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Kenny Rogers

Love Or Something Like It

(# 1 top country album)
(# 53 top pop album)

United Artists UALA-903H
Jul / 1978

Produced by Larry Butler

Cover image of Love Or Something Like It

Billy Sanford, Fred Carter, Jimmy Capps, Jerry Shook, Randy Dorman, Rick Harper - guitar
Pete Drake - steel
Bob Moore, Joe Osborn, Tommy Allsup - bass
Hargus Pig Robbins, Gene Golden, Steve Glassmeyer, Edgar Struble - piano/keyboards
Jerry Carrigan, Bobby Daniels - drums
Bill Joor, Dennis Good, Phil Forrest, Roger Bissell - horns
Strings:
Byron Bach, Carl Gorodetzky, Gary Vanosdale, George Binkley, Lennie Haight,
Marvin Chantry, Roy Christensen, Samuel Terranova, Sheldon Kurland, Wilfred Lehmann
Vocals:
The Jordanaires, Janie Fricke, Wendy Suits
Arrangements by Bill Justis
Recorded:
Dec/1977, Jack Clement Studio, Nashville
Engineering: Billy Sherrill

1.

(# 1 country hit)
(# 32 pop hit)

Love Or Something Like It

Kenny Rogers - Steve Glassmeyer

© Cherry Lane Music, ASCAP

Show me a bar with a good looking woman then just get out of my way
Turn on the jukebox I'll show you a song you should play
Sooner or later a few shots of bourbon I'll think of something to say
Whoa I can take her or leave her I'd like to take her away

Liquor and music a good combination if you've got love on the brain
I never knew two women who acted the same
Some want a drink first and some want to just sit and talk
Whoa it's two in the morning I'm running and she wants to walk

Something's got a hold on me
It's cheap but it ain't free
Love or something like it's got a hold on me

That's when I asked her my place or your place I hope I'm not out of line
I asked the wrong thing to just the right woman this time
She knew a hotel she even had a name we could sign
Whoa the cheaper the grapes are the sweeter the taste of the wine

Something's got a hold on me...
Something's got a hold on me...

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2.

There's A Lot Of That Going Around

Steve Pippin - Jim Hurt

© House Of Gold Music, BMI

I've told myself a million times I'm strong in heart and soul
And I don't intend to fall in love no not me I've got control
But then before I know it I am looking into your eyes
And the room gets warm and starts to spin and I feel the fever rise

It must be love love there's a lot of that goin' around
And I think I've got it (I think I've got it)
I think I'm coming down with love love
There's a lot of that goin' around

Yes I knew what I was askin' for by askin' you to stay
But by the time I fell into your arms it was too late anyway
All that love that I was hiding from found its way inside
And when love is out to get you there is no place to hide

You can't hide from love love there's a lot of that goin' around
And I think I've got it (I think I've got it)
I think I'm coming down with love love
There's a lot of that goin' around

With love love
There's a lot of that goin' around

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3.

(# 3 country hit)

Buried Treasure

Barry Gibb - Maurice Gibb - Robin Gibb

© Blue Creek Music, BMI

As I'm walkin' behind this plow I keep turnin' over mem'ries
Buried treasure of a past once filled with you
This old ground I know it's mine and I've worked it so many times
And the rain it's been prayin' for is fallin' from my eyes

Waitin' for the settin' sun when a hard day's work is done
We'd sit down and rock the baby and plan our dreams
But you turned it all around with this other man you found
And you never thought I'd figure out your scheme

And there's buried treasure hidden in the ground
Precious mem'ries of a love that lived and died
You couldn't be the simple wife you had to lead the cheatin' life
And you led me down the road I hate to ride

Now the neighbors they all knew they had seen him leave with you
But what they didn't see was I followed close behind
And the next day's paper read that a man had been found dead
And the lady he'd been seen with that can't find

And there's buried treasure hidden in the ground...

As I'm walkin' behind this plow I keep turnin' over mem'ries
Buried treasure of a past once filled with you
This old ground I know it's mine and I've worked it so many times
And the rain it's been prayin' for is fallin' from my eyes

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4.

Something About Your Song

Jimmy Hassell

© Lelan Rogers Music, ASCAP

You came along you were hummin' a song
I decided to join in with you
It took in a new sound jumped on a Greyhound
Started doin' one night stands
Oh oh I won't forget the day it all began
It started with a song when you came along

Day after day things were goin' our way
And the songs kept gettin' stronger
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
Oh-oh there's somethin' about your song
That makes everybody want to sing want to sing sing along

Somethin' about your song
Somethin' about your song

When you left home I picked up the phone
I hear you're goin' alone without me
It's over and done I hope you have fun
Just remember where it all began
It started with a song and that's where it will end
But my last request is that you sing it again

La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
Somethin' about your song
Somethin' about your song
Somethin' about your song
Somethin' about your song

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5.

