1.

(# 1 country hit)
(# 15 pop hit)

Abilene

John D. Loudermilk - Lester Brown - Bob Gibson

© Acuff-Rose Music, BMI

Abilene Abilene prettiest town I've ever seen
Women there don't treat you mean in Abilene my Abilene

I sit alone most every night watch those trains pull out of sight
Don't I wish they were carryin' me back to Abilene my Abilene

Abilene Abilene prettiest town I've ever seen...
[ instrumental ]
Crowded city ain't nothing free nothing in this town for me
Wish to the Lord that I could be in Abilene sweet Abilene

Abilene Abilene prettiest town I've ever seen...

(Women there don't treat you mean)
In Abilene my Abilene

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2.

(# 9 country hit)

Fort Worth Dallas Or Houston

John D. Loudermilk

© Acuff-Rose Music, BMI

In Fort Worth Dallas or Houston or in San Antone
There's a little girl waitin' for me and she's all alone
In Beamount Lubbock or Austin or in El Paso
She waits for me I know

I don't care if she is pretty or sexy
As long as she comes from deep in the heart of Texas
Somewhere round about Fort Worth Dallas or Houston or ol' El Paso
She waits for me I know
[ instrumental ]
In Fort Worth Dallas or Houston or in Abilene
Down there she's waitin' the girl of my dreams
In Wichita Falls or Waco or San Angelo
She waits for me I know

Don't even know what her name is
Just know she's somewhere down in Texas
Somewhere round about Fort Worth Dallas or Houston or ol' El Paso
She waits for me I know
She waits for me I know

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3.

(# 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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4.

A Rose And A Baby Ruth

John D. Loudermilk

© Acuff-Rose Music, BMI

5.

(# 4 country hit)

Before This Day Ends

Vic McAlpin - Roy Drusky - Marie Wilson

© Moss-Rose Pub, BMI

They say that my kind of love is blind
Some even say I must have lost my mind
But if I knew I'd never kiss your lips again
I'd rather die before this day ends

Seeds of gossip always grow
Till they kill the fragrant of the sweetest rose
But if I thought that you would let a doubt come in
I'd rather die before this day ends

All of everything is nothing without you
And many dreams I dream the way I do
Without your love before another day begins
I'd rather die before this day ends

Seeds of gossip always grow...

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6.

(# 10 pop hit)

Why Don't They Understand

Jimmy Henderson - Jack Fishman

© Hollis Music, BMI

Why why don't they understand
Why lead us by the hand
Why don't they understand

Why why do they smile and say
Love can't be ours today
Why don't they understand

Can it be wrong caring for you the way I do
It can't be wrong sharing with you
The warmth of love of loving belonging

And so we'll wander hand in hand
Into love's wonderland
Then they will understand

It can't be wrong sharing with you
The warmth of love of loving belonging

And so we'll wander hand in hand
Into love's wonderland
Then they will understand

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7.

(# 9 country hit)

Early Morning Rain

Gordon Lightfoot

© Witmark And Sons, ASCAP

In the early morning rain with a dollar in my hand
With an aching in my heart and my pockets full of sand
I'm a long ways from home and I miss my loved ones so
In the early morning rain with no place to go

Out on runway number 9 big 707 set to go
But I'm standin' on the grass where the cold winds blow
Well the liquor tasted good and the women all were fast
There she goes my friend she's a rolling now at last

Hear the mighty engines roar see the silver bird on high
She's away and westward bound far above the clouds she'll fly
Where the morning rain don't fall and the sun always shine
She'll be flying o'er my home in about three hours time

This old airport's got me down it's no earthly good to me
Cause I'm stuck here on the ground as cold and drunk as I can be
You can't jump a big jet plane like you can an old freight train
So I'd best be on my way in the early morning rain
So I'd best be on my way in the early morning rain

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8.

(# 15 country hit)

Steel Rail Blues

Gordon Lightfoot

© Witmark And Sons, ASCAP

Well I got my mail late last night
A letter from a gal who found the time to write
To her lonesome boy somewhere's in the night
She sent me a railroad ticket too to take me to her lovin' arms
And the big steel rail gonna carry me home to the one I love

Uh huh oooh ooh oooh oooh
Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh

Well I been uptight most every night
Walkin' around the streets of this old town
Not a friend around to tell my troubles to
My good old car she done broke down cause I drove it into the ground
And the big steel rail gonna carry me home to the one I love

Well I look over yonder across that plain
The big drive wheels a poundin' along the ground
Gonna get on board and I'll be homeward bound
I ain't had a home cooked meal Lord I need one now
And the big steel rail gonna carry me home to the one I love

Uh huh oooh ooh oooh oooh...

Well here I am with my hat in my hand
Standin' on a broad highway would you give a ride
To a lonesome boy who missed the train last night
I went in town for one last round I gambled my ticket away
And the big steel rail won't carry me home to the one I love

Uh huh oooh ooh oooh oooh...

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9.

(# 38 country hit)

Take My Hand For Awhile

Buffy Sainte Marie

© Gypsy Boy Music, ASCAP

Take my hand for awhile explain it to me once again
Just for the sake of my broken heart
Look into my eyes and maybe I will understand
Our love I counted on was never there
You see I've thought that you might love me
So you caught me it seems off balance with the heart that's full
Of love and pretty dreams that two should share
[ instrumental ]
And so I know but please before you go
Take my hand for awhile explain it to me once again
Just for the sake of my broken heart

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10.

(# 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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11.

(# 9 country hit)

Three Steps To The Phone (Millions Of Miles)

Harlan Howard

© Tree Pub, BMI

It's only three steps to the phone
I could say we're just three steps apart
I could say it but I'd be so wrong
For I'm millions of miles from your heart

It's only eight steps to the door
That you entered so many times
But you'll never walk in anymore
But I'm millions of miles from your mind

We were very happy and you loved me till we happened alone
Then our world of love fell apart
Now it's only three steps to the phone
But I'm millions of miles from your heart
[ instrumental ]
We were very happy and you loved me till we happened alone...

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