1.

(# 2 country hit)

Julia

Don Cook - John Jarvis

© Tree Pub, BMI

You were always there for me Julia
I was so afraid to fall in love
I thought you'd wait for me
Is it too late for me now
Have you given up

How it must have hurt you Julia
Waitin' for your love to be returned
I never knew how what can I do now that I
Have finally learned

I never thought that love could hurt me
Now I tremble at the thought of losing you
And all the perfect words desert me now
Just in case it matters I love you

May I have this dance with you Julia
Won't you let me hold you one more time
The music is over but I'll hold you closer this time
Julia Julia

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2.

Lonely Town

Jim McBride - Brent Mason

© April Music, ASCAP

She gave into him last night she thought he was Mr Right
But he left like all the others before the morning came around
Same old story in lonely town
The sun comes up a heart goes down

She's tried everything she knows come so far and been so close
She keeps searching for the magic but it's nowhere to be found
But that's how it is in lonely town
The sun comes up a heart goes down

There's got to be a way out someday she'll find it
She won't always be alone
The one she's been waitin' for will turn her life around
And take her away from this lonely town
Where the sun comes up a heart goes down
[ guitar ]
There's got to be a way out someday she'll find it...
No more living in this lonely town

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3.

(# 2 country hit)

I Want To Know You Before We Make Love

Candice Parton - Becky Hobbs

© Irving Music, BMI

Sometimes all you need is someone to hold you
Sometimes that's all you're looking for
I'd like to take the time to get to know you
I don't want this time to be like all the times before

I wanna know you before I make love to you
I want to show you all of my heart
And when I look into your eyes I wanna feel the love inside you
I wanna know you before we make love

I've learned from all those lonely nights with strangers
It takes time for real love to be found
I feel the invitation of your body
I'd like to look inside your soul before I lay you down

I wanna know you before I make love to you...

Yeah I wanna know you before I make love to you
I want to show you all of my heart
And when I look into your eyes I wanna feel the love inside you
I wanna know you before we make before we make love

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4.

The Borderline

Walt Aldridge

© Colgems Music, ASCAP

A man can only last so long
Before temptation gets too strong
And I'm doin' all I know to do
To try to stay away from you
But I'm right on the borderline

You know I got a woman at home
That I sure hate to leave alone
But still you just keep coming on
Like I'm not made of flesh and bone
You got me right on the borderline

Borderline don't let me cross over
She's right behind me in the moonlight
Lord knows I've tried to think of my lover
Borderline don't let me cross her tonight

Promises are easy made
In the heat of passion light of day
But let that daylight start to fade
And your best laid plans might get mis-layed
When you're right on the Borderline

Borderline don't let me cross over...
Borderline don't let me cross her tonight

Borderline don't let me cross her tonight

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5.

Not Enough Love To Go Around

Steve Bogard - Rick Giles - Bobby Fisher

© Chappell Co, ASCAP

You know I've always tried to never take love for granted
Cause if you ever said goodbye
Why I just don't know what I'd ever do without you darlin'

A lotta friends we know are lettin' each other go their own way
Will they ever find love again or will the whole world end up lonely

Cause baby just as sure as that old sun'll go down
Somewhere tonight you'll hear a heart breaking sound
Maybe this'll be a lonely old town
If there's not enough love to go round

Sometimes it's just a little hard to keep a love like ours together
But I promise you one thing girl no matter what I'm gonna love you forever

All up and down the street are people who really need each other
And only the lucky few learn how to hold onto one lover

Cause baby just as sure as that old sun'll go down...

Maybe this'll be a lonely old town
If there's not enough love to go round

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6.

Snake Boots

Troy Seals - Eddie Setser

© Warner-Tamerlane Pub, BMI

Well I was working this joint in Dallas to make the payment on my car
Just a weekend stand with a local band they had me playin' rhythm guitar
Well I was singin' some old cheatin' song when this blue eyed blonde came by
She said I'm a table over in the corner why don't you drop around and say hi
So I did

Well she was dressed like a million dollars but she was way up out of my class
But into my ears she whispered honey I hear a honky tonk man moves fast
All of the sudden my body went numb I had enough sense to see
That everything I ever wanted in life was comin' too easy for me

So I said to myself wait just a minute
Wait just a cotton pickin' minute

You better not get caught in the desert without your snake boots on
You don't lay down on the railroad track till after the train is gone
You don't swim out in deep water with your pockets full of stone
You don't get caught in the desert son without your snake boots on
[ guitar ]
She could wiggle that cowboy's judgement so we were headed for the parking lot
When a guy in the band said wait a minute man Lord are you crazy or what
Well ole big bad Texan her lover and he's terribly skilled with a knife
He's real particular bout who rides his horse and nobody fools with his wife

So I said to myself wait just a minute
Wait just a dang minute

You better not get caught in the desert without your snake boots on...
Yeah you better not get caught in the desert without your snake boots on...

