1.

Out Where The Ocean Meets The Sky

Mel Tillis - Fred Burch

© Cedarwood Pub, BMI

Day after day year after year
My heart holds the mem'ry of the day you disappeared
From this blue water bay I watched your ship fade away
Out where the ocean meets the sky

How my heart yearns for your return
Cause this lonely little island
Is just no place for smilin'
Not many laughs around since you've been gone

My letters all return address unknown
I've got a sad sad feeling that something might be wrong
Someday I'm gonna go where the evening sun hangs low
Out where the ocean meets the sky
[ instrumental ]
My letters all return address unknown...
Out where the ocean meets the sky

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2.

I'd Better Call The Law On Me

Hugh X. Lewis

© Moss-Rose Pub, BMI

Well I just put mama on the midnight train she's gone for seven days
And here it isn't even twelve fifteen and I'm up to my old ways
For one whole year I've been a true blue man it's the first night I've been free
And before I let things get out of hand I'd better call the law on me

Oh I promised mama that I'd be good and look at me a sittin' here a drinkin'
The truth of the matter is I guess I should be in jail for what I'm thinkin'
Those two pretty blondes that just came in I got one on each knee
And I feel as guilty as homemade sin I'd better call the law on me
[ instrumental ]
Well mama would never have left me alone but she thought I had quit
And fifteen minutes after she'd been gone I found I hadn't changed a bit
One more drink is gonna do the trick and trouble there's gonna be
I gotta find a phone and do it quick I'd better call the law on me

Oh I promised mama that I'd be good and look at me a sittin' here a drinkin'...

I'd better call the law on me
I'd better get up and get outta here
And get to a telephone and call the law on me
I gotta feelin' I better do it quick

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3.

I Wish I Didn't Love You So

Frank Loesser

© Frank Music, ASCAP

I wish I didn't love you so
My love for you should have faded long ago

I wish I didn't need your kiss
Why must your kiss torture me as long as this

I might be smiling by now with some new tender friend
Smiling by now with my heart on the mend
But when I try something in my heart says no
You're still there I wish I didn't love you so

I might be smiling by now with some new tender friend...

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4.

Talk Me Out Of It

Hugh X. Lewis

© Moss-Rose Pub, BMI

(Please please please please please)
Talk me out of it

My heart tells me to go on and believe you
My mind tells me it's best we call it quits
But one thing I must ask before I leave you
Please please please please please talk me out of it

Please talk me back out of my senses
I can't stand to bear the truth and its consequences

I was better off when I believed your lies
The truth is killing me I must admit
I know that I should walk right out since I got wise
But please please please please please talk me out of it
Please please please please please talk me out of it

I won't believe a thing I hear about you
Makes no difference if it's true I can't live without you

I can't make up my mind to go or stay
Some folks say I'm ready to commit
I know the thing to do is walk away
But please please please please please talk me out of it
Please please please please please talk me out of it

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5.

Looking In The Future (For The Past)

Hugh X. Lewis - Jerry Chesnut

© Cedarwood Pub, BMI

I'm back at the same place we used to go
Nothing's changed nothing's different nothing's new
I'm with the same people we do the same things
The only one missing is you

I'm searching for the love that I used to know
You brought me happiness not so long ago
In a big world that's moving a little bit too fast
I'm here looking in the future for the past

I'm hoping that someday I'll wake and find
Everything just the way it used to be
But who am I fooling almost everyone knows
It's all over between you and me

I turned from your sweet lips I used to kiss
In search of a cheap thrill that don't exist
But I'm not the first fool and I won't be the last
To end up looking in the future for the past
Looking in the future for the past

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6.

Fourteen Karat Fool

Hugh X. Lewis

© Moss-Rose Pub, BMI

Why didn't someone tell me I was blind
Why was I the last to know my fate
My so called friends they just stood by
And watched your sweet love for me die
And let me find out for myself too late

A fourteen karat fool that's me
Was I just too close to see
What your leaving me was all about
I hate myself for losing you
For things I did or did not do
Now I've got a life alone to think it out
[ instrumental ]
If I could only call back yesterday
Did I forget to say I love you so
Was it only little things like flowers I forgot to bring
It's too late now I guess I'll never know

A fourteen karat fool that's me...
Now I've got a life alone to think it out

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7.

