This heart of mine belongs to you take care of it be kind
For I must go where you may lead the eyes of love are blind
I may not see the things that I should see
The danger there might be in store
And I may do just what I shouldn't do
Because I'm looking through the eyes of love
It is true I know that eyes of love might dim the view for me
But eyes of love can see so much that other eyes don't see
A bluer sky the sparkle in your eyes
All make me realize, I'm yours
I've seen with you a world of dreams come true
Because I'm looking through the eyes of love
My arms are a house I want you to live there come into my house for you have the key
My heart is the door that's waiting wide open
To welcome the love who shares it with me
We'll furnished with kisses and plans that come true
(Just think of the nursery in pink or in blue)
We'll make it secure with love and devotion my arms are a house for no one but you
[ piano - mandolin ]
If the one you'd think is true ever turns his back on you
You've still got a place in my heart
If every road you take proves you made a big mistake
Baby, you've still got a place in my heart
If I'm a fool to pray that you'll return some day
Well, then I'll know a million fools that love has made that way
If the years should make you cry, don't go on and live a lie
Baby, you've still got a place in my heart
If the years should make you cry, don't go on and live a lie
You're my world, you're every breath I take
You're my world you're every move I make
Other eyes see the stars up in the skies
But for me they shine within your eyes
As the trees reach for the sun above
So my arms reach out to you for love
With your hand resting in mine I feel a power so divine
You're my world you are my night my day
You're my world you're every prayer I pray
If our love ceases to be then it's the end of my world for me
With your hand resting in mine I feel a power so divine
You're my world you are my night my day
You're my world you're every prayer I pray
If our love ceases to be then it's the end of my world
It's so sweet to be remembered
On a bright or gloomy day
It's so sweet to be remembered
By a dear one far away
Tis sweet to be remembered
Remembered remembered
Tis sweet to be remembered
When you are far away
As I travel on this world
Just to soothe my roving mind
The messages I get from a dear one
Left behind
They were filled with sweetest words
That's so touchy when I heard
Marry me and I'll forget
These are some things that she said
It's so sweet to be remembered
On a bright or gloomy day
It's so sweet to be remembered
By a dear one far away
Tis sweet to be remembered
Remembered remembered
Tis sweet to be remembered
I had your love on the tips of my fingers
But I let it slip right through my hands
Yes, I let it slip right through my hands
I reached out my arms and I touched you
With soft words, I whispered your name
I had you right on the tip of my fingers
But that was as close as I came
My eyes had a vision of sweet lips
Yielding beneath my command
I had your love on the tips of my fingers
But I let it slip right through my hands
But I let it slip right through my hands
Somebody took you when I wasn't looking
And I should have known from the start
It's a long long way from the tip of my fingers
To the love hidden deep in your heart
To the love hidden deep in your heart
It's a long long way from the tip of my fingers
To the love hidden deep in your heart
I went to the church dear the crowd had all gone
There was rice on the walkway and flowers on the lawn
It was our church your wedding now you had gone away
Our church your wedding I lost my love today
I walked to the altar in the church so empty now
Seemed I could hear you whisper those sacred wedding vows
I've put myself in his place I heard you say I do
It was our church your wedding but he not me with you
It was our church your wedding for me this was the end
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' over my head
They chill the day and hide the sun
And shroud 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 she's gone from the meadow
My love goodbye
Ribbon of darkness over me
Where once the world was young as spring
Where flowers bloomed and birds did sing
Ribbon of darkness over me
In this cold room a lying
Don't want to see no one but you
Lord, I wish I could be dying
To forget you
How I wish your heart could see
How my neck takes breaks all day
Come on back and take away
One by one, we've broke each vow we made
(It was you who lied, it was me who paid)
As sure as there's a heaven beyond the sun
We'll pay for our lies one by one
My plans and hopes have tumbled down
My castle of dreams, plunged to the ground
(How can you face me after what you've done)
(You've shattered my dreams one by one)
One by one, we've broke each vow we made
(It was you who lied, it was me who paid)
As sure as there's a heaven beyond the sun
We'll pay for our lies one by one
How can you go to sleep at night, don't know
Memories make you long for daylight
(You'll pay the price after having your fun)
(You'll regret each mistake one by one)
One by one, we've broke each vow we made
(It was you who lied, it was me who paid)
As sure as there's a heaven beyond the sun
Now is a lonely time now you'll no longer be mine
Now and forever what can I do now that I'm losing you
Now is a time to regret now until I can forget but you never told me how do I spend
The long lonely difference between now and then
Now is the last of the wine that's so sweetly flavored the time
Now there's no reason to see each day through now that I'm losing you
Now is a lonely time now you'll no longer be mine
And now the end is near, so I face the final curtain
My friend, I'll say it clear, I'll state my case of which I'm certain
I've lived a life that's full, I've traveled each and every highway
And more much more than this, I did it my way
Regrets I've had a few, but then again, too few to mention
I did what I had to do and saw it through without exemption
I've planned each chartered course, each careful step along the byway
And more much more than this, I did it my way
I've loved, I've laughed and cried, I've had my fill, my share of losing
And now as tears subside, I find it all so amusing
To think I did all that and may I say that in a shy way
Oh, no, oh, no, not me, I did it my way
Someday I won't come running when you call
The way you've hurt me it's a wonder I'm still here at all
Someday you'll wake up and you'll find yourself alone
Lock stock and teardrops I'll be gone
I can't go on the way you make me live
You make me cry and every time expect me to forgive