You don't get caught in the desert son without your snake boots on
Hey watch out for that snake

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7.

I'm For Awhile

Kent M. Robbins

© Irving Music, BMI

I don't want our love to be like a song just long enough to hang a memory on
I want tomorrow's sunrise to be for us the dawn of history
I'm not a one night rider bed and breakfast ain't my style
I'm for awhile

Here today here tomorrow here when the babies are grown
Believe you me in the 21st century you'll still have me for your own
Tryin' to make you smile I'm for awhile

I guess you could say I'm comin' on to you but it's a long term proposition
I'm here to love you and love should be forever please understand my position
I'm not much like the lone ranger disappearing ain't my style
I'm for awhile

Here today here tomorrow here when the babies are grown...
I don't want our love to be like a song just long enough to hang a memory on

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8.

Fifteen To Forty Three

Don Goodman - Frank Dycus - Mark Sherrill

© Acuff-Rose Music, BMI

I just cut the string on a dusty old shoe box and opened a door to the past
Now I'm sittin' here with my souvenirs and these faded old photographs
Fightin' back tears looking back through the years and wondering why dreams fade so fast
Now the young boy I see don't look like the me reflected in this old looking glass

The man in the mirror sees things so much clearer
Than the boy in the pictures with his eyes full of dreams
All the men that I've tried to be from fifteen to forty-three
Never believed that they'd end up like me

There's that touchdown I caught back when I thought I'd play for the cowboys someday
There's you holding me in my faded fatigues coming home to the US of A
One after another all my sweet dreams and lovers pass before my tear filled eyes
Pictures of a fool who was selfish and cruel till the day he made you say goodbye

Now the man in the mirror sees things so much clearer...
Oh I never believed I'd be lonely like me

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9.

Everybody Needs A Hero

Troy Seals - Max D. Barnes

© Tree Pub, BMI

He drove a '47 Buick Special
Those dusty roads were hell on the shine
And about once a week he'd be down by the creek
And I'd help him wash it sometime

Had a gold tooth and a gold watch
And a gold chain that hung on his chest
Well he drank a little and he gambled a lot
He was a wild one I guess

Oh but everybody needs a hero Savannah Slim was mine
When you're ten years old down in south Georgia
Heroes are hard to find

Lord how he loved country music
He played an old Gibson guitar
At a roadhouse one night he was called on to fight
Somebody pushed him too far

Oh he served a little time in prison
But he served four long years in the war
He was in the Pacific where he got his tattoo
Two hearts in blue on his arm

Oh but everybody needs a hero Savannah Slim was mine...

My mama says I turned out just like him
She worries and prays that I'll change
Well I didn't know till a few days ago
Why he sent me his gold watch and chain

Oh but everybody needs a hero Savannah Slim was mine...

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10.

(# 6 country hit)

That's My Job

Gary Burr

© MCA Music, ASCAP

I woke up crying late at night when I was very young
I had dreamed my father had passed away and gone
My world revolved around him I couldn't lie there anymore
So I made my way down the mirrored hall and tapped upon his door

And I said daddy I'm so afraid how would I go on with you gone that way
Don't wanna cry anymore so may I stay with you
And he said that's my job that's what I do
Everything I do is because of you to keep you safe with me
That's my job you see

Later we barely got along this teenage boy and he
Most of the fights it seems were over different dreams we each held for me
He wanted knowledge and learning I wanted to fly out west
Said I could make it out there if I just had the fare I got half will you loan me the rest

And I said daddy I'm so afraid there's no guarantee in the plans I've made
And if I should fail who will pay my way back home
And he said that's my job that's what I do
Everything I do is because of you to keep you safe with me
That's my job you see

Every person carves his spot and fills the hole with life
And I pray someday I might light as bright as he

Woke up early one bright fall day read the tragic news
After all my travels I settled down within a mile or two
I make my living with words and rhymes and all this tragedy
Should go into my head and out instead as bits of poetry

But I say daddy I'm so afraid how will I go on with you gone this way
How can I come up with a song to say I love you
That's my job that's what I do
Everything I do is because of you to keep you safe with me
That's my job you see
Everything I do is because of you to keep you safe with me

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