1.

(# 16 country hit)

Back Where It's At

Bobby Bond

© Acuff-Rose Music, BMI

Lately it seems everything I see
Tells me life is movin' much too fast
And underneath the strain folks don't act the same
And if that's progress I'll take the past

Gonna find a country road with grassy fields on either side
Gonna put on my boots and my jeans and a country hat
Sit by stream as the sun goes down and straighten out my mind
Soothe my soul and go back where it's at

You can have your concrete cities and you can have your poison air
You can have your smoke a rolling from the stack
Don't offer me your pity and don't you call me square
Just because I see where things have jumped the track

Gonna find a country road with grassy fields on either side...
Gonna find a country road with grassy fields on either side...

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2.

(# 3 country hit)

She's A Little Bit Country

Harlan Howard

© Wilderness Music, BMI

She's a big city girl in so many ways
She walks and she talks up town
But she's got something hard to find nowadays
That keeps me hangin' around

She's a little bit country
Makes me think of meadows and clover
Apple pie and a pup named Rover and the good ole days
Now she don't know what cheatin' means
I ain't a gonna teach her them kind of things
She's a little bit country and I've got country ways
[ instrumental ]
Well I've been all around this troubled old world
But I never found peace of mind
Till I met that pretty little city girl
Lord you oughta make more of her kind

She's a little bit country
Makes me think of meadows and clover
Apple pie and a pup named Rover and the good ole days
Lord she don't know what cheatin' means
I ain't a gonna teach her none of them things
She's a little bit country and I've got country ways yeah yeah
She's a little bit country and I like her country ways

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3.

Reason To Believe

Tim Hardin

© Faithful Virtue Music, BMI

If I listened long enough to you
I'd find a way to believe that it's all true
Knowing that you lied straight face while I cried
Still I'd looked to find a reason to believe

Someone like you makes it hard to live without somebody else
Someone like you makes it easy to give never thinking about myself

And if I gave you time to change my mind
I'd find a way to leave the past behind
Knowing that you lied straight face while I cried
Still I'd looked to find a reason to believe
[ instrumental ]
And if I listened long enough to you babe
I'd find a way to believe that it's all true
Knowing that you lied straight face while I cried
Still I'd looked to find a reason to believe
To believe

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4.

Then I Miss You

Bobby Bond

© Acuff-Rose Music, BMI

When the misty light comes softly in through my morning window
And reflects for a minute on the mirror by my bed
When the dreams that I dream of you don't turn out the way they ought to
And I reach into the light out by my head

Then I miss you
And I'd leave it all behind if I could see you once more
And I'm longing just to have things be like they were before

When all the friends I'm seein' start appearin' like strangers
And the furniture and the carpets in the motels look the same
When the airports and the highways start to run together
And it seems that all I think of is your name

Then I miss you...
Then I miss you...

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5.

Three Cheers For The Good Guys

Harlan Howard

© Wilderness Music, BMI

How's about three cheers for the good guys
Those who work hard every week and get a tear upon their cheek
When they see ol' glory wavin' in the breeze
How's about three cheers for the good guys
Who feed their kids and love their wife and lead a very normal life
And never make the headlines or TV

They pay their bills they also fight the wars
They think this land is well worth fightin' for
So how's about three cheers for the good guys
And thank God if we're cheerin' for you
[ steel ]
How's about three cheers for the good guys
They don't march and they don't shout and so you never read about
The quiet men who are the backbone of our land
How's about three cheers for the good guys
Mowin' lawns and fixin' bikes and takin' youngsters out on hikes
Readin' the news and tryin' to understand

He's Catholic he's Protestant and Jew
He's every creed and color race and hue
So how's about three cheers for the good guys
And thank God if we're cheerin' for you
Yeah thank God if we're cheerin' for you

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6.

(# 29 country hit)

Carolina In My Mind

James Taylor

© Blackwood Music, BMI

In my mind I'm goin' to Carolina
Can't you see the sunshine can't you just feel the moonshine
Maybe just like a friend of mine it hit me from behind
Yes I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind

Karen she's a silver sun you best walk her way and watch it shinin'
Watch her watch the mornin' come
A silver tear appearing now I'm cryin' ain't I
I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind

Ain't no doubt it no ones mind that loves the finest thing around
Whisper something warm and kind
And hey babe the sky's on fire I'm dyin' ain't I
I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind

In my mind I'm goin' to Carolina...