Someday you'll wake up to a cold and lonely dawn
Lock stock and teardrops I'll be gone
Someday I'll find myself another town
With a pool of sympathy to let my sorrows bound
Someday you'll wake up find my strength and move along
Lock stock and teardrops I'll be gone
Ten years ago on a cold dark night
Someone was killed 'neath the town hall light
Just a few at the scene but they all did agreed
That the man who ran looked a lot like me
Well, the judge said, "Son, what is your alibi
If you were somewhere else, well, you won't have to die"
I spoke not a word though it meant my life
So I had been in the arms of my best friend's wife
She walks these hills in a long black veil
She visits my grave when the night winds wail
Nobody knows love, nobody sees, nobody knows but me
The scaffold was high and eternity near
She stands in the crowd and sheds not a tear
But sometimes at night when the cold wind moans
In a long black veil she cries o'er my bones
She walks these hills in a long black veil
She visits my grave when the night winds wail
My heart is yours I just use it to love you but without you it's no good to me
So don't ever leave me for this heart would be
Just a part of the lonely thing called me
Others may tempt you and tell you they care
But you'll just find sorrow in a secret love affair
My life is yours but without you it would be just a part of the lonely thing called me
[ fiddle - steel ]
My arms are yours I just use them to hold you but they just can't hold a memory
So don't ever leave me for these arms would be
Just a part of the lonely thing called me
Since you're gone the sun, the moon, the stars in the sky
know the reason why I cry
Love divine once was mine now you're gone
Since you're gone my heart my lips my tear dimmed eyes
Lonely soul within me cries
I was smar broke your heart now you're gone
Oh what I'd give for the lifetime I've wasted
The love that I've tasted I was wrong now you're gone
Since you're gone the wheels have turned the fires have burned
Oh how my poor heart has yearned
Mistakes I've made now I've paid now you're gone
Oh what I'd give for the lifetime I've wasted
The love that I've tasted I was wrong now you're gone
Now you're gone now you're gone now you're gone
Have you ever passed the corner of 4th and Grand
Where a little ball of rhythm has a shoeshine stand
People gather round and they clap their hands he's a great big bungle of joy
(He pops a boogie woogie rag) the Chattanooga shoeshine boy
He charges you a nickel just to shine one shoe
He makes the oldest kind of leather look like new
You feel as though you wanna dance when he gets through
He's a great big bungle of joy
(He pops a boogie woogie rag) the Chattanooga shoeshine boy
Well it's a wonder that the rag don't tear the way he makes it pop
You oughta see him fan the air with his hoppity hippity hoppity hippity hop
He opens up for business when the clock strikes nine
He likes to get 'em early when they're feelin' fine
Everybody gets a little rise and shine bout this great big bungle of joy
(He pops a boogie woogie rag) the Chattanooga shoeshine boy
[ steel ]
You know you won't be easy to forget
Because my love for you goes on and on and on
You've left me with a lifetime to regret
Because my love for you goes on and on and on
I'm still living on the love we knew and I'm still giving all my life to you
If you stay away my tomorrows're gone because my love for you goes on and on and on
[ piano ]
I'm still living on the love we knew...
Well, I'll give you love that's
Above and beyond the call of love
And I'll never ever make you cry
Yes, I'll give you love that's
Above and beyond the call of love
And love's something that money can't buy
A poor boy's chances for pretty girl's glances
Are sometimes very few
But I've got no money, if you'll be my honey
Here's what I'll offer you, well, I'll give you love
Well, we met by chance and I knew at a glance
That I'd found my destiny
Now I want to carry you off and marry you
One suitcase a heartache and a roadmap I'm headin' east just out of San Antone
Comin' my way home to West Virginia they're wonderin' why I stayed away so long
Got a letter from mama in my pocket she wrote to tell me dad had done passed all
One suitcase a heartache and a roadmap a lonely man just thumbin' my way home
Thumbin' my way home to West Virginia a broken heart inside a lonesome man
Maybe I can help to ease mom's heartaches and I'll try to help her understand
Gonna take the job that dad left in the coalmines
And stay with mom so she won't belong
I'll make up for ten long years of roamin' that's why I'm thumbin' my way home
I named my little girl after you (I named my little boy after you)
Now we can hold on to a memory through him and her
I call her name and think of you (I hear his voice and you're there too)
It's just a memory but for you and me it's more than we deserve
We knew we were wrong we both have a home but we didn't change
Now if we talk it right chance's all we might we will have to explain
I call her name and think of you (I hear his voice and you're there too)
It's just a memory but for you and me it's more than we deserve
[ guitar ]
(I love the way that you've been lovin' me)
I know this may not come as a surpsise you surely must have seen it in my eyes
Darlin' it's plain as can be I love the way that you've been lovin' me
There's so much that my heart would like to say
And though my lips have never found a way
Each touch explains tenderly I love the way that you've been lovin' me
Others may search for heaven but darling I just can't see
Why I should search for heaven when heaven is mine constantly
Though I've become a prisoner of your love I swear by all the stars that shine above
I never wanna be free I love the way that you've been lovin' me
[ strings ]
Oh have you ever been down to Haiti when the summer sun was sinkin' low
There's nothin' but romance just everwhere you glance
And the native hearts are all aglow
But when the Cuban Queen comes upon the scene
They all stare like a statue out of stone
And when they realize what's before their eyes the other girls are left all alone
Down in the Caribbean it's not a dream you're seein'
When you get a glimpse of the lady with the charm
But from miles away you can see her sway
To the beat of the Cuban Conga line that forms
[ ac.guitar ]
Up in a tree so high way up in the sky sits a wide eyed monkey on a limb
He wonders why the people go to so much trouble just to try and be like him
He doesn't understand that it's a lady's hand that makes a heart feel so sublime
But before too long he starts to sing the song and then he gets in the Conga line
Down in the Caribbean...
