1.

Go Go Around

Gordon Lightfoot

© Witmark And Sons, ASCAP

Alone upon the sidewalks of despair twas there she wandered
With her suitcase in her hand her fate she pondered
Only a go-go girl in love with someone who didn't care
She met him on a night so rare when her friends were there and the band was groovin'
When he gave a glance that said how much he would like to meet her
How was she to know at the time he would mistreat her

In her cage she danced for him although a hundred eyes were turned her way
And before the set was through he knew she would be his loved one
Only a go-go girl in love with someone who didn't care
Only twenty-one she was a young girl just in from somewhere
[ instrumental ]
He's playin' up in Michigan in a group they call The Intended
With a kiss and a promise he was gone the song was ended
But as she walks she waits for him the pavement is a shoulder for her tears
But in her heart she knows there is no way she can hope to change him
Only a go-go girl in love with someone who didn't care
Only twenty-one she was a young girl just in from somewhere

Only a go-go girl in love with someone who didn't care
A go-go girl in love with someone who didn't care
A go-go girl in love with someone who didn't care

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2.

Colours

Donovan Leitch

© Southern Music, ASCAP

Yellow is the color of my true love's hair in the mornin' when we rise
In the mornin' when we rise
That's the time that's the time I love the best

Blue's the color of the sky in the mornin' when we rise
In the mornin' when we rise
That's the time that's the time I love the best

Green's the color of the sparklin' corn in the mornin' when we rise
In the mornin' when we rise
That's the time that's the time I love the best

Mellow is the feelin' that I get when I see her mm hmm
When I see her uh huh
That's the time that's the time I love the best
[ instrumental ]
Heaven is a word I rarely use without thinkin' uh huh
Without thinkin' hm hm
Of the time of the time when I've been loved

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3.

(# 7 country hit)

Urge For Going

Joni Mitchell

© Siquomb Music, BMI

I awoke today and found the frost perched on the town
It hovered in a frozen sky and gobbled summer down
When the sun turns traitor cold
And all the trees are shivering in a naked row
I get the urge for going but I never seem to go

I met a boy in summertime with summer colored skin
Not another girl in town my darlin's heart could win
When the leaves fell tremblin' down
Bully winds did push their faces in the snow
She got the urge for going and I had to let her go

She got the urge for going when
The meadow grass was turning brown
Summertime was fallin' down
And winter's closin' in

Now the warriors of winter give a cold triumphant shout
And all that stays is dyin' all that lives is gettin' out
See the geese in chevron flight
A flappin' and racin' on before the snow
They've got the urge for going they've got the wings to go

I'd like to call back summertime and have her stay for just another month or so
But she's got the urge for goin' so I guess she'll have to go

And I get the urge for goin' when...

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4.

Gentle On My Mind

John Hartford

© Glaser Pub, BMI

It's just knowin' that your door is always open and your path is free to walk
That makes me tend to leave my sleepin' bag rolled up and stashed behind your couch
And it's knowin' I'm not shackled by forgotten words and bonds
And the ink stains that have dried upon some line
That keeps you in the back roads by the rivers of my mem'ry
That keeps you ever gentle on my mind

It's not clinging to the rocks and I'd be planted on their columns now that binds me
Or somethin' that somebody said because they thought we fit together walkin'
It's just knowin' that the world will not be cursin' or forgivin'
When I walk along some railroad track and find
That you're movin' on the back roads by the rivers of my mem'ry
And for hours you're just gentle on my mind

Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines and the junk yards and the highways come between us
And some other woman crying to her mother cause she turned and I was gone
I still might run in silence tears of joy might stain my face
And the summer sun might burn me till I'm blind
But not to where I cannot see you walking on the back roads
By the rivers flowin' gentle on my mind

I dipped my cup of soap back from a gurgling crackling caldron in some train yard
My beard a roughen coal pile and a dirty hat pulled low across my face
Through cupped hands round a tin can I pretend to hold you to my breast and find
That you're wavin' from the back roads by the rivers of my mem'ry
Ever smilin' ever gentle on my mind

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5.