Dark and silent late last night I think I might have heard the highway call
Geese in flight and dogs that bite
And signs that might be omens say I'm going going
I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind

Dark and silent late last night I think I might have heard the highway call...

Now with a holy host of others standin' round me
Still I'm on the dark side of the moon
And it looks like it goes on like this forever
You must forgive me

In my mind I'm goin' to Carolina...

Yeah I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind
I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind
Yeah I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind
Yes I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind
Yeah I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind

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7.

Just The Other Side Of Nowhere

Kris Kristofferson

© Combine Music, BMI

Yeah I come from just the other side of nowhere to this big time lonesome town
They got a lotta ice and snow here half as cold as all the people I found
Every way I've tried to go here seemed to bring me down
And I seen about enough to know where I belong

I've got a mind to see the headlight shinin' on that ol' white line between my heart and home
Sick of spendin' Sundays wishin' they were Mondays sittin' in a park alone
So give my best to anyone who's left who ever done me any lovin' way but wrong
And tell 'em that the pride of just the other side of nowhere's goin' home

Takin' nothing back to show there for these dues I've paid
But the soul I almost sold here and the body I've been givin' away
Fadin' from the neon night time glow here headin' for the light of day
Just the other side of nowhere goin' home

So give my best to anyone who's left who ever done me any lovin' way but wrong
Tell 'em that the pride of just the other side of nowhere's goin' home
Just the other side of nowhere goin' home

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8.

Greyhound Goin' Somewhere

Michael Murphey - Bill Dorsey

© Screen Gems Music, BMI

There ain't much time to say goodbye
But let me try while we have a last cup of coffee
The love you need I couldn't give
The life I lead you wouldn't wanna live believe me

So ride me to the station and I'll be on my way
There's a Greyhound goin' somewhere and I just want to say
I'm leavin'

There's a Greyhound goin' somewhere
Think I might just go there too
Well I could stay another day
But I'm afraid you'll want me to say I love you
It's not that I won't it's just that I don't
Want to leave another girl behind me a cryin'

So ride me to the station and I'll be on my way...

There's a Greyhound goin' somewhere
Think I might just go there too
Well I'm leavin'
For Abilene to Denver Toronto Carolina Fort Worth Vegas Dallas
Willow Springs Detroit New York Bakersfield

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9.

Nature Of A Man

Gene Thomas

© Acuff-Rose Music, BMI

Well life is short and time is ever fleeting
There's no time to waste a single day
Staying here would only be repeating
The same mistakes we've made along the way

Some just gonna say goodbye
Take the dusty wings and try to fly
Don't ask me why I believe I don't understand
Well this is just a nature of a man

And love is but impressions in the clover
In the greeny fields we've left behind
Even know expression when it's over
The way I can't convey what's on my mind

Some just gonna say goodbye
Take out my dusty wings and try to fly
Don't ask me why I believe I don't understand
Well this is just a nature of a man
[ instrumental ]
Well I hate to be the one to burst the bubble
But you have had wrapped around us for so long
But perhaps there lies all the trouble
And maybe we'll be better when it's gone

Some just gonna say goodbye
Take out my dusty wings and once again I'll try to fly
Don't ask me why I believe I don't understand
Well I guess it's just a nature of a man

It's just a restless nature of a man
But these places I must be and places I must see
And I guess it's just a nature of a man

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10.

(# 13 country hit)

Anyway

Bobby Bond

© Acuff-Rose Music, BMI

There's a big bird out on a runway darlin'
See it's spreadin' its silver wings to take you up to the sky
Isn't that where you always wanted to be anyway anyway

There's a ticket in your purse there darlin'
That says your destiny is written in another town
But isn't that where you always wanted to be anyway anyway

I knew that I could never hold you on the ground for long
Cause your restless ways you never quite concealed
And I knew that merely chains of love just couldn't be as strong
As the things that were pulling you away from me oh Lord

There's a long road a pitchin' up for you darlin'
That will take you far away from my two protectin' arms
Isn't that where you always wanted to be anyway anyway
Isn't that where you always wanted to be anyway anyway

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