[ ac.guitar ]
By the time I get to Phoenix she'll be rising
She'll find the note I left hanging on her door
She'll laugh when she reads the part that says I'm leaving
Cause I've left that girl so many times before
By the time I make Albuquerque she'll be working
She'll probably stop at lounch and give me a call
But she'll just hear that phone keep on ringing off the wall that's all
By the time I make Oklahoma she'll be sleeping
She'll softly turn and call my name out low
And she'll cry just to think I'd really leave her
Though time and time I've tried to tell her so
I'm gonna get you off my mind it may take longer than I've thought it would
But I'm gonna get you off my mind
Too many long night with nothing to do too many firelights all shining on you
But when my heart settles down you're gonna find
That I'm gonna get you off my mind
I'm gonna get you off my mind it may take longer than I've thought it would
I don't care if I'm not the first love you've known just so I'll be the last
I don't care if I'm not the first one you've kissed darling I'll never ask
Yesterday's gone just love me from now on be true to me forget about the past
I don't care if I'm not the first love you've known just so I'll be your last
Two broken hearts lonely looking like houses where nobody lives
Two people each having so much pride inside, neither side forgives
The angry words spoken in haste, such a waste of two lives
It's my belief, pride is the chief cause and a decline
In the number of husbands and wives
A woman and a man, a man and a woman
Some can and some can't and some can't
Two broken hearts lonely looking like houses where nobody lives
Two people each having so much pride inside, neither side forgives
I can tell that somewhere there's someone
You've loved more than me
Someone you've loved more than me
And it hurts to say it
But you have the right to be free
I know that's the way it should be
My friends would console me
By saying go find someone new
Go out and find someone new
But the longer I try
The harder I cry over you
I go home and cry over you
'Cause I'm too far gone, too far gone
I guess I've loved you so much for too long
And I'm too far gone
If ever your new love should hurt you
Or make you feel blue
Hurt you or make you feel blue
Remember your old love
Will still be around loving you
I'll be around loving you
'Cause I'm too far gone, too far gone
I guess I've loved you so much for too long
Together again
Our tears have stopped falling
The long lonely nights
Are now at an end
The key to my heart
You hold in your hand
And nothing else matters
We're together again
Together again
The gray skies are gone
You're back in my arms
Right where you belong
The love that
I knew is living again
And nothing else matters
Today, I started loving you again
I'm right back where I've really always been
I got over you just long enough
To let my heartaches mend
Then today I started loving you again
What a fool I was to think I could get by
With only these few million tears I've cried
I should have known the worst was yet to come
And that crying time for me had just begun
Today while the blossoms still cling to the vine
I'll taste your strawberries I'll drink your sweet wine
A million tomorrows shall all pass away
Then I'll forget all the joy that is mine today
I'll be a dandy and I'll be a rover
You'll know who I am by the songs that I sing
I'll feast at your table I'll sleep in your clover
Who cares what tomorrow shall bring
Today while the blossoms still cling to the vine
I'll taste your strawberries I'll drink your sweet wine, today
I can't be contended with yesterday's glory
I can't live on promises winter to spring
Today is my moment and now is my story
I'll laugh and I'll cry and I'll sing
Today while the blossoms still cling to the vine
A rose must remain with the sun and the rain
Or its lovely promise won't come true
To each his own, to each his own and my own is you
What good is a song, if the words just don't belong
And a dream must be a dream for two
No good alone to each his own and for me there's you
If a flame is to grow there must be a glow
To open each door there's a key
I need you, I know I can't let you know
Your touch means too much to me
Two lips must insist and two more to be kissed
Or they'll never know what love can do
Now the golden sun can see us kiss every summer day we'll love like this
When the snow is on the roses when the bluebird's flown away
In my arms we'll both remember all the love we share today
As we walk along the silvery shore vows we make will last forever more
When the snow is on the roses when the summer stars are gone
One more summer will be over but our love will still go on
When the snow is on the roses...
Far away places with strange sound and names far away over the sea
Those far away places with the strange sound and names are calling calling me
Go into China or maybe Siam I wanna see for myself
Those far away places I've been readin' about in a book that I took from a shelf
I start gettin' restless whenever I hear the whistle of a train
I pray for the day I can get under way and look for those castles in Spain
They call me a dreamer well maybe I am but I know that I'm yearning to see
I heard the front door closing softly as I weaken from my sleep
With the last touch of her lips Lord like a whisper on my cheek
And I cursed the sun for rising for the worst Lord is yet to come
Cause this morning she's just leaving but come sundown she'll be gone
[ keyboard ]
See the lipstick on the pillow that I placed beneath her head
And the soft sheets still feel warm Lord where she lay upon my bed
And it hurts to know it's over for the hurt Lord had just begun
Only a woman like you can make a man of me
For a man like me can't go through life alone
Only a woman like you can make a man of me
Without your love I'm weak, but with your love I'm strong
Down every road I'll have to walk and every path I'll have to cross
I'll need someone who'll be standing beside me
Someone who can take my smallest dream
And put it into the greatest thing
Darling, only you can make a man of me
Only a woman like you can make a man of me
For a man like me can't go through life alone
Only a woman like you can make a man of me
Once more I've said that I'll leave you but once more I'm changing my mind
Yours is a world I can't live in but without you I can't live in mine
You'd rather go places without me I don't understand you at times
Yours is a world I can't live in but without you I can't live in mine
[ guitar ]
