on you stayed away too long
I'm through with you too bad you're blue
Keep movin' on

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6.

Heartaches By The Number

Harlan Howard

© Pamper Music, BMI

with Elvis Costello

Heartache number one was when you left me
I never knew that I could hurt this way
And heartache number two was when you came back again
You came back and never meant to stay

Now I've got heartaches by the number troubles by the score
Every day you love me less each day I love you more
Yes I've got heartaches by the number a love that I can't win
But the day that I stop counting that's the day my world will end

Heartache number three was when you called me
And said that you was coming back to stay
With hopeful heart I waited for your knock on the door
I waited but you must have lost your way

Now I've got heartaches by the number troubles by the score...

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7.

500 Miles

Hedy West

© Friendship Music, BMI

If you miss the train I'm on you will know that I am gone
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles
A hundred miles a hundred miles a hundred miles a hundred miles
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles

Lord I'm one Lord I'm two Lord I'm three Lord I'm four
Lord I'm Five hundred miles from my home
Five hundred miles five hundred miles five hundred miles five hundred miles
Lord I'm five hundred miles from my home

Not a shirt on my back not a penny to my name
Lord I can't go a home this a way
This a away this a way this a way this a-way
Lord I can't go a home this a way

If you miss the train I'm on you will know that I am gone
You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles

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8.

The Long Black Veil

Marijohn Wilkin - Danny Dill

© Cedarwood Pub, BMI

with Jeff Tweedy

Ten years ago on a cold dark night
Someone was killed neath the town hall lights
There were few at the scene but they all agreed
That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me

She walks these hills in a long black veil
She visits my grave when the night winds wail
Nobody knows nobody sees
Nobody knows but me

The judge said son what is your alibi
If you were somewhere else then you won't have to die
I spoke not a word though it meant my life
For I'd been in the arms of my best friend's wife

She walks these hills in a long black veil...

Now the scaffold is high and eternity's near
She stood in the crowd and shed not a tear
But sometimes at night when the cold wind moans
In a long black veil she cries over my bones

She walks these hills in a long black veil...
Nobody knows but me

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9.

She's Got You

Hank Cochran

© Pamper Music, BMI

I've got your picture you gave to me
And it's signed with love just like it used to be
Only thing different only thing new
I've got your picture she's got you

I've got the records we used to share
And they still sound the same when you were here
Only thing different only thing new
I've got your records he's got you

I've got your memory or has it got me
Really don't know but I know it won't let me be
Won't let me be

I've got your memory or has it got me
Really don't know but I know it won't let me be
Won't let me be

I've got your class ring that proves you care
And it still looks the same as when you gave it dear
Only thing different only thing new
I've got your class ring he's got you

Only thing different only thing new
I've got your picture who's got you
Who's got you who's got you who's got you who's got you
I don't know I don't know I don't know who's got you
He or she gender bender to me
Who's got you

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10.

Girl From The North Country

Bob Dylan

© Special Rider Music, SESAC

Well if you're travelin' in the north country fair
Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline
Remember me to one who lives there
She once was a true love of mine

Well if you go when the snowflakes storm
When the rivers freeze and summer ends
Please see if she's wearing a coat so warm
To keep her from the howlin' winds

Please see for me if her hair hangs long
If it rolls and flows all down her breast
Please see for me if her hair hangs long
That's the way I remember her best

I'm a-wonderin' if she remembers me at all
Many times I've often prayed
In the darkness of my night
In the brightness of my day

So if you're travelin' in the north country fair
Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline
Remember me to one who lives there
She once was a true love of mine

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11.

Silver Wings

Merle Haggard

© Blue Book Music, BMI

with Rufus Wainwright

Silver wings shining in the sunlight
Roaring engines headed somewhere in flight
They're taking you away and leaving me lonely
Silver wings slowly fading from sight

Don't leave me I cry
Don't take that airplane ride
Then you locked me out of your life
And left me standing here behind

Silver wings shining in the sunlight
Roaring engines headed somewhere in flight
They're taking you away and leaving me lonely
Silver wings slowly fading from sight

Don't leave me I cry...
Silver wings shining in the sunlight...
Silver wings slowly fading from sight

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12.

Bury Me Under The Weeping Willow

A.P. Carter

© Peer Int, BMI

My heart is sad and I'm in sorrow
For the only one I love
When shall I see him oh no never
Till I meet him in heaven above

Oh bury me under the weeping willow
Yes under the weeping willow tree
So he may know where I am sleeping
And perhaps he will weep for me

They told me that he did not love me
I could not believe it was true
Until an angel softly whispered
He has proven untrue to you

Oh bury me under the weeping willow...

Tomorrow was our wedding day
But Lord oh where is he
He's gone to seek him another bride
And he cares no more for me

Oh bury me under the weeping willow...

Oh bury me under the violets blue
To prove my love to him
Tell him that I would die to save him
For his love I never could win

Oh bury me under the weeping willow...

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