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Mel McDaniel

Mello

Capitol ST-11779
Aug / 1978

Produced by Johnny McRae

Cover image of Mello

Dale Sellers, Jerry Shook, Chip Young - guitar
Stu Basore - steel
Alan Rush, Dennis Linde - bass
Randy Cullers - drums/percussion
Bobby Ogdin - keyboards
Johnny Gimble - fiddle
Farrell Morris - marimba
Recorded:
19771978, The Rat Hole Studio, Nashville

1.

Dim The Lights (And Pour The Wine)

Bob Morrison - Jay Harris

© Music City Music, ASCAP

We both owe it to each other not to give up till we try
There's a lotta lonely people wish they hadn't said goodbye
So let's spend some time together do the things we used to do
We may find that magic moment comin' back to me and you

Dim the lights and pour the wine
Let the music softly play
I'll be yours and you'll be mine
Love could be a touch away
Dim the lights and pour the wine
[ instrumental ]
You are still a pretty woman anyone would say as much
You're as easy on the looking as your tender to the touch
Though we both have let love wither we'd be fools to let it die
We can put it back together all we gotta do is try

Dim the lights and pour the wine...

Dim the lights and pour the wine
Hold me close and whisper low
Maybe love'll start to shine like it did a dream ago
Dim the lights and pour the wine

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2.

It's About Time

Johnny Christopher - Laying Martine

© Unichappell Music, BMI

Well it's about time we laid down together
It's about time we called it a day
And it's about time we held each other
And let the world outside our window just fade away

I long to hear you softly breathing as your fingers touch my skin
Cause it warms me with a feeling laying down with you again

Well it's about time we laid it all behind us
The past is sleepin' and the future's left to find
And there's a need to reach out kindly
Lord it feels so good to touch a body and reach a mind

I long to hear you softly breathing as your fingers touch my skin
Cause it warms me with a feeling laying down with you again
Well it's about time we laid down together yes it is

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3.

Love Is A Miracle

Johnny Christopher - Laying Martine

© Unichappell Music, BMI

Love is a miracle like the sun and the rain and skies of blue
I tell you love is a miracle and you'll know it when it happens to you

I was a lost and lonely soul trying to make something happen
I worked on love but it wouldn't come my way

I was just about to quit when I saw two lovers laughing
Then I remembered what I heard somebody say

Hey hey they told me love is a miracle like the sun and the rain and skies of blue
They said love is a miracle and you'll know it when it happens to you

So I went on about my business and let my mind be free
Believing love would come when the time got right

Now my prayers have all been answered and you have come to me
And all I did was talk to you that night

Hey hey tell you love is a miracle like the sun the rain the skies of blue
I'm sayin' love is a miracle and you'll know it when it happens to you

Love is a miracle like the sun the rain the skies of blue
I'm sayin' love is a miracle and you'll know it when it happens to you

(Love is a miracle love is a miracle
Love is a miracle and you'll know it when it happens to you)

Love is a miracle like the sun and the rain and skies of blue...

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4.

A Black And White Memory

Dennis Linde

© Combine Music, BMI

A one-eyed rag doll a bashful smile a long time back a camera clicked in Tulsa
I wish that I had known you then tell me do you recall the color of that dress
Is that the shadow of your mom or your dad as they told you to say cheese
More than a picture a black and white memory

A little cowboy sits upon a pony they took door to door in Waco
I remember how I got that smile the man said I looked just like Lascharue
And that ole dog sittin' by my foot well he lived to be fifteen
More than a picture a black and white memory

The photographs are on the rug and here I am in Tennessesee with you
The bashful girl got married to the little boy who looked like Lascharue
Now they're smilin' up at me and you

A one-eyed rag doll a bashful smile a long time back a camera clicked in Tulsa

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5.

Every Square Has An Angle

Bob Morrison - Jim Zerface - Bill Zerface

© Music City Music, ASCAP

I don't wear my hair down on my shoulders
Or go to places where it's in to go
I'm in bed too soon for Johnny Carlson
The Waltons is my favorite TV show

I never join the guys at happy hour
I hurry home because I like it there
No one understands what keeps me smiling
I guess that's why they're calling me a square

But every square has an angle
Every kid learns that in school
Every square has an angle
And darling my angle's loving you

Um I like Sunday drives an old time movies
And dancing close the way they used to do
Holding hands and walking in the moonlight
And knowing that you feel the same way too

I guess if they could see us here together
Aw the way you look when you let down your hair
I think they'd understand a little better
Why I don't mind 'em calling me a square

But every square has an angle...
And darling my angle's loving you

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6.