Could be it's your way of loving and you don't mean to treat me unkind
Yours is a world I can't live in but without you I can't live in mine
All around the water tank waitin' for a train
A thousand miles away from home sleeping in the rain
I walked up to a brakeman to give him a line of talk
He says, "If you've got money I'll see that you don't walk
I haven't got a nickel, not a penny can I show"
He said, "Get off you railroad bum", and slammed the boxcar door
He put me off in Texas, a place I truly love
Wide open spaces 'round me, the moon and stars above
Nobody seems to want me or to lend me a helping hand
I'm on my way to Frisco going back to Dixie Land
My pocketbook is empty and my heart is filled with pain
You want my admiration with your determination
That's somehow you'll make him set you free
You're such a sweet temptation but you know our destination
Unless you make him set you free
Don't be too long in doin' what you've got in mind of doin'
I've gotta have you here with me
We're in a situation that could ruin our reputation unless you make him set you free
[ bass ]
You want my admiration with your determination
That's somehow you'll wind up with me
You're such a sweet temptation but you know our destination
I love you all the summer through
I thought I found my dream with you
For me you were the one
That was yesterday and yesterday's gone
We walked together hand in hand
'Cross miles and miles of golden strand
But now it's over and done
That was yesterday and yesterday's gone
We had such happiness together
I can't believe it's gone forever
Wait till summer comes again
I hope that you'll remember when
Our love had just begun
I loved you yesterday and yesterday's gone
We had such happiness together
I can't believe it's gone forever
Wait till summer comes again
Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they're here to stay, oh, I believe in yesterday
Suddenly, I'm not half the man, I used to be
There's a shadow hanging over me, oh, yesterday came suddenly
Why she had to go, I don't know she wouldn't say
I said something wrong now I long for yesterday
Yesterday love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away, oh, I believe in yesterday
Why she had to go, I don't know she wouldn't say
I said something wrong now I long for yesterday
Yesterday love was such an easy game to play
Hello
(Hello, dear, will the same place be alright)
Yes, indeed, Mr. Peters, I can work late tonight
(Dear, is she near, can't she hear what you say)
You're right, Mr. Peters and I'm leaving right away
(Are you sure she's not listening on the other line)
No, of course not, Mr. Peters, you can call me anytime
(What if she knows just where you go each time you get my call)
Don't worry, Mr. Peters, 'cause my wife don't mind at all
(Please hurry up, dear, 'cause I'm so in love with you)
I know exactly how you feel 'cause I feel the same way too
(Tell me, dear, how much longer must we live this life)
I don't know, Mr. Peters, but I should be there by night
(Well, don't be late, I can't wait to be with you once more)
Don't worry, Mr. Peters, I'm just headin' for the door
I know the worst is yet to come
Such a little time has passed since you went away
Where are all the heartaches coming from
I can hardly stand the pain of missing you today
And I know the worst is yet to come
If there was something I could find to drive these tears from me
Then I'd go right out and get me one
I've already cried enough to fill the big blue sea
And I know the worst is yet to come
There'll be all those sleepless nights
When I'll just lay and cry
And the hours will seem to have no end
There'll be days when it won't matter if I live or die
Wishing I could have you back again
If there was something I could find to drive these tears from me
Then I'd go right out and get me one
I've already cried enough to fill the big blue sea
You promised me love that would never die
That promise, you've made was only a lie
Now after you've gone all alone, I'll pine for all
That I've got is a worried mind
I gave you a ring, I gave you a home
You promised me truth that you never wrong
I bought you fine clothes and I bought you wine
But all that you gave is a worried mind
You promised me love that would never die
That promise, you've made was only a lie
Now after you've gone all alone, I'll pine for all
You don't have to be a baby to cry all you need is your love to go wrong
You don't have to be a baby to cry or you lie awake the whole night long
When you leave me my golden rainbow disappears
Then you leave me a broken heart that's full of tears
These ain't raindrops in my eyes why should I lie you don't have to be a baby to cry
[ guitar ]
Well, she didn't look as pretty as some others I have known
And she wasn't good at conversation when we were alone
But she had a way of making me believe that I belong
And it felt like coming home when I found her
'Cause she seemed to be so proud of me just walking holding hands
And she didn't think that money was the measure of a man
And we seemed to fit together when I held her in my arms
And it left me feeling warm when I loved her
'Cause she brightened up the day like the early morning sun
And she made what I was doing seem worthwhile
It's the closest thing to living that I guess I've ever known
And it made me want to smile when I loved her
I know some of us were born to cast our fortunes to the winds
And I guess I'm bound to travel down a road that never ends
But I know I'll never look upon the likes of her again
It's like heaven for me to be near you
(And I try hard to put thoughts of home behind)
While holding you, I feel no shame in the things we do
But tomorrow's dawn will bring our hearts a change of mind
For we must look in the mirror tomorrow, at our sorrow and at ourselves
It's so wrong but my love was never stronger
(But in your arms, this wrong always seems so right)
I don't see how this can go on any longer
So let's say goodbye and let it in tonight
We said our goodbyes long ago never thinking we'd miss each other so
All the memories we can't leave behind oh we must have been out of our minds
(I thought I loved another not you) how foolish I thought the same too
They both turned out to be the wrong kinds oh we must have been out of our minds
Let's forgive and forget the past we've known
And reap together the wild seeds we've sowed
Surely they can forgive us and find oh we must have been out of our minds
(I thought I loved another...
Waterloo, waterloo, where will you meet your waterloo?
