1.

(# 39 country hit)
(# 6 pop hit)

Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town

Mel Tillis

© Cedarwood Pub, BMI

You've painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair
Ruby are you contemplating going out somewhere
The shadow on the wall tells me the sun is going down
Oh Ruby don't take your love to town

It wasn't me that started that old crazy Asian war
But I was proud to go and do my patriotic chores
Yes it's true that I'm not the man I used to be
Oh Ruby I still need some company

It's hard to love a man whose legs are bent and paralized
And the wants and the needs of a woman your age Ruby I realize
But it won't be long I've heard them say until I'm not around
Oh Ruby don't take your love to town

She's leaving now cause I just heard the slamming of the door
The way I know I've heard it slam one hundred times before
And if I could move I get my gun and put her in the ground
Oh Ruby don't take your love to town
Oh Ruby for God's sake turn around

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2.

Momma's Waiting

Kenny Rogers - Terry Williams

© Flea Show Music, BMI

As I drive towards home I picture momma waiting
She'll be glad to see her big time boy come home
She gets little in return for all she's given
And I'm all she's got to love since daddy's gone

Now I'm forty miles away and I'm still wondering
Why I ever told her I was doin' well
When I first went wrong I should have turned to momma
But it's hard to get back up once you have fell

It's the last time I'll see flowers in the morning
It's the last time I'll hear robins in the spring
It's the last time I'll feel momma's arms around me
It's the last chance here on earth I'll have to sing

As I drive away behind me momma's waving
To a son who's all she'd ever hoped he'd be
Now she'll say her final prayers and go meet daddy
And I'm glad she's only seen one side of me

Today makes thirteen years in Coleman Federal Prison
And tonight I'll walk these last few steps alone
But I can't help think that somewhere momma's waiting
Once again to see her big time boy come home

It's the last time I'll see flowers in the morning...
It's the last chance here on earth I'll have to sing

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3.

(# 5 pop hit)

Just Dropped In

Mickey Newbury

© Acuff-Rose Music, BMI

(Yeah yeah oh yeah what condition my condition was in)

I woke up this mornin' with the sundown shinin' in
I found my mind in a brown paper bag within
I tripped on a cloud and fell a eight miles high I tore my mind on a jagged sky
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in

(Yeah yeah oh yeah what condition my condition was in)

I pushed my soul in a deep dark hole and then I followed it in
I watched myself crawlin' out as I was a crawlin' in
I got up so tight I couldn't unwind I saw so much I broke my mind
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
[ instrumental ]
(Yeah yeah oh yeah what condition my condition was in)

Someone painted April fool in big black letters on a dead end sign
I had my foot on the gas as I left the road and blew out my mind
Eight miles outta Memphis and I got no spare eight miles straight up downtown somewhere
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
I said I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in

(Yeah yeah oh yeah)

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4.

(# 33 pop hit)

Heed The Call

Kin Vassy

© Olive Music, ASCAP

Have you been listening listen to the music
Have you been sleeping the sermon's in the music
The man standing next to you he must surely be your brother
So brother please heed the call

The piper he's still piping the magic in the music
The drummer he's still drumming the message in the music
Sweet song of loving you should be singing
So brother please heed the call

Listen to the music listen to the music
Listen to the music heed the call
Listen to the music heed the call

Heed the call of the music
Heed the call of the music
Heed the call of the music
Heed the call of the music

It's still early in our morning there's still time for singing
Let's not waste our morning join in the singing
The outlaw of the midnight he all too soon comes winging
So brother please please heed the call

Listen to the music listen to the music yeah
Listen to the music listen to the music oh oh
Listen to the music oh oh oh listen to the music
Listen to the music brother listen to the music oh oh

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5.

