1.

(# 21 country hit)

Love Is Strange

Ethel Smith - Mickey Baker - Sylvia Robinson

© Ben Ghazi Ent, BMI

with Dolly Parton

Love uh uh uh love is strange uh uh uh
Lots of people ou ou take it for a game
Once you get it uh uh uh you never wanna quit uh uh uh
After you've had it ou ou you never gotta quit
Your sweet lovin' uh uh uh is better than a kiss uh uh uh
When you leave me ou ou ou your kisses are a miss

Hey you sexy thing how do call your lover girl
I say lover girl
And if she doesn't answer
I say you'd better come here lover girl
And if she still doesn't answer

Well then it's baby oh baby
Baby baby baby baby you're the one

Tell me somethin' how do you call your lover boy
I say come here lover boy
Oh but if he doesn't answer
I say ah come here lover boy
But what if he still doesn't answer
I simply say baby oh my baby oh squeeze me like that
Come here baby you're the one

Love love love is strange uh uh uh
Lots of people ou ou take it for a game
Baby ou ou ou baby my sweet baby you're the one...

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2.

Soldier Of Love

David Malloy - Anthony Crawford - Richard Brannan

© Screen Gems Music, BMI

I am only one of those who care
Who care about the faith of love
I know there's many others just like me
I know they two ain't had enough

Cause this heart's doin' battle on the front line
Love's got no heroes in these modern times
What love needs is a defender
Oh oh I am a soldier of love

I see it in your eyes you felt the heat
There was a time when you believed
Love is the only way to make it through
Or be another casualty

From that heart's doin' battle on the front line...
Oh oh I am a soldier of love

I am a soldier I am a soldier of love
I am a soldier I am a soldier of love

Heart's doin' battle on the front line...

(I am a soldier)
Heart's doin' battle on the front line...

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3.

Listen To The Rain

Don Sampson - Skip Ewing

© Acuff-Rose Music, BMI

Listen to the rain
There's something in the rhythm something so inviting
In the music they have made
And it whispers on the window like a voice inside my heart
I hear it beggin' me to stay
How can we deny let it anything but right
Just listen listen to the rain

Listen to your heart
Tell me what you need I can hear it beating
As it thunders in the dark
As the storm outside grows stronger I can take it any longer
Let me hold you in my arms
Let the passion rage there's no need to be afraid
Just listen listen to the rain

Flashes of desire fill the skies
As I watch the lightning dance within your eyes
And the rain just keeps on playin' its refrain
Oh echoing the love we just made
Wild in the sun
[ guitar ]
Listen to the rain
It hasn't quite stopped falling and the distant wind is calling
As we slowly drift away
Baby close your eyes and hear its lullaby
Just listen listen to the rain

How can we deny let it anything but right
Just listen listen to the rain
Listen
Listen to the rain
Listen

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4.

If I Were A Painting

Don Sampson - Skip Ewing

© Acuff-Rose Music, BMI

If I were a painting captured on canvas
Alone in the portrait I would stand
And brush strokes bold yet soft as a whisper
The work of a feminine hand

Caught in a still life surrounded by shadows
Or lost in a background of blue
If I were a painting my price would be pain
And the artist would have to be you

I imagine the colors would all run together
If you ever allowed me to cry
So don't paint the tears just let me remember
Me without you in my life

It's only the frame that holds me together
Or else I'd be falling apart
If I were a painting I wouldn't fear
And you wouldn't be breaking my heart

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5.

Crazy In Love

Even Stevens - Randy McCormick

© Screen Gems Music, BMI

Ain't funny how time steals the feeling from a love affair
And there's no place to lay the blame cause in any case oh no one cares
Helplessly we just watched it fade away
Neither will admit it are we both aching to say

We you I miss the days when we were crazy in love
When you weren't so sure of me I had my little jealousy
We you bring back the days when we were crazy in love
I wanna feel that way again remember when we were crazy in love

I know it used to be so easy one touch and I was high
And I could get intoxicated just by looking in your eyes
Oh baby ain't there anything we can do
Cause I know you're missin' me as much as I've been missin' you

We you I miss the days when we were crazy in love...

