1.

(# 24 country hit)

When We Tried

Jerry Chesnut

© Passkey Music, BMI

You can smother me with kisses and feel free to let your tender arms surround me
You can love me without fear but don't come here and try to build no dreams around me
A man's a fool who looks for love for one time in a lifetime you might find it
So don't waste no time a talkin' about how love can hurt cause I don't need remindin'

I'll take my happiness a little at a time just anywhere I find it
Try to feel at home just knowin' that should you decide to leave I wouldn't mind it
And when you're gone I'll not recall a love that only lived one night and died
Just the mem'ry of what little happiness we found together when we tried

I can almost read your mind and what I find's not hard for me to understand
Cause a woman's love is stronger one remembers even longer than a man
And if I should even feel that you're pretendin' that I'm her I wouldn't mind it
If there's any happiness left in a lonely world like this let's try to find it

I'll take my happiness a little at a time just anywhere I find it...

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2.

Until My Dreams Come True

Dallas Frazier

© Blue Crest Music, BMI

Until these arms of mine surround you all the time
I'll keep on dreamin' until my dreams come true
Until your heart can see what burns inside of me
I'll keep on dreamin' until my dreams come true

Ev'ry day I cry a lonely tear
A tear of love especially just for you
Until my fantasy becomes reality
I'll keep on dreamin' until my dreams come true

Ev'ry day I cry a lonely tear...

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3.

Happy State Of Mind

Bill Anderson

© Stallion Music, BMI

Maybe I don't love you quite as much as I believe I love you baby
But don't tell me cause lovin' you's a happy state of mind
Maybe I don't need you quite as much as I profess to need you baby
But don't leave me cause needin' you's a happy state of mind

And who's to say anyway that love is not the game we play
Why's it always gotta be considered a condition of the heart hmm hmm
As long as I feel warm inside wanted filled and satisfied
Who am I to be denied this feelin'
Be it love or be it just a happy state of mind

Maybe it's just somethin' I've imagined in the hours when I'm sleepin'
But don't wake me cause dreamin's a happy state of mind
Maybe I just gotta have somebody and you're close and you're somebody
But don't leave me you put me in a happy state of mind

And who's to say anyway that love is not the game we play...
You put me in a happy state of mind lovin' you's a happy state of mind
Needin' you's a happy state of mind lovin' you's a happy state of mind

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4.

I Hurt All Over

Kay Arnold

© Screen Gems Music, BMI

I hurt all over
The kind of hurt that never will end
I hurt all over
Over and over again

My feet ache from walkin' the floor
My eyes burn from cryin' all day
My arms long to hold you once more
That's how it's been since you went away

I hurt all over...

The tips of my fingers are aching
With the mem'ry of your loving touch
And my heart hurts to think you could leave me
The one who has loved you so much

I hurt all over...

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5.

(# 15 country hit)

My Son

Jan Howard

© Stallion Music, BMI

My son my son I pray that you'll come home to me
My son my son

It seems only yesterday that most important thing on your mind
Was whether you'd make the baseball team
Or get the new school jacket like all the other kids had
And I remember how your eyes lighted up when you got your first rod and reel
For that big fishin' trip just you and your dad
And I remember wipin' the tears away when you hurt yourself on your sled
In those days it seemed the house was filled with laughter and joy
Filled with your friends and they were such good boys
And then came the day that you walked down the aisle
To receive that all important diploma
I was so proud but I couldn't believe that tall young man
Was actually my son my wonderful son
And then I remember the little girl that was always around kinda taggin' after you
She's not so little anymore but she's still around who knows maybe someday
Then you received the call that I guess we knew would come someday
But it came so quick and now you're so very far away
In a land that until a short time ago I didn't even know was there
I know the time will pass and you'll be home again
But until that time my darlin' take care take special care

My son my son I pray that you'll come home to me
My son my son

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6.

