1.

(# 1 country hit)
(# 79 pop hit)

Where The Green Grass Grows

Craig Wiseman - Jess Leary

© Famous Music, ASCAP

Six lanes taillights red ants marching into the night
They disappear to the left and right again
Another supper from a sack a ninety-nine cent heart attack
I got a pounding head and an aching back
And the camel's buried in a big straw stack

I'm gonna live where the green grass grows
Watch my corn pop up in rows
Every night be tucked in close to you
Raise our kids where the good Lord's blessed
Point our rocking chairs towards the west
And plant our dreams where the peaceful river flows
Where the green grass grows

Well I'm from a map dot a stop sign on a black top
I caught the first bus I could hop from there
But all of this glitter is a-getting dark
There's concrete growing in the city park
I don't know who my neighbors are
And there's bars on the corners and bars on my heart

I'm gonna live where the green grass grows...
I'm gonna live where the green grass grows...

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2.

(# 2 country hit)
(# 37 pop hit)

For A Little While

Phil Vassar - Steve Mandile - Jerry VanDiver

© Blackwood Music, BMI

Hot sun dancing on the river
We're sitting on the bank watch the world go by
Our feet in the water she pressed her lips to mine
We were so long on love but short on time

She could be a honeymoon sweet and a little wild
But she was mine oh for a little while

And I laugh every time I start to think about us
We sent that summer out in style
And she's gone but she left me with a smile
Cause she was mine for a little while

We'd take a ride and head on down to Airport Road
Put the seats back and watch the planes leave town
She always said nobody's strong enough to tie her down
Oh but I wasn't looking for that anyhow

I knew she'd leave but I didn't know when
It matters to me now oh but it didn't back then

And I laugh every time I start to think about us...

I keep seeing pictures now of me and her and those summer nights
My mind fills with her oh but it's alright

Cause I laugh every time I start to think about us
We sent that summer out in style
And she's gone but she left me with a smile
Cause she was mine
Yeah she was mine oh for a little while

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3.

(# 1 country hit)
(# 7 pop hit)

It's Your Love

Stephony Smith

© Blackwood Music, BMI

with Faith Hill

Dancing in the dark middle of the night
Taking your heart and holding it tight
Emotional touch touching my skin
And asking you to do
What you've been doing all over again

Oh it's a beautiful thing
Don't think I can keep it all in
I just gotta let you know
What it is that won't let me go

It's your love it just does something to me
It sends a shock right through me
I can't get enough and if you wonder
About the spell I'm under it's your love

Better than I was more than I am
And all of this happened by taking your hand
And who I am now is who I wanted to be
And now that we're together
I'm stronger than ever I'm happy and free

Oh it's a beautiful thing
Don't think I can keep it all in no
And if you asked me why I changed
All I gotta do is say your sweet name

It's your love it just does something to me...
Oh baby

Oh it's a beautiful thing
Don't think I can keep it all in
I just gotta let you know
What it is that won't let me go

It's your love it just does something to me
It sends a shock right through me
I can't get enough and if you wonder
About the spell I'm under it's your love
It's your love it's your love

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4.

Ain't That The Way It Always Ends

Don Sampson - Skip Ewing

© MCA Music, ASCAP

Johnny came home broken hearted said he lost his girl
He bottled up all the hurt in his heart punched a hole in the wall of his world
Now Betty she was a blonde haired beauty with an eye for a man who could spend
She stole his heart in a pickup truck and drove off in a Mercedes Benz

And he said oh and she looked so innocent talking about being just friends
Oh and it don't make a bit of sense ain't that the way that it always ends

Karen she had a long time dream and only one man in her life
He kept her waiting but she didn't care cause he promised he'd make her his wife
Now Billy he had a good thing going but he let it go to his head
He got careless and late one night she caught them both in her bed

And she said oh and he looked so innocent talking about being just friends
Oh and it don't make a bit of sense ain't that the way that it always ends

Oh it always looks so innocent talking about being just friends
Oh and it don't make a bit of sense ain't that the way that it always ends
Ain't that the way it always ends ain't that the way it always ends

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5.

I Do But I Don't

Mark Nesler - Tony Martin

© Baby Mae Music, BMI

You always come back when I'm at my weakest
When I'm fool enough to let you in
Saying how this time around is different
Asking if I want to try again

I do but I don't I want to but I won't
I am but I ain't I could but I just can't
It feels right but it's wrong and I've hurt way too long
So when you ask me if I know what I want
I do but I don't

What resistance I have left within me
I lose each time you're holding me this close
With every bitter sweet kiss girl you tempt me
Asking if I want to let you go

I do but I don't I want to but I won't...

So don't ask me if I know what I want
Cause I do but I don't

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6.

(# 2 country hit)
(# 74 pop hit)

One Of These Days

Monty Powell - Marcus Hummon - Kip Raines

© When It Rains Music, BMI

We used to chase that boy home from school
We called him freckled face red headed fool
He was different he wasn't cool like me
Sticks and stones didn't break any bones
But we never left well enough alone
Then one day he ran away from home you see

And I passed him as he walked away
And in his eyes I heard him say

One of these days you're gonna love me
You'll sit down by yourself and think
About the times you pushed and shoved me
And what good friends we might have been
And then you're gonna sigh a little
And maybe even cry a little
But one of these days you're gonna love me

Patty Sue was a small town beauty
I took one look at her and had to pull her to me
Lord knows she should have seen right through me
When I promised her the world
But at 17 you only want one thing
I left her standing with my high school ring
Innocent tears in a pourin' rain as I walked away
And I still see her in my dreams
And to this day she's whispering

One of these days you're gonna love me...