The Farm

Dennis Linde

© Combine Music, BMI

January back in fifty-five we rode a Greyhound bus through the Georgia midnight
Grandpa was sleeping and the winter sky was clear
We hit a bump and his head jerked back a little and he mumbled something
He woke up smiling but his eyes were bright with tears

He said I dreamed I was back on the farm
Twenty years have passed boy but the memory still warms me
Wild flowers in a Mason jar

He told me those old stories bout that one room cabin in Kentucky
The smell of rain and the feel of the warm earth in his hands
He slowly turned and stared outside his face was mirrored in the window
And his reflection flew across the moonlight land

And he dreamed he was back on the farm
He tilts his head and listens to the early sounds of morning
Wild flowers in a Mason jar

An old man and an eight year old boy rolling down that midnight highway
Warm Kentucky mem'ries from a winter Georgia night
I started drifting off and grandpa tucked his coat around me
I think I tried to smile as I slowly closed my eyes

And I dreamed I was with him on the farm
Grandpa I can hear the evening wind out in the tall corn
Wild flowers in a Mason jar
Wild flowers in a Mason jar and the bus rolled through the night

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7.

Bordertown Woman Blues

Max D. Barnes

© Screen Gems Music, BMI

Hell couldn't be any hotter than Nogales on the Fourth of July
But two steps over the border there ain't nothin' gringo money won't buy
Tequila was flowin' like water met a lady I couldn't refuse
I woke up dead with a rag on my head and a bad case of bordertown blues

Bordertown woman let go of me
Let me go home to the girl I love in Tennessee
Bordertown woman give me my shoes
And let me get out of town I'm coming down with the blues
[ instrumental ]
Nogales couldn't be any hotter than that look in Dolore's eyes
Love ain't never been any better wadn't nothin' than she wouldn't try
She knew I had run out of money and I was gettin' in over my head
So I gave her my watch and I carved one more notch on the foot of Dolore's bed

Bordertown woman let go of me...

Ah let me get out of town I'm coming down
With those mean old bordertown blues

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8.

The Grandest Lady Of Them All

Bob Morrison - Mel McDaniel

© Music City Music, ASCAP

She's never in the spotlights but everybody knows that she's the star
And once she shines upon you she'll make you truly proud of where you are
She'll wipe away the pain of all the dues you've had to pay
When the curtain to her world starts to unfold
With mother tender hands she will applaud and feed the hunger in your soul

And she's known as the Grand Ole Opry
Where the legends come to call
She's the queen of country music
She's the grandest lady of them all

She sung of desperados the lonesome whistle of a midnight train
The coal mines of Kentucky and how it feels to be out in the rain
She sung of Texas cowboys of hoboes and of heroes
And the loneliness of wearin' prison blue
But most of all she sung about the common people just like me and you

And she's known as the Grand Ole Opry...

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9.

Oklahoma Wind

Dennis Linde - Alan Rush

© Combine Music, BMI

There's a highway cross the prairie there's a jet trail cross the sky
There's a pain in me from the things I see
And I'm just too tired to care why
Like the loco weed I grow crazy like the cactus I grow wild
Well there's true and there's dreams then I'm stuck in between
Left with an emptiness inside

The Oklahoma wind just keeps on blowin'
It never stops to think it just keeps goin'
Lord if I could have my way I'd be just like my friend
Like the Oklahoma wind
Uh huh huh like the Oklahoma wind

Tumbleweeds roll through the city city trucks roll through the plains
Sadness rolls through me cause I long to be free
And I know that I'll never break these chains
Like the loco weed I grow crazy like the cactus I grow wild
Well there's truth and there's dreams and I'm stucking between
Left with an emptiness inside

The Oklahoma wind just keeps on blowing...

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10.

They'll Never Take Her Love From Me

Leon Payne

© Acuff-Rose Music, BMI

If today the sun would set on all my hopes and cares
There's one who's smiling face God would see
Cause she'll walk along beside me up those golden stairs
Oh they'll never never take her love from me

I'm so thankful for each golden hour of happiness
That we shared together in the used to be
Someone else's arms may hold her now in fond caress
But they'll never never take her love from me

I thought I'd make her happy if I'd step aside
But I knew her love would never set me free
And even on the morning she became another's bride
I said they'll never never take her love from me
[ instrumental ]
What a fool I was to go and break the trust she gave
And to see her love turn into sympathy
It's the one regret I'll carry with me to my grave
Oh they'll never never take her love from me

It's the one regret I'll carry with me to my grave
Oh they'll never never take her love from me
If today the sun would set on all my hopes and cares
God they'll never never take her love from me

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