1.

(# 64 country hit)

I Knew My Day Would Come

Max D. Barnes - Vern Gosdin

2.

(# 51 country hit)

The Garden

Bobby Fisher - Freddy Weller

She planted roses the first year we married
It soon was a garden we'd go walking through
My job kept me travlin' but when I came home to heaven
She was so proud to show me all the love that she grew

I heard her talking one day to a old friend
She said I don't want to hurt him but it's out of control
I feel so guilty 'cause he'll be so helpless
He won't understand why I just got to go

Now I come to the garden alone
All my reasons I once had for livin' are gone
Sometimes when I feel like I just can't go on
I come to the garden alone

No one can imagine just how much I miss her
I'd give up this whole world to once more hold her near
It's just beyond me why God took her from me
I'll bet the flowers in heaven are lookin' better this year

Now I come to the garden alone
Where the dew kissed the roses the weeds now have grown
Sometimes when I feel like I just can't go on
I come to the garden alone

Oh I come to the garden alone

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3.

Love Will Keep Your Heart On The Wheel

Hank Cochran - Max D. Barnes - Vern Gosdin

You know I'm not in love with this ol' highway
And diesel ain't my favorite perfume
This ol' truck gets mighty cold and lonely
With nothing but a wheel to hold on to

I left you standing wavin' from the window
Leavin' always chills me to the bone
Although I know the road that lies before me
You don't know when or if I'm coming home

But love'll keep your nose to the grindstone
Love'll keep your hands on the wheel
It'll make you walk the wire hold your feet to the fire
But love will wash your clothes and cook your meals

Coast to coast from Maine to California
I seldom sleep and never go to bed
I been hypnotized by that ol' white line
And if I fall asleep I'll wake up dead

It's been so long God how I miss you
Home with you is where I wanna be
The rest of me will be home in the morning
I left my heart with you in Tennessee

But love'll keep your nose to the grindstone
Love'll keep your hands on the wheel
It'll make you walk the wire hold your feet to the fire
But love will wash your clothes and cook your meals

It'll make you walk the wire hold your feet to the fire
Love will wash your clothes and cook your meals

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4.

Out Of My Heart

Hank Cochran - Vern Gosdin

The only thing, I know that's good
About the days I'm livin' in
Is knowing I'm still learning
About what I don't understand
How two people that love each other
Have to live apart
It's enough to take the livin'
Out of my heart

When I get up in the mornin'
It's so hard to face my face
As it tells me from the mirror
I'd rather be at your place
It's hard to know we're still livin'
But we're livin' apart
It's enough to take the livin'
Out of my heart

Lovin' one way livin' another
Who am I cheatin' on
The one I want to be with
Are the one I'm with at home
It's hard to hold the pieces
Of so many livin' parts
It's enough to take the livin'
Out of my heart

When I get up in the mornin'
It's so hard to face my face
As it tells me from the mirror
I'd rather be at your place
It's hard to know we're still livin'
But we're livin' apart
It's enough to take the livin'
Out of my heart

It's enough to take the livin'
Out of my heart

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5.

The Bridge I'm Still Building On

Buddy Cannon - Vern Gosdin - John Northrup

Sittin' alone by the telephone wishing you would call
A lump in my throat as I read your note still pinned to the wall
You gave all you could took more than you should you couldn't stand no more
Now it's plain to see that I need someone to love me like you did before

The saddest of all it's too late I recall what all this is about
The tears I can see that you're leaving me was your only way out
If there was something I could do to get me over you I'd surely try
What I wouldn't give just to think that I could live with your goodbye

All the silence tells think of me I'm afraid I'm going under
Trying to get over you God it's gettin' me down
Are you satisfied with me are you happy to be gone
Or have you already burned the bridge that I'm still building on

Oh the silence sounds like thunder I'm afraid I'm going under
Trying to get over you God it's gettin' me down
Are you satisfied with me are you happy to be gone
Have you already burned the bridge that I'm still building on
Have you already burned the bridge that I'm still building on

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6.