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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6.

We Could Have Been The Closest Of Friends

Steve Pippin - Johnny Slate

© House Of Gold Music, BMI

There you are and here am I we are what we decided
Alone behind a wall of pride hopelessly divided
We had so much together baby what got into us
How could we just call it quits we should have called for love

We could have been the closest of friends
We might have been the world's greatest lovers
Now we're just without each other
We could have been the closest of friends

I could say you did me wrong you could say you didn't
And we could sit and hold our tongues act like little children
I could say you never really loved and you could say the same
But if it's really over then who cares who was to blame

We could have been the closest of friends...
We could have been the closest of friends...

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7.

I Could Be So Good For You

Dennis Linde - Thomas Cain

© Combine Music, BMI

Take me anytime you need me
Nothing more could please me
More than makin' love to you
I can nearly feel it love to make you feel it
Girl I'll take you high higher
Leave your problems down below
Cause baby don't you know

I I could be so good woh oh for you
You could be so good for me believe me baby
Let's give our love a chance
It would be so good for me
And it would be so good for you
[ instrumental ]
Take me I think that you could use me
Nothin' more could move me
More than makin' love to you
Girl you've been mistreated
So why don't you believe me
A girl like you is hard to find
I know what you've been goin' through
Cause girl I been there too

I I could be so good woh-oh for you
You could be so good for me for me baby
Let's give our love a chance
What good is life without romance
I I could be so good for you if you let me
Really make you feel so high
Really make you feel so good if you let me
Feel it feel it really make you feel so good if you let me
Feel it

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8.

Sail Away

Rafe VanHoy

© Tree Pub, BMI

Across the bay a lady waits to hold me tight
And my boat and I are ready to set sail
If the weather keeps on holdin' and the wind is right
I'll be wrapped up in my sweet one's arms tonight

And we will sail away on the wings of love into the night
Cast out our fortunes on the sea
We'll go to sleep together with the rockin' of the water
Dream of how our life will someday be
When she sails away with me

As I slip across the waves my sails are high and full
My mind is on the one I wait to see
And I dream about an island somewhere in my mind
Where someday I will take her off with me

And we will sail away on the wings of love into the night...

A smile comes upon me as I look across the bow
I see the lady on the side
But she will wait no more as I head towards the shore
Cause tonight I'm gonna take her for a ride

And we will sail away on the wings of love into the night...
Sail away on the wings of love into the night...

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9.

Even A Fool Would Let Go

Kerry Chater - Tom Snow

© Unichappell Music, BMI

It's funny how love goes cause I know this could never work out
But honey how love grows even though there's no reason to doubt
This can never be you keep saying it's wrong
Neither one of us is free still I wanna hold on

When even a fool would let go
Cause he knows that there's no use in trying
Even a child would say no
When he knows that he'll end up crying
Tell me now is it wise holding you when even a fool would let go

Love has no reason like the words in a song that don't rhyme
My love has no season I just know that it's there all the time
Maybe just you and me I can't believe that it's wrong
Thinking about you and me just makes me want to hold on

When even a fool would let go...
[ instrumental ]
Tell me now is it wise holding you when even a fool would let go

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10.

Highway Flyer

Steve Davis - Jack Owen

© Al Gallico Music, BMI

Got to get my motor runnin' head on out o' town
I got to find the woman that's been turnin' me around
She took off with a man from Birmingham
She left me high and dry
Well it seems to me when you got a good thing
It ends up in a pack o' lies

She's a highway flyer
Like a bird on a telephone wire
Sets my soul on fire
She's a highway flyer (highway flyer)
Highway flyer (Highway flyer)
Highway flyer (Highway flyer)

I caught up with the man from Birmingham
I told him to make his peace
He pulled out a thirty-eight
Said now wait a minute mister please
She begged me to take her away from you
Said she'd love me the rest of my life
Well it sure seemed funny
When she'd spent all my money
She took off on another bike

She's a highway flyer
Like a bird on a telephone wire
Sets my soul on fire
She's a highway flyer (highway flyer)
Highway flyer (highway flyer)
Highway flyer (highway flyer)
Highway flyer (highway flyer)

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11.

Starting Again

Kenny Rogers - Steve Glassmeyer

© Cherry Lane Music, ASCAP

Pretending again I think we both know this is the end
We can try it again but we better face it
Losing again I know we both thought this time we'd win
But you can't take thing and just erase it

Could it be we talked too long
Maybe we should start off being friends
And try it again
Could it be we both were wrong
Maybe we should sing our song again
And rewrite the end start it again

Starting again not looking for love needing a friend
Knowing inside it's gonna be better
Laughing again and thinking how wrong we were back then
We're happy again and this is forever

Now we know we both were wrong
Aren't you glad we sang our song again
To rewrite the end and start it again
We start love love love love love start it again

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