And You Wonder Why

Bill Anderson

© Tree Pub, BMI

I mailed you a post card you complained cause it wasn't a letter
I sent you a lily you cried cause you wanted a rose
I called you at seven you said next time call me at two
And you wonder why I went looking for somebody new

I wrote her a note on a back of an old paper napkin
I sent her petal from a faded and torn daffodil
She kissed me and told me no one made her so happy before
And you wonder why I don't come home to you anymore

I still got my future I still got my pride
And she wants the true love that you pushed aside
And you wonder why I'm leaving and breaking my vow
I wonder why I foolishly waited till now

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6.

Darcy Farrow

Steve Gillette - Tom Campbell

© Songs Of PolyGram, BMI

Where the walker runs down through the Carson Valley Plain
There lived a maiden Darcy Farrow was her name
The daughter of Old Dundee and a fair one was she
And the sweetest flower that bloomed o'er the range

Her voice was sweet as the sugar candy
Her touch was as soft as a bed of goose down
Her eyes shone bright like the pretty lights
That shine in the night out of Yerrington town

She was courted by young Vandamere
And quite handsome was he as I hear
He brought her silver rings and lacy things
She promised to wed before the snows fell that year
[ instrumental ]
But her pony did stumble and she did fall
Her dyin' touched the hearts of us one and all
Young Vandy in his pain put a bullet through his brain
And we buried them together as the snows began to fall

They sing of Darcy Farrow where the Truckee runs through
They sing of her beauty in Virginia City too
At dusky sundown to her name they drink a round
And to young Vandy whose love was true

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7.

My Body's At Home (But My Heart's On The Road)

Bill Anderson

© Tree Pub, BMI

I'm sittin' back easy in my easy chair
Watchin' the morning dawnin' fair
My wife's cookin' breakfast and my little girl
Is lookin' at her daddy like he owns the world

I got everything that a man could want
My lips oughta smile but somehow they don't
I feel a guilty little lump in my throat
Cause my body's at home but my heart's on the road

Albuquerque and New Orleans hamburgers and pinto beans
Big mountains and river beds happy anywhere that I lay my head
I feel like I'm about to explode
My body's at home but my heart's on the road
[ instrumental ]
Basic woman I’m a Gypsy man
Born with a roadmap in my hand
I'm the kinda thirsty you can't quench
You just give me water inch by inch

The next town over is callin' my name
A line on the highway's warpin' my brain
I feel buried and about to corrode
My body's at home but my heart's on the road

Albuquerque and New Orleans hamburgers and pinto beans...

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8.

Ballad Of The Yarmouth Castle

Gordon Lightfoot

© Witmark And Sons, ASCAP

Well it's four o'clock in the afternoon the anchors have been weighed
From Miami to Nassau she's abound across the waves
She's headin' south to Biscayne Bay into the open sea
Yarmouth Castle she's a dyin' don't know it

Oh the many years she's been to sea ahe's seen the better times
She gives a groan of protest as they cast away her lines
And the grumble of her engines and the rust along her spine
Tells the Castle she's too old to be sailin'

But the sands run out within her heart a tiny spark glows red
And smolders through the evening there's laughter overhead
Well the dinner's served and the cards are dealt and the drinks are passed around
From deep within the fire starts a burnin'

It's midnight on the open sea the moon is a shinin' bright
Some people join the party and the others say goodnight
There's many who are sleeping now it's been such a busy day
And a tiny wisp of smoke is a risin'

Oh Lord she groans I'm burnin' let someone understand
But her silent plea is wasted in the playin' of the band
Everybody's dancin' on her deck and they're havin' such a time
And a voice says shut up and deal I'm losin'

Deep within the Yarmouth Castle the fire begins to glow
It leaps into the hallways and climbs and twists and grows
The paint she wore to keep her young oh Lord how well it burns
And soon that old fire is a ragin'