What I Need Most

Hugh X. Lewis

© Cedarwood Pub, BMI

I burned the toast again today my coffee was too strong
I didn't hear that clock alarm and so I slept too long
I packed myself the same old lunch the way I'll always do
I'm not for sure but got a hunch what I need most is you

Ever since you went away things keep going wrong
What I'm really trying to say come on back where you belong

Can't find a pair of socks that match my shirts are never clean
Yes I'm the worst dressed guy in town I'm wearing blue with green
Can't think to pay those bills on time they're always overdue
But these are little things I find what I need most is you
[ instrumental ]
Ever since you went away things keep going wrong
What I'm really trying to say come on back where you belong
You left and my world fell apart the nights I sleep are few
But nothing suffers like my heart what I need most is you

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8.

Roses Are Red (My Love)

Paul Evans - Al Byron

© Port Music, ASCAP

(Roses are red my love violets are blue)
Sugar is sweet my love but not as sweet as you

A long long time ago on graduation day
You handed me your book I signed this way
(Roses are red my love violets are blue)
Sugar is sweet my love but not as sweet as you

We dated through high school and when the big day came
I've wrote into your book next to my name
(Roses are red my love violets are blue)
Sugar is sweet my love but not as sweet as you

Then I went far away and you found someone new
I read your letter dear and I wrote back to you
(Roses are red my love violets are blue)
Sugar is sweet my love but not as sweet as you

Is that your little girl she looks a lot like you
Some day some boy will write in her book too
(Roses are red my love violets are blue)
Sugar is sweet my love but not as sweet as you

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9.

This Makes Us Even

Hugh X. Lewis

© Cedarwood Pub, BMI

I got out of line one time and I'm sorry
But you said you'd forgive me and forget
My lesson I had learned but when my back was turned
You found a way to make me pay my debt
Guess this makes us even so let's start out anew
Tell me you don't love him please say we're not through
Have I started something I can't stop well I'm sorry can't you see
Let's just say this makes us even and come on back to me
[ instrumental ]
Guess I knew someday I'd have to pay for cheating
But I tried hard to make it up to you
I love you even more than I'd loved you before
While you made plans on how you'd hurt me too

Guess this makes us even so let's start out anew...

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10.

Talking To A Bottle

Hugh X. Lewis

© Cedarwood Pub, BMI

Well hello there old friend yep I'm back again
Just couldn't stay away from this place
Been a long time since I quit you haven't changed a bit
But there's few new lines in my face
She just set me free and if friends look for me
Then this time they'RE gonna find
Me talking to a bottle crying for my baby
And slowly going out of my mind

People look at me as if I'm crazy
Talking to a bottle full of wine
But you're the only one who understands me
You help me get her off of my mind
She left me for good like I knew she would
And I'm here drinking myself blind
Talking to a bottle crying for my baby
And slowly going out of my mind
[ instrumental ]
People look at me as if I'm crazy...

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11.

Too Late

Jimmy Wakely - Todd Cerney - Nancy Montgomery

© Leeds Music, ASCAP

(Too late too late too late)

Too late too late to ask forgiveness
Too late too late for me to cry
She's gone she's gone she left this morning
And this is how she said goodbye

Upon my pillow was a letter
It said you'll wake and find me gone
You just won't change the way you're livin'
So you'll be better off alone

You know I love you as no other
But you have played around too long
Goodbye good luck and don't forget me
For I will be a long time gone

Too late too late my heart keeps crying
I should have known you'd go away
Too late cause now I'll have to suffer
It always seems to end that way
(Too late too late)

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12.

Tomorrow's Just Another Day To Cry

Red Hayes - Rosalie Allen Gilbert

© RFD Music, ASCAP

(Tomorrow's just another day to cry)

Tomorrow's just another day
To wish you hadn't gone away
Tomorrow's just another day to cry
Tomorrow I'll be twice as blue
Because I'm still in love with you
And I'll love you till the day I die

I tried my best to hold you right from the very start
I cried the day you told me we would have to part
Tomorrow's just another day to wish you hadn't gone away
Tomorrow's just another day to cry

I can't go on without you dear
Each day you're gone means one more tear
Tomorrow's just another day to cry
My heart is filled with sad regret
It seems you won't let me forget
Tomorrow's just another day to cry

I live a life of sorrow now that you don't care
The thought of each tomorrow is more than I can bear
Tomorrow's just another day to wish you hadn't gone away
Tomorrow's just another day to cry

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