Once And For All

Dean Dillon - Buddy Cannon - Vern Gosdin

God I give you all I can today
These scattered ashes that are hid away
I lay them all at Your feet

From the corners of my deepest shame
The empty places where I've worn Your name
Show me the love I say I believe

Oh help me to lay it down
Oh Lord I'll lay it down

Oh let this be where I die
My Lord with thee crucified
Be lifted high as my kingdom fall
Once and for all once and for all

There is victory in my saviors loss
And in the crimson flowing from the cross
Pour over me pour over me

Oh let this be where I die
My Lord with thee crucified
Be lifted high as my kingdom fall
Once and for all once and for all

Oh Lord I lay it down
Oh Lord I lay it down
Help me to lay it down
Oh Lord I lay it down

Oh let this be where I die
My Lord with thee crucified
Be lifted high as my kingdom fall
Once and for all

Once and for all
Oh once and for all
Once and for all

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7.

This Song Wrote Itself

Hank Cochran - Max D. Barnes - Vern Gosdin

I wasn't thinkin' about music
But you were on my mind again
I just sat down to write how I miss you
And these words just rolled out of my pen

How I lay here and stared at the ceilin'
And picture you with somebody else
I just wrote down the way I was feelin'
And cried while this song wrote itself

I wouldn't write my feelings for a jukebox
And I didn't mean these words to be this song
I never meant for any one to hear it
But I'll sing it all for you if you'll come home

How I lay here and stared at the ceilin'
And picture you with somebody else
I just wrote down the way I was feelin'
And cried while this song wrote itself

I just wrote down the way I was feelin'
And cried while this song wrote itself

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8.

(# 54 country hit)

A Month Of Sundays

Buddy Cannon - Vern Gosdin - John Northrup

There must've been 100 parties and I hit everyone in town
Now the sun is coming up and this room is turning around
Outside the church bells ring, I can't hardly stand the pain
This pounding in my head is nearly driving me insane

It's gonna take a month of Sundays to get me over Saturday night
If I look half as bad as I feel then I must be a sight
Oh I'd give everything I own for anything that'll make it right
It's gonna take a month of Sundays to get me over Saturday night

If I knew then what I know now I'd've thought it over again
I'd have stayed at home where I belong, I wouldn't be crawling in
I wouldn't be laying here with that echo of that honky tonk crowd
And listening to the sunrise even that's a little to loud

It's gonna take a month of Sundays to get me over Saturday night
If I look half as bad as I feel then I must be a sight
Oh I'd give everything I own for anything that'll make it right
It's gonna take a month of Sundays to get me over Saturday night
It's gonna take a month of Sundays to get me over Saturday night

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9.

You've Never Been In Love With You

Tim Russell - Tony Russell - Vern Gosdin - Johnny Conn

You're telling me that I'll be just fine
That all I need is a little more time
And the reason you can't tell me what to do
You've never been in love with you

You've never been in love with you
You've never woke up next to me without you
And the reason you don't know I care for you
You've never been in love with you

You've never held your hand and walked through the park
You've never been without you in the dark
There's just one reason you don't hurt the way I do
You've never been in love with you

You've never been in love with you
You've never woke up next to me without you
And the reason you don't know I care for you
You've never been in love with you

And the reason you don't know I care for you
You've never been in love with you

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10.

I'd Better Write It Down

Hank Cochran - James Vest

I stayed up all day
Just to watch the sun go down
These days I never know
How much longer I'll be around

But when I go at least she'll know
I saw all she wanted me to see
If I can leave that on paper
I'll be so proud of me

Sometimes what we say is gone
As soon as it's said
But if your eyes can read feelings I'm leavin'
Then I'll never be dead

Today I saw the open door
I know will surely set me free
If I can go through it with a smile
I'll be so proud of me

If I'm gonna leave somethin' behind
I'd better write it down
Cause I know to capture all that I can
While I'm still around

Cause I'd know the written word
Won't follow me into the ground
So if I'm gonna leave somethin' behind
I'd better write it down

If I'm gonna leave somethin' behind
I'd better write it down

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