Everybody has his day, everybody has to pay
Everybody has to meet his waterloo
Now ol' Adam was the first in history
With an apple he was tempted and deceived
Just for spite the devil made him take a bite
And that's where ol' Adam met his waterloo
Waterloo
Waterloo
Little General Napoleon of France tried to conquer
All the world but lost his pants
Met defeat known as Bonaparte's retreat
And that's where Napoleon met his waterloo
Waterloo
Waterloo
Waterloo
If there's water in the desert sand out in the sea
If you were not an angel sweet as you could be
You could turn the night today make all my dreams come true
Say how far it is to heaven then I'll stop loving you
If the earth is up above us stars are down below
If there are daisies in the desert roses in the snow
If today can be tomorrow if old things can be new
If you can live without a heartbeat then I'll stop loving you
There's no daisies in the desert no roses in the snow
The earth is not above us the stars are not below
Today can't be tomorrow old things can't be new
You keep saying you love him I believe that it's true
And it just doesn't matter how much I love you
But in time your'll understand dear when you shed a tear
Then you'll know you were living in your tender years
In your eyes there's a love light that shines just for him
But how long will it stay there will that love light grow dim
You can just see the happiness you can't see the tears
It's because you're living in your tender years
[ ac.guitar ]
So if I can't be your first love I'll wait and be your last
I'll be somewhere in your future to help you forget the past
And you'll know that I love you with the love that's sincere
I'll wait till you're through living in your tender years
And you'll know that I love you with the love that's sincere
Everyday our love's a battle royal
Well, it seems that fighting's all we do
But if I let you know how much I love you
Then you'll do things to me, you shouldn't do
Talk back trembling lips
Shaky legs, don't just stand there
Don't let her know
She's gettin' through to you
Talk back trembling lips
Burning eyes, don't start crying
Heart don't let her know
That you're breaking in two
Every time you up and hurt my feelings
I pretend it couldn't matter less
But I'm just hiding all of my emotions
Behind my broken heart, I guess
Talk back trembling lips
Shaky legs, don't just stand there
Don't let her know
She's gettin' through to you
Talk back trembling lips
Burning eyes, don't start crying
Heart don't let her know
Take me back I'm begging
Please take me back I'm on my knees
For you to scold me hurt me
Hold me, darling take me back
When you belonged to me I had a jealous mind
Too late I've learned that you were not the cheatin' kind
Take me back I'm begging
Please take me back I'm on my knees
For you to scold me hurt me
Hold me, darling take me back
My jealous eyes have learned to take a look or two
They were too blind to see that I was losing you
Take me back I'm begging
Please take me back I'm on my knees
For you to scold me hurt me
Hold me, darling take me back
They say you live and learn and though I've tried before
I promise never to be jealous anymore
Take me back I'm begging
Please take me back I'm on my knees
For you to scold me hurt me
Seems we always have to slip around to be together dear
Slippin' around afraid we'd might be found
I know I can't forget you and I've gotta have you near
So we'll just just have to slip around and live in constant fear
Though you're tied up with someone else and I'm all tied up too
(I know we've made mistakes dear but I'm so in love with you)
I hope someday I'll find a way to bring you back to me
Then we won't have to slip around to share our company
[ piano - steel ]
Silver wings shining in the sunlight
Roaring engines headed somewhere in flight
They're taking you away leaving me lonely
Silver wings slowly fading out of sight
Don't leave me, I cried
Don't take that airplane ride
But you locked me out of your mind
Left me standing here behind
Silver wings shining in the sunlight
Roaring engines headed somewhere in flight
They're taking you away leaving me lonely
Silver wings slowly fading out of sight
Silver wings shining in the sunlight
Roaring engines headed somewhere in flight
They're taking you away leaving me lonely
Just because I asked a friend about her
Just because I spoke her name somewhere
Just before I rang her number by mistake today
She thinks I still care
Just because I haunt the same old places
Where the memory of her lingers everywhere
Just because I'm not the happy guy I used to be
She thinks I still care
But if she's happy thinking I still need her
Then let that silly notion bring her cheer
But how could she ever be so foolish
Oh, where would she get such an idea
Just because I asked a friend about her
Just because I spoke her name somewhere
Just because I saw her, then went all to pieces
How many times have you heard someone say?
"If I had his money I could do things my way"
But little they know that's so hard to find
One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind
Once I was waiting in fortune and fame
Everything that I dreamed of to get a start in life's game
But suddenly it happened, I lost every dime
But I'm richer by far with a satisfied mind
Money can't buy back your youth when you're old
Or a friend when you're lonely or a love that's grown cold
The wealthiest person is a pauper at times
Compared to the man with a satisfied mind
When my life's ended and my time has run out
My friends and my loved ones I'll leave, there's no doubt
But one thing for certain when it comes my time
A rainbow always shows up when the storm is through
To decorate a fresh green world where life can start anew
Then the roses show their glory and the sun comes shining through
But there's no rainbows nor no roses in my stormy world with you
Oh I know I'd see the rainbows and the roses
If the storm that's raging in our world would end
Why can't we be happy like we used to
And bring the rainbows and the roses back again
[ guitar ]
I don't know what happened to the love we knew
I wouldn't care what happen now if I knew what to do
To part these clouds of sadness and bring the sunshine through
So the rainbows and the roses would come back for me and you
Oh I know I'd see the rainbows...
Picture two arms as empty as trees without leaves
And two lips much colder than winter's first breeze
Fill two eyes with teardrops until they can't see then you'll have a portrait of me
Then fashion a frame from a heart that can't be free
Cause it's completely surrounded my old memories
Then hang it up high so the whole world can see and you'll have a portrait of me
[ strings ]
Then fashion a frame...
Please help me, I'm falling in love with you
Close the door to temptation, don't let me walk through
Turn away from me darling, I'm begging you to
Please help me, I'm falling in love with you
I belong to another whose arms have grown cold
But I promised forever to have and to hold
I can never be free dear, but when I'm with you
I know that I'm losing the will to be true
Please help me I'm falling and that would be sin
Close the door to temptation, don't let me walk in
For I mustn't want you but darling, I do
Please don't let me love you anymore I think it's time that we both close the door
You still turn me on even more than before but please don't let me love you anymore
To be with you I'd leave everything behind I live a life and say I'm not that kind
Now something's got to give that is the time to live
Cause lovin' you is messin' up my mind
Please don't let me love you...
You only say hello so you can say goodbye
These two words must make your life complete
You pick out the hearts that break to make your ego high
And I was just your pick of the week
For you could see that I would be the perfect fool
Too wrapped around your finger nice and neat
And there would be no end to what I take from you
So I was just your pick of the week
[ piano ]
A heart that you can break is all you're looking for
One that you can trample at your feet
Even after breaking mine I know there'll still be more
I was just your pick of the week
For you could see...
Look into my teardrops and darling, you will see
The reflection of an angel that made a fool of me
Look into my teardrops and you will see the eyes
That promised me so many things but all of them were lies
Look into my teardrops in the mirror of my soul
And you will see the girl who stilled my only world, but I couldn't hold
Look into my teardrops and you will see the one
That broke my heart forever, aren't you proud of what you've done?
