1.

Like A Bird (Spread My Wings And Fly)

Larry Kingston

© Window Music, BMI

You look so lovely lying there with dreamland's grin up on your face
Your golden curls in disarray upon your starched white pillow case
The soft blue satin covers pulled up tight around your lovely throat
It almost makes me want to go destroy the message on the note
The note I left upon your perfumed stationary by the phone
I hate to think about you waking up at dawn to find me gone
It hurts me so to get up in the middle of the night and go
But thinking back I do remember faintly that I told you so

I told you I was like a bird a free and wild and restless thing
And even though I take a mate and build a nest in early spring
When summer winds have had their day and winter clouds are flying high
Instinctively I spread my wings and fly

I only know that I must go and nothing here must hold me back
I like the love you gave me and the tender way you scratched my back
I like your warm sweet kisses and the way you cook your ham and eggs
I like the way the suntan lotion softened up your lovely legs
I like the static noise I heard when you would sit and brush your hair
The way you gave yourself to me and never asked to go nowhere
But most of all I like the way you always smiled and never frowned
The way you took this chance for love and grasped me just for what I am

I told you I was like a bird...

And now my darling as I leave I fight the yearning in my blood
To wake you up and love you just once more before I go for good
But somehow I am fighting back my passion for I cannot stay
And someday you'll look back and know best it ended up this way

I told you I was like a bird...
I fly I fly

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2.

I'm Throwing Rice (At The Girl I Love)

Eddy Arnold - Ed Nelson - Steve Nelson

© Hill And Range Songs, BMI

I'm throwing rice at the girl that I love
After she just said I do
I'm throwing rice with a smile on my lips
But my heart is breaking in two

Oh she was my gal he was my pal
But she loved him better somehow
I stepped aside after I kissed the bride
And I'm throwing rice at her now
[ strings ]
Oh I stepped aside after I kissed the bride
And I'm throwing rice at her now

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3.

Little Green Apples

Bobby Russell

© Russell-Cason Music, BMI

And I wake up in the mornin'
With my hair down in my eyes and she says hi
And I stumble to the breakfast table
While the kids are goin' off to school goodbye
And she reaches out and takes my hand
And squeezes it and says how you feeling hon
And I look across at smilin' lips
That warm my heart and see my morning sun

And if that's not lovin' me then all I've got to say
God didn't make little green apples
And it don't rain in Indianapolis in the summertime
There's no such thing as Doctor Suess
And Disneyland and Mother Goose is no nursery rhyme
God didn't make little green apples
And it don't rain in Indianapolis in the summertime
And when myself is feelin' low
I think about her face aglow and ease my mind

Sometimes I call her up at home knowing she's busy
And ask her if she'd get away
And meet me and maybe we could grab a bite to eat
And she drops what she's doin'
And she hurries down to meet me oh I'm always late
But she sits waitin' patiently
And smiles when she first sees me cause she's made that way

And if that ain't lovin' me then all I've got to say
God didn't make little green apples
And it don't snow in Minneapolis when the winter comes
And there's no such think as make believe
Puppy dogs and autumn leaves and BB guns
God didn't make little green apples
And it don't snow in Minneapolis when the winter comes
There's no such think as make believe
Puppy dogs and autumn leaves and BB guns

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4.

Before The Next Teardrop Falls

Ben Peters - Vivian Keith

© Shelby Singleton Music, BMI

If he brings you happiness then I wish you both the best
It's your happiness that matters most of all
But if he ever breaks your heart if the teardrops ever start
I'll be there before the next teardrop falls

Though it hurts to let you go darling I want you to know
That I'll stand by you if ever you should call
And if I should ever hear that he made you shed a tear
I'll be there before the next teardrop falls

I'll be there anytime you need me by your side
To dry away every teardrop that you cried
If he ever leaves you blue just remember I love you
And I'll be there before the next teardrop falls
I'll be there before the next teardrop falls

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5.