Son Of A Preacher Man

Ronnie Wilkins - John Hurley

© Tree Pub, BMI

Willy Ray was a preacher's son
And when his daddy would visit he'd come along
When they gathered round and started talkin'
Cousin Willy would take me walkin'
Out through the backyard we'd go walkin'
And then he'd look into my eyes
And Lord knows to my surprise

The only one who could ever reach me
Was the son of a preacher man
The only boy who could ever teach me
Was the son of a preacher man
Yes he was yes he was hmm yes he was

Bein' good isn't always easy
No matter how hard I try
When he started sweet talkin' to me
He'd come and tell me ev'rything is all right
He'd kiss and tell me ev'rything is all right
Can we get away again tonight

The only one who could ever reach me...

How well I remember the look that was in his eyes
Stealin' kisses from me on the sly
Takin' time to make time tellin' me he's all mine
Learnin' from each others knowin'
Lookin' to see how much we're growin'

The only one who could ever reach me...

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7.

When The Grass Grows Over Me

Don Chapel

© Glad Music, BMI

When you left I thought that I would soon get over you
Even told myself that I would find somebody too
Time and tears have come and gone but not your memory
But I'll be over you when the grass grows over me

Yes I'll be over you when you're standin' over me
And as you look down at the cold cold ground I'm sleepin' in
Don't expect to hear me say that I still love you then
Cause I'll be over you when the grass grows over me

Even when my eyes are closed they keep on seein' you
Every minute I'm alive I'm hurtin' through and through
And as long as I live I know I won't be free
But I'll be over you when the grass grows over me

Yes I'll be over you when you're standin' over me...

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8.

Ribbon Of Darkness

Gordon Lightfoot

© Witmark And Sons, ASCAP

Ribbon of darkness over me since my true love walked out the door
Tears I never had before ribbon of darkness over me
Clouds are gatherin' o'er my head they chill the day and hide the sun
Enshroud the night when day is done ribbon of darkness over me

Rain is fallin' on the meadow where once my love and I did lie
Now he is gone from the meadow my love goodbye
Ribbon of darkness over me where once the world was young as spring
Where flo'ers did bloom and birds would sing ribbon of darkness over me
[ instrumental ]
In this cold room a lyin' don't wanna see no one but you
Oh Lord I wish I could be dyin' to forget you
How I wish your heart could see how mine just aches and breaks all day
Come on back and take away ribbon of darkness over me

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9.

(# 27 country hit)

I Still Believe In Love

Bill Anderson

© Stallion Music, BMI

I've been walked on looked through
Laughed at lied to
I've been stripped of all my feelin's and what little pride I've got
But I still believe in love believe it or not

I've been pushed aside unsatisfied I've tried and I've cried
I've given and I've taken and I've hurt an awful lot
But I still believe in love believe it or not

I still believe that somewhere there's a man
That I can gently put my arms around
And kiss his lips and thrill him when I tell him
He's the greatest man I've ever found
I still believe that I can offer some man
Somethin' he has never known before
But he's been searchin' for

I've been walked on looked through
Laughed at yeah lied to
I've given and I've taken and I've hurt an awful lot
But I still believe in love believe it or not

I've been walked on looked through
Laughed at lied to
I've given and I've taken and I've hurt an awful lot
But I still believe in love believe it or not

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10.

Shame On Me

Lawton Williams - Bill Enis

© Western Hills Music, BMI

Shame on me for hurting you
What can I say what can I do
Last night I was blind but today I see
I did you wrong shame on me

You say you won't be seein' me again you say we're through
I wouldn't wanna see the sunrise tomorrow if I knew that to be true
I know that just sayin' I'm sorry doesn't sound like a lot
But the man you saw me with last night means no more to me
Than a thousand stars to the grey clouds that cover the night
The more I looked at him the more I realize how very much I love you

Shame on me for hurting you...

I'll admit I shouldn't have given into love's wild temptation
With someone I cared nothing for I was blind and I hurt you
But can you ever forgive a fool a fool who really loves you
Last night I was blind but today I see I did you wrong shame on me

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