Look into my teardrops in the mirror of my soul
And you will see the girl who stilled my only world, but I couldn't hold
Look into my teardrops and you will see the one
Once I tried to tell you that some day his love would end
You just said it's none of mine concern
Now that it's all over you reach out for me again
Back across the bridges we have burned
But it's a long way back to love even though we're just a step apart
It's a long way back to love all the way back through a broken heart
I didn't think that I could take it when you'd walked away
But somehow I made it all alone
Since you've left I've spent the most of every night and day
Gettin' used to knowin' you were gone
Had our number changed today although I hated to
But each time the phone would ring they wanna speak to you
And it hurt to tell them you weren't here with me
Maybe now, oh, telephone will let me be
It's not in the book so now you'd better write it down
Just in case your love for me should ever come around
You might want to call and break the news to me
Just call lonesome 7-7203
I keep the telephone beside me all the time
Hoping you might wanna call and say you've changed your mind
If you do then, darling, you know where I'll be
I bless the day I found you I want to stay around you and so I beg you let it be me
Don't take this heaven from one if you must cling to someone
Now and forever let it be me
Each time we meet love I find complete love
(Without your sweet sweet love what would life be)
So never leave me lonely tell me you love me only and that you'll always let it be me
[ steel ]
So never leave me lonely tell me you love me only and that you'll always let it be me
You have gone and yet I'm still your prisoner
Though you're with your new love I'm not free
For you have placed a lock around my heart dear and you are the keeper of the key
Love locked inside like mine burns constantly so darling please come back to me
We'll lock our hearts together for a lifetime and God will be the keeper of the key
I'm goin' to Kansas City Kansas City here I come
I'm goin' to Kansas City Kansas City here I come
They got some crazy little women and I'm a gonna get me one
Gonna stand on the corner of 12th Street and Vine (Kansas City here I come)
I'll be standin' on the corner of 12th Street and Vine (Kansas City here I come)
With my Kansas City baby and my bottle of Kansas City wine
(Kansas City here I come)
(I might take a train I might take a plane)
But if I have to walk I'm gonna get there just the same
I'm goin' to Kansas City Kansas City here I come (Kansas City here I come)
They got some crazy little women and I'm a gonna get me one
(Kansas City here I come)
[ steel ]
I'll be standin' on the corner...
Just between the two of us let's live up this fantasy
For we no longer care enough to even disagree
People think it's wonderful our love can be so true
(You never say an angry word no matter what I do)
And you have so much faith in me you trust me enywhere
(But the reason if they only knew is that we just don't care)
Just between the two of us let's live up this fantasy
For we no longer care enough to even disagree
[ piano ]
Everybody envies us and the way we get along
(But between the two of us we know our love is gone)
I wish we could go back again to days that used to be
(We fought a lot but even then I knew you cared for me)
Now we get along so well no teardrops ever fall
But there's no love no anything there's nothing left at all
Everybody envies us and the way we get along
Let's put our world back together let's try along just one more time
Let's put our world back together without you in my world the sun don't shine
I've tried but I can't live my life without you there's darkness in my world all the time
We had everything together then it just fell apart
I've lost my heart so please don't take my mind
Let's put our world back together...
Talk about good times hmm I've had some talk about mem'ries hmm we've made some
Think about him alone with you think about times I've been there too
Talk about heartaches hmm I've got some
I've got some of everything that makes a heart feel sad
I've got none of anything that makes a heart feel glad
Talk about heartaches hmm I've got some talk about teardrops hmm I've cried some
Think about you with someone new doing things we used to do
Talk about heartaches hmm I've got some
[ guitar ]
I've got some of everything that makes a heart feel sad
I've got none of anything that makes a heart feel glad
Hear that lonesome whippoorwill he sounds too blue to fly
The midnight train is whining low I'm so lonesome I could cry
I've ever seen a night so long when time goes crawling by
The moon just went behind a cloud to hide its face and cry
[ strings ]
Did you ever see a robin weep when leaves began to die
That means he's lost the will to live I'm so lonesome I could cry
The silence of a falling star lights up a purple sky
Sometimes I want to throw my arms around you
And I tremble at the thought of giving in
Because I know how much it cost to love you and I'm so afraid of losing you again
Being close to you revives the sorrow that wakes me up and tells me I can't win
I'd love to wake up in your arms tomorrow but I'm so afraid of losing you again
[ organ ]
If heaven were to hear my heart's confession wanting you would be my greatest sin
But I'm glad that you're no longer my possession
Cause I'm so afraid of losing you again
This is the moment I've waited for
I can hear my heart singing soon bells will be ringing
This is the moment of sweet Aloha
I will love you longer than forever promise me that you will leave me never
Here and now dear all my love I vow dear
Promise me that you will leave me never I will love you longer than forever
Now that we are one clouds won't hide the sun
If I don't act myself when I'm around you and I bring up things you used to say
Well I haven't learned to forget like you do but it's only love it will go away
And if I call at night when you're sleeping just to talk about yesterday
Then before I hang up I start weeping well it's only love it will go away
It's only love it will go away at least that's what you say
If the whole world stopped lovin' the way you stopped lovin' me
Have you ever stopped to wonder what kind of place this would be
If the whole world stopped lovin' the way you stopped lovin' me
If every heart was broken the way that you broke my own
And the whole world stopped lovin' how long would living go on
Hear the church bells in the steeple as they ring their song through the air
If the whole world stopped lovin' there'd be no steeple bells there
The tears would fill the river till the rivers flooded the sea
If the whole world stopped lovin' the way you stopped lovin' me
You told me once just how my kisses thrilled you
Since that time there'd been many lips you've known
Now there you go again in love with someone new
So I'll just wait till you need your stepping stone
I'll be your stepping stone while you keep stepping on from him to him
I'll try to keep the pace just looking for a place in your heart within
[ steel ]
In every step I wanna be there helping you for it's love not jealousy that hangs me on
When you walk out on him look where you're stepping
And darling please don't miss your stepping stone
I'm alone while you're somewhere with some friend of yours
I'd find you but you'd let me down I know
It hurts to love so much and not be loved at all
But I'd rather loan you out than let you go
I'd rather be with you now and then than to know I'd never feel your lips again
My dreams are gone but I still want you so and I'd rather loan you out than let you go
[ steel ]
At least I'll always know that you'll love me once
Even though they stood in line to tell me no
If things with us can never be the way they were
Then I'd rather loan you out than let you go
Eyes that have seen too many barroom walls lips that have kissed too many times
Arms that've reached to one and all hands that have held too many glasses of wine
I can't help but think what might have been if I had stayed at home
She wouldn't have the right to sin and I wouldn't be alone
Did I make her walk down that well known street or was it a choice of her own
Are those tears of sadness on her cheek
Or tears of joy because old mem'ries are gone
I can't help but think what might have been if I had stayed at home
Tonight I'm sad my heart is lonely I'm wondering if I'm wrong or right
To dream about you though you left me I wonder where you are tonight
The rain is cold and slowly falling upon my window pane tonight
And even though your love is colder still I wonder where you are tonight
[ guitar ]
Your heart was so denied we parted as though I've tried with all my might
To forget about you though you left me still I wonder where you are tonight
Well the rain is cold...