(# 19 pop hit)

But You Know I Love You

Mike Settle

© Devon Music, BMI

When the morning sun streaks across my room
And I'm wakened up from another dream of you
Yes I'm on the road once again it seems
All I've left behind is a chain of broken dreams

But you know I love you yes I love you oh I love you

How I wish this love was all we'd need to live
What a life we'd have cause I've got so much to give
And it seems so wrong deep inside my heart
That the dollar sign should be keeping us apart

But you know I love you yes I love you oh I love you

And if only I could find my way back to the time
When the problems of this life had not yet crossed our minds
For the answers could be found in children's nursery rhymes
I'd come running back to you
I'd come running back to you

But you know we can't live on dreams alone
And to pay the rent I must leave you all alone
But you know I made my choice many years ago
Now this traveling life is the only one I know

But you know I love you yes I love you oh I love you
But you know I love you yes I love you oh I love you
But you know I love you yes I love you oh I love you
But you know I love you yes I love you oh I love you

But you know I love you yes I love you oh I love you
But you know I love you yes I love you oh I love you
But you know I love you yes I love you oh I love you

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6.

Reuben James

Alex Harvey - Barry Etris

© Unart Music, BMI

Reuben James in my song you'll live again
And the phrases that I rhyme
Are just the footsteps out of time
From the time when I knew you Reuben James

Reuben James all the folks around Madison Caunty cussed your name
Just a no count sharecroppin' colored man
Who would steal anything that he can
And everybody laid the blame on Reuben James

Reuben James you still walk the furrowed fields of my mind
The faded shirt the wrinkled brow
The calloused hand upon the plow
I loved you then and I love you now Reuben James

Flora Gray the gossip of Madison County died with the child
And although your skin was black
You were the one who didn't turn your back
On a hungry white child with no name Reuben James

Reuben James with your mind on my soul and Bible in your right hand
You said turn the other cheek
There's a better world waitin' for the meek
In my mind these words remain from Reuben James

Reuben James you still walk the furrowed fields of my mind...

Reuben James one dark cloudy day they brought you from the fields
And that lonely pinebox came
Just a preacher me and the rain
Just to sing one last refrain for Reuben James

Reuben James you still walk the furrowed fields of my mind...
Reuben James you still walk the furrowed fields of my mind...

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7.

Love Woman

Kenny Rogers - Doug Legrand

© First Edition Pub, BMI

8.

(# 17 pop hit)

Tell It All Brother

Alex Harvey

© Sunbeam Music, BMI

Tell it all brother before we fall
Tell it all brothers and sisters tell it all

How much you're holdin' back on me
When you say you're givin' all
And in the dungeons of your mind
Who you got chained to the wall

Tell it all brother before we fall...

Did you plant your feet on higher ground
To avoid life's mud and stone
Did you ever kick a good man when he was down
Just to make yourself feel strong

Tell it all brother before we fall...

Tomorrow just might be too late now is the time
To get your jumbled mind straight and seek a new design

Did you ever walk for a crippled man
Pretending you were lame
And what made you think one feeble hand to God
Was gonna make him call your name

Tell it all brother before we fall
Tell it all brothers and sisters tell
Tell it all brother before we fall
Tell it all brothers and sisters tell
Tell it all brother before we fall
Tell it all brothers and sisters tell
Tell it all brother before we fall
Tell it all

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9.

(# 11 pop hit)

Something's Burning

Mac Davis

© Screen Gems Music, BMI

You lie in gentle sleep beside me
I hear your warm and rhythmic breathing
I take your hand and hold it tightly
Listen can you not hear our young hearts beating

I kiss the sleep from your eyes
Your smile is sweeter than the morning
And here it comes
Can't you feel it baby now can't you feel it here it comes
Feel it feel it fire fire

Something's burning something's burning
Something's burning and I think it's love

And now the sun is burning brightly
We lie and love so close together
I get the feeling deep inside me
My love for you will burn forever

I cup my hands to touch your face
And once again I feel your fire
And here it comes
Now can't you feel it baby can't you feel it here comes again
Feel it feel it fire fire

Something's burning something's burning
Something's burning and I think it's love
And I think it's love...

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10.

I Believe In Music

Mac Davis

© Songpainter Music, BMI

I could just sit around making music all day long
Long as I'm making music I know I can't do nobody wrong
And who knows maybe someday I'll come up with a song
That makes people wanna stop their fusin' and fightin'
Just long enough to sing along

I believe in music I believe in love
I believe in music I believe in love

Music is love and love is music if you know what I mean
People who believe in music are the happiest people life ever seen
So clap your hands stomp your feet and shake your tambourine
Lift your voices to the sky God loves you when you sing

I believe in music I believe in love
I believe in music I believe in love
I believe in love

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