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Lefty Frizzell

The Legendary

(# 37 top country album)

ABC 799
Nov / 1973

Produced by Don Gant

Cover image of The Legendary

Grady Martin, Harold Bradley, Pete Wade,
Jimmy Capps, Bobby Thompson, Chip Young - guitar
Hal Rugg, Pete Drake - steel
Bobby Dyson, Bob Moore - bass
James Isbell, Buddy Harman - drums
Gordon Terry, Buddy Spicher, Johnny Gimble - fiddle
Ron Oates, Hargus Pig Robbins - piano
Strings:
Sheldon Kurland, Brenton Banks, Lennie Haight, Goerge Binkley,
Martha McCrory, Gary Vanosdale, Marvin Chantry,
Christian Teal, Steven Smith, Martin Kathan
Arrangemnts by Bergen White
Vocals:
Abe Mulkey, Hurshel Wiginton, June Page,
Dolores Edgin, Joe Babcock, Ricky Page,
Hoyt Hawkins, Neal Matthews, Gordon Stoker, Raymond Walker
Recorded:
Jul/1973, Woodland Sound Studio, Nashville

1.

(# 43 country hit)

I Can't Get Over You To Save My Life

Lefty Frizzell - Sanger D. Shafer

© Blue Crest Music, BMI

Last night my best friend drove me home
Cause he knows I drink too much since you been gone
He knows I'll mhmm and die
I can't get over you to save my life

Suzy and Mary Lord how they tried to cheer me
And honey said honey please don't you cry
I said mhmm let me die I can't get over you to save my life
[ instrumental ]
Tonight if some old buddy don't come by
To drive me home and talk to me a while
I might mhmm and die
I can't get over you to save my life

Suzy and Mary Lord how they tried to cheer me...
I can't get over you to save my life

**********

2.

(# 25 country hit)

I Never Go Around Mirrors

Lefty Frizzell - Sanger D. Shafer

© Blue Crest Music, BMI

I can's stand to see a good man go to waste
One who never combs his hair or shaves his face
A man who leans on wine over love that's told a lie
It tears me up to see a grown man cry

I never go around mirrors
I can't stand to see me without you by my side
I never go around mirrors
Cause I've got a heartache to hide
[ instrumental ]
I never go around mirrors...
And it tears me up to see a grown man cry

**********

3.

If I Had Half The Sense (A Fool Was Born With)

Don Pearce

© Sawgrass Music, BMI

If I had half the sense a fool was born with
I wouldn't let my pride keep hangin' on
To put up with the things you come up with
I'd pick what's left of me and move along

Knowing just how much you liked to hurt me
Don't mean I've got to stand it every day
If I had half the sense a fool was born with
I'd pack my bags and I'd be on my way

But I guess I'm twice as dumb as a biggest fool every morn
Cause even a fool leaves home when he knows the love is gone
If I had half the sense a fool was born with I'd leave my pride around
And cover me some ground and find myself to cry in another town
[ instrumental ]
But I guess I'm twice as dumb as a biggest fool every morn...

**********

4.

Somebody's Words

Eddy Raven

© Milene Music, ASCAP


*****

5.

(# 21 country hit)

Lucky Arms

Lefty Frizzell - Sanger D. Shafer

© Blue Crest Music, BMI

I can't get no money for my pockets
I can't get into the swing of things
But someone keeps my picture in her locket
And she patches up the hole in my dreams

Lucky arms I got the world in my arms
I ain't got no money but I got honey
Keep all your cash and spend it I'll still be intendent
Cause I've got the world in my arms
[ instrumental ]
Hey mister rainy skies dry your eyes
So you can see my special girl
My arms are full of country country sunshine
And we're hurrying to the top of the world

Oh lucky arms I got the world in my arms...

**********

6.

That's The Way Love Goes

Lefty Frizzell - Sanger D. Shafer

© Blue Crest Music, BMI

I've been throwin' horseshoes over my left shoulder
I've spent most all my life searching for that four leaf clover
Yet you run with me chasing my rainbows
Honey I love you too that's the way love goes

That's the way love goes babe that's the music God made
For all the world to sing it never gets old it grows
Losing makes me sorry you say honey now don't you worry
Honey I love you too that's the way love goes
[ instrumental ]
That's the way love goes babe that's the music God made...

**********

7.

If She Just Helps Me Get Over You

Don Williams - Allen Reynolds

© Jack Music, BMI

It may not make me tremble the soft touch of her hand
But she won't break my heart the way you do
So I'm gonna try to give her the best love that I can
If she just helps me get over you

If she just picks me up when I get down
If she's there when the mem'ries walk around
Maybe someday I'll love her as much as I've loved you
If she just helps me get over you
[ instrumental ]
I don't suppose that loving will ever be the same
But she wants me the way I wanted you
So I'm gonna try to give her the best love that I can
If she just helps me get over you

If she just picks me up when I get down...
If she just helps me get over you

**********

8.

I Buy The Wine

Rory Bourke - Gayle Barnhill

© Unichappell Music, BMI

Her hands are burned from the torch that she carries
Her closets are full of old dreams she can't wear
I sit beside her but it's you on her mind
It's a party you're giving but I buy the wine

She'll dance with me but it's you that she's holding
And she does her best to hide it from me
But I've always known she can leave me behind
She brings the mem'ries and buy the wine

I buy the wine that makes her unwind
And makes her forget about you
Then in the darkness with our bodies entwined
She cries out a name but Lord it's not mine

I buy the wine that makes her unwind...

**********

9.

Let Me Give Her The Flowers

Gordon Terry

© Wa We Music, ASCAP

Let me have some pretty flowers for I've made it
Maybe it may bring some sunshine her way
And put some pretty ribbon round them gently
So she can smell the fragrance every day

Let me give her the flowers while she's living
For I don't want to wait until she's gone
Let me give her the flowers while she's living
I can see my mama smile when I get home
[ instrumental ]
Comin' home holds different mem'ries for everybody
For some man has sadness of days gone by
But for me it's the pretty flowers for my mama
Just to see her precious smile in her smilin' eyes

Let me give her the flowers while she's living...
I can see my mama smile when I get home

**********

10.

(# 52 country hit)

Railroad Lady

Jimmy Buffett - Jerry Jeff Walker

© Groper Music, BMI

She's a railroad lady just a little bit shady
Spending her days on a train
She's the semi good looker but the fast rails they took her
Now she's trying just trying to get home again

South station in Boston to the stockyards of Austin
From the Florida sunshine to the New Orleans rain
Now that the rail packs have taken the best tracks
She's trying just trying to get back home again

She's a railroad lady just a little bit shady
Spending her days on a train
Once a pull man car driver not a breakment won't have her
She's trying just trying to get back home again

Once a high-balling loner thought he could own her
He bought her a fur coat and a big diamond ring
But she hug in for cold cash left down on the Wabash
Never thinking never thinking of home way back then

But the rails are now rusty the dining car's dusty
The gold faded watches have taken their gold
The railroads are dying and the lady is crying
On a bus to Kentucky and home that's her goal

She's a railroad lady just a little bit shady...
On a bus to Kentucky and home once again

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