It's been such a long long time since you've said goodbye
I thought that time would erase all the hurt and my heart would mend
But I saw you today and one look made me realize
That I still love you enough to love you all over again
One look and I remember the love we once knew
I could feel that old sweet feeling I got from loving you
I don't love you as much as I did when I loved you back then
But I still love you enough to love you all over again
[ ac.guitar ]
I love you so much that I can't leave you even though my mind tells me I should
But then you make me think that you still love me
And all my thoughts of leaving do no good
You've got me heart over mind worried all the time
Knowing you will always be the same
You keep hurting me I know but I still can't let you go
For my heart won't let my love for you change
[ steel ]
Friends tell me they see you out with others and in my heart I try hard to forget
But then you come home and say you love me
I still hope there's some chance for us yet
Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone
Let's pretend that we're together all alone
I'll tell the man to turn the jukebox way down low
And you can tell your friend there with you he'll have to go
Whisper to me tell me do you love me true or is he holding you the way I do
Though love is blind make up your mind I've got to know
Should I hang up or will you tell him he'll have to go
You can say the words I wanna hear while you're with another man
Do you want me answer yes or no darling I will understand
Have I stayed away too long have I stayed away too long
If I came home tonight would you still be my darling or have I stayed away too long
I'm just outside of town I'll soon be at your door maybe I'd be wrong to hurry there
I'd best stay out of town and worry you no more
Maybe someone else has made you care
Have all of my dreams gone wrong my beautiful dreams gone wrong
If I came home tonight would you still be my darling or have I stayed away too long
I don't love you like I used to do but I'm afraid to tell you so
I've got half a mind to leave you but only half a heart to go
Words to tell you just don't come to me I guess my courage is too slow
I've got half a mind to leave you but only half a heart to go
[ steel ]
Maybe time will prove you're not to blame but now the time I need to know
Have you ever heard a love song that you didn't understand
For you've met her in a teahouse on the Island of Japan
And have you ever traveled over many thousand miles
To see a pretty Geisha girl dressed in Oriental style
They read it in the Tealeaves and it's written in the sand
I found love by the heartful in a foreign distant land
Tell the homefolks that I'm happy with someone that's true I know
I love a pretty Geisha girl where the ocean breezes blow
I have stood and watched the sunrise from the waters of the sea
And wondered how much beauty in this whole world can that be
My dreams are all worth dreaming and it makes my life worth while
To see my pretty Geisha girl dressed in Oriental style
Say something say something don't keep me in the dark
What happened what happened what made us drift apart
Why did I lose the only love I'll ever know
What made you go from warm to cool to cold
What caused it what caused it oh how I wish I knew
Was it something was it something that I did or didn't do
What happened to the only love I'll know
What made you go from warm to cool to cold
What did I do what did I say to make you hurt me so
If you found yourself a new love I've got a right to know
I'm helpless so helpless as I stand and watch you go
What made you go from warm to cool to cold
Far across deep blue waters lives an old German's daughter
On the banks of the old River Rhine
Where I loved her and left her but I can't forget her I miss my pretty Fraulein
Fraulein Fraulein look up toward the heavens each night when the stars start to shine
By the same stars above you I swear that I love you you are my pretty Fraulein
[ steel ]
When my memories wander away over yonder to the sweetheart that I left behind
In a moment of glory a face comes before me the face of my pretty Fraulein
Fraulein Fraulein...
Don't look so sad I know it's over
But life goes on and this old world will keep on turning
Let's just be glad we had some time to spend together
There's no need to watch the bridges that were burning
Lay your head upon my pillow hold your warm and tender body close to mine
Hear the whisper of the raindrops blowing soft against the window
And make believe you love me one more time for the good times
I'll get along you'll find another and I'll be here if you should find you ever need me
Don't say a word about tomorrow or forever
There'll be time enough for sadness when you leave me
Don't let me cross over love's cheatin' line
I'm tempted my darling to steal you away don't let me cross over stay out of my way
You know that I love you and I'm not the stealing kind
But I'm faced with heartaches at love's cheatin' line
Don't let me cross over love's cheatin' line
You belong to another and can never be mine
I know one step closer would be heaven divine
Don't let me cross over love's cheatin' line
[ steel ]
(I've tried to forget you but what else can I do
When your eyes keep saying that you love me too
I know if I lose you not a dream will I have left
I don't want to cheat dear but I can't help myself)
Out in the west Texas town of El Paso
I fell in love with a Mexican girl
Night time would find me in Rose's Cantina
Music would play and Felina would whirl
Blacker than night were the eyes of Felina,
Wicked and evil while casting their spell
My love was deep for this Mexican maiden,
I was in love, but in vain i could tell
One night a wild young cowboy came in
Wild as the west Texas wind
Dashing and daring, a drink he was sharing
With wicked Felina the girl that I loved
So in anger I challenged his right for the love of this maiden
Down went his hand for the gun that he wore
My challenge was answered in less than a heartbeat
The handsome young stranger lay dead on the floor
Just for a moment I stood there in silence
Shocked by the foul evil deed I had done
Many thoughts raced through my mind as I stood there
I had but one chance and that was to run
Out through the back door of Rose's I ran
Out where the horses were tied
I caught a good one,
It looked like it could run
Up on its back and away I did ride
Just as fast as I could from the west Texas town of El Paso
Out to the badlands of New Mexico
Back in El Paso, my life would be worthless,
Everything's gone in life, nothing is left.