Yours Love

Harlan Howard

© Wilderness Music, BMI

May the fruit of my toil be yours love
May the food from my soil be yours love
And from this moment on may a love that is strong
And lives on and on be yours love

May the sons that I raise be yours love
May the comforts I praise be yours love
If I ever get weak may the love words I speak
And the arms that I seek be yours love

May the Lord's shining grace be yours love
May the happiest face be yours love
May the last fingertips that touch these two lips
As life from me slips be yours love

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6.

Hardest Easy Thing

Jerry Lane

© Window Music, BMI

I listened when they said that things about you
And when they told me I should leave you on the run
And they said just walk right out there's nothing to it
But it's the hardest easy thing I've ever done

It seems some poeple have no feelings at all
For them to break a heart is some sort of fun
Well I'm afraid that's not my way of thinking at all
Cause it's the hardest easy thing I've ever done
[ fiddle ]
Ever since I left blue tears have fallen
My friends say just forget her dry your eyes
And it sounds quite simple when I hear them say it
But it's the hardest easy thing I've ever tried

It seems some poeple have no feelings at all...
Yes it's the hardest easy thing I've ever done

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7.

Born To Be With You

Don Robertson

© Mayfair Music, ASCAP

By your side satisfied
Through and through cause I was born to be with you

Wonderously love can see
So I knew that I was born to be with you
[ ac.guitar ]
Do I find peace of mind
Yes I do cause I was born to be with you
All life through yes I was born to be with you

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8.

Wichita Lineman

Jim Webb

© Canopy Music, ASCAP

I am the lineman for the county and I drive the main road
Searching in the sun for another overload
I hear you singing in the wires I can hear you through the whine
And the Wichita lineman is still on the line

I know I need a small vacation but it don't look like rain
And if it snows that stretch down south won't ever stand the strain
And I need you more than want you and I'll want you for all time
And the Wichita lineman is still on the line
[ guitar ]
And I need you more than want you...

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9.

Left Over Feelings

William Rainsford

© Window Music, BMI

Slowly very slowly you're fading away
And little parts about you I'm forgetting each day
So if I cry when I see you don't think I'm still your fool
It's just a left over feeling that I have for you

You know it takes quite a while to forget your whole world
Especially when the whole world was you
But time has been kind to this heart of mine
And your mem'ries are almost through

So don't think for a minute that I'll come back to you
Cause it's over and it's done our love affair is through
So if I cry when I see you don't think I'm still your fool
It's just the left over feelings that I have for you

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10.

The Enemy

Johnny Adcock

© Window Music, BMI

The work day's done it's time to go home
It's time to make decisions I must make alone
For there's a battlefield between my home and me
And I must pass directly by the enemy

There's flashing lights straight ahead
The neon signs of the barrooms turn the sky blood red
I search for strenght inside of me
I'm passing through the homeland of the enemy

Like a dreaming man I'm in an open door
Then all the faded faces remind me I'm at war
I turn to leave and tremble when I see
The waiting patient eyes of the enemy

Their eyes shine brike they strike me blind
It's too late to run away surrenders on my mind
There's tears at home by now she's missin' me
She'll know I'm in the arms of the enemy

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11.

To Make Love Sweeter For You

Glenn Sutton - Jerry Kennedy

© Al Gallico Music, BMI

Well I'd like to send an orchid at the start of every day
For flowers show more beauty than words could ever say
You done so much for my world till all I wanna do
Is try my best in every way to make love sweeter for you

A thousand special compliments I pay to you each day
Your years would never tire of all the sweet things I would say
Oh you never would be lonely honey you never would blue
Cause my one ache in life would be to make love sweeter for you

You given me the faith that took to make my dreams come true
That's why want to live and breathe my every breath for you
You've cleared the windows of my life and now that I see through
I'll do my best in every way to make love sweeter for you
Oh I'll do my best in every way to make love sweeter for you

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