Beneath the bridge it's climbin' now the captain stands aloft
He calls up to the boatswain says boatswain we are lost
Them ragged hoses in the racks no pressure do they hold
And the people down below are dyin'

Well amidships oh she's blazin' now it's spreadin' fore and aft
The people are a scramblin' as the fire blocks their path
An evil smoke surrounds them and they're fallin' in their tracks
And the captain in his lifeboat is a leavin'

Oh then the ship Bahama Star comes steamin' through the night
She sees the Castle a blazin' and it is a terrible sight
Jump down jump down the captain cries we'll save you if we can
And the paint on his funnels is a fryin'

God help the ones who sleep below and cannot find their way
Thank God for those we rescue upon this terrible day
Oh the heroes they are many and the times are growin' slim
For now from stern to bow she's a blazin'

Oh the Yarmouth Castle's moanin' she's a cryin' like a child
You can hear her if you listen above the roar so wild
Is she cryin' for the ones who lie within her molten sides
Or cryin' for herself I'm a wonderin'

And soon they all were rescued the ones who lived to tell
And from the Star they watched her as she died there in the swells
Like a toy ship on a mill pond she burned all through the night
Then slipped neath the waves in the mornin'

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9.

(# 6 country hit)

Break My Mind

John D. Loudermilk

© Acuff-Rose Music, BMI

Baby oh baby tell the man at the ticket stand that you changed your mind
Let me run on out and tell the cab to keep his meter flyin'
Cause if you say goodbye to me babe you're gonna break my mind

Break my mind break my mind
No I just can't stand to hear them big jet engines whine
Break my mind break my mind oh Lord
Cause if you leave you're gonna leave a babblin' fool behind

Baby oh baby let me take your suitcase off the scales in time
Tell the man that you've suddenly developed a thing about flyin'
Cause if you say goodbye to me babe you're gonna break my mind

Break my mind break my mind...

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10.

Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town

Mel Tillis

© Cedarwood Pub, BMI

You have painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair
Ruby are you contemplating goin' out somewhere
The shadows on the wall tell me the sun is goin' down
Ruby don't take your love to town

For it wasn't me that started that old crazy Asian war
But I was proud to go and do my patriotic chores
And I know Ruby that I'm not the man that I used to be
But Ruby I still need your company

It's hard to love a man whose legs are bent and paralized
And the wants and the needs of a woman your age Ruby I realize
But it won't be long I've heard them say until I'm not around
Oh Ruby don't take your love to town

She's leavin' now cause I just heard the slammin' of the door
The way I know I've heard it slam a hundred times before
And if I could move I'd get my gun and put her in the ground
Ruby don't take your love to town

For God's sake turn around
Don't take your love to town
For God's sake turn around

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11.

Man Of Constant Sorrow

Paul Stookey - Peter Yearrow

© Tree Pub, BMI

I'm a man of constant sorrow
I've known trouble all my days
I'm goin' back to California
Place where I was partly raised

All through this open world I'm bound to ramble
Through snow and wind through sleet and rain
I'm bound to ride that northern railroad
Perhaps I'll take the very next train

Your friends they say that I'm the stranger
You'll never see my face no more
There is just one promise that's given
We'll sail on God's golden shore

I am a man of constant sorrow...

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12.

I'll Be Gone

Michael Merchant

© Regent Music, BMI

When the quiet evening comes and the village softly lies
Twinkling in the shadow of the mountains
When the twilight's muffled drums play tattoos to the skies
And the heavens close their eyes I'll be gone

When the fisher throws his net makes his crab secure
And gazes to the west for signs of weather
When he thinks of his table set his children at the door
As he plods along the shore I'll be gone
[ instrumental ]
When the merchant draws the shade counts his day's receipts
And smiles recalling bits of idle gossip
When the entries all are made in the ledger's tidy sheets
As he shuffles down the streets I'll be gone

Tis pretty but is strange and I must be free
So fare thee well you poor contented fellows
No quiet life for me no home no family
Now and endlessly I'll be gone
Now and endlessly I'll be gone

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