Girl we were more than best of friends
We were crazy in love
We you
We were crazy in love
(We you)
Do you remember we were crazy in love

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6.

(# 69 country hit)

Lay My Body Down

Bob Morrison - Joe Henry

© Music City Music, ASCAP

Woman you're the closest thing I know to peace on earth
You warm to what feels cold in me and healing to what hurts
Woman can you tell me why I'm driven as I am
Is there something that I have that makes you give a damn

Be my comfort when the world waves me to the ground
Take me when I've lost my way let me know I'm found
Be a blanket to my soul wrap it all around
Be a feather babe to me and lay my body down

Touch me with your fingertips give my burdens rest
Tell me not to worry so I know that you know best
Lady take my callused hands and hold them in your arms
Lie against me in the dark and show me I've come home

Be my comfort when the world waves me to the ground...
Be a feather babe to me and lay my body down

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7.

So Little Love In The World

Michael Smotherman

© Rowdy Boy Music, ASCAP

One rainy afternoon at Union Station
As I sat alone and waited on my train
I overheard a lover's conversation
Laced with desperation and pain

I heard a girl say when is your train leaving
The schedule's blurry somethin's in my eyes
I heard a boy say I'll just board it early
With a voice some lone drown out goodbye

I thought there's so little love in the world
There's so little love in the world
With all of those millions of lonely boys and girls
Why is there so little love in the world

I saw them walk together through the station
I saw the girl walk back alone her head held down
Her trembling lips the only indication
Of her losing struggle not to cry

I thought there's so little love in the world...
Why is there so little love in the world

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8.

Walk Away

Bob Carpenter - Tom Kell

© Vicious Circle Music, ASCAP

They say love will win in the end
Hold him close and surely he'll bend
What if his heartaches break you again
Walk away baby walk away

It takes more than just one to provide
Why forgive him just to keep it alive
Cause when it hurts at all cry out this time
Walk away oh baby walk away

Think of me once in a while
I held this old dream you see
And there's a path that leads to my door
And a home for a refugee

Don't feel guilty for foolish desires
It ain't easy to drown a fierce fire
Cry will lead you to something much higher
Walk away baby walk away baby walk away
[ strings ]
And darling please forget me not
Bring all your tears to me
Cause through the years I never spoke out
And finally I'm begging please

If he cries out love me once more
Just turn around go on and open the door
Save your dreams for the one you adore
And walk away baby walk away

Walk away baby baby walk away
Just walk away baby walk away

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9.

In Our Old Age

Charles Bosarge - Randy Hardison - Paul Hollowell

© Kutable Music, ASCAP

Coming home from work today I saw our future
And old man and his wife were holding hands
They were sittin' on a front porch swing like two young lovers
I waved to them as I went by then I realized

That life does not grow dimmer with the setting of the sun
The best years of our lives still are yet to come

In our old age love will just get better
The longer we're together we'll grow stronger everyday
Our bodies may get weaker and our hair will turn gray
But love will never fade in our old age

Love will never fade (in our old age)

One day the kids will all be grown and they'll be leaving
And it will be like it was years ago
We'll be sittin' on the front porch swing like two young lovers
Cause today I just saw what our future holds

In our old age love will just get better...
In our old age love will just get better...

Love will never fade (in our old age)
Love will never fade (in our old age)
Love will never fade (in our old age)
Love will never fade (in our old age)
Love will never fade (in our old age)
Love will never fade

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10.

What I Did For Love

Brent Maher - Thom Schuyler

© Blackwood Music, BMI

Everybody's heart is torn and tattered
Mine was not designed for giving up
Cause all I've ever done that really matters
It's what I did for love

So count me with the wound and the shakin'
Even when I'm barely standin' up
I've tried to offer more than I have taken
It's what I did for love

What I did for love what I did for love
And I hope that you can see all that love done for me

And when they sit and list the reasons I've existed
I'm afraid it won't add up to very much
Cause I've gathered all I had and gladly rested
That's what I did for love
[ sitar ]
What I did for love what I did for love...

Someday I'll make silently surrender
This old heart has finally had enough
But I hope that I will always be remembered
For what I did for love
[ sitar ]
(What I did what I did for love)
[ sitar ]
(What I did what I did for love)

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