It's been so long since I've seen the young maiden,
My love is stronger than my fear of death.
I saddled up and away I did go
Riding alone in the dark
Maybe tomorrow a bullet may find me
Tonight nothin's worse than this pain in my heart
And at last here
I am on the hill overlooking El Paso
I can see Rose's Cantina below
My love is strong and it pushes me onward
Down off the hill to Felina I go
Off to my right, I see five mounted cowboys
Off to my left ride a dozen or more
Shouting and shooting I can't let them catch me
I have to make it to Rose's back door
Something is dreadfully wrong for I feel
A deep, burning pain in my side
Though I am trying to stay in the saddle
I'm getting weary, unable to ride
But my love for Felina is strong
And I rise where I've fallen,
Though I am weary, I can't stop to rest
I see the white puff of smoke from the rifle
I feel the bullet go deep in my chest
From out of nowhere Felina has found me
Kissing my cheek as she kneels by my side
Cradled by two loving arms that I'll die for
(Four o'clock in the morning and it's been raining
Little paddles of water reflect the thousand thin points of color
As neon signs shine and glimmer down into them
There's a sad unshaven face looking back at me
From one of those little ponds that keeps asking how did I get here where can I go
And even if I got there this aching in my heart would go with me)
In the early morning rain with a dollar in my hand
And an aching in my heart and my pockets full of sand
I'm a long long way from home and I miss my loved ones so
In the early morning rain with no place to go
Out on runway No 9 big 7-0-7 set to go
But I'm stuck here in the grass where the cold wind blows
Now the liquor tasted good and the women all were fast
Well there she goes my friend she's a rolling now at last
[ guitar ]
Hear that mighty engines roar see the silver bird on high
She's away and westward bound far above the clouds she'll fly
Where the morning rain don't fall and the sun always shine
She'll be flying o'er my home in about three hours time
This old airport's got me down it's no earthly good to me
Cause I'm stuck here on the ground as cold and drunk as I can be
You can't jump a big jet plane like you can an old freight train
She looks in the mirror and stares at the wrinkles that weren't there yesterday
And thinks of the young man that she almost married
What would he think if he saw her this way
She holds up her apron in little girl fashion as something comes into her mind
Then slowly starts dancing remembering her girlhood
And all of the boys she had waiting in line
Ah such are the dreams of the everyday housewife
You see everywhere anytime of the day
Like the everyday housewife that gave up the good time for me
[ ac.guitar ]
The photograph album she takes from the closet and slowly turns the first page
And carefully picks up the crumbling flower
The first one he gave her now withered with age
She closes her eyes and touches the housedress that suddenly disappears
And just for a moment she's wearing the gown
That broke all their minds back so many years
Oh Danny Boy the pipes the pipes are calling
From glen to glen and down the mountain side
The summer's gone and all the roses falling it's you it's you must go and I must bide
But come ye back when summer's in the meadow
Oh when the valleys hushed and white with snow
Oh it's crying time again you're gonna leave me
I can see that faraway look in your eyes
I can tell by the way you hold me darling that it won't be long before it's crying time
Now they say that absence makes the heart grow fonder
And the tears are only rain to make love grow
Well my love for you could never grow no stronger if I live to be a hundred years old
Oh it's crying time again...
[ strings ]
Oh it's crying time again...
Country music's all around the world I've heard it play in every foreign land
The universal language of the universe something everybody understands
I never let no sand get in the shoes of mine I spent my life just rambling all around
But I always felt at home no matter where I went
Cause everybody plays a country sound
One springtime in Alaska just a few years back
As I mushed my team of huskys through the snow
Another dogsled passed me doing ninety five he was headin' for a country music show
Country music's all around the world...
I was over in old Moskow when I heard about
These men you know they're recently retired
They caught him in the henhouse with an old guitar playing country music idem fired
Across the sea in Germany one sunny day I watch the man a paddling down the Rhine
Poor old man he never saw that waterfall
He was singing something bout a sweet Fraulein
Country music's all around the world...
Dear heart I wish you were here to warm this night
(Dear heart seems like a year since you've been out of my sight)
A single room a table for one it's a lonesome town all right
But soon I'll kiss you hello at our front door
(Dear heart I want you to know I'll leave your arms) never more
Tonight I'm burning old love letters photographs and memories of you
Hoping somehow I'll feel better and when the smoke is gone I won't want you
(Burning mem'ries) teardrops fall while I am
(Burning mem'ries) burning all those memories of you that I can't lose
My heart to you no longer matters and you know I can't live on memories
Into the fire go dreams you've shattered
And when the smoke is gone then I'll be free
(Burning mem'ries) teardrops fall while I am
Found some letters you wrote me this morning they told of the love we once knew
Now they're gone I'd burned them to ashes don't want nothing to remind me of you
Burning bridges behind me it's too late to turn back now
Burning bridges behind me all I want is to forget you somehow
[ steel ]
Sold the house we once planned together said goodbye to the friends we once knew
Then I moved to a faraway city trying hard to forget about you
In the Blue Canadian Rockies spring is sighing through the trees
And the golden pupies are blooming round the banks of Lake Luise
Across the way they call me and I'm lonesome and so blue
For the Blue Canadian Rockies and the one I love so true
(In the Blue Canadian Rockies) spring is sighing through the trees
If heartaches brought fame in love's crazy game
I'd be a legend in my time
If they gave gold statues for tears and regrets
I'd be a legend in my time
But they don't give awards and there's no praise or fame
For a heart that's been broken over love that's in vain
If loneliness meant world acclaim everyone would know my name
I'd be a legend in my time