Now everybody stands up the congregation sings
It's a song of sweet forgiveness and as the chorus rings
The wind blows clear my memory the pages start to turn
Then suddenly I'm singing the moment that I learn

One of these days I'm gonna love me
And feel the joy of sweet release
One of these days I'll rise above me
And at last I'll find some peace
And then I'm gonna smile a little
And maybe even laugh a little
But one of these days I'm gonna love me

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7.

Hard On The Ticker

Craig Wiseman - Gary Loyd

© Daddy Rabbit Music, ASCAP

I gave up pimento cheese domino's delivery whiskey sours apple pies
Finger licking chicken fried are gastronomic history
I used to like them scary shows but I gave them up a while ago
Don't do no death defying roller coaster riding
Now days I just take it slow

Ever since we started dating I been compensating
To keep from getting up to heaven any quicker

Cause she's hard on the ticker hard on the ticker
The girl is such a hazard that she ought to have a sticker
Saying hard on the ticker

Now when she wiggles through my door my chin gets heavy hits the floor
Silky hair scarlet lips swinging double jointed hips
My blood begins to roar and when she nibbles on my ear
It's partly pleasure partly fear
A little dab is all it takes to get my heart a palpitating
Feeling like the end is near

I ought to get a policy a double indemnity
It'd make my beneficiary a whole lot richer
Cause she's hard on the ticker hard on the ticker
The girl is such a hazard that she ought to have a sticker
Saying hard on the ticker

That's my girl yeah she's hard on the ticker

I ought to get a policy double indemnity...

Oh she's hard on the ticker hard on the ticker
She's hard on the ticker

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8.

(# 1 country hit)

Everywhere

Craig Wiseman - Mike Reid

© Daddy Rabbit Music, ASCAP

We were born in this little town growing up I was counting down
Every single day till we made our getaway
But you said you could never see yourself trying to make a life anywhere else
This would be your home and I was on my own
But ever since you said goodbye I've been out here on the wind
Baby you would be surprised all the places you have been I've seen you in

Albuquerque waiting out a blizzard Arizona dancing cross the desert
Watching the sunset in Monterrey girl I swear just the other day you were
Down in Georgia picking them peaches in Carolina barefoot on the beaches
No matter where you choose to be in my heart I'll always see you
Everywhere

Nowadays when I'm passing through the conversation always turns to you
And I hear you're doing fine living out by the county line
Got a man that's home every night a couple of kids and the kind of life
That you wanna lead guess you could say the same for me
But you and I made our choices all those years ago
Still I know I'll hear your voice and see you down the road
Maybe in

Oklahoma driving cross the prairie in Dallas Texas isn't that where we
Always said we would like to try never did so maybe that's why you're on
Every highway just beyond the high beams right beside me in all of my sweet dreams
No matter where you choose to be in my heart I'll always see you in

Albuquerque waiting out a blizzard Arizona dancing cross the desert...

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9.

(# 1 country hit)

Just To See You Smile

Mark Nesler - Tony Martin

© Baby Mae Music, BMI

You always had an eye for things that glittered
But I was far from being made of gold
I don't know how but I scraped up the money
I just never could quite tell you no

Just like when you were leaving Amarillo
Taking that new job in Tennessee
And I quit mine so we could be together
I can't forget the way you looked at me

Just to see you smile
I'd do anything that you wanted me to
When all is said and done I'd never count the cost
It's worth all that's lost just to see you smile

When you said time was all you really needed
I walked away and let you have your space
Cause leaving didn't hurt me near as badly
As the tears I saw rolling down your face

And yesterday I knew just what you wanted
When you came walking up to me with him
So I told you that I was happy for you
And given the chance I'd lie again

Just to see you smile...
Just to see you smile...

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10.

You Just Get Better All The Time

Tony Joe White - Johnny Christopher

© Tennessee Swamp Fox Music, BMI

You just get better all the time darling don't you change a thing
Lately you're the only song I wanna sing and you're my reason to try
You just get sweeter every day the little things you do and say
If only you could see you through my eyes you just get better all the time

Oh and I get the feeling we can make it baby
As long as you are by my side you're the music in my ears
The laughter when the tears are falling down in my life

And on down through the years you never tried to change my ways
You never made me feel I had to say I'm sorry
You just get better all the time why just today I heard you read my mind
That kind of magic is so hard to find you just get better all the time

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11.

You Turn Me On

Billy Lawson

© Cross Keys Pub, ASCAP

Yeah I swore off love I swore off women devoted my life to hunting and fishing
I'd never be anybody else's lovesick fool it ain't cool
I spend all my spare time fixing up that old rusted up pick-up truck
In no time at all I'd have it looking like brand new
Then you

Flipped the switch on my dooma flatchie
Played my piano like Liberace I let down my guard
And my heart was as good as gone so long
Yeah you cranked my tractor you flicked my BIC
Woman you tripped the trigger on my thingamajig
Can't explain how you done it but honey you turn me on

You done all the taking I done all the giving
I threw up my hands said the heck with it
I shut down my heart
Locked it up and pulled the fuse before it blew
All my emotions were disconnected
No sign of a spark could be detected
I had nobody so I had nothing to lose then you

Flipped the switch on my dooma flatchie...

Yeah you cranked my tractor you flicked my BIC
Woman you tripped the trigger on my thingamajig
Can't explain how you done it but honey you turn me on

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